Recently I’ve had to move to using a Mac. Being a PC user I will admit that the initial move was painful, more for sentimental reasons that anything else. Kicking and screaming but by the third hour I was actually quite chuffed. It works, just different.
Having said this the biggest problems have been the smaller things:
1) How the ‘HOME’, and ‘END’ key works. I don’t want to press ‘Command + Left’ or ‘Command + Rightt’ or infact ‘Command Anything’ I want to press the Key with the writing ‘Home’ and ‘End’ on my keyboard.
2) The other one is the command key (or for you PC nerds. Eh he hem, users, the window key). Pressing the Window key in windows is actually pointless(apart for some sneaky minimising of facebook by pressing Window+D followed by a even sly Window+E button for the explorer window), it doesn’t do that much, where as in the Mac it does what it says on the Key, it controls.. things.
In other words, windows has control, Mac has command. Steve, Bill, come on, seriously?
So, after a bit of research on the net, and various blogs mentioning Terminals, Library folders, nano, copy past code, yaddy ya, i found a very useful tool.
DoubleCommand (they should probably think about renaming this to PcKeysOnMac)
Mmmmmm, Checkbox goodness
Its an open source application that gives you complete control of how your keys behave.. no coding required. So if you are the type who gets no pleasure from copying and pasting code, tweaking system files, following instructions, and general geeky things then go to:
http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/
Oh, and it will be in your system preferences once installed..
Boom!
