Chapter 7: Working with Applications
In This Chapter
Installing, updating, and removing applications
Understanding and using Gatekeeper security
Opening applications
Using the Launchpad
Understanding applications' user interface elements
Managing multiple open applications
Working with full-screen applications
Quitting applications
Now that you've set up your Mac and become familiar with the Finder, it's time to get down to the business of working with applications and the day-to-day activity of creating, saving, and working with documents.
Most of the time you spend working on your Mac is in the traditional manner: opening applications, creating documents, printing and sharing them, and saving them for future posterity. In this sense, applications are the tools; documents (covered in Chapter 8) are the things you create and share with them.
Although chances are good that you're familiar with the basics of using applications from using a Mac or Windows PC before, OS X does bring a few new approaches to the table that make it worth reviewing how applications work.
OS X includes a huge range of applications, as Chapter 9 covers, but the beauty of computers is that you can install and run programs built by other people. Most applications work the same way in OS X, following Apple's human interface guidelines, but some programs—notably Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office—add their own approaches on top of Apple's. But even these applications have the basic OS X application ...
