The Stickies
application is just a digital version of the tried and true sticky note. Use it to quickly jot
down to-do lists, phone numbers, or anything else you need to quickly take note of.
?– System Preferences This is what you use to make your Mac behave the way you want
it to. See how in Chapter 14.
?– TextEdit TextEdit is a very basic text editing application (much like WordPad, for you
newly converted Windows users).
?– Time Machine Back up and restore your Mac??™s files and folders with incredible ease.
Chapter 24 will give you all the details of using this revolutionary program.
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Utilities
The following are the utilities that come preinstalled on your Mac:
?– Activity Monitor Fittingly, Activity Monitor monitors your Mac??™s activity. When it??™s
running, Activity Monitor shows you what functions are running on your Mac and how
much of the computer??™s performance power is being used by those functions.
?– AirPort Disk Utility You can connect hard disks to your AirPort base station so that all
Macs on your network can access them.
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