3. Apps, the Dock, and Mission Control
Whenever you’re doing something in OS X, you’re doing it in an application. Writing in Microsoft Word or BBEdit; correcting photos in iPhoto or Adobe Photoshop; crunching numbers in Numbers; editing video in iMovie...you’re using features included in an application.
This chapter covers how to run applications, as well as how to install and update them—a more complicated topic than one might expect, but made easier via the Mac App Store. And we can’t talk about applications without looking at the go-to place for accessing applications and more, the Dock, and using Mission Control to switch between apps.
Launch Applications
Starting an application is known as launching, no doubt because in the early days ...
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