Meeting Your Environment


Once you complete login, you are ushered into the world of Mac OS X. Mac presents that world to you — complete with icons, folders, menus, and the desktop — through an application known as the Finder. The Finder, which is the core application at the heart of a user’s interaction with the OS is covered in detail in Chapter 3. The following headings explore the various commonly seen elements throughout the operating system.

Cross Reference

The Dock is covered in more detail later in this Chapter. For more on applications, see Chapters 4 and 5. For more on system settings, see Chapter 13. To learn more about relaunching the Finder, see Chapter 22.

Note

The Finder is not the same as Find. Find is a search application, designed to help users find documents, whereas the Finder is the system’s main program that helps launch other applications (like Find or Safari), and allows for exploration and viewing of drives, disks, and the folders they contain.




Mac OS X Bible, Panther Edition
Mac OS X Bible, Panther Edition
ISBN: 0764543997
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 290

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