IntroductionWelcome| 00:04 | Hi and welcome to Switching from
Windows to Mac. I'm David Rivers.
| | 00:07 | More and more people are making
to switch to the Mac, or using a Mac
| | 00:10 | alongside their Windows PCs.
| | 00:12 | This updated course will help make your
transition as smooth as possible, and our
| | 00:17 | focus will be moving from a Windows
7 or XP environment to the latest Mac
| | 00:22 | operating system, OS X Lion.
| | 00:24 | We'll begin by exploring the
advantages to making the switch, getting you
| | 00:28 | acquainted with some new terminology,
and finding out what you gain and what you
| | 00:33 | might lose when switching.
| | 00:34 | After that, we'll spend some time with
the Mac keyboard, the mouse, and gestures
| | 00:39 | while navigating. Then it's time to get
you comfortable with the Mac interface,
| | 00:43 | then working with the files and folders
in OS X Lion, and also how to use search
| | 00:48 | functionality that's built into the Mac.
| | 00:50 | We'll finish up with moving day.
| | 00:52 | If you're saying goodbye to your
Windows PC, you'll need to know how to get
| | 00:56 | your stuff from the PC over to your Mac.
| | 00:59 | So if you're ready, let's get started.
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| Demystifying the Mac| 00:00 | This title is all about switching to
the Mac from a Windows PC, so in this
| | 00:04 | lesson we're going to explore the
advantages to doing so, while we explore a few
| | 00:08 | myths that may have you
feeling hesitant to switch right now.
| | 00:12 | If you've already committed to the
switch, this lesson is simply going to make
| | 00:15 | you feel good about your decision.
| | 00:17 | If you're still on the fence, this
lesson might just knock you off the fence and
| | 00:20 | possibly into Mac territory.
| | 00:22 | So firstly, let's discuss some of the
top reasons why people might be putting
| | 00:26 | off the switch to the Mac.
| | 00:28 | Well, number one, Mac
computers are too expensive.
| | 00:31 | Yes, you can spend under 300 bucks for a
cheap Windows computer, but the key word
| | 00:36 | here of course is cheap. Most brand-name
PCs configured like a standard Mac will
| | 00:41 | actually cost about the same.
| | 00:44 | If you already have a suitable keyboard,
a mouse, and a monitor, you could spend
| | 00:48 | less than 600 bucks for an ample and
totally sufficient Mac computer. And if
| | 00:52 | you're more concerned about total
cost of ownership and the quality of your
| | 00:55 | computer, as opposed to just the initial
purchase price, the Mac wins that, hands down!
| | 01:00 | All right, how about this one?
| | 01:01 | There is less software out there for the Mac.
| | 01:04 | I've heard it before and true,
| | 01:06 | some highly-customized software
applications are only written for the Windows
| | 01:10 | computer, and you may have fewer choices
for equivalents that run on the Mac, but
| | 01:15 | did you know there are thousands of
software applications available for the Mac
| | 01:18 | that meet the needs of most users very well?
| | 01:21 | Just think about Microsoft Office, for example.
| | 01:24 | At the time of this recording, Microsoft
Office 2011 is available on the Mac, and
| | 01:28 | it's fully compatible
with Office 2010 for Windows,
| | 01:31 | so this includes Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, and even Outlook.
| | 01:35 | If you do have Windows-only programs,
well, you should know that there are a few
| | 01:39 | different options where you could
continue to use those programs on your Mac, and
| | 01:44 | Boot Camp comes with every Mac, lets you
boot up your Mac in Windows environment
| | 01:48 | and use it like a Windows PC.
| | 01:50 | You can also choose to run Windows
programs alongside your Mac apps with an
| | 01:54 | application call Parallels
Desktop or VMware Fusion.
| | 01:57 | In those cases, no restart is necessary
when you install one of those apps along
| | 02:01 | with your Windows installation disc.
| | 02:04 | Now, of course there are tons of
great software applications that only run
| | 02:06 | on the Mac as well.
| | 02:08 | Mac OS X is based on the UNIX platform,
so many programs that run on UNIX or
| | 02:13 | even Linux will also run on
your Mac, but not on a Windows PC.
| | 02:19 | Now the next myth: Macs won't last.
| | 02:22 | Well, that's not really true, is it?
| | 02:24 | We've seen that the Mac is actually
gained in popularity, and although it may
| | 02:28 | have appeared that way over ten years ago,
since then of those less popular
| | 02:34 | days, Mac sales are now on the rise,
more than half, by former Windows users.
| | 02:40 | And don't be fooled by the overall sales
figures, which currently are around 9%-10%.
| | 02:43 | Don't forget that this includes a
corporate world and things like cash registers
| | 02:48 | that run on Windows.
| | 02:49 | Mac sales in the consumer market and in
the business market as well continue to
| | 02:54 | skyrocket while sales of
Windows PCs have been staggering.
| | 02:57 | I think the Mac is here to stay.
| | 02:59 | How about when you hear Macs don't comply
with industry standards? Well, not anymore.
| | 03:05 | Let's start with expandability.
| | 03:07 | Although the high-end Mac Pro does have
expansion slots, you rarely need them,
| | 03:11 | thanks to FireWire and USB ports that
allow you to connect devices without
| | 03:16 | ever opening the box.
| | 03:17 | Once upon a time, Mac floppy disks
wouldn't run on a Windows PC, and that's where
| | 03:21 | noncompliance with
industry standards actually ended.
| | 03:25 | Keep in mind that Apple is actually the
one that popularized industry standards
| | 03:28 | like Wi-Fi wireless networking and USB ports.
| | 03:32 | It's compliant with such standards
found in Bluetooth, PCI Express, FireWire,
| | 03:36 | Gigabit ethernet, and even Intel
Processor technologies, just to name a few.
| | 03:41 | In fact, Apple's default web browser,
known as Safari--which, by the way, is also
| | 03:45 | available in Windows--complies with
industry standards as well or even better
| | 03:49 | than Microsoft's Internet Explorer. All right!
| | 03:52 | Time to explore some of the advantages
and disadvantages to moving to the Mac.
| | 03:57 | Firstly, when you go with the Mac,
you really do deal with a one-stop shop.
| | 04:02 | Think about Windows for a second.
| | 04:03 | It has to be able to run on all
kinds of PCs from all kinds of vendors.
| | 04:07 | The people who make Mac OS X Lion
also make the computer it runs on.
| | 04:12 | This is called vertical integration,
and it means a huge benefit to customers
| | 04:16 | who can now count on a reliable
system as well as reliable service.
| | 04:21 | If you have an issue with your
computer or your operating system, you call
| | 04:24 | Apple, one contact, and of course they
have a strong incentive to resolve the issue.
| | 04:29 | There's no one else to blame.
| | 04:30 | On the flip side, you have more options
with Windows because it does run on all
| | 04:35 | kinds of hardware from many different vendors.
| | 04:37 | All right, how about looks?
| | 04:39 | Macs look cool, and whether it's an
iMac or an iPad, the people at Apple are
| | 04:44 | serious about aesthetics.
| | 04:46 | This is proven by the numerous
awards they've received for excellence
| | 04:49 | in industrial design.
| | 04:51 | With the Mac, function follows form, and
you can judge this book by its cover.
| | 04:55 | Of course, vendors of Windows hardware
are catching on and you can find some
| | 04:59 | pretty cool-looking
Windows machines out there now.
| | 05:02 | Quality design means keeping the
important features and scraping the unnecessary
| | 05:06 | junk, so easy on the eyes is nice, but
easy to learn and easy to work with are
| | 05:11 | the real goals here of the Mac designers.
| | 05:15 | Windows 7 is following along in that vein
and is more Mac-like than any previous release.
| | 05:21 | Let's talk about high-quality products as well.
| | 05:23 | Apple invests seriously in developing
unique products that are superior to those
| | 05:27 | that might be interchangeable with
others sold by a bunch of different vendors.
| | 05:31 | You get what you pay for.
| | 05:33 | Paying a little more for a lot more
functionality is what makes Apple the most
| | 05:36 | profitable company in
the industry unit for unit.
| | 05:40 | How about innovation and compatibility?
| | 05:43 | Apple and Intel are partners, and
now all Macs use Intel processor chips,
| | 05:48 | so watch for some new and unique
innovations from Intel now that it does not
| | 05:52 | rely solely on Microsoft
Windows-based computers.
| | 05:56 | In conclusion, truth be told,
| | 05:58 | I was reluctant to switch to a Mac.
| | 06:00 | I was a victim of some of those
misconceptions I talked about, and I was simply
| | 06:03 | ignorant of the advantages.
| | 06:05 | To be honest, I was very
comfortable in my PC world using Windows.
| | 06:09 | Little did I know how easy to
switch to the Mac would actually be.
| | 06:12 | I just needed a few fundamentals
revealed to me and the rest was a breeze.
| | 06:17 | That's what you can
expect in the upcoming lessons.
| | 06:19 | Today, I work on a Mac full-time,
| | 06:22 | although I do use Boot Camp on this
Mac to boot it up in the Windows 7
| | 06:25 | environment when I need to.
It's really the best of both worlds.
| | 06:29 | I'll never forget my first day with the Mac.
| | 06:31 | I turned the switch on and it was
ready to use in seconds, not minutes of
| | 06:35 | flashing screens and chugging hard
drives, seconds, and that's how long it took
| | 06:39 | for me to get hooked.
| | 06:40 | Let's see how long it takes for you.
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| Adjusting to new Mac terminology| 00:00 | While there are definitely
differences from a Windows PC and a Mac
| | 00:05 | computer, there are also very many
similarities; the only differences might
| | 00:09 | be what they're called.
| | 00:10 | So we're going to talk
about some new terminology
| | 00:13 | you'll need to get accustomed to
when working in a Mac environment.
| | 00:16 | We'll begin with Windows Explorer.
| | 00:18 | If you're used to using Windows
Explorer to go exploring through your computer,
| | 00:22 | the various folders,
devices that might be connected,
| | 00:25 | you'll need to get used to something
different on the Mac called Finder, and it
| | 00:29 | works much the same way.
| | 00:31 | With Finder you'll be able to see a list
of devices that are either connected to
| | 00:35 | your computer or connected on the
inside, you'll be able to go to different
| | 00:39 | places, you'll be able to sort the
contents by selecting them, and of course
| | 00:43 | there are different ways to
view various types of icons.
| | 00:46 | In Windows you might use a control
panel to make changes to some of the default
| | 00:51 | system preferences, things like date
and time, networking, hardware, for
| | 00:55 | example. You'll see categories when you
open up control panel in Windows 7. On
| | 00:59 | the Mac you'll be accessing something
called System Preferences right from the
| | 01:04 | Apple icon in the top left-hand corner.
| | 01:06 | It, too, is broken up into categories.
| | 01:08 | You'll see icons for making changes to
the default system preferences on your Mac.
| | 01:13 | In Windows, when you open up Windows
Explorer, you can access the Program Files
| | 01:18 | folder, and in there you'll see
subfolders representing each of the programs
| | 01:22 | installed on your computer.
| | 01:23 | It's great way to see what's
installed, to go in and remove files, including
| | 01:27 | program files that you may
have uninstalled, for example.
| | 01:31 | On the Mac, it's not called Programs.
| | 01:33 | You're going to be looking for Applications.
| | 01:35 | Applications, when you select that
in Finder, it will display all of the
| | 01:39 | applications installed on your computer.
| | 01:41 | What's really nice about the Mac is to
uninstall an application you no longer
| | 01:45 | use you simply select it and delete it.
| | 01:48 | It will be uninstalled simultaneously.
| | 01:51 | In a Windows environment you might be
using shortcuts, little icons that maybe
| | 01:55 | appear on your desktop, for example,
that take you directly to a program you use
| | 01:59 | frequently or maybe even an actual file.
| | 02:01 | Icons that are shortcuts appear with a
small arrow in the bottom left-hand corner.
| | 02:06 | Well, on the Mac they're not called shortcuts.
| | 02:08 | They're called aliases, but they do
appear as icons, like on the Windows
| | 02:12 | environment, with a small arrow
in the bottom left-hand corner.
| | 02:16 | In Windows you might be accustomed to
using the Taskbar. Even Windows XP had
| | 02:20 | a taskbar that by default appeared across the
bottom of the screen. It can be moved around.
| | 02:25 | In Windows 7 there is still a
taskbar with a Start button in the
| | 02:28 | bottom left-hand corner.
| | 02:29 | You'll see shortcut icons to programs that
you can launch directly from the Taskbar.
| | 02:34 | Anything that is running will also
appear on the Taskbar as a selected button.
| | 02:39 | It's a great way to switch between
different files in different applications
| | 02:43 | that might be running.
| | 02:44 | On the Mac you're going to
use something called the Dock.
| | 02:47 | It, too, appears by default
across the bottom of your screen.
| | 02:50 | It'll have a number of icons
that will allow you to launch
| | 02:53 | different applications.
| | 02:54 | The applications that are running
will also appear down there with a dot
| | 02:58 | underneath them, and in fact even the
ones that are running but hidden will
| | 03:01 | appear there with arrows under them.
| | 03:03 | We'll see that as we begin working with
applications a little later on in this title.
| | 03:08 | Also in Windows, in the far right-hand
side of the Taskbar, something called the
| | 03:13 | Tray where you'll see used and unused icons.
| | 03:16 | There will be shortcuts to things like
changing speaker volume, the date and
| | 03:19 | time, security issues.
| | 03:21 | Well, on the Mac it's called
menulets and they actually appear on the top
| | 03:25 | right-hand corner of the Mac user
interface. Things like speaker volume, date
| | 03:31 | and time, can all be adjusted from
there, and you can pick and choose what
| | 03:34 | appears as menulets on the Mac just
like you can with your Windows tray.
| | 03:40 | In Windows you have a Windows folder.
| | 03:42 | If you go to a hard drive and look at
the Windows folder, you're going to see the
| | 03:45 | various Windows folders,
including things like fonts, for example.
| | 03:49 | This is where people might go to look
at the fonts that are installed or even
| | 03:53 | install additional fonts.
| | 03:54 | Well, if you want to do the same
thing on the Mac side, there is no Windows
| | 03:57 | folder, but there is one called a System folder.
| | 04:00 | It's the equivalent. You'll see things
like a Fonts folder in there as well, so
| | 04:05 | if you want to check out the fonts or
install additional fonts, you would go to
| | 04:08 | the System folder on the Mac.
| | 04:11 | You might use the Recycle Bin.
| | 04:13 | It's a trashcan in Windows that
sits typically on the Desktop.
| | 04:17 | Of course you can access it from
Windows Explorer as well. And when you delete
| | 04:21 | items, they are not permanently deleted.
| | 04:23 | They actually go to the Recycle
Bin until you empty the Recycle Bin.
| | 04:27 | Same thing happens on the Mac side,
but it's with the Trash, and the trashcan
| | 04:31 | looks very familiar.
| | 04:33 | It, too, is a storage place where items
you've deleted are temporarily kept until
| | 04:38 | you empty that trash, and then
they are permanently deleted.
| | 04:42 | The Trashcan and the Recycle Bin, if
there are items in either, will appear to
| | 04:47 | have crumpled-up papers in them, and
when you empty them they appear empty.
| | 04:51 | Very much the same.
| | 04:52 | In Windows when you look at Windows
Explorer, for example, in the top-right
| | 04:56 | corner you might see a Search field,
and in the Search field you can type in
| | 05:00 | things that you want to look up, which
might be right in that folder that is
| | 05:04 | selected, you can look for files.
| | 05:06 | You can look for folders.
| | 05:07 | On the Mac it's called Spotlight, and
Spotlight appears in the top-right corner as well.
| | 05:13 | It's a search field.
It looks like a magnifying glass.
| | 05:15 | It's very powerful, though. We
will be taking a look at this.
| | 05:18 | You can find files, folders.
| | 05:20 | You can find applications.
| | 05:22 | You can find the contents
within files and folders as well.
| | 05:27 | In Windows if you need to look at the
properties of a selected item, maybe it's
| | 05:31 | an image file, for example, you can
right-click that file right in Windows
| | 05:35 | Explorer, for example, choose Properties
from the pop-up menu to get information
| | 05:39 | about the selected file.
| | 05:41 | So in this case on our slide we have an
example of a JPEG image, so we see the
| | 05:46 | type of file, where it's located, the
size, when it was modified and accessed.
| | 05:51 | The exact same thing on the Mac is
called Get Info. So you can right-click items
| | 05:57 | on a Mac, even with a single-button mouse--
we will be talking about how to do that
| | 06:01 | when we get into the keyboard a
little bit later--but from that menu you're
| | 06:04 | going to choose Get Info--you won't
see properties--and it gives you similar
| | 06:08 | information: the type of file, where
it's located, when it was accessed.
| | 06:13 | And lastly, something you may or may
not use in Windows environment, Gadgets.
| | 06:18 | Gadgets are little programs that
can run in the background, things like
| | 06:21 | calendars and clocks, calculators, maybe
your local weather--you want to have easy
| | 06:25 | and quick access to it.
They're called Gadgets in Windows.
| | 06:28 | You have the exact same thing on the Mac.
| | 06:31 | It's just that they're called Widgets.
| | 06:33 | So that's some of the new terminology
you'll need to get accustomed to when
| | 06:37 | switching over to the Mac.
| | 06:38 | In the next chapter, we'll get into
actually using the Mac, some other things
| | 06:42 | that you'll need to get used to, like
the new keyboard, how to use your mouse, or
| | 06:47 | some of the different types of mice
that are available to you on the Mac,
| | 06:51 | also something brand-new called
Gestures. That's all coming up in the
| | 06:54 | next chapter.
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| Using the exercise files| 00:01 | If you're a Premium subscriber with
lynda.com, you're going to have access to
| | 00:04 | the exercise files, and the exercise
files allow you to follow along with me
| | 00:08 | step by step in some of
the lessons in this title.
| | 00:11 | So if you do plan on using them, I
highly recommend placing them in a convenient
| | 00:15 | location where they'll be easy to find.
| | 00:17 | I placed mine in my home folder
here, you'll find Exercise Files.
| | 00:21 | Now here in List view notice that
clicking the arrow next to Exercise Files
| | 00:26 | expands it to display subfolders.
| | 00:28 | There is a Chapter3
folder and a Chapter6 folder.
| | 00:31 | Those are the chapters where we'll
actually be using exercise files.
| | 00:35 | Expand one of those folders and you'll
see the actual files that we'll be using.
| | 00:39 | Now if you don't have access to
the exercise files, not to worry.
| | 00:43 | You can still follow along with me using
your own files if you like, or you can
| | 00:48 | still learn lots by simply
sitting back, relaxing, and watching.
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1. Navigating the MacBasics of the Mac keyboard| 00:00 | If you're going to be switching from a
Windows PC to a Mac that comes with its
| | 00:03 | own keyboard, there are some
adjustments you may need to make.
| | 00:08 | So we're going to talk about some
keyboard basics now, beginning at the very top.
| | 00:11 | On the very top row, towards the
right-hand side you'll find an Eject key.
| | 00:15 | Now remember my first time using a Mac. I
wanted to pop a CD into the drive and I
| | 00:20 | could not find the Eject
button on the Mac itself.
| | 00:24 | That's because you go to the keyboard
and hit the Eject key here. It will open up
| | 00:28 | the drive. Hit that key again,
| | 00:30 | it will close it up.
| | 00:31 | On older keyboards you'll find this
in the top right-hand corner, above
| | 00:35 | the numeric keypad.
| | 00:36 | Let's move now to the Backspace and Delete keys.
| | 00:39 | If you look closely at the Mac keyboard,
they are both labeled Delete, but they
| | 00:43 | do work like the Backspace and
Delete keys on a Windows keyboard.
| | 00:47 | For example, if you're in a word
processing application and you want to
| | 00:51 | delete characters to the left of your
flashing cursor, you would go to the Backspace key.
| | 00:56 | Although it's labeled Delete here on the
Mac, it will delete characters to the left.
| | 01:00 | Delete characters to the right by
using the Delete key above the cursor keys.
| | 01:05 | And of course if you've selected
objects, you can delete them as well, using your
| | 01:10 | Backspace key here on the Mac keyboard.
| | 01:13 | Let's move now down to the bottom of the
keyboard on either side of the spacebar,
| | 01:16 | where you'll find the Command keys, also
displaying a symbol. It kind of looks like
| | 01:21 | a pretzel, possibly a cloverleaf.
| | 01:23 | They've been called those keys in the past.
| | 01:26 | It really is the Command key, and it works
much like the Ctrl key on your Windows keyboard.
| | 01:31 | For example, you like to use Ctrl+P
in Windows for printing. Well, you would use
| | 01:37 | Command+P here on a Mac keyboard.
| | 01:40 | Next to the Command key you'll find the
Alt or Option key on either side, and the
| | 01:46 | Alt or Option key works much like the
Alt key does in a Windows environment.
| | 01:50 | It's a booster key, and there are many
keyboard shortcuts that will require you
| | 01:54 | to use the Alt or Option key.
| | 01:57 | And just to the right and left of those
keys, you'll find the Ctrl key, not to be
| | 02:02 | confused with the Ctrl key you're
accustomed to in a Windows environment.
| | 02:05 | This goes back to the single-button
mouse days where you could right-click by
| | 02:09 | holding down Ctrl and clicking with your
mouse. Of course, you can still do that
| | 02:14 | using the Control key here on the Mac.
| | 02:16 | Now let's just talk about the keyboard itself.
| | 02:20 | Now there are many different
keyboards, but if you look closely at yours,
| | 02:24 | you'll find that's comfortable, it's
ergonomic, and it's also convenient,
| | 02:27 | because if you look at the back of your
keyboard, you'll find USB ports allowing
| | 02:32 | you to plug in devices.
| | 02:35 | Just be aware that if your USB device
requires any power, these ports will not
| | 02:40 | work. You'll have to go to the tower, to
the laptop, for example, and plug it in there.
| | 02:46 | But if your device does not require
power, this is a convenient way to plug them
| | 02:50 | in, quick and easy, without having to go
to the back of the tower, for example.
| | 02:53 | So that's a quick overview of your Mac
keyboard. You should be feeling a little
| | 02:57 | bit more comfortable with some of
the adjustments you'll need to make.
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| Using the Mac mouse| 00:00 | Switching from a Windows PC to a Mac
might entail switching to a new mouse, and
| | 00:05 | I say "might" because if you like the
USB mouse you're already using in Windows,
| | 00:10 | you can actually continue to use it on your Mac.
| | 00:12 | Just unplug it and plug it right
into your Mac and start working with it.
| | 00:16 | Most Macs, however, do come with a mouse
and if you decide to go with it, there
| | 00:20 | are some adjustments you need to make.
| | 00:21 | So in this lesson we'll
explore some mouse basics.
| | 00:25 | And the Mac mouse has evolved over time,
becoming more ergonomic and functional
| | 00:29 | over the years, but one feature has prevailed.
| | 00:32 | It's the one-button appearance
that has remained somewhat constant.
| | 00:36 | Now, in the early days you really did have
only one button on the mouse to work with.
| | 00:40 | Over time the Mac mouse has gained
additional functionality while continuing to
| | 00:45 | appear like a one-button mouse. And
now, at the time of this recording, there's
| | 00:50 | actually a newer, sleeker, more powerful
mouse available called the Magic Mouse.
| | 00:54 | And we'll talk more about this mouse
in the next lesson when we get into
| | 00:57 | gesturing on the Mac.
| | 00:59 | For now, let's just keep it simple, with another
popular Mac mouse out there, the Mighty Mouse.
| | 01:04 | Now there is a wide
selection of Mac mice out there.
| | 01:08 | Some have buttons on the side, some
are sensitive, and the Mighty Mouse is
| | 01:11 | actually a combination of both.
| | 01:14 | While it looks like it's a one-
button mouse, that button is sensitive to
| | 01:17 | pressure on the left and the right sides.
| | 01:20 | So you can actually left-click and
right-click like you would in Windows by
| | 01:24 | applying pressure to the
right side of the mouse.
| | 01:27 | Now it also has a tiny scrolling or
trackball for scrolling through pages or
| | 01:31 | screens without using scrollbars in
various windows, and as a Windows user,
| | 01:36 | you're probably accustomed to a two-
button mouse, perhaps, with that scroll
| | 01:40 | wheel down in the middle.
| | 01:42 | But regardless of what mouse you're
using, you will notice one big difference
| | 01:46 | when using Mac OS X Lion for the first time.
| | 01:49 | Scrolling seems to work in the
opposite direction from what you might be used
| | 01:53 | to, and that's all thanks to the iPads and
iPhones out there using the iOS and gesturing.
| | 01:59 | So sliding fingers down the screen moves
the page in that direction, opposite to
| | 02:04 | what has always happened with a
mouse in Windows--that's until now.
| | 02:09 | By default using a scroll wheel or a
trackball will scroll pages or screens in
| | 02:14 | the same direction as well here on the Mac.
| | 02:17 | It's logical, but you
might find it uncomfortable.
| | 02:20 | If so, the good news is, you
can actually change it back.
| | 02:24 | So we're going to take a peek here
at the System Preferences by clicking
| | 02:27 | the Apple icon right in the top left-hand
corner and then selecting System Preferences.
| | 02:33 | Next, we'll go over to the Mouse, which we find
in the Hardware section, and give it a click.
| | 02:39 | Now just keep in mind of course that
different types of mice will show different
| | 02:43 | types of preferences here.
| | 02:44 | So depending on the mouse that you
have connected to your Mac, you may see
| | 02:48 | different options, but some of them
will appear for every type of mouse.
| | 02:51 | For example, this check box at the top
that says Move content in the direction
| | 02:56 | of finger movement when scrolling or navigating.
| | 02:59 | Notice it is checked off, it is the
default, and it's the opposite to what you
| | 03:03 | might be used to on a Windows PC.
| | 03:05 | Typically moving the scroll
wheel down would push the page up.
| | 03:10 | So in this case you're going to see
the opposite unless you deselect it by
| | 03:14 | clicking the check box.
| | 03:15 | Now for a person who might be using
Windows and Mac, maybe switching between the
| | 03:19 | two, this is a good option to turn it off.
| | 03:22 | If you're just going to be using the
Mac though, it might be a good idea to get
| | 03:25 | used to this more logical movement.
| | 03:27 | Now there are some other options too
here, while we're looking at our System
| | 03:31 | Preferences, like the Tracking Speed. If
you find your mouse pointer is moving too
| | 03:34 | quickly across the screen and you're losing it,
| | 03:37 | you can slow it down; just
click and drag the slider.
| | 03:41 | Same thing goes for Scrolling Speed,
so if you're scrolling using the scroll
| | 03:45 | wheel maybe on your mouse and it's going too
fast, slow it down or speed it up if you need to.
| | 03:51 | Also, when you're double-clicking, if
you find that you have to double-click too
| | 03:54 | fast for it to actually work, you can
slow that down too if you needed to.
| | 03:58 | And then you can see the primary mouse
button is set to the left mouse button.
| | 04:04 | So the primary mouse button is the
one you're going to be clicking the most
| | 04:07 | often, also known as a left-click.
| | 04:10 | But for left-handed people it's the
opposite button, so in that case if you are
| | 04:14 | left-handed just click the Right
radio button to switch to two buttons.
| | 04:18 | Just remember you have to use the
other button to make the selection to
| | 04:21 | switch it back to Left.
| | 04:22 | And then there is one other option for zooming
| | 04:24 | when using the scroll wheel. You can hold
down the Ctrl key on your keyboard, use
| | 04:28 | the wheel on your mouse, if you have
one, to zoom in and zoom out, depending on
| | 04:34 | whether you scroll the
wheel forward or backward.
| | 04:36 | I just close those up, and now your
mouse should be working just like it did
| | 04:41 | in Windows if you deselected that Scrolling
option; otherwise, you're using the new defaults.
| | 04:47 | If you're moving to a brand-new iMac,
you have a brand-new Magic Mouse you might
| | 04:52 | want to start using.
| | 04:53 | They come with the iMacs. Of course
you can by them on their own as well.
| | 04:56 | It's a whole new ball of wax.
| | 04:57 | It involves the use of gestures, and
that's what we're going to discuss in
| | 05:01 | the next lesson.
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| The basics of gestures| 00:00 | If you're familiar with using an iPhone,
maybe an iPad or even an iPod touch,
| | 00:05 | you're already familiar with
gesturing to manipulate screen items.
| | 00:09 | Well, with a trackpad or maybe even a Magic
Mouse, you can do the same on your Mac computer.
| | 00:15 | So some of the things you're accustomed
to doing in a Windows environment can be
| | 00:19 | done using these devices, and that's
what we're going to talk about right now.
| | 00:23 | We'll begin by using a
trackpad with the default settings.
| | 00:27 | Now with the trackpad in your MacBook
laptop, or maybe with one attached to your
| | 00:32 | Mac computer, you can use your fingers to
do things like tracking the pointer and
| | 00:37 | clicking by dragging a finger and pressing down.
| | 00:41 | Or you can also enable something called
Tap to Click, and in that case you don't
| | 00:45 | have to press down on the trackpad;
| | 00:48 | you can just tap it to click.
| | 00:50 | You can also right-click, also known as
Ctrl+Clicking on a Mac, by tapping with two fingers.
| | 00:56 | Another thing you can try is swiping
left or right between apps that are
| | 01:00 | running in full-screen mode, and this would
be like using Alt+Tab in a Windows environment.
| | 01:06 | How about scrolling up and down or
even left and right by simply dragging two
| | 01:11 | fingers along the trackpad?
| | 01:13 | You can double-tap the trackpad or try
the stretch and the pinch move with two
| | 01:19 | fingers to zoom in and zoom out on an item.
| | 01:22 | What about dragging with three fingers?
| | 01:24 | Try that to move a window around, so you
can manipulate that window and place it
| | 01:28 | on the Desktop exactly where you want it.
| | 01:31 | These are just some of the gestures of
course that you can use on a trackpad in
| | 01:34 | place of what you were
doing with a mouse in Windows.
| | 01:37 | You can also use a Magic Mouse to
perform mouse functions and some
| | 01:42 | trackpad functions as well.
| | 01:44 | So with your Magic Mouse, if you're
following along, you can click or double-click
| | 01:49 | just by tapping the mouse surface.
| | 01:51 | You can right-click like you would in
a Windows environment by turning on the
| | 01:55 | Secondary Click option in System Preferences.
| | 01:59 | You can also scroll by brushing a
single finger up and down, left or right,
| | 02:04 | right on top of the mouse itself.
| | 02:06 | And if you want to advance through
pages, you can do so with your Magic Mouse by
| | 02:11 | swiping two fingers left or to the right.
| | 02:14 | For more detail on gesturing, using
some of these gestures, and more, check out
| | 02:19 | Mac OS X Essential Training with
Christopher Breen at lynda.com.
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2. The Mac InterfaceExploring the desktop| 00:00 | All right, it's time now to get
familiar with our Mac Desktop.
| | 00:04 | We are going to take a quick tour now
before we dive into the details of some of
| | 00:08 | the components we see here on
the Desktop when we launch our Mac.
| | 00:13 | Typically, when you do launch your Mac,
you are taken directly to the Desktop,
| | 00:16 | unless of course you've set up
different user accounts--something we'll talk
| | 00:20 | about later on. You'll need to log in
in those cases. Maybe you are using Boot
| | 00:24 | Camp like me and you need to choose
between a Mac or a Windows system.
| | 00:27 | You will have to do those things
before you arrive here at the Desktop.
| | 00:31 | Now the way you see my Desktop may be a little
bit different than the way you view your own.
| | 00:36 | For example, in the background here, you
can see I'm using a solid color, just to
| | 00:40 | make it a little bit easier
for you to see what's going on.
| | 00:43 | The default background for
Mac OS X Lion is much different.
| | 00:47 | Let's start at the very top left-hand corner,
and this is very different for Windows users.
| | 00:51 | What's you are going to see in the
top left-hand corner, across the top,
| | 00:54 | stretching from the left
to the right, is a menu bar.
| | 00:58 | And in the very top left-
hand corner is our Apple icon.
| | 01:01 | This is omnipresent, meaning
it's always going to be there.
| | 01:05 | No matter what application you're
running, you'll always have access to the
| | 01:08 | Apple icon, and giving it a click,
you'll see there is a menu that pulls down
| | 01:12 | with a number of different options,
like accessing your System Preferences, for
| | 01:16 | example. Or if you want to go directly to
adjusting the Dock, you can do that from here.
| | 01:21 | You can force quit applications that, hey,
it rarely happens on a Mac, but when
| | 01:25 | it does, you can shut
them down using Force Quit.
| | 01:29 | And of course if you want to shut down your
computer, you can do that from the Apple icon.
| | 01:34 | You can restart or even sleep the computer
| | 01:36 | if you simply want to shut it down
temporarily. That way you can come back, tap
| | 01:41 | a key on the keyboard, tap your mouse,
and everything comes right back where you
| | 01:44 | left it, nice and fast.
| | 01:46 | And if you are using user accounts,
here is where you go to log out.
| | 01:50 | So that Apple icon, you'll always see
it up here in the top left-hand corner.
| | 01:54 | Notice also that there is something
kind of running here in the background, and
| | 01:58 | it's always running.
| | 01:59 | It's called Finder.
| | 02:01 | And it's the equivalent to Windows Explorer.
| | 02:03 | So back here, with nothing else open and
running, you can see Finder has its own
| | 02:08 | menu with its own Preferences. You can
do things like empty the trash from here,
| | 02:14 | and it has its own menu bar
with File, Edit, View, Go.
| | 02:17 | Here's a nice one under the Go menu,
you can go directly to Applications. And
| | 02:21 | just like Windows Explorer, it's going
to open a separate window and display any
| | 02:25 | of the applications you might
want to launch right from here.
| | 02:29 | Notice also, when we close this up,
Finder is still running. And if we move down
| | 02:33 | to the bottom of the screen and check
out the Dock--and this would be similar to
| | 02:38 | what you would see in the bottom of
your Windows 7 screen, where you might have
| | 02:41 | shortcut icons to various applications
that you want to launch, also you will be
| | 02:46 | able to access applications
that are running from here.
| | 02:49 | And anything with this indicator
light underneath is something that's
| | 02:53 | running, and Finder will always be running.
| | 02:55 | If we were to want to launch something
like Microsoft Word for the Mac, it would
| | 02:59 | appear down here with this indicator light.
| | 03:01 | As you can see though, there is no
Word icon, so there is no shortcut here on
| | 03:05 | the Dock, and as we move across the icons, you
can see how they kind of expand a little bit,
| | 03:10 | or magnify, to make it a little bit
easier to understand what you're looking at.
| | 03:14 | All of this is adjustable, and it is
something we are going to do a little bit
| | 03:17 | later on in this chapter.
| | 03:18 | Also, you'll find your Trash bin here.
| | 03:21 | Here's where you can go to move things
into the Trash simply by dragging them
| | 03:25 | there, and of course right-
clicking is something you can do or using
| | 03:29 | Ctrl+Click to do things like empty
the Trash or open it up in a window so
| | 03:33 | you can see what's in there.
| | 03:35 | In the top right-hand corner, we have
our menulets. Just like the Apple icon,
| | 03:40 | the menulets are going to appear up
here, and yours may be different than mine.
| | 03:43 | These are adjustable.
| | 03:45 | You might see, for example, an option
for changing the speaker volume on your
| | 03:49 | Mac. Clicking this gives you
a slider that you can adjust.
| | 03:52 | You might see, if you are logged in,
using an account, your own name up there, and
| | 03:56 | you'll see the other accounts that
you can switch to quickly from here.
| | 03:59 | And the very most important one, to me
at least, is this little magnifying class
| | 04:04 | in the very top right-
hand corner called Spotlight,
| | 04:06 | something we'll spend a lot of time on later on.
| | 04:08 | It's a great way to find things on
your Mac, whether they be applications,
| | 04:13 | folders, files, or contents within those files.
| | 04:17 | Now on your Desktop of course you can
have what you would be used to calling
| | 04:20 | shortcuts in Windows. They are called aliases.
| | 04:23 | If you look here, we actually have
shortcuts to various drives that are
| | 04:26 | installed on this Mac, so you may see
a single hard drive, for example, like
| | 04:31 | your Macintosh hard drive.
| | 04:32 | If you have additional drives,
they can show up here as well.
| | 04:35 | You might have folders added to your
Desktop, and if there are folders you
| | 04:39 | access on a regular basis, why
not put them here on the Desktop?
| | 04:42 | We will be talking about how
to do that a little later on.
| | 04:45 | And as you can see here, I have one
alias or shortcut called Stickies.
| | 04:50 | It's an application. So if this is
something I am going to use on a frequent
| | 04:54 | basis, I can just double-click it from
here without having to go to my Finder
| | 04:57 | Window, selecting Apps, and finding
it there and launching it from there.
| | 05:02 | So that's a quick tour of the Desktop.
| | 05:04 | Of course everything you see here on
the Desktop is fully customizable, and
| | 05:09 | we will dive into some of these
features as we move through the lessons in
| | 05:12 | this chapter.
