Mac re-orientation

My first two machines were PowerBooks, but I've spent the last several years in Windoze-land.
Any suggestions for useful books, etc., to help me re-acclimate to Mac World?
I should mention that my last Mac OS was 7.5.
Thanks,
Michael

Hi, I upgraded from a powerbook 190cs sys 7.5.5 to a MacBook.
If you haven't used OS X, then you will need to get used to the dock, the new apple menu and some minor interface changes, but I think that the finder experience has not changed much.
The finder's help menu can be a lot of help, for example the first thing I missed was the "Control Strip" from my old powerbook. If you search for control strip in the help menu, it will explain that it is no longer available in OSX, but it shows the alternatives.
Sometimes I still try to find the "special" menu when emptying the trash.
In OSX you can customize most of the keyboard shortcuts, so I added
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Good day.
So here’s my story.
In early summer I printed out enveoples form "Address Book" for our wedding invitations from a Macbook pro 2.16 GHz running 10.6.8. Everything worked out perfectly.
I then got a Mac Mini 2.7 GHz Core i7 for a wedding gift and I did a data migration from my Macbook Pro to the mac Mini. It was running 10.8.5 and is now running the latest version or Maverics. The printer I used for both envelope printing jobs, an HP CM1415fnw color MPF has also been updated to the latest software version.
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Dear List members:
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My apologies for the long post but I didn't really know how to make it shorter.

The Photoshop and/or Bridge forums would be more likely places to get answers to your questions. This forum is inhabited more by programmer types interested in implementing the XMP specification in applications we write.
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