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When making the switch, it's the little details that can get more than a little confusing. In Windows, you're...

The Apple Menu and Taskbar -

When making the switch, it's the little details that can get more than a little confusing. In Windows, you're used to each application or explorer window having it's own menu bar at the top. The Mac "thinks different." We'll show you how to ease the transition.

Added: 11/5/09

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Making the Move to Mac - #2 - The Apple Menu and Taskbar

Today, on Part two of our ten part series on switching from the PC to the Mac, we’re going to look at the Apple Menu in the Taskbar. Now, on a Mac, the Finder which we discussed ein Part 1 is similar in some ways to the Start menu in Windows. And to refresh you memory, here is a Windows Virtual machine and here is the Start menu where you can log off, turn off the computer and do other things. Now, on the Mac, the Apple menu has mostly system related items on it. It tells about this Mac, it will do software updates about your Mac OS X software, you can access all of you System Preferences, get things about the Dock, Location and also you can do things like put the Mac to Sleep, Restart it, Shut it Down or Log Out. Now, another essential difference in the Mac from the PC is the Taskbar. Now, in the Windows, any program that you click on has a Taskbar that shows you all the available options underneath it. So each program has the Taskbar built in. On the Mac, that is not true, you’ll see how—just using VMware Fusion to show you the Virtual machine and up here on the Mac Taskbar, it’s showing the tasks for VMware Fusion. If I click on Finder, you can see that the Taskbar switches to show the commands available for Finder. If I were to click on Firefox, it would now display the commands for Firefox. So in this respect, the Apple is different from the PC. Over here on the right end of the Taskbar, there are number of icons that are available, some of these are default icons that would be on most Mac’s, others are programs that I have installed that are running up there. But you have like the spotlight search the day and time, the stare of your battery if your on battery power, this is for your wireless networking, sound, Bluetooth and so on. So, the Apple menu and the Taskbar are slightly different from there counterparts in Windows but once you get used to having the Taskbar switched depending on what program you’re using, it’s very usable. Sot that concludes Part two.

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Today, on Part two of our ten part series on switching from the PC to the Mac, we’re going to look at the Apple Menu in the Taskbar. Now, on a Mac, the Finder which we discussed ein Part 1 is similar in some ways to the Start menu in Windows. And to refresh you memory, here is a Windows Virtual machine and here is the Start menu where you can log off, turn off the computer and do other things.

Now, on the Mac, the Apple menu has mostly system related items on it. It tells about this Mac, it will do software updates about your Mac OS X software, you can access all of you System Preferences, get things about the Dock, Location and also you can do things like put the Mac to Sleep, Restart it, Shut it Down or Log Out.

Now, another essential difference in the Mac from the PC is the Taskbar. Now, in the Windows, any program that you click on has a Taskbar that shows you all the available options underneath it. So each program has the Taskbar built in.

On the Mac, that is not true, you’ll see how—just using VMware Fusion to show you the Virtual machine and up here on the Mac Taskbar, it’s showing the tasks for VMware Fusion. If I click on Finder, you can see that the Taskbar switches to show the commands available for Finder. If I were to click on Firefox, it would now display the commands for Firefox. So in this respect, the Apple is different from the PC.

Over here on the right end of the Taskbar, there are number of icons that are available, some of these are default icons that would be on most Mac’s, others are programs that I have installed that are running up there. But you have like the spotlight search the day and time, the stare of your battery if your on battery power, this is for your wireless networking, sound, Bluetooth and so on.

So, the Apple menu and the Taskbar are slightly different from there counterparts in Windows but once you get used to having the Taskbar switched depending on what program you’re using, it’s very usable.

Sot that concludes Part two.

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