- Get to Know Your Desktop and Finder
- Get to Know Your Finder Windows
- Get to Know Your Home and its Folders
- Take Advantage of the Sidebar
- Change the View of the Finder Window
- Use the Buttons in the Finder Window
- Select Multiple Items in the Finder
- Use the Dock
- Use the Trash
- Understand the Various Disk Icons
- Understand the Various Library Folders
- Use Mac OS X Together with Mac OS 9
- Look for Contextual Menus
- Work with Keyboard Shortcuts
- Burn a CD or DVD
- Learn Simple Troubleshooting Techniques
- Learn More About Mac OS X
- What You've Learned
- Make Your Own Paper
- The Beginner's Guide to Doing Everything In iTunes
- Liven Up Your Design Through Repetition
- Robin Williams Explains How to Use TextEdit
- Robin Williams’s Guide to the Most Overlooked New Leopard Features
- Blog On and Blog Louder with iWeb
- Beginning Designer's Guide to Working with Photographs
- Network Preferences for Mobile Computing on a Mac
- What Are Web Pages Anyway? A Non-Designer's Guide
- Designer's Toolbox: DVD Hardware and Software Overview
- How to Use the Dock in Mac OS X Tiger
- How to use the Dock
- Robin Williams Introduces You to Mac OS X
- Designer's Toolbox: DVD hardware and software overview
- Robin Williams Cool Mac Apps: iMovie
- iMovie
- Introduction to Mac OS X
- Build A Better Business Card
- Little Mac iApps Tips
- iPhoto: Organize and Share Your Digital Photos
- Opening Apps & Docs in OS X
- Finding Your Way Around OS X
- Navigation Design
- Project: Logos
- Applying Your Identity
- Identity Template Files
- Tips on Designing Newsletters
- Tips on Designing Web Pages
Non-Designer's Presentation Book, Adobe Reader, The
Non-Designer's Presentation Book, The
Robin Williams Handmade Design Workshop: Create Handmade Elements for Digital Design
Robin Williams Handmade Design Workshop: Create Handmade Elements for Digital Design, Adobe Reader
Little Mac Book, Snow Leopard Edition, Adobe Reader
Little Mac Book, Snow Leopard Edition, The
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Peachpit Learning Series
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Peachpit Learning Series, Adobe Reader
Non-Designer's Design Book, Adobe Reader, The, 3rd Edition
Robin Williams Cool Mac Apps: Twelve apps for enhanced creativity and productivity, Adobe Reader, 3rd Edition
Robin Williams Cool Mac Apps: Twelve apps for enhanced creativity and productivity, 3rd Edition
Non-Designer's Design Book, The, 3rd Edition
Little Mac Book, Leopard Edition, Adobe Reader, The
Little Mac Book, Leopard Edition, The
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Peachpit Learning Series
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Peachpit Learning Series, Adobe Reader
Non-Designer's Design and Type Books, Deluxe Edition, The
Podcasting and Blogging with GarageBand and iWeb
Podcasting and Blogging with GarageBand and iWeb eBook
Robin Williams Design Workshop, 2nd Edition
Robin Williams Design Workshop, Second Edition, Adobe Reader, 2nd Edition
Non-Designer's Collection, The
Macs on the Go
Macs on the Go, Adobe Reader
Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare?
Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare?, Adobe Reader
Non-Designer's Type Book, The, 2nd Edition
Non-Designer's Web Book, The, 3rd Edition
Little Mac Book, Tiger Edition, The
Robin Williams Cool Mac Apps, Second Edition: A guide to iLife 05, .Mac, and more, 2nd Edition
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Peachpit Learning Series
Robin Williams Cool Mac Apps: A guide to iLife, Mac.com, and more
Little Mac Book, The, Panther Edition
Robin Williams Mac OS X Book, The, Panther Edition
Non-Designer's Design Book, The, 2nd Edition
Mac is not a typewriter, The, 2nd Edition
Little Mac iApps Book, The
Robin Williams Mac OS X Book, The, Jaguar Edition, 2nd Edition
Little iMac Book, The, 3rd Edition
Little Mac OS X Book, The
Robin Williams Web Design Workshop
Little Mac Book, The, 7th Edition
Robin Williams Design Workshop
Non-Designer's Web Book, The, 2nd Edition
Non-Designer's Scan and Print Book, The
How to Boss Your Fonts Around, 2nd Edition
Mac is not a typewriter, The
- Proxy page, Five Mac Tips in Five Days, Part 5
- The “page proxy” is that tiny document icon that you see in the title bar of an open document, just to the left of the document name. That page proxy is "live," and you can do a number of things with it, just as if it were the file icon itself.
- iChat Theater, Five Mac Tips in Five Days, Part 4
- This is an amazing feature in
iChat: You can show files, photos, slideshows, or movies while
video-chatting with a friend or coworker.
- The Dictionary panel, Five Mac Tips in Five Days, Part 3
- I use the Dictionary/Thesaurus application so much that I put it in my
Dock and leave it open all the time instead of taking the extra click
to get to the Dashboard. But there’s an even faster way to find the definition or synonym of a word—the Dictionary panel.
- Googling in Mac apps, Five Mac Tips in Five Days, Part 2
- Google any word or phrase in any Apple application.
- Use iChat to send text messages to cell phones, Five Mac Tips in Five Days, Part 1
- You can send text messages to any phone directly through iChat.
This chapter is from the book
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Peachpit Learning Series
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Goals |
| Become familiar and comfortable with the Desktop and Finder. |
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Understand the Finder windows and how to use them. |
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Learn to use the Dock. |
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Work with contextual menus and keyboard shortcuts. |
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Burn a CD or DVD. |
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Learn to watch for tool tips and other visual clues. |
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Know where to go for more information. |
Tiger is the latest and greatest version of the Mac OS X operating system. But even though it's the latest and greatest, it's still Mac OS X. In this section you'll become familiar with the basics of using your Mac in general, and the following sections will deal more specifically with the changes that appear in Tiger.
If you haven't yet installed Tiger, please see Lessons 1 or 2. Once you've got it installed and have gone through the setup process, you're ready to start using it!
Get to Know Your Desktop and Finder
When you turn on your Mac, you'll always see your Desktop,.shown below. This is also called the Finder, although technically the Finder is the application that runs the Desktop. Whenever you see a direction that tells you to go to the Desktop or to the Finder, this is where you need to go.
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Make sure you can get to the Desktop or Finder when necessary
As you work on your Mac, you will be using a number of applications in which you'll create your documents, but you'll often want to go back to the Finder, which sort of acts like home base. The name of the active application, the one that's currently open and available to use (including the Finder), will always be displayed in the application menu. Keep an eye on that menu.
To go to the Finder at any time, do one of these things:
- Single-click on any blank area of the Desktop.
- Single-click on any Finder window (shown below) that you see.
- Single-click the Finder icon in the Dock (shown on the opposite page).
Check to make sure the application menu says “Finder.”
