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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition
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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

by Wallace Wang
August 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
512 pages
11h 9m
English
No Starch Press
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Chapter 16. Giving Your Macintosh Multiple Personalities with User Accounts

The best way to accommodate multiple people who want to use a Macintosh is to buy everyone a separate Macintosh so they'll leave your computer alone. Unfortunately, it's not always practical to buy a separate computer for everyone, so you can do the next best thing and split your Macintosh into "multiple personalities" by creating user accounts instead.

When you divide a Macintosh into separate user accounts, each user can customize his or her account to make the Macintosh take on a different personality. One account might have a purple background with pictures of cats scattered on the screen, while another account might have a plain white background, for example.

More importantly, ...

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