The Icons

Icons are the little pictures you see all over the Mac. Below are some of the ones you’ll bump into right away and where you can find more information about them. Sometimes you click once on an icon to activate it, sometimes you double-click on it, sometimes you press on it.

  • For all the details about icons, see Chapter 7.

Window Toolbar icons

Computer: Click this button to see all the disks in the Mac that your computer recognizes. See Chapter 9.

Home: Click this to go straight to your own, personal home folder. See Chapter 20.

Favorites: Click this to see all of the folders, documents, web sites, and other files you have ...

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