If anyone reading this thinks they're addicted to porn and they'd like to get some help, check out xxxchurch.com. It's a site run by a couple pastors, believe it or not, who have struggled with this in the past, and want to help others to get off porn if they want to. They have a really great sense of humor about the whole thing.
Just figured I'd share the resource. I don't want to force anything down anyone's throat.
I've helped quite a few friends make the switch. They're pretty happy users as far as I can tell!
The best thing you can do is make friends with other Mac users, especially true Mac geeks. If they've been using Mac OS X for long enough and they're real geeks, they'll have a lot of great answers for you and be able to personally recommend solutions to your problems because they've run into those things and tried a few solutions themselves.
Don't get a book. No one actually reads them after they buy them.
Also, if there's something you're used to on your PC (like your two-button mouse), there's often times a good equivalent or an exact equivalent on the Mac. Using a Mac doesn't mean giving up absolutely everything that was nice about the PC (even though, as a good Zealot, I would claim that list is somewhat short).
I use this Logitech mouse on both of my Macs, and I love it. Very basic and cheap, but it never fails me and I get the two buttons and scroll wheel that Apple didn't automatically include.
I find it to be a really odd coincidence that even though FairPlay has been out on the Mac for about seven months, a crack was never released for the Mac. Yet when FairPlay was brought over to the Windows side, the crack came fairly quickly. Hmmm... what to deduce here...
I diagree. Apple actually is leading the way. You're assuming that the iTunes Music Store will always sell only music from the "Big Five" but in an interview done with Time Magazine this week, Steve Jobs said the following:
TIME: What about independent labels? Will they follow suit?
Jobs: Yes. They've already been calling us like crazy. We've had to put most of them off until after launch just because the big five have most of the music, and we only had so many hours in the day. But now we're really going to have time to focus on a lot of the independents and that will be really great.
So it becomes fairly obvious that indie artists will be onboard soon, and we will have the rare juxtaposition of big-name and no-name right next to each other for the same price (or maybe competetively priced?). If that's not leading the way, what is? What is it that you want to see? Allow me to dream for a second...
[dream]
Pretty soon, publicity is no longer needed. Your friend simply says, "Hey, check out ____" and you listen to some 30-second samples, buy a few songs, and repeat the cycle by telling a few of your own friends.
Eventually everyone interested in the music scene knows about the indie artist because they don't even have to leave their seat to listen to them.
Soon thereafter when iTunes becomes the defacto music distribution channel (maybe two years from now) well-known artists will begin to leave their labels entirely and go indie because they no longer need what their labels provide.
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Quick, somebody find a reason why it's not good enough yet, or I might have to absolutely freaking love it! This looks like a smash hit to me.
If anyone reading this thinks they're addicted to porn and they'd like to get some help, check out xxxchurch.com. It's a site run by a couple pastors, believe it or not, who have struggled with this in the past, and want to help others to get off porn if they want to. They have a really great sense of humor about the whole thing.
Just figured I'd share the resource. I don't want to force anything down anyone's throat.
That could've been a prop from A Clockwork Orange.
Bizarre... I'm starting to see a connection between Star Wars and Michael Jackson's nose.
I've helped quite a few friends make the switch. They're pretty happy users as far as I can tell!
The best thing you can do is make friends with other Mac users, especially true Mac geeks. If they've been using Mac OS X for long enough and they're real geeks, they'll have a lot of great answers for you and be able to personally recommend solutions to your problems because they've run into those things and tried a few solutions themselves.
Don't get a book. No one actually reads them after they buy them.
Also, if there's something you're used to on your PC (like your two-button mouse), there's often times a good equivalent or an exact equivalent on the Mac. Using a Mac doesn't mean giving up absolutely everything that was nice about the PC (even though, as a good Zealot, I would claim that list is somewhat short).
I use this Logitech mouse on both of my Macs, and I love it. Very basic and cheap, but it never fails me and I get the two buttons and scroll wheel that Apple didn't automatically include.
500,000 songs, and you can't find one that you like? And I thought I was picky.
Off topic here, but I was drinking water when I read that, and now my monitor really wishes you weren't so funny.
I find it to be a really odd coincidence that even though FairPlay has been out on the Mac for about seven months, a crack was never released for the Mac. Yet when FairPlay was brought over to the Windows side, the crack came fairly quickly. Hmmm... what to deduce here...
You know, this is the closest MSN has ever come to being where it belonged.
So it becomes fairly obvious that indie artists will be onboard soon, and we will have the rare juxtaposition of big-name and no-name right next to each other for the same price (or maybe competetively priced?). If that's not leading the way, what is? What is it that you want to see? Allow me to dream for a second...
[dream]
Pretty soon, publicity is no longer needed. Your friend simply says, "Hey, check out ____" and you listen to some 30-second samples, buy a few songs, and repeat the cycle by telling a few of your own friends.
Eventually everyone interested in the music scene knows about the indie artist because they don't even have to leave their seat to listen to them.
Soon thereafter when iTunes becomes the defacto music distribution channel (maybe two years from now) well-known artists will begin to leave their labels entirely and go indie because they no longer need what their labels provide.
[/dream]
And of course, don't forget Safari