Login
Use your IU username and password
Opening Programs
At the bottom of the screen you will see many icons and folders. This is called
the Dock
-You single click on a program icon or folder to open it. Rolling your mouse over each icon will tell you the name of it.
-When a program is open a black triangle appears underneath the icon.
-You can also right click on the icon or folder to view choices or open programs within it.-When you open a program that doesn’t already have an icon in the dock, a program icon appears as long as it remains open.
-When you hide an application or document, an icon appears next to the trash and you can use it again by clicking on that icon.
The Music programs
The music programs are located in the purple circular folder with the music clef in the Dock. You may open it by clicking it once or by right clicking it to view and open the programs contained within.
Dock Folders
The folders that contain the programs are in order as follows:
Communications, Web browsers, Graphics, Multimedia, Office Applications, Statistics, Departmentally Sponsored, Utilities, and Music
These folders contain the following programs.
Communications: CFS, CFSscratch/share MacSFTP, Shakespeare email, UNIX mail
Web Browsers: Netscape, Internet Explorer, Mozilla
Graphics: Adobe’s Photshop,Acorbat,ImageReady,InDesign,Illustrator
Macromedia’s Dreamweaver, Fireworks, FreeHand
Multimedia: Adobe AfterEffects, Macromedia’s Director, Flash, iPhoto, iTunes,
iMovie, iDVD, DVD Player, Quicktime Player, Toast Titanium
Office: Appleworks, Endnote, FileMakerPro, Excel, Powerpoint, Word
Statistics: Maple, Mathematica, SPSS 11
Departmentally Sponsored: Cricket Graph, Geometer’s Sketchpad, Interactive Physics, Language Proof & Logic, Populus
Utilities: Acrobat Reader, Calculator, ColorSync, Grab, Image Capture, Key Caps,
Preview, Sherlock, Stickies, Stuffit Expander, Terminal, TextEdit
Music: Sibelius, Reason, Digital performer, Finale, Peak, MacCSound, Photoscore,
Practica Musica, SoundHackTop Menu
The apple icon in the upper left corner of the screen contains recent items, logout, etc. information instead of a list of the contents of the computer as it did in the previous Mac OS versions.
The Dock is the main launching area in Mac OS X !
The name of the program currently running in the foreground appears in bold next to the apple icon (in the above example Grab is the program). This menu contains Preferences for this program and features like Hide and Quit.
The remaining menus are similar to previous MAC and PC versions of each program, except the Preferences are not located in the Edit menu.
The Finder
By single clicking on the smiling mac icon in the Dock, you get the finder browser allowing access to anywhere in the computer.
Image 1
Icons in Finder window
‘Computer’ takes you to a list of the attached drives, network volumes and removable disks (see Image 1)
‘ Home’ contains files & folders specific to your login. (see Image 2)
‘ Applications’ will give you a list of all the programs on the computer. (see Image 3)
Image 2
Image 3
You can choose between 3 different view styles:
Folders (see Image 1 above), Lists (see Image 2 above), or Columns (see Image 3)
The ‘traffic light’ colored buttons in the upper left corner of most windows mean:
Close (red) – Minimize (yellow) – Maximize (green)
Volume/Eject
Volume is easily controlled in the upper right corner of the keyboard above the number pad. The first button is Volume Down, the next is Volume Up, the next is Mute, and the last is to Eject the cd drive.
Logout
- Click the padlock icon on the Desktop
- Click OK to confirm that you want to logout
Printing
You have the option to save as a PDF file when you go to Print in each program. This is done by selecting the button “Save as PDF“, instead of Print.
Lost and Found / Trash
If you left a file on the computer you may retrieve it after you have logged out by:
-Logging in
-Double-click on HardDisk icon
-Double-click on the Lost and Found folder
-Folders are organized by date and time
-You must Empty the Trash by right-clicking on the Trash Can icon and choosing Empty if you don’t want your Desktop files to be saved in the lost and Found
- Note: The files are stored in the Lost and Found for a limited time, do not use it for permanent storage.
Connecting to Servers (CFS)
The easiest way to connect to CFS from MAC OS X is by clicking on the Communications folder in the Dock and then clicking on CFSTo connect to other servers(including CFS):
-Click on the Finder icon
-Choose “Go” from the top menu
-Choose “Connect to Server” at the bottom of the Go menu
-Type in the server name (ex. smb://cfs.iu.edu) or choose from the existing choices.
