IntroductionWelcome| 00:00 |
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Hi, my name is Chad Chelius.
I'm a trainer, author, consultant and Mac
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user for more than 20 years.
I'm super excited about this workshop
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because the Mac has always been an
invaluable tool for me.
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Mountain Lion, the latest operating
system from Apple, allows me to do more
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things on my computer in less time than
ever before.
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In this workshop, I'll walk you through
many of the new features of Mountain
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Lion, whether you're a new Mac user, or a
veteran Mac user.
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By the end of this workshop you'll learn
what Mountain Lion is, and what it means
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to you.
You'll also learn how to purchase and
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install Mountain Lion, how to set up user
accounts for other people in your
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household, and how to protect young Mac
users by applying parental controls to
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those accounts.
You'll learn more recent additions to OS
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X, like Launch Pad and Mission Control,
and you'll learn about the notification
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center, messages, reminders, and notes.
I'll even show you the new dictation
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feature that allows you to talk to your
Mac and have it dictate what you speak
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onto a page or email.
I've set up the videos in this workshop
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in a linear fashion, so that you can dive
in where your skill level fits.
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I hope you find this course useful, and
that you have fun getting to know the
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latest Mac operating system, Mountain
Lion.
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1. Exploring Mountain LionWhat is an OS?| 00:02 |
Before we go too far, let's take just a
few minutes to understand what an
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operating system, or OS, is.
You see, Mountain Lion or Mac OS 10.8, is
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an a class of software called an
operating system.
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An operating system is crucial to the
operation of a computer because it acts
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as a control center for any computer, and
manages hardware resources.
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Other operating systems that you may have
heard of include Windows and Linux.
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And in the case of mobile devices, IOS
for the iPhone and iPod and iPad, and
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Android for other mobile devices.
Even smart phones, which are essentially
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small computers, need an operating
system.
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An operating system also provides
services for computer programs like
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Safari, Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and
thousands of other applications as well.
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Essentially, without an operating system,
none of the individual applications on a
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computer could run at all.
So you see, that the role of an operating
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system is quite important.
Most users take the OS for granted, but
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we all use it on a day to day basis in
order to get our work done.
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Now that you know a bit more about what
an OS is and the role that it plays, you
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won't look at a computer the same way
again.
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| What is Mountain Lion?| 00:02 |
So what exactly is Mountain Lion?
Well, you probably know by now that it's
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an operating system that Mac computers
use to take advantage of the hardware in
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every Mac and allow you to get work done
on your computer, but more specifically,
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Mountain Lion is the ninth major release
of the Mac operating system, referred to
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as OS X and with each major release it
keeps getting better.
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Mountain Lion adds more than 200 new
features to the operating system.
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Now, some of these might be small
features that many users will never even notice.
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However, other features are huge
improvements that will make computing
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life easier for everyone.
The beauty of Mountain Lion and OS X in
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general is that all the details about the
hardware in each and every Mac are
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already known by OS X and therefore all
the drivers and necessary components are
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built into the OS which adds integration
rivaled by no other operating system.
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One of the most important benefits of
Mountain Lion is that, partially due to
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its Unix underpinning, it is incredibly
stable and reliable, allowing users to
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focus on their work more and about
computer problems less.
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Whether you're new to the Mac OS or are a
seasoned veteran, you'll appreciate the
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features that have been added to the Mac
OS in Mountain Lion and will certainly
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benefit from these added features in your
day to day computing.
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| System requirements| 00:02 |
Before you make the final decision to
purchase Mountain Lion, you want to make
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sure that your Mac meets the minimum
system requirements needed to run Apple's
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latest operating system.
You see as new features are added to the
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Mac OS, more processing power is required
to make these new features work properly.
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Because of this some older Mac computers
may not have the hardware necessary to
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run the OS.
If you've purchased a new Mac recently,
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you're probably in good shape, and if
your new Mac already has Mountain Lion
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installed, then you could probably skip
this video and jump to the next one.
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Let's take a look at exactly what you
need to run Mountain Lion.
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The following models of Mac computers are
able to run Mountain Lion.
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The iMac from mid 2007 or newer, the Mac
book from late 2008, the Aluminum version
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or early 2009 or newer.
The MacBook Pro from mid to late 2007 or newer.
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The Macbook Air from late 2008 or newer,
the Mac Mini, from early 2009 or newer,
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the Mac Pro from early 2008 or newer, and
the Xserve from early 2009.
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Your current operating system needs to be
Lion, which is OS 10, 10.7 or at a very
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bare minimum Snow Leopard with the latest
OS 10, 10.6.8 update.
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If you're running Snow Leopard, you want
to make sure that you install this latest
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update before you install Mountain Lion.
Hardware requirements for your current
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computer include, you need to have a
minimum of two gigabytes or more of
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memory, and a minimum of eight gigabytes
or more of available hard drive space.
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Some of the additional features of
Mountain Lion include additional hardware
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requirements, which I won't go into
detail at this time.
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But you can find out specifics on these
requirements at the following URL.
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Now, you may be wondering.
how do I find out this information on the
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computer that I have?
Well, it's pretty easy to do.
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What you'll do is simply come up here to
your Apple menu.
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Click on that and choose, About This Mac.
This initial screen is going to give you
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some very basic information, and you can
find out the information about your
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memory or RAM right here, but to find out
more details, simply click on the More
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Info button.
Now this is actually showing me the About
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This Mac dialog in Mountain Lion.
And you can see right here it's telling
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me that I'm using the Mac Pro from
mid-2010, which of course meets the requirements.
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Now in older operating systems, you may
need to click on the System Report or the
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More Info button again.
And that'll show you a detailed report.
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So within here in the hardware section
it'll tell you what model you're
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currently running and it will also allow
you to click on Memory to see how much
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total memory you have.
You can click on Memory to see how much
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total RAM you have.
You just add these up and that'll give
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you the total.
And you can also click on the storage
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section which is going to be under the
serial ATA category.
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Now in my case I have several hard drives
but I'm going to click on the one that
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I'm using to boot this machine.
And if we scroll up, we can see that
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it'll show me the different partitions on
this hard drive.
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You can see that Macintosh hard drive,
which is what I'm booting from, has a
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capacity of 269 gigabytes, and I have 260
gigabytes of available.
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So, you could see it's pretty easy to get
the information about your Mac.
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I'm going to go ahead and quit out of
this, and once you've verified that you
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have the minimum system requirements to
run Mountain Lion, you can get going and
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install it on your machine.
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2. Installing Mountain LionHow to get Mountain Lion| 00:02 |
Obtaining Mountain Lion itself is a
somewhat unique process.
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You see, you can't actually got to the
store and purchase Mountain Lion.
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That's right.
It's not actually available in brick and
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mortar Apple stores.
Instead, Mountain Lion can only be
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purchased by going to the Apple App
Store.
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The App Store is an online marketplace
where Mac users can purchase software,
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not only from Apple, but from a host of
other companies as well.
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In the case of Mountain Lion, the only
way to purchase the software, is to do so
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from the online App Store.
What makes the App Store so appealing, is
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that all of your purchases made on the
App Store are saved, and can be
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redownloaded with a click of a button in
the future.
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Let's take a look at how to do this.
So on my computer, I'm going to access
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the app store by coming up here to the
Apple menu.
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And I'm going to choose App Store from
the list.
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Now, this is going to open up the App
Store application.
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And you can open up this window if you
wish, so you can see this a little bit better.
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And you'll notice that in my case I have
Mountain Lion displayed as one of the
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Featured Applications over here in the
upper-right corner.
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Or I can actually search for it as well.
So, you may not see it up here, so let's
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go ahead and click in the search field,
and I'm going to do a search for Mountain Lion.
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And you can see that the tooltip here is
automatically trying to populate that.
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So I'm going to go ahead and choose that.
And you'll see that Mountain Lion shows
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up right here.
Now the great thing about Mountain Lion
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is that it's only $20.
So it's very inexpensive, and it's really
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easy to download.
So what I'm going to do here is I'm
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going to click on the Buy button.
I'm going to click on 19 99, and then I'm
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going to click on the Buy App button.
Now, in order to purchase items from the
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App Store, you need an Apple ID, and
password.
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Now if you don't have one, as you can
see, right here, you can create an Apple
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ID, on the fly.
In my example I do have an Apple ID that
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I can use.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to
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enter my Apple ID and password.
And then I'm going to click the Sign In button.
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Now, I'm being asked for a second
verification because the App store wants
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to verify my billing information.
So I'm going to enter my password one
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more time.
And I'm going to click the Billing Info button.
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Now this is going to show, all of the
credit card information for my particular account.
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And you're going to have to do the exact
same thing when you set up payment information.
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Because the way the App Store works, is
once you purchase something, it's
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going to use this credit card
information.
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So the only thing I need to do here is
verify my security code.
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So, I'm going to go ahead and type that
in.
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And I'm going to go ahead and click the
Done button.
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And you can see that Mountain Lion is
automatically going to start downloading
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on my computer.
Now what you are seeing here is it's
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automatically opening up Launchpad and
you can see the status of the download
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right here in the Launchpad.
If you want, you can continue working
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while this is downloading, but in our
example we're going to just watch this as
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it downloads and finishes up.
Now, depending on your Internet connection.
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This may take quite a bit of time to
download.
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But because of my blazing fast Internet
connection, this is downloaded fairly quickly.
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Now, what I'm going to do is just go back
to the finder for a second.
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And I'll just close any windows that I
have.
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And I'll even quit out of the App Store.
Because what I want to show you is, when
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you download Mountain Lion, it's going to
automatically open up the installer, so
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that you can begin the installation
process.
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Now, one point I want to make here as
well, is that if you go to your Finder,
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down here, and we navigate to our
Applications folder, you're going to see
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that OS X, and more specifically, the App
Store downloads the installer into your
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Applications folder.
And what I usually encourage people to do
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is make a copy of this to another
directory, maybe even an external hard
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drive, before you install this on your
computer.
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Because after installation, this will get
removed.
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So that way you won't have to download it
every time in the future.
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As you can see, obtaining Mountain Lion
is a piece of cake.
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Once you have an Apple ID and password,
you simply purchase it in the App Store
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and download it to your computer.
It doesn't get much easier than that.
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| Installing Mountain Lion| 00:02 |
Once you've purchased Mountain Lion from
the App Store, you're ready to install it
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on your computer.
Just a reminder, you want to make sure
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that your computer meets the minimum
system requirements to run Mountain Lion
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on your computer and that your current
operating system is a minimum of OS
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10.6.8 before you try.
In this video, I'll walk you through the
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installation process to get Mountain Lion
installed on your computer.
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Now, I'm beginning this video with OS X
Mountain Lion installer already open on
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my computer.
And if you double-check if you go to your
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Finder and go to the Applications folder.
That installer by default is located in
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the Applications folder when you download
it from the Apps Store.
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So you could also double-click on this to
initiate the installer.
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Now within the installer, it's really
going to guide you through the
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installation process every step of the
way.
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So as you can see, the next thing I need
to do is click the Continue button.
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When I do this, it's going to display the
Apple end user license agreement.
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And you can read through this on your own
and when you're finished we can go ahead
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and click Agree.
We're going to click Agree one more time,
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and then you can choose which hard drive
you want to install Mountain Lion on.
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You can click Show All Discs if you want,
and then pick from your list of hard drives.
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So I'm going to make sure that my main
hard drive is selected.
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And then I'm going to click the Install
button.
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You're going to have to enter an
administrative username and password to proceed.
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Once you do that, the installation
process will begin.
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Once the installation process is
finished, it's going to ask you to
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restart your computer.
As you can see here, the computer is
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going to automatically restart if you
don't manually click the restart button.
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To speed things up a little bit, I'm
going to go ahead and click the Restart
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button manually.
After the restart, Mountain
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Lion is going to continue the
installation process, and this is really
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the second part of the installation.
The first part essentially copies files
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to your hard drive, and now this part is
actually installing the actual files onto
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your computer.
Now, I've accelerated this last part to
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make it a little bit easier for you to
watch so you don't have to wait for that
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progress bar to go.
And when your computer reboots, you're
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going to have to log back into your
account.
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(audio playing) And then you'll be using Mountain
Lion on your computer.
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Now in this particular example, it is
asking me for my Apple ID one more time.
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So you can either plug this in at this
point because it's going to want to use
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this for iCloud and for App Store
purchases or you can skip this step, and
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enter it later.
So I'll go ahead and enter my Apple ID
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and click Continue.
And then we'll agree to the end user
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license agreement.
Click Agree one more time.
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Now at this point in time, Mountain Lion
wants to set up iCloud on my computer.
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We're not going to perform this right
now.
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I'm just going to turn this off, and
we'll go ahead and click Continue, and
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we're going to get a confirmation screen
indicating that our Mac is set up and
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ready to use.
So I'm going to click the Start Using
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Your Mac button, and the dialog will go
away.
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And we're now using Mountain Lion on our
computer.
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As you can see, in Mountain Lion, the
installation process is quick and easy.
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After installation, it's a matter of a
few clicks and you'll be up and running
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in no time, ready to make the most of
Apple's latest operating system, Mountain Lion.
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| Keeping your Mac up to date| 00:02 |
Periodically, Apple, as well as other
software manufacturers, will release
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software updates to their programs.
Sometimes to fix bugs, and other times to
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add features or improve performance.
In my experience, it's usually a good
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idea to run these updates as they are
released.
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So that your computer continues to run
efficiently and in a stable manner.
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Now in Mountain Lion, there's actually a
couple of ways you can check to see if
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there's any updates available for you
software.
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One of the obvious ways is down here in
your dock.
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You're going to notice that on my App
Store icon, I have a small badge
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indicating a number 1.
And that's really telling me I have one
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software update on my computer.
So, I could click on the App Store icon
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to launch the app store.
The other way is to come up here to your
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Apple menu and choose Software Update.
And it's really going to do the same thing.
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You'll notice that down here, the App
Store is open as indicated by the small
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Icon underneath.
But you'll also notice that it
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automatically jumps to the Updates
Section within the App Store Application.
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Now in my particular example, I have an
update to an application that I use
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regularly called iWork.
Now I should point out that not only
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Apple products are sold on the App Store.
Programs from other vendors are also sold
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here and if you purchase that application
from the App Store.
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It's also a really efficient way for the
vendor to provide updates to you within
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the App Store as well.
Now in this particular example I have an
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update to iWork version 9.2.
So to run that update, is simply a matter
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of clicking the Update button.
And you do need to be signed in using
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your Apple ID that you use to purchase
this software.
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And then it's going to download this
update for you.
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You can see towards the end it's going to
show you the installing progress.
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And once it's finished it's going to give
you an indicator telling you that it's
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been installed.
There we go, so that's how easy it is to
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run updates on your computer.
As you can see, keeping your software
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updated is not difficult at all.
And it will generally ensure that your
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computer runs efficiency, without any
unexpected interruptions.
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3. User AccountsThe purpose of user accounts| 00:02 |
User accounts are one of the fundamental
features of OS X.
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You see Mountain Lion and more generally
OS X is what's referred to as a
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multi-user operating system.
What this means is that the OS was
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designed for multiple users to utilize
the same computer.
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It does this by using user accounts to
manage each user on a computer.
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User accounts allow multiple users to log
in to the same computer.
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So instead of everyone sharing a log-in,
which is, of course possible, it is
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designed for each user to have their own
user account.
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By creating a user account for each user
Mountain Lion creates a unique working
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environment for each user allowing them
to store their own files, have their own
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email account, calendar, photos and much,
much more.
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In addition, it provides a way to control
the access and abilities that each user
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has when they log into the computer.
For example, you can create an account
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for children that doesn't allow them to
install software on the computer or
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limits their access to inappropriate web
sites if desired.
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Enabling user accounts for your computer
will allow multiple users to have their
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own working environment and have each
person enjoy the experience of using
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Mountain Lion on their computer.
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| Creating a user account| 00:02 |
In order for multiple users to have the
ability to log into the same computer,
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each person needs to have a user account
created for them.
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Let's take a look at how to do this, and
some things to consider when doing so.
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So, I'm going to begin by coming up here
to the Apple menu.
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And I'm going to go to System Preferences
and down here under the System category,
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I'm going to click on the icon for Users
and Groups.
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And as you can see, I do have a couple of
accounts that have already been created.
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Now, when you first got your computer, or
when you initially set up Mountain Lion,
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you'll notice that you had to create an
initial user account.
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And that account, by default, is an
administrator account.
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An administrator account is an account
that allows you to pretty much do
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anything to your computer that you wish,
including installing software and
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adjusting various configuration settings.
Now what we're going to do, is we're
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going to start by creating a new account.
But before we do that, you need to make
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sure that you're logged in with an
administrative account.
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And you need to unlock the system
preferences so that we can make a change.
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So I'm going to click on that lock icon
and I'm going to log in with an
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administrator's user name and password.
Once I do that, this lock icon is
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unlocked, and now we can start creating
accounts.
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So I'm going to start by clicking on the
plus sign down here, and it's going to,
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by default, want to create a standard
account.
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Now I'm just going to click on this
account drop down menu, and you could see
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that we could create an administrator
account.
| | 01:34 |
And that would be useful if you had
another user on this computer who also
| | 01:37 |
needed to have administrative privileges.
A standard account is what you're
| | 01:42 |
probably going to be creating most of the
time.
| | 01:45 |
This is the type of account you would
give to another user, who needed to do
| | 01:49 |
most things on the computer, but a
standard account will not let them
| | 01:52 |
install software and it won't let them
adjust certain configuration settings.
| | 01:59 |
So I'm going to create a standard
account.
| | 02:01 |
For the full name, I'm going to type the
name of the user I want to use.
| | 02:04 |
So I'm just going to use Jane Doe.
When I hit the tab key, it's
| | 02:07 |
automatically going to create an account
name.
| | 02:10 |
And by default it simply concatenates
whatever you type in the full name field.
| | 02:14 |
What I'm going to do is just change that
to say Jane, and as long as there's not
| | 02:18 |
more than one Jane logging in to this
computer, it shouldn't be a problem.
| | 02:25 |
In the password field you want to give
this user a password.
| | 02:27 |
So I'm going to go ahead and type the
user's password here, and then I'm
| | 02:30 |
going to verify it.
And then in the password hint field you
| | 02:34 |
can type something that might remind the
user of what the password is.
| | 02:39 |
So I'm going to call this kitten as a
reminder.
| | 02:43 |
So I'm going to go ahead and click on the
Create User button.
| | 02:46 |
And in a few seconds you'll see that
Mountain Lion will have a created a brand
| | 02:50 |
new standard account.
Now, you can come up here and click on
| | 02:55 |
the image icon and choose a different
icon for that user.
| | 02:59 |
And they can also go in there later on
and enter their own custom photograph as well.
| | 03:05 |
So for now, we'll just kind of leave this
tennis ball icon, that's fine.
| | 03:09 |
Now I'm just going to click the plus sign
again, because I want to show you,
| | 03:12 |
there's another type of account that we
can create.
| | 03:16 |
We can create Managed with Parental
Controls.
| | 03:19 |
This is useful if you have children in
your household who also need to log in to
| | 03:22 |
the computer.
Parental controls allows you to limit the
| | 03:26 |
applications that they can open and also
limit the websites that they can access
| | 03:30 |
as well.
The sharing only account is useful when
| | 03:34 |
you want to create an account that you
can share files with another user on
| | 03:38 |
another computer.
They can't log into this computer but you
| | 03:42 |
can share files with that user.
And finally, if you have several users
| | 03:47 |
who need the same access rights, you
could create a group, and then assign the
| | 03:51 |
same access rights to all of those users
in that group.
| | 03:57 |
So I'm going to go ahead and click
Cancel.
| | 03:59 |
Now another type of account I want to go
over is the guest user account.
| | 04:04 |
And you'll notice that this guest user
was not one of the options that was
| | 04:07 |
available when we had created a new
account.
| | 04:10 |
I'm going to go ahead and click on this
guest user and you can see that we can
| | 04:13 |
enable this account using this check box
or disable it by turning it off.
| | 04:20 |
If I turn that back on, what this account
does is simply allows, say, a temporary
| | 04:25 |
user to gain access to your computer.
Let's say to browse the Internet or maybe
| | 04:31 |
create a quick Word document or something
basic like that.
| | 04:36 |
The thing that's unique about a guest
user account is that it doesn't require a password.
| | 04:41 |
You can just log right in and essentially
anything that you do when you're logged
| | 04:45 |
in with this account will get removed or
deleted when that person logs out.
| | 04:51 |
So again, it's really useful when you
have somebody who's visiting your house
| | 04:54 |
or you just have somebody who is there
temporarily and simply wants to gain
| | 04:57 |
access to your computer to browse the web
or do something simple and then when they
| | 05:00 |
log off everything's cleaned up and you
don't have to worry about anything.
| | 05:07 |
So as you can see, Mountain Lion makes
the process of creating user accounts
| | 05:10 |
very easy.
Simply consider the role that each user
| | 05:13 |
will have on your computer, and that will
help you to dictate what type of user
| | 05:17 |
account to create for them.
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| Logging in to a user account| 00:02 |
Once a user account has been created for
one or more additional users on a
| | 00:05 |
computer, all users will need to be aware
that they need to log in and log out of
| | 00:09 |
their accounts to gain access to the
computer.
| | 00:14 |
This is a fairly simple process, but
there are a few things to consider.
| | 00:17 |
Let's take a look.
I'm going to come up here to the Apple
| | 00:20 |
menu, and I'm going to go to System
Preferences to get started.
| | 00:24 |
And in the System category, I'm going to
click on Users and Groups.
| | 00:28 |
Now, you need to be logged in as an
administrator to see these options.
| | 00:33 |
But I'm going to go ahead and click on
Login Options, and you can see that this
| | 00:36 |
provides a number of choices for us that
we can set up on this computer.
| | 00:42 |
Now, I'm going to authenticate with my
administrative password, and now you'll
| | 00:45 |
see that I have these options available.
Now, the first thing I want to do is,
| | 00:51 |
where it says Automatic Login, this is
currently off on my computer.
| | 00:54 |
And when you're using a multi-user
computer, like we're doing now, you
| | 00:59 |
probably want to leave this turned off.
This option, when one of these accounts
| | 01:05 |
is chosen, it's going to ask you for a
password, and that will automatically log
| | 01:10 |
in to that account when the computer
reboots or when the computer starts up.
| | 01:16 |
So again, it's a bit of a security
breach, and I'd encourage you not to turn
| | 01:19 |
that on.
So I'm going to go ahead and click Cancel.
| | 01:22 |
We'll leave that off.
The second section here allows me to
| | 01:25 |
choose what is shown when the Login
window is displayed.
| | 01:29 |
So either it'll list a list of users, or
it's going to show a name and password field.
| | 01:35 |
Again the most secure option would be
name and password.
| | 01:38 |
But if everybody on the computer knows
each other and you're really not too
| | 01:42 |
concerned with security, a list of users
is a little bit easier because it'll list
| | 01:46 |
each user's username.
Now down here, this checkbox will show
| | 01:51 |
the Sleep, Restart and Shut Down buttons.
You can turn on the Show Input menu in
| | 01:56 |
the Login, and you can also choose to
show the password hints, which you saw
| | 02:00 |
when you set up the account.
This next one is pretty useful.
| | 02:06 |
This will enable Fast User Switching and
it'll allow you to choose what is shown
| | 02:10 |
in the Fast User Switching menu, either
the full name, the short name or just an icon.
| | 02:18 |
So, for our purposes, we'll leave it set
to Full Name.
| | 02:21 |
So once you've set these properties,
you're ready to log in an account using
| | 02:25 |
the computer.
So I'm going to go ahead and close the
| | 02:28 |
System Preferences and to log out of an
account, we're going to come up to the
| | 02:31 |
Apple menu and we're going to choose Log
Out.
| | 02:34 |
You're going to have to confirm that, and
then it's going to log that account out
| | 02:39 |
of the computer.
In the Login window, we're seeing the
| | 02:44 |
options that we chose in those Login
options.
| | 02:48 |
So you can see we can choose which
account we want to log into.
| | 02:51 |
We can choose to Sleep, Restart, or Shut
Down the computer as well.
| | 02:55 |
So let's log into a different account.
I'm going to click on Jane Doe.
| | 02:59 |
And I'm going to go ahead and enter
Jane's password.
| | 03:02 |
So we'll go ahead and click the right
arrow or press the Return key on your keyboard.
| | 03:07 |
And now you can see that we're logged in
to the Jane Doe account, as indicated in
| | 03:10 |
this menu up here.
Now to save some time, what we can do is
| | 03:14 |
you can click on this Fast User Switching
menu, and that's going to list all the
| | 03:18 |
accounts that have been created on this
computer.
| | 03:23 |
Now if I'd like to log in as a different
account such as Trainer, I can choose
| | 03:27 |
that option.
It's going to ask me for the Trainer
| | 03:31 |
password, so I'm going to go ahead and
type that password, and press Enter, and
| | 03:35 |
now, it's going to log in to that
account.
| | 03:40 |
However, it hasn't actually logged out of
the Jane Doe account.
| | 03:44 |
You can see this if you click on the
Trainer menu up here.
| | 03:47 |
We can see that there's a check mark next
to both of these accounts.
| | 03:51 |
This is a great way to quickly switch
from one user to another without actually
| | 03:55 |
having to log out of the account, because
when you log out, you're going to quit
| | 03:58 |
all of your applications.
This actually allows those applications
| | 04:03 |
to remain running, it allows you to have
all of your documents remain open.
| | 04:08 |
And when you're ready to go back to
another account, you simply choose the
| | 04:11 |
account you want to log back into, enter
that user's password and it's just
| | 04:15 |
going to switch over to that account.
Logging into and out of user accounts is
| | 04:21 |
pretty simple to do.
Users just need to remember to log out of
| | 04:24 |
their account when they're finished, and
then to log back in when they need to
| | 04:28 |
re-access their account.
Using features such as Fast User
| | 04:32 |
Switching makes the process of logging in
and out of accounts even easier as well.
| | 04:38 |
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| The Home folder| 00:02 |
One of the important concepts that users
of a multi-user computer need to
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understand, is that of the home folder.
A home folder is automatically created
| | 00:10 |
through each user of the computer.
