Bilingual Mac/PC. Instructional Module. Douglas County School District May Designed by Kathy Green Information Technology Services

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1 Bilingual Mac/PC Instructional Module Douglas County School District May 2001 Designed by Kathy Green Information Technology Services

2 Much like visiting a foreign country, operating in a computer platform that is unfamiliar to you can be a linguistic challenge. This brief course will attempt to help you become conversant in both computer languages, the Macintosh and platforms. We will spend time in both platforms, comparing and contrasting the two. It is our hope that you will leave this class less afraid of that undiscovered country that exists in the other platform world. Open your hard drive; Find the Directory... We will assume that you are familiar with one platform or the other. If you are inexperienced in the use of either operating system, then please just hang on and see what you can pick up. If you are primarily a Mac user, we encourage you to spend most of your hands on time in the platform. If primarily a user, please explore the Macintosh interface. We think you'll find they are more similar than you could imagine. Lets get started!???????????? Page 1

3 The Ten Most Important Differences for Mac Users (from Crossing Platforms, by Adam Engst and David Pogue) 1. Turning the machine on and off. There's no keyboard on/off button on the PC, as there is on every Macintosh. Instead, your PC probably has a power button on the front panel; push it to turn on the computer. To shut down, choose Shut Down from the Start menu at the lower-left corner of the screen. 2. Mouse buttons and contextual menus. The mouse has two buttons instead of one. Use the left button for everyday clicking. Use the right mouse button where you would Control-click something on a Macintosh (or hold your mouse button down), that is, to bring up contextual pop-up menus. 3. Menu bars. In, a separate menu bar appears at the top of every single window. There's no single menu bar at the top of the screen, as on the Macintosh. 4. Keyboard shortcuts. Many keyboard shortcuts are the same in as on the Macintosh, but you should substitute the Ctrl key for the Command key, and the Alt key for the Option key. 5. Window Controls. To close a window, click the tiny square (containing the X) in the upper right corner. To move it, drag the title bar as usual. And to resize it, drag the lower right corner, exactly as you would on the Macintosh. Dragging the edges of a window makes the window bigger or smaller instead of moving it, as it would on the Macintosh. The other two small squares in the upper right corner of every window are the minimize button (makes the window disappear, having collapsed down to a single tile on the Taskbar) and the maximize button (expands the window to fill the screen, regardless of what's in the window). 6. The Taskbar. The strip of buttons at the bottom of the screen is called the Taskbar. It contains an icon tile for every window of every running program. Click one of these tiles to bring that window to the front. When a window is minimized, click its corresponding Taskbar tile to make the window reappear. 7. Application windows. Quitting a program doesn't necessarily close all of its windows; in some programs, the window may remain on the screen even after you've used the Exit command (which is the equivalent of Quit). Don't be alarmed; just close the window and go on with your life. Conversely, closing the final window in some programs quits the program 8. The Start menu. The Start menu, whose icon appears at the bottom left corner of the screen, resembles the Apple menu in many ways. You should know about a few important differences, however: first, every program on your PC is listed in the Programs sub-menu, which is a convenient launching mechanism. Second, although you can add your own items to the Start menu, doing so isn't quite as straightforward as adding something to your Macs Apple menu. 9. Disks. When you insert a disk a floppy, CD Rom, or Zip for example into a PC, no icon appears on the desktop. To see what's on the disk you must open the My Computer icon; the resulting window contains icons representing each disk. Double click those icons to open the corresponding disk windows. To eject a disk, don't attempt to drag its icon to the Recycle Bin (the version of Trash)! Instead, use your PCs front panel pushbuttons to eject floppies, CDs, and so on. 10. Avoiding passwords. Many machines are set to prompt you for a user name and password on startup. If you're the only person using the PC, you don't need to suffer this behavior, especially since it provides essentially no security. Check out the Password Security Control Panel to eliminate the login dialog box. Page 2

4 The Ten Most Important Macintosh Differences for Users (from Crossing Platforms, by Adam Engst and David Pogue) 1. Turning the machine on and off. Every modern Macintosh - laptop or desktop - have a power key on the keyboard. It's marked by a triangle or, on recent models, by a circle with a vertical line in the middle. Push this button to turn the Macintosh on; push it again to summon the "Are you sure you want to shut down?" dialog box. 2. Mouse buttons. The Macintosh mouse's single button corresponds to the left mouse button on a PC. To summon pop-up contextual menus - the right mouse button's traditional job - you Control-click something on the Macintosh, or simply hold down on the mouse "clicker" until the pop-up menu appears. 3. Menu bars. On the Macintosh, a single menu bar appears at the top of the screen at all times. The commands in it change as you switch from one application to another. You won't find a separate menu bar inside every window, as you do in. 4. Keyboard shortcuts. Most keyboard shortcuts are the same on the Macintosh as in - except that you should substitute the Command key (which has a clover leaf and Apple logos on it) for the Ctrl key, and the Option key for the Alt key. 5. Window controls. To close a window, click the tiny square in the upper-left corner of a Macintosh window. To move a window, drag the title bar as usual. And to resize it, drag the lower-right corner, exactly as you would in. (Dragging the "fat" edges of a window moves the window instead of resizing it, as it would in.) The two squares in the upper-right corner of the Macintosh window are the zoom box (makes the window exactly large enough to reveal all of it's contents) and the collapse box (makes the window vanish into it's title bar). 6. The Finder/Application menu. The Macintosh has no Taskbar. Instead, you switch from one application to another using the Finder/Application menu, which appears at the far right of the menu bar and is marked by the icon of the current application. If you're running Mac OS 8.5 or later, this menu may also display the name of the current running application; you can switch from one application another by pressing Command-Tab. 7. Application windows. Quitting a Macintosh application (by choosing Quit, the Macintosh equivalent of Exit) closes all of its windows. No stray windows remain on the screen, as they sometimes do in. Also, closing the last window in an application generally won't quit the application, as happens with some programs. 8. The Apple Menu. The Apple Menu, whose icon appears at the top-left corner of the screen, resembles the Start menu in many ways. You should know about a few important differences, however: first, only the most recently used applications appear in the Recent Application submenu; the Macintosh offers no complete list of every application on the hard disk. Second, adding new documents, applications, disks, or even networked servers to the Apple menu is extremely easy. 9. Disks. The Macintosh has no My Computer icon. The hard disk icon always appears at the upper-right corner of the screen; icons for other kinds of disks - floppies, CDs, or the machine. Ejecting a disk is also very different on the Macintosh: there's no manual-eject button on the front panel for most kinds of disk drives. Instead, eject a disk by highlighting it's icon and then choosing Special, Eject Disk. Or use the time-honored Macintosh shortcut: drag the disk's icon into the Trash can (the equivalent of Recycle Bin). Doing so DOES NOT erase the disk! Instead, the disk pops out of the drive. 10. Emptying the Trash. The Mac OS never removes files from the Trash automatically, as does with some files in the Recycle Bin. To remove files from the Trash manually, choose Special, Empty Trash. Page 3

