Chapter 2
Getting Acquainted with the Mac User Interface
In This Chapter
Perusing menus and windows
Using the mouse, trackpad, and keyboard
Getting familiar with the parts of the Desktop
Working with Dashboard widgets
Getting help from your Mac
Theoretically, using a computer is simple. In practice, using a computer can cause people to suffer a wide range of emotions from elation to sheer frustration and despair.
The problem with using a computer stems mostly from two causes:
- Not knowing what the computer can do
- Not knowing how to tell the computer what you want it to do
In the early days of personal computers (PCs), this communication gap between users and computers arose mostly from ordinary people trying to use machines designed by engineers for other engineers. If you didn’t understand how a computer engineer thinks (or doesn’t think), computers seemed nearly impossible to understand.
Fortunately, Apple has mostly solved this problem with the Mac. Instead of designing a computer ...
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