What is a Macintosh Good for?

Series Summary

Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computers Inc., was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne, and Steve Wozniak. Apple's Macintosh personal computers are some of the most popular in the world. However, Macs are not as widespread as IBM compatible computers, consequently many people are not quite as familiar with them as PC's. The Mac OS X Tiger, Mac's operating system, is different from windows but it is very intuitive and easy to learn.

In this free online video series, learn from Mac OS X Tiger expert Tony Passarella as he show basic features and demonstrates essential functions of Tiger. Learn about the dock, locations of drives on the desktop, creating an alias, changing the desktop image, rotating the desktop image, changing the screen saver, creating “hot corners”, icons on the menu bar and spotlight, color tags and ejecting drives, burning a data DVD, setting timers for start and shut off, installing software, short cuts for switching applications, expose, deleting a file from the hard drive, and hooking up an external hard drive.

Video Transcript

" Hey it is Tony from expertvillage.com alright thank you for joining me on this segment here about the Macintosh. I just kind of want to show you a little you know some of the basic to get you started, to get you going. So you just bought a Mac and you are kind of not sure where to go, how you just kind of you know getting familiar with it cause you kind of came from a PC background. Well congratulations and welcome to the world of Mac. Basically this is the Macintosh right here. I'm operating a Mac power PCD5 and it is a tower, I have a flat screen monitor, and it doesn't matter if you know what Mac you have. Os X runs exactly the same in all of them whether get the iMac, the Mac mini or a power book laptop. And this is pretty much it and the Mac is great for doing proactivity stuff like graphic design, music, tv and film, picture stuff, what is what I use it for filming, television, and as you could see it is on and ready to go. So I'm going to kind of take it through take you on a kind of tour of the Mac Os X tiger and hopefully you would be up and running and smooth sailing. Alright. "