Online Gratitude Journal New Macbook Edition #27
April 5, 2009 by Akemi
My new macbook
I bought a new macbook — my first time to use Apple computer and first time to buy a laptop. In the past, I waited until some kind of catastrophe happened to buy a new computer, but this time, I just got it because it looked fun. Yep, I’m grateful for my wealth consciousness. (And now I am a business owner, I can write it off as business expense 
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I heard a lot of good things about mac. Some even say mac is the lightworkers’ computer! For me, however, it’s been a painful getting used to practice.
First, the ergonomic issue with laptop. My eyes get tired so quickly, and I get headache looking down this small screen. Maybe I want to connect it to my monitor. I’ve already resumed using the mouse (hate the touchpad), so getting the monitor back and making up a strange amalgam of laptop – desktop system is not so far fletched.
I bought iWork to save files in PC compatible formats, but they operate so differently. And I hate all the questions it asks when I try to save. The text editor is weird, too — I get strange coding when I copy and paste to WordPress. I’m thinking of getting Quickbooks for Mac — does anyone know if this is a good program? I don’t need particularly sophisticated program. I just need to download data from Paypal and do a simple spreadsheet work for my accounting.
On the other hand, it sounds good when I watch movies. My old PC had horrible soundboard. I also like how quickly it starts and closes. I’m probably saving power because now I actually shut down when I take a few hours break from computer work. With my old PC, I kept it running all day.
Can someone tell me how to love mac? Maybe I’m missing something?
Love, Light, and Foods
Since watching What If? movie, I’ve been thinking if we really need to eat all the foods we do. Are we really eating to nurture our bodies, or are we eating out of habit? Or are we eating for even worse reasons such as to numb our boredom and other painful feelings?
Many people are turning to vegetarianism and raw foods, and that’s great. But not so many people seem to have thought about the very nature of eating itself. The What If? movie introduces some people living on light, not foods.
I gather there are two issues here:
- Are we eating excess foods out of habitual action and thinking?
If we believe we need to eat such and such, then bingo, that is what it is. But have we really examined it? I have the feeling we can safely reduce the food intake 20-30%. Well, not only safely, but this may even enhance our health. Overloading our bodies with excess foods can be so stressful to our system. - Is it possible to live on non-food resources such as light?
Living on light is also called breatharianism. What If? movie introduces one from of breatharianism, which is to live on sunlight. And I don’t think this is a food-or-light choice but it can be a more flexible choice of food-and-light.
I’m starting to watch my food intake, along with my physical activities and spiritual wellness, to see if I can really reduce my eating. I’m not a very technical type, so I don’t really know exactly how to measure up the percentage — nor am I going to bother myself measuring it day in and out. But I will report my progress. (My ultimate goal is to live 100% on light, but at this time, I don’t think my physical body is ready yet.)
Like with any change, my body may go through some detox process. With less load on food assimilation, the body can focus more on getting rid of the stored toxins. Luckily, spring is the best season to do detox.
I want to emphasize this is NOT about weight loss. On the contrary, I expect my weight to be stable. I may lose some excess weight I may be carrying, but after that, the weight should stabilize with only minor fluctuation with my cycle and the overall season, if I’m really doing well on the light. And let my body decide what that ideal weight may be, not my ego thinking.
If you have a choice, would you let go (part of) your eating? Why or why not?
I found this website on breatharianism. The linked article is a great read about our consciousness, love vs denial.
Today I’m grate for the cherry blossoms in full bloom. And all the budding trees. And my peaceful neighborhood. This weekend has been beautiful — hope you are having a great time, too. (Photo by Mr. Greenjeans)
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I bought a Mac over three years ago, and I’ve never learned to love it. I bought three books to try to learn the operating system, but it still seems very alien to me. Yes, it looks real pretty sitting on my desk, but I always use one of my PCs to do all of my normal every day tasks. I guess I’m just not cool enough for a Mac!
Maybe give it time and you’ll grow to like it.
Hi Akemi. I found the non-eating part of What if? very interesting too. I had read of yogis and so on long ago who lived without eating, and I saw it as possible, but I didn’t know about HRM and the others featured in the film, and the methods they used. I haven’t had any particular urge to actually try it myself.
To the Macbook!
Frank and I use our iBooks set up on a stand, with an external keyboard and a mouse plugged in. I think there would be enough to deal with without using a trackpad as well!
By “text editor” do you mean TextEdit? I use it for all my Wordpress needs – but it needs to be set on Plain Text in preferences, and untick wrap to page, probably.
I use MS Office for Mac – it’s expensive, and I would suggest alternatives to save money like Open Office or iWork. I wonder what you mean by all the questions it asks you when you save?
Maybe if you focus on getting little things working well for you – the rest will unfold. Please don’t hesitate to ask me for help with specific tasks!
- Rob
There is a bit of a learning curve to the Mac. At first most people hate it because it’s so different from what they are used to. However, once you get the hang of it you’ll find that the way it functions is more common sense than how we’ve been trained on PC’s. I talked a friend into getting new mac laptop instead of a PC version and for the first 3 months she hated it and me
Since then she has become a TOTAL Mac snob and will never go back to PC. She has had her Mac for 3 and a half years now without problems.