And the home folder is each person's
| | 00:14 |
storage location for various files and
folders that only that person has access to.
| | 00:19 |
So as a user is working on the computer
while logged into their account, the home
| | 00:23 |
folder is where they will store all of
their information.
| | 00:28 |
So to begin I'm going to come up here to
the File menu within the Finder, and I'm
| | 00:31 |
going to choose New Finder Window.
And if you look over here on the side
| | 00:35 |
bar, you'll see a number of different
folders, but you should also see a folder
| | 00:39 |
that has a little house icon next to it.
And that is the home folder.
| | 00:45 |
Now, if you don't see that icon in your
side bar, what you can do is come up here
| | 00:49 |
to the Finder menu, go to Preferences,
and then click on the Side Bar icon.
| | 00:55 |
Make sure that at the bottom, that your
User Folder is clicked within that
| | 00:59 |
window, and then you can close that, and
that should make your home folder show up.
| | 01:07 |
Now if we click on that folder in the
side bar, it's going to display the
| | 01:10 |
contents of that home folder.
So, this is your home folder.
| | 01:15 |
And within that folder there are a number
of different folders that have been
| | 01:18 |
automatically created.
So we have a total of seven folders here.
| | 01:23 |
The first folder is your Desktop folder.
Now, this is really interesting because
| | 01:28 |
the Desktop folder is essentially
going to show you anything that you
| | 01:31 |
happen to have out here on your desktop.
So, the two locations are essentially one
| | 01:37 |
and the same.
Anything you put in this folder will show
| | 01:40 |
up over here on your desktop, and vice
versa.
| | 01:44 |
Now, your Documents Folder, you can see
that we have a couple of Files in here.
| | 01:47 |
Maybe only one or two, but we do have a
Default File that's automatically created here.
| | 01:53 |
And the Documents is really the main
folder where you'll be putting most of
| | 01:56 |
your content.
So in my example, the Documents folder, I
| | 02:00 |
only have a couple of files right now,
but as I create Word documents, and
| | 02:04 |
different graphic files, and things like
that, I'm going to store them in my
| | 02:07 |
Documents folder, because that's a great
place to put them.
| | 02:12 |
The next folder is your Downloads folder.
Now by default, when you download files
| | 02:16 |
via Safari, which is the web browser,
those files are going to automatically
| | 02:20 |
show up in here as well.
So when you download files, you can
| | 02:24 |
quickly get to them by going to the
Downloads folder.
| | 02:27 |
We have a Movies folder.
Now there are several applications that
| | 02:32 |
may use this folder as well, such as
iTunes and iMovie, if you use any of
| | 02:35 |
those particular applications.
They will store files inside of this folder.
| | 02:42 |
You also have the Music folder, and as we
can see here, if you use iTunes, iTunes
| | 02:46 |
is automatically going to create a folder
there to store all your music.
| | 02:52 |
The Pictures folder is pretty self
explanatory, but any pictures that you
| | 02:55 |
take with your digital camera you can put
inside of this folder.
| | 03:00 |
And if you use an application such as
iPhoto, iPhoto is going to create a
| | 03:03 |
folder within your Pictures folder to
store all the photos that you import.
| | 03:09 |
Now, last but not least, you have a
Public folder.
| | 03:12 |
And this folder is pretty useful, because
you can put files here that all the users
| | 03:17 |
on a computer can see.
So if you need to share a file with
| | 03:21 |
another user, this is a great place to
put it.
| | 03:25 |
You also notice that within the public
folder is a Dropbox folder.
| | 03:29 |
This folder is a location where other
users of this computer, can put files
| | 03:33 |
into this folder, and its a write-only
folder.
| | 03:38 |
They can put files there, but they can't
see what's in there.
| | 03:41 |
So if other users put content in this
folder.
| | 03:45 |
Other users, aside from them, are not
going to be able to see that content either.
| | 03:50 |
Now just to show you a little bit more of
this, you can see that we have our Home
| | 03:53 |
folder right here.
So I'm going to go ahead and click on
| | 03:56 |
that again.
And that's now displaying my Home folder.
| | 04:00 |
But to look a little bit deeper, I'm
going to hold down the Cmd key on my
| | 04:03 |
keyboard, and I'm going to click on that
menu right there.
| | 04:08 |
And I'm just going to go down one level
to the Users folder.
| | 04:12 |
This might help you to see things a
little bit more logically.
| | 04:15 |
You can see that the current user, which
is Trainer, is showing up using a house icon.
| | 04:20 |
That's the current logged in user.
But Jane and the Administrator are also
| | 04:26 |
users of this computer, and they also
have these Home folders that had been created.
| | 04:33 |
Everybody's Home folder resides in that
Users folder.
| | 04:36 |
But do notice that I can't get access to
any of the folders within these various
| | 04:41 |
users Home folders with the exception of
the Public folder.
| | 04:46 |
I'm going to go ahead and close this.
Now, as you can see, the home folder is a
| | 04:50 |
very useful storage location for each
user on a computer.
| | 04:54 |
It's important that users understand the
home folder, and that by saving content
| | 04:58 |
there, it is specific to only their
account.
| | 05:02 |
And only they will have access to it.
It's a great location for keeping files
| | 05:06 |
safe and sound.
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| Setting parental controls| 00:02 |
If you're like me and you have children
in the household who are budding or even
| | 00:05 |
experienced computer users, the parental
control feature in Mountain Lion can be
| | 00:09 |
an extremely valuable tool.
Be enabling parental control for a user
| | 00:14 |
account, you can limit certain aspects of
a child's computer usage to control the
| | 00:18 |
usage or protect them from inappropriate
content.
| | 00:23 |
To access parental controls, we're
going to come up here to our Apple menu
| | 00:26 |
and we're going to go to System
Preferences.
| | 00:29 |
Now, we can actually do this in two
different locations.
| | 00:32 |
First of all, we can do it in the Users
and Groups Preference pane.
| | 00:35 |
So if we click on that, we can
authenticate using an administrative
| | 00:39 |
username and password.
So I'll go ahead and do that now.
| | 00:45 |
An then you can select an account, and
choose Enable Parental Controls.
| | 00:50 |
What I like about this is that you can
take a standard account, an make it a
| | 00:54 |
managed account, and vice versa.
Once you've added parental controls to
| | 00:59 |
account, as your child grows you can
always disable that account as well.
| | 01:04 |
Now, the other place you can do this, is
we can go back to the Show All button up
| | 01:07 |
here, and we can just go directly to
Parental Controls.
| | 01:11 |
And you can see that I've already
authenticated, down here at the bottom,
| | 01:14 |
so that I can add an account.
And I can do that right here in the
| | 01:18 |
Parental Controls Preference pane.
So I'm going to click the plus sign, and
| | 01:21 |
we're going to create a brand new
account.
| | 01:24 |
So, I'm going to give this a name of
Johnny Doe.
| | 01:25 |
And for the account name, we'll just name
it Johnny.
| | 01:30 |
And we're going to give this a password,
and then you can even do a hint.
| | 01:39 |
So, I'm going to click Create an Account.
And once it does that, it's automatically
| | 01:47 |
going to make it a managed account.
Now, you can still customize certain
| | 01:52 |
aspects of the account back in the Users
and Groups preference pane.
| | 01:56 |
But here in the Parental Controls, is
where we can control access of this account.
| | 02:02 |
So, first of all, up here in the Apps
Button, we have the ability to use the
| | 02:05 |
Simple Finder if we choose to.
And what this does is it just really
| | 02:09 |
simplifies the User Interface, especially
useful for very young children.
| | 02:15 |
Down here we can limit the applications
that the child can access.
| | 02:20 |
So if I turn this on, I can come down
here and I can choose which apps that the
| | 02:24 |
child has access to.
So I can turn them on or off as I wish,
| | 02:29 |
and control which applications they are
allowed to use.
| | 02:35 |
So I'll turn that off for now.
Down here at the bottom, we can also
| | 02:39 |
control whether the user is allowed to
modify their own dock.
| | 02:43 |
Meaning, are they allowed to move these
around or customize them at all?
| | 02:47 |
If you want to control that, we'll just
keep this unchecked.
| | 02:51 |
Once I turn that off, they can no longer
modify the contents of the dock.
| | 02:55 |
I'll turn it back on for now.
We'll come up here to the Web button.
| | 02:59 |
Now, this section up here is pretty
useful, because it's very easy when
| | 03:03 |
you're browsing the Web to accidentally
access inappropriate content.
| | 03:08 |
So, the Default Setting is to try to
Limit Access to adult websites automatically.
| | 03:14 |
Now what you can do, however, is you can
customize, and then you can add the sites
| | 03:18 |
that they're allowed to and the sites
that they are never allowed to.
| | 03:23 |
So this doesn't even have to be
inappropriate content, even if there's a
| | 03:27 |
website that you simply don't want the
child to get to, you can add that to this
| | 03:30 |
list by clicking the plus sign.
What we can also do is you can allow
| | 03:37 |
unrestricted access to all websites, and
you can even allow access to only these websites.
| | 03:44 |
So here is a default list of websites
that are really specific to young
| | 03:48 |
children, but you can always add
additional ones using the plus sign.
| | 03:54 |
You can even Click on the Logs button to
access the Logs that they visited,
| | 03:58 |
websites that had been blocked,
Applications that they've accessed and
| | 04:01 |
Messages that they've sent.
So again, you have a lot of control and
| | 04:07 |
you can see what was done using this
account.
| | 04:10 |
So, I'm going to go ahead and click Done.
Then we'll go to the People Tab.
| | 04:14 |
You can also control who your child can
email and message with, as well.
| | 04:19 |
You can also control who the user can
access via Game Center.
| | 04:25 |
Game Center is an application that allows
users to play games online with one another.
| | 04:31 |
Again, this can be limited or you can
prevent access altogether.
| | 04:36 |
The one that's one of my favorites is the
Time Limits button.
| | 04:40 |
Because, as children use the computer,
they tend to get on there quite a bit.
| | 04:45 |
And so what I've done in my experience,
is I've been able to limit the computer
| | 04:49 |
use to certain hours of the day.
How many hours in a day as well.
| | 04:55 |
So what you can do is you can limit how
many hours they can use the computer.
| | 04:59 |
You can also specify weekend time limits.
So, here on the Weekend I can say well,
| | 05:05 |
we'll allow them to access it maybe a
little bit more.
| | 05:08 |
So maybe we'll set this to two hours, and
they will set this one to three hours.
| | 05:13 |
In addition you can control when they can
access it, so on school nights, we want
| | 05:17 |
to make sure that from 8 o'clock at night
to 6 in the morning, they can't access
| | 05:21 |
the computer.
If your child decides to start getting up
| | 05:26 |
too early, you can increase this to 7
a.m., that way even if they get up early
| | 05:30 |
they still won't have access to it.
And then on the weekends, what I have
| | 05:36 |
done, is I've increased the limit at
night to a little bit later and left it
| | 05:40 |
open in the early hours.
In the Other category you also have the
| | 05:46 |
ability to disable the use of dictation,
which is basically the ability to use
| | 05:51 |
voice commands to enter text into a
document.
| | 05:56 |
You can hide profanity in the dictionary
application, and you can also limit the
| | 06:00 |
printer administration.
Which, essentially, prevents the user
| | 06:04 |
from changing printer settings.
You could also limit the CD and DVD
| | 06:07 |
burning, and disable changing of their
own password.
| | 06:11 |
That way you can always get into their
account as well.
| | 06:15 |
So, that's how easy it is to set up
parental control in Mountain Lion.
| | 06:18 |
Parental controls are a great feature and
it really allows you to be a little bit
| | 06:22 |
more at ease with your child's computer
use.
| | 06:26 |
The really nice thing about parental
controls is that the settings can be
| | 06:29 |
adjusted as a child grows to meet their
current needs.
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4. Getting to Know the Mac OSThe Finder| 00:02 |
The Finder in Mountain Lion, quite
honestly is where you'll spend a large
| | 00:05 |
majority of your time when working on a
Mac.
| | 00:08 |
The Finder is the primary method that
you'll use to interact with the Mac
| | 00:11 |
operating system.
It's where you will manage your files,
| | 00:15 |
navigate to different locations on your
computer, connect the servers, mount
| | 00:19 |
external hard drives and many other
things.
| | 00:22 |
The Finder is the GUI or graphical user
interface that makes working on a Mac
| | 00:27 |
such a great experience.
So it makes sense to get familiar and
| | 00:31 |
comfortable with the Finder right away.
So as you can see on my screen, the
| | 00:36 |
Finder is broken up into a couple of main
areas but essentially, where the rubber
| | 00:40 |
meets the road, this area that we're
working with here is the Finder.
| | 00:47 |
And although this is often referred to as
the desktop it's also one of the main
| | 00:51 |
areas that the Finder is used.
Now the Finder is indicated right up here
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for the current application that's being
used.
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And we can see that the word Finder is
displayed, indicating that that's the
| | 01:05 |
current application, if you will.
Now the Finder at the very top of your
| | 01:11 |
screen, is showing what's called the menu
Bar.
| | 01:14 |
And there are a lot of unique areas of
the menu Bar that'll help you to work
| | 01:18 |
more efficiently.
In the very far upper left hand corner,
| | 01:22 |
you have the Apple menu.
If you click on that, it's going to give
| | 01:26 |
you access to important areas of your
computer such as, your system
| | 01:30 |
preferences, some DOC preferences, recent
items that have been used, and it's also
| | 01:35 |
where you put your computer to Sleep,
reboot it, and shut it down.
| | 01:42 |
You'll also notice that you can click on
the Finder drop-down menu, and this is
| | 01:46 |
where you can set preferences for your
Finder, as well as access other menus
| | 01:51 |
related to Finder operations.
Way over on the right hand side, is some
| | 01:57 |
other status icons that will be
displayed.
| | 02:00 |
Now what you see on your computer is more
than likely going to vary from what you
| | 02:04 |
see here, because depending on
preferences that you set in the Finder
| | 02:07 |
and in other applications, they're going
to display different icons that may or
| | 02:11 |
may not appear up here.
In Mountain Lion, you have a
| | 02:17 |
Notifications Center, that if you click
on that button it'll show you any current
| | 02:22 |
notifications in your operating system.
We currently don't have any.
| | 02:28 |
So I'm just going to go ahead and click
on that notification button again, to
| | 02:31 |
close that.
It's also where we access a feature
| | 02:35 |
called Spotlight.
If you click on this magnifying glass,
| | 02:38 |
it's going to allow you to search your
computer for any file or folder.
| | 02:42 |
I'm going to go ahead and click on the
desktop to get out of there.
| | 02:45 |
And last but not least, down here at the
very bottom, we have what's referred to
| | 02:50 |
as the dock.
The dock shows us common applications
| | 02:55 |
that we may end up using on our computer.
Now the dock can be totally customized,
| | 03:00 |
and depending on your preference, your
also going to see different icons that
| | 03:03 |
may appear down here in your dock.
Although the Finder may seem elementary
| | 03:08 |
at first, it's quite a powerhouse when
working on a MAC computer.
| | 03:13 |
Getting familiar with the Finder and
learning some short cuts when working in
| | 03:16 |
the Finder, will make you more
productive, and provide for a more
| | 03:19 |
pleasant computing experience as well.
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| Finder windows| 00:02 |
In Mountain Lion, Finder windows are used
to navigate your computer for files and
| | 00:06 |
folders and allow you to move and copy
files as well.
| | 00:10 |
Let's take a look at how to use Finder
windows.
| | 00:15 |
I'm beginning this video in the Finder
and I have no windows open at this point
| | 00:19 |
in time.
To open up a Finder window, I'm just
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going to go to the File menu and I'm
going to Choose New Finder Window.
| | 00:27 |
This is going to open up a Finder window.
And you're going to notice that a Finder
| | 00:32 |
window is broken up into a couple of main
areas.
| | 00:35 |
This main portion of the window, where we
see the files and folders, is what you're
| | 00:40 |
going to be looking at and using quite a
bit.
| | 00:44 |
In addition at the top of every Finder
window.
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You have what's called the toolbar.
And the toolbar provides icons that
| | 00:51 |
provide quick access to files on your
computer.
| | 00:55 |
Over here on the left hand side, we have
what's called the sidebar.
| | 01:00 |
The sidebar allows you to access commonly
used folders quickly and easily, and it
| | 01:05 |
also allows you to access shared volumes
as well as devices that you have loaded
| | 01:10 |
or connected to your computer.
So let's start from a basic level.
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I going to go ahead and come over here to
my sidebar.
| | 01:21 |
And I'm going to click on my Pictures
folder.
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Now inside of the pictures folder, you're
going to notice that you have an iChat
| | 01:28 |
icons folder.
And this is installed on every Mac computer.
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If you don't have this folder any longer
for whatever reason, you can always
| | 01:37 |
navigate to any other folder on your
computer as well.
| | 01:42 |
Now what I'm going to do, is I'm going to
click on that folder and I'm currently in
| | 01:47 |
the Column view.
So what we're going to do is we're
| | 01:51 |
going to go ahead and switch to the Icon
view first.
| | 01:54 |
So I'm going to go ahead and click on
that icon, and now it's going to show me
| | 01:58 |
my folders and files in a large icon
view.
| | 02:01 |
Let's go ahead and double-click on the
Flags folder and its going to show me all
| | 02:05 |
of the files that are found within that
folder.
| | 02:10 |
Now we can look at these files in a
number of different ways.
| | 02:13 |
Currently we're looking at these files in
Icon view and this can be helpful when
| | 02:16 |
you're looking at photos or graphics of
any nature.
| | 02:20 |
This second button here provides you a
List view.
| | 02:25 |
So, although not as helpful for photos
and graphics, it can be helpful when
| | 02:30 |
you're trying to find a certain document.
You can click on the third Icon which is
| | 02:36 |
Column view and so this shows us the
current file path that we're in.
| | 02:41 |
We're currently in the Ichat icons
folder.
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In the Flags folder, and then this is the
contents of that Flags folder.
| | 02:48 |
And then we also have this fourth view,
which is referred to as Coverflow.
| | 02:54 |
If we click on that, it shows us an even
larger version of our graphic image and
| | 02:59 |
you can use this scrubbar right here to
navigate through the files.
| | 03:05 |
You can also use this window down here at
the bottom to click on a specific icon to
| | 03:10 |
show that icon in the current Coverflow
view.
| | 03:16 |
Now every Finder window can be resized.
If I position this on my screen, I can
| | 03:20 |
just click on the toolbar here and
reposition it.
| | 03:24 |
And then if I hover in the lower right
corner I can open up this window to make
| | 03:28 |
it larger.
That allows me to see more icons down
| | 03:33 |
here at the bottom.
Now, in several of these views, you can
| | 03:37 |
also change how the files are sorted.
You'll notice at the top of this window,
| | 03:42 |
we have name, they modified size and
kind.
| | 03:46 |
If I go to the View menu I can come down
to Show View options and I can control
| | 03:52 |
what categories are shown in certain
views.
| | 03:58 |
So you can see they modified size and
kind are currently being displayed.
| | 04:06 |
If I switch over to List view here, I can
again control what is displayed.
| | 04:13 |
So, if I decided I wanted to see the
label that's applied, I can click on that
| | 04:17 |
Checkbox and that now shows that
category.
| | 04:22 |
I'm going to close this View options
window.
| | 04:24 |
And we can change the sorting by clicking
on a different column.
| | 04:29 |
So if I click on Date Modified.
It's going to sort it by date.
| | 04:33 |
If I click on it again, it'll change it
from ascending order to a descending order.
| | 04:39 |
That's easier to see over here in the
name field.
| | 04:43 |
If I click on Name again it will sort it
from a descending perspective.
| | 04:49 |
I can sort it by size, by kind and of
course by label, which we don't really
| | 04:54 |
have any labels here right now.
So we'll go ahead and click back on Name
| | 05:00 |
and I'll click name again to sort it in
an ascending order from a to z.
| | 05:06 |
In addition, within a finder window, you
can use the sidebar to quickly navigate
| | 05:10 |
to different sections of your computer.
You can click on the applications
| | 05:16 |
category and that's going to to show you
every application within that particular folder.
| | 05:21 |
And in addtion, down here at the bottom
we currently have the Path bar.
| | 05:27 |
Now, if you're not seeing that, we just
come up here to the View menu and choose
| | 05:31 |
Show Pathbar from the Dropdown menu.
The Pathbar simply shows you your current
| | 05:38 |
structure within your file system, so I'm
on the Macintosh hard drive in the
| | 05:43 |
Applications folder within the utilities
folder.
| | 05:48 |
Finally, wherever you are in the current
file structure, you also have a Back and
| | 05:53 |
Forward button.
If I click the Back button, it's going to
| | 05:58 |
go to the previous view.
The click Back again, it's just going to
| | 06:03 |
kind of keep going back to the previous
views that I was looking at.
| | 06:08 |
When you're done using a Finder window,
you can simply come up here and click the
| | 06:12 |
Close button to close the window
altogether.
| | 06:16 |
I'm going to go to the File menu and
choose New Finder window again.
| | 06:19 |
You can also minimize a window by
clicking on the yellow icon, and what
| | 06:23 |
you'll see is that the Finder window gets
minimized down here in the dock on the
| | 06:28 |
right hand side.
That way you can continue working, but
| | 06:33 |
then when you need to use that window
again, you just come down here and click
| | 06:37 |
on that window, and it will maximize it.
You can also click on the green button to
| | 06:43 |
zoom the window and you click on the
green button again to go back to the
| | 06:47 |
previous viewing size.
Again, when you're done, you can go ahead
| | 06:52 |
and close this window.
One last thing, another quick and easy
| | 06:56 |
way to access a Finder window is to come
down here in your dock and click on the
| | 07:00 |
Finder icon.
When you click on that once, it's
| | 07:05 |
going to open up a new Finder window
ready for you to navigate your computer.
| | 07:11 |
Although Finder windows may seem fairly
basic at first, you'll be using them
| | 07:14 |
quite a bit.
When it comes to working with files and
| | 07:18 |
folders in any way, these finder windows
allow you to control how files are
| | 07:21 |
displayed, and help you to get to the
files and folders that you need quickly
| | 07:25 |
and easily.
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| Customizing the Finder window toolbar| 00:02 |
Every Finder Window contains a toolbar
that contains helpful buttons that save
| | 00:05 |
you time by preventing you from having to
go to the menu at the top of your screen
| | 00:08 |
to access some of these features.
What a lot of people don't know however,
| | 00:14 |
is that the toolbar can be customized to
suit your particular needs.
| | 00:19 |
To show you how this works I'm going to
come up here to the File menu.
| | 00:22 |
And I'm going to choose New Finder
window.
| | 00:24 |
There just open up a Default Finder
window.
| | 00:26 |
And the toolbar that I'm referring to is
right up here.
| | 00:30 |
And it appears at the top of every single
Finder window.
| | 00:33 |
So, no matter how many of these Finder
windows you create, you're going to
| | 00:36 |
notice that each and every one has it's
own toolbar that you can use.
| | 00:41 |
And that makes it really easy to access.
So I'm going to close these, and I'll
| | 00:45 |
leave one of them open.
So to customize this toolbar, you can do
| | 00:48 |
a couple of different things.
We can go to the View menu, and we can
| | 00:53 |
choose Customize toolbar.
We can also right-click on the toolbar,
| | 00:58 |
and choose Customize toolbar.
Now just to point one thing out, if you
| | 01:03 |
don't have a two button mouse, which in
this day and age most people do, but if
| | 01:07 |
you don't have a two button mouse you can
access the right-click by holding down
| | 01:11 |
the Ctrl key on your keyboard, and
clicking on that toolbar.
| | 01:17 |
And that allows you to choose the
Customize toolbar right there.
| | 01:20 |
So there's a couple of ways that you can
do that.
| | 01:22 |
Now to customize your toolbar it's
actually fairly simple.
| | 01:25 |
You can see up here at the top we have
some Default Icons that are already here.
| | 01:30 |
And you'll notice several of these like
View is located right here, and Action
| | 01:35 |
here, Arrange, Share, so on and so forth.
Now, let's say we wanted to add the Eject button.
| | 01:45 |
We have some DVDs or CDs that we put into
our computer and, instead of pressing our
| | 01:49 |
keyboard, it'd be helpful to just have a
nice Eject button right up here.
| | 01:54 |
So what we do is just drag the Eject
button up here.
| | 01:58 |
And you'll see a plus sign appear.
You just drop it at the appropriate location.
| | 02:03 |
You can actually also add spaces up
there, so we can drop a space in between
| | 02:07 |
that one section in the other.
And then we can also add may be the Trash
| | 02:13 |
Can up here and may be even the Label.
This can be helpful as well.
| | 02:18 |
If you decide, you know what, I never use
the Arrange button, just drag it and pull
| | 02:22 |
it down, and you'll see it goes up in a
puff of smoke.
| | 02:27 |
So, you can experiment with this and
customize this to suit your needs.
| | 02:31 |
So, if you click Done, you'll notice that
now all of these buttons appear on top of
| | 02:36 |
every single one of these different tool
bars.
| | 02:40 |
So again, I'll just create a couple of
Finder windows.
| | 02:43 |
We can go to File, and choose New Finder
window.
| | 02:45 |
Again, every Finder window has these.
Now you can Close this.
| | 02:51 |
Another helpful tip when you're working
with the toolbar.
| | 02:55 |
Let's say sometimes you use documents on
a regular basis.
| | 02:59 |
So, what I can do is, if you go to the
Downloads folder, you do have a file in
| | 03:03 |
here called About Downloads.
You can really use any file that you want.
| | 03:08 |
But let's say I regularly access this
document.
| | 03:11 |
It's really important to me and I'm often
opening it up to reference it.
| | 03:16 |
You can also click on this and if you
drag up to your tool bar, you'll see a
| | 03:19 |
plus sign there as well.
And if you drop it there, now you have
| | 03:25 |
that file readily accessible.
Now, a word of advice, you don't want to
| | 03:29 |
put too many documents up here.
I would say only the documents that you
| | 03:33 |
reference on a regular basis, because
this toolbar's going to get pretty
| | 03:36 |
cluttered fairly quickly.
But now that you have it up there,
| | 03:40 |
regardless of where you are in your file
structure, you can just click on that
| | 03:44 |
button and it's going to open up that
document for you to read.
| | 03:49 |
So this is great for a reference
documents and things that you would use
| | 03:52 |
when you're working on your computer.
I'm just going to go ahead and Quit out
| | 03:57 |
of this application.