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| Accessing OS tasks from the Apple menu| 00:00 | If you're moving to the Mac from a
Windows XP environment or Windows Vista,
| | 00:04 | you're familiar with the Start button that
you use to access a number of system commands.
| | 00:10 | In Windows 7 it's called the
Windows Orb, while here on the Mac,
| | 00:13 | you need to get familiar with the Apple menu.
| | 00:15 | I mentioned earlier, this is
omnipresent, so no matter what application is
| | 00:20 | running, no matter what menu bar you're
looking at across the top, you'll always
| | 00:24 | see this Apple icon in the top-left
corner, and clicking it gives you access to
| | 00:29 | a number of system commands.
| | 00:31 | So we are just going to go quickly
through this menu and talk about some of the
| | 00:34 | features, including About This Mac.
| | 00:37 | Right at the top, when you click this,
you're going to see information about your Mac.
| | 00:41 | You're going to see what version of OS
X you're using, and of course if you're
| | 00:46 | moving to Lion, it's 10.7.
| | 00:48 | You might see a .2, for
example, like I do after that.
| | 00:52 | You can access software
updates directly from this window.
| | 00:55 | There is another way to do it,
which we'll talk about shortly.
| | 00:58 | You will see information about your
processor and your memory, your startup
| | 01:01 | disk, and if you want additional
information about any of the hardware, for
| | 01:06 | example, or software that's on your Mac,
click the More Info button, and this
| | 01:10 | actually launches something
which will appear on the Dock.
| | 01:12 | It's called System Information here.
| | 01:14 | And you'll see it also across
the top now in the menu bar.
| | 01:17 | So of course your menu bar has changed, but
there it is. The Apple icon always remains.
| | 01:23 | So first of all, you'll see a
number of tabs across the top.
| | 01:26 | I'm using a Mac Pro.
| | 01:28 | You can see information about it.
| | 01:29 | If I go to Displays, I will see information
about what display is connected to my Mac.
| | 01:34 | You'll see something different if
you're using something different from me.
| | 01:37 | You will see storage information here
about the various drives that might be
| | 01:41 | connected, and you'll see memory
information as well, and how it's split up.
| | 01:46 | When you're done, closing this window
by clicking the Close button in the top
| | 01:50 | left-hand corner of the window
closes up the application, and you'll notice
| | 01:55 | you're back to your Finder menu
across the top, if nothing else is running.
| | 01:59 | Now let's go back to our
Apple menu for a second.
| | 02:02 | Notice Software Update, which we just
saw a moment ago in the About This Mac
| | 02:06 | section, is also accessible directly from here.
| | 02:10 | So if you do need to run an update,
typically this runs automatically in the
| | 02:13 | background, but at any time you can
check for updates for any other software
| | 02:17 | that might be installed on your Mac.
| | 02:19 | You can go directly to the App Store
as well, which will launch your default
| | 02:23 | browser and take you
directly to the Apple App Store.
| | 02:27 | For System Preferences and the Dock, we
are going to save those for a little bit
| | 02:31 | later, because everything that you see
or do on your Mac, as far as the default
| | 02:36 | System Preferences go, can be altered from here.
| | 02:40 | So in other words, you can access
things like your display, your hardware, and
| | 02:45 | peripherals that are connected. Anything
dealing with the system and the default
| | 02:50 | preferences can be altered or
customized by going to System Preferences.
| | 02:54 | We will save that for
towards the end of this course.
| | 02:57 | The Dock Preferences are also
available through System Preferences, but by
| | 03:01 | moving down to Dock here on the Apple
menu, you can actually access some of them
| | 03:05 | directly from this little pop-up
menu that appears on the right.
| | 03:08 | And you'll notice that, by default, our
Dock is positioned along the bottom just
| | 03:12 | like the Windows taskbar, but we can
change where it's located and access those
| | 03:17 | Dock Preferences from here as well.
| | 03:19 | Recent Items, you will see recent
applications that you have been working with,
| | 03:22 | documents you have been working with.
| | 03:24 | Force Quit we talked about earlier, is
where you can go, if need be, to close up
| | 03:29 | an application that may have stalled. It
rarely happens here on the Mac, but Force
| | 03:33 | Quit is a great option for something
that just is no longer responding and you
| | 03:38 | need to close it up.
| | 03:39 | Now these next three options, Sleep,
Restart, and Shut Down, you'll also find in
| | 03:44 | your Windows Orb or Start
button in a Windows environment.
| | 03:48 | Here they are from the Apple menu.
| | 03:49 | Sleep, as I mentioned earlier, is a
great way just to put your computer on
| | 03:54 | standby, so it doesn't
close up your applications.
| | 03:56 | It keeps it running and simply powers
down temporarily so when you come back, by
| | 04:01 | pressing any key or tapping your mouse,
you'll resume right where you left off.
| | 04:06 | All of the applications will still be
running, and you'll be right where you left
| | 04:09 | off in those applications as well.
| | 04:12 | If you need to restart your computer
for any reason, it could be an issue or
| | 04:16 | perhaps you've installed some new
software and you need to restart, Restart
| | 04:20 | here is actually just going to reboot.
So it's going to shut down, but it's
| | 04:24 | also going to start it up for you so you don't
have to shut down and start it up separately.
| | 04:28 | And of course the Shut Down option
is going to close up the computer and
| | 04:32 | power it right down.
| | 04:34 | It will prompt you to close up any
applications that might be running, similar to
| | 04:37 | a Windows environment and
choosing Shut Down from there.
| | 04:41 | And of course, if you're sharing your
Mac and you have more than one account,
| | 04:44 | you will be able to see what account you're
logged in as at the very bottom of the Apple menu.
| | 04:49 | There is a keyboard shortcut, Shift+
Command+Q, to log out, which will take you to
| | 04:55 | the Login screen where you can log
in as a different user if need be.
| | 04:59 | So if you do share a Mac and you are
going to be stepping away from the Mac, for
| | 05:02 | example, logging out allows you to go
back to that login screen. If you're using
| | 05:06 | passwords, people won't be to
able to get into your files.
| | 05:09 | Come back to your computer, log
back in, and everything is safe.
| | 05:12 | So that's a quick tour of the Apple
menu, keeping in mind that many of the
| | 05:17 | options you see here are similar to
those you would find by clicking the Windows
| | 05:21 | Start button in a Windows environment.
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| Using the Dock to create shortcuts to tasks| 00:00 | If you're accustomed to working with
the taskbar in Windows, whether it be
| | 00:04 | Window 7 or a previous version, you'll
want to get comfortable with the Dock here
| | 00:09 | on a Mac, and that's what we are
going to talk about in this lesson.
| | 00:12 | By default the Dock does appear across
the bottom of your screen. There will be
| | 00:16 | some default icons that appear there
as well. And at the very end, just past
| | 00:21 | this little separator, is your Trash,
and that's where you can delete files by
| | 00:25 | placing them in the Trash or moving
them there, and this is also where you'll go
| | 00:29 | to empty your trash when you
want to permanently delete files.
| | 00:33 | So we are going to talk about how the
Dock actually works using the default
| | 00:37 | settings, and then we'll talk about
how we can change those default settings.
| | 00:41 | Firstly, you will notice that there
is one icon that has an indicator, a
| | 00:46 | glowing indicator appearing under it,
and that is Finder, and that's because
| | 00:49 | Finder is always running.
| | 00:50 | If we look at the menu bar with
nothing else running, Finder appears on the
| | 00:54 | menu bar. Click Finder and you'll see at the
bottom of the menu there is no Quit option here.
| | 01:00 | So any applications that are running
will appear on the Dock with that indicator.
| | 01:05 | The other icons that appear on the
Dock with no indicator are simply
| | 01:09 | shortcuts, and you can place as many shortcuts
to those applications as you like on your Dock.
| | 01:14 | Of course, you can remove the default
ones as well. We will do that momentarily.
| | 01:19 | Right now though, let's
just launch an application.
| | 01:21 | We can do that from Finder by clicking
Go and then going down to Applications,
| | 01:26 | the keyboard shortcut Shift+Command+A.
Now let's find TextEdit.
| | 01:31 | That's one of the utilities that
comes with your Mac. And we will
| | 01:34 | double-click that to launch it.
| | 01:36 | Right away you're going to see something
happen: the menu bar displays TextEdit.
| | 01:41 | We have an untitled
document ready to start working on.
| | 01:44 | In the background you can still see
the Applications window in Finder, and
| | 01:48 | check out the Dock.
| | 01:49 | There is a new icon here.
| | 01:50 | It's the TextEdit icon, and
there is an indicator down below.
| | 01:56 | Now if we were to exit or quit TextEdit--
we can click TextEdit and choose Quit
| | 02:02 | or Command+Q from the keyboard--
| | 02:05 | you'll notice that that
icon disappears from the Dock.
| | 02:08 | So it's only there temporarily.
| | 02:10 | Let's bring it back.
| | 02:11 | We will double-click TextEdit again
directly from our Applications window, and
| | 02:16 | let's see what happens
when we minimize our document.
| | 02:20 | The Minimize button is the
yellow one in the middle.
| | 02:22 | We will just click it, and notice that
we actually have a document icon now
| | 02:27 | labeled Untitled that appears to the right
of the separator next to our TextEdit icon.
| | 02:33 | So we can go directly to it
when we want to bring it back.
| | 02:37 | If we go to File and create another new
document, we now have a second untitled
| | 02:42 | document. And if we minimize both of these,
they both appear as separate entities
| | 02:48 | on the Dock, so we can go
directly to the one that we want to open.
| | 02:52 | What happens though if we hide TextEdit,
that is to keep it running, but get it
| | 02:56 | out of our view? Click TextEdit, choose Hide
TextEdit or use Command+H on your keyboard.
| | 03:03 | The icon still appears with the
indicator on the Dock, but you will notice
| | 03:08 | that as we move down to it, clicking it
would bring everything back that way it
| | 03:12 | was if we want to go to a specific
document. You can click and hold this icon,
| | 03:16 | and a menu shows up,
| | 03:18 | not just showing you the two that are
currently available to you, but some
| | 03:22 | recent ones as well.
| | 03:24 | So if you want to go to Untitled
2 directly, just give it a click.
| | 03:27 | It shows up on top of the
other documents that may be running.
| | 03:32 | Let's Quit TextEdit. Command+Q or click
TextEdit and choose Quit from the menu.
| | 03:38 | What if you want a shortcut to
TextEdit on your Dock? Maybe it's something
| | 03:42 | you use quite often.
| | 03:44 | It would be nice to have it there
so you don't have to go into the
| | 03:46 | Applications folder.
| | 03:47 | There are other ways to launch
applications that we will talk about later, but a
| | 03:51 | nice fast and easy way is to have it
right on the Dock, and the fastest and easiest
| | 03:55 | way to get it there is just to click
and drag it from the Applications window
| | 04:00 | right down onto the Dock.
| | 04:01 | And you can pick and choose where you
want it to appear. As you move across the
| | 04:05 | Dock, icons move out of the way to
allow you to just slip it right in there, and
| | 04:10 | I am going to put it next to Finder and
let go, and now you will notice that the
| | 04:14 | icon appears on my Dock. No indicator.
| | 04:17 | It's not actually running yet.
| | 04:18 | If I did want to run it, I have quick
and easy access by clicking the icon.
| | 04:22 | Not only does it open up TextEdit,
but it takes me back to the files I was
| | 04:26 | working on when I quit.
| | 04:28 | So we will just close up those windows,
we will quit TextEdit, and now we have
| | 04:34 | our icons that we want on our Dock.
| | 04:37 | Now if there are icons that you don't
use, icons you'll never use, you can
| | 04:41 | remove them from the Dock. Look how easy it is.
| | 04:44 | Let's say TextEdit that it is
something we no longer use. We have another
| | 04:47 | text-editing application.
| | 04:49 | We can click and drag it.
| | 04:50 | Now don't hold it too long or
| | 04:52 | you will see the menu. Just click and
drag it, and when you get up into the
| | 04:56 | desktop area, you will see, as you are
holding down your mouse button, a little
| | 05:00 | puff of smoke under the arrow.
| | 05:01 | That means when you let go it's gone.
| | 05:05 | It's only gone from the Dock of course;
| | 05:07 | it's still available to you
from your Applications folder.
| | 05:11 | So we will close that up.
| | 05:13 | That's working with the Dock itself.
| | 05:15 | If you wanted to adjust any of the
System Preferences pertaining to the Dock,
| | 05:20 | there's a couple ways to do that.
| | 05:22 | Of course, we know System Preferences
appear under the Apple icon, so we can go
| | 05:26 | up there and go to System Preferences
or access some of the Dock preferences by
| | 05:32 | going a little further down the menu
to Dock, and here you can see something
| | 05:36 | called Hiding, which can be turned on or off.
| | 05:39 | If it is currently off, you'll
see an option for turning it on.
| | 05:42 | Now what that means is the Dock
will hide out of the way until you move
| | 05:46 | your mouse down there. Let's try it.
| | 05:48 | So with Hiding on, there is no Dock,
until we move our mouse pointer down to the
| | 05:52 | bottom of the screen, and then it reappears.
| | 05:56 | Let's go back to the Apple icon.
| | 05:58 | We will click that, go down to Dock, and
we will turn Hiding off. Tight away we
| | 06:03 | see it down there at the bottom of our
screen. That location, by the way, is the
| | 06:07 | default location, and it too can be customized.
| | 06:10 | We will go back to our Apple icon, down
to Dock, and you will see that the current
| | 06:15 | position is on the bottom.
| | 06:17 | If you like to have it on the left-hand
side of your screen or the right-hand
| | 06:20 | side, those are the other two options.
| | 06:23 | Let's move it to the left.
| | 06:25 | With it over here on the left, it
still works the same way, but we're moving
| | 06:29 | vertically up and down
through the various icons.
| | 06:32 | Notice that that magnification does
allow us to see the icons a little bit
| | 06:36 | better, but we can adjust that too.
| | 06:38 | We will go back to the Apple icon,
down to Dock, and you can see
| | 06:42 | magnification can be turned Off.
| | 06:45 | If it's something you really don't need,
just turn it off and now when you move
| | 06:47 | across your icons, we will just see a
little pop-up telling you what the app is,
| | 06:52 | but there is no magnification.
| | 06:54 | Let's access the full preferences for
our Dock by going to the Apple icon, either
| | 06:59 | to System Preferences, which will allow
us to find the Dock preferences, or go
| | 07:04 | down to Dock and choose Dock
Preferences from that pop up menu.
| | 07:07 | Now you will notice that it actually
shows up here on the Dock itself, but
| | 07:12 | not only are we looking at System Preferences,
we've gone directly to the Dock preferences.
| | 07:17 | So we can adjust the Size.
Maybe it doesn't need to be so big.
| | 07:20 | We can make it smaller.
| | 07:21 | Of course, you can drag the slider to the
right to make it larger. That's up to you.
| | 07:26 | I like Magnification, so I am going
to turn that on, and that's a great idea,
| | 07:30 | especially if you make your
Dock a little bit smaller.
| | 07:33 | The magnification can also be adjusted.
| | 07:35 | If you don't need so much magnification,
drag the slider left; you like it and you
| | 07:39 | really want a lot of
magnification, move it to the right.
| | 07:42 | I'm going to change the
position back to the bottom.
| | 07:44 | That's where I like it. And you can see
minimized windows using different effects.
| | 07:49 | So when you minimize a window, you
might see a Genie effect by default, where it
| | 07:53 | appears to be sucking into a bottle.
| | 07:56 | Well, there are some other effects,
like the Scale effect that you can use.
| | 07:59 | I am going to leave it at the default.
| | 08:01 | And then there are other check boxes
here that will allow you to do things like
| | 08:04 | minimize windows into an application
icon. Animations can be turned on and off.
| | 08:10 | Now depending on your system resources,
| | 08:12 | you may want to turn off animation, so
when you're opening applications, they
| | 08:15 | simply open without the animation.
| | 08:18 | Automatically hide and show the Dock,
there is that option that we can access
| | 08:21 | from the Apple menu, but here it is
here as well. And the indicator lights that
| | 08:25 | you see underneath applications that
are running but perhaps hidden or open,
| | 08:30 | those can be turned off as
well if you don't need them.
| | 08:33 | I'm going to leave mine on, and I am
going to go up here and just close up the
| | 08:37 | window for my Dock Preferences.
| | 08:39 | That closes up System Preferences as
well, and you can see it no longer appears
| | 08:43 | down here on my Dock.
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| Managing widgets on the Dashboard| 00:00 | If you are comfortable using gadgets in
a Windows environment, you might want to
| | 00:05 | know about the widgets that are
available to you here in the Mac environment.
| | 00:09 | That what we're going to explore right now.
| | 00:12 | Now to get to the actual
widgets, we need our Dashboard.
| | 00:16 | The Dashboard is an application.
| | 00:18 | If we click Go in Finder, go down to
Applications, we'll see the Dashboard
| | 00:24 | listed alphabetically up near
the top of our list. There it is.
| | 00:27 | It's an app, and we could double-
click it from here. That's one option.
| | 00:31 | We could click and drag it down onto
our dock, if we wanted shortcut access to
| | 00:35 | it from there. But there is a much faster way.
| | 00:38 | So we'll just close up our
Finder window and press the F4 key.
| | 00:42 | If you're using an older keyboard, try
pressing F12. Pressing F4 or F12 on an
| | 00:47 | older keyboard switches you to your
Dashboard view and on the Dashboard is where
| | 00:52 | you're going to find any
widgets that you might be using.
| | 00:55 | The default, as you can see here for me,
is set up to show a clock and the current
| | 01:00 | weather for my area.
| | 01:03 | Now that is a very simple
look at a couple of widgets.
| | 01:07 | There are many, many widgets
available to you on the Mac, and then there are
| | 01:11 | thousands more available to you online.
| | 01:14 | So let's just start by adding
the widgets that we want to use.
| | 01:17 | Down in the bottom left-hand corner
you will see a little plus sign. Give it a
| | 01:20 | click. It opens up the Widgets bar
where we have a number of widgets listed
| | 01:25 | alphabetically here across the bottom.
| | 01:27 | So if there is something here that you
think you would like, you just simply
| | 01:31 | give it a click, like the Calendar, for example.
| | 01:34 | Now the Calendar appears on my
Dashboard, and of course, I can move that around
| | 01:38 | and place it exactly where I need it to go.
| | 01:41 | Notice that while we're in the actual
widgets bar, we also see these little Xs
| | 01:46 | in the top-left corner of our existing widgets.
| | 01:49 | So if we realize this is
something we don't need,
| | 01:51 | we can close it or remove it by clicking the X.
| | 01:54 | Now let us just go over to the far right
-hand side. You will see arrows on the
| | 01:58 | left and the right, and in this case,
we're only seeing a portion of the
| | 02:02 | widgets available to us.
| | 02:03 | We're looking at screen-full one of two.
Clicking the arrow to move to the right
| | 02:07 | allow us to see the additional
widgets that we maybe were missing out on.
| | 02:11 | I'm going to bring the weather back
by clicking it, place it here, and I'm
| | 02:17 | going to go back to the left and see if
there's anything I missed. Maybe the calculator.
| | 02:21 | That would be a good one. I always like to
have easy and fast access to a calculator.
| | 02:25 | So we'll just move it into position as well.
| | 02:28 | Once you have them where you want them,
you can press F4 or F12 again to go back
| | 02:33 | to your regular desktop.
| | 02:35 | Need those widgets again?
| | 02:36 | Press F4 or F12 to regain
quick and easy access to them.
| | 02:40 | Now you will notice also when we
click the plus sign down below there is a
| | 02:45 | Manage Widgets option, and that's the
same as clicking the very first icon
| | 02:49 | here labeled Widgets.
| | 02:51 | So click whichever one you like.
| | 02:54 | It'll open up a little window showing
you check boxes next to the widgets that
| | 02:58 | are available to you here.
| | 03:01 | Now these are all running in the background.
| | 03:03 | If you don't want to be able to select
from these widgets--in fact, you want
| | 03:07 | to turn any of these off because you'll
never use them--just deselect the check box.
| | 03:11 | So we'll go through some of these, like ESPN
| | 03:13 | I won't use. As we scroll through, I
don't ski, so I'll take of the Ski Report,
| | 03:20 | and I don't have time
for the game, the Tile Game.
| | 03:24 | So as soon as we do that, you'll notice
when we go back to the plus sign you're
| | 03:27 | just not there to choose from anymore.
| | 03:31 | So if you're done, you can close that up.
| | 03:33 | You are no longer managing your
widgets, and what you see is what you get.
| | 03:37 | All you have to do now is just close
this up by clicking the Close button. The
| | 03:41 | bar is closed up and now you
actually have your widgets.
| | 03:44 | Now as you move over some of these
widgets, you'll see in the bottom right-hand
| | 03:47 | corner a little information icon.
| | 03:49 | So if you want to make adjustments--for
example, I want to change the city for
| | 03:52 | my weather--move to the bottom right-
hand corner, click the Information icon and
| | 03:57 | now I can go in here and change information.
| | 03:59 | Maybe I want it to show up in Celsius,
and I want to change it from Toronto to
| | 04:04 | Ottawa. I'll just give it a
double-click and click Done.
| | 04:09 | When I do that everything
switches over accordingly.
| | 04:12 | So these are kind of cool.
| | 04:14 | They're not really programs or
applications that you're going to use to create
| | 04:17 | anything, but it is fast and easy
access to different types of information
| | 04:22 | that you might need.
| | 04:23 | Of course, when you're done with the
Dashboard, you can press F4 or F12 to
| | 04:28 | return to your desktop.
| | 04:29 | Now I did mention that there are
thousands and thousands available to you out
| | 04:33 | there on the Internet.
| | 04:35 | Press F4 or F12 to go back to the Dashboard.
| | 04:38 | Go down to the plus sign, give it a click.
| | 04:42 | We'll go to Manage Widgets again, and
here's where you'll see, at the very bottom
| | 04:46 | of this window, a button for More Widgets.
| | 04:49 | Clicking here is going to launch your
default browser for me. It's Safari.
| | 04:53 | It's going to take me to the Apple web
site, taking me directly to the Download
| | 04:57 | section for the Dashboard Widgets.
| | 05:00 | I'll see the top widgets over here.
So if I see something that I like, I can
| | 05:05 | select it from here.
| | 05:06 | I can scroll down the list, look at
the different categories. Maybe I'm
| | 05:11 | in to radio podcasts.
| | 05:13 | Notice there's 223 of them there.
Clicking that shows me the different widgets,
| | 05:18 | and I can get more information
about them by clicking the widget.
| | 05:21 | I'll see information there,
| | 05:23 | including a Download button, which will
download it to my Mac, and then I'll have
| | 05:26 | access to it under my Manage Widgets
section. Making sure it's turned on,
| | 05:31 | I can add it to my Dashboard.
| | 05:34 | I'm going to close up Safari. You can
do the same if you like. Click Safari and
| | 05:38 | Quit or Command+Q. Press F4 or F12 to
take one last look at our Dashboard.
| | 05:44 | Again, whatever was there when
you closed it up appears there.
| | 05:47 | So we can close up our Manage Widgets
window, and that leaves us with the widgets
| | 05:53 | we want at our fingertips by pressing F4 or F12.
| | 05:57 | Experiment with your keyboard to know
which function key works best for you.
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| Accessing system tasks with menu extras | 00:00 | As a Windows user, you may have
been accustomed to going to the bottom
| | 00:04 | right-hand corner of your screen on the
taskbar in a little area called the tray
| | 00:08 | to access different system icons, like
speaker volume, viewing the date and time
| | 00:13 | or making adjustments, for example.
| | 00:15 | Well, of course on the Mac we don't
have a taskbar--we have a Dock--and there is
| | 00:19 | no tray on the dock.
| | 00:20 | Instead, we go to the top right-hand
corner for something similar called Menu
| | 00:25 | Extras, and that's what
we're going to explore now.
| | 00:28 | Menu Extras, like you see here on my
screen for speaker volume, the login name,
| | 00:33 | there's the spotlight icon
for search functionality.
| | 00:36 | Those are the defaults on my
screen, and how do they get there?
| | 00:39 | How do we add items that don't appear there?
| | 00:42 | How do we remove items we don't need?
| | 00:44 | It's all determined by System Preferences.
| | 00:47 | So for example, if Speaker Volume
does not appear on your menu bar and you'd
| | 00:52 | like it there, you need to going
into the System Preferences for sound to
| | 00:55 | make the adjustment.
| | 00:57 | Maybe you like to see the date and time there.
| | 00:59 | Well, again that's a system
preference that needs to be adjusted.
| | 01:02 | So we'll go back to the very
far left-hand corner at the top,
| | 01:06 | click the Apple icon, and go down to
System Preferences, and click there.
| | 01:11 | Let's start with that speaker volume.
| | 01:13 | If we go to the Hardware section,
you'll see a speaker icon labeled Sound.
| | 01:17 | We'll click that. And it doesn't
matter what to select here, Sound
| | 01:21 | Effects, Output, Input.
| | 01:23 | Regardless of what tab you select,
look down at the very bottom.
| | 01:26 | You'll see a check box for
showing the volume in the menu bar.
| | 01:31 | Now, if you don't want it there, just
deselect the check box; it disappears.
| | 01:35 | If you do find it useful, make sure it
stays checked off, and you'll see that
| | 01:39 | speaker icon for easy access to speaker volume.
| | 01:42 | I like it, so I'm going to leave it checked off.
| | 01:44 | We'll go back to our main screen for
System Preferences. Click the Back button.
| | 01:48 | And let's talk about date and
time. I like to have the time there.
| | 01:51 | So if we go down to Date & Time and
give it a click, you'll see with Clock
| | 01:56 | selected at the top, a check box right at
the top to show date and time in the menu bar.
| | 02:02 | When you click that check box, you
then have a number of different options.
| | 02:05 | Now Analog is going to be too small to read,
| | 02:08 | so Digital is the default.
| | 02:10 | You can see, right now I'm seeing the time
and I'm also seeing whether it's AM or PM.
| | 02:14 | That's according to this
check box here, Show AM/PM.
| | 02:17 | If I don't care about that, I can save some
space by deselecting it. Now I just see the time.
| | 02:23 | Maybe be you like the date up there as
well, or maybe you like the day of the week.
| | 02:28 | That's totally up to you what you select.
So long as Show date and time in menu
| | 02:32 | bar is selected, you'll have those options.
| | 02:35 | You can even have the time announced, and
you can determine when it's going to be
| | 02:38 | announced and what voice will
be used to announce that time.
| | 02:43 | I'm going to leave mine unchecked, just
to save some space up there on my menu
| | 02:48 | bar, but if you like that feature,
make sure you keep it checked off.
| | 02:53 | So we'll go back now, and of course
there are many different system preferences.
| | 02:56 | Many of these items can appear on
your menu bar, and you'll be looking for
| | 03:02 | check boxes similar to what we just
saw for our speaker volume as well as our
| | 03:07 | Date & Time settings.
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| Controlling Mac windows| 00:00 | Here in a Mac environment we continue
to work with Windows just like we did in
| | 00:05 | Microsoft Windows. That is, when we open
up Applications, browse the Internet, we
| | 00:10 | need to access
applications that open up in a window.
| | 00:13 | So how we manipulate those windows is
very similar to what we do in a Windows
| | 00:17 | environment, but there are some
differences you need to know about.
| | 00:20 | So here we're going to start
by opening up an actual window.
| | 00:23 | From the Finder menu bar, we'll click Go,
and we'll go right down to our applications.
| | 00:28 | Command+Shift and the letter A, as in
application, is a keyboard shortcut to go
| | 00:33 | directly to a new Finder
window looking at applications.
| | 00:37 | So, this is actually a window in itself
and the window, as you can see, has three
| | 00:41 | buttons in the top left-hand corner: a
close, a minimize, and what you would be
| | 00:46 | used to calling a maximize
button or restore button in green.
| | 00:50 | So let's see how these work.
| | 00:52 | We'll start with the minimize button.
| | 00:54 | You can see what happens.
| | 00:55 | It's minimized down onto the dock, and
it actually appears to the right of the
| | 00:59 | separator next to our trash. That's
to show us that it's actually running,
| | 01:04 | open, but minimized.
| | 01:06 | So to get it back, we
just go down here and click.
| | 01:09 | Let's try the maximize button,
which is really a zoom button.
| | 01:13 | When we click it you can see
the window gets much larger.
| | 01:17 | So in this case, you can see the full width.
| | 01:19 | We can move it around just by going up
here in the gray area and clicking and
| | 01:22 | dragging, and it'll stretch all the
way from the menu bar at the very top to
| | 01:27 | the Dock at the bottom.
| | 01:28 | That's as far as it goes, and now we
need to use the scroll bar that appears on
| | 01:32 | the right-hand side to scroll up
and down through our applications.
| | 01:35 | Now, one thing you'll notice
with Mac OS X Lion environment,
| | 01:40 | there are no buttons at the top or
bottom of the scroll bar, just that button
| | 01:45 | that allows you to click
and drag through the list.
| | 01:48 | The same would happen for a horizontal
scrollbar if we were to resize this so
| | 01:51 | that we couldn't see the full
width, and of course you can do that.
| | 01:55 | Here, in OS X Lion we can actually do
it from any edge of our window, not just
| | 02:01 | the bottom right-hand corner.
| | 02:02 | In previous Mac OS's, we had to go to
the bottom right-hand corner to see that
| | 02:06 | diagonal arrow and click and drag to change
both the height and the width of our window.
| | 02:11 | So if we move in, for example, we could
still do that, but we can also go to any edge now.
| | 02:17 | So just to drag it a little bit wider
or narrower. We could go to the top or
| | 02:21 | the bottom and see a double arrow.
| | 02:23 | For increasing or decreasing the height,
we can go to any corner and see the
| | 02:28 | double diagonal arrow.
| | 02:29 | That's just something that's new to OS X Lion.
| | 02:32 | Now, you can see we do have a
horizontal scrollbar that we can use to go
| | 02:36 | left and right, but there are no buttons on
the left or the right to go in increments.
| | 02:42 | We can click below the button and
you'll see the default, which is it will move
| | 02:46 | the button to the location of your
pointer, showing you the next screenful of
| | 02:50 | information perhaps.
| | 02:52 | And you can use your keyboard keys.
| | 02:54 | So the cursor keys. The down arrow,
for example, allows you to move down the
| | 02:57 | list selecting items.
| | 02:59 | You can move up. And in this case
there's no left and right because we're
| | 03:03 | looking at a full line
taking it up by one application.
| | 03:07 | There are different views in Finder is
well, and you can see my default view
| | 03:11 | here is set to list the items,
but we can show them as icons.
| | 03:16 | We can also show them in a different
kind of view where we get information
| | 03:20 | about the app that's selected, and then we
also have a slideshow-type view called Cover Flow.
| | 03:26 | We'll talk about that a little bit later on.
| | 03:28 | So let's just go back to our list.
| | 03:30 | And we'll leave the Finder window
open, and let's launch an application
| | 03:34 | directly from here.
| | 03:35 | How about TextEdit?
| | 03:36 | Well, one of the quickest ways to get there
is to use this little Search field at the top.
| | 03:40 | We'll just start to type in "text"
and you can see what happens now.
| | 03:45 | It actually moves from Applications
to the actual computer itself, looking
| | 03:50 | for any files, any applications
that contain the word text. And if we
| | 03:56 | continue to type in "edit," you can
see right at the top we do have an
| | 04:00 | application called TextEdit.
| | 04:02 | So, all we have to do now is double-
click from there to launch that application.
| | 04:06 | Notice now the menu bar shows TextEdit.
| | 04:09 | So we have a window just like we do with
our Applications window, and we can size this.
| | 04:15 | We can use the buttons to maximize, minimize.
| | 04:19 | There's the close button. And we're
going to go back to this green button.
| | 04:23 | After we've maximized it, clicking it
again just restores it back to the size it
| | 04:27 | was before we maximized it.
| | 04:29 | Now what happens here on the Mac
sometimes, and this can be confusing for
| | 04:33 | Windows users, is you're working in
TextEdit and you click out here on the
| | 04:37 | desktop and you think you're still
working in TextEdit, but you look at the
| | 04:40 | menu bar and it says Finder.
| | 04:41 | Of course, that's always running in
the background, so when you click the
| | 04:44 | desktop, you're actually
moving out of the application.
| | 04:47 | Just click anywhere on
the page and you're back in.
| | 04:51 | Now, Alt+Tab is a popular key in
Windows for just toggling through the various
| | 04:56 | applications or programs that might be running.
| | 04:59 | On a Mac, it's Command+Tab.
| | 05:01 | So, holding down Command each time you
hit the Tab key, you'll see a little pop-up.
| | 05:04 | There's Finder. There's TextEdit. So we can move
back and forth using Command+Tab.
| | 05:09 | One nice feature on the Mac is if we
have multiple windows within an application.
| | 05:13 | Let's try it out. We'll go up to File here in the
TextEdit menu. Choose New to open up a second window.
| | 05:21 | Let's try Command+N to open up a third one.
| | 05:24 | And now to move through the
various applications, we know that that's
| | 05:28 | Command+Tab. To move through the
various windows inside a single application, we
| | 05:33 | have a keyboard command which is the
Command+Tilde, which is just
| | 05:38 | left of the number 1 on
your keyboard at the top.
| | 05:41 | So, Command+Tilde allows you
to toggle through the various windows in
| | 05:46 | that single application.
| | 05:47 | In our case, we're moving through
the various documents in TextEdit.
| | 05:52 | Of course, we can use the close button
at the very top left-hand corner of each
| | 05:57 | of these windows to close them up.
| | 05:59 | We know Command+Q is the keyboard
shortcut for quitting an application.
| | 06:02 | We can also go to the title right on
the menu bar, like TextEdit, and quit
| | 06:07 | TextEdit to quit it altogether.
| | 06:10 | So, let's close up our Finder window,
and we're back where we started on the
| | 06:14 | desktop, and you now have the basics you
need for working with multiple windows,
| | 06:20 | customizing those windows,
here in a Mac environment.
