Table of Contents

This Table of Contents is a great place to start if you are new to the Mac or OS X. We bubble up the most interesting articles for beginners 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.

How is the site organized?

Each of the headlines in the Table of Contents is also a Category on this website. While viewing any page you can look on the right side of the page for a list of categories. There are other articles for a given subject that are listed under the categories so feel free to dig deeper.

Also, for each article we’ve applied tags that help you find similar content. So for example if we are talking about the Dock in an article we will tag it with the keyword dock. If you want to find other articles on the Dock you can look at the list of popular tags for dock.

If you don’t find what you are looking for you can also use our Search function as post a question in our Mac question and answer section of the site. This section is new but we hope it will become useful as more readers begin to use it.

Desktop, Folders and Windows

The Dock

Keeping Things Organized

Getting Stuff Done

Finding Files with Spotlight

Have it Your Way

Using the Internet

Built-in Applications

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

3rd Party Applications