Now, if you've customized this and you've
| | 04:01 |
tried it, you can always get back to the
default toolbar, by going back into the
| | 04:05 |
customized toolbar.
So I'll go to View, choose Customized toolbar.
| | 04:10 |
And you'll notice that down here is the
default toolbar.
| | 04:15 |
So if you've customized it and you
decided you know what, I just want to go
| | 04:17 |
back to where we started.
Just drag this whole toolbar and drop it
| | 04:22 |
up here.
And that'll replace everything that's
| | 04:25 |
located up there.
So, we can now click Done, and we can
| | 04:28 |
close this window.
As you can see there are quite a few
| | 04:32 |
choices to choose from when customizing
the toolbar.
| | 04:36 |
Please experiment with this feature to
see what seems right for you.
| | 04:40 |
If you want to get back to where you
started, just drag that default toolbar
| | 04:43 |
back to its original location, and can
start all over.
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| Finder preferences| 00:02 |
The Finder itself can be customized to
meet your needs and the way that you work.
| | 00:06 |
They essentially control some elements
about how the Finder behaves when you're
| | 00:10 |
using the Finder.
Let's take a look.
| | 00:13 |
To get started, I'm going to go to the
File menu, and just open up a new Finder
| | 00:16 |
window so that we have something to look
at.
| | 00:20 |
And to control the preferences of the
Finder, we simply go to the Finder menu
| | 00:23 |
and we choose Preferences.
Now, the way that preferences work in the
| | 00:28 |
Finder is they're really categorized into
four different categories up here at the top.
| | 00:33 |
So let's start from the left-hand side.
We're going to go to the General category.
| | 00:37 |
Now, this first section controls what is
shown on the Desktop in these four categories.
| | 00:44 |
So, the question becomes, do we want to
show all of our hard drives on the desktop?
| | 00:48 |
If I turn that on, you'll notice that my
hard drive now appears on the Desktop, as
| | 00:52 |
well as all the other hard drives that I
have on my computer.
| | 00:58 |
So, as you can see, this really takes up
a lot of real estate, so that's why I
| | 01:02 |
turn mine off.
External discs.
| | 01:06 |
Basically any external hard drives you
plug in, or even jump drives will show up
| | 01:11 |
on the Desktop with this setting turned
on, as well as CDs, DVDs and iPods.
| | 01:17 |
You can also choose to have connected
servers show up as well.
| | 01:22 |
Now as we get a little bit further down
in this category, a new Finder window
| | 01:26 |
will show.
And as you can see here, it's currently
| | 01:30 |
showing all my files.
Now, you can click on that drop down menu
| | 01:35 |
and choose to show your Desktop, your
Documents, or essentially any folder or
| | 01:39 |
volume that you wish.
So instead of all my files showing up
| | 01:44 |
here, it's simply going to show whichever
folder or volume you choose.
| | 01:50 |
Now this bottom section for spring loaded
folders and windows pertains to when
| | 01:54 |
you're moving or copying files.
So essentially, as I'm dragging files or
| | 01:59 |
folders from one folder to another, it's
going to control how those folders open
| | 02:03 |
up as I hover over them.
I'm going to go ahead and go to Labels.
| | 02:08 |
We can change the color and assign
different properties to the files and
| | 02:13 |
folders on our computer.
So for example, if I click on my Home
| | 02:19 |
folder, and I select, say, my Documents
folder, maybe I want to change the color
| | 02:24 |
of my Documents folder.
I can right-click and choose the label
| | 02:31 |
from there.
I can also choose the File menu, and
| | 02:35 |
choose the label from there as well.
Now, what this Finder preference controls
| | 02:41 |
is what those labels are called.
So by default, they're labeled the
| | 02:45 |
appropriate color.
But if you wish, you could change the
| | 02:49 |
name of those labels.
So, I could change red to possibly do not use.
| | 02:55 |
I could change green to ready to go, and
I could change gray to, let's say maybe.
| | 03:01 |
Really, whatever you want to name these
labels, you can do so in the Finder preferences.
| | 03:12 |
Let's go to the Sidebar category.
This controls what appears over here on
| | 03:16 |
our sidebar.
Again, up here under our Favorites, we
| | 03:21 |
get to choose what exactly shows up
there.
| | 03:24 |
You can also choose what shared volumes
are going to appear.
| | 03:28 |
So you can see right now, I have all
connected computers being displayed.
| | 03:31 |
If I turn that off, we're not going to
see as many.
| | 03:34 |
I can even turn of Bonjour computers,
which are automatically detected computers.
| | 03:39 |
And now you can see that I only have one
option there.
| | 03:42 |
So I'm going to go ahead and turn those
back on.
| | 03:45 |
Same things for devices.
Again, what's going to show up here in my sidebar?
| | 03:51 |
I can have computers, hard disks,
external disks, and CDs, DVDs, and iPods.
| | 03:59 |
Finally, in the Advanced category, you
can see that the Show All File Name
| | 04:04 |
Extensions is disabled.
If I turn that on, it's going to display
| | 04:09 |
the extension of the file name when I'm
looking at those.
| | 04:13 |
I can choose to show the warning before
changing an extension.
| | 04:18 |
It's just going to give me a warning,
asking me if I'm sure I want to change it
| | 04:21 |
to a different extension.
Show warning before emptying the trash.
| | 04:25 |
And I also have Empty Trash Securely.
And essentially, what this does is it
| | 04:31 |
securely erases the files from my
computer.
| | 04:35 |
Finally, when performing a search, what
exactly do I want to search?
| | 04:39 |
Do I want to search my whole computer?
The current folder?
| | 04:43 |
Or whatever the previous search scope
was?
| | 04:46 |
Go ahead and close those Finder
preferences.
| | 04:49 |
And although some of these Finder
preferences are subtle, they can make a
| | 04:52 |
big difference in your efficiency,
depending on the way that you work.
| | 04:56 |
So adjust these preferences to your
working style, and enjoy.
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| Working with files and folders| 00:02 |
One of the fundamental necessities when
working on any computer is creating,
| | 00:06 |
navigating, organizing, copying, and
moving files and folders.
| | 00:11 |
You'll be doing a lot of these things in
the Finder.
| | 00:14 |
And we'll be doing on a daily bais, so
it's important you understand how to do them.
| | 00:18 |
Let's get started.
I'm beginning with the Projects File
| | 00:22 |
folder already copied to my Desktop.
So, you want to make sure that has been
| | 00:26 |
completed before you begin this lesson.
And I'm going to double-click on that
| | 00:30 |
folder to open up the Contents.
Now, I prefer to use the Column view when
| | 00:35 |
I'm working with my files and folders.
So, I'm going to go ahead and click the
| | 00:39 |
third icon up here to change to Column
view.
| | 00:42 |
And we're going to be working inside of
the 04 Getting to know Mac OS folder.
| | 00:48 |
So when I click on that, it's going to
show me all the files that I have inside
| | 00:51 |
of that folder.
Now, what I'd like to do here, these are
| | 00:55 |
a bunch of pictures.
And you could use the example of maybe
| | 00:58 |
somebody emailed you these pictures.
Or they gave them to you on a Flash
| | 01:02 |
Drive, and now you want to copy them to
your computer.
| | 01:06 |
Now, one of the things that you want to
remember when you're working with files
| | 01:10 |
and folders is that, if you try to move
files from one folder to another.
| | 01:15 |
On the same hard drive or volume, it's
going to move them.
| | 01:19 |
But if you do the same thing from one
hard drive or volume to another, it's
| | 01:23 |
going to automatically make a copy.
So, let me show you what I mean.
| | 01:27 |
I am going to click on the first photo
within this folder, and then I'm going to
| | 01:31 |
hold down the Shift key on my keyboard.
and click on the last photo to select all
| | 01:37 |
of them.
And if I drag these files to my Pictures
| | 01:40 |
folder, so I'm just going to drag them
and drop them right here on top of pictures.
| | 01:47 |
When I release the mouse button, it's
going to move those files.
| | 01:52 |
And the way that I can see this is if I
hit the Back button to go to the previous
| | 01:56 |
view, all of those files have now been
removed from this 04 folder.
| | 02:02 |
Now, that's really not a huge deal, but
it's something that I didn't really want
| | 02:05 |
to do.
I wanted to make a copy.
| | 02:08 |
So, what's pretty useful is I can go the
Edit menu and choose Undo move of the
| | 02:12 |
eight items, and it's going to put them
back where they were.
| | 02:17 |
That's a really nice feature within the
Finder.
| | 02:19 |
To make a copy, what you want to do is
select them just as you did before.
| | 02:24 |
But before you start dragging them, hold
down the Option key on your keyboard.
| | 02:29 |
And now when I drag these and drop them
on top of the Pictures folder, it's going
| | 02:34 |
to make a copy.
So, you'll notice I still have these here
| | 02:38 |
in the 04 folder.
But if I click on Pictures, you'll notice
| | 02:42 |
now I have a copy of them within that
Pictures folder.
| | 02:46 |
So, that's one of the big differences
between Move and Copy.
| | 02:50 |
Now maybe I wanted to duplicate one of
these files, that's also quite easy to do.
| | 02:56 |
I am going to click on the Sunflower
file, and then I'm going to come up here
| | 03:00 |
to the Edit menu and I'm going to choose
copy sunflower.jpg.
| | 03:05 |
Then I'm going to choose Edit, and I'll
choose Paste Item.
| | 03:09 |
And now you see I have a new file called
Sunflower Copy.
| | 03:13 |
That's one of the easy ways you can make
a copy of the file.
| | 03:17 |
You could also click on that file and if
you press the Cmd+D key on your keyboard,
| | 03:22 |
so that's hold down Cmd and press the D
key, that will duplicate that file as well.
| | 03:30 |
So, it's another way that you can work
with those files and make a copy.
| | 03:35 |
Now, I currently have two copies of
sunflower, which I don't need.
| | 03:38 |
I'm going to drag one of them down here
into my dock and drop that in the trash.
| | 03:45 |
The other way you can move an object to
the trash is by selecting it and pressing
| | 03:49 |
Cmd+Delete on your keyboard.
That'll also move your object to the Trash.
| | 03:56 |
If you click on your Trash Can, it will
open up the window.
| | 04:00 |
That still has those files in there.
We could see we have a couple of files in
| | 04:04 |
here, and what I'm going to do is I'm
going to move one of these copies back
| | 04:07 |
over here into my Pictures folder.
I'm going to close the Trash folder
| | 04:11 |
because it's important to understand that
when you move items to the Trash, they
| | 04:16 |
don't get deleted immediately.
They reside in the Trash until you empty
| | 04:21 |
the Trash.
So to do so, I'll come up here to the
| | 04:24 |
Finder menu, and I'll choose Empty Trash.
It'll ask me if I'm sure I want to remove
| | 04:30 |
them, and I'll go ahead and click Empty
Trash.
| | 04:33 |
You can now see that the Trash Can is
empty.
| | 04:37 |
Now, maybe I want to organize these
photos into a folder because, as you can
| | 04:41 |
imagine, as I start moving more photos
into this folder, it's going to get a
| | 04:44 |
little bit unwieldy.
So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to
| | 04:50 |
click on the pictures item in my sidebar
to make sure that I'm currently in the
| | 04:54 |
Pictures folder.
And then, I'm going to go to the File
| | 04:58 |
menu and I'm going to choose New Folder.
It automatically creates a file called
| | 05:04 |
Untitled, but the name of the folder is
highlighted so I can give it a new name.
| | 05:09 |
So, I'm going to give this a name of Fun
Pics, and I'll press Return to commit
| | 05:15 |
that change.
Now what we can do is move those files
| | 05:21 |
into that folder.
So I'm going to click on B, and I'll drag
| | 05:25 |
that into the Fun Pics folder, and now
it's been moved.
| | 05:30 |
To select a range of non-contiguous
photos, I can click on one, and then hold
| | 05:35 |
down Cmd as I click on the other.
And then, that will allow me to skip over
| | 05:41 |
some of the icons without selecting all
of them.
| | 05:44 |
Then I just drag one of the highlighted
items to the Fun Pics folder.
| | 05:49 |
And then if I click on the Fun Pics
folder, you can see that all of those
| | 05:53 |
photos have been displayed or moved into
the fun pics folder.
| | 05:58 |
Now, the Fun Pics folder might be a
folder that I'm going to use on a regular basis.
| | 06:03 |
And I'd rather not have to navigate to
pictures and navigate to fun pics.
| | 06:08 |
Maybe I want to create a quick shortcut
for that.
| | 06:11 |
What I can do is I can drag Fun Pics.
And if you position it into the sidebar
| | 06:16 |
in your Favorites category, you want to
make sure that you get this line as you
| | 06:19 |
see here when you move between the items.
If you hover over an item, you're going
| | 06:26 |
to move that folder into whatever item
you're hovered over.
| | 06:32 |
So, I'm just going to position this way
up here at the top, and I'm going to let
| | 06:35 |
go of my mouse.
And you'll see that I now have the Fun
| | 06:39 |
Pics folder located in my favorites.
So, if I close this and I open up a new
| | 06:45 |
Finder window, see by default it goes to
all my files, I can just click on Fun
| | 06:49 |
Pics to quickly jump to that location.
If you decide later on that you really
| | 06:55 |
don't need the shortcut over here in your
sidebar, you can just hold down the Cmd
| | 06:59 |
key on your keyboard and click on this
item and drag it out of the sidebar.
| | 07:06 |
And when you release your mouse, you'll
see it goes up in a puff of smoke.
| | 07:11 |
It's not going to delete the actual files
because they still live here in your Fun
| | 07:15 |
Pics folder.
It just deleted the shortcut over here in
| | 07:19 |
your sidebar.
Another nice thing to keep in mind,
| | 07:22 |
especially when you're working with
photos, is that these little icons don't
| | 07:26 |
really give you much of a preview.
You can click on them to see a larger
| | 07:31 |
preview when your in Column view.
But one of things I really enjoy about
| | 07:36 |
the Mountain Lion operating system is I
can simply click on one of these photos.
| | 07:42 |
and if I press this spacebar on my
keyboard, it'll show me a larger version
| | 07:46 |
of that photo right on top of the Finder
window.
| | 07:50 |
I can either press the X key up here, to
close it, or I can just press the space
| | 07:54 |
bar again to get back to the Finder
window.
| | 07:58 |
Even more, if I click on one of the
photos, then Shift-click on the other to
| | 08:01 |
highlight all of them.
I can press the spacebar again, and now
| | 08:05 |
I can use the left and right arrow keys
on my keyboard to quickly browse through
| | 08:09 |
the photos that I have on my hard drive.
It's a really nice way to quickly view a
| | 08:17 |
bunch of photos or even documents.
Press the spacebar again, and that'll
| | 08:22 |
close the Quick view.
As you can see, there's so much that you
| | 08:26 |
can do with files and folders in OS X.
These tasks may seem quite basic, but
| | 08:31 |
you'll be thankful that you know how to
do them, the more you use your computer.
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| Sharing files between users| 00:02 |
When several people share a computer
using their own user accounts, it can be
| | 00:05 |
really useful to be able to share files
between those accounts.
| | 00:10 |
Let's say for example, you have a photo
that you want to share with another user.
| | 00:13 |
In Mountain Lion, you can do this easily.
Let's take a look at how this is done.
| | 00:18 |
In this video, I'm starting in the
Finder, and I'm going to go ahead an
| | 00:21 |
click on the Finder icon in My Dock, to
open up a Finder window.
| | 00:26 |
Now, I'm going to go to my Home folder,
just to explain that every user has their
| | 00:30 |
own Home folder, with folders inside of
there that they can use to file their content.
| | 00:37 |
And there's one folder, however, that
other people have the ability to see.
| | 00:42 |
To see what I mean, I'm going to hold
down the Cmd key on my keyboard, and I'm
| | 00:45 |
going to click on the title of my Finder
window.
| | 00:49 |
And I'm going to choose the Users folder,
because now I can see the Home folder of
| | 00:52 |
everybody's account.
Now, if I go to Jane's folder, we could
| | 00:56 |
see that I don't have access to any of
these folders, except the Public folder.
| | 01:01 |
I can actually see that.
Now the Public folder is read-only, so I
| | 01:05 |
can put files there to share with other
users, but they can't actually save to it.
| | 01:12 |
So what I'm going to do here is I'm going
to drag a photo into my Public folder.
| | 01:18 |
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to
go to the Pictures folder.
| | 01:22 |
And I'm going to go to my Fun Pics, and
what I want to do, maybe I'll share the
| | 01:26 |
sunset photo with other users.
So what I'm going to do here is I'm going
| | 01:31 |
to click on the sunset photo and I'm
going to drag it on top of Trainer.
| | 01:37 |
And then I'm just going to keep holding
down the mouse button.
| | 01:40 |
And I'm going to drag it on top of
Public.
| | 01:42 |
And I'm going to drop it into that
folder.
| | 01:44 |
So what I've done is made it available to
other users.
| | 01:48 |
Now, what I can do now is I'm going to
log out of my account, or really just
| | 01:51 |
switch over to another user.
So I'm going to click on the Fast User
| | 01:55 |
Switching menu, and switch over to Jane's
account.
| | 01:59 |
So I'll enter Jane's password.
And now you can see up here that I'm
| | 02:04 |
logged in as Jane.
Now, for Jane to gain access to that
| | 02:08 |
file, she simply needs to open up a
Finder window.
| | 02:12 |
She can go to her Home folder.
But then she needs to hold down the Cmd
| | 02:16 |
key and choose the Users folder.
If she goes to the Trainer account, and
| | 02:21 |
then to the Public folder, there's the
image that she can now access.
| | 02:26 |
Now like I said before, she can't
actually save into this folder, but she
| | 02:30 |
can drag a file out.
You'll notice that it makes a copy automatically.
| | 02:36 |
Now, lets say Jane wants to give
something to me.
| | 02:38 |
Maybe she has a shopping list she wants
to share with me.
| | 02:42 |
So I'm going to use Launch Pad to go into
my Applications, and I'm going to type
| | 02:46 |
the word text here, and I'm going to
press enter to launch the TextEdit application.
| | 02:51 |
I'm going to type shopping list here, and
I'm going to press Return, and Jane needs
| | 02:55 |
a couple of things.
She needs eggs, bacon, and potatoes.
| | 03:02 |
There we go.
So what Jane's going to do is she's
| | 03:05 |
going to save this to her hard drive.
So I'm going to go to the File menu and
| | 03:09 |
choose Save.
I'll call this Shopping List, save it to
| | 03:13 |
her desktop for now.
And then we'll go ahead and close this
| | 03:17 |
and quit TextEdit.
So, remember, this is the Trainers public folder.
| | 03:23 |
If I hold down the Cmd key as I click on
the title, we could see that I'm in the
| | 03:26 |
Users folder in the Trainers folder in
the Public folder.
| | 03:30 |
Now Jane wants to share this shopping
list with me.
| | 03:33 |
So she could try to drag this on top of
here.
| | 03:36 |
But it's going to tell her that she
can't.
| | 03:38 |
Unless she has my account information,
she's not going to be able to do it.
| | 03:43 |
So I'll have to hit Cancel, but that's
where this Dropbox comes into play.
| | 03:48 |
The Dropbox is what's called a write-only
folder.
| | 03:51 |
If she tries to open it, she can't see
anything.
| | 03:55 |
But if she drags the shopping list into
that folder, she can write to it, and
| | 03:59 |
this is what the dialog is indicating.
She can put items into the Dropbox, but
| | 04:05 |
she won't be able to see them.
That's okay.
| | 04:07 |
She's going to go ahead and click Okay,
and then she can close this folder.
| | 04:12 |
And now I'm going to log back in to the
Trainer account.
| | 04:18 |
Now, if I go to my Home folder, and go to
the Public folder, into the Dropbox
| | 04:22 |
folder, there's the shopping list.
And if I double-click on it, I can now
| | 04:29 |
see what she put in here, and I can add
to it if I wish.
| | 04:34 |
So if I wanted to add some additional
content here, maybe we'll add cheese to
| | 04:38 |
this, and maybe add some additional
items.
| | 04:42 |
I can save it, go to the File menu and
choose Save.
| | 04:46 |
Because I'm the one who has read and
write access to that file.
| | 04:51 |
As you can see, understanding how to
share files between user accounts in
| | 04:54 |
Mountain Lion can be extremely valuable.
Using either the Public folder or the
| | 04:59 |
Dropbox folder will give you the best of
both worlds.
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| The Dock| 00:02 |
The dock is a powerful tool for accessing
not only frequently used applications,
| | 00:06 |
but also files and folders as well.
In addition, there are some ways that the
| | 00:11 |
dock can be customized.
Let's take a look at how this works.
| | 00:16 |
I'm beginning this video in the finder on
my computer.
| | 00:19 |
And the dock, by default, is located way
down here at the bottom of our screen.
| | 00:23 |
Now by default the dock is populated with
applications that come when Mountain Lion
| | 00:29 |
is installed.
And you can see that we've got several
| | 00:32 |
applications that are pretty useful, such
as Safari and mail and even the app store.
| | 00:38 |
But the dock can be customized to meet
the way that you work.
| | 00:42 |
So for example, let's say there's an
application I use pretty frequently but
| | 00:46 |
is not located down here in the dock.
What I'm going to do is go to the File
| | 00:51 |
menu and chose New Finder Window.
And this is also a good time for me to
| | 00:55 |
point out that you can also use a
keyboard shortcut instead of going to the
| | 00:58 |
menu every time.
So if I use the shortcut Cmd+N on my
| | 01:02 |
keyboard, that will do the same thing as
creating a new finder window from the menu.
| | 01:10 |
Now, what I'm going to do is over here on
the sidebar, I'm going to go to my
| | 01:13 |
applications folder.
So let's say I use the chess application
| | 01:18 |
quite a bit.
And I want it to be down here in the dock.
| | 01:22 |
So I'm going to drag that chess
application down.
| | 01:26 |
And as I drag it down there, the other
applications will slide out of the way,
| | 01:30 |
making room for that application.
So maybe I'll move it over here next to
| | 01:35 |
the calendar.
And when I release the mouse button, now
| | 01:39 |
the chess application is available inside
of the dock.
| | 01:43 |
If you wanted to add another one, let's
say maybe we use the calculator a good
| | 01:47 |
bit, we can drag this down, maybe we'll
drop this down over here to the left of
| | 01:52 |
the contacts app.
And now you see that we can access that
| | 01:57 |
application as well.
I'm going to go ahead and close this
| | 02:00 |
window and then to launch an application
it's really as simple as hovering your
| | 02:03 |
cursor over the application, clicking on
the icon and then the application will launch.
| | 02:09 |
Now you can use this as you see fit.
I'm going to go ahead and quit this.
| | 02:14 |
If you decide that you no longer need an
application in your dock you can click on
| | 02:18 |
that object and drag it up, and when you
let go with your mouse, it will disappear
| | 02:22 |
into a puff of smoke.
I'll go ahead and do that to the chess
| | 02:27 |
application as well.
Now in addition, we can customize some
| | 02:31 |
other aspects of the dock.
One way that I can do that is to come up
| | 02:35 |
here to the Apple menu, come down to
Dock, and choose Dock Preferences.
| | 02:41 |
This will open up my dock preferences
that allows me to adjust the size of the dock.
| | 02:47 |
So as I drag this slider to the right it
gets bigger, to the left it gets smaller.
| | 02:52 |
And then you can also turn magnification
on.
| | 02:57 |
Within that category you can also drag
the slider to control how large the icons
| | 03:02 |
are magnified.
So to show you how this works, when I
| | 03:06 |
hover over the dock, you can see that as
I hover over the applications they get
| | 03:10 |
magnified so that I can see them a little
bit better.
| | 03:14 |
I'm going to go and turn magnification
off.
| | 03:17 |
And then I'll drag the size up a little
bit to make it easier to see.
| | 03:21 |
You can also position the dock on the
left side of your screen, on the right
| | 03:26 |
side of your screen, and then also at the
bottom.
| | 03:31 |
In addition, the minimize windows using
allows me to choose an effect that is
| | 03:36 |
applied when I minimize the window.
To show you what I mean, if I click on
| | 03:43 |
this yellow button, it's going to
minimize that window to the dock.
| | 03:47 |
And if you saw that interesting effect
that's created when you minimize and
| | 03:51 |
maximize it, that's what's referred to as
the Genie Effect.
| | 03:55 |
I'm going to show this to you in slow
motion for a second.
| | 03:59 |
And now you can see what the Genie Effect
looks like.
| | 04:04 |
Again, when you expand it, it does the
same thing which is referred to as the
| | 04:08 |
Genie Effect.
You can also change to just the Scale
| | 04:13 |
Effect which is just going to scale that
down in more of a simple manner.
| | 04:19 |
Same thing with scaling it up.
Now we can also choose to double-click a
| | 04:24 |
windows title bar to minimize the window.
So if I turn this option on, and I double
| | 04:30 |
click on the toolbar, it's going to
minimize the window that way as well.
| | 04:36 |
So I'll turn that off.
You can also minimize the windows into
| | 04:40 |
the application icon instead of over here
in the dock.
| | 04:45 |
So if I turn that on when I minimize
this, instead of it taking up space on
| | 04:49 |
the right side of the dock, it actually
puts it here underneath the actual
| | 04:53 |
application icon.
So I'll turn that off again.
| | 04:57 |
Animate opening applications basically
just causes the application to bounce
| | 05:01 |
down here in the dock.
So if I were to open up an application
| | 05:06 |
you'll see that the dock icon bounces a
little bit when I do that.
| | 05:11 |
Go ahead and close the app store.
The other feature that's pretty powerful
| | 05:15 |
is to automatically hide and show the
dock.
| | 05:18 |
If I turn that on the dock actually
disappears until I move my cursor way
| | 05:22 |
down to the bottom and then the dock will
appear so I can launch an application.
| | 05:28 |
When I move out of the way it'll hide it
again.
| | 05:30 |
So I'll turn that off as well.
And then show indicator lights for open
| | 05:34 |
applications, you can see that when an
application is open, so in this case
| | 05:39 |
we're in the system preferences
application.
| | 05:43 |
You can see that there's a little light
way down, here, below the icon.
| | 05:47 |
Which is a quick and easy way to tell
when an application is open.
| | 05:52 |
I like that, so I'm going to keep that
option checked.
| | 05:55 |
Some I'm going to set this back to the
Genie Effect, and I can go ahead and quit
| | 05:59 |
system preferences.
