Other Very Important Features

There are several very important features on your Mac you can learn that will make you the life of any party. Here are suggestions for specific things you need to be in control of:

Search

  • Learn how to Search. Read pages 386–388 and experiment. Later, another day, read the rest of the chapter and learn how to do more complex searches (when you know what you’re searching for).

System Preferences

  • Learn how to use some of your System Preferences: skim Chapter 22. Check out only the preference panes that interest you (ignore the others). An easy one to experiment with is the Mouse preferences (see pages 28–29).

Aliases

  • Learn how to use aliases. Read pages 365–369. I guarantee you will find aliases to be one of the ...

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