The next thing I wanted to do was see how difficult it would be to duplicate my typical day-to-day tasks that I had grown used to in Windows. One thing I do pretty much daily (as if I have to tell you) is blog. This requires a browser (check - Firefox); and the ability to quickly edit and resize photos. That part used to be done in Windows by a nifty program called Irfanview. The preview program in Mac didn't seem to have a re-size feature, but it had everything else. But the re-size thing is a show stopper for me, so Preview was not going to fill the bill. iPhoto? Sure. But how to do it? The feature is kinda hidden. You open your picture in iPhoto, then in the File menu, choose Export. First you choose the format you want (jpg etc.), then scale the image to the size (in pixels) that you want and choose export. Not exactly efficient, but it'll do.Although Windows now has this capability courtesy of Yahoo, Mac comes with widgets on a dock item called Dashboard. At first I thought... [yawn]. But then I found out you can get a widget for Mac that identifies all wireless networks in your vicinity (very helpful on a Mac), then tells you their name (SSID), signal strength, channel and whether they're open (insecure) or not. Very cool! It's called Airport Radar and it can be gotten here.
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