Hello Phil, one of these days I would like to talk with you and write down some of those hot keys for email stuff. I'm having a whole Lotta trouble figuring the email on the computer out, and so I have been using my iPhone for that. Or year and a half ago I lost all three of my personal computers within a week of each other. Hard drives and everything. When the third one died it took to back up dry when the third one died, it took the back up drive out also. So there I was with everything lost. I got very frustrated and decided to switch to mac. It's been a slow tough learning process, and I haven't found a good tutorials about email. I still haven't had the time to set up the allograft utilities yet either. So the updates to my KX three are a little bit lagging.

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> On Oct 20, 2015, at 8:55 PM, Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Last May, I bought the Mac Mini with a terabyte drive along with a bunch of 
> accessories.  I quickly learned you could run Windows on the Mac and since I 
> have a couple of programs for ham radio, and digital recording and editing I 
> haven't been able to replace yet, I started looking at software that allows 
> the Mac to run both operating systems.  Bootcamp divides the Mac drive in to 
> both operating systems but you have to completely shut down one operating 
> system and boot up the other when using it.  VM ware creates a virtual drive 
> so you can flip back and forth using hot keys rather than shutting systems 
> down before changing.  VM ware, if I have it right, has a 30 day freeware 
> version and I thought I saw 100 dollars to register it but I can't recall 
> for sure.  Anyhow, a friend found software by Oracle called Virtual Box, 
> spelled as one word, and it is freeware.  So far, it seems to be working 
> fine.  When I switch to the virtual drive, windows 7 boots up and while it 
> is doing that, I turn off the voiceover speech used by the Mac and Eloquence 
> comes up when Jaws loads.  I also can link back to the mac and move software 
> back and forth when needed.   I did all this because my old XP machine is 
> almost old enough to smoke Marijuana since I live in Colorado where even the 
> mountains are high.  In short, the old computer isn't going to live much 
> longer so I replaced it with the Mac.  How hard is it to change to a Mac 
> operating system?  Well, the Yosemite operating system alone, I think I 
> read, has about 200 hot keys alone.  Then, of course, there are the hot keys 
> for individual programs, too, so if you learned all the hot keys, you would 
> be doing great.  I got so I could do email after knowing about 25 hot keys 
> and this included spell checking, looking up words in the dictionary, 
> opening attachments, switching in and out of mail boxes, and about anything 
> else I needed to do with email.  I figured this would help me learn key 
> commands I could later use in the word processor on the Mac called Pages.  I 
> was right; they are very much alike so learning the email commands, a dozen 
> or so commands, jump started me using the word processor.  I still have lots 
> more to learn but at least now I know where to find things, for the most 
> part, and every day I learn something new helping me gain even more 
> progress.  Anyhow, I thought this might be of help to those thinking about 
> getting into Macs or who might be struggling now.  Yes, it is quite 
> frustrating those first few days.  Fortunately, my wife has been using a Mac 
> Air for over a year so I got hot key commands from her when first firing up 
> the machine, haha.
> 
> Phil.
> K0NX