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| Working with various disks on the Mac| 00:00 | We're going to spend a little bit of
time now discussing drives and how you work
| | 00:05 | with drives here in a Mac environment.
| | 00:07 | It's very similar to a Windows
environment, but once again, there are some
| | 00:10 | differences you need to be aware of.
| | 00:12 | We'll start right here on our desktop,
and if you take a look on the desktop,
| | 00:16 | you'll see at least one hard
drive, your Macintosh hard drive.
| | 00:19 | It may be labeled differently than mine,
but you will see the icon that looks
| | 00:24 | like an actual hard drive, meaning
that's installed on your computer.
| | 00:28 | One thing that's interesting about the
Mac is if you have a drive, let's say it's
| | 00:33 | a CD or a DVD drive, maybe a burner,
| | 00:36 | you don't actually see it here on the
desktop until there's something in that drive.
| | 00:41 | For example, if you were to eject the
drive and pop a CD into it, you would then
| | 00:46 | see that icon here on the desktop.
| | 00:48 | I'm going to do it with a DVD. And if you
want to follow along, you have an actual DVD,
| | 00:53 | I'm going to use a blank one.
| | 00:54 | I'm just going to hit the Eject button
on my keyboard, pop it in, hit the Eject
| | 00:58 | button again on the keyboard to close
it up, and you see that symbol appear
| | 01:02 | right there on the desktop.
| | 01:03 | It will take a minute to examine the
contents, if there are any, and what might
| | 01:08 | happen is a default application will launch.
| | 01:11 | For example, with a DVD, you might have a
player that starts playing the content.
| | 01:15 | If it's a CD, iTunes might pop open to
display the contents of your audio CD.
| | 01:21 | As you can see, what happened here is I
have a DVD icon now on my desktop. I can
| | 01:25 | click and drag and move that around.
| | 01:28 | It's an untitled DVD, it is blank, but
because it's in the drive, I now see that icon here.
| | 01:33 | By default on my desktop, it's
a default that can be changed.
| | 01:36 | Now the same thing would go for a USB drive.
| | 01:40 | If you were to plug that in, it too will
pop up and appear here on your desktop.
| | 01:45 | So you have the easy access to it.
| | 01:47 | That means you can double-click an
icon to open up a Finder window to
| | 01:51 | examine the contents.
| | 01:53 | So I'm just going to take a brief
second here to pop a USB drive into the
| | 01:58 | front of my G4 computer.
| | 02:01 | So it doesn't take long before the
icon appears right there on the desktop.
| | 02:05 | You can see these icons
look different from each other.
| | 02:08 | So we can recognize a hard drive
from a DVD drive, from a USB drive.
| | 02:14 | Again double-clicking these icons opens
them up in a Finder window where we can
| | 02:18 | see a list of those items. We can view
the list in different ways in Finder of
| | 02:22 | course, and this is an
excellent tool for manipulating files.
| | 02:27 | Later on when we talk about moving
day, using a USB drive is one option for
| | 02:32 | getting files from one computer,
like a Windows computer, to your Mac.
| | 02:36 | Once you have them here, it is just a
matter of clicking and dragging them to
| | 02:40 | the various locations where they belong.
| | 02:42 | And of course, we can close up a
window but that doesn't eject it.
| | 02:46 | Ejecting any drives or devices that
are connected to your computer is very
| | 02:50 | important on the Mac.
| | 02:52 | So for example, this is always going
to appear here on my desktop so long as
| | 02:56 | there is something in the drive.
| | 02:57 | Once I eject it and pull
it out, the icon disappears.
| | 03:01 | So that default itself, let's talk about it.
| | 03:04 | By going up to Finder here on the
menu bar, clicking Finder and selecting
| | 03:08 | Preferences, making sure General is
selected, what you're going to see are some
| | 03:13 | check box for different items on the desktop.
| | 03:15 | Hard disks do appear by default.
| | 03:18 | If you don't want to see them
there, deselect the check box.
| | 03:21 | Notice my hard disks or drives have disappeared.
| | 03:24 | Same thing goes for external
disks. There goes my USB.
| | 03:27 | Now my CD, DVD, or iPod, if it's
connected will disappear. but in this case, I do
| | 03:33 | have something in there, so it
does still appear on my desktop.
| | 03:38 | Same thing goes for servers
you might be connected to.
| | 03:40 | So you can pick and choose what's
going to appear on your desktop by default
| | 03:45 | right here from your Finder
Preferences, under General.
| | 03:48 | I'll close up that window.
| | 03:50 | Now to eject of course
there are different options.
| | 03:53 | When it comes to your DVD drive, you can
press the Eject button right in the top
| | 03:56 | right-hand corner of your keyboard.
| | 03:59 | You could right-click this icon.
Ctrl+Click of course, with a single-button
| | 04:03 | mouse also works. And you'll
find Eject there as an option.
| | 04:07 | Or if you have it open in a Finder window,
you'll notice that Untitled DVD, which
| | 04:13 | appears right here, can also be ejected,
if I wanted to, directly from this window,
| | 04:18 | so right-clicking it here and choosing Eject.
| | 04:20 | I'm not going to do that either.
| | 04:22 | There is a keyboard shortcut, Command+E, and
here's another option that's kind of cool.
| | 04:27 | When I click and drag it down
towards my Trashcan, which now appears as a
| | 04:32 | trashcan on the Dock, as soon as I
click and drag it, it changes to an Eject
| | 04:36 | symbol, meaning I can move it right
on top of the Eject symbol, let go, and
| | 04:42 | that will eject it,
| | 04:44 | opening up the drive so I can pull out the DVD.
| | 04:48 | I'm going to right-click
my USB drive and eject it.
| | 04:52 | Now it doesn't actually remove it from
the slot, but it does eject it from the
| | 04:57 | system, so I can now remove
it from the computer safely.
| | 05:01 | So ejecting is very important when it
comes to your drives. Whether or not they
| | 05:04 | appear on your desktop is up
to you in the Finder Preferences.
| | 05:08 | And of course this is going to come
in very handy later on when we start
| | 05:12 | manipulating files that we might want
to move from a Windows computer over
| | 05:16 | to our Mac.
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3. Working with Files and Folders on the MacPreviewing files with Quick Look| 00:00 | We're going to start working with files
now here in a Mac environment, and we're
| | 00:04 | going to start with a very cool
feature that allows you to get a nice little
| | 00:07 | preview or quick look of the file
you might be trying to retrieve.
| | 00:11 | So to do this, we're going to start
with a Finder window. You can go to Finder
| | 00:15 | and use Command+N, as in new, or click
the File menu and choose New Finder
| | 00:20 | Window right at the top.
| | 00:22 | Next, we're going to navigate
to our Exercise Files folder.
| | 00:25 | I find mine in my root folder, and
Exercise Files in this particular view,
| | 00:30 | called Columns. By selecting exercise files,
we'll find each of the subfolders in that folder.
| | 00:36 | We'll click the Chapter 3 folder,
where we do see a list now of the various
| | 00:41 | files, and there are different files.
| | 00:42 | Some of them are pictures.
One of them is the sound file.
| | 00:45 | We also have digital video files
and a text document created in Pages.
| | 00:51 | So lots of different types of files.
And if you're looking for a specific file,
| | 00:55 | you really can't tell much about it by
just looking at the tiny icon and the
| | 00:59 | title in some cases.
| | 01:01 | So a nice option is to use Quick Look, and
it can be accessed right from the toolbar.
| | 01:06 | There's also a keyboard
shortcut, Command+Y or the spacebar.
| | 01:10 | You can right-click a file and
find Quick Look from there as well.
| | 01:14 | It's even under the File menu up here in Finder.
| | 01:17 | So at any time you can use this Quick
Look feature to get a sneak peek at the
| | 01:22 | file that you might be trying to access.
| | 01:24 | For example, if we go to the top one
here, which is our Alice pages, you can see
| | 01:29 | a quick preview of it
over here. And that's nice.
| | 01:31 | We do get a tiny, little preview, and
we can use the arrows to go through the
| | 01:34 | various pages, but obviously
we can't read that content.
| | 01:38 | So in this case, I'm going to use
the keyboard shortcut the spacebar.
| | 01:42 | Pressing the spacebar opens up Quick
Look, and as you can see, now we can
| | 01:46 | actually read the contents of this
document. And in fact we can go through the
| | 01:49 | various pages here,
scrolling down the right-hand side.
| | 01:53 | There is this scrollbar
| | 01:54 | if we wanted to read all of the pages.
They're all accessible from here.
| | 01:58 | And a nice feature is, if you still
have a little bit of difficulty reading,
| | 02:01 | there is a full-screen mode
that can be accessed as well.
| | 02:05 | Right in the top right-hand corner, you
can see the double-arrow. Giving that a
| | 02:08 | click changes the view to full screen.
| | 02:11 | Now with full-screen view you do have
a button here at the very bottom for
| | 02:15 | exiting full-screen.
| | 02:16 | You also have a close button. And you
can scroll through the document using a
| | 02:21 | wheel mouse, for example. You can use
the up and down arrows on your keyboard to
| | 02:24 | go through the pages.
| | 02:26 | And when you're done you can click
the button down at the bottom to exit,
| | 02:30 | you can close up Quick Look
altogether, or try Escape on your keyboard.
| | 02:35 | That just takes you back to the
previous view. And now if you're done, you can
| | 02:39 | click the Close button in
the top left-hand corner.
| | 02:41 | Now that's just with a single file.
What's kind of cool is, if you go to the next
| | 02:45 | one here called Beach,
| | 02:47 | It's a JPEG file. You get a nice preview
of it. It does look like a beach somewhere.
| | 02:51 | Let's use the spacebar again to access Quick
Look, and now try using your up and down arrows.
| | 02:56 | You'll notice when you go down you're actually
going to the next file, which is a video file.
| | 03:01 | Hit the up arrow.
| | 03:02 | You're actually going through the list
in behind this window, this Quick Look
| | 03:06 | window, and you go up again, you'll
be looking at that Pages document. So
| | 03:10 | that's kind of cool.
| | 03:11 | You can go through all the files right
in that directory and when you're done,
| | 03:16 | closing it up takes you
back to your Finder window.
| | 03:20 | Now if you wanted to select a few files
and go through them, you can do that as well.
| | 03:24 | Let's go to all of these flower files.
| | 03:26 | We'll click the first one, hold down
the Shift key, and click the last one, so
| | 03:29 | all three are selected.
| | 03:30 | And now when we hit our spacebar, our window
is a little bit different here for Quick Look.
| | 03:35 | First of all you'll see up at the top
that we're going to be looking at multiple
| | 03:38 | files by these two arrows that appear.
| | 03:41 | So we can move through them, one to
the next to the next, and loop around
| | 03:44 | so we're only looking at those three.
| | 03:46 | We're not actually going through each
of the files in the folder, just the
| | 03:50 | three that were selected.
| | 03:51 | There's another button here that allows you to
see icons so you can jump to one specific one.
| | 03:56 | Let's say that's the one you wanted to preview.
| | 03:59 | Go back, see some icons, click the
one that you want to bring to the front.
| | 04:03 | And you'll always see, over here in
the right-hand side, the program or
| | 04:07 | application here on the Mac that
would be used to open up this file and
| | 04:12 | start working on it.
| | 04:13 | In this case it's a picture file, a
JPEG, and the default program for opening
| | 04:18 | that up is something called
Preview. It comes with the Mac.
| | 04:21 | So let's just close this up and go to a
different type of file. How about an MP3 file?
| | 04:26 | We'll select it by clicking once.
Double-clicking would open it up probably in
| | 04:31 | iTunes, a default application, but
hitting the spacebar allows us to preview
| | 04:35 | it, and that means having a quick listen to
see if it's the one we want. So let's try that.
| | 04:40 | (music playing)
| | 04:45 | Pressing the spacebar again takes us back out.
| | 04:48 | So as you can see, there's nothing to
really look at, but because it is an MP3
| | 04:52 | file, we get to preview it by
listening to it. Kind of cool.
| | 04:56 | What about those digital video clips?
| | 04:58 | We do have a couple of video clips here.
Same thing. When you select one, hit
| | 05:02 | your spacebar. You're previewing it.
| | 05:07 | Press the spacebar again and you're back out.
| | 05:10 | So that's Quick Look, a really handy
feature that can help you locate the exact
| | 05:15 | file you're looking for without having
to open it up in the default application,
| | 05:18 | or some other application for that matter.
| | 05:21 | Once you've found the file you're
looking for, you can open it up directly in the
| | 05:25 | appropriate application
from the Quick Look window.
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| Accessing and moving files with Finder| 00:00 | If you found yourself using Windows
Explorer on a regular basis in the Windows
| | 00:04 | environment, you're probably going to
be using Finder on a regular basis here
| | 00:08 | in the Mac, and you should know that
the toolbar that appears in Finder is
| | 00:12 | totally customizable.
| | 00:13 | So we're going to talk about how
you customize that toolbar now.
| | 00:16 | We'll start by opening up a Finder window.
| | 00:18 | We can click Go and then
just choose anything you'd like.
| | 00:21 | Applications, for example, if you
have the exercise files, that's where I'm
| | 00:25 | going. I have them in my Home folder. And
I'm going to change views to List view,
| | 00:30 | and I'm going to double-click Exercise Files.
| | 00:32 | And this is going to open up the subfolders.
| | 00:35 | I might be able to view some of the
files in those subfolders, for example.
| | 00:38 | The contents really don't matter.
| | 00:40 | At this point where we're going to shift
our focus is to the toolbar itself that
| | 00:43 | appears across the top.
| | 00:45 | Now my toolbar probably
looks different than yours.
| | 00:48 | There is a default toolbar here, but
it is totally customizable, like I said,
| | 00:53 | and if you're, for example, upgrading
from a previous version of Mac OS X, some
| | 00:59 | of those changes you may have made will appear
here in Lion as well, and that's what I'm seeing.
| | 01:03 | So let's talk about how we get it customized.
| | 01:06 | First of all, you'll notice mine has the
Back and Forward buttons for navigating
| | 01:10 | through the various folders.
| | 01:11 | If I click the Back button I'll go back to
my Home folder, the Forward button, et cetera.
| | 01:16 | That typically appears in the default,
and you're probably seeing that over here
| | 01:19 | in the left-hand side.
| | 01:20 | The View buttons as well
are part of the default.
| | 01:23 | The way we arrange our icons is also a
part of the default, but I have an actual
| | 01:27 | file here, a shortcut to a specific file.
| | 01:30 | I have my Quick Look button here,
| | 01:32 | Action is usually part
of the default, and Search.
| | 01:35 | Well, if we want to make changes, all
we have to do is right-click anywhere in
| | 01:38 | the toolbar--if you have a single-button
mouse, Ctrl+Click--and you'll see certain
| | 01:42 | items are easily accessible
from here right off the top.
| | 01:45 | For example, the way you view those
buttons on the toolbar, they appear as an
| | 01:49 | icon or button with text down below.
| | 01:51 | Now if you wanted to save some space,
you could go to Icon Only or Text Only, and
| | 01:56 | selecting those simply changes
the way you view those options.
| | 02:00 | Right-click or Ctrl+Click
again to switch it back.
| | 02:03 | Now we're going to right-click one
more time and in this case, we're actually
| | 02:06 | going to go to the bottom here, which
is to Customize the toolbar. And here's
| | 02:10 | where we see all the options of
various buttons that can be added or removed
| | 02:14 | from a toolbar, and in my case
you can see I do have Quick Look.
| | 02:18 | What I want to draw your attention to is
across the bottom here, or at least near
| | 02:22 | the bottom, the default set buttons
that appear in the toolbar. And if you want
| | 02:27 | the default so we're all
starting from the same spot,
| | 02:29 | just click and drag it
right up to the toolbar area.
| | 02:33 | When you see the plus sign
appear inside that green orb,
| | 02:37 | let go and you now have the default toolbar.
| | 02:40 | So we have our Back and Forward buttons.
| | 02:42 | We have a space in here, which is
flexible, by the way. As we add buttons, the
| | 02:46 | space will close up to make room.
| | 02:48 | There are some extra spaces over here
after the Arrange button, but we've lost
| | 02:52 | our Quick Look button.
| | 02:53 | For example, if you had it, it's gone.
| | 02:56 | Also, that file I had a shortcut to,
it's not there, but we do have all of these
| | 03:00 | buttons available to us that can be added.
| | 03:02 | I like Quick Look, having it up there,
so I'm going to click and drag it up, just
| | 03:06 | to the right of the Arrange button, and let go.
| | 03:09 | Now the space here that's appearing to
the right of the Quick Look button, we can
| | 03:12 | click and drag it down, and that
removes the space, and you can see the Search
| | 03:17 | field now kind of squeezes in over to the left.
| | 03:20 | This space here as well,
you can see it's flexible.
| | 03:23 | We can move it around to
change the space, where it appears.
| | 03:27 | There's the space icons right here down
below, so if you wanted to add a little
| | 03:31 | extra space in between
buttons, you could do that.
| | 03:34 | Maybe between our View buttons and the
Action button there should be an extra
| | 03:38 | space, just like so.
| | 03:39 | All right, the other one that I like to
use quite often is the Delete button.
| | 03:43 | It's nice to have that. Easily accessible.
| | 03:45 | I'm going to drag that up just to
the right of my Quick Look button.
| | 03:49 | I'll leave that
there. And what about that file?
| | 03:54 | I don't see any option here for
adding a file, so I think we're done here.
| | 03:57 | We can click the Done button.
| | 03:59 | If you have your toolbar customized to
your liking, clicking Done takes you back
| | 04:03 | to the Finder window where you were.
| | 04:05 | To get a file up there, you just
find it in Finder and drag it up there.
| | 04:09 | So maybe I work on this Pages
document on a regular basis called
| | 04:12 | alice_with _graphics4.
| | 04:14 | Click, drag it up onto the toolbar.
Again you're going to see a plus sign
| | 04:18 | appear when you're in the right spot.
| | 04:19 | I'm going to move just to the left
of my View buttons here and let go.
| | 04:23 | And now I have easy access to
that file right for my toolbar.
| | 04:27 | Clicking it will launch the actual
document in Pages for me without having to go
| | 04:31 | looking for it in the various folders.
| | 04:34 | Again, if you want to remove that, you
do have to right-click, customize the
| | 04:37 | toolbar, and drag it down from there.
| | 04:40 | You can't just drag it without
customizing. And click Done when you're finished.
| | 04:44 | So that's your toolbar, fully
customizable. Spend a little bit of time getting
| | 04:48 | used to some of the different options
and buttons, adding and removing buttons,
| | 04:52 | so that you have the exact toolbar
that best suits your specific needs.
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| Working with icons on the Mac| 00:00 | So far in this chapter, as we
familiarized ourselves with Finder, we haven't
| | 00:04 | actually worked with the individual
files or icons that we see in those folders,
| | 00:09 | and that's what we are going to do right now.
| | 00:11 | You can see I've opened up the
Chapter 3 folder of my exercise files.
| | 00:15 | You can do the same if you have
them; if not, really any folder with
| | 00:19 | documents in there will do.
| | 00:21 | In List view, which we are looking at by
default here, we do see the names of the files.
| | 00:25 | We see some information like when they
were modified, their sizes, the kind of
| | 00:29 | file they are. Each has
its own little icon as well.
| | 00:32 | The icons differ depending on the
type of file. For example, our mp3 file
| | 00:37 | appears with a musical note icon.
| | 00:39 | The JPEGs or image files actually
appear with the image itself inside the icon.
| | 00:44 | Same thing goes for a digital video clips;
the very first frame appears as the icon.
| | 00:49 | With our Alice Pages document here,
you see we are actually looking at the
| | 00:53 | Pages icon. Well, you may not be
able to see that because it's tiny.
| | 00:57 | Let's switch views now to our icon view.
| | 00:59 | By clicking that, you do get a better
look at the actual icon and in this case,
| | 01:04 | it's the first page of our Pages
document that appears as the icon.
| | 01:09 | So it's a nice way to give it a little preview.
| | 01:11 | Of course, we know that Quick Look is
an excellent way to get a full preview
| | 01:15 | before opening the document.
| | 01:17 | But let's talk about some of these
files and how we might want to get quicker
| | 01:21 | or easier access to them.
| | 01:22 | For example, let's say we are working
on our digital video files on a regular
| | 01:27 | basis. And over here we have this little clip.
| | 01:30 | It's not very descriptive in the title.
The icon itself is very difficult to see,
| | 01:34 | even though we are looking a larger icon.
| | 01:37 | Let's just click once to select it and
hit our spacebar for that quick view.
| | 01:41 | Let me hit the spacebar again, okay.
| | 01:46 | That's the digital video of our squirrel.
| | 01:48 | It doesn't say so right there in the
name of the file, but we can change that,
| | 01:52 | and that's exactly what we are going to do.
| | 01:54 | First though, let's say we want to be
able to access it right from the desktop.
| | 01:58 | Well, you might think, okay, let's just
click, drag it over to the desktop, let
| | 02:01 | go, look what happens.
| | 02:03 | It's there on the desktop all right, but
we've moved it from our Chapter 3 folder.
| | 02:07 | It's no longer there.
| | 02:08 | So let's put it back. Just drag it back into
the folder, and get a copy over here perhaps.
| | 02:13 | Well, drag it over there onto the
desktop, hold down your Option key or Alt key
| | 02:19 | and let go the mouse button first and
then the Option key, and you can see it's
| | 02:23 | actually a very large file, so it
takes a few seconds to copy over.
| | 02:27 | Now we have it in two places.
| | 02:29 | That doesn't really make sense either,
because now it's taking up twice as much
| | 02:33 | room as it really should.
| | 02:34 | So let's drag it down to the Dock,
right inside the Trashcan, and let go.
| | 02:39 | What would be best is if we had a
shortcut icon, known as an alias, to this file
| | 02:44 | and then give the alias a more descriptive name.
| | 02:47 | So that's what we are going to do.
| | 02:48 | We can right-click this particular icon,
right here in our Chapter 3 folder,
| | 02:53 | or if you wanted to, we could go up with it
selected, click the File menu, and make it an alias.
| | 02:59 | Command+L is the shortcut
to do the exact same thing.
| | 03:03 | However you want to do it, just give
it a click and you will notice that you
| | 03:06 | now have a duplicate or
alias representing the same file.
| | 03:10 | It does say alias at the end in
the name, and we do have that shortcut
| | 03:14 | icon, that little arrow.
| | 03:15 | That's what we want on our desktop, so
we will just click and drag it there and
| | 03:19 | now we have a shortcut to the
file without doubling up the size.
| | 03:23 | Well, it's not very descriptive, and in
fact, we only see the QuickTime logo here.
| | 03:27 | We don't actually see a preview of it.
| | 03:30 | So let's just click in the name on the
desktop, just once, wait a minute, click
| | 03:34 | again, and now you're able
to go in and change the name.
| | 03:37 | So you just have to wait a few seconds
between clicks; otherwise, it will act
| | 03:40 | like double-click. And now you can actually
change the name. Type in whatever you want.
| | 03:44 | We can type in Squirrel, and if you want,
you can even be more descriptive with
| | 03:49 | the type of file, but we know it's
a digital video file by the icon.
| | 03:53 | I am just going to leave it as
Squirrel and press Return on the keyboard, and
| | 03:57 | that's the new name.
| | 03:58 | It's a shortcut to the original file,
which still has it's original name, which
| | 04:02 | is a little more descriptive with the
date and time, for example, and I have a
| | 04:06 | shortcut to it right here on my desktop.
| | 04:08 | That's how we create an alias.
| | 04:10 | So we are done with a Finder window.
We can close it up, and we now have our
| | 04:13 | shortcut available to us anytime we
need it, which can be moved around on the
| | 04:17 | desktop to keep it nice and neat.
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| Deleting and rescuing files in the Trash| 00:00 | As a Windows user, you're
probably familiar with the Recycle Bin.
| | 00:03 | When you delete files, perhaps in
Windows Explorer, they go into the Recycle Bin
| | 00:08 | where you can get them back if you need
to, or you can permanently delete those
| | 00:13 | files by emptying the Recycle Bin.
| | 00:15 | Well, here on the Mac, it's the Trashcan,
and you can see it down here on the Dock.
| | 00:20 | We are going to work with some of the
files in our Chapter 3 folder here, and
| | 00:23 | just to be safe, we will make some duplicates.
| | 00:25 | So let's take our three flower files here.
| | 00:28 | We will click the first one, FlowerBlue,
hold down Shift, click the third one,
| | 00:32 | and we will drag them onto the desktop,
while holding down the Option or Alt key.
| | 00:36 | When we let go, we now have the
duplicates on our desktop, and we can close up
| | 00:40 | our Chapter 3 folder.
| | 00:42 | So let's say we want to work with
these filesm and there are different ways to
| | 00:45 | delete files or move them to the Trash.
And of course, there are different ways
| | 00:50 | to retrieve them and a very
interesting option you should know about when it
| | 00:53 | comes to permanently deleting.
| | 00:55 | So let's just start by using one simple
maneuver and that is to drag a file into
| | 00:59 | the Trashcan itself.
| | 01:00 | We could've done that right from the folder.
| | 01:02 | We can do it from here on the desktop.
| | 01:04 | Let's start with our FlowerYellow
JPEG file. Just drag it down.
| | 01:08 | When we see the Trash highlighted with
the word Trash above it, we can let go.
| | 01:12 | If you hold it, you are actually
going to open up the folder and view the
| | 01:16 | contents of your trash.
| | 01:18 | So you can let go and it's moved in there.
| | 01:20 | Notice that if it was empty before,
it now has crumpled papers inside to
| | 01:24 | indicate there's something in the Trashcan.
| | 01:26 | Now another option is to
use a keyboard shortcut.
| | 01:29 | If you've selected a file, you might think
hitting the Delete key would work. Try it.
| | 01:33 | Try the Backspace key also labeled Delete,
just below F12 and 13 on your keyboard.
| | 01:38 | Nothing happens.
| | 01:39 | You actually have to hold down
your Command key while you press the
| | 01:42 | Backspace, Delete key.
| | 01:44 | Go ahead and do that and it's
moved directly to the Trash.
| | 01:47 | What you might have seen happening here is
the Finder menu lighting up a little bit.
| | 01:52 | Let's try another option.
| | 01:54 | We will right-click our FlowerBlue,
and from the pop-up menu, you will see an
| | 01:58 | option to move this to the Trashcan.
| | 02:00 | So we will click Move to Trash and
now all of our files are in the trash.
| | 02:05 | To see them, all we have to do
is click the Trashcan itself.
| | 02:08 | One click opens it up in Finder.
| | 02:10 | We are looking at the contents.
| | 02:12 | If we want to get any of these
back, we could, just by clicking and
| | 02:15 | dragging them to the location
where we want them, like the desktop or
| | 02:18 | perhaps another folder.
| | 02:20 | Now we are left with a couple of
files in here and to actually permanently
| | 02:24 | delete these files, we need to empty the Trash.
| | 02:27 | And as I mentioned, there
are a couple ways to do this.
| | 02:29 | We are just going to start by
just closing up the Finder window.
| | 02:31 | We will go down to the Trashcan itself on the
Dock. Right-click and you'll see empty Trash.
| | 02:37 | Now we won't do that quite yet, but
clicking Empty Trash does give you a warning.
| | 02:41 | We are going to click Cancel to go back.
| | 02:44 | When you empty the Trash, you are
kind of permanently deleting those files.
| | 02:49 | Yes, they are gone.
| | 02:50 | You won't be able to locate them using
Finder. But technically they're still there.
| | 02:54 | So there are markers where they're
located, perhaps on a hard drive, for
| | 02:57 | example, where they could be retrieved or
restored using utility software, for example.
| | 03:04 | If you want to securely remove them,
there's another option from the Finder menu.
| | 03:08 | Click Finder. Sure, you can Empty the
Trash from here and there is a keyboard
| | 03:13 | shortcut, Shift+Command and your
Backspace key. But look right below that.
| | 03:17 | There it is, Secure Empty Trash.
| | 03:20 | Now when you select this option, you
are permanently deleting those files
| | 03:23 | and you cannot restore them, because
where they're located, the actual 1s
| | 03:27 | and 0s that makes up those files,
the bytes and bits, are removed and
| | 03:31 | replaced with garbage data.
| | 03:33 | So let's try that. Secure Empty Trash.
| | 03:36 | You will see a warning just like we
saw for emptying Trash, but it's a
| | 03:39 | little more extensive.
| | 03:40 | Permanently erases the items. Are
you sure you want to erase them?
| | 03:44 | And notice that you can't recover the
items unless you back them up using
| | 03:48 | something like Time Machine
or another backup program.
| | 03:51 | So it is a dire warning.
| | 03:53 | If you choose Secure Empty Trash,
it takes a little longer than simply
| | 03:57 | emptying the trash, because not only are they
removed, but they're replaced with other data.
| | 04:03 | So now there's no way to get those back.
| | 04:05 | Luckily, we make duplicates
in our Exercise File folder.
| | 04:08 | So that's how you use the Trashcan here
in the Mac environment. Very similar to
| | 04:12 | a Windows environment, with a couple of twists.
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| Getting info about disks, documents, and more| 00:00 | In a Windows environment, if you want to
get information about a file, a folder,
| | 00:05 | a drive, you can typically right-
click it and from a pop-up menu, select
| | 00:08 | Properties down at the bottom.
| | 00:10 | The similar function here in a Mac
environment is called Get Info, and that's
| | 00:15 | what we are going to explore right now.
| | 00:17 | We will start with our Chapter 3
folder, which does contain a nice variety of
| | 00:21 | different types of files. We have JPEGs,
we have digital video, music files, and
| | 00:26 | even a text file called
alice_with_graphics4.pages.
| | 00:30 | So we will start with that file, just
by right-clicking like we would in a
| | 00:33 | Windows environment.
| | 00:34 | We don't find properties down at the bottom.
| | 00:36 | We actually want Get Info,
which is closer to the top.
| | 00:40 | Clicking Get Info opens up a separate
window where we'll see information like
| | 00:44 | the name of the file at the top,
the size, and when it was modified.
| | 00:47 | That's the info you will typically see
here in Finder anyways, in List view.
| | 00:51 | But right below that we can get into
the nitty-gritty, like Spotlight Comments.
| | 00:56 | Spotlight can be used to search for
files and anything we add here in the
| | 00:59 | Comment section can also be searched for.
| | 01:02 | So, for example, if this was a 3rd
draft, we could type in 3rd draft.
| | 01:08 | Now that information can be searched for.
| | 01:10 | It can also be displayed here in
Finder, in List view, if we choose to make
| | 01:14 | that column visible.
| | 01:15 | And down below we have general information.
| | 01:18 | There are little arrows next to the
sections that will allow you to expand or
| | 01:22 | collapse them. And here you will see the
kind of file it is, the real size, right
| | 01:27 | down to the last byte, where it's located,
| | 01:29 | when it was created or modified.
