Hi all, Sorry for sending this to the list, but I can't seem to figure out how to reply directly to sender.
Anouk, I've been interested in mudding for some time now, but have never tried it. Can you suggest sites for getting started with this in Windows? TIA, Donna On Oct 21, 2009, at 1:05 AM, a radix wrote: > Hello, I have been using my mac for about 2 months now especially at > school although at home I still often use my pc and I will explain > below why. In general my experiences with the mac have been very > positive especially after installing snow leopard. I can use skype > and msn just as well as on my pc. And after I dumped itunes and > started using vlc instead watching movies and listening to music > became a breeze. I recently bought apples office suite because I > prefer that over using textedit or the free text editors/office > suits that are available. I am also intending to go and use garage > band in the future if I can get that working with my yamaha > keyboard. I like the built-in speakers and sound quality alhtough > listening through its sound output with my own in ear monitors is > nothing special. I still find using the internet on the mac a bit > mor ework then i did while using my pc and it goes a bit slower also > when reading docucments i notice that I cannot endlessly use the > right thumb key on my braille display to continue reading, > eventually i have to press the right arrow on my normal keyboard if > I want to read onm. This does become irritating after a while if you > need to read long documents. > At home I still mostly use my windows pc although i now have gotten > mail working on the mac as well because 1. I use omnipage pro 16 > under windows to scan my books for school, while I know that there > are some scanning solutions for the mac that i will probbably try > once the hp drivers for sl have been released I just dont know if > they will be as good and easy as using omnipage pro 16 and am a bit > hesistant to try it because of that (I really really hope that a > full version of finereader will eventually be released for the mac > since I have heard it can rival omnipage pro). > Secondly there is filesharing, i will be brief. Ftp does work on the > mac with transmit which I rather like although I have not registered > it yet, questions i asked its support team went unanswered. Usenet > also works but udner windows I preferred to use other programs which > are not available on the mac. > The third point is playing games which I do a lot on the pec > especially interactive fiction and muds. There is an interpreter for > interactive fiction called zoom which I tried and although I can > open games with it saved games were a problem for me since I could > not open a saved game file (made in frotz). > For muds the situation on the mac is not so good, I play them all > the time on windows but there is only one mudclient that I know of > which works under sl and which is still being developed, jamochamud > which works under java. It is not too accessible at the moment but > the programmer has promised to look at it, still it does not offer > all the features even then that I am used to on a windows client. > As soon as windows 7 becomes officially available I am planning to > install it on my mac (probbably via bootcamp) so that I at least can > use my mac all the time even if I need to use windows, hopefully for > the scanning and downloading tasks I will in the future be able to > use the mac and I have hopes for muds as well but for now at least > my mac is mostly used at school and in the library. > Greetings, Anouk, > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
