Biology Study Area

1. The mouse has two buttons and a scroll wheel. Really!

To raise your chair, rotate it counterclockwise. It helps to put your foot on one of the legs.
To lower your chair, rotate it clockwise.

• To take a screen shot of the whole screen, press Command-Shift-3
• To take a screen shot of a portion of the screen, press Command-Shift-4 and click and drag a rectangle around the area you want to capture.

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• Both kinds of screen shots create a file on the Desktop named "Picture 1.png", "Picture 2.png", etc.

To zoom your screen, press the Control key and scroll up or down with the scroll button on the mouse.

Texting is okay but please be considerate by turning off your ringer and making calls outside the BSA.

There are two free USB ports in the back of the computer.

1. Follow the keyboard cable with your fingers. The other USB ports are just to the right of that.
2. Insert your USB device into one of the ports just to the right of the keyboard cable so the the tongue is to the left.
3. You can rotate the computer easily if you want to look at the back.

1. Click on BioPics in the Dock
2. If your ID is not in the system, give your ID card to the person behind the counter and they'll add you.

If you don't see a downloaded file on the desktop, try clicking on the Downloads folder icon in the Dock.

1. Double-click on "Macintosh HD" in the uppper right of your screen.
2. In the left column of the window, click on "Applications" under "Places."
3. In the Applications folder, double-click on Fetch
4. In the Fetch window, click on the heart (favorites) menu and choose Dante for your UWnetID account or select from other favorites. You can also connect to other servers if you know the host name, login, password and protocol (FTP or Secure FTP).

1. In the Mac environment, click on the apple in the upper left corner of the menu bar
2. Choose Restart and then confirm.
3. After the computer shuts down, hold down the Option (Alt) key until you see a grey screen with two hard drives labeled "Macintosh" and "Windows." Click on "Windows" and hit Enter.

1. Click on CanoScan Toolbox in the Dock
2. Click on "File" in the Canoscan Toolbox window.
3. Set the resolution (300 dpi is good for most purposes)
4. Click on "Browse" to pick a location to save your file. The Desktop is good choice.

1. There is no Start button/application menu on Macs. There is a "Dock" akin to the task bar where you can drag frequently-used applications, folders or documents for quick launching or opening.
2. Closing all windows within an application on a Mac usually doesn't close the application - in Windows it does close the application unless there is a "parent" window behind all document windows (rare).
3. The main keyboard modifier key on Macs is the "Apple" or Command key while on Windows it's the Control key (eg, [modifier key]-C for copy). Many of the most common keyboard shortcuts are the same, though: (eg, modifier-X, modifier-C, modifier-V for cut, copy, paste).
4. To right-click while using a single-button mouse on a Mac, hold down the Control key when clicking.
5. Macs have only one menu bar while Windows menu bars are within each window.
6. The "C:" drive can be named anything and by default is named "Macintosh HD." Other drives are named when they are formatted so there are no drive letter designations.
7. To Sleep, Log Off, or Shut down go to  the Apple icon in the upper left corner of the menu bar (the _only_ menu bar - see (1)).
8. Instead of Control-Alt-Delete to force quit unresponsive programs, hit Command-Option-Esc.