SCO0131 - Setting Up Your Mac - Part 1 [Free Show]

[Full Free Show] For the first show of the new year, I thought I'd offer a helping hand to all those new Mac owners fortunate enough to get a new Mac for Christmas. The theme of this show was suggested by a viewer and I enlisted the help of the guys and gals over at the ScreenCastsOnline forum to assemble a list of best practices and essential software for the new Mac user. The resultant list is just too much for a single show so I'll make it into an occasional mini series of shows for the new Mac user. This first show looks at several different aspects of setting up a brand new mac from the view point of a new Mac user. I look at: Basic Dock Customisation Converting to a Standard Account Using Parental Controls Switching on the FireWall Setting a Screensaver Password Pointers to Using Time Machine In addition to these common tasks, I also recommend six free software packages to get you up and running as quickly as possible (inlcuding running through the different installation routines for all of them) The software icludes: Firefox - Web Browser (although I do recommend at least trying Safari for a short while) TextWrangler - A Fully Featured Text Editor Paintbrush - A simple bitmap graphics tool based on MS Paint Perian - Some essential video codecs to allow you play many different types of video Flip4Mac - Windows Media Playback The Unarchiver - Free unarchive utility for many formats These are just the start and we'll look at many more useful utilities and applications in the following episodes.

Pyro TV | January 6, 2008

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