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Address Book |
| Address Book provides a flexible and convenient way to store contact information for family, friends, and colleagues online. Because Address Book is integrated with Mail, iChat, and other applications, you can enter contact information once and have instant access to it from multiple applications. |
Aperture |
| Aperture is a powerful and easy-to-use digital image management system that can track thousands of digital images and provides the professional photographer with high-quality image management and adjustment tools. Must be paid for after free evaluation. |
AppleScript |
| AppleScript is a powerful and versatile scripting language that is built into Mac OS X. You can use AppleScript to create shortcuts, automate repetitive tasks, or even make custom applications that save you a great amount of time. |
Automator |
| Automator is an innovative personal automation assistant that makes it easy to automate repetitive tasks. Automator lets you skip the complex programming and scripting that is normally required to create automations. Individual steps called actions can be assembled into a complete task by dragging actions into an Automator workflow. You can run your completed workflows repeatedly, and even share them with others. |
Calculator |
| Solve simple arithmetic calculations, complex logarithmic calculations, or logical operations. |
Chess |
| Play against your Mac or another person. Or watch your Mac play against itself. |
Dictionary |
| The Dictionary application for Mac OS X puts the power of words at your fingertips and makes it easy to look up words from any application. The Dictionary widget in Dashboard also gives you fast access to words. |
DVD Player |
| If your Mac computer has a DVD drive (such as a SuperDrive), you can use DVD Player to play DVDs on your computer. You can play commercial DVDs, homemade DVDs, or movie project files (located in a VIDEO_TS folder). You can even connect your computer to a television or stereo and use DVD Player to watch or listen to DVDs on your home entertainment system. |
Exposé |
| Exposé allows a user to quickly locate an open window, or to hide all windows and show the desktop without the need to click through many windows to find a specific target. |
Font Book |
| Font Book makes it easy to install, preview, organize, and manage fonts on your computer, for you to use in other applications. |
Front Row |
GarageBand |
| Using GarageBand, you can make your own music to share with the world. You can also create audio and video podcasts in GarageBand. |
iCal |
| iCal is a personal calendar application that lets you easily keep track of appointments, view multiple calendars at the same time, share your calendar information with others, and more. |
iChat |
| iChat is an instant text messaging application for .Mac, AIM, Jabber, and Google Talk accounts. With iChat, you can also set up audio and video chats with your buddies. |
iDVD |
| iDVD is a user-friendly software program that gives you all the tools to create professional-quality DVDs using your own videos, digital photos, and music. Sharing your memories has never been easier. |
Image Capture |
| Can be used to transfer pictures from your camera if you are not using iPhoto or Aperature to do so. |
iMovie |
| iMovie is a video viewing and editing application that helps you compile a single video library containing all the events you’ve captured on video. Organize, watch, and work with any video format all in one place. |
iPhoto |
| Photo helps you easily manage and enjoy all your digital photos in exciting ways, and share your favorite memories with family and friends. |
iSync |
| Synchronization is the process of updating similar information (for example, telephone numbers) in multiple places so that each place has the same information. You might want to sync multiple applications on your computer, sync information on your computer and other devices (such as a mobile phone or Palm OS device), or sync information across multiple computers. When you synchronize your information, all changes--including deletions--are transferred, so you always have the latest information available, no matter where you are or which device or application you’re using. |
iTunes |
| iTunes makes it easy to play and organize music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and more. |
iWeb |
| Use iWeb to create a beautiful website in a snap. |
| With Mail, you can send, receive, and organize email messages. When you read your messages, you can select content that you need to track, such as action items or requests, and quickly organize them in to-do lists. Mail also provides handy notes, to help you capture and organize your thoughts and ideas. |
PhotoBooth |
| It’s easy to take a video snapshot using Photo Booth and an iSight camera or digital video camera. You can take a still picture or make a short movie, include effects with the snapshot, and use your snapshot in several ways. |
Preview |
| In addition to viewing PDF and image files, you can alter them, convert them, and add your comments. |
Quicktime Player |
| QuickTime Player is a free multimedia player. You can use it to view many kinds of files, including video, audio, still images, graphics, and virtual reality (VR) movies. QuickTime supports the most popular formats on the Internet for news, sports, education, movie trailers, and other entertainment. |
Safari |
| Safari is a web browser—an application that helps you find and view webpages. To learn more about Safari, browse the links on this page or use the search field above to search Safari Help. If you have problems, refer to the topics under “Solving Problems.” |
Stuffit |
| StuffIt Expander is the most comprehensive tool for dealing with any compressed, segmented, and encoded files you encounter. If you imagine the Internet as a series of tubes, you can think of compressed, encoded and encrypted files as different packaging systems used to deliver files from one place to another. Generally, the purpose of these different packaging systems is to group related files together, and to make them smaller so they can be stored and transmitted more easily. |
System Preferences |
| You use System Preferences to customize various aspects of your computer, such as what your desktop looks like, how you interact with your computer, or how you share information with other computer users. |
Text Edit |
You can use TextEdit to view, edit, and save files in a variety of formats: Files saved in formats other than plain text can include graphics, paragraph and font formatting, tables, and lists.
