This chapter explains how to work with, install, and update applications.

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Managing Applications

Applications are the heart and soul of any computer. In this chapter, you learn how to handle application windows on the desktop and how to handle the files that applications create. Think of this as an overview that applies to all the applications discussed individually in subsequent chapters.

Using Launchpad

The Launchpad, one of the new features in OS X Lion that takes its design and functionality from iOS (used in the iPhone, iPad, and iPod), bumped the Applications folder completely off the Dock and established its own icon (a rocket on a silver disc) prominently in the second position on the left—just to the right of the Finder. The Applications ...

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