May 18, 2013

More Macintosh BasicsWhittier Area Macintosh User Group

Saturday, May 18, 13

Today’s Session

✤ Keyboard and Character Viewers

✤ Dictionary

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Notes for today are on Slideshare

http://slideshare.net/wamug/

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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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