Mac OS X Part 3 Seven Super Mac Tips

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Mac OS X Part 3Seven Super Mac Tips

• EdTech BootCamp Session 6

Presented By Daniel Greening and LeRoy Wong
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Tip 1 Screen Zooming

• Hold down control or ctrl key
• Put two fingers on the trackpad at the same time
• and move your fingers toward the screen to
  zoom
• in
• Move your fingers toward you to zoom back
• More on visual enhancements in
• http//www.apple.com/accessibility/macosx/vision.h
  tml
• and in Kristen Eichleays Top Ten Tips for UDL

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Tip 2 Text to Speech
1. Text to speech allows you to highlight text
and have the computer speak it to you 2.
See Kristen Eichleays Top Ten Tips for UDL for
directions to enable
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Tip 3 Screen Capture

• Useful for getting screen images for training and
• instruction
• 2. Command-Shift-3 to capture the whole screen,
• or Command-Shift-4 to enable crosshairs to
  capture
• part of the screen
• 3. Can also do Command-Shift-4, then space bar to
  capture or Grab a particular window, and then
  click the space bar to capture that particular
  window
• 4. See Kristen Eichleays Top Ten Tips for UDL
  for more
• directions

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Tip 4 Spotlight
1. All the files on your MacBook are indexed
and searchable. Even words within documents
are searchable 2. To search click on the
magnifying glass at the top of the screen and
type in a keyword 3. Try to save your Office
documents in My Documents or Documents (or
somewhere on your Mac environment) as docs on the
Parallels desktop arent searchable by Spotlight
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Tip 5 Videoconferencing

• You can use either iChat or Skype
• Sign up for an AIM account at http//www.aim.com
  to use iChat (blocked in the BPS network) or
  Skype at http//www.skype.com
• iChat can also be used with a Mobile Me
  account if you have one
• 3. Detailed iChat directions http//support.apple
  .com/kb/HT2515
• 4. Detailed Skype directions
• http//www.skype.com/help/guides/

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Videoconferencing Caveats

• Be careful. You can get spammed in iChat or Skype
  (tends to happen more in Skype, in my experience)
• 2. You can block people in iChat by going to the
• iChat menu, Preferences, Accounts, Security,
• and entering the person you want blocked
• 3. You can block people in Skype by going to the
• Skype menu, Preferences, Privacy, and Manage
• Blocked Users

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Tip 6 Quicklook

• Single-click on an Office document, PDF, or
  movie. Then press the space bar and it will give
  open up automatically to give you a preview of
  that document
• In the Finder, if you choose the Coverflow view
  of a folder you can quickly scan through
  documents and then also press the space bar to
  get a Quicklook view

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Tip 7 Widgets

• Widgets are mini-applications which can be
  quickly brought up by hitting your Dashboard
  button (F4) on your keyboard
• 2. You can install Widgets in your Dashboard
  after you enter it by pressing the button on
  the bottom left corner of the screen, or go to
  http//www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/
• to install more

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Contact Information Daniel Greening dgreening_at_
bostonpublicschools.org LeRoy Wong lwong2_at_bostonp
ublicschools.org

• For more information
• BPS Sites
• bostonpublicschools.org/technology