Lesson 5. Email and the Internet

Time

This lesson takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.

Goals

To configure your Mac to give you email access and Web access, so you can send and receive email and search the World Wide Web.

My guess is that the ability to send email and get on the Internet are two of the main reasons why you bought a Mac in the first place. (Okay, they’re probably the reasons why you bought a computer—but you bought a Macintosh computer because it’s more fun, easier to use, more reliable, and you wanted to avoid all those icky things that PC users wrestle with every day, like viruses and spyware. Right? Right.) Well, my friends, you did the right thing, and you’ll know that for sure, because in just a few minutes, you’ll ...

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