One of the first apps I installed on my new MacBook was OpenOffice. I love it; it's free, it gives me every bit of functionality I need for a home office user. However, I was incredibly dismayed to find out that I needed to install X11 just to run it; it's not using OSX natively.

Every Mac comes preloaded with 1.3 bazillion languages. While this is very impartial of Apple to think of the little guys, most people only speak English and one or two other languages. So all those extra language files take up hundreds of Megabytes of valuable hard drive space.

So I was just referred to a new Mac Blog called MacShout. It has a sleek, simple and clean design, and is quite easy to navigate. I also appreciate that there are a limited number of categories.

So I'm making the transition to Mac, and of course there's a learning curve. My latest source of confusion comes from the lack of a right mouse button. I'm so used to using the menu items, and now there's only one big button. I tried many key combinations with the big button, but nothing brought [...]

So about an hour ago, a lovely little van pulled up in front of our house, and dropped off a lovely cardboard box. Inside that box was my MacBook, which I am now typing away on! I imagine that I'll be spending the next week or so trying to actually figure out how this thing [...]