How To Use Your Mac - Third Party Apps 
    http://edu-observatory.org/olli/HowMac/Week3.html 


  INTRODUCTION
    When computer manufactures (Apple, Microsoft, etc.) offer updates,
    do the updates! The same for third party Apps (Mozilla, Adobe, etc.)
    do the updates. Do all the updates, now!

  HOW TO FIND THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS
    http://www.macupdate.com/
    http://edu-observatory.org/mac/
    http://www.apple.com/downloads/
    http://guide.macports.org/

  BROWSERS
    Safari Tutorials For Macintosh (OS X)
    Chrome Tutorial
    Mozilla Firefox Browser Guide and Tutorial

  WORD PROCESSORS
    http://www.libreoffice.org/  LibreOffice
    http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/
    http://www.openoffice.org/  OPenOffice
    http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/category_index/wordprocessing.html

  DOCUMENT READER
    Safari Tutorials For Macintosh (OS X)
    Preview

  MEDIA PLAYERS 
    http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/
    Windows Media® Components for QuickTime: Flip4Mac
    http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html (VLC)
    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/mac (Audacity)

  MAIL CLIENTS
    Thunderbird 3
    Thunderbird 3 Tutorial
    Eudora Online Tutorials

  PHOTO SOFTWARE
    Many camera manufacturers provide software that can be installed on
    Macs and Microsoft Windows computers. Also there are many third
    party image software products such as:

    Photoshop Creative Suite (commercial)
      http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/
      http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/ps.htm

    Photoshop Elements (commercial)  
      http://www.adobe.com/products/psprelements/?promoid=DIODE

    LightRoom 3 (commercial)
      http://www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom3

    Aperture 3 (commercial)
      http://www.apple.com/aperture/
      http://www.apple.com/aperture/whats-new.html#brushes
      http://www.apple.com/aperture/action/richardson/

    Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X3 (commercial)
      http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1184951547051

    Picasa (free--all platforms)
      http://picasa.google.com/features.html

    Image Magic (open source - free)
      http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

    xv (open source - free - Unix/Linux/Mac only)
      http://www.trilon.com/xv/manual/xv-3.10a/cover.html

    GIMP (open source - free)
      http://gimp.org/
      http://docs.gimp.org/en/
      http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

    Comparison of image viewers
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_image_viewers


  THE SURPRISING TRUTH ABOUT WHAT MOTIVATES US
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc&feature=channel

  WIDGETS (Dashboard)
    Mac 101: Dashboard
    Mac OS X 10.6 Help: Using Dashboard widgets

  USER MANUALS
    http://support.apple.com/manuals/ 
    http://support.apple.com/manuals/#macos 

  MAC REFERENCES
    http://edu-observatory.org/mac/
    


    
     
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