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).

Monday 14 May

Thanks for such great morning and afternoon sessions, I hope you are enjoying them as much as me!


And thanks to Helen for prompting us discover the joys of a bigger cursor!!  Here's how:

• Open Systems Preferences
• select Universal Access
• then Mouse & Trackpad (or it might be just Mouse)
• Use the slider to move the Cursor size bigger and smaller, it will change as you slide making it easy to decide how big you need it!

Don't forget: Command + Q for quitting a program completely. 


Two websites which you may find useful:
My First Mac
Switching to Mac


Web browsers and the internet: 21 May 
Pages/Word and printing: 28 May
iPhoto: 4 June
No class (public holiday): 11 June
Classes in AM and PM (topics TBA): 18 June
No class (last week of term): 25 June


See you on Monday!

21 November 2011

Appcleaner removes applications and all associated files with a couple of clicks. 


The Mac app for reading PDF files is Preview.  You can also view and edit .JPG, .TIFF and .PNG images.  As far as I can tell, Preview is installed on Leopard as well as Snow Leopard and Lion.

You can download the iPhone 4 user guide in PDF from here, or just go to help.apple.com/iphone/ from your iPhone.

What is iCloud? The video demonstrates iCloud very nicely.
And this article might be helpful for walking through setting up your device for iCloud.

This is a comprehensive list of keyboard shortcuts for Mac. 

Options for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations:
iWork
OpenOffice
Microsoft Office for Mac

MyFirstMac is one of many websites dedicated to Mac users.  Take a look at the Getting Started section, there are some useful tips and tricks in there.


See you next Monday!