Introduction to MacOSX for First-Time Users

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Series

Whether you're switching to the Mac from Windows, or if you're new to computers entirely, this course will help you feel at home in the Mac environment. A basic tour of the Mac system begins with a "lay of the land" of the Dock, Apple menu and the Finder, and proceeds to step-by-step instructions on using System Preferences to personalize and customize your Mac. You'll learn how to customize the Dashboard, and how to search for files or content at the press of a key. Finally, we'll explore some functions that are native to the Mac that Windows users pay extra for... such as capturing pictures of your screen, printing to a PDF file, creating encrypted disk images and more. This course was prepared using MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard), but will apply to users of MacOS 10.4 (Tiger) and later.

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Obbie

Guru since: December 06, 2010

About the Author

Obbie King has over twenty years of experience helping people become comfortable with their computers and technological tools. He's worked professionally as a field technician, educational consultant, prepress operator, MacOS network administrator, and web programmer. Each of these roles presented new opportunities to help people and computers work together happily.

Desktop, Menu and Dock

Part 1 of 9A tour of the Mac "lay of the land", covering the Apple Menu and the Dock, with instructions for modifying the Dock.

Created by: Obbie

Length: 13:33

Table of Contents (10)

Chapter 1: Introduction

Time in Video: 0:00

Chapter 2: Lay of the Land

Time in Video: 1:33

Chapter 3: Mice

Time in Video: 2:14

Chapter 4: Right-clicking

Time in Video: 3:52

Chapter 5: Keyboards and keyboard shortcuts

Time in Video: 4:19

Chapter 6: Menu bar

Time in Video: 6:14

Chapter 7: Apple menu

Time in Video: 8:23

Chapter 8: Dock Applications

Time in Video: 9:29

Chapter 9: Dock folders and stacks

Time in Video: 10:50

Chapter 10: Modifying the Dock

Time in Video: 11:41

Applications, the Finder and Mac windows

Part 2 of 9Starting and quitting applications, navigating the Finder and its different views, elements of a Mac window

Created by: Obbie

Length: 19:15

Table of Contents (11)

Chapter 1: Intro to a Finder window

Time in Video: 0:00

Chapter 2: "Traffic lights"

Time in Video: 1:10

Chapter 3: Moving and resizing windows

Time in Video: 3:01

Chapter 4: The sidebar

Time in Video: 4:00

Chapter 5: Finder views

Time in Video: 5:37

Chapter 6: Finder info

Time in Video: 8:59

Chapter 7: Running applications

Time in Video: 9:59

Chapter 8: "Closing" is not always "Quitting"!

Time in Video: 11:26

Chapter 9: Menu bar widgets

Time in Video: 15:02

Chapter 10: Spotlight

Time in Video: 16:49

Chapter 11: What's next

Time in Video: 18:36

Customizing the Dock, Desktop and Screen Saver

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Part 3 of 9We tame the Dock and put it where we want it, then we put our own pictures on the Desktop and in our Screen Saver.

Created by: Obbie

Length: 14:37

Table of Contents (3)

Chapter 1: The Dock: hiding, showing, positioning, and other fun stuff

Time in Video: 0:00

Chapter 2: Desktop

Time in Video: 4:42

Chapter 3: Screen Saver

Time in Video: 9:42

System Preferences for the User Interface

Part 4 of 9A quick tour of each of the System Preferences you could use to personalize your computer environment. Preference panes covered: Appearance, Energy Saver, Expose and Spaces, Language and Text, Sound, Displays, Print and Fax, Spotlight.

Created by: Obbie

Length: 19:01

Table of Contents (8)

Chapter 1: System Preferences: Appearance

Time in Video: 0:00

Chapter 2: Energy Saver

Time in Video: 3:43

Chapter 3: Expose and Spaces

Time in Video: 5:00

Chapter 4: Language and Text

Time in Video: 8:21

Chapter 5: Sound

Time in Video: 11:33

Chapter 6: Display

Time in Video: 13:16

Chapter 7: Print & Fax

Time in Video: 16:38

Chapter 8: Spotlight

Time in Video: 17:24

System Preferences for Administration and Customizing Hardware

Part 5 of 9System Preferences to customize the behavior of your hardware (CDs and DVDs, Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad, Bluetooth), adjust how it communicates (Speech, Universal Access), and for system administration (MobileMe, Security, Sharing, Network, Accounts, Date and Time, Software Update, Time Machine, Startup disk, Parental Controls).