A few things that I love about Mac that take a while to appreciate. I love that I don’t have to worry about viruses. Everyone was freaking out about that April 1st Conficker virus as if it were Y2K all over again and I didn’t even have to give it a second thought because I use a Mac. Also, my mac doesn’t freeze up like my PC’s did. Even on the rare occasion that a program does freeze, all I need to do is hit “Force Quit” and the problem is solved on my mac. On my PC I would have to do the whole reboot command, then wait for it to pull up my running programs, choose the program that wasn’t working (which it knew about b/c it said “Not REsponding” next to it), select that program, hit end, then it would tell me it would end it in 30 seconds…so I’d have to hit a button to say “no end it now”, then it would still take 30 seconds and if I was lucky eventually it would end the program and offer me the option to send a report. Most of the time I would just have to force my computer off anyways b/c the reboot option would freeze up as well or even when my program did end, the rest of my programs would be froze up as well.
This does not happen with my Mac
Give it some time, once you are used to it and learn to do what you need to do with it, you will be fine. The best things in life are always those you have to work for 
Hey, thank you all for the tips on mac!
Robin, ah, I see it in Text Edit now. I thought the default was plain text — now I got it.
What I mean with all the questions is say, when I prepare reports for my clients, I want to save them as .doc file. So I use Pages in iWork, let’s say I save when I’m half way. When I’m done and hit save again, it wants to save as .pages file, which would create a duplicate (and I hate duplicates), so I have to open the save as windows again, type the file name again, and then it asks me if I want to replace the existing file. Can’t it figure out I’m only completing the same one document?
Jen,
Mac does open and close quickly, which I like. Do you use any antivirus or anti-malware programs for mac? I don’t think mac is completely free of attacks?
Regarding QuickBooks for Mac, you can try it free for 30 days at quickbooks.com/trymac. Feel free to send your questions to the team via Twitter (@QuickBooksMac). Cheers!
Hi Akemi,
I wrote a post on why I switched (http://www.wongworks.com/2009/02/why-switch-to-a-mac/)
But the short version: I save time (lots of time)
Alas, as for Quickbooks for Mac, I just bought the 2009 edition, but it’s missing some minor intuitive User-Interface elements that even my 2006 Windows version had, such as the little drop-down calendar when entering dates, and syncs a little weirdly with Address Book.
But I’m not a QB “power-user” — it otherwise works fine.
I would suggest taking the free workshops they have at the Apple Store to learn all of the intuitive features of the Mac.
http://www.apple.com/retail/bellevuesquare/
I am a huge convert after years of working on a PC. I think like anything, it is a transition to learn something new and there is a learning curve, which can be frustrating. I use Microsoft Office for the Mac and I don’t have a problem reading PC files – there are also free plugins you can download for free if you need.
I just got a Mac too! And I was programmer on PCs for many years, so this is an especially big change for me too. But I am loving not rebooting, that is for sure.
On another note, hopefully you won’t be annoyed by this, but I ‘tagged’ you in my latest post to list 7 facts about yourself (check the post for details.) No hard feelings if you don’t want to participate – I have ignored many of these kinds of things in the past, but decided to do it this time. And you are very intriguing:-)
Lisa (mommymystic)s last blog post..7 Facts About Me (yes, I’ve been tagged)
RE: Your transition to the MAC
First of all I would suggest that you not buy anything with Microsoft’s name on it. As was mentioned in one of the comments, you can for FREE download a copy of Open Office, which I have been using for the past 4+ years on the MAC, and feel that it is just as good or better than Microsoft Office.
Here is a link to their site: http://www.openoffice.org/
I too jumped off of the Microsoft trolley about 5 years ago, and never looked back!.
Check it out and let us know what you think!
While I hate Microsoft with a passion, I’ve had some great experiences with MS Office for mac. If you don’t like Open Office, I recommend giving MS Office a go.
When I moved from PC to a laptop, I had the same issues with looking down at the screen, and being that I spend 10 hours/day at my computer, soreness was a problem! I just pulled out a USB keyboard, then put my laptop between two stacks of books to raise the screen.
Now for spreading the Mac love
I love my Mac for super-nerdy reasons, like the fact that the OS is infinitely more efficient and the maintenance I have to do is laughable. You’ll experience better battery life than with a Windows machine, because OSX makes sure your battery doesn’t drain like a leaky bucket.
I’m with everyone else when I say that my computer almost never freezes. A Mac will almost never have weird problems, b/c the OS is tested with the ONLY hardware that the company will allow for the computers.
It just takes a little time to fall in love with a Mac. To quote Yoda, “you must unlearn what you have learned”. The big secret to using a Mac is to think “what would make the most sense?”, as opposed to Windows which is more along the lines of “what’s the most half-assed backward way of doing something?”
Just give yourself some time
You’ll love it eventually 
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