Microsoft's latest version of Windows 10 is, and it's full of great improvements and refinements to the world's most popular desktop operating system. If you've been using a Mac, you might be intrigued by Windows 10, now that it's in a matured state. While Windows and OS X (soon to be macOS) are similar in concept, in practice using them can be quite a different experience. Apple's platform is full of helpful user experience features that make it easier to navigate the operating system. Windows has some of its own, but if you want to ease the transition from Mac to PC, here are a few of our favorite tools to make you feel a little bit more at home. Seer Seer for Windows. One of the best things about OS X is the ability to preview files quickly and easily with your spacebar in Finder.
In this video I demonstrate how to preview files on a Mac using a really simple technique. In this video I am using Mac OSX Mavericks. Note: This video is part of a series on Mac OSX. With the preview function u can only view a small part of it. Mp3 and mp4 arent even supported by the preview-function in windows. Thats why i like it. U get a quick access to your files.
Fortunately, I found, which does exactly that, but more. Not only will you be able to preview photos or videos with just a tap on your spacebar, but you'll also be able to dive into zip and rar files, as well as some of Adobe's project files from Photoshop or Illustrator. Lightshot Lightshot for Windows. Taking a screenshot on Windows 10 can be a hassle. You often have to fiddle around with a combination of keyboard shortcuts or copy and pasting it into Paint.
However, there's an app I started using recently called. Lightshot provides a very similar experience to the native screenshot tool built into OS X. After installing Lightshot, all you have to do to take a screenshot is press the 'Prt Scrn' key (or you can set another key combination if your keyboard doesn't have a print screen button) on your keyboard and you'll be able to select what area on your screen you want to capture. From there, you can save it, copy to your clipboard, or share it to other apps.
You can also annotate the screenshot afterwards if you want to highlight exactly what you want others to see in your screenshot. Wox Wox for Windows. Apple's universal search tool, Spotlight is a core experience of OS X. Whether it was finding certain files or launching specific apps, I used it every single day. Windows 10 has Cortana, which can perform many of the same things, but its interface isn't quite the same. Is an open-source app on GitHub that is essentially a Spotlight or Alfred alternative for Windows. You'll be able to search for apps, files, search on the web, and you can even add plugins to make Wox even more powerful which is something you can't quite do with Spotlight out of the box.
WinXCorners WinXCorners for Windows. Hot corners, which let you activate certain shortcuts by moving your mouse pointer to the corner of your screen, are a staple in OS X.
They used to be in Windows 8, but were removed for Windows 10. Is an app that restores basic hot corner functionality to Windows. It allows you to assign actions such as: task view, show desktop, start screensaver, or turn monitor off to the four corners of your desktop. Unfortunately, there aren't as many options or customization features as I’d like, but for basic hot corner needs, it gets the job done.
Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
I really don't know a whole lot about the windows world, and I was hoping one of you could give me some advice about PC software. We've got several PC's in our office running windows and I am looking for a rough equivalent of OSX's Preview app. When I google it, I am bombarded by tons of crapware, and many are fairly pricy given my needs. We really only need to be able to rotate pages, delete pages, and divide multiple-page pdf's into separate documents. Acrobat reader won't let you do this and save the changes.
You have to upgrade to the $299 app. That price seems pretty outrageous given our limited needs, and especially because we would need to buy the software for several machines. Do any of you have any apps that you use on your windows machines that you would recommend to this sheltered OSX user (It's moments like these that really make me appreciate my macs)? Assuming you've got PDF creation sorted already. The following stuff is useful.
(if you haven't, I use PDFCreator, which is an open source thing) ByCPDFMetaEdit is handy for deleting, reordering pages and adding metadata etc Rotation, watermarking and a few other things can be done with Just ignore the Editor programme - it's a freeware thing that also installs a shareware programme you can just ignore. Is a program that decrypts PDFs when you don't know the password, in many cases anyway, without taking ages cracking the password. I'm sure there's loads of other stuff out there, but having trawled through the mound of crapware a long time ago those were the things I settled on. If you're looking at pay-for stuff, Jaws PDF Editor is quite capable. Depending what version of Windows you have (i.e. Vista requires 8.1+) you might consider an old/cheap copy of acrobat.
I've seen Acrobat 8 even go for. Another option I've just found another option, that is more similar to Preview. It's a freeware app with some free features and some paid features (19.95), but even the freeware features include plenty that Preview.app doesn't have, such as more flexible annotation, markup, line drawing, type-over etc.
Page deletion etc is paid though. It works flawlessly under Wine/Crossover on Mac so I've added it to my arsenal. In the paid version it would be the closest thing to preview I've seen (and in fact better, if not as pretty). It's called PDF XChange Viewer - just google.
The Pro version has more features, but the free is still very useful. Combined with the other stuff I mentioned before you have a fairly major set of tools. In Windows, you can get a preview of any document (that the OS knows how to open) in the left pane of an explorer window. However it is still Windows which means the preview takes a while.
On my work windows box, I use sumatrapdf which is a freeware pdf viewer. I have adobe reader on my system but prefer not to open it if I can avoid it. What I really miss in windows is quickview.
We use pdfexchange to write pdfs, I will have to grab the pdf exchange viewer and see if it's better than sumatrapdf. But sadly there is still no true 'quickview' solution on windows.
I've tried launchy to replace spotlight/quicksilver but there is nothing that approaches quickview for speed and number of formats supported. While quickview on OS X is bulletproof, quickview on iPad has a ways to go to catch up. I do notice that quickview on ipad sometimes munges spreadsheets created by openoffice.org but I don't mind launching docs2go or pages to see what's really inside those few files. Click to expand.I actually installed this today on a Windows machine and on my Mac running OS X 10.7 Lion. The reason I installed it on my Mac was simply to see what its interface looked like, so I could more easily explain it to a coworker who is ostensibly going to be using it on her PC here at the office. The 'Mac version' is just the crappy Windows interface version ported over to OS X, and, while it installed and seemed to be okay, when I attempted to run a split PDF job I found that.
IT DOESN'T WORK ON LION. This is to say nothing about its functionality on Windows - I have no idea yet, and I'll be trying that, along with PDFill Free PDF Tools as mentioned by a poster above, which seems to be able to split PDFs, which i all my PC-user coworker needs to do. (I of course could easily do this in seconds with Preview on OS X, but I need to give her a solution on PC that she can use on her own. I can't wait til we replace her Dell with Mac - the solution to most problems of this sort!).