Labels, which you can access from the Action
| | 01:33 | button here in Finder, can also be
applied right here from Get Info.
| | 01:37 | And as we hover over these, we can see
different labels, Digital Photos, Final
| | 01:41 | Copy, Sound Files, and then of
course these can be modified as well.
| | 01:44 | So you can choose to color
code this file if you wanted to.
| | 01:48 | You can choose to lock it so none of
these options are available to be changed.
| | 01:52 | Now I can't color code it, I can't
change the name, but by leaving it unlocked,
| | 01:56 | I can do these things.
| | 01:58 | For example, if I go down to the name
here, alice_with_graphics4, I can come in
| | 02:03 | and take out the 4 and put
in 3rdDraft, for example.
| | 02:08 | The Hide extension check box will
hide the extension in certain views.
| | 02:12 | It doesn't actually apply to our List
view here in finder, but if you were to
| | 02:16 | look at an Icon view, for example, you
wouldn't see .pages after it, unless you
| | 02:20 | wanted to, by deselecting that check box.
| | 02:22 | Notice the default application it
opens with, it's called Pages, but if you
| | 02:26 | wanted to open it with something else,
like an older version or just preview it,
| | 02:30 | that means double-clicking the file
in Finder will actually launch the
| | 02:33 | application you choose from this list.
| | 02:34 | I am going to leave it at the default.
| | 02:37 | When you make a change to the default
application, you can actually change all
| | 02:41 | files with that extension by clicking
the Change All button as well. And then
| | 02:45 | down below we do have a preview, so
you get to see a preview of it. What's
| | 02:48 | really nice about the preview here is
we can move through the various pages in
| | 02:52 | this document using the arrows.
| | 02:55 | I really like that ability here, in Get Info.
| | 02:57 | And then a little further down is the
Sharing & Permissions section where you
| | 03:01 | can add and remove users
and change their privileges.
| | 03:04 | For example, if there's someone else
who logs into this computer, I can click
| | 03:08 | the plus sign, find their name,
| | 03:09 | there is Karen, select that name. She
now appears on the list. Read Only is the
| | 03:14 | privilege, and I can change that to Read & Write
| | 03:16 | if I want to give her access to the file,
right here from the Get Info window.
| | 03:20 | When we are done, we simply close it up.
| | 03:22 | Notice the name has changed here at the
top, and the date it was modified is also
| | 03:28 | updated in the Date Modified column.
| | 03:30 | Let's go to one of our JPEG files;
| | 03:33 | we will go to Beach here.
| | 03:34 | Instead of right-click, you can select a
file. You can go up to the File menu and
| | 03:38 | choose Get Info from there or use the
keyboard shortcut, Command+I, just another
| | 03:43 | way to open up the Get Info window.
| | 03:46 | Again, we see similar options and
availability here for changes that can be made.
| | 03:51 | This is a digital photo, so maybe we
can apply the label for Digital Photo,
| | 03:55 | right there by clicking the yellow label.
| | 03:57 | Right away you can see something
is happening in the background.
| | 03:59 | You can see more info about it, like the
type of device the picture was taken with,
| | 04:05 | lots of information about the
dimensions, whether red eye is applied or not.
| | 04:09 | This is called metadata that's stored
with the photo, and we see here in Get Info.
| | 04:13 | And a little further down
we have our preview as well.
| | 04:16 | All of those options that we could
change with a text document can also be
| | 04:20 | applied here to a JPEG file.
| | 04:22 | Close that up and look at one other
type of file, which is a digital video clip.
| | 04:27 | This is kind of neat.
| | 04:27 | Let's go to the second one on our list here.
| | 04:30 | Let's right-click and choose Get Info.
So again, we see a lot of information
| | 04:34 | about it that can be updated, adjusted, but a
little further down, this is what I like about it:
| | 04:39 | in the preview, when we move our mouse
into the preview itself we get a play button.
| | 04:44 | Clicking play allows us to
actually play this movie.
| | 04:52 | Clicking the Pause button at any time
allows you to pause it, just to make
| | 04:55 | sure it is the file that you thought
you were accessing, and it's a nice little
| | 04:59 | feature that allows you to get all the
information you need about the files you select.
| | 05:04 | So we will close that up.
| | 05:05 | And of course Get Info is also
useful for things like aliases.
| | 05:09 | Let's say we go to our desktop where we
created an alias, and if you have your
| | 05:13 | own aliases, that's fine.
| | 05:14 | Right-clicking an alias and choosing
Get Info gives you information about the
| | 05:18 | alias, about the file that it's
referencing, but what's really useful here of
| | 05:22 | course is where the original is located.
So if you need to find exactly where
| | 05:27 | the file is located, right-click an
alias, Get Info, and under our original,
| | 05:32 | you'll see exactly where to find it.
| | 05:35 | So close that up and look at one more
type of information that you can get, and
| | 05:39 | that's for the various drives on your
computer--for example, your Macintosh hard drive.
| | 05:44 | Right-clicking a drive icon and
choosing Get Info will give you information
| | 05:49 | about the drive itself.
| | 05:50 | So you will see the volume.
| | 05:52 | You'll see the capacity and
how much space is available.
| | 05:55 | A little further down, you'll see the
name and extension, and of course you
| | 05:58 | can change the name of your drives to make
them little easier to understand, for example.
| | 06:03 | And then sharing permissions as well.
If you are an administrator, you have the
| | 06:06 | ability to add and remove people and
change their privileges. You will be able to
| | 06:10 | do that right from here as well.
| | 06:13 | So we will close that up, and that's a
quick look at Get Info. Very similar to
| | 06:17 | the Properties option in Windows
environment, but with a whole lot more.
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4. Searching on the MacLocating files with Spotlight| 00:00 | When it comes to searching for files,
searching for applications or anything
| | 00:04 | else on your computer, Spotlight
is a very powerful application.
| | 00:08 | We are going to look at that right now.
| | 00:10 | In the Windows environment, if you
needed to find a program, you'd go through your
| | 00:14 | Start button. There was a Search field there.
| | 00:16 | You could find files there as well.
But Spotlight is extremely powerful and
| | 00:21 | it'll find anything,
including contents inside of files.
| | 00:24 | You'll notice on the menu bar in the
very top right-hand corner, the magnifying
| | 00:28 | glass icon is always there.
| | 00:30 | That's Spotlight, quick and easy access to it.
| | 00:33 | Let's give it a click.
| | 00:35 | Now with Spotlight open and the flashing
cursor inside the blank field, you can type
| | 00:39 | in whatever it is you're looking for.
| | 00:41 | Let's say you want to play chess. Type in "chess."
| | 00:45 | As you type, you can see things start
to show up here. At the very top you will
| | 00:49 | see the Top Hit. In this case it's the
chess application. What you might find
| | 00:54 | are documents containing the word
chess, and as you hover over these, you get a
| | 00:58 | nice little preview of what
that might be. Folders as well.
| | 01:02 | Images, and as you hover over Images,
you get a little preview of what that's
| | 01:07 | going to look like. Developer items.
Also, in the Dictionary you can look up the
| | 01:12 | word chess. Just by hovering over it you
get the definition. And there are even
| | 01:16 | web searches that can be
performed directly from here.
| | 01:20 | But if you wanted the Chess application,
you simply click it from Spotlight.
| | 01:24 | It launches and you're playing a game of chess.
| | 01:27 | We are going to go up to Chess now, click
Quit or use Command+Q, just to close this up.
| | 01:34 | Now let's say you are looking for a file.
| | 01:35 | Let's say you are looking for one of
those flower images we used in the previous
| | 01:40 | chapter. Well again, you could go up
to the Spotlight icon, give it a click,
| | 01:45 | just start to type in flower, and you
can see a number of items, including a Top
| | 01:50 | Hit, but as we go down the list we do see
perhaps one of the flower images that
| | 01:56 | we might want access to in Chapter 3.
Maybe it's the yellow one we are after.
| | 02:01 | Well, we could continue to type
additional text here, like the word yellow,
| | 02:05 | floweryel. You can see now
the Top Hit is in Chapter 3.
| | 02:09 | It's a yellow flower, it's an iris,
and there's a nice preview of it.
| | 02:13 | So if that's what you needed, you
click it here. It opens in the default
| | 02:16 | application, which of course
happens to be Preview here on the Mac.
| | 02:21 | The Spotlight icon does appear on the menu bar,
but you can also access it through Finder
| | 02:25 | if you open up a Finder window.
| | 02:27 | If we go up to Finder, click File > New
Finder Window, you are going to see in
| | 02:33 | the very top right-hand corner, a
Search field with, there it is, that magnifying
| | 02:38 | glass icon. And this is Spotlight.
| | 02:41 | If we close up Finder and we go up to
the Spotlight icon once again and click it
| | 02:46 | on the menu bar, you will see what you
typed in last, in this case floweryel,
| | 02:51 | and at the very top, you can click
Show All in Finder, and that will open up a
| | 02:56 | Finder window as well.
| | 02:58 | What it's going to display, though, are
the contents that were displayed on the
| | 03:02 | spotlight menu, and you will be able to see
the type of file, where to find it, et cetera.
| | 03:06 | Now you can type in something
else in the top right-hand corner.
| | 03:10 | If you want to go back to chess, you
type in "chess," and because you are in a
| | 03:13 | Finder window, you are
going to see even more results.
| | 03:17 | But there is, the chess icon for the
application, and double-clicking it from here
| | 03:22 | would actually launch that application.
| | 03:25 | Now there are spotlight
preferences that can be adjusted.
| | 03:28 | if you go up to the Spotlight icon in
the top right-hand corner, give it a click
| | 03:32 | and go down to the very bottom, you'll see
Spotlight Preferences. Just click that.
| | 03:35 | It actually takes you into your System
Preferences with a shortcut directly to
| | 03:40 | Spotlight. And in here you can see
there are two tabs, Privacy and Search
| | 03:45 | Results, and under Search Results
you can see the various categories that
| | 03:50 | you can choose from, and you can change the
order in which the results appear as well.
| | 03:55 | So by default, you see from my 15
here, applications are at the top, then
| | 04:01 | documents will be listed, System
Preferences, whatever you type in the search
| | 04:05 | field will also include
folders and messages and chats.
| | 04:09 | Now I don't have check marks inside
the boxes next to my Contacts or Events
| | 04:14 | Webpages, Music, Movies,
but they could be included.
| | 04:17 | So if you want to include your movies,
maybe you want that near the top, just
| | 04:21 | click and drag it to the location
where you think it should appear, and the
| | 04:25 | results will appear in this order.
| | 04:28 | Down below, Spotlight's menu keyboard
shortcut, you can see it's Command+Space,
| | 04:32 | and you can choose something else if
you wanted to, like one of the function
| | 04:35 | keys, but Command+Space is the default shortcut.
And the Spotlight window keyboard shortcut,
| | 04:43 | so in other words if you wanted to go to the
Finder window, bring that up using Spotlight, there it is.
| | 04:49 | You can see there's a keyboard shortcut
that defaults, and of course, you can make
| | 04:53 | changes to that if you wanted it to
be one of your function keys as well.
| | 04:57 | Now when we go over to Privacy here,
you can see we can prevent Spotlight from
| | 05:02 | searching specific locations, and by
default there are no locations here, but
| | 05:06 | clicking your plus sign down at the bottom
will allow you to choose a location that
| | 05:11 | should never be searched.
| | 05:12 | So for example, if you didn't want to
include your Desktop, you could select
| | 05:17 | it, click Choose. It now appears on your
list in the Privacy section, and if you
| | 05:22 | thought, "No, that doesn't make sense,"
select it, click the minus sign, to remove it.
| | 05:27 | So if you don't want results showing
up in Spotlight, remember you can add as
| | 05:31 | many different locations here as you like.
| | 05:33 | We will close that up, and that's Spotlight.
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| Searching for files from the Finder toolbar| 00:00 | In the previous lesson, we used
Spotlight to find things like applications,
| | 00:05 | files, folders, and so on.
| | 00:08 | There's another way to find things here
on the Mac, and if you're coming from a
| | 00:11 | Windows environment where the keyboard
shortcut Ctrl+F for Find was used in many
| | 00:17 | applications, including Windows itself,
the keyboard shortcut here is Command+F.
| | 00:23 | So right here, from our desktop, for
example, Finder the only thing running,
| | 00:28 | holding down Command and pressing F
will open up a Searching "This Mac" window.
| | 00:34 | And what's different about this than
Spotlight, yes, you have the Spotlight
| | 00:37 | search field up here, but notice
that down below, you have the ability to
| | 00:41 | filter your searches.
| | 00:42 | For example, what you are looking for?
Is it something that was opened recently?
| | 00:47 | You might use the Last opened date.
Or you want to search through names or the
| | 00:52 | contents, for example.
| | 00:53 | Well, if you leave it at Kind, and in the
next dropdown, change it from Any to Image,
| | 01:00 | we can narrow down our search
just to images on this Mac.
| | 01:04 | And of course we can choose
different locations as well.
| | 01:07 | So let's say we are looking
for one of those flower files.
| | 01:11 | You just type in the word "flower," and all
of a sudden you see a list of different
| | 01:16 | files that have the word flower in it,
so we are using Spotlight up in the top
| | 01:20 | right corner in conjunction with
some of the search criteria by using our
| | 01:25 | Searching "This Mac" function.
| | 01:27 | So in this case, you can see the
names of the files. We can stretch this out
| | 01:30 | so you can see more information, when
it was last opened, the kind, and in
| | 01:36 | this case we can also go to the third button
here and just narrow it down to JPEG files only.
| | 01:41 | So anything else is left off the search field.
| | 01:45 | You want to add an additional search
criteria? Notice over here we have plus and
| | 01:49 | minus signs, just off to the right-
hand side. Click plus and you can add
| | 01:54 | additional filtering.
| | 01:57 | Click the minus sign to remove that extra stuff.
| | 02:00 | Now what's really cool is you can save
this as well. Clicking the Save button
| | 02:05 | allows you to give this a name.
| | 02:08 | So I'll Save As. Notice it says
Searching "This Mac." We could just type in
| | 02:12 | FlowerJPGs, flower JPEGs.
| | 02:17 | It's going to be stored by default in the
Saved Searches folder and added to the sidebar.
| | 02:22 | So when we click Save, there it is
over here on the left-hand side, in our
| | 02:26 | sidebar, so we can go there quickly.
| | 02:28 | So if we happen to be looking at
our Desktop and we want go to those
| | 02:31 | flowers, they are saved down here, and
when we go to Flower JPEGs, there they
| | 02:37 | are, nice and quick.
| | 02:38 | So remember, using Command+F from
Finder allows you to open up that window.
| | 02:43 | Notice also from the
Finder menu bar across the top,
| | 02:47 | there are different dropdown menus,
and you can also search for things here
| | 02:51 | from the File menu by clicking Find.
But Command+F is the keyboard shortcut
| | 02:56 | that you should get familiar with if
you're accustomed to using Ctrl+F in a
| | 03:00 | Windows environment.
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| Finding invisible items| 00:00 | When you go searching for files in a
Windows environment, maybe using Windows
| | 00:04 | Explorer for example, there certain
files you just won't see, hidden files,
| | 00:08 | typically system files that remain
hidden so you can't accidentally alter them
| | 00:14 | or delete them to keep
the system running properly.
| | 00:17 | The same thing exists here on a Mac, and
those files are invisible, but there is
| | 00:22 | a way to see those files.
| | 00:24 | That's what we are going
to talk about right now.
| | 00:26 | Here in Finder, we can use the keyboard
shortcut Command+F for Find. Or if you
| | 00:31 | prefer, click the File menu and choose
Find from there. And here from our search
| | 00:37 | window what we are going to do is
click the Kind button, and we are actually
| | 00:39 | going to go down to Other.
| | 00:43 | Now from here, you are going to see
check boxes down the right of this
| | 00:46 | alphabetical list. Some of
these are already checked off.
| | 00:49 | For example, you are going to see Contents.
| | 00:52 | You are going to see Dates Created, Duration.
| | 00:57 | These types of criteria or search
attributes are checked off by default.
| | 01:02 | But there is something that's not
checked off that you need to check off if you
| | 01:05 | want to see the invisible files.
| | 01:07 | It's called File invisible.
| | 01:10 | Click that check box to include those
types of files, and when you click OK, you
| | 01:14 | will see File Visibility, Visible
Items. If you want to see invisible items or
| | 01:19 | both, you have those options as well.
| | 01:22 | So when we choose Invisible Items, now
we are going to start to see a number of
| | 01:26 | items we typically would not
see when performing a search.
| | 01:30 | Now there are a number of
invisible files on your computer.
| | 01:33 | So we can narrow this down even further.
For example, if we only wanted to see system files,
| | 01:37 | we will just add another row of search criteria
by clicking the plus sign off to the right here.
| | 01:43 | Again, we will click the Kind button
and select Other, but this time we are
| | 01:48 | going to scroll a little
further down to System files.
| | 01:52 | So on the alphabetical list, we find
System files, click the check box next to
| | 01:56 | it so they're included, and when we
click OK, you can see now system files. The
| | 02:02 | two options, when we click the Next
button, aren't or are included, and we want
| | 02:07 | them included so we choose are included.
| | 02:09 | Now what we are going to see is
a list of system files that were
| | 02:13 | typically invisible.
| | 02:15 | So a lot of these begin with a dot.
| | 02:18 | That's how they're marked as invisible.
And as we scroll down the list, you're
| | 02:22 | not only going to see files, but you're
also going to see hidden folders here on
| | 02:26 | the list, if there are any.
| | 02:27 | There are some. I have got a few
invisible folders, as well as files,
| | 02:33 | different types of files.
| | 02:36 | So this is how you show those
invisible files here in a Mac environment,
| | 02:41 | typically the same as choosing to
unhide files in Windows Explorer.
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5. Working with Applications on the MacLaunching and manipulating applications| 00:00 | When it's time to run applications
here in a Mac environment, there are
| | 00:03 | similarities to working in a Windows
environment, but there are some differences
| | 00:07 | as well, so let's discuss this topic now.
| | 00:10 | One option for launching
applications is from a Finder window.
| | 00:14 | We can go up to the very top, in
the Finder menu, click Go and find
| | 00:18 | applications on that menu.
| | 00:20 | Notice the keyboard shortcut Shift+
Command and the letter A, as in applications.
| | 00:24 | Now selecting this does open a Finder window.
| | 00:28 | And we are looking at applications, as
highlighted here in the left-hand side in
| | 00:32 | our sidebar, and we see an
alphabetical listing of all the applications
| | 00:36 | installed on our Mac.
| | 00:37 | So if we wanted to access the
Calculator, for example, we just simply
| | 00:41 | double-click it here, which opens it up.
And I want you to see what happens at the
| | 00:45 | very top on the menu bar.
| | 00:46 | It now shows Calculator.
| | 00:48 | We are actually looking at the
Calculator menu, not the Finder menu, and this
| | 00:52 | can be tricky sometimes for
Windows users who are new to a Mac.
| | 00:56 | For example, if you're clicking
away on the Calculator and then you
| | 01:00 | accidentally click off the calculator on
the desktop, it looks that you're still
| | 01:05 | in the calculator, but if you look at
the menu bar, you just switched to Finder.
| | 01:10 | Same thing happens if we
click the Applications window.
| | 01:13 | Now we can't see the Calculator, so it's
less confusing, but it is something to consider.
| | 01:19 | Always pay attention to your menu bar.
| | 01:21 | Now to switch between the open apps, if
you can see them, you can simply click them.
| | 01:26 | And that makes the application on top the
active app as displayed in the menu bar.
| | 01:32 | Another option for switching is
to use the Dock at the very bottom.
| | 01:37 | Anything that's running has an indicator
underneath it, so we can click the Finder icon.
| | 01:41 | You can click the Calculator
icon to switch between them.
| | 01:44 | If you like using Alt+Tab in a Windows
environments, as we learned earlier, you
| | 01:48 | can use Command+Tab here. Hold down
Command as you hit the Tab key. While holding
| | 01:52 | down Command, you toggle
between the running applications.
| | 01:56 | Now another way to launch an application,
similar to a Windows environment, is to use Spotlight.
| | 02:02 | Now in Windows, you would click your
Start button. In the bottom left-hand
| | 02:05 | corner there's a Search field and
you can start typing in the name of the
| | 02:08 | program you wanted to run.
| | 02:10 | Well, here on the Mac, we go to the
top-right corner, and when we click the
| | 02:13 | Spotlight icon, all we have to do now
is just type in what it is we are looking
| | 02:17 | for. Lt's say it's TextEdit.
| | 02:19 | As we start typing in the word "text," we
see a list, including a Top Hit, which is
| | 02:24 | TextEdit, an application.
| | 02:26 | We can click it from here. It launches it
and opens up a new untitled document.
| | 02:32 | Now you can see the Windows are getting
a little bit cluttered on our desktop.
| | 02:36 | Again, we can use Command+Tab to switch
between them, to bring the application
| | 02:41 | we want to access to the top.
| | 02:44 | Now another option that is also again
similar to what you might do in a Windows
| | 02:48 | environment is to create a
shortcut on your Desktop.
| | 02:51 | Here in the Mac, it's called an alias.
| | 02:53 | So let's just close up our Calculator.
| | 02:55 | We will close up TextEdit by clicking
TextEdit on the menu bar and choosing
| | 03:00 | Quit at the very bottom.
| | 03:01 | We can even close up this Finder
window when we're done, but we are going to
| | 03:05 | create an alias to one of these applications,
so we need to be looking at the Applications.
| | 03:11 | Find the one that we want to create the
alias for, like the Calculator, and just
| | 03:15 | simply drag it to the desktop.
| | 03:17 | Now as you can see when we get to the
desktop, we do see an icon, but we see
| | 03:21 | a little black arrow in the bottom-left
corner indicating we are about to create an alias.
| | 03:26 | We are not actually moving the
application from Applications onto our desktop.
| | 03:31 | So when you let go, you have created
the alias or shortcut and all you need to
| | 03:35 | do now is double-click it
to launch the application.
| | 03:39 | So those are your options for
launching applications. Not every single option
| | 03:43 | has been discussed yet.
| | 03:44 | We are saving one for the next lesson.
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| Finding and launching applications with Launchpad| 00:00 | If you're switching from a Windows PC to
a Mac that has OS X Lion installed, you
| | 00:06 | have an additional option
for launching applications.
| | 00:08 | It's called Launchpad,
| | 00:10 | and by default it does appear on
your Dock--it's the rocket icon.
| | 00:14 | Launchpad is designed to simulate what
you might do on an iPad, for example.
| | 00:19 | Now to launch it, you can
click it right there on the Dock.
| | 00:22 | You can find it in your apps by using
Spotlight or the Go menu in Finder. Or if
| | 00:27 | you're on a trackpad, you can use a
gesture as well. With your thumb and first
| | 00:30 | two fingers, just spread them open on
the trackpad and squeeze them together.
| | 00:34 | You'll launch Launchpad, so let's do that.
| | 00:37 | Now what you are going to see are icons
representing the applications that are
| | 00:40 | already installed right there on
your computer, including any that were
| | 00:44 | downloaded from the App Store. And if
you have more icons than will fit on one
| | 00:48 | screen, you will see
these dots across the bottom.
| | 00:51 | I have three of them.
| | 00:52 | Now we can move from page to page by
using a gesture--take two fingers and swipe
| | 00:57 | to the left from the right-hand side--
or with your mouse you can do the same
| | 01:01 | thing--click and drag it to the left,
and you will move over to the next page.
| | 01:05 | For me, I have a third
page with only three icons.
| | 01:08 | So I can click and drag
in the opposite direction.
| | 01:11 | Another option is just to click
the dots that appear at the bottom.
| | 01:14 | Now to launch an application,
you just find it and click it.
| | 01:17 | If we want the Calculator, we click
the Calculator icon, it's launched, and
| | 01:20 | Launchpad disappears into the background.
| | 01:23 | Let's go back to Launchpad now and
take a look at some of these icons.
| | 01:27 | Some appear as the actual application
itself, but others appear as groups, like
| | 01:32 | our utilities, for example.
| | 01:33 | If we scroll over, we
might find some other ones.
| | 01:36 | I have Microsoft Office installed.
| | 01:38 | All of the apps are together in
what we would call a folder.
| | 01:41 | And you can create your own folders as well.
| | 01:43 | Maybe I want to put my games together
in one folder, so I am going to take this
| | 01:47 | one--and you can work with any icon you like.
| | 01:49 | Just click and drag it on top of
another and you create a folder.
| | 01:52 | You can see this one is Puzzle games.
And of course, if you want to, you can
| | 01:55 | click that and change the name if
you want to, for example, just Games.
| | 01:59 | I am going to take out the word Puzzle, press
Enter or Return, and now I have my Games folder.
| | 02:05 | So you can click the folder again to go
out of it and look at all of those other
| | 02:09 | icons that you have access to.
| | 02:11 | Now when you're ready to close it up,
all you have to do is click the icon
| | 02:14 | again, click on that empty space on your
desktop, select an application to run it,
| | 02:19 | or with a gesture,
| | 02:20 | you can do the exact opposite that you
did to launch Launchpad, and that is to
| | 02:25 | take your thumb and two fingers, start
them together on the trackpad and spread
| | 02:29 | them out. Either way, you will close-
up Launchpad and you will be back to
| | 02:33 | working on whatever it was you
were working on. In my case I have the
| | 02:36 | Calculator running.
| | 02:38 | So that's just another option
that people with Mac OS X Lion have.
| | 02:41 | It's called Launchpad, and it is
designed to simulate what you might do on
| | 02:45 | an iPad, for example.
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| Task switching with Mission Control| 00:00 | If you're anything like me, you like
to have multiple applications running at
| | 00:04 | the same time, so you can multitask,
move between those running applications
| | 00:08 | quickly and easily. And here on the Mac,
there is a feature that will help you
| | 00:12 | to stay uncluttered and organized.
| | 00:14 | It's called Mission Control, and that's
what we are going to look at right now.
| | 00:18 | To start off with Mission Control,
let's get some applications running.
| | 00:21 | If you have the shortcut to the
Calculator here on your desktop, just give it a
| | 00:24 | double-click; otherwise, you can click
anywhere on the desktop, click the Go
| | 00:28 | menu in Finder, select Applications, or
Shift+Command+A. You'll
| | 00:33 | find it here as well.
| | 00:35 | We are also going to launch TextEdit
from here, so we will scroll down the
| | 00:38 | alphabetical list of applications, and we
will double-click TextEdit. Now it's running.
| | 00:43 | We also want the Dictionary, so let's
go back to our Finder folder, find the
| | 00:47 | Dictionary application.
| | 00:49 | We will double-click it, and
now let's switch over to TextEdit.
| | 00:53 | We will do that from the Dock, and
we have an untitled document running.
| | 00:56 | You probably have just one if it's
your first time. I have a couple.
| | 01:00 | But we will go up to File, and we
will create some new documents.
| | 01:03 | Let's have three altogether.
| | 01:05 | So File and New or Command+N to create New.
| | 01:08 | You should see Untitled 2 and 3. All
right, so we have multiple windows in
| | 01:12 | a single application.
| | 01:13 | We have multiple applications running.
| | 01:15 | It's starting to look cluttered.
| | 01:16 | Mission Control can really
help us to stay organized.
| | 01:20 | As we move down to the Dock,
it does appear here by default.
| | 01:23 | This is your Mission Control icon.
| | 01:25 | Now if you are not seeing it, go to
your Application window and you will find
| | 01:29 | Mission Control listed there.
| | 01:31 | And I highly recommend, if you're going to
use this, just dragging it down on to your Dock.
| | 01:35 | Mission Control, it is an
application onto itself.
| | 01:39 | Now when you click the icon, I
want you to see what happens.
| | 01:42 | You get a nice bird's eye view of the
different applications that are running.
| | 01:45 | You can see the TextEdit
documents are grouped together.
| | 01:48 | There is Dictionary, our Calculator,
our Finder window. Not only that, we
| | 01:53 | also have access to the Dashboard, and we
can go back to our Desktop from here as well.
| | 01:58 | So let's say we want to go to a
specific document in TextEdit.
| | 02:01 | Well, we could switch to TextEdit
right from the Dock, but we wouldn't go
| | 02:04 | directly to the specific document
in TextEdit that we want to work on.
| | 02:08 | Let's say it's this one, Untitled 2.
| | 02:11 | So clicking it brings us back into our
desktop where we are working away on our
| | 02:15 | specified document in this case.
| | 02:17 | All right, let's go back to Mission
Control now and check out the Dashboard.
| | 02:22 | You can see that's a quick
way to get your Dashboard.
| | 02:24 | If you have any widgets, you'll see
that information there on your Dashboard.
| | 02:27 | We will click the arrow to the right to
move back to our desktop space, and if
| | 02:32 | you've ever used Expose on the Mac in
previous versions, you're starting to get
| | 02:36 | the idea that this is very
similar to Expose and using Spaces.
| | 02:40 | Now we can also access other options
for Mission Control by right-clicking the
| | 02:44 | icon or Ctrl+Clicking.
| | 02:46 | From here, you'll notice
some options, like Show Desktop.
| | 02:49 | Now this is equivalent to the
Show Desktop command in a Windows
| | 02:53 | environment, which will un-clutter
your entire desktop. And this is of
| | 02:57 | course working in Windows 7.
| | 02:58 | Here on the Mac it's called Show Desktop,
under Mission Control in Mac OS X Lion,
| | 03:03 | and you can see what happens when you click it.
| | 03:05 | Things are just kind of pushed off the
desktop, and you can see there are some
| | 03:09 | edges around the outside of our desktop,
and we can get back to those just by
| | 03:13 | clicking any one of them.
| | 03:15 | But it's a nice way just to clear out
your desktop if you need to get to an
| | 03:18 | alias, for example, anything that might be
on your desktop that you need quick access to.
| | 03:23 | Here is another neat thing.
| | 03:24 | Let's go to TextEdit.
| | 03:26 | And in this case we will
just click it on the Dock.
| | 03:28 | If we want to look at our application
windows only, we can do that too, by
| | 03:33 | right-clicking or Ctrl+Clicking the
Mission Control icon and click Show
| | 03:37 | Application Windows.
| | 03:38 | Now in this case, you are going to see
the three that are running, and you will
| | 03:41 | also see previously used
documents in this case, in TextEdit.
| | 03:46 | Now depending on the application
you're running, you are going to see those
| | 03:48 | windows and recently used
documents, files, in that application.
| | 03:53 | This is a nice way of course to go
directly to the one you want to work on as well.
| | 03:57 | Now we can also right-click Mission
Control to see that it can be removed from
| | 04:01 | the Dock. So if someone's done that,
you know how to get it back now right
| | 04:05 | from the Applications window in Finder.
And Show Mission Control is the same
| | 04:09 | as clicking the icon;
| | 04:10 | it's going to bring you to that
birds eye view. And to go back to your
| | 04:13 | desktop, just click Desktop.
| | 04:15 | So Mission Control, a nice little
feature that will help you to stay organized
| | 04:20 | and work more efficiently when running
multiple applications or multiple windows
| | 04:24 | within a single application.
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| Dealing with save and open dialogs| 00:00 | When you're working with various
programs in a Windows environment, you may
| | 00:04 | need to save files or open files, and typically
you're going to see dialog boxes when you do so.
| | 00:10 | Here on the Mac it's similar, but
again, a little bit different, worth
| | 00:13 | mentioning. So let's open up an
application that everybody has.
| | 00:16 | We'll click Go on the Finder menu, down
to Applications--Shift+Command+A if you
| | 00:21 | prefer--and we'll find the TextEdit application.
| | 00:24 | It's a utility everybody gets with
their Mac. And when we double-click that,
| | 00:28 | notice that it opens up an
untitled or blank document.
| | 00:31 | We're ready to start creating.
| | 00:33 | In the background you'll
still see that Finder window.
| | 00:35 | Let's just close it up.
| | 00:37 | Now with the flashing cursor flashing away,
let's get something in here that we can save.
| | 00:41 | Just type in your first and last name
perhaps, and press Return on the keyboard.
| | 00:46 | Now we're going to leave this
document, so we need to save it up.
| | 00:49 | You can use the keyboard shortcut. If
you're accustomed to using Ctrl+S in a
| | 00:53 | Windows environment, Command+S will work here.
| | 00:55 | It's the same as
clicking File and choosing Save.
| | 00:58 | Notice it says Save here,
| | 01:00 | and Command+S, and the ellipsis that
you see after the word Save indicate
| | 01:04 | something is going to open up.
| | 01:05 | In Windows that means a dialog box.
When we click Save here, we don't get a
| | 01:09 | dialog box; instead we get
what's called and a sheet.
| | 01:11 | It just going to pulls down right
here from the toolbar at the top, so it's
| | 01:15 | always attached to the file you're working on.
| | 01:18 | It's a nice feature. It's not floating around out
there where it could get confused.
| | 01:22 | You could be saving things you didn't know
you're saving from other programs in Windows;
| | 01:26 | here it's attached to our untitled
document wherever we move this window. So
| | 01:30 | let's just type in Addresses.
| | 01:33 | You can choose where it's going
to go from this dropdown sheet.
| | 01:36 | You can click the dropdown, and what
you're going to see should look familiar to you.
| | 01:40 | In Finder, we have something called
the Sidebar down the left-hand side, and
| | 01:44 | this looks exactly like it.
| | 01:45 | So we can go quickly to our favorite
locations, recent places, for example, or
| | 01:51 | choose devices and go browsing around.
| | 01:53 | Now if you need more information at
your fingertips, you can click this little
| | 01:56 | dropdown button next to the Save As field.
| | 01:59 | It's going to expand the
sheet so you can see more.
| | 02:02 | There is our sidebar. And now this is
really looking like Finder, where we have
| | 02:06 | our toolbar across the top so we
can change our views if you wanted to.
| | 02:10 | We also have the File Format still
available to us down here. And if you wanted
| | 02:14 | to save it to a location that doesn't exist,
| | 02:16 | you can create new folders from here.
| | 02:18 | So if we want to create a folder on
the desktop while we're saving the file,
| | 02:21 | we do it from here. Click New Folder.
| | 02:24 | We'll give it a name.
How about Address Folder? Click Create.
| | 02:28 | That's where it's going to go.
| | 02:29 | You can see it's already showing up
here on our desktop. And when we click Save,
| | 02:33 | our file goes right in there,
and we can continue working on it.
| | 02:36 | So let's just close it up, and now
we'll go up to File and choose Open. Notice
| | 02:40 | Command+O is the keyboard shortcut,
just like Ctrl+O in a Windows environment.
| | 02:45 | When we click that, we can now
choose where we're going to navigate to.
| | 02:49 | Now this is more like a dialog box,
because we don't have the actual document
| | 02:53 | open at this time. But again, it does
look like Finder. You have options across
| | 02:57 | the top on your toolbar for the way
you're going to view information, also the
| | 03:01 | way it's going to be sorted. And when we
find our document, we can double-click
| | 03:05 | it or click once, click Open, and
you're back to working on that document.
| | 03:10 | So it's a little bit different than
what you might be used to in Windows
| | 03:12 | environment, but very similar.
| | 03:14 | Personally, I think it's a better
option, a better way to work, in that you
| | 03:18 | won't get this dialog boxes showing up
on your screen that could be confused
| | 03:23 | with other programs that might be running.
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| Creating custom widgets using web clips| 00:00 | If you've been following along with me
in previous lessons, we talked about the
| | 00:03 | Dashboard, an area where you could
store widgets, where you could get
| | 00:07 | information at your fingertips.
| | 00:09 | It could be the date and time.
| | 00:11 | It could be the weather, for example.
Well, what if you're on a web site and
| | 00:14 | you see information that's updated on a
frequent basis and you want that as a widget?
| | 00:18 | Can you do it? Yes you can.
| | 00:20 | It's called a web clip, and that's
we're going to explore right now.
| | 00:24 | Let's press F4, F12 on older keyboards,
to refresh your memories on the Dashboard.
| | 00:29 | Here you will see the widgets that you
have added. Clicking the plus sign in the
| | 00:33 | bottom left-hand corner allows you to
manage those widgets, and you can move back
| | 00:37 | and forth through the pages of widgets
across the bottom and drag any one of
| | 00:41 | them up onto your Dashboard.
| | 00:43 | Of course when you're managing widgets
like this, you'll see little Xs in the
| | 00:46 | top-left corner of the ones you no longer need.
| | 00:49 | If you don't use that Calculator, you
can close it up from there and it's gone
| | 00:53 | from your Dashboard.
| | 00:54 | But what if you want to add
something that exists on a web page?
| | 00:57 | Well, you could do it from here.
| | 00:59 | As you scroll through your various
widgets, you will find one called Web Clip,
| | 01:03 | and if you click it, it's going to
create a new widget with information that
| | 01:07 | tells you you need to use the Open in
Dashboard feature in Safari. Safari is
| | 01:11 | the default browser here on the Mac.