5 Add/Remove Programs Control Panel Alias Appearance Control Panel Apple Audio CD Player Apple Menu Apple System Profiler Apple-Share Server AppleScript AppleShare Appletalk (Routable) AppleTalk Control Panel Application Menu/Finder Applications Folder Applications/Programs Assistant Background Balloon Help Chooser, Network Browser Collapsing Command ( Apple ) Key Individual Installers Shortcut Display Control Panel, Sounds Control Panel CD Player Start Menu System Information NT Batch Language (Used Primarily in DOS) Client for Microsoft Networks (File and Print Sharing) NetBEUI (Not Routable) Network Control Panel Taskbar Program Files Folder Programs/Applications Wizard Wallpaper ToolTips (Question Mark in a box or bubble that is available in ) Network Neighborhood Minimizing Control (Ctrl) Key Page - 4

6 Control (Ctrl) Key Click, Click and Hold Control Strip Del Key Delete Key Desktop Disk First Aid Disk Space Energy Saver Control Panel Extensions Extensions Off Finder FKeys Folders Force Quit (Command [ Apple Key]/Option/ Escape) Get Info Command HFS, HFS Plus Hiding Applications Individual Game Controller Software Individual Joystick Software Installing Software Right-Clicking Tray (on the lower right hand side of the Task Bar) Delete Key (Del Key) Backspace Desktop, My Computer Scan Disk Hard Disk Properties Power Management Control Panel Drivers Safe Mode Explorer Function Keys Directories or Folders End Task (Ctrl/Alt/Delete) Properties Command FAT 16, FAT 32 (NTFS) Minimizing Game Controllers Control Panel Joystick Control Panel Add/Remove Programs Page - 5

7 Internet Control Panel Key Caps Location Manager Location Manager Control Panel, Multiple User s Control Panel Mac OS Help/Apple Guide MacIPX Map Control Panel Memory Control Panel Memory Usage Menu Bar Modem Port Monitor Port Monitors & Sound Control Panel Monitors & Sound Control Panel Monitors & Sound Control Panel Movie Player, QuickTime Player Network Browser Numbers Control Panel Option Key Password Security Control Panel Mail Control Panel Character Map Login/Logout User Profiles Help IPX (WinNT = NWLink) Date/Time Control Panel Virtual Memory Dialog Box My Computer Properties; Virtual Memory Menu Bar, Taskbar Serial Port Video Connector Display Control Panel, Setting Tab Sounds Control Panel Volume Control (Also on TaskBar) QuickTime, Media Player Network Neighborhood Regional Settings Control Panel Alt Key Passwords Control Panel Page - 6

8 PICT Power Key PowerBook File Asst., File Synchronization PPP Control Panel Preferences Folder Printer Port Quitting Applications (Command [Apple] Q) Recent Applications Menu (Dynamic) Recent Documents Menu Remote AccessControl Panel Reset Switch - Control/Command/Power Key Return Key/Enter Key Screen Capture Shared Libraries Sherlock Simple Text SimpleSound Sleep Special Menu Spring-Loaded Folders Bitmap Power Switch Briefcase Dial-Up Networking Registry Parrallel Ports, Serial Ports Exiting Programs (Alt F4) Programs Menu (Fixed) Documents Menu Dial-Up Networking Reset Switch - Ctrl/Alt/Delete Enter Key Print Screen Key DLL Files Find Notepad, WordPad Sound Recorder Stand By, Suspend Contextual Menus, Start Menu Explorer two-pane view Page - 7

9 Stuffit System Folder TCP/IP Control Panel Third-Party Emulators Third-Party Utilities Trash Uninstalling Applications (Drag to Trash/Sherlock locate/trash) User Created Program Menu (Apple Menu, Favorites) Users & Groups Control Panel Window Info Strip, Get Info Zooming Zip Folder Network Control Panel DOS Disk Defragmenter Recycle Bin Add/Remove Programs Control Panel Programs Menu Access Control, Control Panel Disk Space Maximizing Page - 8