8-16-agenda

1. Discuss this year: Senior Project

2. Supply donations and Equipment Responsibility

3. Log in and get your computer set up

1. Set your mouse to right-click. (black mice don't need to do this step)

The apple mouse looks like it doesn't have buttons, but it does. You just click on that side of the mouse and you have a left and right click. You can also squeeze it and have it do other things. But you have to tell the computer what to when you do that.

Open System Preferences

Select the mouse preferences

Set the right side of the mouse to be "Secondary Click." Turn off the squeeze function because it's just annoying.

2. Set up Sound output.

Click the sound preferences

Click the Output tab and select "Line out" for the sound output. Go to Pandora or Soundcloud and see if you can hear out of your headphones. If they don't work, check to see if they are plugged into the computer's headphone output jack. Ask me if you need help.

3. Finder Preferences

Go to the Finder menu at the top left and select Preferences.

If you have a program running, you will see the menu for that program, not the Finder. Click outside that program's window to access the Finder.

With the General tab clicked, check all the checkboxes and set New Finder windows to show your Documents.

You should see your hard drive on the top right of the desktop and maybe the server if you used "connect to server." to connect to the server.

Click the Advanced tab and check all the boxes there as well as tell it to Search This Mac when performing a search.

The most important thing here is that you can now see all your file extensions. Macs typically hide these to make things less confusing to users but you need to see the extensions.

Click the Sidebar button and turn everything on in the sidebar.

4. Find the apps you usually work with and put them on your Dock