Chapter 2
Touring the Screen
IN THIS CHAPTER
Taking a look around the desktop
Manipulating the menu bar
Checking out the dock and Finder
Dealing with dialogs and windows
Saying “Hey” to Siri
Getting help with your Mac
The tall-forehead types who specialize in computer science have a genius for coming up with words and phrases that seem designed to not only confuse the rest of us but also to wring the joy out of using a computer. A good example is user interface, which sounds like it came straight from a dystopian robot novel. Well, I’m happy to report that I have two pieces of good news for you. First, you won’t catch me using the phrase user interface anywhere in the rest of this book. Second, what that phrase represents isn’t some abstruse computer science concept that requires PhD-level knowledge. Instead, it simply refers to what you see on your screen after you start the Mac ...
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