5. Setting System Preferences
What You’ll Do
Understand System Preferences
View System Preferences
Lock and Unlock Preference Settings
Change Appearance Options
Set Up the Desktop
Set Up Screen Savers
Set the Date and Time
Change Language Options
Change Text Substitution Options
Save Energy and Manage Power
Select a Startup Disk
Change the Way a CD & DVD Starts
Control Sound
Recognize Your Speech
Let Mac Do the Talking
Set Universal Access Options
Explore and Use VoiceOver
Set Ink Preferences
Introduction
System Preferences allows you to customize various parts of Mac OS X, such as the appearance of your desktop, your computers date and time, the way CDs and DVDs start up when you insert them, or use speech recognition to convert a spoken voice ...
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