In addition I wanted to show you that if
| | 06:03 |
you wanted to change the size of your
dock you can also do so by hovering your
| | 06:07 |
cursor on this divider line.
And then as I drag down or up I can scale
| | 06:12 |
the dock in a more visual manner as well.
Last but not least the dock is not
| | 06:19 |
reserved only for applications.
We can also put files and folders there
| | 06:24 |
as well.
You can actually see, to the right of
| | 06:27 |
this divider line, we have the documents
folder that is already there by default,
| | 06:31 |
as well as the downloads folder.
So let's create a new finder window.
| | 06:37 |
And I'm going to go to the pictures
folder.
| | 06:42 |
And I'm going to show you how we can add
the, Fun Pics folder to our dock.
| | 06:46 |
So if I drag this down, you're going to
notice that down here the icons are not
| | 06:50 |
moving out of the way because the left
side of the dock to the left of this
| | 06:54 |
divider line is reserved for
applications.
| | 06:59 |
However, if I move over to the right of
that divider line, now these icons will
| | 07:04 |
get out of the way and allow me to drop a
new folder there to access.
| | 07:11 |
So now if I close this finder window and
I want to get to my Fun Pics folder very
| | 07:15 |
quickly, I can just hover over this icon,
click, and it's going to open up that
| | 07:19 |
folder in this heads up display.
If I click the Open in Finder button,
| | 07:26 |
it'll actually open it in a finder
window, so it's a pretty powerful tool.
| | 07:30 |
And you can do the same thing in here
with documents as well.
| | 07:35 |
I'm going to go ahead and close that
window, and as you've seen, there's a lot
| | 07:38 |
that the dock can do.
I encourage you to customize the dock to
| | 07:42 |
your liking, so that it becomes an even
more valuable tool than it already is.
| | 07:48 |
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| Setting the desktop and the screensaver| 00:02 |
Part of making your user account your
own, is customizing it to reflect your
| | 00:05 |
personal preference and appearance.
A great way to do this is to customize
| | 00:10 |
the desktop background and the
screensaver.
| | 00:13 |
To do this, we're going to come up here
to the Apple menu on our computer, and
| | 00:17 |
we're going to choose System Preferences.
Now, the System Preferences is where you
| | 00:22 |
can control a lot of the preferences
related to different aspects of your computer.
| | 00:28 |
As you can see, the System Preferences
are divided up by category, using
| | 00:32 |
Personal, Hardware, Internet and
Wireless, System and Other.
| | 00:36 |
Now what I'm going to to do is I'm
going to to go to the Desktop and
| | 00:39 |
Screensaver section of this display.
And that is located way up here in the
| | 00:45 |
Personal category.
So I'm going to go ahead and click on
| | 00:49 |
Desktop and Screensaver.
And that's going to show me the
| | 00:52 |
Preferences pane for that option.
Now we're going to start by making sure
| | 00:56 |
we click on the Desktop button way up
here at the top.
| | 00:59 |
And I'm just going to slide this over a
little bit because you can see that the
| | 01:03 |
current desktop picture is the default
that's used for Mountain Lion.
| | 01:08 |
It's called Galaxy.
Now, these desktop pictures that you see
| | 01:12 |
under the Apple category are default
pictures that ship with your system, and
| | 01:16 |
you can experiment with these by clicking
on them to see what the different images are.
| | 01:23 |
And I have to say that Apple has released
a lot of beautiful pictures that you can
| | 01:27 |
use as your desktop background.
So again, just click on these images to
| | 01:32 |
experiment with them to see which one
you'd like to use.
| | 01:36 |
Now, if you wanted to, you can also click
on the Solid Colors category, and you can
| | 01:41 |
choose one of the colors in here to set
as your desktop background.
| | 01:47 |
Now this may seem a bit boring, but there
are people in certain fields who work
| | 01:51 |
with color and photos who often need to
have a neutral background.
| | 01:56 |
So that might be helpful for some people.
And you can even click on Custom Color
| | 02:00 |
which will bring up the Color Picker and
allow you to choose whatever color you
| | 02:04 |
want to use.
Now I'm going to go ahead and close that,
| | 02:09 |
because in addition to the pictures that
Apple supplies for you, you can also use
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your own.
So if you go to the Folders category and
| | 02:17 |
just click on the triangle to open that
up, you can see that it's automatically
| | 02:21 |
going to look in your Pictures folder.
Now I really don't have any, at least not
| | 02:27 |
loose in the Pictures directory, so I
need to add my own folder.
| | 02:31 |
So I'm going to click the plus sign.
And I'm going to go to the Pictures
| | 02:35 |
folder, and I'm going to choose my Fun
Pics folder.
| | 02:39 |
And when I click the Choose button, now I
get to see those photos as well.
| | 02:44 |
So we can click on any of these photos to
set them as your desktop background also.
| | 02:52 |
Whichever one you prefer, you can use.
Now what you can also do to make things a
| | 02:58 |
little more interesting is you can click
on the Change Picture check box, and then
| | 03:02 |
choose a time frame for your desktop
background to change.
| | 03:08 |
You can also specify a random order, and
the Translucent menu Bar essentially just
| | 03:13 |
ghosts the menu bar so you can still
kind of see the photo behind it.
| | 03:18 |
If you turn that off, the menu bar just
becomes white.
| | 03:21 |
So whatever your preference, you can set
that.
| | 03:26 |
So that's going to be your desktop
background.
| | 03:29 |
Now, what I'm going to do is also show
you how you can set a screensaver.
| | 03:33 |
So the desktop background is going to be
visible while you're working, but the
| | 03:38 |
idea behind the screensaver is that
pictures will come up when you are not
| | 03:42 |
using your computer.
So, if you click on the Screensaver
| | 03:48 |
button, you'll see once again that Apple
has included a bunch of automatic
| | 03:52 |
slideshows that can be used.
Way up here at the top, you have some
| | 03:57 |
different slideshows we can choose, such
as the Ken Burns slideshow.
| | 04:02 |
It'll kind of show you, you know, how
these photos are going to appear.
| | 04:06 |
Within each of these slideshows, you can
also choose different sources.
| | 04:12 |
So this one's the National Geographic.
We can choose Arial, we can choose
| | 04:17 |
Cosmos, and even Nature Patterns.
Again you have a lot of different
| | 04:22 |
slideshows to choose from.
You can also choose your own custom folder.
| | 04:30 |
So if I choose, say, the Ken Burns effect
and I set my source to my Fun Pics
| | 04:36 |
folder, now when the screensaver comes on
it's going to use these photos as my screensaver.
| | 04:47 |
We can also tell it to shuffle the slide
order if we wish.
| | 04:51 |
Now, as you scroll down a little bit
further we have some other screensavers
| | 04:54 |
you can use as well.
If you click on one of these it'll
| | 04:58 |
kind of show you a preview of what the
screensaver is going to look like.
| | 05:02 |
You have a Word of the Day screensaver.
You even have a Random screensaver.
| | 05:10 |
So I'm going to go in and click on iTunes
Artwork or Shell, and you'll be able to
| | 05:14 |
see what that's going to look like.
You can control when the screensaver is
| | 05:20 |
going to start.
So the settings currently is that when
| | 05:23 |
the computer has been unused for 20
minutes, the screensaver's going to start
| | 05:26 |
based on the preferences that you chose.
In addition, let's say you're getting
| | 05:31 |
ready to walk away from your desk, and
you want to just quickly activate the
| | 05:34 |
screensaver, maybe to prevent somebody
from getting onto your computer or seeing
| | 05:37 |
what your working on.
You can click the Hot Corners button, and
| | 05:43 |
you can choose one of the corners of your
screen, upper left, upper right, lower
| | 05:47 |
left, lower right to activate your
screensaver.
| | 05:52 |
So, if I click on the bottom right and I
choose Start Screensaver and click OK,
| | 05:57 |
now what's going to happen is when I move
my cursor all the way to the lower right
| | 06:03 |
corner of my screen, it's going to
activate that screensaver.
| | 06:11 |
When I move my mouse, the screensaver's
going to go away.
| | 06:13 |
Now what you can also do is you can show
the clock with the screensaver.
| | 06:19 |
So if I turn that on, I can activate the
screensaver, and you'll see that it shows
| | 06:24 |
the current time as well.
That's pretty handy.
| | 06:29 |
Now, the other thing I want to point out,
is that, there's not much security
| | 06:32 |
involved with this screensaver.
If you activate it, all somebody really
| | 06:37 |
needs to do is move the mouse to wake up
or deactivate the screensaver and they
| | 06:41 |
can get to your files.
So, one last thing I'm going to show you
| | 06:46 |
is how you can password protect that
screensaver.
| | 06:49 |
In my System Preferences window here, I'm
going to click on the Show All button,
| | 06:53 |
and I'm going to come up here to the
Security and Privacy preference pane.
| | 06:59 |
Within the General category, I can choose
to require a password immediately after
| | 07:04 |
the sleep or screensaver begins.
What that's going to do is, I can go
| | 07:10 |
ahead and close out of this, is when I
activate the screensaver by moving my
| | 07:15 |
cursor into the lower right corner Now
the screensaver begins but, when I move
| | 07:20 |
my mouse it's going to ask me for my
password.
| | 07:26 |
So, I have to enter the password for my
account in order for this to deactivate.
| | 07:33 |
So, if I enter my password now the
screensaver will deactivate and I can get
| | 07:36 |
back to work.
There's a lot you can do with these two options.
| | 07:41 |
I encourage you to adjust these settings
on your own computer, to personalize your
| | 07:45 |
own working environment.
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| The Dashboard| 00:02 |
The Dashboard is a handy tool in Mountain
Lion that provides quick access to
| | 00:06 |
specialized applications called widgets.
These widgets provide useful information
| | 00:11 |
based on the widgets that you add to the
Dashboard.
| | 00:14 |
Let me show you how this works.
Now to access the Dashboard, there's a
| | 00:18 |
shortcut key that you need to use and
that shortcut key is F12.
| | 00:24 |
Now if you've just tried that, you've
probably noticed that it actually doesn't
| | 00:27 |
work by default.
Some of you, it may have worked, but by
| | 00:31 |
default when you buy a new Mac this will
not work.
| | 00:34 |
The reason is that by default in order to
access those function keys, you need to
| | 00:38 |
hold down the function key as well as the
F key.
| | 00:43 |
Now we do have the ability to change that
however, so to do that I'm going to show you.
| | 00:48 |
You'll go to the Apple menu, go to System
Preferences and we're going to click on
| | 00:54 |
the Keyboard Preference pane.
Within the Keyboard section you'll notice
| | 01:00 |
that the first check box is called use
all F1 keys as standard function keys.
| | 01:06 |
When that's not checked, you need to hold
down the Function key as well as the F
| | 01:10 |
key to access that feature.
So, we're going to make life easier, I'm
| | 01:15 |
going to turn that option on, and then
I'm going to go ahead and quit the System Preferences.
| | 01:21 |
And now when I simply press the F12 key,
it's going to access the Dashboard.
| | 01:25 |
Now by default when you access the
Dashboard, there are four widgets
| | 01:28 |
installed by default, and they are pretty
handy to use.
| | 01:32 |
We have a weather report, a calculator, a
calendar and a clock.
| | 01:37 |
All very useful for different features.
The reality however, is that you may
| | 01:42 |
want to add your own widgets.
So, to do that I'm going to come down
| | 01:46 |
here and click on the plus sign.
Now there's a number of different widgets
| | 01:50 |
that you can choose from right in this
window, without having to do much.
| | 01:54 |
So, I'm going to click on the unit
converter.
| | 01:56 |
And that's going to add that to my
Dashboard.
| | 01:59 |
And I should also point out that you can
just drag these, to rearrange them in
| | 02:03 |
different ways.
So, for example, we can use this converter.
| | 02:07 |
I'm going to go ahead and choose length,
and I'm going to see how long 100 miles
| | 02:12 |
is in kilometers.
And as you can see, it did the conversion
| | 02:17 |
immediately, and this is 160.9
kilometers.
| | 02:20 |
Very, very useful.
Now, what we can also do, however, is we
| | 02:24 |
can go out on the Internet to get
additional widgets.
| | 02:28 |
So, if you click the plus sign, it's
going to take you back to this window.
| | 02:32 |
And we're going to click on the More
Widgets button.
| | 02:35 |
And that's going to open up Safari, and
take you to the dashboard widgets webpage
| | 02:39 |
on the Apple site.
Now what I'm going to do is, I'm going to
| | 02:44 |
scroll down here in this first category
to this status category.
| | 02:48 |
And them I'm going to scroll down and
there's a widget in here I'd like to use
| | 02:52 |
called iStat Nano.
So, I'm going to choose that option and
| | 02:56 |
here it gives me a link where I can
download this file.
| | 03:00 |
So, I'm going to go ahead and click on
download.
| | 03:03 |
And within a couple seconds, SafarI's
going to download that widget and this is
| | 03:07 |
going to give me an error message.
Now, this is a message that's going to
| | 03:11 |
pop up in Mountain Lion occasionally.
And this is part of the new Gatekeeper
| | 03:16 |
feature inside of Mountain Lion.
Essentially what it's trying to do, is
| | 03:21 |
protect you from inadvertent applications
or applications that are not trusted.
| | 03:27 |
Now that doesn't mean that every
application that gets this window is bad.
| | 03:31 |
It's simply saying that because this app
was not purchased from the Mac App store,
| | 03:35 |
and the developer is not identified, that
it's not going to allow you to install it
| | 03:39 |
by default.
So, to fix that, I'm going to click OK.
| | 03:44 |
I'm going to go to the Apple menu and
choose System Preferences again.
| | 03:48 |
And I'm going to come up here and click
on the Security and Privacy section.
| | 03:53 |
And you'll notice down here is where I
want to focus.
| | 03:57 |
So, I'm going to authenticate by clicking
on this lock and I'm going to enter my
| | 04:00 |
administrative password.
And you'll see here I have three choices.
| | 04:06 |
Allow applications downloaded from the
App Store, the App Store and identified
| | 04:10 |
developers, or anywhere.
So, to install this widget, I'm going to
| | 04:14 |
turn on anywhere.
I'm going to click allow from anywhere.
| | 04:18 |
And then I'm going to go ahead and quit
the System Preferences.
| | 04:22 |
Now what I'm going to do is back in
Safari, I'm going to click on the
| | 04:25 |
Download button up here, and I'm going to
double-click on iStat Nano.
| | 04:29 |
It asks me if I want to install this
widget on the Dashboard.
| | 04:34 |
I'm going to click Install.
And you'll see that now it added it to my Dashboard.
| | 04:40 |
So, I'm going to go ahead and close this
and quit Safari.
| | 04:42 |
Now if I press F12.
It's going to show me the Dashboard, but
| | 04:46 |
I have to go one more step to add it to
the Dashboard.
| | 04:50 |
I'll click the plus sign.
Here is iStat Nano.
| | 04:54 |
I'm going to go ahead and click that.
And now it's going to add this to my Dashboard.
| | 04:59 |
This is simply a quick little widget,
that gives me information about my computer.
| | 05:03 |
Such as the CPU, how intensive it's
being, and so on and so forth.
| | 05:09 |
I'm going to go ahead and press F12 to
get out of the Dashboard.
| | 05:13 |
And thanks to the large number of custom
widgets that are available, you can add
| | 05:17 |
the ones that make sense.
For the type of work that you do.
| | 05:21 |
To make it an incredibly powerful tool
for you to use.
| | 05:24 |
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| Mission Control| 00:02 |
Mission Control is a centralized area for
managing open application windows on your Mac.
| | 00:07 |
As you work with more and more
applications, the process of keeping
| | 00:10 |
track of open windows and the like
becomes more complex.
| | 00:15 |
Mission Control aims to simplify that
process.
| | 00:18 |
Let me show you how it works.
In the Finder, we can come down to the
| | 00:22 |
Dock at the bottom of the screen, and
you'll notice that we have an icon for
| | 00:26 |
Mission Control.
Now, if you have sort of customized your
| | 00:30 |
icon, you can always add it in by finding
Mission Control in your Applications
| | 00:33 |
folder, located right here.
So, just drag that down and drop it in
| | 00:38 |
here and you can access it once again
from the Dock.
| | 00:42 |
You can also access Mission Control using
a keyboard shortcut, which is F9.
| | 00:48 |
So, I'm going to go ahead and click on
Mission Control, and you're going to be
| | 00:51 |
able to see that our screen changes to a
different appearance.
| | 00:55 |
Now, there's two things going on here.
The main window is going to show you all
| | 00:58 |
of your open application windows.
While up here at the top we have what are
| | 01:03 |
called spaces.
Which are basically multiple different
| | 01:06 |
desktops to help you work more
efficiently.
| | 01:09 |
Now I'm going to go ahead and press
Escape to get out of mission control and
| | 01:12 |
to show you really how this works, we're
going to go to the File menu and I'm
| | 01:14 |
going to create a couple of Finder
windows.
| | 01:18 |
So, I'm going to go ahead and just kind
of re-size this window over here.
| | 01:22 |
Maybe I'll make this one show my
applications, I'm going to create yet
| | 01:26 |
another Finder window and this is
going to show my Documents folder.
| | 01:31 |
Maybe I'll set that to a different view.
And then, let's create one more.
| | 01:37 |
And maybe this one is going to be showing
my Pictures folder and maybe I'll just
| | 01:40 |
open that Fun Pics folder so, you can see
within the Finder I have multiple windows open.
| | 01:46 |
And if you've worked on the Mac for an
extensive period of time, you know that
| | 01:49 |
often times your windows overlap each
other and they can be difficult to access.
| | 01:55 |
So, what we can do is if we launch the
Mission Control application, you can see
| | 02:00 |
now that all of the windows that are
opened by the Finder are going to be
| | 02:04 |
grouped categorically.
And as you hover over each window, they
| | 02:10 |
get highlighted, so you can click on
them, to bring it forward and access that window.
| | 02:16 |
Now let's take it step further.
I'm going to launch Safari, and we're
| | 02:21 |
going to go to a couple websites.
I'm going to start with Apple, then I'll
| | 02:25 |
go to the File menu and choose New Window
to open up another browser window.
| | 02:31 |
This one will go to a different website.
And let's just do one more so we have a
| | 02:37 |
total of three.
There we go.
| | 02:43 |
Now, if I access Mission Control again,
you're going to notice now, that the
| | 02:47 |
Finder windows are grouped over here, and
the Safari windows are grouped over here.
| | 02:54 |
And if I wanted to get to the Apple
browser window, I just hover over it,
| | 02:58 |
click on it, and that's going to open up
that window.
| | 03:02 |
Now in addition, when we access Mission
Control, I'm going to click on that one
| | 03:05 |
more time, you can also see up here at
the top, we have what are called spaces.
| | 03:11 |
Now by default and in the preferences,
the dashboard is set as a space so we can
| | 03:15 |
click on that.
And that's going to access our Dashboard.
| | 03:20 |
I'm going to go ahead and press Escape to
get out of there and I'm going to go back
| | 03:23 |
to Mission Control.
And here is our desktop.
| | 03:27 |
Now the purpose of Spaces is to help you
work a little bit more efficiently,
| | 03:31 |
because if I click on this desktop you
can see I have a ton of windows open.
| | 03:36 |
And we can close them, we can minimize
them, we can move them out of the way,
| | 03:39 |
but at the end of the day, they're
going to be cumbersome to work with.
| | 03:43 |
So, what spaces allows us to do is create
additional desktops, let me show you how
| | 03:48 |
it works.
Click on Mission Control, I'm going to
| | 03:51 |
move my cursor up here into the upper
right corner and you'll see a plus sign.
| | 03:55 |
I'm going to click the plus sign, and
you'll notice now I have a second desktop.
| | 04:02 |
If I click on this one, it's still the
same user account, it's still the same
| | 04:06 |
desktop folder.
However this particular desktop has
| | 04:11 |
windows on it.
I can show you this another way.
| | 04:14 |
We'll go ahead and create another Finder
window.
| | 04:16 |
You can see its going to open it up
inside of that particular space.
| | 04:21 |
So, I go back to Mission Control, click
on desktop two.
| | 04:25 |
Now as you can see, we have no windows.
So, if I go to new Finder window, I'm
| | 04:30 |
going to set this one to show my
downloads folder.
| | 04:35 |
And maybe what we'll do is just position
this down here, re-size it, we can even
| | 04:41 |
customize this.
I'm going to go to the view menu and
| | 04:46 |
choose Hide path bar, and hide side bar.
And even hide tool bar.
| | 04:53 |
So now we just have a window that's
showing us some basic information.
| | 04:56 |
Maybe I want to use it as reference.
So, if I access mission control we can
| | 05:00 |
see the two desktops over here.
If I click on the first one that shows me
| | 05:04 |
the desktop with all my windows.
But if I go back up there and click on
| | 05:09 |
the second desktop, it's going to show me
the one I just customized.
| | 05:14 |
So this can be really helpful when you
are working on multiple projects and you
| | 05:17 |
have to have different windows open.
Those different desktops can be really helpful.
| | 05:23 |
So those are referred to as spaces.
Now, we have additional options that help
| | 05:27 |
us to customize Mission Control.
Let's take a look at those.
| | 05:31 |
I'm going to go to the Apple menu, I'm
going to choose System Preferences, and
| | 05:34 |
then up here at the top, under the
personal category, I'm going to choose
| | 05:37 |
Mission Control.
So, what this allows me to do, is the
| | 05:43 |
first option show dashboard as a space.
That's why when I access mission control,
| | 05:49 |
it actually shows the dashboard as its
own particular space.
| | 05:55 |
Go ahead and go back here.
The second one automatically rearranged
| | 05:59 |
spaces based on most recent use.
That's what creates the organization of
| | 06:04 |
those spaces based on the one that I used
last.
| | 06:08 |
Also, when switching to an application
switch to a space with open windows for
| | 06:12 |
the application so it just makes it a
little bit easier to work.
| | 06:17 |
And then I also wanted to group the
windows by application.
| | 06:20 |
If I turn that off and I go to mission
control.
| | 06:23 |
The windows will no longer be grouped by
application, as you can see here.
| | 06:28 |
So, let's go ahead and go back to the
space that we were working in, and I'll
| | 06:32 |
turn that back on.
Finally, I want to show you there are
| | 06:37 |
shortcuts that are assigned to different
things here.
| | 06:40 |
F9 is going to activate mission control.
F10 is going to show me only the
| | 06:45 |
application windows.
So, this is better to see, if I switch to
| | 06:50 |
my first desktop and I hit F10, you can
see the current application is the
| | 06:54 |
Finder, and it's showing me every window
that that application has opened.
| | 07:01 |
Pretty nice.
So I'll go back here.
| | 07:03 |
F11 is going to hide everything on my
screen, so that I can see the desktop
| | 07:07 |
behind those windows.
Press F11 again and it'll bring em back.
| | 07:12 |
And then F12 is going to show the
dashboard.
| | 07:16 |
I'm going to go ahead and hit F12 again.
If you wanted to clean up, your
| | 07:20 |
dashboard, and your spaces, we can quit
out of system preferences.
| | 07:25 |
I'm going to hit F9 to access mission
control.
| | 07:29 |
And you can hover over one of these
spaces, and an X is going to appear.
| | 07:34 |
Now, the first desktop is always going to
exist.
| | 07:37 |
You always need at least one.
But after that, you're able to come up
| | 07:41 |
here, click on the X to get rid of that
space, and then you can just press Esc to
| | 07:45 |
return back to your main window.
So, when it comes to managing application
| | 07:51 |
windows and even multiple desktops,
Mission Control doesn't disappoint.
| | 07:56 |
By making it easy to access all of your
open windows, and even start with a clean
| | 08:00 |
desktop when needed, Mission Control is
second to none.
| | 08:04 |
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| Launchpad| 00:02 |
I like to refer to Launchpad as
applications central because it's a
| | 00:05 |
single point of access for every
application on your computer.
| | 00:10 |
Launchpad eliminates the need to dig
through your Applications folder for an
| | 00:13 |
application that you don't have readily
available in the dock or as a shortcut.
| | 00:19 |
With Launchpad you could also organize
your applications into categories as well.
| | 00:25 |
Now Launchpad can be found down here in
your dock.
| | 00:28 |
It's an icon, it's like a little rocket
that's pointing upwards and you can also
| | 00:32 |
access this from your Applications folder
as well.
| | 00:36 |
So if you scroll down here you're going
to notice that Launchpad is right here.
| | 00:40 |
So, if for some reason you removed it
from your dock at some point you can go
| | 00:43 |
ahead and add it back in.
Unfortunately, Launchpad doesn't have a
| | 00:47 |
keyboard shortcut at least by default.
However, it's pretty easy to add a
| | 00:53 |
keyboard shortcut in there.
So, if you go to the Apple menu, Systems
| | 00:57 |
Preferences, we're going to go ahead and
go to the Keyboard option and then we're
| | 01:02 |
going to click on Keyboard Shortcuts.
And you can come over here to Launchpad
| | 01:07 |
and Dock.
And you can click on Show Launchpad and
| | 01:10 |
then just type a keyboard shortcut in
this field over here, so if I wanted to
| | 01:15 |
make it Option+Cmd+L, that would become
the new keyboard shortcut for launching
| | 01:20 |
the Launchpad.
Just keep in mind that if this conflicts
| | 01:26 |
with any other applications that you use,
you may want to change that.
| | 01:32 |
Now I'm actually going to turn that off
for now, I just wanted to show you how to
| | 01:35 |
add a shortcut if you wanted to.
I'm ready to go ahead and quit System Preferences.
| | 01:40 |
Now I'm going to go ahead and launch
Launchpad by clicking on the icon in the
| | 01:44 |
dock, and you're going to see what
Launchpad looks like.
| | 01:48 |
Now the job of Launchpad, is to show you
essentially every application on your computer.
| | 01:54 |
And if you have an iOS device, such as an
iPhone or an iPad this is going to look
| | 01:58 |
pretty familiar.
Because within here you can simply click
| | 02:02 |
on one of these applications and it's
going to launch that application so you
| | 02:06 |
can use it.
I'm going to go ahead and quit this
| | 02:10 |
application, we'll go back to Launchpad.