Well, let's just click the X in the top-left
| | 01:16 | corner to close that up
and do it a different way.
| | 01:19 | So let's press F4 or F12 again.
It takes us back to our desktop.
| | 01:23 | Typically you'll be adding web site
browsing the Internet when you find
| | 01:26 | something that you want to make into
a web clip, so let's go with that route.
| | 01:30 | We'll start Safari by clicking the Go menu.
| | 01:33 | You might have it on your Dock.
| | 01:35 | Under Applications you'll find Safari,
and it is typically installed by default
| | 01:40 | on a Mac. And you'll go
directly to your homepage.
| | 01:43 | Now if you're not looking at the
lynda.com web page, go there now if you want
| | 01:47 | to follow along exactly with me, but
really, you could use anything on any of
| | 01:51 | your favorite sites.
| | 01:52 | For me right here from the member page
there is a Blog section, and it is an
| | 01:56 | actual section that is updated
frequently with new titles, so that's something I
| | 02:01 | would like to have readily
accessible from my Dashboard.
| | 02:04 | So to create our web clip, as you may
recall, we go to the File menu where we
| | 02:09 | find that command, which is Open in Dashboard.
| | 02:13 | So we click that and all the sudden
you'll notice something happens. We have a
| | 02:17 | new bar across the top. As you move
your mouse around, it's kind of like a
| | 02:21 | spotlight highlighting various sections
of the web page. And for me, I'm going
| | 02:25 | to over to the blog, and if I go down
near the bottom half of the blog, I get
| | 02:29 | just the title and the description.
| | 02:31 | If I move up a little higher, I get
the actual section itself, including the
| | 02:36 | blog balloon. I think that's what I want.
| | 02:38 | Click once and you'll actually select that area.
| | 02:41 | It hasn't been added yet.
| | 02:42 | It's only selected, so if you wanted to,
you could adjust the height, width, and
| | 02:46 | so on. So if you wanted to grab one
of those handles, click and drag it to
| | 02:50 | increase its width or height,
| | 02:51 | or if you like exactly where it was,
just adjust things back until you have it
| | 02:56 | exactly how you want it
to appear on your Dashboard.
| | 02:59 | That's the area there that I want.
| | 03:01 | We go up to the top right-hand corner
and click Add. And when you do that, it
| | 03:06 | actually take you right over to your Dashboard.
| | 03:08 | It's like pressing F4 or F12, but
you'll notice you do have a new widget--for me,
| | 03:13 | it's the blog at lynda.com--and as
that's updated on the web site, it'll be
| | 03:17 | updated here on my Dashboard as well.
| | 03:19 | Now remember, if you have widgets that
you don't want, always go down to the
| | 03:23 | bottom left-hand corner where you can
manage your widgets. As soon as you click
| | 03:26 | that plus sign, there it is, in the top-
left corner, a little X. It will allow
| | 03:30 | you to remove it from your Dashboard.
But you can go to any web site where there
| | 03:35 | are sections of the web site that are
updated on a regular basis and create
| | 03:38 | these little web clips out of them.
| | 03:40 | When you're done, press F4 or
F12, depending on your keyboard.
| | 03:44 | We'll close up Safari, Command+Q
or click Safari and choose Quit.
| | 03:48 | And we'll close up our Finder window as well.
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| Quitting a frozen application| 00:00 | Although this rarely ever happens on
the Mac, you still need to know what to do
| | 00:05 | when an application freezes on you.
| | 00:07 | In other words, you can't click in the
menu bar or the toolbar to shut down the
| | 00:11 | program when it's frozen. What do you do?
| | 00:13 | That's called Force Quit, and that'd
what we're going to explore right now.
| | 00:17 | First though we need to get some
applications up and running, so let's click the
| | 00:21 | Go menu here in Finder, go down to
Applications, and we'll start with TextEdit.
| | 00:26 | We'll find that alphabetically on the
list, double-click it to open up TextEdit.
| | 00:29 | It's now running an untitled or blank document.
| | 00:32 | Let's go back to Finder now.
| | 00:34 | You can click the window in
behind and just scroll up the list.
| | 00:38 | Let's go to our Calculator, and we'll open
that one up as well, with a double-click.
| | 00:43 | Now these are just simply applications
that everybody has, so we can all follow
| | 00:46 | along, and typically they're not going
to freeze up on you. But let's just say,
| | 00:50 | for example, that the calculator is not working.
| | 00:53 | We see that spinning colored wheel,
indicating that it's not responding. How do
| | 00:58 | we shut it down so we
can reboot or re-launch it?
| | 01:01 | Well, there is a couple
of different ways to do it.
| | 01:03 | Firstly, if it wasn't responding, you
would be able to right-click it down on
| | 01:07 | the Dock, and you would see Force Quit here.
| | 01:09 | Now because it is responding, we just
see Quit, but another option is to go up
| | 01:14 | to the Apple menu. Click there and
you'll see Force Quit, and the other option
| | 01:19 | is to use a keyboard shortcut, which is
your Alt or Option key with your Command
| | 01:23 | key and the Escape key.
| | 01:25 | So either way, you're going to get
this window, the Force Quit Applications
| | 01:29 | window, that will show you what's running.
| | 01:31 | Here's the Calculator, here's TextEdit
and if it was not responding, you would
| | 01:36 | know, and you'd simply select it
from the list and click Force Quit.
| | 01:40 | Notice there is a message next to
this saying you can open the window by
| | 01:43 | pressing Command+Option+Escape in
case you want to use the keyboard
| | 01:46 | shortcut going forward.
| | 01:48 | When we choose Force Quit, notice
that you do lose any unsaved changes.
| | 01:52 | Now typically if an application's frozen,
you're going to lose that anyway, so
| | 01:56 | clicking Force Quit will shut it
down so you can go back into your
| | 02:00 | Applications, for example, and re-launch it.
| | 02:02 | Let's try it with our Calculator. Force Quit.
| | 02:05 | There you see we get the same message
or warning. Clicking Force Quit will shut
| | 02:09 | it down. And when you're done quitting
applications, just close out Force Quit and
| | 02:14 | you're back where you started.
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6. Moving DayInstalling and uninstalling applications| 00:00 | So the big day has arrived.
| | 00:01 | You're ready to move from
your Windows PC over to a Mac.
| | 00:04 | One of the first things you might need
to do is install applications, the ones
| | 00:08 | you want to use here on the Mac.
| | 00:10 | I know when I moved from the
Windows PC, where I was accustomed to
| | 00:13 | using Microsoft Office,
| | 00:14 | I wanted to have the Mac version of
Microsoft Office running here on my Mac
| | 00:18 | computer, just to keep things simple.
| | 00:21 | Well, when you're installing
applications there are different methods, and we're
| | 00:24 | going to talk about those now,
starting with installing from a CD or a DVD.
| | 00:28 | You can see on my desktop I've already
inserted a DVD, and in this case it's for
| | 00:33 | a suite of applications called iWork '09.
| | 00:36 | So this includes some text-editing software.
| | 00:40 | It also includes a
spreadsheet application as well.
| | 00:43 | When you insert a CD or DVD it may
automatically launch right into the
| | 00:47 | installation, or you maybe left
with the icon on your desktop.
| | 00:51 | All you need to do in that case is just
double-click the icon of the CD or DVD
| | 00:56 | in this case, and you'll
start the installation process.
| | 00:59 | In this case you can see there are two icons,
| | 01:01 | one for installing iWork '09 that looks
like a package, and then down below we
| | 01:05 | also have an icon for information
that will help us when installing iWork.
| | 01:10 | So to start the installation process, I
just double-click the icon, and then it
| | 01:14 | works like any other installation
process you might be accustomed to in your
| | 01:18 | Windows environment.
| | 01:20 | We'll just close that up.
| | 01:21 | Another thing that could happen is
you'll have a DMG file, which is a Disk Image
| | 01:27 | File. In this case this is Microsoft
Office, and I have the image file here
| | 01:32 | which looks like a disk.
| | 01:33 | So if I use to double-click this, it
would be similar to double-clicking one
| | 01:38 | of these icons here, like a DVD. And
you can see what's happening here. It's
| | 01:42 | office for Mac 2011.
| | 01:44 | There's the installer right there.
| | 01:45 | It's a package as well. And I would
double-click this icon to begin the
| | 01:49 | installation process.
| | 01:50 | Notice on my desktop it looks like I
have another DVD or CD installed in my
| | 01:55 | drive, which is not the case. I have the
image of that disk, and here it is, and
| | 02:00 | again, double-click in the icon will
begin the installation process, just like you
| | 02:05 | would be accustomed to in a Windows environment.
| | 02:07 | There will be a series of questions and
selections that need to be made before
| | 02:11 | the installation is complete.
| | 02:13 | So we'll just close that up. And all
I'm going to do with my Microsoft Office
| | 02:16 | disk here is click and drag it down to
my waste basket, my Recycle Bin, which is
| | 02:23 | turned from Trash icon to
an Eject icon to eject it.
| | 02:27 | Same thing goes for a disk image.
| | 02:29 | You'll want to eject those when you're
done with your installation, so we'll
| | 02:33 | click and drag that down into our Trash.
| | 02:37 | Now of course the actual DVD I have
in my drive will stay there until I
| | 02:41 | physically eject that, and of
course there are different ways to do that.
| | 02:44 | You can use your keyboard, you can drag
it down to your Trash, and when you let
| | 02:49 | go, your drive will physically
open so you can remove the disk.
| | 02:53 | So that's all there is to installing
when you actually have something physical,
| | 02:57 | but what if there's something on
the Internet that you'd like to install?
| | 03:00 | Well, in that case you have a nice
shortcut here in OS X Lion to the App Store.
| | 03:05 | You can also go to the Go menu where
you'll see under your Applications, a link
| | 03:11 | to the App Store right up here at the top.
| | 03:14 | What's nice about this, when you
double-click it, is it opens up like a
| | 03:17 | separate application.
| | 03:18 | Although you're accessing the web and
you will need to be connected to the
| | 03:22 | Internet to do this, you're taken you
directly to a location where you can
| | 03:26 | either download free apps or buy
those that are available for sale.
| | 03:31 | So as we scroll down in the list, you
can see some of these costs as little as,
| | 03:35 | like, 4.99 for Angry Birds.
| | 03:38 | You can see some more expensive ones,
like Logic Pro, and of course there are
| | 03:42 | some free ones in here as well.
| | 03:44 | So maybe this one here under the
Entertainment category, Motion FX, is something
| | 03:48 | that I'm looking for.
| | 03:49 | Clicking the Free button here will show the
Install button, and I can install this app
| | 03:55 | just by clicking it right from there.
| | 03:57 | And of course I'll need to sign in.
| | 03:59 | You can see I need an Apple ID for the
App Store. Whether you're going to pay or
| | 04:03 | download free ones, you do
need to create an Apple ID.
| | 04:06 | If you don't have one, there's a Create
Apple ID button right there, and you'll be
| | 04:10 | able to download any app, whether it's
free or whether you have to pay for it.
| | 04:14 | And of course your Apple ID will also
contain your credit card information, so
| | 04:19 | you can purchase anything that
you see here in the App Store.
| | 04:22 | And you're encouraged to go
exploring in the App Store itself.
| | 04:25 | You can see there are different categories here.
| | 04:26 | If you want to narrow it down to
specifics, like you're only interested in
| | 04:30 | games, for example, here is the Starter Kit.
| | 04:35 | And just like a browser, we can go back
using the Back button, go to a different
| | 04:39 | category perhaps. If you're only
interested in free apps, there's great free
| | 04:44 | apps here, and you can see they're
also rated based on user ratings.
| | 04:48 | You can go through all of these,
downloading any that you like, and they will
| | 04:52 | install once you start the download process.
| | 04:55 | Let's quit the App Store, Command+Q or
Apple Store > Quit App Store, and we'll
| | 05:00 | close up any Finder windows
and we're back where we started.
| | 05:04 | So of course once you have your actual
applications installed, downloaded, up
| | 05:08 | and running, there are files that will
need to be transferred from your Windows
| | 05:12 | PC, and we'll talk about that next.
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| Using .sit versus .zip files| 00:00 | When it's time to start transferring
files from your Windows PC over to your Mac,
| | 00:04 | you might consider compressing those
files, that is, using a program like
| | 00:08 | WinZip, for example, to take a group of
files, combine them into a single file
| | 00:13 | that will also be compressed to take up
less space, which will make to transfer
| | 00:17 | that much quicker, and then here in
the Mac environment, expand those files.
| | 00:21 | Well, the nice thing is since OS X
Leopard we've been able to use zip files here
| | 00:27 | in the Mac. Before that we had to work
with a different format, a SIT file or
| | 00:31 | SITX file, so we're going
to talk about those now.
| | 00:35 | Here in the Chapter6 folder of your
exercise files we have a sample of each.
| | 00:39 | We have one called JBPics.zip.
| | 00:42 | We have exercise files that might have
been downloaded from the lynda.com web
| | 00:46 | site for Premium subscribers.
| | 00:48 | So in the old days before we're able
to use zip files here on the Mac, there's
| | 00:52 | what we would download right
from the lynda.com web site.
| | 00:55 | So let's click the first one, hold down
Shift, and click the last one to select them all.
| | 01:00 | Now we'll drag them onto the Desktop
and hold down the Option key as we let go
| | 01:04 | of the mouse button first.
| | 01:05 | This will copy them over, so we can
close up our Finder window and just focus on
| | 01:11 | the icons that now appear on our Desktop.
| | 01:15 | What you're going to see is the
zip file has a different icon.
| | 01:18 | It looks like a zipper. And this
comes directly from a Windows PC.
| | 01:22 | What's really nice is we double-click
it and I want you the time how long it
| | 01:26 | takes to decompress or expand the zip file
into an actual folder full of usable files.
| | 01:33 | So double-click. Ep, too late. It's done.
| | 01:36 | It's very fast.
| | 01:37 | You see we have a folder now called
JBPics, same name as our zip file and
| | 01:41 | when we double-click that folder,
there are the files that we can use,
| | 01:45 | expanded and ready for use.
| | 01:48 | Now that means we can get rid of the zip file.
| | 01:50 | We don't need it anymore. Just drag
it down to the Trash and it's gone.
| | 01:54 | Now if you were downloading exercise
files from the lynda.com web site or other
| | 01:59 | sites where you might have compressed
files, they might be in one of these two
| | 02:04 | formats. SIT and the program used to
create this is called StuffIt, and it's
| | 02:09 | very similar to WinZip.
| | 02:10 | It's just a different format.
| | 02:12 | So exercise files.sit, for example,
would be similar to what we saw with WinZip
| | 02:18 | where a group of files, and even maybe
subfolders, are grouped together, compressed,
| | 02:22 | and turned into a single file that can
now be expanded here on our Desktop. Then
| | 02:28 | along came StuffIt X, a more efficient
and more powerful program but similar,
| | 02:33 | created this new format with
the X on the end of the extension.
| | 02:37 | To follow along with me here, you'll need
StuffIt Expander X installed on your Mac.
| | 02:41 | If you don't have it, just sit back and watch.
| | 02:44 | So let's double-click exercise files.sitx.
Just like we did with our zip file, it
| | 02:49 | doesn't take very long.
| | 02:50 | It does create a folder using the same name.
| | 02:53 | We can double-click that
folder to see the subfolders.
| | 02:56 | We can expand those to see the files that
we might use as part of our exercise files.
| | 03:01 | And if we go to our SIT file. it's the
exact same thing. Double-clicking it
| | 03:05 | is going to expand it.
| | 03:07 | In this case you can see
it's taking a little bit longer.
| | 03:10 | We do have some bigger files in here, but
the exact same thing is going to happen.
| | 03:14 | It's going to create a folder on
our Desktop, and you can see because we
| | 03:18 | already have an Exercise Files
folder, it's smart enough to create a new
| | 03:22 | version or copy of the exercise files
with a one, and then eventually it will
| | 03:28 | complete the progress.
| | 03:29 | We'll be able to double-click
the folder to see the contents.
| | 03:33 | There they are. And we do have some
bigger files in here, which is why it took a
| | 03:38 | little bit longer, but also back then
program was not as efficient as it is now.
| | 03:42 | So that means we can click and drag
over the two compressed files, drag them
| | 03:48 | down to our Trash, and we're left
with the files that we can use right here on our Mac.
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| Transferring files with Mail| 00:00 | When you're ready to start transferring
files from your Windows PC to your Mac,
| | 00:04 | one option, a simple one, is to use email.
| | 00:07 | And in that scenario you probably
don't have a lot of files and you can also
| | 00:11 | consider using zip files,
| | 00:12 | so compressing multiple files into a
single smaller file that you can then
| | 00:16 | attach to an email you send to yourself.
| | 00:19 | That's right. Let's say we're in our
Windows environment right now, using a
| | 00:23 | program like Outlook. You
can use any email application.
| | 00:27 | All you do is address the email to
yourself, and then you might want to add a
| | 00:30 | subject, because quite often
there is a subject that is required.
| | 00:33 | I'm going to type in "File Transfer" so I
can easily recognize this when I receive it.
| | 00:38 | And now it's just time to
attach the file or files.
| | 00:41 | Go to the Attach button in Outlook,
or you might need to use a menu bar in
| | 00:46 | your email application.
| | 00:47 | However it is that you attach files,
you'll then need to browse to the files
| | 00:51 | you want to attach.
| | 00:52 | I'm going to go to our Chapter6 folder
here and select a zip file, and when I
| | 00:56 | click Choose, it's attached to my email.
| | 01:00 | And of course I could continue to
attach additional files. Depending on the
| | 01:03 | number of files and the size
of the files you're sending,
| | 01:06 | you may want to do this in multiple
emails. But once you have that information,
| | 01:10 | you simply send it off to yourself, and
then you will go to your Mac computer,
| | 01:15 | log in, and you will have received
email from yourself with those attachments.
| | 01:20 | All you do is download those attachments
to your Mac and then once you have them
| | 01:24 | on your Mac, you can expand them, if
they're zip files, for example, like we did
| | 01:28 | in the previous lesson, and you've just
transferred files from your Windows
| | 01:31 | environment to your Mac PC.
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| Transferring files with drives| 00:00 | Probably the most popular method for
transferring files from one computer to
| | 00:04 | another, including from a Windows PC
to a Mac, is through the use of drives.
| | 00:08 | Drives can include files that you
backed up onto a CD or a DVD drive. It could
| | 00:14 | include USB drives. It could include
networks or even removable hard drives.
| | 00:19 | In any case, you'll be using Finder to
transfer those files, and that's we're
| | 00:22 | going to do right now.
| | 00:24 | You can see I've already plugged in a
DVD into my DVD drive, and in Windows
| | 00:29 | Explorer I copied files from the
various folders to the DVD and called it PC
| | 00:35 | files. I've also plugged in a USB
drive here. You'll see the name of the USB
| | 00:40 | drive itself, and in there are the
files that I copied from Windows Explorer
| | 00:45 | in the Windows environment, and now
I've plugged it into my Mac, ready to
| | 00:48 | transfer those files.
| | 00:50 | Let's start with the DVD.
| | 00:51 | When we double-click it of course we
launch a Finder window, and we're going to
| | 00:55 | see each of the folders and files
that have been copied to that drive.
| | 01:00 | Now it's just a matter of moving them
onto the Mac, clicking and dragging them,
| | 01:04 | but where? That's kind of important.
| | 01:07 | So we're going to close this up and go
to the USB drive and double-click it, and
| | 01:11 | you can see my USB drive contains
the exact same folders and contents.
| | 01:16 | So when we want to copy these files
to our Mac it's just a simple matter of
| | 01:21 | clicking and dragging them, but where
we drag them to is also very important, if
| | 01:26 | you want to stay organized.
| | 01:28 | So that could require a second Finder
window. Command+N on your keyboard will
| | 01:33 | launch a new window, or you can click
the File menu in Finder and choose, right
| | 01:37 | at the top, New Finder Window.
| | 01:39 | So it's over here on the right that we
want to drag your files to, but first
| | 01:43 | we're going to select the appropriate location.
| | 01:45 | In a Windows environment you have a
documents folder titled My Documents.
| | 01:49 | In a Mac environment it's just call
Documents. So we'll click Documents, you'll
| | 01:54 | see a list of folders and documents
you already have on your Mac, and then
| | 01:58 | you'll click and drag from the drive
to the new window, release, and you've
| | 02:04 | copied your files over.
| | 02:06 | Now all the files you had in your My
Documents folder on your Windows PC exist
| | 02:10 | on your Mac in the appropriate folder.
| | 02:12 | Let's do the same now for movies.
| | 02:14 | We'll click Movies.
| | 02:15 | That's what it's called
here in the Mac environment.
| | 02:17 | It's called My Videos in Windows.
| | 02:19 | We'll click and drag that
folder over and release.
| | 02:22 | Now movies are typically larger files, so
it could take a little bit longer for
| | 02:26 | that transfer to happen.
| | 02:27 | If we go to Music, we'll drag them My
Music folder over, and release. And of
| | 02:33 | course the same thing goes for pictures.
| | 02:35 | It's just called Pictures here on the Mac.
| | 02:37 | It's called My Pictures in a Windows
environment. And we'll drag the folder over,
| | 02:42 | and suddenly we're done.
| | 02:45 | We just transferred all of our files
from our Windows PC onto a temporary drive
| | 02:50 | and then dragged them into our Mac, so we can
continue to work with them in our new environment.
| | 02:55 | Now keep in mind here in the Sidebar
if you're connected to a network you'd
| | 02:59 | simply select the network drive to view
the contents and if you've copied files
| | 03:03 | from your Windows PC to that network
drive, the same procedure applies. You just
| | 03:07 | click and drag them to the new location.
| | 03:10 | Now keep in mind as well when you're
done to close up your Finder window, but
| | 03:13 | also to eject the various drives. So
right-clicking my USB I can eject--that's a
| | 03:20 | Ctrl+Click with a single-button mouse--
and once it's been ejected, it's safe to
| | 03:24 | remove from the computer. And of course
to get my DVD out of its drive I would
| | 03:28 | right-click and eject it as well.
| | 03:31 | So that's the most popular method to
date for moving files from one computer to
| | 03:36 | another, but there are additional methods.
| | 03:38 | We'll talk about those next.
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| Transferring files online| 00:00 | Another excellent option for
transferring files from your Windows PC over to
| | 00:04 | your Mac is to use online services.
| | 00:06 | Many of them are free or
at least offer free trials.
| | 00:09 | You can upgrade it any time.
| | 00:11 | But basically, you're renting storage
space where you can upload your files from
| | 00:15 | your Windows PC, log in to
your Mac, and download them there.
| | 00:19 | So let's take a look at a couple now,
| | 00:21 | like this one here called yousendit.com.
| | 00:24 | From yousendit.com, all you have to do
is type in your own email address, who
| | 00:29 | it's coming from, an email address that
it's going to, and you can use your own.
| | 00:33 | You select your files, and if you do it
from this pane on the left-hand side of
| | 00:37 | the homepage, you will be
prompted to sign up for a free trial.
| | 00:41 | Now when you do--let's take a look at Plans
& Sign Up--you'll see exactly what you get.
| | 00:46 | With the Free or Lite plan, your
storage space is limited to 2 gigabytes.
| | 00:51 | So if you have more files than 2
gigabytes' worth, you may need to upgrade to
| | 00:55 | one of their other plans, like Pro or Pro Plus.
| | 00:59 | Also notice that any given file in that 2
gigabytes can only be a maximum of 50 megabytes.
| | 01:05 | So if you have larger files or more
than 2 gigabytes worth, you might want to
| | 01:09 | upgrade to Pro or Pro Plus in this case,
and be able to upload that many files,
| | 01:14 | keeping in mind that you're not sending
attachments via email. You're sending a
| | 01:17 | link to somebody, yourself, where you
will be able to click that link and
| | 01:22 | download the files once you're on to your Mac.
| | 01:24 | So let's take a look at this.
| | 01:27 | If we go back to
yousendit here, I have signed up.
| | 01:30 | I am going to log in. You can
see there is a Login link up here.
| | 01:35 | And all you need is your
email address and your password.
| | 01:41 | And once you're logged in, it's
just a matter of sending those files.
| | 01:45 | We will go to the Send tab, keeping in
mind you're not sending real files. You
| | 01:49 | are just sending a link to them.
| | 01:50 | Who is it going to?
| | 01:52 | I a sending it to myself, drivers@lynda.com.
| | 01:56 | The subject and message are optional,
but selecting the file is as simple as
| | 02:00 | clicking the button. And it can be
multiple files, or you might have multiple
| | 02:04 | files compressed into a zip file,
like I do here in the Chapter6 folder of
| | 02:09 | our exercise files.
| | 02:10 | Clicking Open will add it to the list.
| | 02:13 | Notice the red X on the right-hand
side, so I can delete it. But I can select
| | 02:16 | additional files from different
locations, keeping in mind I'm doing all of
| | 02:20 | this from my Windows PC.
| | 02:23 | Now once we send these off--and we
will just scroll down to the bottom and
| | 02:27 | click the Send It button--
| | 02:29 | you will see some information about
additional options. You can click No
| | 02:32 | Thanks, and off it goes.
| | 02:34 | Now at the top of the screen, you will see
the progress here as it's being uploaded.
| | 02:39 | So it's being uploaded to temporary
storage, and then that email will be sent to
| | 02:43 | the address you selected where they
will be able to download those files.
| | 02:47 | Now while that's happening, we will just
minimize this and take a look at another
| | 02:51 | option called FilesDIRECT.
| | 02:52 | This came up when I Googled "file transfer
services," and you can see it's the same idea.
| | 02:58 | You get a free trial. You will be able
to send files the same way where you're
| | 03:02 | uploading to a storage space that you
either pay for or access via the free
| | 03:07 | trial and then download
from the Mac environment.
| | 03:10 | All right, if we get that out of the
way and log in to our email--and you could
| | 03:16 | be using any email account at this point--
what you're going to see is a message
| | 03:22 | saying that you've received that a
yousendit message, and from there, you are
| | 03:27 | going to be able to grab your files.
| | 03:29 | So it says, "You have received a file
from drivers@lynda.com." We open that up.
| | 03:34 | There is the name of the file, the zip
file, and all I have to do is click it
| | 03:38 | here, which takes me to a yousendit window.
| | 03:41 | I want you to see what happens here.
| | 03:43 | On the right-hand side I am going
to download files to my computer.
| | 03:46 | I am now on my Mac.
| | 03:47 | With that selected, I click
Download and I'll be downloading the file.
| | 03:51 | You're going to see that icon show up
in your toolbar, indicating you now have
| | 03:55 | files downloaded to your Mac.
| | 03:57 | Clicking this button will show that
file, and of course it will always be in
| | 04:01 | your Downloads folder, but you can go
and get it at any time, and even drag it to
| | 04:05 | your Desktop if you wanted to.
| | 04:07 | I am going to do that now,
| | 04:08 | just drop it on the Desktop, and I have my files.
| | 04:11 | It may take a moment for it to transfer,
but that's all there is to it, using a
| | 04:16 | file transfer service like yousendit.
| | 04:18 | So I am going to close that up,
log out of my email, and Quit Safari.
| | 04:28 | And that's just one option for using a
file transfer service online to get your
| | 04:33 | files from your Windows PC over to your Mac.
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| Transferring mail and address books| 00:00 | When switching from a Windows PC over to
a Mac, you need to consider things like
| | 00:05 | your email: the actual messages
themselves, maybe events you have stored in your
| | 00:10 | calendar, about contacts or to-do lists.
| | 00:13 | Well, all of that information can be
brought over to your Mac, but there are so
| | 00:17 | many different scenarios, depending on
the different email applications you are
| | 00:21 | using on the Windows PC
versus the Mac, et cetera.
| | 00:24 | We are going to discuss a few popular ones here,
| | 00:27 | including our first item, which would
be moving from an Outlook application in
| | 00:32 | the Windows environment to Outlook here
in the Mac. Yes, you can use Outlook on
| | 00:37 | a Mac. If you have Microsoft Office 2011,
you will have Outlook 2011, and this is
| | 00:43 | the simplest scenario.
| | 00:44 | You simply import the file containing
all of that good information that was
| | 00:48 | stored on your Windows PC.
| | 00:51 | Now there are other options of course as well.
| | 00:53 | You might be using an online mail
system like Gmail or Hotmail, for example.
| | 00:58 | Well, in that case, there is no
transfer necessary because you'll continue to
| | 01:02 | use those online systems by logging in,
but using a different browser, like
| | 01:07 | Safari here on the Mac, for example.
| | 01:09 | And then if you have an odd scenario
where you might be using older email
| | 01:13 | applications on a Windows PC and using
something other than Outlook here on the
| | 01:18 | Mac, like Mac Mail, or maybe you're
going to be using Entourage, for example,
| | 01:23 | there are some different options,
including some free ones and some where
| | 01:27 | you need to pay a fee.
| | 01:29 | So we will talk about those momentarily,
but let's start with the simplest scenario,
| | 01:32 | moving from Outlook on the
Windows PC, to Outlook here in the Mac.
| | 01:36 | Well, all you need to do is locate a
single file. That's a PST file. It contains
| | 01:41 | all the vital information. And here in
Outlook 2011, you would click File, then Import.
| | 01:48 | It's an Outlook Data File
| | 01:50 | you're going to be importing, so
the other options really don't matter.
| | 01:53 | Now if you were importing from a
different system and you had contacts or
| | 01:58 | messages in a text file, for example,
that could be an option, but really, the
| | 02:02 | top one here, Outlook Data File, should
be selected before you click the arrow to
| | 02:06 | move to the next step.
| | 02:07 | Is it going to be Outlook for
Windows, a PST file, or you are going to be
| | 02:12 | transferring over Outlook for Mac data.
| | 02:14 | Well, of course it's coming from a
Windows PCs, so the first option should be
| | 02:18 | selected, pst file, and then
you click the next button.
| | 02:22 | Now it's just a matter of finding that file.
| | 02:25 | So, for example, maybe you put it on a
CD or maybe you put it onto a USB drive
| | 02:30 | that's plugged in. You would find it
over here on the Sidebar, locate the pst
| | 02:35 | file, and once you have selected it,
click the Import button to bring it in.
| | 02:38 | And then all of a sudden, you
will have all of your contacts.
| | 02:41 | You will have all of your events that
were stored in your calendar, all of your
| | 02:45 | to-do list under Tasks, and so on.
| | 02:47 | We will click Cancel here and click Done.
| | 02:50 | So that is the easiest and simplest scenario.
| | 02:55 | Now of course, that may not be your scenario.
| | 02:58 | So if you're going to be using a
different email application than Outlook 2011--
| | 03:03 | maybe it's Entourage, maybe it's
the Apple mail that comes with OS X,
| | 03:08 | maybe it's something else--
| | 03:09 | well, in that case, you have some options.
| | 03:12 | For example, you could take it to the Mac store.
| | 03:16 | That's physically pick up your machines,
both the Windows PC and the Mac, take
| | 03:20 | them in, and go up to the Apple Genius
Bar where the geniuses in behind the bar
| | 03:25 | will be happy to help you for a nominal fee.
| | 03:28 | And then you will get everything
moved over, not just your email and your
| | 03:31 | calendar events and contacts, but
anything else you might want transferred over.
| | 03:37 | There's also something
called O2M, Outlook to Mac.
| | 03:41 | And that little file or
program is available online.
| | 03:45 | You can Google it, download a free trial.
| | 03:48 | It is limited, but it will help you to
move some of your Outlook files to a Mac.
| | 03:54 | Now in that case, it would be to a Mac
that's not using Outlook; otherwise you
| | 03:58 | wouldn't need this application.
| | 04:00 | So those are some of the things you
can do to get up and running over here in
| | 04:03 | the Mac environment if you need to
get all of your email, all of your
| | 04:08 | contacts, your to-do lists, and your
events in your calendars over here in the
| | 04:13 | Mac environment.
