How to Do Everything Mac OS X Mountain Lion, 4th Edition

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First Things First: Getting to Know Your Mac

HOW TO…

•   Discover your keyboard

•   Understand what a GUI is

•   Make sense of the menus, icons, and windows

•   Know the difference between a file and a folder

•   Use internal storage, CDs, and DVDs

•   Get further help from your Mac

Everyone likes to know what they are doing right out of the gate, but when it comes to new things, this is impossible. The frustration of learning something new is only made all the more complicated when that something new is a computer. People who haven’t used a computer or don’t know very much about them are usually frightened of them. In Chapter 1, I used the ...