If you have multiple screens of
| | 02:15 |
applications you can see that they show
up down here, using these buttons or
| | 02:19 |
these little bulleted icards, and if you
click and drag with your mouse you can
| | 02:23 |
swipe to the next page.
So I'll go ahead and swipe back to the
| | 02:28 |
first page.
Let's say I'm looking for a particular utility.
| | 02:33 |
If I start typing something such as text.
It's going to filter down the
| | 02:37 |
Applications to only show me that
particular application.
| | 02:42 |
And then, if I press return, it'll launch
that application for me.
| | 02:45 |
Pretty useful.
So I'll go ahead and quit that
| | 02:49 |
application, we're going to go back to
Launchpad, and in addition to being able
| | 02:53 |
to filter the applications by just
typing, you know if I type contacts, it's
| | 02:57 |
going to filter to only that one.
I'm going to get rid of that, because we
| | 03:04 |
can also organize our applications as
well.
| | 03:08 |
So let's say I wanted to organize a
couple of my applications based on media.
| | 03:13 |
So I have iTunes here, and I also have
the QuickTime player.
| | 03:16 |
One's for music, one's for movies.
So what I can do is if I drag the iTunes
| | 03:22 |
icon, and drop it on top of QuickTime
player you can see that it does something
| | 03:27 |
very similar to what you might see in an
iOS device.
| | 03:32 |
And I can drop it down here and now you
can see that both applications are within
| | 03:36 |
this category or, essentially, a folder.
I can click on the name of this folder,
| | 03:42 |
and maybe change the name to Media, press
Return and then when I click back off of
| | 03:47 |
this, you can see that now I've organized
that into a Media folder or category.
| | 03:55 |
So it's pretty helpful to be able to
organize these.
| | 03:59 |
Same thing here, we have the Dictionary
and Text Edit.
| | 04:02 |
Chances are you might use them together.
So I drag Text Edit on top of the
| | 04:06 |
dictionary, and then just kind of drop
that in there and now both of those
| | 04:10 |
applications are within this category.
Maybe I'll change this to writing.
| | 04:17 |
So, I'll click off of there and then they
rearrange to take up less room.
| | 04:23 |
So not only is it helpful to alleviate
room but it is also helpful to get
| | 04:28 |
categorized content.
Now, I'm going to go one step further for
| | 04:34 |
accessing Launchpad, because what they
did is they added the ability to use
| | 04:39 |
gestures to access Launchpad.
Now to show you this, what I'm going to
| | 04:44 |
do is go to the Apple menu and go to
System Preferences.
| | 04:48 |
And I want to point out that this is
going to pertain to anybody who's using a laptop.
| | 04:54 |
Or anybody who has the Apple Trackpad as
a separate device.
| | 04:59 |
So if I click on the Trackpad button,
this is really helpful because it'll give
| | 05:04 |
you a video and show you some of the
common gestures that are used.
| | 05:10 |
And I want to show you that a great way
to launch Launchpad as you can see, is to
| | 05:14 |
swipe using that gesture.
You simply close your fingers together,
| | 05:20 |
open them back up.
And that's how you launch Launchpad.
| | 05:24 |
So I'll go ahead and quit System
Preferences and if I use that gesture on
| | 05:27 |
my computer, it opens up Launchpad.
If I don't want to see it anymore, I just
| | 05:32 |
pinch my fingers together and open them
up, and that will get rid of it.
| | 05:38 |
So gestures can be really useful as well,
for doing different things inside of
| | 05:42 |
Mountain Lion, as well as just being more
efficient.
| | 05:47 |
As you can see Launchpad can be
invaluable when looking for an
| | 05:50 |
application that you might not use on a
regular basis.
| | 05:53 |
It's also really nice to be able to group
certain applications together for easy
| | 05:57 |
access when you need them quickly.
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5. Browsing the Web with SafariConnecting to the Internet| 00:02 |
Connecting to the Internet in Mountain
Lion is pretty simple.
| | 00:05 |
Today there are two primary methods used
to gain Internet access on a computer.
| | 00:10 |
The traditional method of using a
physical ethernet cable is one, and the
| | 00:13 |
more prevalent wireless connection is
another.
| | 00:18 |
Let's take a look at both methods here,
so you know how to connect using both.
| | 00:23 |
One last thing I'd like to explain, is
that I'm going to assume that you already
| | 00:26 |
have an Internet connection at the
location you're using your computer.
| | 00:31 |
Once that is set up, you're ready to
connect.
| | 00:34 |
Now, I'm going to begin by opening up the
system preferences pane.
| | 00:38 |
So I'm going to go to the Apple menu and
I'm going to go to System Preferences.
| | 00:42 |
And then I'm going to click on the
Network button under the Internet and
| | 00:45 |
wireless category.
This is going to show you all of the
| | 00:50 |
network interfaces available on your
computer.
| | 00:54 |
Now, the two that we're going to focus on
here is Ethernet and Wi-Fi, or Wireless.
| | 01:00 |
You do have some other connection methods
you can use, but the most common are
| | 01:04 |
Ethernet and Wi-Fi.
Now we can see right here, that on my
| | 01:09 |
computer, I currently have no Internet
connection whatsoever as indicated by the
| | 01:13 |
red and or yellow or orange buttons on
the left hand side.
| | 01:19 |
You'll know you have an Internet
connection when it shows up as green.
| | 01:23 |
And the reason I'm bringing up this panel
is because when you're connecting to the Internet.
| | 01:27 |
This is a great way to tell whether you
have a current active Internet connection.
| | 01:31 |
So what I'm going to do right now is I'm
going to plug in an ethernet cable to my computer.
| | 01:37 |
You'll notice that the minute I do so,
the ethernet port up here shows up with a
| | 01:42 |
green indicator letting me know that I
have a current Internet connection.
| | 01:48 |
Now, in my particular computer, I have
two ethernet ports for various reasons,
| | 01:52 |
but you're probably only going to have
one listed here.
| | 01:56 |
And if you click on that, it's going to
show you the properties of the current
| | 02:00 |
network that you're connected to.
So that of course is one way that you can
| | 02:05 |
connect to the Internet.
The other method is using Wi-Fi.
| | 02:09 |
So if I click on the Wi-Fi indicator.
One of the things is very helpful
| | 02:13 |
especially if you use a laptop.
And you travel from one location to
| | 02:18 |
another connecting to various wireless
networks ,is you can turn on this
| | 02:22 |
checkbox down here.
To show the Wi-Fi status in the menu bar,
| | 02:26 |
what that will do is appear to show you
the current Wi-Fi status.
| | 02:31 |
So what I'm going to do is make sure I
turn Wi-Fi on, by clicking on this button here.
| | 02:37 |
And then I have the opportunity to choose
the wireless network that I want to
| | 02:40 |
connect to.
So I'm going to click on the network name
| | 02:43 |
in the drop down menu, and choose the
wireless network I want to connect to.
| | 02:48 |
And in most cases, you're going to be
asked for a wireless password.
| | 02:51 |
So, I'm going to go ahead and enter my
wireless password, and I'll click the
| | 02:55 |
Join button.
And you'll notice now, I also have a
| | 02:59 |
Wi-Fi connection.
So the network preferences pane is a
| | 03:03 |
great place for you to go to see the
current status of your Internet connections.
| | 03:10 |
Now I'm going to go ahead and go to the
System Preferences menu and choose Quit.
| | 03:15 |
And just to check to verify that I have
an Internet connection, I'll go ahead and
| | 03:18 |
launch my Safari web browser.
And you'll know if your connection is
| | 03:23 |
good if you can access a website.
So I simply went to the apple website,
| | 03:27 |
you can test whatever website you want.
And as long as it's displaying the
| | 03:32 |
appropriate webpage, you know that you
now have an active Internet connection.
| | 03:36 |
As you can see connecting to the Internet
is quite simple using Mountain Lion.
| | 03:41 |
Regardless of whether you use a physical
cable or a wireless connection, you
| | 03:44 |
should now know how to set up an Internet
connection on your computer,
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| Safari fundamentals| 00:02 |
Safari is the default web browser that
ships with Mountain Lion, and it's packed
| | 00:05 |
with a ton of great new features that
will make your web browsing experience a
| | 00:08 |
pleasant one.
Let's take a tour of Safari to get a
| | 00:12 |
better idea of the options available.
In the Finder, the Safari icon is
| | 00:17 |
generally located in the dock, at least
it is by default.
| | 00:23 |
But if it's not there, you can always go
to your Applications folders to launch it.
| | 00:27 |
So I'm going to go ahead and click on
this little compass icon, to launch
| | 00:29 |
Safari on my computer.
Now by default, Safari is going to open
| | 00:34 |
up to a default webpage.
Now one of the new features that they've
| | 00:39 |
added in Mountain Lion is that of the URL
bar up here at the top.
| | 00:44 |
Whereas in previous versions, the URL bar
was on the left hand side, and the Google
| | 00:48 |
bar was on the right.
In Mountain Lion, they've combined the
| | 00:53 |
two fields into one.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to
| | 00:56 |
do a quick Google search.
I'm going to do a search for Wikipedia,
| | 01:00 |
and Mountain Lion, and OS X, and I'm
going to see what Wikipedia has on the
| | 01:05 |
topic of OS X Mountain Lion.
If I click on this link, it's going to
| | 01:12 |
allow me to browse to that link.
And give me detailed information about
| | 01:16 |
Mountain Lion.
And probably about the history of OS X.
| | 01:21 |
So that looks pretty interesting to me.
And I think I might like to read that.
| | 01:25 |
Well, another great feature of Safari is
that, if you look way over here to the
| | 01:29 |
right side of the Google URL bar.
You'll see that the reader button is highlighted.
| | 01:36 |
What that does for you and me is, if I
click on it, it hides all of the
| | 01:39 |
distracting content that's on the page.
Allowing me to focus on the article itself.
| | 01:46 |
This is really useful when you want to
read an article.
| | 01:49 |
Such as a news article, or an
informational article.
| | 01:52 |
You can read through this without any of
those distracting elements.
| | 01:56 |
To get out of the reader you simply click
on the reader button again.
| | 02:00 |
And it goes back to the original web
page.
| | 02:03 |
This is one of the great features that I
love about Safari.
| | 02:06 |
Now let's say you don't want to read it
right now.
| | 02:08 |
Let's say maybe you find the article
interesting, but you might want to read
| | 02:11 |
it a little bit later.
Well that's where the reading list comes
| | 02:15 |
into play.
Way over here on the left-hand side of
| | 02:19 |
the toolbar, you have the Show Reading
List button.
| | 02:22 |
And what I can do is I can click on that
button, and I can drag this URL down to
| | 02:26 |
my Reading List.
That adds it as an item in my Reading List.
| | 02:32 |
Now I can go back to browsing the web,
searching for other content, but if I
| | 02:36 |
want to come back to it later on, I can
just click on the Reading List button,
| | 02:40 |
and then click on this link, to show that
site.
| | 02:44 |
This is one of the great feature that are
found in Safari.
| | 02:48 |
This is great for people doing research
as well.
| | 02:51 |
So, let's say, for example, I'm at Google
Maps, and I've decided that I've changed
| | 02:54 |
my mind, I now want to read that article.
I can, now, just click on the reading list.
| | 02:59 |
Click on the OS X Mountain Lion article,
and then close the reading list, and now
| | 03:03 |
I'm free to read that article without a
problem.
| | 03:07 |
Again, a great tool for research
purposes.
| | 03:10 |
Now the other thing that's really useful
is the bookmarks feature, so let's see
| | 03:13 |
how that works.
I'm going to go ahead and go to a website
| | 03:16 |
here, I'm going to go to the video2brain
website.
| | 03:19 |
And this looks like a pretty good website
that I might want to come back to on a
| | 03:23 |
regular basis.
So what better thing to do than to add it
| | 03:26 |
as a bookmark in Safari?
Now, I could do that a couple of
| | 03:30 |
different ways.
One way I can do this is to come up to
| | 03:33 |
the Bookmarks menu, and I can choose Add
Bookmark.
| | 03:36 |
It can add this to the Bookmarks bar,
which is this bar right up here.
| | 03:43 |
Or I can add it to the Bookmarks menu.
So I'll go ahead and add it to the
| | 03:47 |
Bookmarks menu for now.
And I'll just give this a more simplistic name.
| | 03:51 |
I'll just call this video2brain.
And I'm going to go ahead and click the
| | 03:54 |
Add button.
And now on the Bookmarks bar I now have a
| | 03:57 |
bookmark for video2brain.
Now as you've seen I can also add this to
| | 04:02 |
the Bookmarks bar.
So what I can do there is, if I want to
| | 04:06 |
add it I can just drag the Favicon icon,
and just drop it in the Bookmarks bar,
| | 04:10 |
and I can rename it here as well.
Now whenever I want to access this I can
| | 04:17 |
just click on the button.
In addition, you can see these bookmarks
| | 04:21 |
by clicking on the Bookmark button.
And that will show you your history.
| | 04:26 |
Your Bookmarks bar.
We can see the icon added here.
| | 04:29 |
The Bookmarks menu.
See that here.
| | 04:33 |
So you can access these bookmarks in a
number of different ways.
| | 04:36 |
I'm going to Close that Bookmark.
Let's go to one more site here.
| | 04:40 |
I'm going to go to a different website.
Go to my web page, and this is a fairly
| | 04:47 |
basic webpage, but it has some good
content on it so, I'm going to Add this
| | 04:51 |
to my Bookmark Bar as well.
So, I'm going to click on the Bookmarks
| | 04:56 |
menu, and I'm going to choose Add
Bookmark.
| | 04:59 |
And this time, I'm going to add it to the
Bookmark bar.
| | 05:02 |
And then I'll go ahead and give this a
name, click the Add button, and now that
| | 05:08 |
item got added as well.
You can always rearrange these up here if
| | 05:14 |
you wish by just dragging them.
So what I can also do is, I can click on
| | 05:17 |
this Bookmarks button, and I can make
sure I'm clicked on the Bookmarks bar,
| | 05:20 |
and we can see that the two websites that
I added are listed right here.
| | 05:25 |
They're also listed up here as well.
They basically mimic each other.
| | 05:29 |
Now what I could also do is come up here
to the Bookmarks menu, and I could choose
| | 05:33 |
Add Bookmark Folder, and I am going to
give this a name of training.
| | 05:38 |
Now I'm going to go back to the Bookmarks
bar and I'm going to drag that folder
| | 05:42 |
down here into the Bookmarks bar.
And I'm going to select these two
| | 05:46 |
websites and drop them into the training
folder.
| | 05:50 |
The nice thing about utilizing folders in
the bookmark bar.
| | 05:54 |
I'll go ahead and close this panel here,
is that I now have a category and if I
| | 05:58 |
click on the drop-down menu I can access
multiple sites.
| | 06:04 |
When you create a folder and add it to
the Bookmarks bar.
| | 06:07 |
It's a really useful feature than can
really help you to browse and navigate
| | 06:11 |
sites very efficiently.
As you can see, Safari is simple to use
| | 06:16 |
yet powerful.
It allows you to access sites, save sites
| | 06:19 |
and read content easily, without
distractions.
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| Top Sites| 00:02 |
Top Sites is great feature that allows
you to save frequently visited websites
| | 00:06 |
in a visual grid within Safari.
Top Sites is easy to configure and even
| | 00:11 |
easier to use.
Let me show you how Top Sites works.
| | 00:15 |
I'm going to start by launching Safari on
my computer.
| | 00:20 |
And you can see that we're redirected to
the default webpage that's built into Safari.
| | 00:26 |
Now, Top Sites is accessed by clicking
this button right here.
| | 00:31 |
Now when you click on Top Sites, you're
going to see that we have a grid of webpages.
| | 00:37 |
Now, by default, this grid is
auto-populated as you start navigating to
| | 00:42 |
different websites.
Within this Top Sites window, not only do
| | 00:46 |
you have top web sites, which we're
going to configure in a few minutes, but
| | 00:50 |
you can also access your history as well.
So this is the current history that I
| | 00:56 |
have within my web browser.
Now I'm going to go ahead an go back to
| | 01:00 |
Top Sites.
And as you can see, this is automatically
| | 01:04 |
populated with default websites that I
may have visited in the past.
| | 01:09 |
Now what I'm going to do is go to a
website.
| | 01:11 |
So I'm going to type up here.
There we go.
| | 01:20 |
So there's a website that I go to pretty
frequently.
| | 01:23 |
And I might want to add this to Top
Sites.
| | 01:26 |
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to
drag this icon, the Favicon icon, right
| | 01:30 |
in the URL bar.
And I'm going to drag it on top of that
| | 01:34 |
Top Sites icon.
Now when I go to the Top Sites window, we
| | 01:38 |
can see that that website now appears
automatically.
| | 01:42 |
Now, we have a lot of control here.
Because, by default, as I visit more and
| | 01:46 |
more webpages, these are actually
going to change to reflect recently
| | 01:49 |
visited web pages.
Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to
| | 01:53 |
click the Edit button down here.
And we could do a couple of different
| | 01:56 |
things here.
Let's start with the basics.
| | 01:59 |
Way over here to the right, we can change
this to an even smaller grid so that even
| | 02:03 |
more Top Sites shows up in this window.
We can use a medium grid or a large grid,
| | 02:09 |
depending on your preference.
So I'm going to leave it set to medium,
| | 02:13 |
because having 12 different top sites is
a pretty good amount for me.
| | 02:18 |
And then what I'm going to do as well, is
as you work with these websites, you can
| | 02:23 |
see that the one that I dragged in here
manually has the pushpin activated.
| | 02:29 |
And that means that it's permanent in the
Top Sites window.
| | 02:33 |
The rest of them currently do not have
the pushpin activated, so they're
| | 02:37 |
going to change as I browse to additional
web pages.
| | 02:41 |
I'm going to go ahead and click the Done
button, and let's go to another website.
| | 02:49 |
Here's another website that I want to
access regularly.
| | 02:56 |
Again, I'm going to drag this Favicon and
drop it on the Top Sites icon.
| | 03:01 |
When I click on the Top Sites icon, there
is the website that I put in here.
| | 03:07 |
If we click the Edit button, we can see
again the pushpin is activated.
| | 03:11 |
And if there's ever any websites in here
that you see that you don't want any
| | 03:15 |
longer, you can click the X, and that'll
remove that from the Top Sites window.
| | 03:21 |
In addition, if you want to rearrange
these into a different order, you just
| | 03:24 |
click on them and drag them.
And you can change the location that
| | 03:28 |
they're going to appear in within the Top
Sites window.
| | 03:32 |
So you can rearrange them to your hearts
content.
| | 03:36 |
When you're done organizing and editing,
we can click the Done button.
| | 03:40 |
And now, these are no longer editable,
but I can access the website very quickly
| | 03:44 |
by simply clicking on one of these Top
Sites, and it'll take me to that website.
| | 03:50 |
So, you could see that once Top Sites is
configured, all of your favorite sites
| | 03:54 |
are literally a click away, and can be
accessed in no time at all.
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| Using the new Share feature| 00:02 |
The latest version of Safari that ships
with Mountain Lion, which is version six,
| | 00:06 |
contains a new share feature that makes
it incredibly easy to share web pages
| | 00:10 |
with other users, using multiple
different methods.
| | 00:15 |
I'm going to begin this video by
launching Safari on my computer.
| | 00:18 |
And when I open up Safari, I'm just
going to navigate to a web page here.
| | 00:23 |
And this looks like a pretty good blog
post that I've found, and I'd like to
| | 00:28 |
share this with some other users.
So you'll notice in Safari that directly
| | 00:35 |
to the left of the URL Google bar,
there's a button that allows you to share
| | 00:39 |
this web page.
Now if we click on this button, it's
| | 00:44 |
going to bring up a drop-down menu that
provides a number of different ways that
| | 00:47 |
we can share this.
Now the first two are really sharing this
| | 00:51 |
with yourself.
So we can add it to a reading list so we
| | 00:54 |
access it later.
We can add a bookmark again to access it later.
| | 00:59 |
But then we also have the ability to
email this page.
| | 01:04 |
So if I choose this option, it's going to
launch my mail application, and put this
| | 01:09 |
URL directly inside of the email.
Now, this option was actually available
| | 01:14 |
in previous versions of Safari.
It just wasn't as easily accessible.
| | 01:20 |
Now the next one is to share this URL or
webpage using the message application
| | 01:24 |
that is also new to Mountain Lion.
And then finally, you can share this
| | 01:29 |
using Twitter.
And this is the one that I'm going to
| | 01:32 |
choose in this example, because I want to
show you how you can set this up to use
| | 01:35 |
it using your own Twitter account.
So I'm going to choose Twitter, and I'm
| | 01:40 |
going to get a message saying that the
account has not been configured yet.
| | 01:44 |
Well that's easy enough to do.
As you can see we can just Cancel at this
| | 01:48 |
point or I can add an account.
So I'm going to go ahead and click the
| | 01:52 |
Add Account button, and that's going to
open up my System Preferences Pane.
| | 01:58 |
And it's going to ask me to set up my
Twitter account.
| | 02:01 |
So you should have a Twitter account
created ahead of time.
| | 02:04 |
And I do, so I'm going to enter my
Twitter account user name.
| | 02:08 |
An then I'm going to enter my password.
So I'll go ahead an click the Sign In
| | 02:14 |
button, and now my account has been added
to the system preferences pane.
| | 02:22 |
So now that that's completed, I'm
going to go ahead and Quit the System Preferences.
| | 02:27 |
Now let's go back to Safari and try that
again.
| | 02:29 |
So if I click on that and choose Twitter,
it's going to allow me to enter a Twitter
| | 02:34 |
tweet, if you will.
And I'm just going to type in here.
| | 02:45 |
And then I'm going to click the Send
button.
| | 02:56 |
And I've just actually sent this using my
Twitter account.
| | 03:00 |
One of the features that Apple is looking
to add to Safari in future releases is
| | 03:05 |
the ability to also share this via
Facebook.
| | 03:09 |
So even though we don't have the Facebook
option in this initial release.
| | 03:15 |
You can expect it very soon.
Regardless of your computing environment,
| | 03:19 |
Safari has become a great tool for
sharing information via traditional
| | 03:24 |
methods, such as email, newer methods
such as messages and social methods such
| | 03:29 |
as Twitter, and very soon even Facebook
as well.
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6. Sending and Receiving Email with Apple MailSetting up an email account| 00:02 |
Mountain Lion contains a robust email
application, aptly named Mail.
| | 00:06 |
Mail allows you to set up your email
account, so you can send and receive
| | 00:09 |
email messages from one or more accounts.
Setting up an email account in Mail is
| | 00:15 |
easy to do.
Let me show you how it works.
| | 00:18 |
I'm going to begin by launching Mail on
my computer.
| | 00:21 |
So my Mail icon is down here on my dock.
And I'm going to launch the application.
| | 00:28 |
Now because I have no accounts set up on
this computer I need to enter that
| | 00:32 |
information now.
So before you try to set up this account,
| | 00:37 |
you want to make sure you have
information such as the email address,
| | 00:41 |
the incoming server, outgoing server and
your password.
| | 00:46 |
So I'm going to go ahead and enter my
name in here (audio playing) and I'm going to go
| | 00:50 |
and enter my email address.
And then finally, my password.
| | 01:01 |
And I'll go ahead and click the Create
button.
| | 01:06 |
Now in the case of a Gmail account.
The set up process is quite simple,
| | 01:10 |
because Mail knows all of the parameters
about the Gmail account.
| | 01:15 |
So you'll notice it automatically entered
the server address for me.
| | 01:19 |
And so on and so forth.
So all it's really asking me at this
| | 01:22 |
point is whether I also want to set up
notes, calendars, and reminders, and
| | 01:26 |
messages for this account.
If you're using an account other than
| | 01:30 |
Gmail or something that's not a real
popular type of email account, it may ask
| | 01:34 |
you for even more information, again,
such as an incoming and outgoing server.
| | 01:40 |
So I'm going to go ahead and click the
Create button.
| | 01:43 |
And it's going to launch Mail on my
computer and show me any messages that I
| | 01:46 |
may have.
Now as you can see, Mail is already set
| | 01:50 |
up and ready for me to go.
So if I wanted to send a new message I
| | 01:55 |
can simply click the Create New Message
button here.
| | 01:58 |
And then I can enter a recipient, so I'm
going to go in and send one to myself to
| | 02:01 |
make sure my account is working
correctly.
| | 02:05 |
And I go ahead and click the Send button.
(audio playing) Notice that it sent the message,
| | 02:15 |
and I already received this message right
here.
| | 02:18 |
Now, one more thing to show you, where
that account is set up and configured, is
| | 02:22 |
if you go to your Apple menu and go to
System Preferences, and then click on the
| | 02:25 |
Mail Contacts and Calendars icon.
That's going to display your currently
| | 02:31 |
configured account.
You can see that this is a central
| | 02:35 |
location where you can configure many
different types of accounts including
| | 02:39 |
Twitter and Vimeo.
But email accounts as well, such as AOL,
| | 02:44 |
Yahoo, Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, and
even iCloud.
| | 02:48 |
Your email account doesn't have to fall
inside of any one of these categories however.
| | 02:52 |
As long as you have the pertinent
information, you can enter it in here by
| | 02:56 |
clicking the plus sign.
Now if I click this account, you'll
| | 03:00 |
notice that here it's showing me
information that's already set up for
| | 03:04 |
this account.
And if you click the Details button, you
| | 03:08 |
can also reenter your password as well.
I'm going to go ahead and cancel this.
| | 03:13 |
And we'll go ahead and close this.
The other area where you can get to your
| | 03:17 |
account configurations is by clicking on
the Mail menu and choosing Preferences.
| | 03:23 |
This is also going to show you, using
this icon, the Accounts button, where you
| | 03:26 |
can enter the appropriate information as
well.
| | 03:30 |
As you can see, Mail is quite simple to
configure.
| | 03:34 |
Before attempting to set up your email
account, make sure that you have all the
| | 03:37 |
information about your account that you
need, so the process is quick and easy.
| | 03:42 |
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| The Mail interface| 00:02 |
If you've never used Mail before it could
take some getting used to, as things
| | 00:05 |
might not be where you expect them to be.
Let's take a tour of the Mail interface,
| | 00:09 |
so you can become more comfortable
messaging with this great application.
| | 00:14 |
I'm beginning this video with Mail
already open on my computer.
| | 00:18 |
And as you can see, the Mail Interface
is not extremely complex and that, I
| | 00:22 |
believe, is by design because they
want to make it simple for you to use
| | 00:25 |
this program efficiently.
