Mac User's Starter Guide - How To Master Mac In A Day

Introduction

Reasons Why People Use A Mac

Getting The Most From Your Mac

The Desktop Icons

Creating Files And Folders For The Desktop Of Your Mac

The Menu Bar – Closing The Computer And Force Quitting

Closing the Mac

How To Force Quit An Application

The Menu Bar: Other Items In The Apple Icon

The Menu Bar: Shortcuts And Special Optional Keys

The Menu Bar: On The Top Right

The Dock Area

The Dock Area: Adding, Removing And Organizing Apps

The Dock Area: The Trash

Sorting The Trash

The Overview And Privacy Considerations Of Spotlight

The Speed of Spotlight and Secret Methods Of Using That Speed

Applications – Opening Them And Scrolling Through Them

Quitting Applications On A Mac

The Manipulation Of Windows

Working With Many Windows At Once

Seeing The Desktop

Types of Files and Drives

Finder – Setting Up The Workshop

Finder: Setting Up The Mac Finder Workshop

Finder Window: Getting To Really Know The Workshop

Which View Is the Best One?

The Arrange Icons Feature

Tips and Nice Things About The Column View

The Dock: The Power Tool Finder

The Finder: Saving Files And Then Finding Them Again

Other Areas

Conclusion

Introduction

It is time that you took the big step of making the decision to master your Mac so that you can live life to the fullest and quit worrying about your inability in regard to get the most mileage out of your Mac. You can actually learn to use your Mac in the same manner that a concert violinist plays for concerts with exceptional skill. Now you can quit wringing your hands and wondering what to do next. Now is the time to take the next step.

Of course there is this ongoing battle between PCs and Macs, thus the recent commercial that Apple ran which cleverly pitted the PC guy against the Mac guy, depicting the PC guy as the less capable of the two. A rather cute commercial to be sure, but that is exactly how Mac users view their choice of a Mac over the PC as far as function and ease of use.

Macs don’t have near the viruses that PCs do, but that is not really a fair criticism of the PCs because the Mac still only commands 10% of the personal computer market, and most of the viruses are written to attack PCs. Some of the concrete features that are certainly going to put the contest towards the side of the Mac are the faster running speed of the Mac, fewer crashes, and with the Mac you don’t have the constant need of reboots, upgrades, defrags, maintenance and all of the other pesky tasks that PCs will make you do.

It is not even a contest of operating systems anymore either, because Macs run Windows now too, so if you are a diehard Windows fan, you can have your Mac and Windows too.

When it comes down to head to head performance, it is the Mac that wins, hands down in that department. Consumers Reports gives Mac the nod as well as most professionals who what a superb outcome, such as musicians, writers, artists and photographers.

For years, the big rub against the Mac compared to Windows has been the cost. PC users say that why spend the extra money for the