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From Mac to PC

The Pima County Tech Camp conducted by the Arizona K-12 Center is conducted entirely on Apple Macintosh computers. Windows users may not immediately understand the parallels between their computers and the Macintosh. While there are some significant differences between the two platforms, there are also many similarities.
Macintosh Software
Used at Tech Camp    
 Comparable
Windows PC Software
 
iMovie
Windows MovieMaker II
 


iPhoto
Windows Photo Gallery (for Vista)
Microsoft Office Picture Manager
Picasa web picture manager from Google

PhotoStory 3, slide show editing software
 
GarageBand

 		 
Audacity free sound recorder and editor
 
iTunes
iTunes

Bernajean Porter's site Digitales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories has a good comparison of Basic to Professional software for the Macintosh and Windows PC computers.

Here are some videos to help you:

 Create Videos with Free PhotoStory Software

Create Videos with PhotoStory
Audacity Tutorials with Basic Editing
Audacity Screencast Tutorials from by John Kain
    Creative Commons Music to use CCMixter


How-To Documents




The Little Things

 PC     Mac
 Delete Fn+Delete
 Right Click
 Control + Click
 Alt + Tab
Command + Tab
 Control Panels
System Preferences
 Search Spotlight (upper right)
 X to Close Application
 "Quit" or cmd + Q
 Ctrl+alt+delete    Force Quit in Apple Menu
 Start Button
 Apple Menu

Bonus Mac Features:
Two fingers to scroll down a page
F Keys - play with the F keys to find out which on clears the desktop or shows all open windows
Shift+Apple+4 - take a picture of an area you want to save as a .jpg
Introducing Picasa 3


Using Windows MovieMaker

Windows MovieMaker Tutorial
How-To Documents