So, first thing's first, way up here at
| | 00:31 |
the top we have what's referred to as the
toolbar.
| | 00:34 |
And the toolbar by default has a number
of default buttons that we can use to
| | 00:38 |
message within Mail.
So for example, if I click on an email.
| | 00:44 |
I can then click on this button to reply
to the email.
| | 00:48 |
This button to reply to all.
And this button to forward it.
| | 00:53 |
So, what I can also do here, is I can
customize this toolbar.
| | 00:58 |
So, if I right-click on the toolbar, or
go to the View menu and choose Customize
| | 01:02 |
toolbar, I'm able to utilize all of these
different icon options to customize the
| | 01:07 |
toolbar up here at the top.
So, for example, let's say I want to add
| | 01:13 |
a new section here for unread and read
messages.
| | 01:17 |
I can use these icons.
Just drag them up here, drop them in, and
| | 01:20 |
now my toolbar has those new icons added.
If I want to add a little bit of space up
| | 01:25 |
here to break up these categories, I can
add a fixed space or a flexible space to
| | 01:29 |
break it up a little bit.
So I'll just drag this fixed space up here.
| | 01:34 |
And that will add a little bit of space
between those icons.
| | 01:38 |
Again, customize this to suit your needs.
If you decide at any point that you want
| | 01:43 |
to go back to the way that Mail shipped,
we can just drag the default toolbar up
| | 01:46 |
here, and it'll go back to the way that
it was.
| | 01:50 |
So I'm going to click on Done.
In addition, you'll notice that right
| | 01:54 |
below the toolbar we have what's referred
to as the favorites bar.
| | 01:57 |
And this is a way that we can access
frequently used mailboxes.
| | 02:02 |
So I can click on the Sent Messages to
see messages that I've sent.
| | 02:06 |
The Inbox to see my inbox of course.
And this button here will show my mailbox drawer.
| | 02:13 |
So, if I click on that, I can see any
accounts that I've already configured
| | 02:17 |
inside of Mail.
Now, in my example I only have one Mail
| | 02:20 |
account configured.
But that account is listed right here.
| | 02:25 |
It's a Gmail account.
And all of the folders that I have
| | 02:28 |
configured within that account are listed
here.
| | 02:31 |
Now I can go ahead and hide that as well.
In addition right here is our Messages window.
| | 02:37 |
This is where we see all of our new
messages and read messages as well, and
| | 02:41 |
you can also see in this main window
here, this is where your message is displayed.
| | 02:47 |
So, if I click on a particular message,
it's going to display the content over here.
| | 02:51 |
I can click on this message to display
its content and, once again, Reply or
| | 02:56 |
Reply To All, or Forward it from here.
I can also flag this message for later use.
| | 03:03 |
It shouldn't take long to get comfortable
with the Mail interface.
| | 03:07 |
Once you get familiar with it, you'll be
right at home using this program.
| | 03:11 |
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| Working with messages| 00:02 |
Sending and receiving messages in Mail is
one thing.
| | 00:05 |
But Mail offers many different
organizational tools that help you to not
| | 00:08 |
only stay on top of your email, but keep
them organized as well.
| | 00:12 |
Let me show you some of these great new
features.
| | 00:16 |
So I've already opened Mail on my
computer, and over here in my messages list.
| | 00:20 |
I just want to point out a couple of
things, that Mail suddenly indicates that
| | 00:24 |
you may not be aware of.
But once you are aware of them, you'll
| | 00:28 |
really want to pay attention to them.
So, first and foremost, it's really nice
| | 00:33 |
this consolidated list here shows you
when the message was received.
| | 00:38 |
Who it was from and it also shows you
whether it's been read or not.
| | 00:42 |
So, you can see the blue dot indicates
that this message is unread and when
| | 00:45 |
that's gone, it is read.
In addition, if you click on a message
| | 00:50 |
with this icon, we'll be able to see that
this particular message has been flagged
| | 00:54 |
as junk mail.
Now mail tries to identify messages that
| | 00:59 |
it thinks is junk but it may not always
do the right thing.
| | 01:04 |
So, what we can do when you get a message
like this, you can simply come over here
| | 01:07 |
to the upper right corner and click on,
Not Junk.
| | 01:11 |
And then the message will not be flagged.
I'm going to go ahead and click on one of
| | 01:14 |
these other messages because as you're
working in Mail.
| | 01:18 |
Mail is really a learning application, so
as you flag items as junk or not junk.
| | 01:23 |
It learns what you're doing and will
remember it in the future.
| | 01:27 |
So, for example, lets say this message
here was junk, I don't want this to come
| | 01:31 |
in anymore.
We can come up to our Message menu and I
| | 01:34 |
can say Mark As Junk mail and now its
going to mark this particular message as
| | 01:39 |
junk mail as well.
I don't really want to do that I'll go
| | 01:43 |
ahead and click Not Junk so it doesn't do
that again.
| | 01:47 |
Now, let's take a look at some other
things that we can do here.
| | 01:49 |
Here is a message from Tim Gray, my good
friend.
| | 01:52 |
And I want to reply to this message.
So, he's saying that, they reserved a
| | 01:56 |
pool table and he wants to know if I
want to join them.
| | 01:59 |
So, I'm going to go ahead and reply to
this message.
| | 02:03 |
And I'll just say something like, hey
Tim, sounds great for tonight.
| | 02:10 |
See you then.
And I'll just go ahead and press the Send
| | 02:14 |
button to send that message.
Now, you'll notice right away it, that
| | 02:22 |
it's also showing my response along with
his original message.
| | 02:27 |
And I find this pretty helpful because I
can always see at a glance what I replied
| | 02:31 |
back to the message.
Now, if I want to compose a new message,
| | 02:36 |
I can come up here and click on the
Create New Message button.
| | 02:41 |
And now I'm basically starting from
square one.
| | 02:44 |
Now one thing I want to point out is this
button over here.
| | 02:48 |
Now you'll notice I don't have a BCC
field for Blind Carbon Copy and a lot of
| | 02:52 |
people are asking why don't I have that
field?
| | 02:56 |
Well if you click this button you can
choose to display the BCC field, the
| | 02:59 |
Reply to Address field and even the
Priority field as well.
| | 03:03 |
So, if you're looking for any of those
options, they're displayed by choosing
| | 03:07 |
this button here.
Now what I'm going to do, I need to send
| | 03:11 |
another message to Tim Gray.
And I forgot to add him, to my contacts
| | 03:15 |
inside of my Contacts application.
But Mail is pretty smart because if I
| | 03:21 |
start typing Tim's name it's
automatically going to remember, his name
| | 03:24 |
and his email address.
So, I might go ahead and, enter a
| | 03:29 |
subject, maybe just checking in.
What time for tonight?.
| | 03:34 |
And I'll go ahead and press Send as well.
Now, in addition to some of these things
| | 03:42 |
what we can also do is we can organize
our messages as well.
| | 03:47 |
I'm going to go ahead and click this
button here to show my mailboxes and you
| | 03:51 |
can hover your cursor here you just kind
a open it up a little bit more.
| | 03:56 |
Because may be I'd like to file some of
these messages I don't want to delete
| | 03:59 |
them but I really don't need them in my
inbox any longer.
| | 04:04 |
So, we can come up to our Mailbox menu,
and I'm going to choose New Mailbox.
| | 04:08 |
And it wants to know if I want to put it
as a mailbox or folder within my Gmail
| | 04:12 |
account, or if I want to put it on my
computer.
| | 04:16 |
And this is really a personal choice.
If your email account supports online
| | 04:21 |
folders, then that's a pretty nice choice
to use.
| | 04:24 |
But I'm just going to create a folder on
my Mac.
| | 04:27 |
And I'm just going to call this Keep For
Reference.
| | 04:31 |
And I'll click OK and you'll notice that
now under the On My Mac category, I have
| | 04:36 |
a Keep For Reference folder that's been
created.
| | 04:41 |
So, for example, some of these that I've
already worked on and already replied to.
| | 04:45 |
I'm just going to kind of drag this and
drop it onto the Keep For Reference folder.
| | 04:52 |
And now if I wanted to see the contents
of that folder, just click on it and it's
| | 04:55 |
going to show me the contents of that
folder.
| | 04:58 |
Now I'm going to go ahead and go back tot
he inbox here, because there is even more
| | 05:01 |
features that we can use.
One of the things that we can do is we
| | 05:05 |
can flag our messages.
Here's a message from Tim and he sent me
| | 05:09 |
this great photo that's I'd like to keep
or remember about for future reference.
| | 05:14 |
So what I'm going to do is, with his
message highlighted, I'm going to click
| | 05:17 |
on the flag button, and you'll see it
puts a flag on his name.
| | 05:22 |
And I'm just going to click the drop-down
menu, you can also apply multiple
| | 05:25 |
different colors of flags.
What that does for me is, I flag messages
| | 05:29 |
in the inbox, I can come up here to my
Favorites bar and click on the Flags button.
| | 05:34 |
And that's going to show me all of my
flagged messages.
| | 05:38 |
Let's go back to the Inbox.
Now, one of the great new features in
| | 05:41 |
Mountain Lion is the VIP's feature.
And the VIP's feature is a great way for
| | 05:46 |
me to identify recipients as Very
Important People.
| | 05:51 |
Now, Tim's a good friend of mine and I
want to know whenever he sends me a message.
| | 05:55 |
So, in the Message Window, I'm going to
hover my cursor up to the left of Tim's
| | 05:58 |
name and you see a star appear when I do
that.
| | 06:03 |
If I click that star, I will enable Tim
as a VIP.
| | 06:08 |
You'll notice that up here under my
Mailboxes category, I have a new section
| | 06:12 |
that was just created called VIPs.
And if I open that up, it's going to list
| | 06:17 |
all the users that I identified as very
important people.
| | 06:21 |
So, now when I'm working inside of Mail,
and I get some new messages, or I want to
| | 06:24 |
see all of the message that Tim sent me.
I can just click on his name, and it's
| | 06:29 |
going to show me only the messages that
were sent by Tim.
| | 06:33 |
This is a really useful feature that they
added inside of Mountain Lion.
| | 06:37 |
So, I have to say Mail is one of my most
frequently used applications in Mountain Lion.
| | 06:42 |
With some of the new features that have
been added in Mountain Lion.
| | 06:46 |
I'm sure that you too will make it one of
your go to programs, when working on the Mac.
| | 06:50 |
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|
7. Useful Mountain Lion ApplicationsContacts| 00:02 |
Contacts is a simple, yet powerful
application that you can use to organize
| | 00:05 |
both personal and business contacts on
your Mac.
| | 00:09 |
What also makes Contacts so powerful, is
that other applications in Mountain Lion,
| | 00:14 |
such as Mail can utilize people in the
Contacts application for other purposes,
| | 00:18 |
streamlining the way you work.
Let's explore the contacts application.
| | 00:24 |
I'm going to begin by coming down here to
my doc, and the contacts application is
| | 00:29 |
in there by default.
But if yours is not in there, you can
| | 00:33 |
simply access it from your Applications
panel.
| | 00:36 |
So, I'm going to launch that, and you can
see that the Contacts application has a
| | 00:39 |
pretty simplistic interface.
But don't let that fool you.
| | 00:44 |
It's a very, very powerful application.
Now what we could do here is you'll
| | 00:48 |
notice that the trainer is the only user
that's in my contacts right now and that
| | 00:52 |
is essentially you.
When you've created an account with OS X
| | 00:57 |
Mountain Lion, you are automatically
added to your contacts.
| | 01:03 |
Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to
add my own custom contacts.
| | 01:06 |
So I'm going to go ahead and click the
plus sign down here.
| | 01:08 |
And I'm going to go ahead and add my name
and my company if you wish.
| | 01:16 |
And let's go ahead and add an email
address.
| | 01:19 |
I'll set it to my work email.
And then I'Il go ahead and click Done.
| | 01:29 |
Now you can see that the contact is now
listed here as a new user.
| | 01:34 |
Now one more thing I can do is I'll go
ahead and click the Edit button.
| | 01:38 |
This is how you would modify an existing
contact.
| | 01:41 |
You can see there's a place up here for a
photo.
| | 01:43 |
So if you double-click on that, you have
the opportunity to choose from one of the
| | 01:47 |
default photos in here.
You can go to Recent Photos or even from
| | 01:52 |
the camera if you have one connected.
Now what I'm going to do is cancel out of here.
| | 01:57 |
Because what I'm going to do here, is I'm
going to go to a new Finder window.
| | 02:03 |
And in my pictures folder I have a
picture of myself.
| | 02:08 |
So I can drag that and drop that onto
there, and that will become the image
| | 02:11 |
that's in here.
Now this image is quite large for what is
| | 02:16 |
being used by Contacts, so I'm going to
drag this way down.
| | 02:20 |
We'll reposition that, and just make it
just big enough to fit in there.
| | 02:31 |
That'll work for now.
And I'll go ahead and click Done.
| | 02:36 |
And now that picture is associated with
my contact.
| | 02:39 |
I can go ahead and click the Done button.
And now you can see what that looks like.
| | 02:43 |
Now, what we can also do here.
Currently, Mountain Lion thinks that I am trainer.
| | 02:48 |
But really, my card is this one here.
So, with that highlighted, we can come up
| | 02:53 |
to the Card menu.
And I can choose, Make This My Card.
| | 02:57 |
And you'll notice, then, that the icon
jumps from this account to this one.
| | 03:02 |
So now I'm all set up, and OS X knows
that this is me.
| | 03:05 |
Now let's go ahead and add another
contact.
| | 03:08 |
I'm going to click the plus sign.
And for this one, I'm going to make this
| | 03:12 |
a company.
Okay, so we're going to go ahead and
| | 03:14 |
click in the Company field, and I'm
going to call this one, I want a contact
| | 03:18 |
for the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
And I'm going to enter the address for
| | 03:24 |
this company, so this is really going to
be the work address.
| | 03:31 |
And this company is found at 26th Street,
Benjamin Franklin Parkway, in, of course,
| | 03:41 |
Philadelphia, and the zip code is 19130.
So I'm going to click the Done button,
| | 03:51 |
and now we have a contact for this
company.
| | 03:54 |
You can see the icon changes a little bit
when you set a contact as a company.
| | 03:58 |
Now one of the great things about
Contacts is that it works for more than
| | 04:02 |
just organizing users.
Because let's say I wanted to figure out
| | 04:07 |
how far I am away from this company or
where it's located.
| | 04:11 |
If I right-click on this, I can choose to
look up 26th Street, Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
| | 04:19 |
And I can even show the address in Google
Maps.
| | 04:22 |
So, I'm going to go ahead and choose
that.
| | 04:23 |
SafarI's going to launch, and it's
going to display this organization on a
| | 04:29 |
map exactly where it is.
I can even go to satellite view and get a
| | 04:34 |
better idea of where this is relative to
where I'm located.
| | 04:39 |
So it's a very powerful tool.
I'm going to go ahead and quit Safari.
| | 04:43 |
And we'll go back to our contacts.
Now in addition we can organize our
| | 04:49 |
contacts even further.
So what I'm going to do here is I'm
| | 04:52 |
going to go to the File menu, and I'm
going to choose New Group.
| | 04:56 |
And I'm going to make this a group called
Businesses.
| | 05:01 |
And what I can do is, I can go to the All
Contacts category, and I can drag the
| | 05:05 |
Philadelphia Museum of Art into the
Businesses category.
| | 05:10 |
And now when I click on that category,
that's the only one that's listed.
| | 05:15 |
So you can group your contacts by
personal, by business, really however you wish.
| | 05:20 |
Going a step further, we can go the the
File menu and choose New Smart Group.
| | 05:25 |
This is one of my favorite features.
Because what I'm going to do here, is I'm
| | 05:29 |
going to give this a smart group name of
Philly.
| | 05:33 |
And I'm going to say the city contains
Philadelphia.
| | 05:42 |
If I click OK, you'll see that this smart
group automatically puts in any contacts
| | 05:46 |
that are in the Philadelphia area.
So if I add additional contacts, they'll
| | 05:53 |
automatically be populated by that smart
group.
| | 05:57 |
This pane over here is part of the
different displays and contacts.
| | 06:01 |
You can see this is the first display.
You can click on the middle button to
| | 06:05 |
collapse it a little bit and then the
third button to minimize it even further.
| | 06:11 |
This is a nice little window you can tuck
up in the corner and move or resize
| | 06:14 |
however you want.
As you can see, even though Contacts has
| | 06:18 |
a pretty simple interface, it really
packs a punch.
| | 06:22 |
Keeping your contacts organized will help
you to work faster and more efficiently
| | 06:26 |
inside of Mountain Lion.
| | 06:28 |
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| Calendar| 00:02 |
The calendar in Mountain Lion is great
for staying on top of your busy schedule.
| | 00:06 |
It's clean simple interface allows you to
quickly add events and appointments so
| | 00:10 |
you know what's happening on any given
day.
| | 00:13 |
I'm going to begin by launching the
calendar from the dock at the bottom of
| | 00:17 |
my screen, and that's going to open up
this fairly simple, yet powerful,
| | 00:21 |
calendar application.
So, when you install Mountain Lion on
| | 00:27 |
your machine, the calendar is
automatically set up with a home and work calendar.
| | 00:33 |
So if you prefer, you can divide up your
events and appointments into two
| | 00:37 |
different categories, and then you can
hide them and show them by turning on and
| | 00:41 |
off these check boxes.
Now the birthdays calendar is actually
| | 00:47 |
created automatically.
And to make sure that that shows up, you
| | 00:50 |
can simply go to the calendar menu,
choose Preferences, and you just want to
| | 00:54 |
make sure that down here at the bottom
you choose Show Birthdays Calendar.
| | 01:00 |
Now, you may be wondering, well, where
does it get your birthdays from?
| | 01:03 |
Well, as I said in previous videos, the
applications in Mountain Lion share
| | 01:07 |
information with each other.
So for example, if I launch my contacts,
| | 01:13 |
you can see that I have added my birthday
to my contact.
| | 01:19 |
And you can add that to any contact you
wish.
| | 01:21 |
You do so by going to the contact hitting
the Edit menu, and going to Card > Add
| | 01:26 |
Field, and choosing Birthday.
Enter the user's birthday and then go
| | 01:32 |
ahead and click done.
So on my particular contact, I've already
| | 01:36 |
added that birthday in there.
So I'm going to go ahead and quit that application.
| | 01:41 |
And now we'll see, because I'm showing
this birthdays calendar, if we switch
| | 01:45 |
over to month view and we navigate to the
October month, my birthday is showing up
| | 01:50 |
right there.
Now, you can see up here at the top, we
| | 01:55 |
can switch between day view, week view,
month view, and even year view.
| | 02:01 |
So, whichever you prefer to look at, at
any given point in time, you can just
| | 02:04 |
choose it right from this list.
So I'm going to go ahead and go to month
| | 02:09 |
view, and I'm going to click on the today
button so that I can see which date today is.
| | 02:15 |
Now in addition there's some other things
you can do here.
| | 02:17 |
Like for example, let's go ahead and
switch to week view.
| | 02:20 |
What I might want to do here is change my
calendar to fit the full screen, so I'm
| | 02:24 |
going to click on the full screen button
right here.
| | 02:28 |
And that'll take up my whole window.
And then I'm going to add an event here.
| | 02:32 |
So, what I might want to do is I'm
going to add an event for today.
| | 02:36 |
So, I'm going to go ahead and double
click here and I'm going to say Dinner
| | 02:42 |
With Tim.
Press Return.
| | 02:45 |
Now, I want to modify this, so I'm
going to double-click on this and I'm
| | 02:50 |
going to tell it to make the appointment
at 4:30.
| | 02:56 |
And that's going to be from 4:30 to 6:30,
we have a lot planned tonight.
| | 02:59 |
And I'm going to have it give me alert on
a message with sound one minute before.
| | 03:05 |
So, I'll click Done and that's (audio playing)
now going to give me a message, as you
| | 03:08 |
can see here, that I have dinner with
Tim.
| | 03:12 |
So it's letting me know.
It automatically lets me know whether I
| | 03:15 |
have calender open or not.
So actually, if I get out of here, and I
| | 03:19 |
hide the calender, I'm still going to see
this message, even though I don't have
| | 03:23 |
the calender currently active.
So this is really powerful.
| | 03:28 |
I'm going to go ahead an close that
reminder, go back to the calendar, an
| | 03:31 |
we'll switch back to full screen view.
Now, another way that I can make
| | 03:36 |
appointments with people, is if I come up
to the window menu, and I choose
| | 03:40 |
Contacts, that's going to show me my
contacts application.
| | 03:47 |
Now to do this I'm going to go back to
the calendar and get out of full screen
| | 03:50 |
view for a moment.
That way I can see both applications.
| | 03:56 |
Because if I want to make an appointment
with a person I can actually drag that
| | 04:00 |
down here to the calendar.
And it automatically puts in here meeting
| | 04:05 |
with whatever that person's name is.
I can specify the time.
| | 04:10 |
Maybe I'll make this 8:30, and this
shouldn't take too long, it's with
| | 04:13 |
myself, so I'll go ahead and go 8:30 to
8:45.
| | 04:17 |
Make sure I put it in the right calendar.
This is going to be a work meeting and
| | 04:22 |
then we'll go ahead and close that out.
Now, you can see that I can click the
| | 04:28 |
send button because when I create a
meeting with a person it wants to invite
| | 04:31 |
that person as well.
Now, you can delete that if you wish, if
| | 04:36 |
you don't really want to invite it and
that way you can just create a meeting
| | 04:39 |
and it won't be sent to anybody else.
But when you do drag it from that
| | 04:45 |
contacts panel, it will by default want
to send an invitation to that person,
| | 04:48 |
which is pretty powerful.
In addition, if you have events and
| | 04:53 |
you're not sure when you made the
appointment, like, for example, a dentist
| | 04:56 |
appointment, you can click up here and
you can type, dentist.
| | 05:01 |
And it's going to filter down any results
that you may have.
| | 05:05 |
So, in my case, I don't have a dentist
appointment set up, but if I type dinner,
| | 05:09 |
it's going to show me any results that
are defined as having the word dinner in
| | 05:14 |
the name.
And if I have multiple, it'll just show
| | 05:18 |
me in this list over here.
Very, very powerful.
| | 05:21 |
Go ahead and click the close button.
And as you can see, when it comes to
| | 05:25 |
staying on top of your schedule the
calendar in Mountain Lion will make sure
| | 05:29 |
that you never miss an appointment again.
And it makes scheduling meetings and
| | 05:34 |
appointments a snap.
| | 05:35 |
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| TextEdit| 00:02 |
TextEdit is a basic text editing
application that can be quite useful for
| | 00:05 |
writing letters, creating lists, making
notes, and so on.
| | 00:10 |
Let's take a quick look at TextEdit to
see some of the features that it has.
| | 00:14 |
I'm going to begin by opening TextEdit on
my computer.
| | 00:18 |
And I'm going to use Launchpad to do
that.
| | 00:20 |
I'll just type text up here at the top,
and press Enter to open TextEdit.
| | 00:25 |
When you launch TextEdit, its going to
open a new document by default.
| | 00:29 |
Now, there's a lot you can do in here
actually.
| | 00:31 |
Now, what I've done is I've copied some
text to my paste board, just so you don't
| | 00:35 |
have to watch me type this content on the
page.
| | 00:39 |
What I can do is I can highlight this
text, and I can come up here to my Format
| | 00:42 |
bar, and I can start formatting this
content.
| | 00:45 |
So why don't we go ahead and center this
text on the page?
| | 00:48 |
Let's go ahead and make the text a little
bit bigger.
| | 00:52 |
And maybe we'll make it bold as well.
Now, what we can also do is maybe we'll
| | 00:56 |
highlight Food, and we'll make this bold,
and maybe just a little bit bigger.
| | 01:01 |
That looks good.
And then we'll do the same thing down
| | 01:04 |
here to the drinks.
We'll make that bold, and then we can
| | 01:07 |
make that one about 18 points as well.
So you can see, we've got some pretty
| | 01:11 |
good formatting tools in here.
Now, for all of these items, maybe I want
| | 01:16 |
them to be bulleted Items.
So, we can just come up here to the
| | 01:20 |
Format menu, or we can come over here,
and we can choose Bulleted List.
| | 01:25 |
That's going to apply bulleted items to
these text items.
| | 01:29 |
So I'll highlight the remainder of these,
do the same thing here, and now we've got
| | 01:33 |
bulleted items.
Looks pretty good.
| | 01:35 |
We also have spell checking inside of
here.
| | 01:39 |
So we can go to the Edit menu, come down
to Spelling and Grammar, and I can choose
| | 01:43 |
Show Spelling and Grammar.
I can click Find Next, and it's really
| | 01:48 |
not finding any misspelled words here.
But maybe I'll purposefully mistype something.
| | 01:53 |
So let's say Find Next, and it says,
okay, what exactly did you mean here?
| | 01:58 |
I wanted wine, so I'll click Change, and
now that fixes my problem.
| | 02:04 |
If you go to Edit and go down to Spelling
and Grammar again, you can see that by
| | 02:08 |
default, Check Spelling While You Type is
selected.
| | 02:12 |
That way, if I misspell a word as it's
typed, it's going to highlight it automatically.
| | 02:18 |
So, you could tell when you've misspelled
a word as you're typing.
| | 02:22 |
You can also change the color of content
up here.
| | 02:26 |
Go ahead and pick a different color for
my heading.
| | 02:28 |
That looks pretty good.
And you could do a number of other
| | 02:32 |
formatting tricks up here, as well.
I'm going to highlight Food, and I'm
| | 02:36 |
going to come up here to Format, and I'm
going to come down to Text, and go to Spacing.
| | 02:42 |
I can even get as granular as adding a
little bit of space after that text, to
| | 02:46 |
give it some room to breathe.
I can do the same thing here, highlight
| | 02:51 |
this, go to Format > Text > Spacing.
And again, add a little bit of breathing
| | 02:57 |
room above those headings.
We'll go ahead and click Okay.
| | 03:01 |
Now, in addition, there's some really,
really powerful features that Mountain
| | 03:05 |
Lion added here.
