This Table of Contents is a great place to start if you are new to OS X. We bubble up the most interesting articles for newbies and link to them here. After you’ve browsed around here a bit you can dig deeper.
In order to get up to speed on your new Mac and not get lost in the site. Follow along each page sequentially. It will move from the most basic of topics, like navigating your desktop on to advanced topics like shell scripting. At the end, you’ll be a Mac Expert too.
Once you’ve gone through these, feel free to search for articles that are interesting to you. You can also search by Tags.
Desktop, Folders and Windows
The Dock
Keeping Things Organized
Getting Stuff Done
- Quickly switch between running applications
- Closing Unresponsive Mac Programs
- Use Spaces to keep your Desktop Organized
- Installing Applications
- Removing Applications
- Dashboard
Finding Files with Spotlight
Have it Your Way
Using the Internet
- Safari
- iChat
- Mail
- Finding files opened from Mail
- Cleanup Mail address Autocomplete
- Application Firewall – Keeping your system safe
- Filtering Offensive Material
Built-in Applications
- Address Book
- Apple Script
- Automator
- Calculator
- Chess
Built-in Utilities
Keeping the Lights On
Into the Belly of the Beast
(or, how to get around the UNIX underpinnings)
- Using the Terminal
- Essential Unix Commands
- Installing new UNIX apps