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| Setting up individual accounts| 00:01 | If you're moving from a Windows PC
where you were one of many users who
| | 00:05 | could log in to that computer, you may want
the same setup here in the Mac environment.
| | 00:11 | And that's what we're going to talk
about now, creating system user accounts.
| | 00:15 | So when you turn on your Mac, if
it's brand-new, you're logged in and by
| | 00:19 | default, there is one account set up for you.
| | 00:22 | You're an administrator.
| | 00:23 | You have full access to the System
Preferences, for example, and how your Mac
| | 00:27 | operates. But you can also create
additional users and prompt them to log in
| | 00:32 | with a password if you so choose.
| | 00:34 | That's what we're going to talk about now.
| | 00:36 | It's all done from the System
Preferences, so we'll click the Apple icon and go
| | 00:40 | down to System Preferences and click there.
| | 00:43 | Now from the System Preferences window,
we go to the very bottom-left corner in
| | 00:47 | the System section, where we find Users & Groups.
| | 00:50 | Click once, and here's where you're
going to see the existing users, the current
| | 00:55 | user being yourself logged in.
| | 00:57 | You can see for me it says Dave Rivers,
and I am an administrator, meaning I
| | 01:01 | have full privileges on this computer.
| | 01:04 | With me selected, I go to the right-
hand side where I can see my icon.
| | 01:09 | I can change my password here.
| | 01:10 | There's my full name, my Apple ID.
| | 01:13 | You can see there are some options I
can't change right now, because if you look
| | 01:17 | at the bottom-left corner, the lock is locked.
| | 01:21 | Clicking this will prompt me for my password.
| | 01:23 | So I need my password to
get into the admin functions.
| | 01:27 | That way somebody else
can't be doing it in my place.
| | 01:30 | So I type in my password, click
Unlock or press Return, and now I have full
| | 01:35 | access to those other options
as well as the other accounts.
| | 01:40 | Now there are other accounts on my
system, like an Admin account for the
| | 01:44 | administrator and TDM, and there's
also something called a Guest User.
| | 01:48 | Notice it says Sharing only.
| | 01:51 | This is for those times when someone
might want to log in to your computer but
| | 01:54 | not have full access to the files, for
example, on the hard drive. Maybe they
| | 01:58 | need to just log in and do their
own thing, have access to some of the
| | 02:02 | applications, maybe access the Internet.
| | 02:05 | But anything they do will
not be stored on the computer;
| | 02:08 | they're just temporarily
logged in as a guest user.
| | 02:11 | If we click this, we can get
information. And here's where we allow guests to
| | 02:16 | log in to this computer.
| | 02:18 | This will not appear when we turn on
the Mac as an option, unless we select the
| | 02:22 | check box to allow it.
| | 02:24 | Now remember, when a guest user logs out,
all of their information and files in
| | 02:28 | the guest account's home
folder are actually deleted.
| | 02:31 | That's why we call it temporary.
| | 02:33 | And there will be Parental
Controls turned on for them by default.
| | 02:37 | They can be altered as well by the
administrator, you, and you could also
| | 02:40 | allow guests to connect to shared folders if
you've set up any folders that will be shared.
| | 02:45 | I'm going to deselect that, back to
the default, and we'll go back to this
| | 02:52 | left-hand pane to talk
about how we add a new account.
| | 02:56 | Well, of course, we just go down to the
very bottom and click the plus sign to add
| | 03:00 | a brand-new account.
| | 03:01 | Now there are different types of accounts.
| | 03:03 | Standard will be the default.
| | 03:05 | When we click the dropdown, we could
create another Administrator who has full
| | 03:08 | access, or Managed with Parental Controls,
or another guest account for sharing only.
| | 03:15 | All of these are really standard
accounts with different options selected.
| | 03:18 | So let's leave it at Standard and check out
those options once we've created the account.
| | 03:23 | We'll just give it a name.
| | 03:24 | I'm going to type in Karen Rivers.
| | 03:27 | Now you can click in the Account name
field and you'll see that it's created for you.
| | 03:31 | You can change that if you
want or just leave it as is.
| | 03:35 | Password has to be created for them, so
we'll type in a password here, Tab. Type
| | 03:42 | it in again, since you can't see what it is.
| | 03:43 | It needs to be verified. And then
it's recommended that you provide a hint.
| | 03:47 | I'm going to type in 1st pet name.
| | 03:53 | And when we click Create User, we will then
have a brand-new user on our list. There she is.
| | 04:01 | You may see a different icon, but we
can click the Icon button itself to choose
| | 04:04 | something different.
| | 04:07 | Here's where we will go
| | 04:08 | if we want to reset her password to
something else. We can set up an Apple ID as well.
| | 04:14 | Now if I wanted to change this from
Standard to Administrator, maybe it's a
| | 04:18 | little too late now, but I can make
changes to some of the settings to create an
| | 04:23 | administrator out of Karen.
| | 04:25 | And we go down to Allow user
to administer this computer.
| | 04:29 | Clicking that check box actually
changes her account from Standard to Admin.
| | 04:33 | Now I'll have to restart the
computer for those changes to take effect.
| | 04:36 | So click OK and remember that.
| | 04:40 | But I'm going to set her back to Standard.
Deselecting the check box will change
| | 04:43 | it back to Standard.
| | 04:44 | The other thing we can do is enable
Parental Controls, which will change it into
| | 04:49 | a managed account. By
clicking Enable parental controls,
| | 04:54 | the defaults, are now turned on
and her account becomes managed.
| | 04:57 | But we can also adjust those Parental
Controls, and this is very useful for those
| | 05:02 | of who are creating accounts for
perhaps children in the household.
| | 05:07 | You can limit their access to apps, the web,
people, time limits, and other options.
| | 05:14 | So here with Apps selected, they can
use simple Finder. If it doesn't allow them
| | 05:18 | to go in and start finding
invisible files and things like that.
| | 05:22 | It's a simplified version of Finder.
| | 05:25 | You can limit the applications that they're
allowed to use by clicking that check box.
| | 05:29 | You can now go down to things
like Allow the App Store Apps.
| | 05:33 | Well, you can say no, I don't want
them to access the App Store at all.
| | 05:38 | So by doing that, we need to confirm
now, do we want to block these apps
| | 05:42 | or leave them allowed.
| | 05:43 | There are three of them here:
CrosswordLink, iMovie, and McSolitaire.
| | 05:47 | Maybe those, we'll leave them as allowed.
| | 05:50 | Also, down below you can choose which
apps, for example, under Other Apps,
| | 05:54 | can be accessed or not.
| | 05:57 | And then down below you can also
decide whether or not they should be able
| | 06:00 | to modify their Dock. That's up to you.
| | 06:02 | You can allow them to or
deselect the check box to prevent it.
| | 06:08 | Under the Web, of course, we can set
up web site restrictions, try to limit
| | 06:13 | access to adult web sites,
we can customize that.
| | 06:16 | We can pick and choose what web
sites they're allowed, and that's it.
| | 06:19 | By clicking this, you'll see a number
of default kids' sites, but you can add
| | 06:22 | your own as well by clicking the plus
sign and Add Bookmark. You just give the
| | 06:27 | actual web site a title and then
put the address in the lower field.
| | 06:32 | People involves email and chatting of course.
| | 06:35 | So when we click the People tab, we
can limit their Mail and iChat access.
| | 06:40 | So in that case, you click plus signs
and you would pick and choose the people
| | 06:44 | they are allowed to send and receive
emails from and who they're allowed to chat
| | 06:48 | with. We'll deselect those and go to Time Limits.
| | 06:53 | Time Limits are great ways to pick and
choose how long and when this account
| | 06:59 | will have access to the computer.
| | 07:00 | That means when they turn it on, will
they be able to log in? Well it depends on
| | 07:05 | how long they've been using the computer.
| | 07:07 | We can limit their use.
| | 07:09 | So maybe we want to
limit to 2 to 2 1/2 hours a day.
| | 07:12 | Click and drag the slider.
| | 07:14 | Maybe on weekends, we want to make that longer.
| | 07:16 | So we'll leave it at say, six, hours a day.
| | 07:19 | We can pick and choose Bedtimes.
| | 07:22 | In other words, if I choose School
nights here, I can say after 10:00 PM and
| | 07:28 | before 6:00 AM they won't be able to log in.
| | 07:31 | And on the weekend, maybe
I'll give them an extra hour.
| | 07:34 | So these are all options
under Parental Controls.
| | 07:37 | And there is another section as well
where you can hide profanity in the
| | 07:40 | Dictionary and limit their
access to printer administration.
| | 07:44 | But you can also decide if they're
going to be allowed to burn CDs and DVDs.
| | 07:48 | You can deselect it or select it, and
disable changing the password, so they
| | 07:53 | can't change their password, only
you have access to their password.
| | 07:56 | So, all of those are options, of
course, under Parental Controls.
| | 08:03 | Now when you want to go back to the
previous list of users, just click your Back
| | 08:07 | button or click Show All and
you'll see the other users.
| | 08:10 | You could continue adding users.
| | 08:12 | You can remove users who no longer
should be able to log in. And the Login
| | 08:17 | Options can also be selected.
| | 08:19 | So when you turn on your computer, what happens?
| | 08:22 | Will it automatically log in one of
these users, or is that turned off?
| | 08:27 | And if it's off, what do you see?
| | 08:28 | A list of users or a prompt
for a name and a password?
| | 08:32 | That's up to you as well.
| | 08:33 | You can also decide whether or not
you'll see the Sleep, Restart, and Shut Down
| | 08:37 | buttons when you log in,
| | 08:40 | also the Input menu, Show password
hints turned on by default, fast user
| | 08:46 | switching as the Full Name.
| | 08:48 | So if you wanted to not have to shut down
and restart to log in, you can actually
| | 08:53 | just switch the user.
| | 08:55 | And that is turned on, and then you
can decide what's going to be used, the full
| | 08:58 | name, short name, or the icon.
| | 09:01 | And you can also use VoiceOver in the login
window if you're connected with a microphone.
| | 09:07 | Now when you do want to remove users,
you just select them from the list.
| | 09:10 | Of course, you have to be logged in as
an administrator with the lock unlocked,
| | 09:14 | and then all you do is click
the minus sign to remove them.
| | 09:17 | You do have some options, so you can
keep their information, their home folder
| | 09:22 | as a disk image, which then can be reinstalled.
| | 09:25 | You can say don't change the home folder
or actually delete that information as well.
| | 09:31 | When you click OK, the user is gone.
| | 09:34 | So we'll close up our System
Preferences, and now you know how to set up user
| | 09:37 | accounts in your Mac environment.
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7. Working with Printers, Cameras, and Disc BurnersAdding printers and printing| 00:00 | If you're going to be switching over
to the Mac from a Windows 7 PC, you
| | 00:04 | know, in Windows, when you plug a USB
printer into its port, Windows 7 does a
| | 00:09 | great job of automatically recognizing that
printer, and installing it, so it's ready to use.
| | 00:15 | Well, the good news is, here on
the Mac, it's the same scenario.
| | 00:18 | I've just plugged in my HP C3100 series
printer, and nothing really happens here on my screen,
| | 00:25 | but when I go up to the Apple icon -- and
you can follow along -- and select System
| | 00:30 | Preferences, and then click Print & Scan
here from the hardware section, I will
| | 00:36 | see that my printer has been
installed, and it is ready to use.
| | 00:41 | Now, going to System Preferences here is
the same as going to Control Panel, and
| | 00:44 | going into your Print Settings there.
| | 00:46 | What we can do here from Print & Scan
is get some information on our printer.
| | 00:50 | With it selected here, we will see over
here to the right hand side the name of
| | 00:55 | the printer, the series; we can see
that it is being shared on the network,
| | 00:59 | so if you do have a network, whether
it be at home, or at the office, you
| | 01:02 | can click this checkbox, so that any
computers on the network will be able
| | 01:06 | to use them as well.
| | 01:08 | You can also setup Sharing
Preferences, which we'll talk about momentarily.
| | 01:11 | But right now we are going to talk
about some of those printers that are not
| | 01:15 | recognized when you plug them in.
| | 01:16 | For example, it could be a
laser printer using Ethernet.
| | 01:21 | In those cases, they're not as
easily recognized as a USB Printer.
| | 01:24 | So you will notice in this window that
lists your connected printers, there is a
| | 01:29 | Plus and Minus sign down at the bottom
for adding and removing printers.
| | 01:34 | We want to add one, so we'll click the Plus
sign, and if you do have a printer ready
| | 01:38 | to be added, you can follow along with
me, or simply watch for future reference.
| | 01:42 | What you are going to see is that
default selection at the top, with your current
| | 01:47 | printer listed, and when we select
that, we are going to see some extra
| | 01:50 | information down below, for example,
the Location, and it's going to be Using
| | 01:55 | this driver -- the HP
Photosmart C3100 series -- for me.
| | 01:59 | Now, if I wanted to add one -- maybe I
have a Windows computer, and it's connected
| | 02:04 | here through a small network.
| | 02:06 | You will notice there are
some other options up here.
| | 02:08 | There is Fax options, there is IP, so
if we click here, you might want to find
| | 02:13 | another printer that's on, maybe, an
Ethernet network, and this is where you'd go
| | 02:17 | to find that laser printer, for example.
| | 02:20 | Or in my case, I do have a Windows
computer that is connected to the network
| | 02:24 | with its own printer.
| | 02:26 | So clicking Windows allows us to go
browsing through the workgroup by clicking
| | 02:32 | it. There is my non-Mac, or Windows PC. I
can select it, and there is the printer
| | 02:36 | that is connected to that
Windows computer: my Officejet J4680.
| | 02:42 | So selecting it does
display information down below.
| | 02:45 | Notice, though, that in the Print
Using field, it says I need to Choose a
| | 02:49 | Driver or Printer Model.
| | 02:51 | In this case, it's not automatically
set up for me; I have to find it.
| | 02:54 | Clicking this dropdown allows me
to select the Printer Software, and by
| | 02:59 | clicking Select Printer Software, I
see an alphabetical listing of many
| | 03:02 | different printers.
| | 03:04 | Including, if we scroll down
alphabetically through the Hs, to the HP
| | 03:08 | Officejet for me, I am going to find
the J4680 somewhere on this list, and
| | 03:15 | there it is; the J4680 series.
| | 03:18 | With it selected, I click OK,
and click Add.
| | 03:23 | Now this may take a moment.
| | 03:25 | It is installing the software. It's
going to be adding this printer to my list
| | 03:30 | of selectable printers. Even though
it's on my Windows computer, I will be able
| | 03:34 | to access it here on my Mac.
| | 03:36 | So it does appear here on the list.
| | 03:38 | You can see there's a new alphabetical
list, including my USB printer, that was
| | 03:42 | plugged in, and automatically recognized, and
my new one, which is on my Windows computer.
| | 03:48 | Again, I have those same options for
sharing this printer on the network.
| | 03:51 | Let's go back to our USB Printer,
which is shared on the network, and click
| | 03:56 | Sharing Preferences,
| | 03:58 | because in here, Printer Sharing is
checked off, and this is how you add a
| | 04:02 | printer to your network.
| | 04:04 | So in this case, if we click the Back
button, and we go to our recently added
| | 04:09 | HP Officejet, for me,
| | 04:12 | if I want, I can share this printer
on the network by clicking the checkbox
| | 04:15 | here, or go to Sharing Preferences, and you
will notice that Printer Sharing is an option.
| | 04:20 | So it is being shared; it's a Windows computer.
| | 04:22 | If I have a network, however, and I want
to share it on that network, I do need
| | 04:26 | to click this checkbox as well.
| | 04:28 | All right; at this point we can close up
Print & Scan, and it's now time to test it out.
| | 04:34 | So we will go up to Spotlight, and we
will launch TextEdit by typing in text.
| | 04:39 | We will find the TextEdit app, similar
to Notepad in Windows, and we will just
| | 04:45 | add some text here.
| | 04:46 | Let's say this is User
Conference 2012, Project Status.
| | 04:53 | You can type whatever text you want, or
if you have a file that's ready to print,
| | 04:56 | we will go up to the File menu. There is
a keyboard shortcut, which is Command+P.
| | 05:01 | You maybe familiar with Control+P on your
Windows computer; Command+P here on the
| | 05:06 | Mac, is going to bring up
our Print dialog, or our window.
| | 05:10 | So in this case, here's where we go to
select the Printer we want to print to,
| | 05:14 | and you can see we can add copies,
choose the pages we want to print; there are
| | 05:19 | many options here, including the
Print button, and when we click the Print
| | 05:22 | button, we will see some information.
| | 05:25 | If you check your Doc down below,
you will see the icon representing
| | 05:28 | your printer as well.
| | 05:30 | It'll show up there temporarily
while it's printing, and then disappear.
| | 05:35 | When you're done, let's simply
close up TextEdit; no need to save our
| | 05:39 | changes. It returns us back to our
Desktop, and that's all there is to adding
| | 05:43 | printers to a Mac.
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| Attaching digital cameras| 00:00 | You know, aside from printers, one of
the most popular devices you'll attach to
| | 00:04 | your Mac is likely a digital camera.
| | 00:07 | So we are going to talk about what
happens when you want to download photos, say,
| | 00:11 | from your digital cameras.
| | 00:13 | Well, first thing you'll do is connect
the camera, and when you do that, a couple
| | 00:17 | of things are going to happen.
| | 00:18 | I am connecting my camera right now.
| | 00:21 | You can do the same if you want to
follow along. And the first thing you're going
| | 00:25 | to see, just in the background here, is an
actual device that's been connected. It
| | 00:30 | may not have a name, like mine;
Untitled 2. And the other thing that's going to
| | 00:34 | happen is iPhoto is going to launch.
| | 00:38 | It launches by default; it's the
default application for working with your
| | 00:42 | photos. So keeping them organized, but
also touching them up, and of course,
| | 00:47 | getting them onto your Mac, and that's
we are going to talk about right now.
| | 00:51 | So we'll leave iPhoto running, and you
can see the other things that happens when
| | 00:55 | iPhoto launches is it displays the
actual images that exist on your camera, and
| | 01:01 | down in the bottom right-hand
corner are some buttons.
| | 01:04 | The Import All button is obviously
going to take all of the images on your
| | 01:08 | camera, and import them into iPhoto.
| | 01:10 | It's going to create a separate
event for them, and you will be able to
| | 01:14 | manipulate those photos in iPhoto.
| | 01:16 | The other thing you might want to do is simply
import selected photos; maybe not all of them.
| | 01:21 | Well, in that case, you can go ahead and
start selecting the images you want to download.
| | 01:27 | If it's the first one, you can click it.
If it's everything between there and
| | 01:32 | the next row, you can hold down Shift, and
Click that image, and you are going to get
| | 01:36 | everything in between.
| | 01:37 | Or you could click one image, and hold
down your Command key, and select other
| | 01:42 | images that may not be
including those images in between.
| | 01:47 | Another option, if you want to have a
better look of those images, it's to use a
| | 01:50 | slider that appears at the very bottom.
| | 01:52 | This adjusts the size of the actual
thumbnails you are looking at. As we click
| | 01:57 | and drag to the right,
| | 01:58 | we see a larger thumbnail; to
the left to make it smaller.
| | 02:01 | So this gives you a better idea, maybe, of the
images you want to download to your computer.
| | 02:07 | So again, you can go ahead and start
selecting them, hold down the Command key
| | 02:12 | if you want to select different images
without getting every image in between,
| | 02:17 | and you can scroll through, selecting the
images you want, and when you're ready,
| | 02:21 | you will notice that there's another
button that has become available, and it is
| | 02:25 | the Import Selected button.
| | 02:27 | Now that we have actually have
selected images, we are ready to import those.
| | 02:31 | There are also some options that
appear over here on the left-hand side.
| | 02:35 | We can Autosplit events after they are
imported, and it will keep a close tab
| | 02:39 | on the actual image date when they were taken,
and create separate events by date, for example.
| | 02:45 | Another thing that happens when you
start grabbing images from a camera, and
| | 02:49 | downloading them to your computer, is
you may have images that have already been
| | 02:54 | downloaded, and now you want to go and
get other images, but those are mixed in
| | 02:59 | with the original images you downloaded.
| | 03:02 | So in this case, this nice little
option to Hide photos that have already
| | 03:05 | been imported will allow you to select the
ones that you have not actually imported yet.
| | 03:11 | Also, we can give our event a name.
| | 03:13 | So in my case, I am going to type in Wildlife.
| | 03:16 | This creates a separate event called
Wildlife. Otherwise, it's simply going to
| | 03:20 | use the date that we are doing the import.
| | 03:23 | If you wanted to, you can add a Description.
| | 03:25 | I am going to type in Birds and
Squirrels, and click Import Selected.
| | 03:32 | Now, depending on the number of images
you're importing, it could take a while.
| | 03:37 | But it does give you a slider bar at
the bottom indicating the number of images
| | 03:41 | remaining, and eventually, all of your
images will be imported into iPhoto. And
| | 03:47 | of course, we can use iPhoto to further
rearrange those images, we can work on
| | 03:52 | those images by opening them up, and
touching them up. Of course, there are many
| | 03:56 | other applications out there that
will allow you to do that as well.
| | 04:00 | Once they're uploaded or imported,
you'll notice that we have options here to
| | 04:04 | Delete the Photos from your device -- your
digital camera -- or keep them there. And
| | 04:08 | then the next time we go to do an
import, we might see those, or we might hide
| | 04:13 | them, using that checkbox.
| | 04:15 | I am going to delete them from my
camera, and now I'm looking at a brand new
| | 04:20 | event called Wildlife.
| | 04:21 | You can see the date range that they were
taken, and it appears here as my Last Import now.
| | 04:27 | You also notice down on the left-hand side
in iPhoto that your device, Untitled 2
| | 04:31 | in my case, also appears in
the Devices section.
| | 04:34 | So you can always go back
to it to get more images.
| | 04:38 | All we are going to do is close up
iPhoto here for a minute. We will click
| | 04:42 | iPhoto, Quit iPhoto; Command+Q is the
keyboard shortcut. And we will look at
| | 04:47 | another option -- if you are not into
using iPhoto -- the moment you attach a
| | 04:51 | device, it does appear
here on the Desktop.
| | 04:54 | So if we were to double-click this
device, we would open it up in Finder, and
| | 04:58 | in this case, we are going to be
looking at folders containing our images.
| | 05:02 | So double-clicking those folders;
there's my Olympus camera folder.
| | 05:06 | There are the images that are left on
the actual camera itself, and now, if I
| | 05:11 | wanted to, I could get them onto my
Mac by simply clicking and dragging them.
| | 05:15 | So if I wanted one on my Desktop, for
example; click, drag, release, and it's
| | 05:20 | actually copied to my Desktop.
| | 05:22 | If you wanted to, you could open up
another Finder window. Just go up to File,
| | 05:27 | and choose New Finder Window.
| | 05:30 | Then you could choose where it's going
to be; this new folder, and create a
| | 05:34 | new folder in that window, and then simply
drag the images from one place to the other.
| | 05:40 | Right now I am looking at my Desktop,
| | 05:42 | so clicking and dragging another
image into this Finder window will copy it
| | 05:47 | to my Desktop as well.
| | 05:49 | So these are just options for
getting images on a device like a digital
| | 05:53 | camera onto your Mac.
| | 05:55 | When you're done, simply right-click or
Control+Click the actual device that appears
| | 06:00 | on your Desktop, and you'll
see an option there to Eject it.
| | 06:03 | You want to do this before
you disconnect it from your Mac.
| | 06:07 | So once the device disappears from
your Desktop, you're free to unplug the
| | 06:11 | device, and continue from there.
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| Burning CDs and DVDs| 00:00 | You Know, whether you're working on a
Windows PC or a Mac computer, backing
| | 00:04 | up your files is important, and one
popular method for backing up files is to
| | 00:09 | burn them to a disc.
| | 00:11 | That disc could be a CD, or a DVD, and
that's what we're going to talk about right
| | 00:15 | now here on the Mac.
| | 00:16 | There are couple of
different ways of doing this.
| | 00:18 | The first thing, though, that we're going
to do -- the way I like to handle things -- is
| | 00:22 | to insert that blank disc ahead of time.
| | 00:25 | So go ahead and insert either a blank
CD, or DVD. You'll use a CD if you think
| | 00:31 | you're going to be backing up no
more than 700 megabytes of content.
| | 00:35 | If you need more space; you have
bigger files, or more files, a DVD will hold
| | 00:40 | up to 4.7 gigabytes.
| | 00:42 | Now, when you insert the actual disc,
it'll appear on your Desktop here on the
| | 00:46 | Mac as an untitled DVD, or CD.
| | 00:50 | Now, we can open that up, it's going to
be empty, and then start dragging files
| | 00:54 | into it; that's one thing.
| | 00:56 | But there is a better optio; an
easier way of burning files, and getting
| | 01:00 | them onto that drive.
| | 01:02 | Let's go up to the File menu in
Finder, or you can use a keyboard shortcut
| | 01:06 | Command+N to create a New Finder Window.
| | 01:09 | This opens up a window, and my default
is my Desktop. You may be looking at
| | 01:13 | a different folder; it
| | 01:15 | really doesn't matter. We're going to go
locate the files, now, that we want to burn.
| | 01:19 | Now, for me, it's in my Pictures folder,
and it's in the My Pictures subfolder.
| | 01:25 | So double-clicking that, and I'm going
to change the View to a List View. So I
| | 01:29 | can see that there's some fairly large
files here. That's why I have a DVD in
| | 01:33 | the drive; that'll be perfect for
the types of files I want to burn.
| | 01:37 | And now it's just a matter of actually
burning those files by doing one of two things.
| | 01:43 | One, we can select individual files;
you could use your Command key to select
| | 01:47 | the files you want to back up. And then
go to the Action button; you'll see an
| | 01:51 | option here to Burn, in my case, 3 Items
to Disc. Or if you wanted to, you could
| | 01:57 | right-click, or Control+Click, and
see those options on a pop-up menu.
| | 02:02 | Another option, though, is just to take the
entire folder, and burn it to a disc, like our DVD.
| | 02:08 | So in this case, we're going to go back,
and instead, we're going to select the
| | 02:12 | folder that we want to burn, and
everything in that folder will be saved to our
| | 02:17 | drive; in this case, for me, a DVD.
| | 02:20 | So again, we could right-click, Control+
Click, or go up to the Action button, and
| | 02:24 | choose Burn, and in this case,
I'm seeing My Pictures to Disc.
| | 02:29 | Now, if we hadn't already inserted a
blank disc into our drive, when we click
| | 02:34 | this, we would be prompted to insert it
now, but because we already have, we go
| | 02:39 | to this next screen, which
is to give our disc a name.
| | 02:42 | Now, by default, it's going to be named
the same as the folder; in this case, my
| | 02:46 | pictures, but we can call it
whatever we want. My Pictures Backup.
| | 02:51 | Also, you'll see an option for Burn
Speed. Depending on the type of DVD or CD
| | 02:56 | drive you're working with, you can
slow it down, or speed it up, and the only
| | 03:01 | thing left to do now is to
actually burn that folder to the drive.
| | 03:06 | So there was no clicking and dragging
files from one window to another. That
| | 03:11 | would've worked; we could've opened up
the DVD drive, and just dragged our folder
| | 03:15 | over to it, and then there's
another step of choosing the burn option.
| | 03:18 | Well, in this case, we simply right-click,
or use the Action button, and off we go.
| | 03:25 | Depending on the number of files, and
the size of those files, you will see a
| | 03:28 | window that pops up on your screen,
showing you the progress as it's burning
| | 03:33 | your items to disc. We'll just give it a
moment to finish up, and we'll see what
| | 03:37 | we're left with at the end of the burn cycle.
| | 03:42 | So eventually, that little window does
disappear. The icon representing our disc
| | 03:47 | reappears on our Desktop, and it's
relabeled whatever we decided to title our
| | 03:52 | backup disc; in this case, I've
called mine My Pictures Backup.
| | 03:56 | So it's still there. We can double-click
it to open up the window, and see the
| | 03:59 | contents that have been backed up to
our drive. We can close it up, just like
| | 04:03 | any other Finder window.
| | 04:05 | The only difference is, it is a disc
that's in a drive, so when we're done with
| | 04:09 | it, we want to eject it.
| | 04:11 | So, of course, our options are to
drag it down to the Trash, and that will
| | 04:15 | automatically turn into an Eject button.
| | 04:18 | Another option is to Control+Click or
right-click the icon, and choose Eject
| | 04:22 | from the pop-up menu.
| | 04:24 | Once it's been ejected, we can pull it
out of the drive, and close up the drive.
| | 04:28 | Of course, on a Mac keyboard, you also
have an Eject button that appears in the
| | 04:33 | top right corner; you can use
that to eject your drives as well.
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8. Getting Online with Your MacNetworking basics| 00:00 | If you're accustomed to working in a
Windows environment, you know how easy it is
| | 00:03 | to get connected to a network.
| | 00:05 | Quite often, it's a simple matter of
plugging in a cable. Windows will do a great
| | 00:09 | job at recognizing networks that it is
connected to. You might be prompted for
| | 00:13 | passwords, user account information,
but really, it's very automated.
| | 00:18 | Same thing here on the Mac, but we're
going to take a look at networking and
| | 00:21 | sharing now, starting with a click of
the Apple icon in the top left corner.
| | 00:27 | From there we'll choose System Preferences.
| | 00:30 | In the Internet and Wireless section is
where you'll find icons for Network, as
| | 00:34 | well as Sharing, and we're
going to start with Network.
| | 00:38 | Now, when you click this, you're going
to see a list down the left-hand side of
| | 00:42 | possible connections.
| | 00:44 | If you're on a laptop, you might see
additional ones here for wireless.
| | 00:48 | For me, I know I'm connected via
Ethernet 2, as indicated by the green button
| | 00:53 | that appears next to it.
| | 00:55 | The red buttons you see next to
Ethernet 1 and FireWire here mean I'm not
| | 00:59 | connected to any networks
using those connections.
| | 01:03 | With Ethernet 2 selected, and if
you're connected, you can click the one that
| | 01:07 | shows up with the green button. You
will see information about that connection
| | 01:10 | on the right-hand side.
| | 01:12 | For example, how it's connected using DHCP
for me, there's my IP address; looks good.
| | 01:18 | Getting connected, for me, was a
simple matter of plugging in the cable.
| | 01:22 | If I want to start sharing things, that's
a little bit different. Let's click the
| | 01:26 | back button, and we'll go back to our
System Preferences, and click the Sharing
| | 01:30 | icon that appears under Internet & Wireless.
| | 01:34 | From here, there are a number of things
that can be shared. You can share DVDs
| | 01:38 | and CD drives if you wanted to; share
your screen. We're going to focus on File
| | 01:43 | Sharing, and that can include folders
and entire drives, if you wanted to.
| | 01:48 | With that selected, if we move to the
right, we'll see that File Sharing is on if
| | 01:53 | the green button shows up next to it,
and there is a checkmark in the checkbox
| | 01:57 | next to File Sharing.
| | 01:59 | Also, we'll see Shared Folders that are
there already, you may see things like a
| | 02:03 | drop box, for example; users who are
connected to those Shared Folders, and the
| | 02:08 | type of access they'll have.
| | 02:11 | If you want to add something, though,
it's a simple matter of going to the
| | 02:13 | Shared Folders section, click the plus
sign down below, and then it's just a
| | 02:18 | matter of choosing what it is you
want to share. Could be a drive, as you
| | 02:22 | scroll down the left-hand side, you
might see drives that you want to share, or
| | 02:26 | in my case, I'm going to experiment
with our Exercise Files folder, which
| | 02:29 | appears right on the Desktop.
| | 02:31 | And I don't need to go in and select
individual files, although I could; I
| | 02:35 | want to share the entire folder.
Clicking the Add button, just takes a moment
| | 02:39 | to access that folder, and bring it up
in our list of shared folders. There it
| | 02:44 | is: Exercise Files.
| | 02:47 | Now, with that selected, I'll see the
users that are automatically connected, and
| | 02:51 | that's based on the Options button here.
| | 02:53 | If you're not seeing any, it means if
you go to the Options button, nothing is
| | 02:58 | selected here in the list of people or
accounts that would share that folder,
| | 03:04 | but we can add whoever we want.
Clicking the plus sign just below the Users
| | 03:08 | section now allows us to select
people who already have accounts on our
| | 03:13 | computer. There is the
administrator, myself, someone named TDM,
| | 03:17 | but you can also add people who
are in your Address Book, for example.
| | 03:21 | So if I went to my Work section, and
selected someone, all I have to do is click
| | 03:26 | the Select button to add them to the list.
| | 03:30 | Now, once they appear on the list, I then
have the ability to choose what type of
| | 03:34 | access they're going to have.
| | 03:35 | I'll give them a password that they'll
need to get logged in. I need to Verify
| | 03:42 | that, since I can't see what I'm typing,
so tabbing down to the next field, and
| | 03:45 | typing in exact same word, and then
clicking Create Account creates an account
| | 03:50 | for that user. They appear on my list
now, and by default, they're getting Read
| | 03:54 | Only access to the
Exercise Files on my Desktop.
| | 03:57 | But I can change that by clicking it;
there is Read & Write, or Write Only, and
| | 04:02 | that's the equivalent of our drop box,
where they can put things there, but they
| | 04:06 | can't actually see what's in there,
or access anything in that folder.
| | 04:10 | I want them to be able to see what's
there, and I want them to be able to add
| | 04:13 | things to the folder as well, and access
those files, so I'm going to choose Read
| | 04:18 | & Write, and that changes it
up for that selected user.
| | 04:21 | So when you're done, all you do is
close that up, and that person now will be
| | 04:26 | able to access that folder right
from Finder, in the Shared section.
| | 04:30 | If we open up a new Finder window --
we'll go to File, and New Finder Window;
| | 04:35 | Command+N -- notice that there is a
Shared section down below, and if anyone has
| | 04:40 | shared something with you, that's
where it shows up. So you can access those
| | 04:44 | simply by clicking them.
| | 04:45 | So that's a quick introduction
to networking basics and sharing.
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| Using Mail| 00:00 | One nice application you get with
your Mac is called Mail, and with the Mail
| | 00:05 | application, you can actually have
more than one mail account connected, and
| | 00:09 | access all of your e-mail
from one convenient location.
| | 00:12 | Let's take a look at it now.
| | 00:14 | It is an application, so we can
access it from the Applications window.
| | 00:18 | Click Go in Finder,
and select Applications.
| | 00:21 | Alphabetically listed it's
called Mail; it is an app.
| | 00:24 | We can double-click it to launch it.
| | 00:26 | Now, if it is your first time, you will
see something like what I'm seeing here,
| | 00:29 | which is a Welcome message, prompting
me for my name. It's already there, based
| | 00:33 | on my account name here on the Mac, and
it's prompting me for an Email Address,
| | 00:38 | so this would be the first e-mail address
that I want to use here inside of Mail.
| | 00:44 | Now, as a Windows user, you might have,
for example, a Hotmail account. You'd type in
| | 00:48 | your e-mail address, you'd type in the
password you would normally type in to
| | 00:53 | get logged in, and then click Continue.
And you'll see, Mail does an excellent job
| | 00:59 | of searching the Internet,
finding that account; the Account type.
| | 01:03 | It'll locate the e-mail address, and
the server address, all you need to do is
| | 01:06 | click Create, and you're connected to Hotmail.
| | 01:10 | Now, if you don't have any messages in
your Hotmail, like me, you'll notice a new
| | 01:14 | note that's sitting there waiting for you.
| | 01:16 | It really has nothing in it;
| | 01:18 | it's just a brand new note that
resides here inside Mail the first time you
| | 01:22 | create your account.
| | 01:24 | Now, if you wanted to, you could
start using Mail, or you could add
| | 01:28 | additional accounts.
| | 01:30 | Click Mail right on the menu bar, then
select Preferences; Command+Comma is the
| | 01:35 | keyboard shortcut. You'll see you're
existing Hotmail account, and all the
| | 01:39 | information down the right-hand side,
but if you wanted to add additional
| | 01:43 | accounts at this time, you could click
the Plus sign, and there we go; we're
| | 01:47 | ready to add an account, just like we
did the first time we accessed Mail.
| | 01:52 | So again, you would enter another e-mail
address, provide the password, and Continue.
| | 01:57 | Now, it could get a little complicated
if you're trying to connect to an
| | 02:00 | exchange server. You'll need all of
that information; typically mail won't find
| | 02:04 | it for you, so you need to have some of that
information on hand to get your account set up.
| | 02:10 | We'll click Cancel, and continue
working with our Hotmail account.
| | 02:14 | We'll just close up the Account Preferences,
and go back to our main window here in Mail.
| | 02:19 | So we have some buttons on the toolbar.