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Time Machine |
| Time Machine is the breakthrough automatic backup that’s built right into Mac OS X. It keeps an up-to-date copy of everything on your Mac — digital photos, music, movies, TV shows, and documents. Now, if you ever have the need, you can easily go back in time to recover anything. |
Mac OS X Utilities |
Activity Monitor |
| Activity Monitor can display information about processes running on your computer, the processor, disk, memory, and network. You can set up floating windows that show your CPU usage, or even set up the Activity Monitor Dock icon to display this activity. |
Airport Utility |
| AirPort offers an easy way to provide wireless Internet access anywhere in the home or classroom. Instead of using cables to create a network, AirPort uses wireless local area network (WLAN) technology to provide wireless communication among computers. |
Audio MIDI Setup |
| Audio MIDI Setup lets you set up audio and MIDI devices connected to your computer. You can select audio channel input and output devices, configure output speakers, set clock rates, and control levels. |
Bluetooth File Exchange |
Here are some things you can do with Bluetooth enabled devices: - Connect your computer to Bluetooth enabled mobile phones. Use Bluetooth to dial the phone, send music or photos or Short Message Service (SMS) messages, and synchronize data, such as contact information. - Connect your computer to the Internet using Bluetooth and a mobile phone. |
Boot Camp Assistant |
| The Boot Camp Assistant helps you install Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista operating system on an Intel-based Mac computer. |
Built-in Keyboard Firmware Update |
| Is exactly as it's title name states. |
ColorSync Utility |
| ColorSync provides an easy way to ensure accurate color in your images from the time you capture them until you print or display them. Devices such as scanners, displays, digital cameras, and printers each handle color differently. Matching color from one device to another can be extremely difficult and time-consuming. ColorSync takes care of this automatically. |
Console |
| You can use Console to view status messages sent by applications and your computer system. |
DigitalColor Meter |
| Digital Color Meter displays the color value of any pixel you select on your screen. |
Directory Utility |
| Directory Utility determines which directory services a Mac OS X computer uses and how it connects to specific directory domains. Directory Utility also defines search policies for finding authentication and contacts information in specific directory domains. |
Directory |
| Directory gives you access to shared information about people, groups, locations, and resources within your organization. You can use Directory to share contacts, set up group services, and manage your own contact information. The information you share is located on a directory server provided by your organization. |
Disk Utility |
A utility that enables control over functions to connected hard drives, such as:
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Grab |
Different print screen options that can be done with Grab.
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Grapher |
| Grapher is an application that graphs equations so you can visualize the results. Grapher displays algebraic relations, implicit and explicit, in either two or three dimensions. It makes a wide array of mathematical functions available to you. |
Keychain Access |
You can use keychains to reduce the number of passwords you have to keep track of. A keychain can store all your passwords for applications, servers, and websites; cryptographic keys and X509 certificates; or even sensitive information unrelated to your computer, such as credit card numbers or personal identification numbers (PINs) for bank accounts.
You start with a single keychain named “login” which is your default keychain, and is created automatically the first time you log in to your Mac OS X user account and has the same password as your account. This keychain is unlocked automatically when you log in to your account.
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Migration Assistant |
You can use Migraton Assistant to transfer important information from one Mac to another, such as: - User Accounts |
Network Utility |
| Network Utility combines several information and troubleshooting tools you may find helpful if you understand basic networking. You may be asked to use Network Utility to check your network if you contact Apple Service & Support. |
ODBC Administrator |
| With ODBC Administrator, you can connect databases with applications that conform to the Open Database Connectivity standard. Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is an open standard application programming interface (API) used to access multiple databases from a single application. |
Podcast Capture |
| Podcast Capture is an integral part of the Podcast Producer solution. Podcast Capture allows you to capture and upload audio and video QuickTime movies to a Podcast Producer server for encoding and publishing. |
RAID Utility |
| You can use RAID Utility to check the status of the RAID card, its battery, your RAID volumes, and the disk drives and RAID sets they are built on. Although on this machine there is no RAID Controller installed. |
Remote Install Mac OS X |
| Remote Install Mac OS X helps you install Mac OS X on a MacBook Air |
System Profiler |
| Provides detailed information about your computer’s hardware, software, and network connection and devices. |
Terminal |
| Beneath the Mac OS X easy-to-use Aqua user interface is a robust and complete UNIX operating system called Darwin. Darwin is based on open technologies such as FreeBSD, Mach, Apache, and GCC. Terminal is your access point to the complete UNIX operating system beneath Mac OS X. |
VoiceOver Utility |
| VoiceOver is a built-in screen reader that describes aloud what appears on your computer screen: it speaks the text in documents and windows. When a supported refreshable Braille display is connected to your computer, VoiceOver automatically detects it and sends it information about what’s displayed on the screen using either contracted or uncontracted Braille. Using VoiceOver, you control the computer primarily with the keyboard or a Braille display, instead of the mouse. |
X11 |
| Mac OS X is based on UNIX and can run many UNIX tools and environments. With X11 for Mac OS X you can use applications that are based on the X Window System graphical user interface. X11 for Mac OS X provides a complete X Window System implementation based on open source software and includes a complete suite of standard X11 display server software, client libraries, developer toolkits, and utilities such as xterm. |
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