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Jennifer BrinsonInstructional Coach

Salisbury High School

What Else Can I Do With This Thing?

Jennifer BrinsonInstructional Coach

Salisbury High School

Questions on:

Hardware?

Ports?

Dock?

Desktop?

Wireless Access?

Expose`

Allows you to set the corners to different commands

Set the function keys to various shortcuts

How to do Expose`Go to the at the top left corner

Go to System Preferences

Go to expose` and spaces

Be sure you have the tab marked “expose`” highlighted

Choose your corners and function keys

SpacesAllows you to have a variety of windows open without layering them on top of one another

How to use SpacesGo to the and to System Preferences

Click on the expose` and spaces

Be sure that you highlight Spaces

Click on the box to “enable spaces”

Dashboard

A “second” desktop for quick reference items

Either click on the icon (on your dock)

OR - if you have expose’ enabled with one of the four corners set to the dashboard just take your cursor to that corner.

To manage your DashboardBring up your dashboard.

Click the . This will show you your widgets list, , and

Clicking the will put the widget back into your list at the bottom

Clicking will take you to the Apple webpage to choose more widgets (there are 1000s)and you can download them.

To put one on your dashboard from the bottom - just drag it up to where you want it and drop it.

SpotlightSpotlight allows you to search your machine, flashdrive, shared directory or user alias for files

Saves you a lot of time trying to remember where you may have saved something

Go to , hover over the icon and the spotlight window will appear.

Type in what you are looking for and it will gernerate lists of files matching what you type.

Click on the one you need.

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