Angela Booth's Writing Blog: What I love about my new Mac

Books: Write Fiction

Angela Booth: Short Fiction Secrets: How To Write And Sell Short Stories (Selling Writer Strategies Book 2)
Writing short stories is a fun and easy way to get started writing fiction — you can get paid to write, in your spare time. If you're new to writing fiction, you can learn the elements of writing fiction — short stories are much easier to control than longer fiction.
Angela Booth: Master Fiction Writing: Craft A Novel in 31 Days: Selling Writer Strategies 4
This program began as a 30-day challenge which I organized in 2010. Hundreds of writers joined the challenge; they wrote novels. You can write a novel in 31 days too.
Angela Booth: Step By Step To Fiction Which Sells: Plotting And Scene Magic
What if you could leave boring fiction forever behind you, so that the story in your head becomes the story on the page? You CAN, when you discover the magic of story, plotting, and scenes.

I'm a new Mac user of two weeks, and I'm spending much more time in my Mac than I thought I would. (All the time, for the past couple of days.)

Here's what I LOVE so far:

* I can open as many programs as I please, without the dreaded blue screen of death, lockups, or other distracting OS behaviors which wreck my train of thought;

* The Services menu. It has a huge number of options, and makes working with multiple programs a breeze. To mention just one feature of the glorious Services menu, whatever app you're in, if it recognizes Services, you can send text directly to it -- I'm writing this blog post in DEVONthink, and when I complete it, I'll select the text and send it to ecto;

* Applications written just for the Mac, like DEVONthink and ecto;

* The Dashboard;

* The font thingy (no idea what it's called): you just press Command + T and a font tool thingy pops up. Amazing;

* Install and uninstalling via drag and drop;

* No opening and closing of programs: I can open what I like, and leave it open --!

Amazing. Just amazing.