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Question

  hello and a very happy new year to you all  I would like to thank  to Paul 31.. for helping me fix my iphoto problem.  I followed your instructions , and it worked  it also helped me  also helped me to set up my email.  Account using the Apple mail  that came with my cp  . so you helped me fix two problems  so now I have only one mail box instead of two .    So thank you once again.    Kind regards Marie   from Australia

Answer 1

I recommend installing Bootcamp and a good, old Windows7. This will make the migration much easier, as you can revert back to Windows whenever the Mac idiosynchrasies bother you too much...
I am stil spending 70% of my time under Windows, after two years of owning a MBP...
The second recommendation is to install three nice and free programs under OSX:
1) Keyremap4mac, which allows you to swap the operation of Cmd and Ctrl keys under OSX, so they remain consistent with the rest of the world (Windows, Linux, etc.)
2) Xtrafinder, which greatly improves the operation of OSX's Finder (for example, allowing the directory names to be listed before the other files, to open files or folder by hitting Enter, etc.)
3) Playonmac, which allows you to run your old, beloved Windows programs (such as Paint Shop Pro, Total Finder, Cool Edit Pro, Image Composite Editor, etc.)
With the help of these 3 programs, I removed 90% of the OSX's idiosynchrasies, greating improving my productivity under OSX.
There are other small tricks, but the three above are, for me, almost mandatory for a new Mac user coming from the Windows world...