Intro to Mac OS

Intro to Mac OSGSLIS Instructional Technology and

Design

First things first (you’ve probably already gotten this far)

• Select Mac from the GSLIS OS picker• Login using your GSLIS

username/password• Quota manager will alert you of your

available disk space. Click “Thanks”• Your quota is the space allotted to

you on the GSLIS file server

Many names, the same thing

• Mac OS > OS X > 10.6 = Snow Leopard 10.7 = Lion

10.8 = Mountain Lion

10.5 = Leopard

What about Mountain Lion?• 10.8—the newest iteration of OS X• Does not yet cooperate with the

GSLIS lab login system• Introduces a few new features• If you’ve recently purchased a new

Mac, you probably have this on your machine

Why use Mac?• The majority of GSLIS domain

machines dual boot giving you the option to choose Windows XP or Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

• While most of the machines in GSLIS have been upgraded to use Windows 7, bugs are being ironed out, so Mac OS is the more stable of the two operating systems

Meet your desktop

The dock

Functions similarly to the start menu in Windows. Keep frequently used programs here for quick access. Simply drag and drop programs to your dock to add, drag them off the dock to remove.

Using spotlight to tweak your dock• Your default browser in OS X is Safari• You can quickly switch to Firefox by

launching Firefox from spotlight, right-clicking on the application icon in your dock, and opting to keep it in your dock

• Get rid of Safari by dragging it off your dock

Minimized applications

When you minimize a window in OS X, it shrinks into the dock. Bring it back to your desktop by clicking it again.

Applications Folder

Resizing windows

• Click and drag the corner

Renaming Files and Folders

System Preferences

Window Resizing Menus

Start Menu Apple Menu

Windows vs. Mac

Windows vs. MacTask Manager Force Quit

Windows vs. Mac

Utility Menus

Menu Bars

Finder

Spotlight Volume Control

Logging out

That concludes our walkthrough

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