Thread: Apple IMac

Just worked that one out bottom right hand corner of page click and drag wider.
I still will need some help tomorrow with a few things.

No worries.

If you find yourself stuck have a think about the easy way to do things. Often that is the apple way.

I'm going to give you the very very short history here. The GUI as we know it was invented by XEROX PARC. They did a lot of work on the best and most logical way of doing things. They put a **lot** of work into this and did a **really** good job. Apple acquired this technology and that's what you see today. Microsoft has only been able to copy this technology. To avoid copyright infringement they have had to change things away from the optimum.

Safari will by default set it's maximum size to the size of the page you're looking at. Why would you want the window bigger?

You will get use to it then wonder why you had a PC for so long

Originally Posted by Grover-98

You will get use to it then wonder why you had a PC for so long

I love it and have only used it for about 4 Hrs.
I had a problem with the printer but a quick call to apple and solved, other than that is looks quite simple.
I still dont know what the use is for the side buttons on the mouse, it just seems to highlight the page your on and I dont know what that is.

Also I need to do some checking on what cool programs or apps are available for the Imac.

Worked out the side buttons .
Im now stumped on how to copy and paste.

Copy - Command C
Paste - Command V
Cut - Command X
Undo - Command Z

Hand one is Shutdown - Control Option Command Eject

Originally Posted by Loaded

Worked out the side buttons .
Im now stumped on how to copy and paste.

All buttons on the Apple mouse are customisable to a degree. In System preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse under the Mouse tab you'll find a drop-down menu for all of the 4 mouse buttons.

Personally I have:
Left - primary
Right - secondary (as per PC 'right-click')
Scroll ball (it is a button as well) - activates Dashboard
Side buttons - Expose (all windows)

It's all a personal choice.

Since you're migrating from the other side, what PC have under 'control' + something, Apple has the 'Command' + something giving you a total of 4 different modifier key combinations. This may, or may not be useful to you but once you get the hang of the operating system you'll start to create your own keyboard shortcuts.
Speaking of short cuts, in System preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse there is a Keyboard Shortcuts tab. Have a look at these as some are very useful to know.

Originally Posted by Loaded

Worked out the side buttons .
Im now stumped on how to copy and paste.

As mentioned before or you can still just highlight it then select copy then right click and paste the same as on the PC