1. tuaw , Apple news, test, photos, and reviews. Updated every day.
2. macosxhints , teach us tips and tricks on Mac OS X system. Updated every day.
3. macuser , you know the most famous Apple magazine “Macworld” ? macuser is the blog of Macworld.
4. appleinsider , a blog like tuaw, you can get many information about Apple, but the typesetting is not very good.

Anyway, don’t forget Recipester Blog, we will give you more than 10 article about Social Media and Software.

Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.2：Major upgrade for security, stability and performance, free of charge. Every Snow Leopard User shoud update your system to 10.6.2.

50 New openings of Apple Store in 2010：Yes,  large-scale expansion. Apple want to expand his “Digital Empire” as quickly as he can.

Apple releases Safari 4.0.4 with security flaw patch：Still upgrade for security, stability and performance, free of charge. You can click your apple logo on the left-top and choose “update”.

Apple earns key legal victory against Psystar: So apple don’t want other computer to use Mac OS X, and so does the judge. Want to use Snow Leopard? Just buy a Mac, and no other ways.

Mac keyboard

cmd+tab:

To switch among all the programs, release the key when the cursor is on the program you want to use. This is the same as you press “alt+tab” in Windows PC.

cmd+C/X/V:

To coppy/cut/past, the same as you press”Ctrl+C/X/V” in Windows PC.

cmd+Z:

To undo the last operation, the same as you press”Ctrl+Z” in Windows PC.

cmd+shift+3/4:

The most “Microsoft Windows killer” shortcut on Mac! You can just press “Print Screen” key to coppy the whole screen on PC, and youhave to open a program like photoshop to past the screenshot then save it. But things become fantastic on Mac.

Press cmd+shift+3 will coppy the whole screen, more over, the screenshot will be saveed automaticly on the desktop. Press cmd+shift+4 and you can adjust the regional of screenshot, when you loss the mouse key, the screenshot will also be saveed automaticly on the desktop.

cmd+M/H:

cmd+M will minimize the window, and cmd+H will hide the window. If you add option key to be pressed, things will be funny: cmd+option+M will minimize all the window except the

cmd+W/Q:

cmd+W will close the window, just like you click the cross button on the top-left. cmd+Q will quite the program. What is the different? Yes they are the same on Windows, but come on, it’s Mac, you close the window without quiting it means the program will still run at background.

cmd+I:

To check the information of the file you selected. As you right click it and choose “check infor”.

cmd+ arrow key:

To make the function of “Home”/ “End”/ “Page Up”/ “Page Down”—-just press cmd+ Left/Right/Up/Down arrow.

option:

When booting the Mac, press “option” you can choose the boot disk, this is especially useful for the Mac users who installed multi system.

cmd+R

To refresh the web browser, like “F5″ on PC.

Apple Remote and Microsoft Remote

Just look at the 2 remote in the picture, you can learn the different way they design their products.

• The Microsoft Remote needs 2 AA battery and you have to change it every 6 month;  however, Apple Remote just needs a button battery, and you needn’t change battery for years.
• Apple Remote have 6 buttons, enough for music and video control or even control slides during lecture; and Microsoft Remote: 46 buttons! Come on, I just want to watch a movie and make the sound a little louder.
• Apple Remote is no more larger than chewing gum； Microsoft Remote is larger than a hand gun.
• You can use Apple Remote the moment you buy it, without any “Manual”; however, you can not skillfully use Microsoft Remote without reading the manual less than 10 times.

Maybe you will say: Yes, apple is fantastic, but microsoft is powerful!

OK, Apple think, if we just need 6 buttons in 99% of the time we use remote, why take a 46-button-big-freak? To make your remote seems powerful? And if you really need additional function in the lucky-1%-time, just take a bluetooth keyboard!

The same thing happened between MSN and iChat—-the 2 IM client made by Microsoft and Apple (you can use iChat to launch MSN, here is the way).

msn_messenger

Frinds, Ringtone, eBay, Stock……it even can not show all function buttons in one MSN window! But in 99% times I spent on MSN, I just want to chat with my friend (and maybe, send files to someone).

ichat-messenger-client-window

ichat_chat window

Look at iChat, you can chat with friends (text, audio, video) or send files to them and—–nothing. Want to see stock trend? Open the stock software on your Mac! And also the stock software have no more annoying additional features to make it seems powerful.

So you know the difference between Apple and Microsoft? One will try his best to make the products useful and one will try to make the products powerful.