Mac Laptops

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Mac Laptops

• More About The Apps

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Address Book
Free with OS X

• Keep your friends, family, and foes close by
  preserving and managing their contact details in
  Address Book.
• Create Groups
• Sync with your phone

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Address Book
Free with OS X

• LDAP Groups (Address Book Preferences)

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Automator
Free with OS X

• Wouldn't it be nice to have your own personal
  robot that could take care of all the
  nitty-gritty, repetitive tasks you do each day?
• Great, but doesnt always do what you wished it
  could do
• Download new actions/workflows here
• http//www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/
• http//www.automatorworld.com/

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Calculator
Free with OS X

• Great calculator!
• View, Convert, Speech

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Dashboard
Free with OS X

• Like desktop toys and tools? Dashboard is a new,
  cool feature of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger that lets you
  get quick access to a world of widgets at the
  press of a key.
• Download new widgets here
• http//www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/
• http//www.dashboardwidgets.com/

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Dictionary
Free with OS X

• Need to find the meaning of life? Look it up in
  Dictionary! Whether you seek word spellings,
  meanings, or synonyms, knowledge is right at your
  fingertips.

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DVD Player
Free with OS X

• You know what they say about all work and no
  play. For those times when you feel like being a
  couch (or office chair) potato, DVD Player gives
  you a front row seat to the movies.

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Exposé
Free with OS X

• If you find yourself buried in windows and
  application interfaces, Exposé is a nifty tool
  that can help you access windows instantly and
  effortlessly.

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Font Book
Free with OS X

• Got fonts? Font Book makes it easy to manage your
  font collection, and provides tools that take the
  pain out of working with them.
• Disable fonts without deleting them!

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iCal
Free with OS X

• Forget jotting down appointments and to-do lists
  on sticky notes and calendars. iCal can help you
  get a handle on everything in yourand anyone
  else'slife.
• Multiple Calendars, multiple views
• To-do lists
• iCal Calendar Library
• http//www.apple.com/macosx/features/ical/library/

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iChat AV
Free with OS X

• Long distance phone bills and text messaging
  charges can be a thing of the past. With iChat
  AV, you can text, audio, and video chat with
  others using your Internet connection.
• Show status in Menubar
• Uncheck When I quit iChat

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iSync and .Mac Sync
Free with OS X

• If you're an on-the-go, gadget-toting individual,
  iSync enables you to sync contacts, schedules,
  and other data on your Mac across your collection
  of cell phones, iPods, and Palm devices.
• And if you're a .Mac member, .Mac Sync will
  ensure that your entire Mac army is in sync too.

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iTunes
Free with OS X

• If you like music, you'll love iTunesa fully
  integrated music playing, buying, burning,
  converting, streaming, and so-much-more
  application.
• Search for songs
• Playlists, Smart Playlists
• Music Store, Podcasts
• Burning music CDs

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Mail
Free with OS X

• Get smart about your email. Mail not only lets
  you send and receive email, it can track and
  manage your messages, and eliminate junk mail
  too.
• Rules
• Smart Folders

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Preview
Free with OS X

• PDF viewing got a whole lot better with Preview,
  a PDF viewer that does more than simply show you
  the document.
• You can search for and copy text, view photo and
  fax files, play slideshows, and more.

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QuickTime Player
Free with OS X

• QuickTime is the digital media standard when it
  comes to playing just about every flavor of
  audio, video, and image file format.
• If accessing online multimedia is your goal,
  QuickTime Player will get you there.

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Safari
Free with OS X

• Customize your home page
• Built-in Google search
• Pop-up window blocker
• AutoFill automation
• Snap-back, Click
• Tabs
• Bookmarks
• RSS

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Sherlock
Free with OS X

• For those times when you seek specific
  information and want it fast, enlist Sherlock to
  track it down for you, whether you want driving
  directions, local movie showtimes, current stock
  prices, or the latest bid on your Windows PC on
  eBay.

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Spotlight
Free with OS X

• If you're searching for stuff on your Mac, look
  no further than Spotlight, an incredible search
  technology that can search for anything that you
  type and return results at blazing speeds.
• Image Slide-show

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Stickies
Free with OS X

• One of those frequently used applications.
• Change the font, size, colors

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TextEdit
Free with OS X

• You don't necessarily need a pricey
  word-processing application to take care of your
  text needs. TextEdit provides text and formatting
  tools, graphics and movie handling, spell check,
  and can even speak your text back to you.

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Must-have Free Apps That Didnt Come With Your Mac

• Comic Life
• Firefox
• Firefoxy
• Performancing
• Del.icio.us
• Google Earth
• Jiggler
• Menu Calendar Clock

• Mplayer OSX
• QuickSilver B49
• Slim Battery Monitor
• Stuffit Expander
• Sudoku Companion
• SizzlingKeys
• Windows Media Player

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Have We Missed Anything?

• CD burning
• Connecting cameras, scanners, printers
• Common keyboard shortcuts
• Etc.

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My Contact Info

• Personal Blog http//techtidbits.edublogs.org/
• Website http//t4.jordan.k12.ut.us
• Email darren.draper_at_jordan.k12.ut.us
• Phone [phone]

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Congrats!

• Youve can now use your Mac!