And one of those features, I'm just going
| | 03:08 |
to press Return a couple of times, is the
Dictation feature.
| | 03:12 |
And the Dictation feature basically
dictates the text that you speak.
| | 03:17 |
In order to use this, you have to have an
external microphone connected to your computer.
| | 03:21 |
And once you've done that and set up
dictation, I can come up here to the Edit
| | 03:25 |
menu, and I can choose Start Dictation.
I'm going to do that and show you how
| | 03:30 |
this works.
(audio playing) Hi Rebecca, comma, while you're
| | 03:33 |
at the store today, can you make sure
that you pick up a bag of those cheese
| | 03:37 |
curls that I like so much, question mark.
I'd really appreciate it, exclamation point.
| | 03:45 |
(audio playing) I click the Done button, and as
you can see, the Dictation feature
| | 03:48 |
automatically types out this content for
me.
| | 03:51 |
A really nice feature when you're trying
to save time, or you're not a very good typist.
| | 03:57 |
So, when you're finished, we can save
this.
| | 03:59 |
I'll go to the File menu and choose Save.
And it asks me what format it wants me to
| | 04:03 |
save it in.
By default it'll use rich text.
| | 04:06 |
But if I click on that drop-down menu,
you'll see that I have a number of
| | 04:10 |
different options to choose from,
including several different Microsoft
| | 04:13 |
Word formats.
So I'll go ahead and leave this set to
| | 04:17 |
rich text for now.
I'm going to go ahead and put this on my Desktop.
| | 04:21 |
And I'll just give this a name of
shopping list.
| | 04:24 |
Go ahead and click Save.
And then in addition, if you wanted to
| | 04:28 |
make, say, a PDF file that can be read on
a number of different devices as well,
| | 04:32 |
you can go to the File menu and choose
Export as PDF.
| | 04:37 |
We can call this shopping list also, and
go ahead and click the Save button.
| | 04:42 |
As you can see, I've got two files here.
One's a PDF and one's an RTF, or a rich
| | 04:46 |
text format file.
Although TextEdit has a simple interface,
| | 04:50 |
it's a pretty powerful text editing tool.
If all you need to create is basic
| | 04:55 |
letters and notes, you may not need more
robust word processing tools that many
| | 04:59 |
people think they need.
Give TextEdit a try, and you may decide
| | 05:05 |
it's all you need to get the job done.
| | 05:09 |
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| Preview| 00:02 |
Preview is a helpful and powerful
application that can be used to open and
| | 00:05 |
modify PDF files and images as well.
It can be used to annotate a PDF and even
| | 00:11 |
edit images.
In this video, I'd like to show you some
| | 00:15 |
nice features that Preview has for
editing images in Mountain Lion.
| | 00:20 |
To begin, I'm going to go ahead and
launch Preview on my computer and since I
| | 00:23 |
don't have it down here in the dock, I'm
going to go to Launchpad and just go
| | 00:26 |
ahead and type Preview up here in the
search text field.
| | 00:30 |
I'll go ahead and press enter to launch
the application.
| | 00:33 |
Now you can see that the application is
open, but we need to open a file.
| | 00:37 |
So I'm going to go to the File menu and
choose Open.
| | 00:40 |
And I already have some files in my
pictures folder.
| | 00:44 |
But if you don't have these files in your
pictures folder, you can find them in
| | 00:47 |
your chapter seven project files.
So I'm going to select the bee.jpg file,
| | 00:52 |
and I'm going to go ahead and click open,
and that's going to open this inside of
| | 00:56 |
the Preview application.
Now, right off bat there's some nice
| | 01:00 |
things we can do.
If we wanted to zoom in on this image we
| | 01:03 |
can click the plus sign up here, and
that'll zoom in on that image, use the
| | 01:07 |
scroll bars here to reposition it.
And then you can also use the zoom out
| | 01:12 |
button to zoom back out on the image.
Now, one of the really nice things we can
| | 01:17 |
do from an editing perspective is we can
come over here and this button, we can
| | 01:21 |
click on and that'll show us the Edit
toolbar.
| | 01:25 |
So, the first thing I'm going to do is
crop this image a little bit.
| | 01:28 |
So, I'm going to go ahead and using my
cursor, right now I have this particular
| | 01:31 |
icon selected.
If you click on it, you can make sure
| | 01:34 |
it's selected.
And I'm just going to click and drag to
| | 01:37 |
define an area that I want to crop.
Now, once you let go, it's still not
| | 01:42 |
permanent because we can drag this
around.
| | 01:45 |
And I'm just going to reposition this
because I only want a portion of this image.
| | 01:49 |
Maybe something like that.
So if I click the Crop button, it's
| | 01:53 |
going to actually crop that image.
Now, from here we can start editing the
| | 01:58 |
image as well.
So this button up here will allow me to
| | 02:02 |
adjust the color of this image.
So I'm going to go ahead and click on
| | 02:05 |
that, and it's going to bring up the
Adjust Color palette here.
| | 02:09 |
What we can do is we can drag the
exposure slider, and you'll notice that
| | 02:13 |
the image gets lighter or darker, based
on what my settings are.
| | 02:18 |
So I'm going to go ahead and bump that up
a little bit.
| | 02:21 |
We can increase the contrast if we wish
or lessen it.
| | 02:26 |
And you can also bring out the highlights
if we want, and also adjust the shadows.
| | 02:31 |
That's lightening the shadows.
This is darkening the shadows.
| | 02:35 |
We can also increase the saturation to
try to enhance those colors.
| | 02:40 |
And then you can also adjust the
temperature if you wish.
| | 02:43 |
If you want to get creative you can also
increase the sepia here.
| | 02:47 |
What that does is reduces the number of
colors so that we can now tweak this
| | 02:51 |
using the tint slider.
So we can adjust the settings to create
| | 02:56 |
what's referred to as a sepia tone if we
wish.
| | 03:00 |
And then we can also increase the
sharpening.
| | 03:03 |
Now if you're not happy with this you can
always click the Reset All button to take
| | 03:07 |
it back to the way that it was.
But I'm going to close this for now and
| | 03:11 |
if we wanted to save it we could go to
the File menu.
| | 03:15 |
And we could go ahead and choose
Duplicate.
| | 03:17 |
That way it doesn't modify my original
photo.
| | 03:20 |
So I'm going to give this one a name.
As you can see up here in the title bar,
| | 03:23 |
I'm going to call this Bee Sepia.
And we'll go ahead and save that.
| | 03:30 |
It's going to ask me for a copy.
So I'll just call this, again, Bee Sepia.
| | 03:34 |
And I'll save that into my pictures
folder.
| | 03:37 |
And I can close that.
Now, this image we currently have not saved.
| | 03:43 |
So we could always go back into that
color adjustment.
| | 03:46 |
And we can choose Reset All.
And that'll take us back to the original image.
| | 03:51 |
There's a lot more you can do here with
all of the formatting options up here in
| | 03:55 |
the Edit bar.
You can also click on this button here to
| | 03:59 |
share this image via Email, Message,
AirDrop, Twitter or even Flickr.
| | 04:05 |
As you can see, Preview may seem at first
like an application that can only view
| | 04:09 |
files, but under the hood it has a lot of
features that can come in handy when you
| | 04:14 |
need them.
| | 04:18 |
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| QuickTime player| 00:02 |
The QuickTime player, although not new to
Mountain Lion, is much more powerful than
| | 00:06 |
it was when it was first introduced.
Not only can you play movies and audio
| | 00:11 |
using the QuickTime player, but you can
also make them too.
| | 00:14 |
Let's take a look.
I'm going to begin by launching the
| | 00:18 |
QuickTime player on my computer.
So, I'm going to use Launch Pad here.
| | 00:21 |
And I'll just type quick up here, to
filter down my applications, and I'll
| | 00:24 |
press enter to launch the QuickTime
player.
| | 00:27 |
Now, the first thing I want to do, is
show you how you can play a movie file
| | 00:31 |
using QuickTime.
So I'll go to the File menu.
| | 00:34 |
I'm going to choose Open File.
And I'm going to navigate to the project
| | 00:39 |
files for this course in the lesson seven
folder.
| | 00:43 |
I'm going to select a file called
water.mov.
| | 00:46 |
I'm going to go ahead and click the open
button and this is going to open a basic
| | 00:49 |
movie file that I recorded using my
iPhone.
| | 00:52 |
Now, the QuickTime player, when you have
a movie open, you can see that we have
| | 00:56 |
this nice little floating controller that
allows us to adjust the volume right here.
| | 01:03 |
We can scrub through the video.
We can play it.
| | 01:08 |
>> So, believe me.
If if had, if I had my way, we would have.
| | 01:14 |
But.
>> And we can even share it from this
| | 01:16 |
location as well.
As you can see we can share it via email,
| | 01:20 |
message, air drop, Facebook, Youtube,
Vimeo, and Flickr.
| | 01:25 |
So it's a really powerful tool for just
playing movies that you might have on
| | 01:29 |
your computer.
Now I'm going to go ahead and close this
| | 01:32 |
file, because one of the powerful
features of QuickTime Player is found
| | 01:35 |
under the File menu.
You'll notice that we can create a new
| | 01:39 |
movie recording, audio recording, or
screen recording.
| | 01:44 |
So for example, if I choose new movie
recording, if I had a camera connected,
| | 01:48 |
it would record the video coming out of
that camera.
| | 01:52 |
Now as you can see, it is recording my
audio right here, or at least recognizes
| | 01:55 |
it, but there's no camera, so I can't do
this one.
| | 01:59 |
Let's go ahead and close that.
Next I can go to the File menu and choose
| | 02:02 |
New Audio Recording.
What you want to do is over here, make
| | 02:05 |
sure it's recording from the proper
microphone that you're using.
| | 02:09 |
It could be a built-in microphone or an
external.
| | 02:13 |
And set your quality as well.
Now if I click the record button and I
| | 02:17 |
start recording, you'll see what happens.
Hello.
| | 02:19 |
This is a test of the audio recording
feature of the QuickTime player.
| | 02:24 |
When I click the stop button, it'll
finish recording.
| | 02:27 |
I'll click the red button to close it,
and this will give me the opportunity to
| | 02:31 |
save this.
So I'm just going to call this audio test
| | 02:35 |
and I'll go ahead and put that on my
desktop.
| | 02:38 |
I'm going to save it as a audio only file
and I'll go ahead and click the Save button.
| | 02:44 |
You'll notice now I have this file right
here on my desktop and what's great about
| | 02:47 |
the Mac is that I can click right here to
test this audio file without opening
| | 02:50 |
another application.
So if I click that play button.
| | 02:57 |
Hello, this is a test of the audio
recording feature of the QuickTime player.
| | 03:01 |
You can see that the audio feature works
just fine.
| | 03:05 |
I'm going to go back to QuickTime.
Go ahead and launch that again.
| | 03:10 |
And the final option is to create a new
screen recording.
| | 03:15 |
And what that means, is that it's going
to record part of your screen.
| | 03:18 |
Now what you want to do, again, click on
this triangle and make sure it's
| | 03:21 |
recording from the proper microphone.
You can see now, it's recognizing my
| | 03:26 |
voice and when I click the record button,
it'll give me an indicator telling me
| | 03:30 |
that I can just click the screen to
record the whole screen or I can drag to
| | 03:33 |
record part of it.
So, let's say I just wanted to focus on
| | 03:37 |
this top right corner.
I could click and drag so that it only
| | 03:41 |
records that area.
And then when I click Start Recording
| | 03:44 |
it's going to record what I do.
So now any move I make with the mouse,
| | 03:49 |
any option I drag, any move that I make,
the screen recording is going to record
| | 03:53 |
the video as well as the audio.
So when I'm finished, I can click Stop.
| | 04:00 |
It's going to render the video, and now I
have my own self-contained movie.
| | 04:06 |
So, if I play this, thus, any option I
drag, any move that I make, the screen
| | 04:10 |
recording is going to record the video as
well as the audio.
| | 04:16 |
So when I'm finished I'll, so I'll go
ahead and stop that, and if I want to
| | 04:19 |
save it I can just close this and give it
a name.
| | 04:23 |
Call this movie test, save it as a movie,
and click Save.
| | 04:27 |
I'll go ahead and quit the QuickTime
player.
| | 04:31 |
And you can see now that we have these
two files to use for whatever purpose you wish.
| | 04:35 |
I'm sure you can see how the QuickTime
player can be used for a number of
| | 04:39 |
different and useful applications.
When it comes to creating your own movie
| | 04:43 |
recording, you already have just about
all you need in the QuickTime player.
| | 04:47 |
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| Installing applications| 00:02 |
Although Mountain Lion ships with a bunch
of great and useful applications, there
| | 00:05 |
will be times when you'll need to install
specialized applications to meet a
| | 00:08 |
particular need.
Basically, there are two ways to install
| | 00:13 |
applications in Mountain Lion.
You can purchase and install apps from
| | 00:17 |
the App Store.
And then you can also download
| | 00:19 |
applications from other websites and
install them as well.
| | 00:24 |
Let's take a look at both of these
methods.
| | 00:26 |
I'm going to start by launching the App
Store on my computer.
| | 00:29 |
So I can do that right down here in the
dock.
| | 00:32 |
But I can also come up here to the Apple
menu and choose App Store here, whichever
| | 00:35 |
method you prefer.
So I'm going to open the App Store.
| | 00:40 |
And in order to purchase items from the
App Store, even if they're free, you do
| | 00:43 |
need to sign in up here under the Store
menu with your Apple ID.
| | 00:48 |
So if you don't have an Apple ID yet, go
ahead and create one, and then you can
| | 00:52 |
proceed as follows.
So I'm going to go ahead and come up here
| | 00:56 |
into the Search field, and I'm going to
do a search for Kindle.
| | 01:01 |
Because I want to be able to read some of
my Kindle books on my computer.
| | 01:05 |
And as you can see, here's the app.
We can click on it to get a better
| | 01:09 |
description of what the app is.
And you can see here that the Kindle app
| | 01:13 |
is free.
So to purchase it and install it, I'm
| | 01:17 |
going to go ahead and click the Free
button.
| | 01:20 |
And then I'll click on Install App.
As I said before, you're going to have to
| | 01:25 |
log in using your Apple ID and password.
So I'm going to go ahead and enter my
| | 01:29 |
password here.
Go ahead and sign in.
| | 01:33 |
And you can see here, it tells me that
it's installing.
| | 01:36 |
We can see the progress down here that an
app is installing.
| | 01:42 |
We can actually click on the Launch Pad.
And we can see the progress of the Kindle
| | 01:45 |
right here.
That's the download or the progress of
| | 01:48 |
our app.
And you can also see that if you actually
| | 01:52 |
click on the App Store and go to
Purchases, we can see the progress of the
| | 01:56 |
installation here as well.
The other nice thing about purchasing
| | 02:01 |
things on the App Store, is that all of
your previous purchases, are going to
| | 02:05 |
show up right here, inside of the App
Store.
| | 02:10 |
So it's a really great way to keep track
of your apps.
| | 02:13 |
And if you ever have to purchase a new
Mac, you can always just log in using
| | 02:16 |
your Apple ID from the App Store on that
new machine and re-install all of these
| | 02:20 |
applications quickly and easily.
So, now that that application is
| | 02:26 |
installed, we can quit the App Store.
And if we go to Launch Pad, we can see
| | 02:31 |
that right here is the Kindle app, ready
to launch and use.
| | 02:35 |
So that's one way to do that.
And you can see that there's some
| | 02:38 |
advantages to using the App Store.
Now, the reality is, is that at this
| | 02:42 |
point in time, not all applications are
available on the App Store.
| | 02:47 |
So, for example, I use an application
called Dropbox, that I find quite useful.
| | 02:53 |
But if I go to the App Store, and I do a
search for Dropbox, I'm going to see that
| | 02:59 |
it's not available.
So, the Dropbox application is not
| | 03:03 |
available in the App Store.
So what I'm going to do is quit the App
| | 03:07 |
Store again and I'm going to open up
Safari.
| | 03:10 |
And I am going to go to a website called
Dropbox.com.
| | 03:14 |
And you could go to whatever website you
want, where you want to download your application.
| | 03:20 |
And we can see right here, it's telling
me I can download the Dropbox installer.
| | 03:26 |
So, I am going to click on that.
And we can see that in my downloads
| | 03:31 |
right here, I can see the progress of the
download.
| | 03:37 |
And when it's finished, it's going to let
me know that it's done.
| | 03:40 |
Now, when you're not purchasing form the
App store, most installers are going to
| | 03:44 |
be in the form of what's called a DMG
file, for a disk image.
| | 03:49 |
And what we can do is, if you just
double-click on that, whether it's in the
| | 03:52 |
Finder or directly from Safari.
We can see that the installer is a very
| | 03:58 |
simple installer, in this particular
example.
| | 04:02 |
Let me quit out of Safari, so we can
focus on this.
| | 04:05 |
This is one method of a manual
installation.
| | 04:09 |
In this particular case, it couldn't get
any easier.
| | 04:13 |
To install this, you simply drag this
onto the Applications folder, and it's
| | 04:19 |
basically installed.
We launch this application, and we're
| | 04:24 |
ready to go.
Now occasionally when you download an
| | 04:29 |
installer manually, instead of being a
drag and drop installation, it will
| | 04:33 |
basically have an installer package.
And in that particular case, you simply
| | 04:38 |
double-click on the Installer.
And then the installation will guide you
| | 04:42 |
through the steps required to install the
application.
| | 04:46 |
Now the other thing I want to mention
here, I'm going to close this window.
| | 04:50 |
When you're working with the disk image
format, the DMG, we can see that when you
| | 04:54 |
double-click on that DMG file, as we did
right here, it's going to mount a disk image.
| | 05:01 |
And it's going to be fine if you leave
it there as is.
| | 05:04 |
I'm going to open up a new Finder window
for a second, because you'll also see
| | 05:08 |
this disc image down here, at the bottom.
Here's the Dropbox installer.
| | 05:13 |
So the DMG file, it really just mounts a
temporary volume.
| | 05:18 |
It would be the same as if you had put in
a CD into your computer, or even a flash drive.
| | 05:24 |
It's bascailly a virtual disc.
So, to eject it or get rid of it, now
| | 05:28 |
that you've installed the application,
you can either click on the Eject button
| | 05:32 |
right here.
Or you can drag this disk image to the
| | 05:36 |
Trash, which when you drag it the trash
can changes to an Eject icon.
| | 05:41 |
So either method is perfectly acceptable
and will basically achieve the same results.
| | 05:47 |
As you can see, installing applications
is pretty easy to do.
| | 05:50 |
Regardless of which method you choose,
the end result is essentially the same.
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8. Major Mountain Lion New FeaturesReminders| 00:02 |
Reminders is a new application introduced
in Mountain Lion that was designed to
| | 00:05 |
help you stay on top of things that need
to get done, that you might just need to
| | 00:09 |
be reminded about.
If you're anything like me, I get tied up
| | 00:13 |
throughout the day, and forget to do
things.
| | 00:16 |
Reminders helps me to remember to get
them done.
| | 00:19 |
Let me show you how.
In Mountain Lion, by default, the
| | 00:21 |
Reminders application is installed in
your dock at the bottom of your screen.
| | 00:27 |
But the Reminders application can also be
accessed from the Launch Pad or directly
| | 00:31 |
from your Applications folder.
So to get started I'm going to click on
| | 00:35 |
the Reminders application to launch it.
Now the Reminders interface is fairly
| | 00:40 |
simple, but it's actually quite powerful
once you start to use it.
| | 00:45 |
So at its most basic level, Reminders
actually make it easy to create to-do
| | 00:49 |
items that you need to get done
throughout the day, or even in future days.
| | 00:54 |
So I'm going to come up here into the
upper right corner, and I'm going to
| | 00:57 |
click the plus sign, and that's going to
create a new to-do.
| | 01:00 |
So I need to remember today to take out
the trash.
| | 01:04 |
So I'm going to go ahead and type take
out trash.
| | 01:08 |
And then to the right of that reminder
that I create, I can click on this Info
| | 01:12 |
button and enter details about that.
So I want it to remind me on a particular
| | 01:18 |
day, and I'm actually going to have it
remind me today.
| | 01:22 |
Let's have it remind me at 11:12 A.M.
And if I wanted to I could set a priority.
| | 01:27 |
Let's set a low priority.
It needs to get done, but nobody's
| | 01:30 |
going to die because I didn't take the
trash out.
| | 01:33 |
So I'm going to go ahead and click Done.
And now you can see that the reminder has
| | 01:37 |
been created.
Now the Reminders application integrates
| | 01:41 |
with another (audio playing) new feature inside
of Mountain Lion called the Notification Center.
| | 01:45 |
And you can see that the Reminder's just
reminded me to take out the trash.
| | 01:49 |
So this is what the badge looks like when
it's letting you know.
| | 01:53 |
So I'm going to go ahead and close this.
And the Notification Center is located
| | 01:56 |
right up here in the upper-right corner.
So I'm going to click on that, and you
| | 02:00 |
can see that the Notification Center is
going to show me anything else that needs
| | 02:04 |
to get done today.
Now because I dismissed that dialog,
| | 02:08 |
it's not showing up in there.
So let's double-click on this.
| | 02:11 |
Click on the Info button.
Let's change this to remind me at 11:13.
| | 02:17 |
Click Done, and now we'll see that if we
open up the Notification Center, our
| | 02:21 |
reminders are going to show up in here.
These are, at a quick glance, things that
| | 02:26 |
we need to do, and we don't even have to
have Reminders open.
| | 02:31 |
So I'll go ahead and close that
Notification Center and we can see that
| | 02:33 |
taking out trash is something that needs
to get done today.
| | 02:36 |
So we'll make sure that we do that.
Now what we can also do is, we're (audio playing)
| | 02:40 |
going to click on the plus sign here to
create another reminder.
| | 02:44 |
So I'll go ahead and click the plus sign,
and I also need to go to the post office.
| | 02:48 |
And I'm going to click the Info button.
And once again, we'll just move this over
| | 02:55 |
here for now.
Well, let's go ahead and dismiss this.
| | 02:57 |
I'll close that.
We're going to go to the post office.
| | 03:00 |
I'm going to have it remind me today,
maybe around lunch time because that's
| | 03:03 |
generally when I go out to run errands.
And I could even have it remind me at a location.
| | 03:10 |
Now this is pretty interesting.
This wants me to enable the Location
| | 03:14 |
Services to allow Reminders to use your
current location.
| | 03:19 |
So, you can open the Privacy preferences,
and this is basically going to ask you,
| | 03:23 |
can we use your current location when
we're using the Reminders application?
| | 03:30 |
And this is really a choice that you need
to make.
| | 03:33 |
The Reminders app will also work with IOS
devices.
| | 03:37 |
So the Reminders application, if you are
using iCloud and synchronizing between
| | 03:42 |
your mobile devices and your computer,
you can enable Location Services for Reminders.
| | 03:49 |
And what that will do is, when it detects
that you're near a certain area, it'll
| | 03:54 |
remind you to do something at that
location.
| | 03:59 |
So you could enter a address or even a
contact here.
| | 04:02 |
So I'm just going to type something, like
123 Winding Way, and what it's going to
| | 04:08 |
do, since I made up that address, it's
trying to find the best match.
| | 04:17 |
I'm just going to go ahead and choose
that one.
| | 04:19 |
And now what's going to happen is when
I'm arriving or leaving that location, we
| | 04:24 |
can have it remind me about that.
So, this is a pretty powerful application.
| | 04:31 |
You can really do some amazing things
with this.
| | 04:33 |
We'll kind of set the Priority here to
Medium, and we'll go ahead and click Done.
| | 04:38 |
So, now in the event of Reminders, like
let's say I've already taken out the
| | 04:41 |
trash, I did that when I was taking a
break, so I'll go ahead and, and click
| | 04:44 |
that, and that will automatically get
moved to the Completed category.
| | 04:49 |
And all of those completed items are
stored in that category, so you can
| | 04:52 |
always go back and check to make sure
that you accomplished the task.
| | 04:57 |
Now one last thing I'll show you is that
down here, the lower left corner, this
| | 05:01 |
first button will basically minimize this
window here.
| | 05:05 |
We'll click it again to maximize it.
The second button will display a
| | 05:08 |
calender, so you can at a quick glance
see the calendar that you have going on.
| | 05:13 |
And then the third button will create a
list.
| | 05:16 |
And a list is basically a way to
categorize reminders that need to get done.
| | 05:23 |
So for example I might call this list
Weekend Projects.
| | 05:28 |
And then within Weekend Projects, I need
to remember to clean out the garage, I
| | 05:34 |
need to mow the lawn, and I need to go
for a bike ride.
| | 05:40 |
So that is the projects that I need to
get done this weekend, and I categorized
| | 05:45 |
it in this area.
For each one of these, you can remind
| | 05:49 |
yourself to do it at a certain time, or
certainly a certain location.
| | 05:55 |
What I'm going to do here is, if I remind
myself to mow the lawn, I want to get
| | 05:58 |
that done early.
I don't want to do it in the heat of the day.
| | 06:02 |
So let's have it remind me at 8:30
(audio playing) on Saturday.
| | 06:06 |
So you can see it already reminded me of
that.
| | 06:09 |
Let's change the date here to Saturday.
And now, when I click Done, it's going to
| | 06:13 |
remind me at 8:30 in the morning on
Saturday to mow the lawn.
| | 06:17 |
So that way I won't forget to do that.
And I'll get all of my projects hopefully
| | 06:24 |
done for that weekend.
So thanks to Reminders I never have to
| | 06:31 |
worry about remembering to complete a
task or run an errand.
| | 06:35 |
Now if I could only get Reminders to
guarantee that I actually get them done.
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| Notes| 00:02 |
The Notes application is great for taking
well, notes.
| | 00:06 |
When you're working at your computer and
need to jot a quick note or even take
| | 00:09 |
notes in a meeting, the Notes application
is a great solution.
| | 00:13 |
Let me show you what I mean.
In Mountain Lion, the notes application
| | 00:17 |
is located down here in the dock.
And you can launch it from here.
| | 00:21 |
You can also launch it from the launch
pad if you prefer, or even directly from
| | 00:24 |
your applications folder.
So, I'm going to click on the Notes
| | 00:29 |
application to launch the program.
And by default, it automatically has
| | 00:33 |
created a new note here.
Now, the Notes application has two
| | 00:38 |
buttons down here.
