Know Each Detail of Your Mac

Curious about your mac ? Want to see each and every detail about it with a couple of simple clicks ? Click on the Apple button ( top left of your screen ), hold down the alt/option button on your keyboard and "About this Mac" will change to System Profiler. Click on System Profiler.

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The Mac Tip Series 9 - System Preferences

System preferences on Mac OS X is an application with all your general settings. In other words, it's like "Control panel" on Windows. To go to System Preferences you can -

1. Search for it in spotlight search ( top right corner of screen )
2. Click on the Apple button in the menubar ( top left corner of screen )
3. Click on it in the dock.

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The Mac Tip Series 6 - Trash ( Recycle Bin )

Mac Switch #8 - Your Recycle Bin is now called the "Trash" and is to the extreme right of your Dock. To delete files, you can either right-click the file and click "Move to Trash" or you can simply drag it to the Trash icon in the Dock. Click on the trash icon to see what all is in it. Right-Click and then click empty to permenantly delete all the files in the trash. To eject an external Hard Drive, drag the HD from your Desktop to the trash can. It'll automatically change to an eject icon.

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The Mac Tip Series 5 - Shut Down / Restart / Sleep

Mac Switch #5 - To Switch off your mac, click on the apple sign at the top left of your screen and click "Shut Down", "Restart", "Log Out", "Sleep". Or press Control-Eject To shutdown

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The Mac Tip Series 4 - System Preferences

System Preferences

Mac Switch #4 - All or most of your general preferences are now managed by an application called "System Preferences". Click on the apple sign on the top left corner of your screen and click on "System Preferences".

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Start Up Your Mac Automatically After A Power Failure

Start up your mac automatically after a Power Failure. Open Syastem Preferences --> Energy Saver and Tick the last option which says "Start up your Mac Automatically after a Power Failure.

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Wi-fi Router not working ? Use your Mac instead...

My wi-fi router's not working.
Well people, ever so often when this happens, you could whine complain and not use the net. OR... OR you could read this and see that you don't need it to work. All you need is a mac and an internet connection, be it a USB Modem or a Direct Modem line.
You can convert your Mac into a Wi-fi Router!

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Create a new user account in Mac OS X

Do you want to create a new user in Mac OS X ? Perhaps you share a computer with someone and would like to keep your files and computer workspace completely seperated ? Well, in that case, you should probably keep reading to learn how to create a new user account in mac -

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