I recently made the decision to move from Windows to Mac and bought my first Mac laptop. Like every decision you make in life, there are always new things to learn. Been the kinda of person I am, I will rest at nothing until I find the tools needed to provide the same functions I was used to having in Windows XP and Windows 7.

The first thing I didn’t like was the way files and folders got sorted, I did some searching in Google and found a way to help with this. I will be posting the details of how I accomplish this right away.

Now that I am getting a little more comfortable navigating thought all my files and folders, I was missing an easy way to create a new file in the folder I was currently working on. After some searching I found a couple of options.

The first options is called NuFile, you can get it at  www.growlichat.com. The problem with NuFile was that it did not work on Snow Leopard. The second options is called QuickFiles and you can read all about it here  www.gskinner.com, this option works on Snow Leopard but, in my opinion is still lacks that ease of use approach that a new user might be looking for.  So I decided to looking for something else, I ended up coming across a few samples of AppleScript code and decided to put together a script that did exactly what I wanted and was easy for a new user to get accustomed to.

I will post a blog entry with all the sources I used, sample code and step by step instructions of how I created this script. I will also show you how you can easily make this options available to you with one single click of the mouse.

My third obstacle to overcome is to find a way to compress and split large files into smaller size volumes for free.  There are many options out there to do this but, been the fan I am of open source, I know there is a way to do this for little to no cost. I will provide instruction of how I managed to get RAR compression options with volume spliting for large files and made it available to use with one single click of the mouse.