LogMeIn

www.logmein.com is a wonderful website. It allows you to download free software onto your computer which allows you to take over that computer (Mac or PC) from any browser. There are even apps for your iPhone and iPad called LogMeIn Ignition to take over your remote computer. You control it remotely as if you were right in front of it. Excellent!

There are corporate editions of LogMeIn Pro that you can remote control or do remote support for all the computers in your workplace. It isn't free but works great. They even have LogMeIn Rescue that with cooperation from the user on the remote computer, you can remotely control their computer without first downloading the software. But LogMeIn Rescue is about $1000.

An app NOT to get for iPad

One app you don't want is iDisplay which is supposed to extend your display to the iPad like a third monitor. The iPad can only be upright (not landscape) and when the mouse get over onto the iPad, it goes REALLY slow, lagging behind your actual movement by several seconds. You also have to fire up the image again on your Mac to choose uninstall or your Mac still thinks you have three screens.

A quick experience with Mac

It was after I had been using Windows for a while, someone had been telling me about Macs and how easy they were to use.  Intuitive and user-friendly.  I don't remember when it was but it was in the very late 90's or just after 2000, but I remember sitting down to a Mac that had just been booted up.  It didn't really have any icons other than a hard drive and no menus (this was before the dock).  I double-clicked on the hard drive.  For some reason, it opened up kind of small.  I double-clicked on the bar across the top to open the window all the way.  However, that just made it disappear.  That was weird.

Then I opened it again, I tried to resize the window by going to the sides or corners.  I think I must have tried every side and every corner but the lower right.  So I thought,  "You can't resize windows?  That's dumb."  I figured that something is intuitive and user-friendly if you KNOW how to use it already.  But because it wasn't doing anything that seemed intuitive and user-friendly within Windows, I gave up.  I probably left the Mac running because I couldn't figure out how to turn it off.  I never looked at another Mac for probably 9-10 years.

I came so close to what I now love just because it wasn't what I expected.