New Mini owner

Hi all, just got myself a 2nd hand intel mac with a superdrive from ebay and so far im happy with it!
A few questions though, there are 2 accounts on the mac. Can I share the Iphoto library between these acounts? And also I have lots of photos from my PC, I have imported them into Iphoto but when they were on my PC they were seperated into different folders for easy viewing of different occassions. How do i make iphoto setup folders to seperate groups of photos?
Also, in Safari I am using tabs. But when I open a new tab it is blank, can i get it to open a new tab and go straight to my home page (google)?
Another quick question that you may be able to help me out on is on the PC my other half used to enjoy playing around on MSPaint. Is there anything like this in OSX or do any of you know of a shareware program that is like it?
I know its a lot of questions and im not sure if this is the correct disscussion area to be asking in but I would really be grateful of any help and there wil probably be loads more questions in this thread in the coming few weeks
Thanks, Rich.

Hi.
I'll try to answer your questions one by one.
there are 2 accounts on the mac. Can I share the Iphoto library between these acounts?
Yes, you can. It's not difficult, but you've got to be careful.
Go to the account with the iPhoto Library you want to share:
yourusername/Pictures, look for the folder named iPhoto Library, and copy it to Macintosh HD/Users/Shared. (Copy instead of moving it, just to prevent an accidental loss of your pictures. Once it's finished and working fine, you can delete the original).
Once you have the iPhoto Library folder on Macintosh HD/Users/Shared, verify it has read & write acces for Others (Control click/Get Info/Ownership & Permissions/Others: Read & Write).
Now, open iPhoto while holding the Option key, and choose the iPhoto Library folder at Users/Shared. Do this in both accounts, and that's it.
About separating the pictures, you can create Albums (File/New Album) and drag the pictures you want to specific Albums, and also you can create Folders (File/New Folder) in which you can group albums.
About Safari tabs, no the new tabs always open blank, unlike the New Windows, that can be set to open eith Homepage.
MSPaint. Is there anything like this in OSX or do any of you know of a shareware program that is like it?
Actually, one of the first painting programs was MacPaint, way long before MS Paint.
There are lots of excellent graphic applications for OS X, just Google for it and you'll find a lot, these are just a couple:
ArtRage: http://www.ambientdesign.com/artragedown.html
Wouldjadraw: http://www.wouldja.com/wouldjadraw/
ColorIt: http://www.digimagearts.com/
Rita: http://www.frykholm.se/rita.html
Good Luck.
MacMini G4 1.25GHz 1GB   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

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