The first one, of course, is a button that
| | 02:23 | will allow you to get messages, so
it's a way of refreshing your list of
| | 02:28 | messages to see if any
new ones have come in.
| | 02:31 | There is a preference under the Mail
preferences that allows you to set how
| | 02:35 | often this happens automatically as well.
| | 02:38 | When you're ready to create a new
message, all you do is click the Compose
| | 02:41 | new message button.
| | 02:43 | This is the equivalent of going up to
File, and choosing New Message from here;
| | 02:47 | Command+N being the keyboard shortcut.
| | 02:50 | You can also create notes; notes are just
stored like e-mail, but they're notes to yourself.
| | 02:55 | So if you wanted to, for example, you
could create another new note, like the
| | 02:58 | one that shows up here by default.
| | 03:01 | Let's go to New message, the same as
clicking the New Message button, and you can
| | 03:05 | see we're ready now to enter the
address we're sending this message to.
| | 03:08 | I'm going to send it to my lynda.com account.
| | 03:12 | I'm going to add a Subject; so, your
subject can be anything. I'll type in
| | 03:16 | Welcome, and then down below, I'll type
in Welcome to Mac Mail, and now it's just a
| | 03:25 | matter of sending it off.
| | 03:26 | The Send button looks like a paper
airplane, and clicking Send sends it off.
| | 03:31 | And when I click Sent, there is the
message I sent. Clicking it allows me to
| | 03:34 | view the details. And I do have some
other options here when viewing messages.
| | 03:39 | I could send this to the Trash,
clicking the trashcan. I can Reply, Reply to
| | 03:44 | All, and Forward a
message right from here as well.
| | 03:48 | I'm going to move it to the Trash by
clicking Trash; it goes to my trashcan.
| | 03:52 | Clicking here is where I'll find it.
| | 03:54 | Much like any other mail system, but
the nice thing about Mail, of course, is
| | 03:58 | that you can have multiple accounts
connected here, and be accessing them all at once.
| | 04:03 | So when you go to your Inbox, you're
looking at a combination of messages from
| | 04:07 | more than one account.
| | 04:09 | Now, there are many other features
available to you here. That would be a separate
| | 04:12 | course, but that should get you
started using Mail here on the Mac.
| | 04:16 | Let's close it up by
clicking Mail > Quit Mail.
| | 04:20 | We'll close up our Applications
window, and continue from here.
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| Using RSS feeds| 00:00 | If you're one of those people who like
to stay up to date on the latest news,
| | 00:03 | weather, sports, maybe entertainment
world, for example, you could be familiar
| | 00:08 | with RSS Feeds: really simple syndication.
| | 00:12 | In a Windows environment, there's even a
gadget you can use to get feeds of that
| | 00:17 | type of information that you choose.
| | 00:19 | We're going to take a look at it here in
the Mac environment, using our Mail app;
| | 00:23 | something we looked at in the previous lesson.
| | 00:26 | Let's start by opening up Mail again.
I'm going to the Go menu here in Finder,
| | 00:30 | and selecting Applications. Here's
where I'll find Mail; double-clicking it
| | 00:34 | launches my Mail app.
| | 00:35 | You may have noticed, in the previous
lesson, we have an Inbox, and we have a
| | 00:39 | Sent folder, a Trash bin, but a
little further down, you'll notice On My Mac
| | 00:44 | there's something called RSS. You might
even see a number here, like I do; 305
| | 00:49 | for me at the time of this recording, meaning
there might be something already connected here.
| | 00:54 | All I have to do is move over near that
number to see the Show option, and when
| | 00:58 | I click Show, sure enough, by default
I have Apple Hot News, and CNN Sports.
| | 01:04 | Clicking either one of these will
display a list of messages, or RSS feeds.
| | 01:09 | These are sent automatically from that
location, in this case, Apple Hot News,
| | 01:13 | and I can see my latest tip here,
which is a Quick Tip of the Week, and how to
| | 01:18 | take advantage of my .Mac Synchronization.
| | 01:22 | Well, if I click any one of these
messages, I'll see it just like an e-mail
| | 01:25 | message; the details
appear on the right-hand side.
| | 01:28 | The only difference between these
and e-mail messages is you can't really
| | 01:32 | reply to these, but if you go up to
your toolbar, you will notice, you can
| | 01:35 | forward these if you want to send it on to
someone who would benefit from this information.
| | 01:39 | If we go to CNN Sports, it's the same idea.
| | 01:43 | Again, we're going to see a chronological
list, and as we scroll through, we can
| | 01:49 | pick and choose the messages we want
to read about. You can even double-click
| | 01:52 | these to look at them in their own windows.
| | 01:54 | If it's something you really don't
need to keep, you can delete it with the
| | 01:58 | trashcan, sending it to the Trash;
| | 02:00 | it takes you back to your list.
| | 02:02 | But what about those other feeds?
| | 02:04 | Well, there are many, many of them out
there, and we can add them to our list by
| | 02:08 | simply going up to the File menu, and
you will see Add RSS Feeds near the
| | 02:14 | bottom; we'll click that.
| | 02:17 | Now, from here we have the
two options; two radio buttons.
| | 02:19 | Browse feeds in Safari Bookmarks; these
are defaults we could choose from, and
| | 02:23 | that's what's listed here by default.
| | 02:25 | Or if you have a specific URL that's
been given to you, you can click the second
| | 02:30 | radio button, enter it, and click Add.
| | 02:33 | You also have the ability for these to
appear in your Inbox, just like regular
| | 02:37 | e-mail messages, if you so choose.
| | 02:40 | So let's go back to the one called
Browse Feeds in Safari Bookmarks. You'll see,
| | 02:45 | in the Collections section here, All RSS
Feeds is selected, and that's what we're
| | 02:48 | seeing: every possible feed.
| | 02:50 | But there are categories, so if we
click the arrow next to All, we'll see
| | 02:55 | a folder. Click that to expand it, and you'll
see News, Mac, Kids, Sports, Entertainment;
| | 03:01 | I'm interested in Sports, so I'm going
to go to that folder, and that's all I'm
| | 03:04 | going to see here on the
right, are my Sports Feeds.
| | 03:07 | So if I want to get information from
ESPN.com, I click that checkbox. When I
| | 03:12 | click Add -- and I'm not going to have
this show up in my Inbox with my other
| | 03:16 | messages -- I'll just click Add, and it's
now on the list of RSS Feeds. And there's
| | 03:22 | actually some in there already.
| | 03:23 | Let's go back, now, to File, down to
Add RSS Feeds, and now from here, we have,
| | 03:31 | again, all of our RSS Feeds.
| | 03:33 | We can go down the list, breaking it
down into Categories. Some of these
| | 03:37 | categories have subcategories.
| | 03:39 | For example, News; when we click that,
you'll see US, Business, and Technical.
| | 03:44 | We also have the same option for
Entertainment news: Movie, and iTunes
| | 03:49 | entertainment options to choose from.
| | 03:52 | So I'm interested in Business News. I
click the Business folder, and there's a
| | 03:55 | number to choose from there: CNN/Money,
I'm going to select that, and click Add.
| | 04:00 | So lots of options to add feeds, and any one of
them can appear in your Inbox if you so choose.
| | 04:06 | Can we change those settings? You bet!
| | 04:08 | Let's go to ESPN.com, or
one of the ones you've added.
| | 04:12 | Right-click, or Control+Click, and you'll
see some options here, like renaming it,
| | 04:17 | deleting it if you no longer want it.
Here's where we can go to choose to
| | 04:21 | show it in our Inbox if we forgot to do that.
| | 04:23 | I'm going to delete this one; I no
longer need it. I need to confirm that by
| | 04:28 | clicking Delete, and you can
see I'm down to my other three.
| | 04:32 | RSS feeds will provide you with the
information you need on a regular basis,
| | 04:38 | simply by adding it to your
list of RSS Feeds here in Mail.
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| Getting to know Safari| 00:00 | It's time now to discuss Web
browsing here in a Mac environment.
| | 00:04 | In a Windows environment, you're
probably used to using Internet Explorer as
| | 00:08 | your default browser.
| | 00:10 | Here in a Mac environment, the
default is Safari, which we're going to get
| | 00:13 | a quick intro to now.
| | 00:15 | Now, Safari does not appear on the
dock automatically here in OS X Lion.
| | 00:20 | We can access it from the Finder menu
by clicking Go, and then Applications, or
| | 00:25 | Shift+Command+A if you
prefer the keyboard shortcut.
| | 00:28 | Alphabetically, we'll find it in the
list of apps; Safari is what we're looking
| | 00:32 | for. Double-click that, and it will
launch Safari; that's your Web browser here
| | 00:36 | in the Mac environment, by default.
| | 00:39 | You'll also arrive at your homepage,
whatever that may be. For me, as you can
| | 00:42 | see, it's apple.com.
| | 00:45 | So let's talk about some of the
differences; things you'll need to get use to
| | 00:48 | here in Safari, versus Internet Explorer.
| | 00:51 | First of all, the UI is a little bit
different; things are arranged differently,
| | 00:55 | but you have the same basic functions.
| | 00:57 | For example, we have Back and Forward
buttons up here in the top left-hand corner.
| | 01:01 | We also have a Home button, which will
take us to this homepage whenever we want
| | 01:05 | to get there quickly.
| | 01:06 | Over to the right-hand side, we have
the address bar, and here's where we go to
| | 01:11 | type in addresses of
Web Pages that we want to access.
| | 01:15 | Right of that is the Search field, and you can
see it's a spotlight icon, with Google in it;
| | 01:20 | it's going to use Google
technology to find what we're looking for.
| | 01:24 | Then, below that, we have something
called the Bookmarks bar. There are no
| | 01:28 | Favorites here; they're called Bookmarks.
| | 01:30 | You'll notice here's a Bookmarks menu as well.
| | 01:33 | So when you arrive at pages that you
want to set as a favorite -- have shortcuts
| | 01:37 | to -- we use Bookmarks here in Safari.
| | 01:41 | So let's do that. Let's go to lynda.com,
and we can type the address in here by
| | 01:45 | clicking and dragging over apple.com,
or you could triple-click, or if you
| | 01:50 | prefer, you can try to click the
border of the Address field to select
| | 01:54 | everything inside, and type
right over it, lynda.com.
| | 01:58 | When you press Enter or Return, you'll be
taken to the homepage here for lynda.com.
| | 02:04 | Maybe this is the actual page I want
set as my homepage, and I'll set a
| | 02:08 | Bookmark, or a favorite, to apple.com.
| | 02:12 | To change our homepage, we go to the
Safari menu, and then down to Preferences.
| | 02:17 | Command+Comma is the keyboard shortcut.
| | 02:20 | With General selected, you'll see
the current homepage; for me, apple.com.
| | 02:24 | But we also have a button right below it
to set it to whatever our current page is.
| | 02:30 | In the background, we see lynda.com,
and that would be our new homepage.
| | 02:33 | If you prefer, you can type in a
homepage here as well, but because we're
| | 02:39 | already at lynda.com, clicking Set to
Current Page changes the homepage. We can
| | 02:43 | close up our General Preferences. Now we can
create a shortcut, or a Bookmark, to apple.com.
| | 02:50 | So let's go there first. Again, I'm
going to go to the border, and just click the
| | 02:54 | border of the address field, and type
over my lynda.com address; apple.com.
| | 03:01 | Now, to create the favorite in
Internet Explorer, you would go to the
| | 03:04 | Favorites menu; you might have a
button to do it as well. Here, there are
| | 03:08 | Bookmarks, so we go to the
Bookmarks menu, and we add the Bookmark.
| | 03:12 | But we get to choose where
we're going to add it to,
| | 03:15 | so when you click Add Bookmark, you
might see some folders to choose from.
| | 03:19 | I have a number of folders to choose
from here, but if I prefer, I can put it
| | 03:24 | right on the Bookmarks menu, and click
Add, and now when I go to Bookmarks, I'm
| | 03:29 | going to see it right there on the menu.
| | 03:32 | Another option, if we go back to Add
Bookmark, is to add it to the Bookmark Bar
| | 03:38 | here, so let's do that.
| | 03:39 | I'll click that, and instead of adding
it to the Bookmarks menu, we'll add it to
| | 03:44 | Bookmarks Bar this time. With that
selected, click Add; it now appears right
| | 03:49 | below the address field.
| | 03:51 | So for example, if we want
to go quickly to lynda.com --
| | 03:54 | that's our homepage --
we click the Home button.
| | 03:56 | Now we want to go back to apple.com,
we have a Bookmark right here on the
| | 03:59 | Bookmarks Bar; clicking it
once will take us there quickly.
| | 04:03 | Now, there are number of
different ways to view your Bookmarks.
| | 04:06 | We have the Bookmarks menu that allows
you to Show all Bookmarks, and when you
| | 04:10 | click that, that's exactly
what you're going to see.
| | 04:13 | All of The Bookmarks on your menu,
Bookmarks Bar, as well as any folders you
| | 04:17 | may have created, and you can see I have a
number of them already created here in Safari.
| | 04:23 | Notice that the button that appears
here on our Bookmarks Bar as highlighted is
| | 04:27 | right in the middle here, which is the
Show or Hide all Bookmarks, so we could
| | 04:31 | access it that way as well.
| | 04:34 | There's also something called the
Reading List, and it will show some pages that
| | 04:38 | you've been to, and maybe have been
reading lately. For me, there's nothing
| | 04:41 | there, but I can add pages.
| | 04:43 | And there is another option here as well;
| | 04:45 | it's a different view,
which will show your top sites.
| | 04:48 | But if you want to close any of them,
you click them again, like the Reading
| | 04:52 | List, and you're back to the
default view here in Safari.
| | 04:55 | So that's a quick introduction to
the default browser here in the Mac
| | 04:58 | environment: Safari, which by the way,
also works in a Windows environment.
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9. Setting System PreferencesCustomizing appearance| 00:00 | In this chapter, we're going to shift
our focus over to the System Preferences
| | 00:04 | that you can adjust here in a Mac
environment, similar to going to Control Panel
| | 00:09 | in a Windows environment.
| | 00:11 | We're going to start off with some
appearance and personalization settings,
| | 00:14 | and as you can see, I have Safari
running here, and I've accessed the
| | 00:18 | lynda.com homepage.
| | 00:20 | This is so we have something to look
at while we make those adjustments.
| | 00:23 | You can do the same if you'd like.
| | 00:25 | Next, we're going to access System
Preferences by going to the Apple icon.
| | 00:28 | We'll click it in the top left
corner, and click System Preferences.
| | 00:33 | All right, so we have a number of
different categories, including Personal,
| | 00:36 | Hardware, Internet & Wireless, etcetera.
| | 00:38 | We're going to focus on the first
three icons under Personal: the General,
| | 00:42 | Desktop & Screen Saver, and Dock settings.
| | 00:45 | Let's click General.
| | 00:46 | Now, here in the General settings, you
can see certain things that are setup
| | 00:49 | for you by default.
| | 00:50 | For example, the Appearance, or overall
look of your buttons, your menus, and
| | 00:54 | your Windows is set to Blue.
| | 00:56 | There's only one other choice here
when we click this button, and that is
| | 00:58 | Graphite, and in fact, you'll see
those changes instantaneously right here
| | 01:02 | inside our System Preferences
window when we select Graphite.
| | 01:06 | So the Blue radio buttons are now
Graphite; same thing for the checkboxes.
| | 01:10 | If you prefer Blue, go ahead
and switch it back.
| | 01:14 | Now, the Highlight color pertains to
when we click and drag over text, or
| | 01:18 | select text. It could be in a Word Processing
application, TextEdit, or over here in Safari.
| | 01:23 | There is some text here on the homepage,
| | 01:25 | so I'm going to click over here, and
just click and drag over that text.
| | 01:28 | You can see, as I move across and down, the
words are highlighted in that pale blue color.
| | 01:34 | So if we come back to our System
Preferences, and change that, you'll notice a
| | 01:38 | number of different options, including some
that really stand out, like Gold, or Orange.
| | 01:44 | I'm going to choose Orange.
| | 01:45 | Now click on Safari anywhere, and
you'll notice that the Highlight color
| | 01:48 | has indeed changed.
| | 01:50 | So adjust that to your own liking.
| | 01:52 | I'm fine with the defaults,
| | 01:53 | so I'm going to change it back to Blue.
| | 01:55 | All right. Down below, one change that
you may encounter, something a little bit
| | 02:00 | different than you may be used to in a
Windows environment are the scrollbars.
| | 02:04 | Now, scrollbars do appear on the right-
hand side of a window by default, allowing
| | 02:09 | you to scroll up and down through
screen folds of information.
| | 02:13 | If there is a need for a scroll bar
across the bottom, you'll see it there; a
| | 02:17 | horizontal scrollbar,
| | 02:18 | if you're not seeing the full width of
the page you're looking at. And when we go
| | 02:22 | back to our System Preferences here,
you can see scrollbars will appear
| | 02:26 | automatically, based on an input device.
| | 02:29 | If you're using, for example, a tablet,
it's a little bit different than working
| | 02:32 | with a mouse, a pointer.
| | 02:35 | You might have a stylus that
you're using on a trackpad;
| | 02:38 | all of that's automatically
adjusted based on your input device.
| | 02:42 | So I'm just using a mouse;
I have a wheel mouse,
| | 02:45 | so when I click here inside Safari, I
can use that wheel mouse to scroll up
| | 02:49 | and down, and when I go back to
System Preferences, my other options are to
| | 02:53 | have those scrollbars appear only When
scrolling, or Always, whether I need them or not.
| | 02:58 | So clicking Always, I know that the
scrollbars will appear there all the time,
| | 03:03 | even if I'm not using them.
| | 03:05 | Down below, Click in the scroll bar to;
you'll notice the default has changed
| | 03:09 | here in OS X Lion
to Jump to next page.
| | 03:12 | This is something you're probably
used to in a Windows environment.
| | 03:15 | For example, if you were using Microsoft
Word, and you were using a scrollbar, and
| | 03:19 | you click anywhere below that scrollbar,
it'll automatically take you to the
| | 03:23 | next page, and you can see that's
what's happening here by default.
| | 03:26 | I'm seeing the next screen full of information.
| | 03:29 | Now, the other option is to move the
scrollbar to the location where you're
| | 03:33 | clicking, and when we go back to our
System Preferences, you'll see it can Jump
| | 03:37 | to the spot that's clicked.
| | 03:39 | In other words, if I click near the
bottom of my scrollbar area, I'll go to the
| | 03:44 | bottom of the document,
or in this case, Web page.
| | 03:48 | So that was the default in previous
versions of OS X. Now, here in Lion, the
| | 03:53 | default is to Jump to the next page,
and that's what I prefer; it's what I'm
| | 03:56 | used to in a Windows environment.
| | 03:58 | Smooth scrolling is
something that can be turned on.
| | 04:01 | It does use up a little
bit of your system resources.
| | 04:04 | It just means that when you click and
drag the scrollbar, it's very smooth looking.
| | 04:07 | It's not jagged, and it does use up a
little bit of your memory, so keep that in mind.
| | 04:13 | Double-clicking a Windows title
bar is going to minimize that window.
| | 04:17 | So, for example, if we double-click
our General settings here in System
| | 04:20 | Preferences, you see how it's minimized down to
our dock, and we can go down there to get it back.
| | 04:25 | So you can choose whether or not that's
something you want to keep on or not.
| | 04:30 | Other things that might be of interest to
you here are the Number of Recent Items,
| | 04:34 | so when you're in an Application, you can
go to the last 10 files that you worked on.
| | 04:38 | For example, again, you might be
working with Microsoft Word for the Mac;
| | 04:43 | when you go to the File menu, you'll
see the most recently used item. It could be
| | 04:47 | 10, could be 5, none, all the way up to 50.
| | 04:50 | 10 is the default; same
thing for Documents, and Servers.
| | 04:54 | So if we wanted to, for example, start
a new application, the Number of Recent
| | 04:59 | Items is set to 10; Documents, 10;
Servers, 10, and you'll notice a checkbox next
| | 05:05 | to Restore windows when
quitting and re-opening apps.
| | 05:08 | This is something that you might
not be used to in a Mac environment.
| | 05:11 | When you go back to Safari, for example,
you'll be brought back to the actual
| | 05:16 | page you were at when you closed Safari.
| | 05:18 | Or when you open up Microsoft Word, the
last document you were working on when
| | 05:22 | you exited Word will come right back to you.
| | 05:25 | So if you like that, leave it checked.
| | 05:26 | If you don't, you can turn it off.
| | 05:28 | Now, here in System Preferences, when we
want to go to a different setting, all
| | 05:31 | we do is click the back button, or
click Show All to go right back to the
| | 05:35 | original page, where we see all
of our System Preferences icons.
| | 05:38 | We're going to go to
Desktop & Screen Saver now.
| | 05:41 | You can see what I've chosen here; a
Solid Aqua Blue. That's what appears on my
| | 05:44 | Desktop in the background.
| | 05:46 | It makes it nice and easy for me to
see any icons I have on the Desktop, but
| | 05:50 | there are number of different options here.
| | 05:53 | There are Desktop pictures from
Apple, and you can see them all here.
| | 05:57 | Selecting any one of them will change
your Desktop in the background, and you
| | 06:00 | can see, it's instantaneous.
| | 06:03 | There is Nature, and the
default, which used to be Aurora,
| | 06:08 | you can see there,
Aurora has a Leopard version.
| | 06:12 | So for OS X Lion,
this is the new default;
| | 06:15 | it's just Aurora, and you can see
what that looks like in the background.
| | 06:18 | There are Plants, Art,
| | 06:20 | there are Black & White
options if you prefer, Abstract;
| | 06:23 | there some Patterns that
you can choose from as well.
| | 06:25 | I like the Solid Colors; it makes it a
little bit neater, and easier to look at,
| | 06:29 | especially for you, when
you're looking at my Desktop.
| | 06:32 | But you can also access your own
photos under iPhoto, and if you have folders
| | 06:36 | with images, you can access
those folders from here as well.
| | 06:40 | Let's go to Screen Saver, because you
can turn the screen saver on, and you
| | 06:44 | can choose when it will activate, and
you can choose what will be displayed
| | 06:48 | when it is activated.
| | 06:49 | First of all, you'll see a number of
screen savers here to choose from.
| | 06:53 | I have Beach selected, but we can
select any one of these. Let's try Flurry.
| | 06:58 | You can test it out by
clicking the Test button.
| | 07:05 | Click again to come back to our
Desktop & Screen Saver Settings.
| | 07:09 | So you can experiment with some of
these, finding ones that you like.
| | 07:12 | Once you've found something, then it's
just a matter of choosing when it will start.
| | 07:16 | After a few minutes -- you can see 3, 5,
15 -- all the way up to 2 hours, and the last
| | 07:22 | option here in the slider is Never.
| | 07:24 | So if you never want the screen saver
kicking in, that's where you'll leave it;
| | 07:28 | on the far right-hand side.
| | 07:29 | Notice Show with clock is checked off,
| | 07:32 | meaning, when I test this out, I do
see the current time, and it appears
| | 07:38 | alongside my screen saver.
| | 07:41 | There are additional options
here under Options.
| | 07:43 | So we can choose different options for
the different screen savers themselves.
| | 07:48 | In this case, because I have Flurry
selected, I see Streams, the Thickness of
| | 07:51 | those streams, and the Speed.
| | 07:52 | All right, let's go back, using the
back button, and take one last look now at
| | 07:58 | our third icon: the Dock.
| | 08:00 | The Dock does appear down at the bottom
of your screen by default, and you can
| | 08:04 | see the way mine is set up. As I
move down there, it appears, and kind of
| | 08:08 | magnifies as I move across the icons.
| | 08:11 | So as I look at these settings, you can
see, I can choose the Size of the Dock.
| | 08:14 | Mine is closer to Small than Large, but
you can adjust the size by clicking and
| | 08:18 | dragging the slider.
| | 08:19 | You'll see it automatically
at the bottom of your screen.
| | 08:22 | Magnification can be turned on. Again,
it's using system resources; keep that in
| | 08:26 | mind. And we can adjust, whether
it's a small magnification, or a maximum
| | 08:32 | magnification, and all that means, as we
hover over them, you can see they get a
| | 08:35 | little bit bigger than the others.
| | 08:37 | It makes it easier to find them,
especially with a very small Dock.
| | 08:41 | Where is it positioned?
| | 08:42 | By default, at the bottom, but you can
have your Dock on the left or right hand
| | 08:45 | side of your screen if you wanted to,
and that just means you'll have to move
| | 08:49 | down to it to see it.
| | 08:50 | There it is on the left-hand side.
| | 08:53 | I like it at the bottom.
| | 08:54 | That's what I'm used in a
Windows environment as well.
| | 08:56 | Although there's no Dock,
that's where I find my icons.
| | 08:59 | You may have noticed, when we minimize
something, the Genie effect that occurs.
| | 09:03 | Double-clicking our Dock settings here
gives that Genie effect as it goes down
| | 09:08 | to the Dock, and is minimized.
| | 09:10 | That, again, takes up a little
bit of your system resources,
| | 09:13 | so if you wanted to, you
could choose Scale effect.
| | 09:15 | It's a little bit different.
| | 09:17 | Double-click your Dock, and
it just goes right down there.
| | 09:19 | So it's not as fancy, but
it does save you some memory.
| | 09:23 | I'm going to put mine back to Genie.
And then there are some other options for
| | 09:27 | your windows. Minimizing windows
into that application icon is an option.
| | 09:32 | Animating when you're opening application,
| | 09:34 | so again, system resources are
being used to display that animation.
| | 09:38 | Automatically hide and show the
Dock is something I have turned on.
| | 09:41 | That way, it's out of the way when I
don't need it, and when I move down there to
| | 09:45 | get to it, it comes back.
| | 09:47 | I like that feature; just
keeps things nice and organized.
| | 09:50 | And indicator lights will
appear underneath open applications.
| | 09:54 | So as we move down to the Dock, those
little lights that we see underneath our
| | 09:57 | icons -- like Safari, where Lynda.com is
displayed -- you'll notice those little
| | 10:01 | lights, indicating that we actually
have them open, and are using them.
| | 10:06 | So those are some of your Dock settings.
| | 10:08 | We can close this up, or just go
to System Preferences and Quit.
| | 10:11 | I'm going to close up Safari as well,
and those are some of your appearance and
| | 10:16 | personalization settings
here in a Mac environment.
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| Adjusting date and time settings| 00:00 | When working on any computer, whether
it would be a Mac, or a Windows PC, having
| | 00:05 | the correct date and time is fairly important.
| | 00:08 | Every time you create a file, and
save it, the date and time is stamped.
| | 00:12 | Every time you send an e-mail,
the date and time goes with it.
| | 00:15 | When you're backing up your files,
having the correct date and time is important.
| | 00:18 | So we're going to look at how to adjust
date and time settings now, by clicking
| | 00:23 | the Apple icon,
and selecting System Preferences.
| | 00:26 | From here, we're going to go down
towards the bottom, in the System section,
| | 00:29 | there is a Date & Time icon, and we'll
click that once to open up those settings.
| | 00:34 | Now notice, across the top, there are three
categories here: Date & Time, Time Zone,
| | 00:38 | and Clock, and we're going to
began with the Date & Time.
| | 00:41 | If your computer is connected permanently,
or constantly to the Internet, you'll
| | 00:46 | want to keep this checkbox selected,
which allows you to have the Date and Time
| | 00:50 | set automatically for you,
based on a server you select.
| | 00:53 | The server you select comes from this
dropdown. You can see, I have the Apple
| | 00:57 | Americas/U.S. selected. I am in Canada,
so this is the appropriate server for me,
| | 01:03 | but there is one for Asia, as well as Europe.
| | 01:06 | Now, with that selected, we can't actually
come in here and adjust the date and time;
| | 01:10 | it won't let us. We can't change the
time, we can't change the date, unless we
| | 01:15 | deselect the checkbox, and you would do
that if you're on a computer that's not
| | 01:19 | always connected to the Internet, and
you want to have the ability to set the
| | 01:22 | date and time properly.
| | 01:24 | So in that case, you would then be able
to go in and select a date. You would
| | 01:27 | be able to update the time by
selecting things like the hour, and using the
| | 01:32 | arrows to move it up and down; same thing for
minutes, AM, and PM. You can save your changes.
| | 01:38 | For me, though, this computer is always
connected. I'm going to recheck the Set
| | 01:42 | date and time automatically checkbox.
Let's go to the Time Zone now, where you
| | 01:46 | can choose your own time zone. You'll
see a world map here, and all you have to
| | 01:51 | do is click in the general area of
your location, and you'll be changing the
| | 01:55 | actual time zone. If you want to be
more specific, you can click inside that
| | 01:59 | time zone, and you'll see different
cities showing up in different countries.
| | 02:04 | For me, I'm in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
It's around here, so I'm going to click
| | 02:09 | there, and I got pretty close;
Montreal, which is in Quebec.
| | 02:12 | If I click the dropdown, though, I do
see Ottawa is on the list; I could select it
| | 02:17 | to be even more precise if I want to.
| | 02:20 | Eastern Daylight Time is
selected for me. Perfect!
| | 02:23 | Let's go to the Clock setting now.
| | 02:25 | Now, in this case, you get to choose
whether or not your date and time is going to
| | 02:28 | appear in your menu bar.
| | 02:30 | If we look up to the top right-hand
corner, we currently see, for me anyway, a
| | 02:34 | spotlight icon, and that's it. But if I
want to have the date and time appearing
| | 02:38 | there all the time, I can click this
checkbox, and then I can pick, is it going
| | 02:42 | to be a digital clock, or an analog clock?
| | 02:44 | With Digital selected, I do see the time.
| | 02:47 | Analog is going to be a little bit
harder to read, so I like digital.
| | 02:52 | And with digital, we have some
additional options, like for example, will it be
| | 02:56 | displayed with seconds?
| | 02:57 | Are they important, or not? I say not.
| | 02:59 | I can flash the time separators,
that colon
| | 03:02 | between the hour and the minutes;
it can be flashing. Not necessary.
| | 03:06 | Prefer the 24-hour clock? You have
that as well, and if you're not using the
| | 03:10 | 24-hour clock, you might want to show
AM and PM, but that is also up to you.
| | 03:15 | For date options, we can also have the
day of the week showing up there, and if
| | 03:20 | you want the actual date, you can add it
as well. You can see it's taking up
| | 03:23 | quite a bit of your menu bar now with
all of that highlighted. You can also have
| | 03:28 | the time announced by a
customized voice here in the computer.
| | 03:33 | If you want it on the hour, you can be
interrupted every hour with the current
| | 03:37 | time, and you can customize that
voice, of course, but you can also choose
| | 03:41 | half hour, and quarter hour.
| | 03:43 | This can get a little bit annoying
after time; I like to leave it unchecked, and
| | 03:47 | I like to keep my menu bar clean, so
I'm going to uncheck Show date and time in
| | 03:51 | menu bar, but you can
choose the settings you prefer.
| | 03:54 | When done, we have no save button;
we just go to System Preferences > Quit.
| | 03:58 | Command+Q is the keyboard shortcut, and
we're back to our Desktop, knowing the
| | 04:02 | date and time is going to be accurate.
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| Adjusting sound options| 00:00 | We're going to take a little bit of
time now to discuss your sound or audio
| | 00:04 | options here in a Mac environment;
| | 00:06 | something that can be very important
if you're attaching external speakers, or
| | 00:10 | you're plugging in a mic that you're
going to use. To access our sound options,
| | 00:14 | again, we go to our Apple icon, and
access System Preferences from there.
| | 00:19 | Next, we're going to go to the Hardware
section now, and click Sound, and you'll
| | 00:22 | notice there are three sections to our sound
preferences: Sound Effects, Output, and Input.
| | 00:28 | We'll begin with Sound Effects; it's
already selected. You can see, for me, my
| | 00:32 | alert sound is selected as Bottle.
| | 00:34 | Now, you can choose any one of these sounds,
and you can see there is a quite long list.
| | 00:38 | For example, if we go to Glass,
you'll hear what that sounds like.
| | 00:42 | If we go back up to Bottle, and
select it, we hear that sound.
| | 00:48 | So you can choose whatever alert
sounds you like; it's just one of those
| | 00:51 | customizations that's kind of nice to have.
| | 00:54 | Now, down below, we can also play sound
effects through our output device, so if
| | 00:58 | you do have external speakers, or
internal speakers, you can see all of your
| | 01:03 | options to choose from here, and I'm
going to keep it at my selected sound
| | 01:07 | output device, which we're going to get
to when we get to the Output section.
| | 01:10 | We also have two checkboxes here to
Play user interface sound effects, and
| | 01:15 | feedback when the volume is changed.
| | 01:17 | So every time you adjust volume, you're
going to hear that sound effect as well.
| | 01:21 | So the Alert volume, which is selected
as Bottle; it can be adjusted. I'm going
| | 01:25 | to leave it right about the middle;
that's good enough for me. And the Output
| | 01:33 | volume down below is something that
will affect what I hear from my speakers.
| | 01:38 | They could be internal speakers, they
could be external speakers you plugged in,
| | 01:42 | maybe it's a headset,
| | 01:43 | and when you adjust the volume here,
you hear a different sound effect. You can
| | 01:52 | mute that, of course; you won't hear
anything through your speakers, but the
| | 01:56 | other option that a lot of people
like is to Show volume in the menu bar.
| | 02:00 | Clicking this checkbox displays
the speaker icon on your menu bar,
| | 02:04 | so you can adjust volume from here going
forward for your Output; you don't have
| | 02:09 | to go into your System Preferences.
| | 02:13 | So those are sound effects.
Let's go to Output now.
| | 02:16 | Now, Output all depends on what
you have connected to your computer.
| | 02:19 | If you're on a laptop, you'll be
working with internal speakers, unless you
| | 02:22 | plug some external speakers in. You'll notice
those are options here: Internal Speakers, Built-in.
| | 02:28 | If you have a Line Out going to
External Speakers, you might see that.
| | 02:33 | There are also options on some
computers for Digital Out using an Optical line,
| | 02:37 | and there is something called
Soundflower with two channels.
| | 02:41 | And as you scroll down, you'll see
there's also a 16 channel version of that as
| | 02:45 | well to choose from.
| | 02:46 | I am using Line Out; that's why it's
highlighted, and then I can balance my
| | 02:50 | speakers, left and right. Right down
the middle is perfect for stereo; I'll
| | 02:54 | leave at that, and I still have my
Output volume options here, and choose whether
| | 02:58 | or not to show it in the menu
bar. I'm going to turn that off.
| | 03:01 | Now, you may also have a mic attached to
your computer, and that's where the Input
| | 03:06 | section comes in. I do, obviously; you
can hear my voice, and as I'm speaking,
| | 03:10 | you can see what's happening
here with the Input volume.
| | 03:13 | The Input level is displayed, and I
can adjust that by clicking and dragging
| | 03:18 | the slider. I'm going to leave it where it is,
so you can hear what I'm saying properly.
| | 03:22 | So those your sound options. We can
just close up this window to exit System
| | 03:26 | Preferences; a nice little shortcut.
