From MacMost #460 -- Creating Charts

Posted by Gary Rosenzweig on 10/6/10

MacMost Now 460: Creating Charts in iWork 09 Numbers

Learn how to create simple charts from spreadsheet data in iWork 09 Numbers. You can create pie charts and line graphs and then customize how they look with inspectors and by just dragging elements. You can also put the charts on a separate page for printing.

Posted and created by Gary Rosenzweig on 10/6/10

Creating iMovie Credit Sequences

Jacqui Cyrus iMovie Credits: Watch 4-minute tutorial video for creating credit sequences --
http://macmost.com/creating-imovie-credits-sequences.html

Mac Window Basics

Tech Teachers: Looking at the post 'MacMost Now 397: Mac Window Basics' at http://macmost.com/p-3260

MacMost Now 397: Mac Window Basics

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Learn interface window basics like resizing, closing and opening new windows. Learn how the red, yellow and green buttons at the upper left of most windows work.

Apple Quick Tip

Quick Tip: Quitting Several Applications

If you want to quit several applications at once on your Mac, an easy way to do it is to use Command+T to switch between the apps. This brings up the switcher interface in the middle of the screen, and you can quickly Command+T through applications. But instead of releasing the Command key, press the Q key to quit the application currently selected. You can quickly tell several applications to quit without ever bringing them to the front.

Finder Basics

The Desktop and Finder


After you start your computer, the desktop is the space on your screen where you see file, folder, and volume icons. When you connect a hard disk, DVD or SD memory card to your Mac, its corresponding icon shows up on the desktop and Finder window sidebars.


The Finder lets you organize, view, and access practically everything on your Mac, including applications, files, folders, discs, SD memory cards, and shared drives on your network. It is represented by a blue smiling face icon on the Dock, as shown below (clicking the Finder icon in the Dock brings the Finder to the foreground).

1. Apple Menu 2. Menu bar  3. Finder window close, minimize and zoom buttons. 4. Finder window View buttons 5. Quick Look button 6. Action Menu  7. Search Field  8.Hide / Show Finder window toolbar & sidebar  9. Spotlight icon 10. Back / Forward buttons 11. The Finder sidebar  12. Cover Flow  13. Finder  14. The Dock  15. Trash

Complete Detailed Resource: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3737

Personalize Your Desktop


One of the things that I have always done is to give my hard drive a name. My previous iMac was Max. My new iMac INTEL desktop is named Serenity (yes, after the spaceship on "Firefly."

So experiment and express your personality by decorating your desktop. The top yellow arrow shows my hard drive with her name, Serenity.


The bottom yellow arrow points to the way that I keep my desktop uncluttered. I create a folder and put all of my desktop files and folders into it.


How do you keep your multitude of files manageable?

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