Mac OS X Leopard Overview
With over 170 minutes of video training screencasts this course covers all the basics of Leopard along with some more advanced content. Anyone new to the Mac or new to Leopard will benefit from these lessons. Everything from basic file and folder navigation to how to best use the included applications like iCal, Mail, Safari and Address Book is included. Take a look at the course outline below to see all the topics that are covered.
With over 170 minutes of video training screencasts this course covers all the basics of Leopard along with some more advanced content. Anyone new to the Mac or new to Leopard will benefit from these lessons. Everything from basic file and folder navigation to how to best use the included applications like iCal, Mail, Safari and Address Book is included. Take a look at the course outline below to see all the topics that are covered.
Free Sample Lessons
Mac OS X Leopard - Course Outline. Click the blue links to view the free sample lessons for this course.
1. The Mac OS X Desktop and Finder
2. System preferences Overview
3. Applications in Leopard
4. Basic Maintenence
1. The Mac OS X Desktop and Finder
- - Intro to the Desktop
- - Intro to the Menubar
- - Navigating the Finder: the finder window, toolbar and sidebar, folder creation, finder views, quicklook.
- - Disc Burning: writing data to CD's or DVD's, burn folders.
- - Your Home Folder: User homes, and the folders inside.
- - Intro to the Dock: Add, remove and arrange icons, adjust size and placement, hiding.
- - Using Stacks: creating a stack, view options.
- - Using Spotlight for Search: Spotlight menu, window, command-spacebar, calculator, dictionary, spotlight in text.
- - Using the Dashboard: find widgets, arrange, webclip, manage widgets.
2. System preferences Overview
- -Appearance
- -Desktop/Screensaver
- -Expose/Spaces
- -International and Security
- -Spotlight
- -Bluetooth
- -CDs and DVDs
- -Displays
- -Energy Saver
- -Keyboard and Mouse
- -Print and Fax
- -Sound
- -Mobile Me
- -Network
- -Quicktime
- -Sharing
- -Accounts
- -Date and Time
- -Parental Controls
- -Software Update
- -Speech
- -Startup Disk
- -Time Machine
- -Universal Access
3. Applications in Leopard
- -Safari: window features, find, autofill, pop up block, PDFs, snap back, adjust text size, using tabs, bookmarks, email contents of a page, saving pages, dock web location.
- -Mail: account setup, read, compose/attach, configure junk mail, signature, stationary, create mailboxes for storage, rules, search, to-do’s, data detectors, notes.
- -Address Book: Add edit address book cards, groups, add photos, backup.
- -iCal: create calendars, calendar groups, automatic birthdays, create/edit events. calendar views, email notification, alerts, subscribe to calendars.
- -iTunes: import from CD, buy music, album art, create playlists, smart playlists, burn CD, sharing, movies, and TV shows, airtunes.
- -Preview: open images, PDFs, open multiple, edit images rotate/crop, screenshots.
- -Text Edit: Set tabs & indents, color panel, fonts panel.
- -Time machine recovery: recover an accidently deleted file.
- -Dictionary: Thesaurus, system wide spell check.
4. Basic Maintenence
- -File Organization, Empty Trash, Software Updates
- -Force Quit, Restart and plist Files.
- -Using Disk Utility
