Like most women of my generation, I can remember the first time a computer was brought into my home. I was in junior high, and that desktop computer was set up in the guest room, meant to be shared equally amongst the members of my family. It was a Dell, and for the next two decades, I remained loyal to the brand; mostly because it was all I knew.
The problem was that as I entered adulthood and switched from a desktop to a laptop, I faced the annoying issue of needing to replace my PC every two years or so. My last PC purchase started getting bogged down with issues just two months after I bought it, which was when I knew that the next time around, I was finally going to make the plunge—I was going to convert to Mac.
I had held off for longer than I probably should have, mostly because I don't tend to consider myself especially tech-savvy, and I was afraid of the inevitable transition. But when I finally had that Mac in my hands, it really only took about two weeks for me to get comfortable with it.
But two years later, and I am still learning new things every day, often trying to figure out the shortcuts for things I used to do on my PC. For instance:
Command + Shift + 3 = Screenshot
and
Option + Command + Esc = The Equivalent of Ctrl + Alt + Del for a PC
and
FN + Delete = Deletes the character in front of your cursor (as a writer, I use this one all the time—it's one of the first shortcuts I went out in search of when I realized the delete button didn't function in the same way on my Mac as it did on my PC. This shortcut gives that delete button the forward deleting capability you might be looking for.)
But recently I started wondering, what other Mac tricks exist that I may not yet know about and that other moms might want to learn, too? So, I reached out to John Massie, a 14-year tech professional (and a self-proclaimed Mac junkie) for his insight.
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