Folder— This is a folder icon, and these all tend to look the same- like a kind of 3D view of a suspension file, Sometimes they ' re adorned with other graphics, but they ' re usually pretty easy to spot. Double-clicking on a folder icon displays that folder ' s contents in another window, which is what we ' ve done here. |
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Hard Disk icon Folders, files, documents and other items are displayed as little icons like this. This one, in fact, represents your iMac ' s internal hard disk. |
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CD-ROM icon Your hard disk icon( and Wastebasket icon) may be the only ones you see on your desktop. If you insert a CD-ROM, though, it will appear as an icon on your desktop too. We ' ve doubleclicked on it to display its contents. To eject a CD, by the way, you have to drag its icon onto the Wastebasket- you can ' t just press the CD- ROM drive button. If you do, you ' ll be waiting an awful long time. |
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Folder window When you double-click on a folder or a disk drive, its contents are displayed in a window like this one. These contents can be documents, programs or other folders. |
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Menu / menu option To open a menu, click on its name in the menu bar. This displays a drop-down list like the one you see here. To choose one of the menu options just click on it( the options are highlighted as the mouse pointer moves over them to help you get the right one). Don ' t forget to always shut down your iMac via this menu, NOT by simply switching the power off. |
Control Strip The Control Strip offers quick access to many of your iMac ' s settings like the speaker volume, sound input and CD player controls. Until you ' ve found out what these gadgets do, you can ' hide ' it by clicking on the small ribbed area to the far right. This reduces it to a little handle in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen. Click this handle if you want to display the Control Strip again. |
Scrollbar You ' ll see these gadgets whenever the contents of a folder won ' t fit in the window. You click on either the horizontal or vertical scroll arrows to display more of the contents- either that, or drag on the little blue ' scroll box 1.
Desktop pattern--------------- This background image can be swapped for many more via the Appearance control panel. You can use a repeating ' pattern ' like this, or a single image- a scanned photograph for example.
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Wastebasket icon The Wastebasket is where you throw things you no longer need. Lt doesn ' t empty straight away,( though as you can see, ours is so full the lid ' s fallen off), so you can change your mind if you have to. When you want to eject a disk, be it a CD-ROM or a floppy disk( if you ' ve got a floppy disk drive attached), you drag its icon on to the Wastebasket and the iMac will spit it out automatically. |