Apple Macintosh Tutorials

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Mac Basics is a sequence of eight 2-hour introductory lessons separated into two courses of 4 lessons each. It replaces all previous 'Getting Started' Courses.

Mac Basics 1: Covers switching on, sleeping and shutting down, using a mouse and trackpad, menus, files, folders and icons, working with windows, the sidebar and Dock, opening apps, working with documents, the Internet, peripherals, Time Machine, the keyboard and Mission Control.

Mac Basics 2: Covers searching, Quick Look, Dashboard, File Vault, Spaces, App and System Preferences, Software Update and App Store, Browser Apps and World Wide Web, E-mail apps, CDs, DVDs and SD Cards, viruses and malware. There are 2 slightly different versions. Mac Basics v1 is for computers using Snow Leopard and Lion. Mac Basics v2 is for those using Mountain Lion.

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Address Book: (Two 2-hour lessons). Covers setting preferences, adding and deleting contacts, adding custom fields, snapshots, pictures, notes, & birthdays, mapping addresses, creating and manipulating group folders, printing mailing labels, backing up, using with e-mail apps, creating and using vCards.

Bean: (Four 2-hour lessons). Covers basic techniques, creating, importing and saving documents, templates, fonts, customising, Inspector, Character Viewer, tables, objects, lists, columns, headers and footers, Bean menus.

Bento: (Four 2-hour lessons) is a third party database program that may be purchased on the internet. The course covers using Bento, creating libraries, templates, collections, field and data types, searching, sorting, exporting libraries and using the iCal, Address Book and iPhoto libraries contained in Bento.

iCal: (Two 2-hour lessons). Covers overview, preferences, adding events and recurring events, all-day events, alerts, reminders, backing up, invitations, printing, syncing across devices.

iMovie v9 (aka ’11) : (Four 2-hour lessons).This is a very sophisticated program. The course deals with how to import from all types of media, starting a project, adding video, editing, applying effects, adding and manipulating audio and music and exporting a project to iDVD for burning to disc.

KeyNote: (Four 2-hour lessons). is an incredible presentations application similar to Window's Power Point. It has powerful easy-to-use tools which produce dazzling effects in a slide show

Mail: (Four 2-hour lessons) Covers composing and sending e-mails, receiving and reading, addressing messages, previous recipients list, signatures, stationery, spell checking, customising, conversations, groups, rules, deleting, mailboxes, attachments, forwarding, backing up, junk mail, web-mail, encrypting, parental controls, linkages to Address Book and iCal.

Microsoft Word for Mac. (Four 2-hour lessons). is a course designed mainly for those members who have previously used a Windows computer and are already familiar with the PC version of Microsoft Word. There are three versions of the course covering MS Word 2004, 2008 and 2011.

Numbers: (Four 2-hour lessons). Covers creating spreadsheets, styles, selecting cells, entering data, corrections, formulae & functions, filtering, freezing headers, reorganising, Inspectors, formatting, referring, searching, printing, creating templates, exporting, auto backing up.

iPad & iPhone: (Four 2-hour lessons). Covers iPad types, basic ops., multi-touch screen, setting up, creating iTunes accounts, opening, hiding & deleting apps, folders, keyboard, editing, settings, dictation, App Store, syncing, backing up, resetting, searching, Mail, Safari, reminders, maps. (3rd update April 2013).

iPhoto: (Four 2-hour lessons). The course covers camera settings, resolution, importing images, scanning, sending and receiving images in Mail, albums, smart albums, crop, straighten, zoom, red eye, printing and burning to Cd or DVD. There are versions of the notes for iPhoto 08. 09 and 11

Pages: (Four 2-hour lessons). Covers basic techniques, creating, importing and saving documents, templates, fonts, Inspector, Styles, Lists, breaks, sections, text boxes, objects, contents table, merging, footnotes and endnotes, printing, password protection.

Safari: (Four 2-hour lessons). Covers the Internet, World Wide Web, URLs, websites, ISPs, preferences, broadband, dial-up, hyperlinks, history, bookmarks, searching the web, security, trading, Software Update, widgets, webmail, cookies, notifications, internet forums.

Switchers’ Guide : is a course designed for people who are familiar with computing on a PC who have switched to a Mac. It deals with similarities and differences between the two operating systems.

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The above notes are generally designed for either four two-hour classes or two two-hour classes (i.e. They contain about 40 pages or 20 pages of notes respectively)

Courses cost $30 each for the copyright to distribute to your financial members in any way you feel.

Payment for courses must be authorized and paid for by your SeniorNet Group.