I love Macs. I love them. But I am not your average fan boy who thinks Macs should rule the world. I also am a fan of Windows 7. But that is for another time. It is time to dive into the wonderful world of Mac.

Mac Life created a great list of 50 Things Every Mac Geek Should Know. Even for hard core Mac people, you may learn a thing or two about your beloved.

Some of my favorites:


You probably didn’t know you could change these options, but you can.
Apple tried its best to give us the most useful set of icons in various iPhone menus, but there are also more ways to customize them than you might think. In the case of the icons that appear at the bottom of the screen when you tap iPod from the Home screen, you can change the default icons (Playlists, Artists, Songs, Videos) if you want to. Tap More, then tap Edit. On the resulting Configure screen, you can select an icon from the middle, hold your finger on it for a moment, and drag it down to the bottom to replace one of the defaults. If you like to separate your music collection by genre, for example, move Genres down to replace one of the defaults. Or if you’re a big audiobook listener, put Audiobooks at the bottom instead of Playlists. Tap Done when you’re through.



Acrobat Pro is a powerful tool, but you don’t need to spend $449 to own your own copy, since creating a PDF of any file is built right in to OS X.
Switchers will love this one: In OS X Leopard, making a PDF out of any document doesn’t require Adobe Acrobat. All you need to do is open the file you want to PDF and choose File > Print (or Command-P). In the printer field, click the up/down arrow to the right and select Adobe PDF.



Are you bugged by those bouncing Dock icons when an app wants to get your attention? You can Turn off that behavior for good with two simple Terminal commands:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE
Press Return.
Type: killall Dock
If you don’t have an Intel Mac, you could also try Unsanity’s Dock Detox (free,).
And if you decide you want the bouncing back after you’ve run the above Terminal command, you can reverse it by executing: defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool FALSE. Press Return. Type: killall Dock.



If you get bored by Terminal Tetris, you can play Snake instead.
Execute this Terminal command: emacs
Press Return, then press Escape-X.
At the prompt type: Snake.
Press Return.
Your goal is to eat the red rectangles while avoiding the walls.
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From Mac Life