Session 4 – Browsers, Skype, iMovie

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.

I am going to show you 3 different browser:

  • Firefox
  • Safari
  • Chrome

I am going to use Firefox to show you some general features of a web browser:

 

Here is the Menu for Firefox, showing your choices for viewing:

Firefox  View 1

We will take some time to explore the Navigation Toolbar and the Bookmarks Toolbar. In order to see what these toolbars provide, check and uncheck them to see what happens.

Here is the Bookmark Toolbar

Bookmark Toolbar 1

This is what you will see when you select “Show All Bookmarks”.  In this mode you can organize and understand how bookmarks are changed. We will explore this in depth

ShowAllBookmarks

Here is the Navigation Toolbar

Navigation Toolbar

You can customize this toolbar by going to Toolbars -> Customize

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We will play with all of these options:

BrowserTools selection

 

 

 

 

iPhoto – organize pictures

Last night we spend some time organizing files (using the Finder) and photos (using iPhoto). In both cases I emphasized the importance of knowing what you want to move and where you want to put it. Knowing this you can open the proper windows with the files (that you want to move) and the folder (that is the target for the move).

This morning I found this video describing how to organize photos in iPhoto. I think it illustrates what we did. Notice that the author goes one step further by creating a folder and moving his albums into folders.

iPhoto - New Folder

This could be helpful once you create many albums and want to organize them into manageable categories. – Happy Viewing