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May 18, 2013 More Macintosh Basics Whittier Area Macintosh User Group Saturday, May 18, 13
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Prepared for the Whittier Area Macintosh User Group, this slide set accompanied a "live" demonstration of the Keyboard Viewer and Dictionary apps.
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May 18, 2013
More Macintosh BasicsWhittier Area Macintosh User Group
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Today’s Session
✤ Keyboard and Character Viewers
✤ Dictionary
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Notes for today are on Slideshare
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Keyboard Preferences
✤ Apple Menu > System Preferences > Keyboard
✤ Key Repeat
✤ Delay Until Repeat
✤ Function Keys
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More Keyboard Goodness
✤ To show Keyboard and Character Viewers in Menu Bar
✤ Check box “Show Keyboard ...”
✤ Resize with multitouch gestures
✤ Or click and drag margin
✤ DEMO
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Dictionary
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Dictionary: Systemwide Popup Definitions✤ In most Mac applications–
Safari, TextEdit, Mail, Pages, you name it–
✤ Position cursor over the word you want to know
✤ Press Control-Command-D ( ) [or three-finger tap on trackpad]
✤ Invokes Dictionary app and presents definition
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Dictionary: Contextual Menus
✤ Select a word
✤ Control-click (or right click)
✤ Select “Look Up in Dictionary (or Look Up)”
✤ Instant gratification? Three-finger tap on your iPad
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Dictionary: Use Spotlight
✤ Invoke Spotlight (Cmd-spacebar)
✤ Type in word you want defined
✤ Hover over the word to see the full definition
✤ Enter Cmd-L to go to definition without mousing over
✤ Select word and press Return +(or Cmd-D) to see full definition and Wikipedia
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Dictionary: Speak to Me
✤ System Preferences > Dictation and Speech
✤ Text to Speech tab; choose voice
✤ Select a word
✤ Control-click (right-click), choose Speech > Start speaking
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Dictionary: Changing Sources
✤ Select Dictionary > Preferences to see list of references
✤ Change at will …
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✤ Finder Help Menu (Shift-Cmd-?)
✤ New, improved Google Maps http://tinyurl.com/c7njuco (Request an invite)
✤ Macworld Video http://tinyurl.com/dy9ulab
Resources
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endWhittier Area Macintosh User Group
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