We're back where we started, but now
| | 03:30 | you know how to adjust some of your
sound and audio options here in a Mac
| | 03:34 | environment.
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| Using energy saving options| 00:00 | In this day and age of rising energy
costs, it's good to know your Mac has some
| | 00:05 | energy-saving options that
we're going to look at right now.
| | 00:09 | By clicking the Apple icon, and
selecting System Preferences, we can go to the
| | 00:14 | compact fluorescent light bulb displayed
with Energy Saver under it; click there
| | 00:18 | to access our Energy Saving options.
| | 00:21 | Now, for me, you can see
the defaults are selected.
| | 00:24 | The Restore Default button is not
available to me. That's because I'm looking at
| | 00:28 | the defaults. I'm on a standalone computer.
| | 00:31 | If you're on a laptop, you may see some
additional options; for example, battery options.
| | 00:36 | For me, though, I have Computer sleep
and Display sleep sliders at the top.
| | 00:41 | You can see they're set at about 10 minutes,
| | 00:43 | meaning if I'm not touching my computer --
it's inactive for 10 minutes -- the
| | 00:47 | computer will sleep, as will the display.
So the display will appear to turn off.
| | 00:53 | The computer will appear to turn
off as well; it doesn't really.
| | 00:57 | The hard drives will stop spinning,
you'll save a lot of energy, but just a tap
| | 01:01 | of any key on your keyboard or your
mouse will reactivate the computer, and
| | 01:05 | you'll be right where you left off.
| | 01:07 | So these can be set, obviously, and
adjusted to your liking. Maybe 10 minutes is a
| | 01:11 | little too quick; you turn around, and
everything's gone to sleep. It could be
| | 01:14 | frustrating, so we can increase the
time by clicking and dragging to the right.
| | 01:19 | When you move past a certain setting,
you may see this message saying that it
| | 01:23 | may use more energy when you adjust
the settings to such a high level.
| | 01:27 | If that's okay with you,
you can click OK, and it stays.
| | 01:30 | Now, me personally, I'm always on the
computer. I'm going to choose Never, so I
| | 01:35 | will manually sleep my
computer when I want it to sleep.
| | 01:38 | Same thing for the Display, and when we
click and drag all the way to Never, look
| | 01:42 | what happens: another message appears,
indicating that never letting our display
| | 01:46 | it go to sleep may actually shorten its
life, not only use up extra energy. But
| | 01:51 | there is a way to manually
sleep your computer,
| | 01:54 | and if you go up to the Apple icon, you
may have seen it below System Preferences
| | 01:58 | down here, there is a Sleep option.
| | 02:00 | So that's where we go to sleep,
both the display, and the computer.
| | 02:04 | Now there are some other checkboxes
here; for example, the hard drives can be
| | 02:08 | put to sleep when possible, so when
your computer is sleeping, the hard
| | 02:12 | drives will stop spinning.
| | 02:13 | Sometimes, though, there are things
that need to happen in the background, and
| | 02:16 | you will hear them working. They won't
actually go to sleep until they can, so
| | 02:20 | in this case, with this selected,
we are allowing that to happen.
| | 02:24 | I'm going to deselect this checkbox,
so that they can actually not wake up and
| | 02:28 | do things. When I sleep the
computer, it will stay asleep.
| | 02:33 | I am on a network, so if other
computers need to access my computer, I can
| | 02:36 | have it wake up for Ethernet network
access by clicking this checkbox.
| | 02:41 | You'll see a message pop up that you
might hear some noises coming from the
| | 02:45 | computer, even though you think
it's a sleep, and that's because other
| | 02:47 | computers might be accessing it.
| | 02:49 | So I'm going to click Cancel here;
I don't want that, and you'll notice
| | 02:53 | that it's deselected.
| | 02:54 | power button on the front of your
computer can put the computer to sleep if this
| | 02:58 | is checked off. Typically when things
freeze up, for example, you might press the
| | 03:03 | power button, hold it for several
seconds for it to shutdown, and then hit it
| | 03:06 | again to restart it, but we can also
change it so that the power button, when we
| | 03:10 | hit it, puts the computer
to sleep if it's running.
| | 03:13 | I don't need that, so I'm
going to deselect it as well.
| | 03:17 | When the power goes out, and
comes back on, what happens?
| | 03:19 | Typically nothing, unless you click
this checkbox to have your Mac start up
| | 03:23 | automatically after a power failure.
And the Mac's pretty good at taking you
| | 03:28 | exactly where you left off,
| | 03:29 | so that's not a bad option; I kind of
like it. You can choose whether or not
| | 03:33 | you want it on or off.
| | 03:34 | And the other thing that could happen --
it rarely happens on a Mac -- is everything
| | 03:39 | freezes up. The mouse, the keyboard;
nothing works. You can have your computer
| | 03:43 | restart automatically when that
happens by clicking the last checkbox.
| | 03:47 | I'm going to deselect that, and you'll
notice my Restore Defaults button is
| | 03:51 | available to me now. If I wanted to set it
right back to the defaults, I could by
| | 03:55 | clicking this button.
| | 03:56 | The last option is to schedule when
your computer will sleep or wake up. Click
| | 04:01 | the Schedule button, and
you'll see to checkboxes.
| | 04:04 | Typically, the start up or wake option is
sometimes used by clicking this checkbox.
| | 04:09 | For example, maybe I work everyday,
every weekday, starting around 7 AM.
| | 04:14 | Well, if I want my computer up and
running, waiting for me, I can choose from the
| | 04:18 | dropdown, Every Day, or if it's only
Weekdays, I have that option here, specific
| | 04:23 | days of the week; I am going to go with
Weekdays. And I start work around 7:00,
| | 04:27 | so I can click the hour, and I can
move that to around 7:00, or maybe 6:55 or
| | 04:33 | something like that, just to give it a
chance to warm up, and be ready for me
| | 04:37 | when I come in at 7:00.
| | 04:39 | Another option is to
automatically have it shut down, sleep;
| | 04:42 | you'll see it's a button actually with
three options: Sleep, Restart, and Shut Down.
| | 04:46 | If you want to sleep at the end of the
week, for example, on Friday after work,
| | 04:52 | that could be at, let's say, 10:00 PM.
You could have that as well.
| | 04:56 | It's not as popular, obviously,
because you could be busy working, and
| | 05:00 | everything shuts down on you.
| | 05:01 | We'll deselect that one, and leave
the start up, or wake, every Weekday, at a
| | 05:05 | certain time. Clicking OK keeps that setting.
| | 05:09 | So that's how you can save some energy
costs by accessing the Energy Saving
| | 05:13 | options in your System Preferences.
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| Adjusting Spotlight preferences| 00:00 | In a previous movie, we discussed how
Spotlight can be an excellent tool for
| | 00:05 | locating applications,
documents, messages, and so on.
| | 00:11 | Well, Spotlight itself has its own
settings that we can adjust, and we're going
| | 00:14 | to look at those now.
| | 00:16 | Let's start by just going up to the
Spotlight icon in the very top right-hand corner.
| | 00:19 | We'll click there.
| | 00:20 | Let's say we're going to launch TextEdit.
| | 00:23 | We could start to type in Tex, and
you'll see at the top, a top hit, first of
| | 00:29 | all. You'll see, then, Applications, then
Documents, and this is all determined by
| | 00:35 | the actual order set up in
those Spotlight Preferences.
| | 00:40 | Then we get into System
Preferences down below, Folders, and so on.
| | 00:44 | So we'll just click anywhere
on the Desktop to close that up.
| | 00:48 | Go up to our Apple icon in the top-left corner,
and access System Preferences by clicking there.
| | 00:52 | Now, Spotlight does have its own icon
in the Personal section. We'll click it.
| | 00:58 | Here, we see two categories;
| | 00:59 | Search Results, and a Privacy button.
| | 01:02 | First of all, the list of categories
that we see to include in a search, and the
| | 01:08 | order that you see here, can be adjusted.
| | 01:11 | So first of all, checkmarks in
checkboxes mean that Spotlight will search for
| | 01:15 | Applications, Documents, Movies,
System Preferences, Folders, and so on.
| | 01:20 | Anything that's unchecked will
not be included in the search.
| | 01:24 | So, for example, if you wanted to include
contacts, you could click that checkbox.
| | 01:28 | And if you wanted the Documents to
show up before Applications, you could
| | 01:32 | click and drag Documents
above Applications, and let go.
| | 01:35 | It will show up first, now, on the list.
| | 01:37 | So you can rearrange the order to your
liking, pick and choose what's going to
| | 01:42 | appear, and then down below, you can
also change the keyboard shortcut, and the
| | 01:47 | Spotlight window keyboard shortcut to
bring open the Spotlight window; not
| | 01:51 | just the search field.
| | 01:52 | So you see the defaults here;
Command+Space for the keyboard shortcut
| | 01:57 | for Spotlight itself.
| | 01:59 | That can be changed to a
function key if you wanted to.
| | 02:02 | Same thing for the Spotlight window,
and you'll see that we do have those
| | 02:06 | function key options here as well.
| | 02:08 | I am going to leave the defaults as is.
| | 02:11 | The other option is to adjust Privacy Settings.
| | 02:14 | In this case, you get to pick and
choose areas or locations that will not be
| | 02:18 | included in the search results.
| | 02:20 | So if there was an area where I didn't
want Spotlight to find anything -- just
| | 02:24 | keep it private -- I can click the Plus
sign at the bottom. Maybe it's my
| | 02:29 | Exercise Files; select that folder,
click Choose, and it now appears on my
| | 02:34 | list under Privacy.
| | 02:36 | That's means, when I go to search for
things, it's not actually going to search
| | 02:39 | the contents of my Exercise Files folder.
| | 02:42 | So I'll never see search results that include
anything that could be found in that folder.
| | 02:46 | If, over time, you decide that's no
longer the case, select it, and click the
| | 02:51 | Minus sign to remove it.
| | 02:53 | So those are some of your Spotlight Preferences.
| | 02:55 | We can close up this window when
we're done, and every time you go to use
| | 02:58 | Spotlight now, those Preferences will appear.
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10. Top Five Free Mac AppsExploring Anxiety| 00:01 | It's time to have a little
bit of fun now in this chapter.
| | 00:03 | There are a number of free applications
that come with your Mac, but I'd like to
| | 00:07 | talk about my top five list of free
apps you might consider downloading.
| | 00:13 | I'd almost go so far as to say as
these are must-have applications, beginning
| | 00:17 | with one called Anxiety.
| | 00:19 | Notice, I am at the Anxiety Web page
here, where we can Download the latest
| | 00:23 | version; at the time of this recording, 1.0.
| | 00:26 | It is a free application, and
really all it is is it to do list,
| | 00:30 | but it's a to do list that's right at
your fingertips, kind of hidden out of
| | 00:34 | way, and it synchronizes with your Mail application
here on the Mac, as well as iCalendar, or iCal.
| | 00:41 | So what's so great about that?
| | 00:42 | Well, you don't have to go into
iCal to access your to do list.
| | 00:45 | And if you do, it'll
update in Anxiety, and in Mail.
| | 00:49 | They all synchronize together, and
that's the beauty of Anxiety. So once you've
| | 00:53 | downloaded it -- I am going to hide
Safari by clicking Safari, and Hide Safari --
| | 00:58 | we can then launch it from the icon;
by double-clicking, not a whole lot
| | 01:02 | happens on your screen.
| | 01:03 | You will see the Menu appear for
Anxiety, with File, Edit, Window, and Help.
| | 01:07 | A little window appears here, floating around;
| | 01:10 | we can move it around by clicking
and dragging from the Title bar.
| | 01:13 | And the other thing that happens on the
Menu bar is this little icon checkmark,
| | 01:17 | representing the toggle
button to turn this on and off.
| | 01:20 | So if you want to hide your to do list,
you can Hide it by clicking the button.
| | 01:23 | Bring it back by clicking the
same button on your Menu bar.
| | 01:27 | Now, by default, there are a couple of
calendars created for you: the Personal, and
| | 01:32 | the Office Calendar.
| | 01:33 | So you can click that and see those too.
| | 01:35 | If you've other calendars in iCal,
you'll see them here as well.
| | 01:39 | So if you wanted to create something
that has to be done on your tasklist, all
| | 01:44 | you do is you go up to the little
checkmark in the top right corner. You can
| | 01:47 | choose the Calendar ahead of time, or
on the fly. Let's Add a new task by
| | 01:51 | clicking the checkmark.
| | 01:53 | We give our Task as a title.
| | 01:55 | So maybe we need to Submit Expenses;
that really belongs in the Office Calendar,
| | 02:01 | so we can change it here on the fly
by choosing the appropriate calendar.
| | 02:05 | We can even create our own new
calendars using the Calendar icon,
| | 02:09 | but once we've created our task, and
selected the correct calendar, click the Add
| | 02:13 | button, and it now appears
on your to do list.
| | 02:14 | Now, if you go into iCal, you
are going to see it there as well.
| | 02:18 | Let's add another one first.
| | 02:20 | We'll click the checkmark, and this
time we'll type in Pickup Milk and Bread.
| | 02:26 | Now, obviously that
belongs in my Personal calendar,
| | 02:29 | so I am going to choose Personal,
click Add, and now I've something in
| | 02:33 | my Personal calendar.
| | 02:35 | When I flip to my Office
calendar, I see it there as well.
| | 02:38 | Now of course, all of this will appear in iCal.
| | 02:41 | If you use iCal, you can launch it, or
you can do that directly from Anxiety.
| | 02:46 | When we go to the Menu, and click
File, you'll notice we can add tasks from
| | 02:50 | here, and create calendars. We
can also show these tasks in iCal.
| | 02:54 | So when we click it, it's going to
launch iCal, and you're going to see your
| | 02:58 | various items on your
checklist, or your to do list.
| | 03:01 | Some of them might be checked off; if
you did them in iCal, they're still there,
| | 03:05 | but the new ones are also there from
Anxiety, like submitting expenses, and
| | 03:10 | picking up milk and bread.
| | 03:11 | They are color coded by the various calendars.
| | 03:14 | So the Personal calendar, in this case
for me, showing up here in green, and my
| | 03:18 | Submit Expenses in blue.
| | 03:20 | So once I've submitted my expenses, I can
check it off from here, and it will
| | 03:24 | disappear from Anxiety.
| | 03:26 | I'm going to click iCal by
clicking iCal, and choosing Quit.
| | 03:31 | And when you're done with this, of
course, you can just Hide it in the
| | 03:33 | background, or bring it back when you need it,
but you can quit Anxiety as well. Click Anxiety;
| | 03:39 | choose Quit Anxiety; Command+Q is
also the keyboard shortcut for this.
| | 03:43 | A nice little free application that
will always make your to do lists and tasks
| | 03:48 | readily available to you,
| | 03:50 | whether you are in iCal, Mail, or not.
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| Exploring GIMP| 00:00 | The next free application I'd like to
talk to you about is GIMP, short for GNU
| | 00:05 | Image Manipulation Program.
| | 00:07 | For those of who might be considering
photo retouching, image manipulation of
| | 00:12 | bitmap images, maybe even
image authoring, this is ideal.
| | 00:17 | Now, it's not as powerful as, say, an
Adobe Photoshop, or Corel Photo-Paint, but it
| | 00:22 | is going to give you a lot of
power for a free application.
| | 00:25 | Let's check it out.
| | 00:26 | Here on the homepage is a Download button.
| | 00:28 | It's a free downloadable app, and once you
have it downloaded -- I'll just hide Safari --
| | 00:34 | you can launch it by double-clicking
the icon labeled GIMP. Now, what happens
| | 00:40 | next is you're going to see GIMP in the top
left corner momentarily before X11 replaces it.
| | 00:46 | This is an X11 application.
| | 00:48 | There is another one we're going to be
talking about later on in this chapter,
| | 00:51 | but right now, you can see what's happening.
| | 00:53 | We have a Toolbox on the left.
| | 00:56 | We also have an area on the right,
where we can work with our layers and
| | 00:59 | brushes. And then we have the image
window itself, and right now, you can see
| | 01:03 | there's nothing open.
| | 01:05 | But we do have a menu bar across the top
with File, Edit, Select, View, a lot of
| | 01:09 | Image options, layering
option, Colors, Tools, etcetera.
| | 01:13 | Let's open up an image, and
I'm sure you'll have a picture.
| | 01:16 | Click File, and then Open.
| | 01:19 | Control+O is the keyboard shortcut,
| | 01:21 | so for Windows people, the shortcuts
you're accustomed to using in a Windows
| | 01:25 | environment apply here.
| | 01:26 | I'm going to My Pictures, and when I
double-click that, I'm going to access this
| | 01:32 | little guy right here, and this opens
up the window when you double-click the
| | 01:37 | image that you want to work with.
| | 01:39 | We can resize it, move it around,
and now it's time to get to work.
| | 01:44 | There are number of tools in the Toolbox
that we can also select, via the Tools menu.
| | 01:49 | Let's go over to the Toolbox.
| | 01:50 | So, as you hover over these tools, you
get a little quick tip telling you a
| | 01:53 | little bit about what it does.
| | 01:55 | This little guy that looks like an
exacto knife is our Crop tool, where we can
| | 01:59 | remove the edge areas from the
image that we don't really want.
| | 02:03 | So let's click that. Click once; it
gets you into the Toolbox. Click again, and
| | 02:08 | you know you've accessed the Crop
tool when your options down below change.
| | 02:12 | Now all we have to do is click in the
image once, and then click and drag to
| | 02:16 | select the area we want to keep.
| | 02:18 | Don't worry if it's not perfect,
because we can adjust later on.
| | 02:21 | So we click and drag, and when
we release, we now see the area.
| | 02:27 | The background is kind of shaded.
| | 02:29 | We can move it around from the center.
| | 02:31 | We can resize it from the corners. And
once we have exactly what we want, we
| | 02:37 | just double-click on the inside, and
there's our new image, nicely cropped.
| | 02:42 | Let's try something else.
| | 02:43 | We'll go back to the Toolbox.
| | 02:45 | Here's an option for Flipping.
| | 02:47 | When we click this button, that gets us
in the Toolbox; click again, and you'll
| | 02:51 | see the Flip options down below.
| | 02:54 | We want to make sure were flipping
horizontally, and not flipping this guy
| | 02:57 | upside down vertically.
| | 02:58 | So with Horizontal selected, we just go to the
image, click once to get back in that window,
| | 03:03 | click again, to flip our guy
from left to right. Looks good!
| | 03:08 | All right, let's try one more thing.
| | 03:10 | This time we're going to go
to menu bar inside this window.
| | 03:13 | There are number of filters that can
really change the look of this image.
| | 03:16 | We'll click Filters, and you
can see the different categories.
| | 03:19 | There's Blurs, Distortions, Light and Shadow,
like lens flares, and lighting effects.
| | 03:26 | We're going to go down to Artistic
here, and we're going to apply a canvas,
| | 03:30 | so it appears that this picture is on a canvas.
| | 03:33 | By clicking Apply Canvas, a little window
opens up. We can move around the image,
| | 03:38 | so we can see a little preview of
what things are going to look like.
| | 03:43 | We can change the Direction.
| | 03:46 | You can see the direction
actually changes of our grain.
| | 03:50 | We can adjust the Depth.
| | 03:52 | By default I'm looking at 4; dragging
the slider to the right makes it a little
| | 03:56 | bit deeper. To the left, a little shallow.
| | 03:58 | I'm going to go to 3.
| | 04:01 | I see the preview here.
| | 04:02 | I can click this four sided arrow if I want to.
| | 04:05 | Click and hold it down, and move to
an area of the photo I want to see.
| | 04:09 | There we go, there's the nose; that looks good.
| | 04:12 | When we click OK, you see the progress along
the bottom, and then we have our Canvas effect.
| | 04:18 | Now, you may need to zoom in from the
View menu, and you see a zoom option here.
| | 04:23 | We'll zoom in. There is a
keyboard shortcut: the plus sign.
| | 04:27 | So each time you press the Plus sign on
your keyboard, you'll zoom in a little
| | 04:30 | further, and you can see the grain
of that canvas that we've created.
| | 04:34 | These are just some of the many, many
powerful options you have available to
| | 04:37 | you in this free image
manipulation application called GIMP.
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| Exploring Inkscape| 00:00 | The next free app I'd like to show
you is called Inkscape, and this time,
| | 00:04 | we're looking at a Vector Graphics
Editor, not a Bitmap Editor like GIMP in
| | 00:09 | the previous lesson.
| | 00:10 | This is more like using Adobe
Illustrator, or CorelDRAW to create your
| | 00:15 | own graphic images.
| | 00:16 | So it is free here from the Web page.
| | 00:18 | You can see the Download Now option
in the top right corner, as well as the
| | 00:22 | Download link on the left-hand side.
| | 00:24 | And once you have it downloaded,
you'll be able to double-click the
| | 00:29 | Inkscape.app icon to load it up.
| | 00:32 | Now, Inkscape does show up in the
top left-hand corner temporarily.
| | 00:36 | This is another one of those X11 apps.
| | 00:38 | So eventually, that will be
replaced with X11. There we go!
| | 00:41 | And we have our new document
window ready to start creating.
| | 00:45 | Now, it's probably too small.
| | 00:47 | We can go to the bottom right corner,
click and drag across, and down to increase
| | 00:50 | the size of our work area; looks good!
| | 00:53 | And just like some of those other
applications I mentioned -- Illustrator, and
| | 00:57 | DRAW -- we have a Toolbox down the left-
hand side for creating different types of
| | 01:01 | objects; there are squares,
rectangles, 3D boxes, ellipses, and stars.
| | 01:06 | We also have options on the right-
hand side for creating new documents.
| | 01:11 | We can save and print from here.
| | 01:13 | All of these are options that will also
appear in your menu bar across the top;
| | 01:17 | File, Edit, View,
all the way across to Help.
| | 01:20 | The color palette at the bottom we'll
use to change fill colors, and border or
| | 01:24 | stroke colors, and it's
time to start creating.
| | 01:27 | Let's try some of these tools.
| | 01:29 | Let's begin by going to the Toolbox on
the left-hand side, and selecting the
| | 01:34 | stars and polygons tool.
| | 01:37 | Now, by selecting this, we can choose whether
or not it's going to be a star, or a polygon.
| | 01:42 | We can also choose the number of corners.
| | 01:45 | We can bump it up or down.
| | 01:46 | Let's go down to 3. And we can also, if
we wanted to, change how the corners are
| | 01:52 | rounded, if they are at all.
| | 01:53 | By default, we're probably seeing 0s here.
| | 01:55 | Let's bump it up to 0.05.
| | 01:56 | Now we're ready to start drawing.
| | 02:01 | All we have to do is click and drag.
| | 02:02 | So click and drag across, and down;
you can see the triangle being created.
| | 02:09 | Let's have it upright; hold down the
Control key if you want to constrain the angle.
| | 02:15 | Once you have it, let go of the mouse
button first, and there it is: our first shape.
| | 02:20 | We'll click the selection arrow at
the top left on our screen in the
| | 02:24 | Toolbox, and then just drag this
from the center down onto our page, and
| | 02:28 | start manipulating it.
| | 02:30 | Let's start with the fill.
| | 02:31 | We'll go down to the color palette
at the bottom, and select yellow.
| | 02:36 | Hold down Shift, and click black;
that's the border. And we can adjust the
| | 02:41 | thickness of the borders, and so on,
just by going into the Object menu, and
| | 02:47 | selecting Fill and Stroke at the top.
| | 02:50 | This opens up a little window where we
can adjust things, like the Stroke Style.
| | 02:54 | So what I'd like you to have is 10,
just like I have here as a stroke Width.
| | 02:58 | You can click and drag over what's
there, type in 10, hit your Tab key, and
| | 03:02 | you'll see a nice thick border, or stroke.
| | 03:05 | When we're done, we can close this up, and
we're ready now to maybe apply some effects.
| | 03:10 | Let's go up to the Filters menu.
| | 03:13 | We'll go down to Bevels, and
create a 3D look out of this.
| | 03:17 | Let's move over to the right, and try
some of these; for example, Raised border.
| | 03:21 | When we click that, you can see it's kind of
raised; not maybe exactly what I was looking for.
| | 03:27 | We can undo this from the Edit menu,
or use the keyboard shortcut; Control+Z.
| | 03:33 | Although we're in a Mac environment,
we're using a Windows shortcut here,
| | 03:36 | Control+Z. This is an open source
application created with that set of
| | 03:41 | keyboard shortcuts.
| | 03:42 | Let's go back up to Filters now, down to
Bevels, and across. Let's try something
| | 03:47 | different here; for example, Pressed steel.
| | 03:52 | That's more like what I was looking for.
| | 03:53 | You can see the three-dimensional effect,
a bit of lighting on there; looks great!
| | 03:58 | We can click off the page to
deselect it to see what it really looks like
| | 04:02 | without all those handles,
and a marquee. All right!
| | 04:05 | Let's add some text to this now.
| | 04:07 | We'll go to our text tool, which is also
in the Toolbox here on the left-hand side.
| | 04:11 | We'll just click.
| | 04:12 | You'll see the default text, or font family.
| | 04:15 | I'm going to change mine to Arial,
| | 04:18 | so I might have to scroll up towards
the top here, and we'll choose Arial.
| | 04:23 | Let's choose Arial Black; a nice thick one.
| | 04:26 | We'll leave the size as is for now.
| | 04:28 | If you have Bold turned on, leave it
on, and let's make sure that center
| | 04:33 | alignment is selected.
| | 04:34 | So Align Center, we'll click that button,
and then we'll go into our triangle, and
| | 04:39 | start typing around the middle.
| | 04:41 | So let's type in, in capital letters --
make sure Caps Lock is on -- WET. Press
| | 04:47 | Return, and type PAINT.
| | 04:49 | Now, it's much too small, so that's okay;
| | 04:51 | we can go back to our select tool,
and with the arrows in the corners,
| | 04:56 | click and drag them out to
create a much bigger textbox.
| | 05:01 | We'll drag that back inside, so it's
centered inside our triangle, and let go.
| | 05:05 | Now, we can apply effects to this as well.
| | 05:08 | Let's go up to Filters.
| | 05:09 | This time, we'll go down to a different
category; Protrusions, and let's try Ink bleed.
| | 05:14 | That kind of looks like wet paint,
just like that.
| | 05:18 | We'll deselect by clicking off the
page, and there's our first creation.
| | 05:22 | Now, of course, from the
File menu, we can save our work.
| | 05:26 | We can use Save > Save As to choose a format.
| | 05:28 | There is also a Save button on the toolbar.
| | 05:31 | So if you like what you've created, go ahead
and save it to a location of your choosing.
| | 05:35 | That's a quick intro to a free application
that allows you to work with vector
| | 05:40 | graphics called Inkscape.
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| Exploring VLC| 00:00 | This next free app is one I
highly recommend to anyone using a Mac.
| | 00:04 | It's called the VLC Media Player.
| | 00:07 | It's a free download from
the videolan.org Web site.
| | 00:11 | You'll find the Download button,
| | 00:13 | and once you have it, you'll be able to
play all kinds of media files using one
| | 00:17 | single application. Could be a DVD, an
audio CD, MOV files, could be AVI files,
| | 00:23 | or MP4s; you name it.
| | 00:25 | So you don't have to worry about having
the right application; with VLC Media Player,
| | 00:29 | you can play them all.
| | 00:30 | I'm going to hide Safari here.
| | 00:32 | Once you have it
installed, you'll have the icon;
| | 00:35 | it could be on your Dock,
or here on the Desktop.
| | 00:37 | You can double-click it to start
working with the VLC app, and then go looking
| | 00:40 | for files you want to open.
| | 00:42 | Another option is to simply right-click
any media files, and choose Open With,
| | 00:47 | and select the VLC app.
| | 00:49 | Another option, which I'm going to show
you now: let's say you have a DVD in your
| | 00:53 | drive. It will show up on your Desktop;
| | 00:55 | you can double-click it,
and it will open up a window.
| | 00:58 | In this case, it is a DVD made up
of an Audio, and a Video folder.
| | 01:02 | All I have to do is drag the folder
right to the icon itself, and release.
| | 01:06 | The VLC app will launch.
| | 01:08 | It will start playing.
| | 01:09 | You can see it started to
play my actual video here.
| | 01:13 | And in this case, I've created a home
video that's made up of different movies.
| | 01:17 | I can click one of them.
| | 01:18 | It's going to allow me to do that.
| | 01:20 | I have controls for pausing,
playing, fast-forwarding, rewinding.
| | 01:25 | Notice also here on the Menu, we
have options for opening other files.
| | 01:30 | We have a Playback option.
| | 01:32 | There's also Audio options for
adjusting the Volume. Video options,
| | 01:36 | if you want to go to full screen, for
example; that's one of your options.
| | 01:40 | And if you have multiple playing, you
can switch between them from the Window
| | 01:43 | menu, and there is help
on how to use this as well.
| | 01:47 | When you're done, you just close it from the top
left corner, and then go up to VLC, and quit;
| | 01:52 | Command+Q is the keyboard shortcut.
| | 01:54 | So this is one of those apps I've been
using since I started working with a Mac.
| | 01:58 | This way, I don't have to worry about
having the right application to play the
| | 02:02 | right type of media file.
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| Exploring Burn| 00:00 | The last free app I'd like to show you
right now is simply called Burn, and it
| | 00:04 | is for burning information;
burning content to disc.
| | 00:09 | Now, what does that mean?
| | 00:10 | Well, it could be data files that you're
backing up, or want to share with people.
| | 00:14 | Maybe it's going to be an
audio CD, or an audio MP3 CD.
| | 00:18 | You can burn different types of audio discs.
| | 00:20 | The nice thing about Burn is you also
have the ability to add CD text, and MP3
| | 00:26 | tag editing to personalize your disc;
something you can't simply do with Finder
| | 00:30 | using the burn option
available to you on the Mac.
| | 00:33 | Sharing movies is another option.
| | 00:35 | There's a video option in Burn, where
you can make your own movies, and share
| | 00:39 | them by burning them to disc.
| | 00:41 | Now, there are different
formats you can choose from;
| | 00:44 | Video CDs, DVD videos, even DivX.
| | 00:48 | Another option is to simply copy
discs that you already have burned.
| | 00:52 | These are all options that you'll be
able to look at when you download this free
| | 00:55 | app. And here from the Burn homepage,
you can see as we scroll down, there's a
| | 01:00 | Download button here to download Burn.
| | 01:03 | So once you have it
downloaded, we will just hide Safari,
| | 01:05 | you'll have an icon. It looks like this,
Burn.app, and when we double-click it,
| | 01:09 | it's a tiny little window that's going to open
up, and there are the options across the top:
| | 01:14 | burning a Data CD or DVD; no problem.
| | 01:17 | Maybe it's going to be an Audio CD.
| | 01:19 | You can even create Audio DVDs here as well;
| | 01:22 | it allows you to store even more music.
| | 01:24 | Video has its own options as well.
| | 01:26 | When we click the Video tab, you'll
see the different formats you can choose
| | 01:30 | from, and there's the Copy button at the top.
| | 01:33 | All you have to do is simply drag an
image, like a DVD that's already in there,
| | 01:37 | right into this window, and
you'll create a copy; very simple.
| | 01:41 | Let's experiment with Data.
| | 01:43 | First, at the very top, we just give it a name.
| | 01:45 | I'm going to call it Backup ExFiles.
| | 01:49 | The formats I can choose from, you can
see, the Mac version, PC, Mac or PC,
| | 01:56 | DVD, and there are Advanced options as well.
| | 01:58 | I'm going to leave it at
the Mac; I'm on the Mac.
| | 02:01 | Now all I have to do is add the content.
| | 02:03 | Well, if it's here, it's readily
available, like my Exercise Files folder, simply
| | 02:07 | click and drag it right
inside the window, and let go.
| | 02:10 | I'll see the Size, I see the Total down
below, and you can see how much is free.
| | 02:16 | When I'm ready, after dragging all
the different files, all I have to do is
| | 02:19 | click the Burn button.
| | 02:21 | Now, of course, you will
need something in your drive;
| | 02:23 | a blank DVD, a blank CD for example.
| | 02:26 | Because I have a DVD in here,
it knows I have 4.7 GB of space.
| | 02:31 | Here, I can actually choose the speed as well,
if I have more then one drive, and the speed,
| | 02:36 | and if I'm ready to burn,
clicking Burn will create my backup.
| | 02:39 | I just have to sit back,
and let it do its thing.
| | 02:43 | So the Burn app -- a free app -- will
allow you to burn all different types of
| | 02:47 | formats, different drives, etcetera,
and you do have some extra options you
| | 02:51 | won't find when using the burn
capabilities built into Finder here on the Mac.
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GoodbyeAdditional resources| 00:00 | Well congratulations!
| | 00:02 | You made it to the finish line.
| | 00:04 | Whether you've already switched over
to the Mac, or you're still just thinking
| | 00:07 | about it, you should now be feeling comfortable
with what it takes for a smooth transition.
| | 00:11 | When you're ready to dive deeper into
the Mac, Lynda.com offers a buffet of
| | 00:15 | additional Mac training to
help you along in your journey.
| | 00:18 | For example, if you need to feel more
literate with the Mac, Garrick Chow's
| | 00:22 | Computer Literacy for the Mac course
will make you feel more comfortable with
| | 00:26 | the Mac, while helping you to work
more efficiently, and be more productive.
| | 00:29 | In Mac OS X Lion Essential Training,
Christopher Breen will show you how to get
| | 00:34 | the most out of the operating system.
| | 00:36 | Need to understand the server side of the Mac?
| | 00:38 | Mac OS X Lion Server Essential
Training with Sean Colins shows you everything
| | 00:43 | you need to get a server up
and running in a Mac environment.
| | 00:46 | And of course, there are dozens of
courses at Lynda.com on the various software
| | 00:50 | applications that run on the Mac.
| | 00:52 | This is David Rivers wishing you all
the best as you make the big move, and I
| | 00:56 | hope to see you again in
another title from Lynda.com.
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