You can see this second button is showing
| | 00:41 |
me the notes over here and the note
itself on the right.
| | 00:46 |
You can click on the first button, and
that will also show us any folders that
| | 00:49 |
we've created as well.
So, I'm going to go ahead and go back to
| | 00:53 |
the first view.
And let's say we want to create a
| | 00:56 |
shopping list.
That would be a good example.
| | 00:59 |
So, I'm going to type in here Shopping
List.
| | 01:02 |
And you can see that it automatically
makes the note, whatever the first line
| | 01:05 |
of your, your note, and then I'm going to
go ahead and press Return.
| | 01:09 |
And let's just add a few things to our
list here.
| | 01:12 |
We need eggs, bacon, potatoes, and flour.
Now you notice over here that the name of
| | 01:22 |
the note has taken on, once again, the
first line of your note that you created.
| | 01:27 |
Now, let's go ahead and make another
note.
| | 01:29 |
So, I'm going to go ahead and click the
Plus sign, again here's a new note.
| | 01:33 |
And I'm just going to call this one say,
Notes from Corporate Meeting.
| | 01:40 |
And then we can enter some information in
here as well.
| | 01:43 |
Call HR about John's issue.
Discuss vacation policy, so on and so forth.
| | 01:55 |
And as you can see, it's pretty easy to
simply create some notes and basically
| | 02:00 |
adjust them however you want.
Within the Notes panel as you get a large
| | 02:04 |
number of notes, you can search for them.
So, if I type the word Shop, you can see
| | 02:10 |
that it's going to filter down my notes
to contain only the ones that contain the
| | 02:14 |
word shop in the name.
So, that works pretty good.
| | 02:18 |
And even if I get rid of that and I type
eggs, it's still going to filter down to
| | 02:21 |
the one that contains eggs in the entire
note.
| | 02:25 |
So, that's pretty powerful.
Now, a couple last things here.
| | 02:28 |
Let's say we have a note here and I want
to send this to my wife because she's on
| | 02:32 |
her way home from work and wants to pick
this stuff up.
| | 02:36 |
Down here at the bottom, you know, not
only can we trash the note, but the
| | 02:39 |
second button.
You're probably used to seeing this icon
| | 02:42 |
by now.
If we click on that, we can share this in
| | 02:45 |
a couple of different ways.
And so, I can certainly send it via
| | 02:49 |
email, or I could message it to her.
And this is useful, you know, if she's
| | 02:54 |
using an iOS device, she can receive it
on her iPhone or iPod touch, if it's a
| | 02:59 |
Wi-Fi accessible.
So, there's a real easy way down here to
| | 03:04 |
share this note with anybody else.
One last thing to show you is if we click
| | 03:09 |
the Expanded view, we can also come up
here to the File menu and choose New Folder.
| | 03:16 |
And that will create another category
over here.
| | 03:18 |
So, if I wanted to create a category for
something specific, maybe I'll call this
| | 03:22 |
the business category.
Now I can create a bunch of notes within
| | 03:27 |
that category.
Within the notes section here, I did
| | 03:31 |
create one for the corporate meeting.
I can drag this and drop it onto the
| | 03:36 |
Business section.
So that now all of my work related notes
| | 03:39 |
could be in one folder, and all of my
personal notes in another.
| | 03:44 |
As you can see, it's quite easy to use
the Notes application.
| | 03:48 |
It's simple yet effective when you need
to jot down information quickly without a
| | 03:52 |
bulky interface.
| | 03:54 |
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| Messages| 00:02 |
The new Messages app in Mountain Lion
allows users to text message or chat with
| | 00:06 |
each other using a variety of different
chat services, including AIM, Google
| | 00:11 |
Talk, Yahoo, and iMessage.
And in the case of iMessage, you could
| | 00:17 |
text users or iOS devices directly from
your computer.
| | 00:20 |
It's a very powerful feature.
Let me show you how it works.
| | 00:24 |
So, I'm going to start by Launching the
Message Application and I'm going to use
| | 00:27 |
the Launch Pad to do so.
And right up here within the Launch Pad,
| | 00:31 |
I can Click on the Messages Application.
Now, when you first launch Messages, you
| | 00:37 |
need to setup an account.
And it's really up to you what type of
| | 00:40 |
account you want to create.
In this particular case, it wants me to
| | 00:44 |
setup iMessage, and that simply requires
an Apple ID.
| | 00:48 |
And once you enter that, then you're
identified and can communicate with other
| | 00:52 |
iMessage users.
Now, I'm not going to do that right now.
| | 00:56 |
I'm going to use my Google account, or my
Gmail account, so I'm going to go ahead
| | 01:00 |
and skip that.
And we're going to switch to a different
| | 01:03 |
account type.
You can see when I click on the drop-down
| | 01:06 |
menu, I can choose AIM, Jabber, Google
Talk, or Yahoo.
| | 01:10 |
Now, to keep it easy, I'm going to use
Google Talk, although you can set up
| | 01:14 |
multiple accounts.
Now I'm going to go in and enter my
| | 01:18 |
account name (NOISE) ,and then I'll go
ahead an enter my password.
| | 01:23 |
So when I click the sign in button, it's
going to want to sign in using my account.
| | 01:28 |
Now, this is something that I've
discovered when setting up a Gmail
| | 01:33 |
account inside of Message.
An what I'm going to do, you can see it's
| | 01:38 |
asking for my password again.
So I'm going to go ahead and cancel out
| | 01:42 |
of this, and I'm going to go back to the
Messages menu and go to Preferences.
| | 01:47 |
What I found is that when you're setting
up your account with Gmail, if it has a
| | 01:51 |
period in the name of the account name,
remove it when you're setting up this account.
| | 01:58 |
And now when you go ahead and close this,
now the account should work properly.
| | 02:03 |
Now what you'll have to do is come up
here to the Messages window.
| | 02:06 |
Go to Accounts, and make sure that Gmail
is chosen.
| | 02:09 |
And then go to My Status and choose
Available.
| | 02:13 |
(audio playing) And you could hear the sound of
it going online.
| | 02:17 |
So, I'm not sure why that happens, but
just keep that in mind if you're using
| | 02:20 |
Gmail as your account.
Now, once I have this set up, you can set
| | 02:25 |
up contacts in the Contact application,
and then access this from the Messages application.
| | 02:32 |
So let's see if I can start a chat with
my friend Tim Gray.
| | 02:39 |
And then down here at the bottom, I can
enter my message.
| | 02:47 |
So here's the recipient, here's my
message.
| | 02:52 |
(audio playing) So I sent the message.
And we can see that I just sent a message
| | 02:58 |
in here, and it's remembering a little
bit of the messages that I sent to him before.
| | 03:03 |
And here Tim's responding.
He wants to go ahead and go out for dinner.
| | 03:09 |
And so I'll just tell him that I'm up for
anything.
| | 03:15 |
What time works for you?
(audio playing) (audio playing) And as you can see, Tim's responding.
| | 03:21 |
So it's a really powerful feature, and
within the messages application, you'll
| | 03:26 |
notice that up here I have a little video
button.
| | 03:31 |
So if you're using a newer Mac,
especially an iMac or a MacBrook Pro, you
| | 03:35 |
can video chat with this person as well.
Now, in addition, you can also come up
| | 03:43 |
here to the Edit menu, and if you wanted
to, you can insert a smiley, they have a
| | 03:47 |
bunch of common smileys that you might
want to use here, you can even add a link.
| | 03:53 |
You can insert a hyperlink, and, you can
even insert a file if you wish.
| | 03:58 |
You can go ahead and go to the Buddies
menu, and choose send e-mail, or even
| | 04:02 |
send file.
We can even share each other's screen.
| | 04:07 |
Now you do need permission from each
other to do this, but you can share the
| | 04:11 |
screen with other people.
Now one other thing I want to point out
| | 04:15 |
is that the Messages application also
utilizes one of the new features inside
| | 04:20 |
of Mountain Lion called dictation.
And if I wanted to, I could choose this
| | 04:26 |
option and speak the reply that I want to
send to Tim.
| | 04:31 |
So if I choose Start Dictation, (audio playing)
That works for me Tim, period.
| | 04:37 |
I'll see you then.
Exclamation point.
| | 04:39 |
(audio playing) And click the done button.
You can see that it automatically enters
| | 04:44 |
the text based on what I've spoken.
So I can press the return key (audio playing),
| | 04:49 |
and that's going to send the message back
to Tim.
| | 04:53 |
As you can see, the New Messages
application is extremely powerful and
| | 04:56 |
convenient for messaging other users,
regardless of whether they're down the
| | 05:00 |
street or even thousands of miles away.
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| Notification Center| 00:02 |
Another new feature in Mountain Lion is
the Notification Center.
| | 00:05 |
The Notification Center keeps you updated
with the latest happenings on your Mac.
| | 00:11 |
Whether it be emails, reminders,
calendars, events, software updates and
| | 00:15 |
much, much more.
The notification center keeps on top of
| | 00:19 |
everything that's going on.
Let me show you how it works.
| | 00:23 |
In the finder, you're going to notice
that the notification center is located
| | 00:27 |
in the upper-right corner of your screen.
If you're new to the Mac, you might not
| | 00:31 |
have noticed this.
And if you are an existing Mac user, you
| | 00:35 |
might have been wondering what that is
for.
| | 00:38 |
And that in and of itself is the
Notification button.
| | 00:41 |
So if you click on that, it's going to
show you the Notification pane and show
| | 00:45 |
you any notifications that you need to be
aware of.
| | 00:50 |
So here's a calendar meeting that I have,
and then there's also another reminder
| | 00:53 |
that I have as well.
In addition, any new emails that you get
| | 00:57 |
will also show up in here.
So the question becomes, well how do I
| | 01:02 |
configure notifications?
How do I know what's going to show up in here?
| | 01:06 |
Well, I'm going to go ahead and close
this button.
| | 01:08 |
And we're going to come up here to the
Apple menu and choose System Preferences.
| | 01:13 |
If I click on the Notifications button,
this is where you control everything that
| | 01:17 |
shows up in the Notifications pane, and
this is also where you control how it
| | 01:21 |
shows up.
So for example, the Calendar category, it
| | 01:26 |
allows me to choose which type of style I
want to show up for the calendar.
| | 01:32 |
Do I want No Alerts style?
Do I want a banner to show up?
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Or do I want an alert to show up?
For each of these different categories,
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you get to choose how you want to be
notified of items that are due or need attention.
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So in addition, within this category, I
can show in the Notification Center the
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five most recent items.
I can also show the badge app icon, which
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is down here.
And then I can also play a sound when
| | 02:03 |
receiving notifications.
So you get to control what you get
| | 02:06 |
notified with.
I'm going to go ahead and come down to
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the mail category and once again, we get
to choose what the alert style is
| | 02:13 |
going to be.
Do we want no alert, do we want a banner
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or do we want an alert window that pops
up?
| | 02:22 |
And once again, in the Notifications
Center, we get to control how many of
| | 02:26 |
these items are going to appear.
Again, we can go to the badge app icon
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and we can play a sound when receiving
notifications.
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So if there's something in here that you
don't want to be in the Notification
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Center, like for example maybe I don't
really want Safari notifications to
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appear, you can drag this down and drop
it underneath the category that says Not
| | 02:47 |
in Notification Center.
That way, none of the messages that are
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being delievered from Safari are going to
show up in there.
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And you could do that for any of these
other ones as well.
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Maybe in my example, I'm not really
concerned about any games that may appear
| | 03:05 |
in there, so we'll drop that in the Not
in Notification center as well.
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So once you've configured this, you will
now be able to see how the Notification
| | 03:13 |
Center's going to work.
And just to show you once again how this
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is going to work for us, so I'm going to
launch the Reminders application, and I
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want to add another reminder to do
something a little bit later today.
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So what I'm going to do is in the
Reminders category, I'm going to go ahead
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and click the plus sign.
And I'm going to go out to dinner with my
| | 03:37 |
friend Tim.
And we're going to click the Info button.
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And I'm going to do that later on today.
That's going to happen at about 6:30 p.m.
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So, I can have it remind me on that day.
I'm going to go ahead and click the Done
| | 03:54 |
button, and I'm now going to quit out of
Reminders.
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But still, when I go to the Notifications
Center, you can see that Go Out to Dinner
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With Tim, has been added to Reminders so
that I won't forget to do it.
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If you get in the habit of looking at
your Notifications pane, you'll be able
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to see at a glance what's going on that
day, what things need attention on your
| | 04:15 |
computer, and it'll really keep you up to
date.
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So you could see how unobtrusive the
notification is when you're working on
| | 04:22 |
your computer.
It's elegant, and allows you to stay
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current with what's happening on your Mac
without disrupting you while you're working.
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| Dictation| 00:02 |
The dictation feature in Mountain Lion is
a ground breaking tool that could change
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the way you work, and how long it takes
you to get that work done as well.
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As someone who knows how to type, I don't
mind doing so as part of my job.
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But the new dictation feature is such a
time saver, that whenever possible I now
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avoid typing when I can.
Let me show you just how this feature works.
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So to begin I want to show you the
preferences that set up the speech and
| | 00:26 |
dictation feature inside of Mountain
Lion.
| | 00:30 |
So, we're going to do that by going to
the Apple menu, coming down to System
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Preferences and going down to Dictation
and Speech.
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And at the top of this preference pane,
we have two buttons.
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One for dictation, one for text to
speech, that allows me to control how
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these features work.
So I'm going to click on the dictation button.
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And you can see that as I'm talking the
microphone is picking up my voice commands.
| | 00:55 |
Now it's really not doing anything at
this point, it's just detecting the audio waves.
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From this drop down menu here you can
choose which microphone you want to use.
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And you can also choose other microphones
as well.
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So you don't have to have an external
microphone.
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You can use the internal microphone on
your computer.
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But you may get better results with a
external microphone.
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But give it a shot.
I think you'll find that it works pretty well.
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For the Dictation, we can turn it On and
Off.
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So, we want to make sure that we turn
that On.
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And then, we could Choose the Shortcut
that we want to use to Initiate the
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Dictation Feature.
Now, the Default is to Press the Function
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Key on your Keyboard Twice.
And I find that that works pretty well
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for the most part.
You could click on that drop down menu
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and choose from a couple of other
predefined keys, or you could customize
| | 01:41 |
it on your own, whichever you prefer.
We're going to set the language to
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English, at least in my example, and
then, that is all you need for the
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Dictation feature.
Now, while we're in this preference pane,
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let's click on Text to Speech.
The text to speech is the ability of
| | 01:58 |
Mountain Lion to read text back to you.
So, we could choose the system voice that
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is used.
We can choose a male or female.
| | 02:07 |
So if we choose Cathy, I can come over
here and click the Play button to see
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what that sounds like.
>> Isn't it nice to have a computer
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that can talk to you?
>> Let's try Vicky.
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>> Isn't it nice to have a computer
that can talk to you?
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>> And Victoria.
>> Isn't it nice to have a computer
| | 02:26 |
that will talk to you?
>> And if we go to the male voices, how
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about Alex?
>> Most people recognize me by my voice.
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>> So, maybe we'll start with that.
You can also adjust the speaking rate, so
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we can slow it down, we can speed it up.
I encourage you to adjust this to
| | 02:42 |
whatever works for you.
And then in addition, we can have the
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computer announce when alerts are
displayed.
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And we can set the alert options, you
know, what we want it to identify.
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I'm just going to cancel.
We can also announce when an application
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requires your attention.
And also when the selected text when the
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key is pressed.
So you can turn this on and then the
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current key is option escape, and that
will speak the selected text that you
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have highlighted on your screen.
We can also have the clock announce its
| | 03:16 |
time and then we can also change the
voice over settings in the Accessibility preferences.
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So we're going to go ahead and close out
of this.
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And now we'll start to use this dictation
feature.
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Now there's a lot of applications in
Mountain Lion that can utilize this feature.
| | 03:31 |
Now in my example, I'm going to use the
mail application.
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So I'm going to go ahead and open the
mail application.
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And I'm going to create a new mail
message.
| | 03:40 |
Just going to open this up a little bit.
And this is going to be sent to mary@example.com.
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Say today's meeting.
Now, when I'm, in a text field of some
| | 03:52 |
sort in Mountain Lion, that's where we
can utilize the dictation feature.
| | 03:58 |
So it doesn't matter if it's in an email,
if it's in text edit, if it's in a
| | 04:02 |
reminder, you can utilize this dictation
feature.
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So, what I'm going to do, is I'm going to
press the function key twice, and I'm
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going to speak some text, to put it in my
email.
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(NOISE) Mary comma I really appreciate
the opportunity to meet with you and your
| | 04:18 |
team today, regarding your need for
training at your company.
| | 04:24 |
I feel like we can definitely improve
your workflow in the graphic design
| | 04:27 |
department so that your team can make the
most of the software, and potentially
| | 04:31 |
reduce the amount of time required to
produce your projects.
| | 04:36 |
I'll prepare a report and send it to you
via email within the week.
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So I'm going to click the Done button.
(audio playing) And you can see that it actually
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picked up a little bit here, so we'll go
ahead and delete that.
| | 04:49 |
(audio playing) And you can see that all of the
text that I've spoken has been recorded
| | 04:54 |
and has been now dictated and is live
text that I can modify.
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In my experimentation I found that the
dictation feature is pretty accurate.
| | 05:06 |
I found that it works really well, and
every once in a while you'll have to fix
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an error of some sort, but it does a
pretty good job overall.
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Now in the same regards, what you can
also do is if you go to the Edit menu, I
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had Highlighted some text and I'm going
to the Edit menu, I'm going to go to
| | 05:22 |
Speech and I can then choose Start
Speaking.
| | 05:26 |
So this will do the reverse, I can
Highlight a area of text and choose Start Speaking.
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>> Mary, I really appreciate the
opportunity to meet with you and your
| | 05:35 |
team today regarding your need for
training at your company.
| | 05:39 |
I feel like we can definitely improve
your workflow in the graphic design
| | 05:43 |
department so that your team can make the
most of the software and potentially
| | 05:46 |
reduce the amount of time required to
produce your projects.
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I'll prepare a report and send it to you
via email within the week.
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>> Now, you'll notice that when I
recorded this content, that I really
| | 05:59 |
didn't indicate, any sentence breaks or
anything.
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So what you can do as you're dictating,
is you can actually say the word period.
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So just as an example, (audio playing), thanks
for your time today period.
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(audio playing) And you can see when I click the
Done button, it recognizes period and it,
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puts, a period at the end of the
sentence.
| | 06:22 |
So, there's a lot you can do with the
Dictation feature to get some accurate
| | 06:26 |
dictation in your text, and really saves
you a lot of typing.
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As you could see, this feature is quite
powerful, and I really encourage you to
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give the feature a try on your own,
because I think you'll really be happy
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that you did.
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9. Preparing for the WorstBacking up with Time Machine| 00:02 |
As we use our computers for more and more
in our day-to-day lives from banking to
| | 00:05 |
storing photos and documents to keeping
track of household items, all of this
| | 00:09 |
information is stored on our computers
now.
| | 00:13 |
Because of this, we as computer users,
need to make sure that we prepare for the
| | 00:16 |
worst and make a backup of the data on
our computers.
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Many people ask me, do I really need to
backup my computer?
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Well since a computer's hard drive is the
single most point of failure on any
| | 00:28 |
computer, ask yourself how important is
that information if your computer were to
| | 00:32 |
fail right now and you lost everything.
Fortunately Mountain Lion makes this
| | 00:37 |
proccess easier than its every been with
an application called Time Machine.
| | 00:42 |
Time machine takes the guess work out of
backing up your computer and just does it
| | 00:46 |
for you.
In order to use Time Machine.
| | 00:49 |
You need one thing.
Are you ready?
| | 00:51 |
A hard drive.
That's it.
| | 00:53 |
So to get started.
Go to the store and purchase an external
| | 00:57 |
USB Firewire or Thunderbolt hard drive,
at least if your computer is capable of
| | 01:01 |
using Thunderbolt.
And you're ready to go.
| | 01:05 |
So to get started, I'm going to plug in
the external hard drive that I purchased
| | 01:10 |
at the store.
And it a couple seconds, you can see that
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this hard drive shows up on my desk top.
Now often times when you first insert a
| | 01:19 |
hard drive you're going to receive a
message from time machine asking if you
| | 01:23 |
want to use this for your time machine
backup.
| | 01:27 |
If you get that you can start at that
point.
| | 01:30 |
So I'm going to come up to the Apple
menu, I'm going to go to System
| | 01:32 |
Preferences and in the system section
down here I'm going to click on Time Machine.
| | 01:38 |
Now, you'll notice that right now time
machine is currently turned off.
| | 01:42 |
But before we turn it on, we need to
choose which disk we're going to use to
| | 01:45 |
back up our hard drive.
So I'm going to click on this Select Disk button.
| | 01:50 |
I'm going to choose this disk that I just
inserted and I'm going to choose Use Disk.
| | 01:55 |
Now your hard drive may need to be
formatted before it can be used.
| | 01:59 |
And if it asks you to format you're
going to go ahead and do so.
| | 02:03 |
Now we've told time machine what disk to
back up our hard drive to.
| | 02:08 |
Now the one last thing I'm going to do is
we can click on the Options button here.
| | 02:12 |
And this is a list of excluded items that
we're telling Time Machine not to backup.
| | 02:18 |
So you see it's excluding itself from the
backup, but I'm going to add a couple of
| | 02:22 |
other drives that I have connected to my
computer.
| | 02:25 |
So I'm going to click the plus sign.
And I'm going to go to my hard drive, and
| | 02:31 |
I'm going to add a bunch of these drives.
Because we don't need to back every one
| | 02:41 |
of them up.
There we go.
| | 03:02 |
Now you probably won't have to do this,
but I've basically just excluded all of them.
| | 03:07 |
Because I don't need all of these backed
up on my computer.
| | 03:10 |
So what I'm going to do is go ahead and
click the Save button and then one last
| | 03:14 |
thing I'll point out is that by default
this check box is turn on to show the
| | 03:17 |
Time Machine in the menu bar and that's
located right up here.
| | 03:23 |
So now that I've chosen that it
automatically turned itself on so I'm
| | 03:26 |
going to go ahead and close this and
you'll notice that immediately its
| | 03:29 |
going to start backing up your computer.
The first time you do this the backup is
| | 03:35 |
going to take a while potentially even
several hours.
| | 03:38 |
So you may want to do the first backup
when you go to bed at night, or when
| | 03:41 |
you're leaving for awhile.
Although you can continue to work on your
| | 03:45 |
computer while it's backing up your data.
Now, after the initial full backup, it
| | 03:49 |
will do what is called an incremental
backup.
| | 03:52 |
Only backing up the data that has
changed, since the last backup.
| | 03:56 |
So I'm going to let this backup finish
here.
| | 03:58 |
There we go, so now all of our files are
backed up.
| | 04:03 |
So, you can come up here to the time
machine icon in the menu bar, and if you
| | 04:06 |
click on it, you'll see that the latest
back up was today, and it gives you the time.
| | 04:11 |
Now, what I'm going to do, so you can see
how this works, I'm open up a new Finder
| | 04:15 |
window, and I'm go to My Pictures folder.
And if we go to the Fun Pics folder here.
| | 04:22 |
I'm just going to copy a couple of these
files, out to my Desktop.
| | 04:29 |
Basically I want to make some changes to
my hard drive.
| | 04:32 |
Now what we can do is if we click on the
Time Machine icon, it's going to back up
| | 04:36 |
automatically on its own schedule.
But if want to make sure that we have the
| | 04:41 |
latest backup, we simply choose backup
now.
| | 04:45 |
And now if we click on this button again,
we can see that the latest backup is at
| | 04:49 |
3:09, exactly when we did the backup.
So you can see that every time Time
| | 04:54 |
Machine does a backup after the full
backup, it just does an incremental
| | 04:57 |
backup each time.
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| Restoring files with Time Machine| 00:02 |
Once you've backed up your files using
Time Machine, you should know how to
| | 00:05 |
recover files if they become deleted
accidentally, or overwritten.
| | 00:10 |
The restore process for Time Machine
couldn't get any easier.
| | 00:13 |
Let me show you how this works.
Before I show you how to restore these
| | 00:17 |
files, I'm actually going to go into my
Home folder.
| | 00:20 |
So I'm going to go create a new Finder
window.
| | 00:22 |
I'm going to go into my Pictures folder,
and I'm going to delete this Fun Pics folder.
| | 00:29 |
So I'm going to simulate the process of
me accidentally removing files on my computer.
| | 00:35 |
So, there's that Fun Pics folder, it's in
the trash, and now I'm going to empty the trash.
| | 00:41 |
(audio playing) There we go, so you can see that
my trash can is empty.
| | 00:49 |
Now what I'm going to do, is I'm going to
go to the folder where those files used
| | 00:52 |
to be.
So I'm going to go to the File menu,
| | 00:55 |
choose New Finder Window, and we'll go to
my Pictures folder.
| | 00:59 |
And as you can see, those files are gone.
Now what I'm going to do now is I'm
| | 01:02 |
going to activate Time Machine.
So I'm going to come over here to my
| | 01:05 |
Launch Pad, and I'm going to click on
Time Machine in the Other category, to
| | 01:09 |
launch Time Machine on my computer.
Now what you're going to see here is
| | 01:15 |
essentially the space time continuum of
the files on your computer.
| | 01:20 |
And basically, what it's showing you is
the current state in time.
| | 01:24 |
But then if you look over here, you also
have different states of when the files
| | 01:28 |
were backed up.
Now if I want to, I can click on today at
| | 01:33 |
3:09, and that's going to bring that to
the current state.
| | 01:37 |
Or I could even click on one of these
windows, to bring that window to the
| | 01:40 |
current state.
So we can see that now we're at today at
| | 01:44 |
2:54, as indicated right here.
Now I'm going to click on the Fun Pics folder.
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And then I'm going to click the Restore
button (audio playing)
| | 01:55 |
And you'll notice that, as if by magic,
these files have automatically been
| | 01:59 |
copied back to their original location.
And here's all of my original files.
| | 02:06 |
As you could see, with Time Machine, you
can work confidently knowing that you
| | 02:10 |
always have access to your data when
disaster strikes.
| | 02:14 |
When you're working on your computer and
your hard drive fails, what you would do
| | 02:17 |
is restore your computer to the original
software.
| | 02:21 |
And then you'll be given the opportunity
to restore from a Time Machine backup at
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that point, as well.
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