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what's up everybody John Retton here from the TechnoBuffalo here haven't done intro like that and Wow felt feel good to bring it back when I'm here at the office I'm generally using my MacBook Pro as my OS to get my work done but I like to experience other operating systems so for the past like ten months at home I was using a pixel book trying Chrome OS and I wanted to go back to trying Windows 10 to see what Windows 10 could do it's been a while since I used it on a daily basis and used my home computer all the time so I switched to try to use Windows and as I've been switching I found apps that had made a transition a lot easier and have made Windows work better for me especially coming from Mac OS I wanted to share the apps that have made the windows transition more seamless for me and if you guys have suggested something at work leaving the comments down below and if you are fast we're also giving away a surface pro 6 for the next few days I'll link to that one down below I realize how often I use quick look on Mac OS and there's a slight trivia question for the video what version of Mac OS did QuickLook come out on let us know in the comments down below and I missed having it on Windows he just pushed spacebar and you could preview a document without having to double click and open it up so there's appropriately an app in the Windows Store it's totally free called quick look it does the same thing and does it really well you push spacebar you can open a document it saves me time and it just made the transition its bit easier this next app I want to thank our sponsor freedom VPN I really start using VPNs until the past 8 months when I started talking about products with my wife and I started getting advertisements for them showing up on Instagram and Facebook so VPNs have become a little bit important for me essentially it's a virtual private network it can mask what you're doing and it can mask where you are and just gives me a little bit of peace of mind so freedom is by f-secure it's a company with 30 years of spotless track record for protecting its customers which is a kind of a big deal for for anybody it's super easy to set up you can get it up and running under a minute you don't need like a rocket science degree to get this working there's a gigantic on/off button so you can choose when you want your VPN on and when you want your VPN off you be debating trying a VPN ticket I am there's really no risk you can try it free for five days you can also get 20% off with discount code TechnoBuffalo will put all the information to it down below so you spotlight a ton on mac OS just putting the command space and searching for anything I love that feature the Start menu in the search bar inside of in a Windows 10 is crazy powerful my fingers just got used to sort of putting those hotkeys to do it this is gonna view the same thing on the windows it just Alt + spacebar and it pulls up a search box it doesn't give you any additional functionality that you don't get it the search in the Start menu my fingers just used to those hotkeys so it just been a nice thing to have for me I've never been the biggest fan of screenshotting on Windows 10 I always use command shift 4 to select the area I want to take a screenshot of there's an app totally free called green shot that gives you crazy granular controls over screenshot you can set for the hotkeys are used to so for me I just used alt shift 4 so it was the same hotkeys I was used to you can pick the file format you could pick the size you can pick where it saves to you could have it all automate I absolutely love green shot it's made my life a ton easier I do a lot of screenshotting and just the granular options it gives you have been totally awesome when I switch to Windows it's like one of the first 3 apps I always download so somebody who suffers from insomnia a lot of my work is done either like unnecessarily late at night or way early in the morning so I like the color temperature on my screen to kind of shift at the time so I use flux for that if you're coming from a kits similar to what you get with nightshift you can set a schedule to be cool during the day warmer at night or you can adjust it manually so Windows 10 has a feature called a nightlight that's gonna kind of give you similar options it just gives you way more control and I kind of like that there's also a ton of built-in free stuff you can use and you can also disable it for a full screen app so that's not your jam this next one is called Backblaze it does cost five dollars per month but for me it kind of gives me peace of mind it does whole computer backups you can access your backup to get an option to get a drive of all of the data mailed to you if your computer goes lost or stolen you've got kind of a fine in my computer feature built in so Windows 10 does have backups built in you can do backups onto external drives too if you want it's been a little bit finicky in my experience the five bucks for me was just a price to pay for peace of mind not a necessity but I kind of enjoyed having it so these are the apps that have made the transition for somebody coming from Mac OS to Windows 10 the easiest this has made Windows 10 not really Macke but it's sort of giving me the features that I got used to on Mac OS to Windows oftentimes with more option than I ever got on Mac OS there's an app that you use on Windows that make people's lives easier let us know in the comments and we'll reply and we'll even pin the top one up to the top so people can see it and find some new apps to help them