Printing and Scanning

How to print as a PDF instructions (from the Dummies website, which is not a reflection of our class, purely a great resource!) This method means you don't have to save the file twice (once as a Word doc and once as a PDF).

Here's the list of keyboard shortcuts. The list is quite long but mastering ones like Command + C for copy, Command + V for paste will make your life easier!

How to print instructions from Mac.

That's about all. See you Monday for e-books and e-readers. If you have an e-reader or iPad, bring them along so we can play).

13 February 2012 (part 2)

And we're back for part 2:


Making a collage for your Desktop Background - iPhoto doesn't "do" collages but this blog has a workaround using the book function in iPhoto.  (I will add this to the list for the week we cover iPhoto).

How to print in greyscale:

We also discussed search engines, in particular Google. DuckDuckGo is an alternative search engine which has a very clear no tracking and bubble policies (the bubble will make sense when you read the link!) and privacy policy.


And lastly, here is my suggested calendar for the rest of term 1.  It is open to change and subject to approval by SCCCC.

• 20 February - Basics
• 27 February - iPhoto
• 5 March - Pages/Microsoft Word for Mac/OpenOffice
• 12 March - Mail
• 19 March - iTunes
• 26 March - App Store, installing and uninstalling applications
• 2 April - (open to suggestions or for a recap of the term).

And that is it! See you next Monday.