Your Apple Computer will connect to the internet very easily. It doesn’t really matter if it is by cable or wireless, it will connect easily and it will detect most of its settings automatically.

To connect to a wireless network, simply click upon that small radar-like icon in the upper right corner of you desktop. The drop down will show you all available wireless networks in your neighborhood. If you’ve found the one you want to use, simply click it. If necessary you will be prompted for a password.

If you’d to have more settings, or if you want to see your cable connection, click upon ‘Open network preferences’.

For 7 years now I’ve used Mac’s almost exclusively. I started out with a used iMac, the first generation with that Lime colored backpanel. After that I kinda had to used Windows for a while because of my work. But I fell in love with the Mac Mini and it kinda snowballed from then on. Currently I’m using a iMac 24″ and a MacBoor Air late 2011.
I’ve always been very enthusiastic about the way OS X works and that has lead to the fact that I’ve introduced serveral people around me that are now using Apple machines in their daily routine instead of using Windows based machines.

Since I was the one introducing them to this platform, people tend to come to me for some general aid in working with OS X. And of course, there have been several very specific questions in that time. This kinda lead me to think that there are more people out there that will benefit from a online course in Apple’s OS X.

This online course in Apple’s OSX will be a work in progress. I’ll first want to pay attention to the basics in using OS X. This is a list of things I want to get into:
- the Finder
- the Desktop
- the Dock
- the Preferences Pane
- Users
- Networking (Wifi, AirDrop, Thunderbolt, FireWire etc.)
- Security
- Software (which will hold subcategories)
- Switchers (new users to OS X)
- Problems

This is quite a list and at this point I’d like to mention that within problems I do not want to built a forum in which people can post each problem when they run into one. But there are plenty of problems that a very general in their origine and solution. These problems are the one’s I’d like to point out.

If you have any suggestion, please use the comments to bring them to my attention.

Kind regards,

Gert