Learn the Switch to Mac

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We’re very proud of "Learn the Switch to Mac" and hope you enjoy it. It’s designed for all users - power to beginners. We recommend using our learning app in the first couple weeks you get your new Mac. Start by clicking what you want to learn, then watch Saied, your instructor, teach you about the feature. After he teaches you, you try it yourself on the virtual Mac we’ve built into the learning environment. If you complete the lesson correctly, you get a gold star. It’s really fun. We’re really grateful to be apart of your switch to Mac experience. Thank you.

Here is what you'll learn in our completely interactive Mac OS X Snow Leopard tutorials:

Apple Menu
•Discovering info about your Mac
•Easter egg to get serial number
•Quick links to System Preferences
•Sleep, Restart, Shut Down, Log Out

Address Book
•Creating contracts and customizing
•Creating groups and organizing contracts
•Printing Address Book labels and more
•Integration Address Book brings to Mail

Dashboard
•Activating Dashboard
•Downloading more Widgets
•Managing Widgets
•Deleting Widgets
•Closing Widgets
•Creating Widgets from Websites
•Using widgets such as:
◦Business
◦Stickies
◦Stocks
◦Translation
◦Weather

Dock
•How the Dock works
•Adding Applications to the Dock
•Removing Applications
•Adding your favorite folders

Downloads folder and Stacks
•Downloading Mac OS X Software
•Discovering the Downloads folder
•Using Stacks
•Adding new Stacks in the Dock
•Customizing views of Stacks
•Removing Stacks

Exposé
•Activating Exposé
•Keyboard shortcuts for Exposé
•Customizing Screen Corners

Finder
•Using Finder
•Opening and quitting Applications
•Window control buttons
•Organizing files in the Home folder
•Views
•Using Quicklook

iCal
•Adding events in different views
•Organizing events
•Adding alarms and repeats
•Using the mini Calendar
•Subscribing to new Calendars

iChat
•Using iChat
•Getting a free screen name
•Text Chatting
•Audio Chatting
•Video Chatting
•Screen Sharing
•Sending files
•Customizing iChat windows

Keyboard Shortcuts
•Teach Mac keyboard shortcuts

Spaces
•Activating Spaces
•Customizing Applications Space
•Dragging Applications to different Spaces
•Easter Egg to bring all windows to Space 1
•Adding more Spaces

Mail
•Adding multiple accounts
•Using Mail - Get email and send
•Easter Egg adding attachments
•Searching
•Downloading attachments
•Using Quicklook with attachments
•Notes
•To Do
•RSS
•Stationary
•Customizing the Junk filter

Safari
•Using Safari
•Easter Egg when going to .com sites
•Tabs
•Adding bookmarks to the menu
•Google search
•RSS
•Creating a widget from a website

Spotlight
•Using Spotlight as a:
•Application Launcher
•Calculator
•Dictionary
•File locator
•Customizing Spotlight and Privacy

System Preferences
•Desktop Background
•Right-clicking on the Mac
•Adding a new photo
•Screen Saver settings
•Hot Corners

Network
•Connecting to a wireless station
•Advanced Network settings
•Adding a manual IP
•Creating multiple Locations
•Quick link to them

Software Update
•Checking for new software updates
•Customizing automatic settings
•Ignoring Software Updates
•Installing updates

Time Machine
•Setup a new hard drive for Time Machine
•Changing your Time Machine device
•Customizing what you want to backup
•About Time Machine
•Activating Time Machine
•Deleting previous backup files
•Restoring files

Trash
•Using Quicklook
•Right-clicking on the Mac
•Putting stuff in the Trash
•Empty Trash

FAQ
How long do the tutorials take?
Each lesson is about 3-5 minutes long. If you went through every single lesson in one sitting, it would most likely take you a couple hours.