[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Precisely what I’m trying to do; become educated. Dh bought me an imac for Christmas. I’m starting with nothing, except little pieces of help from FReepers. One day, I’ll get on over to the area Apple store and learn even more. Until then, I’ll continue to ask questions, which unfortunately means I’ll continue to tolerate posts such as yours.

[blu]

Hey, c’mon over to the girls side of the room. No question is too weird for us! No tech-geek speak here. Did you know you can set your screensaver to be all the photos in your iPhoto library?

[Sea Mac]

You mentioned you had recently got a Mac but didn't have any software for it.
There are lots of nice freeware applications for Macintosh X listed over at Software Santa

TORCS is a extreme formula one race simulator:
that will give your graphics card a workout!
So will Flight Gear a FREE Flight Simulator!

Here I AM tooling along in my antique DH "Beaver" towards downtown San Diego ...

And it's not just all games either! Open Office / Inkscape / Scribus / GIMPShop / Audacity / MacTheRipper / VLC / Celestia - just tons of stuff to make your Mac (Or Linux, or Windows) system GO!

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Oh, make SURE you get the iLife install DVD out of your documentation package and install it. (If you got an iLife disk in with your Install DVDs, that is) that's got things like iDVD, iMovie, Garage Band, iPhoto, and iChat on it.

[Swordmaker]

Precisely what I’m trying to do; become educated. Dh bought me an imac for Christmas. I’m starting with nothing, except little pieces of help from FReepers. One day, I’ll get on over to the area Apple store and learn even more. Until then, I’ll continue to ask questions, which unfortunately means I’ll continue to tolerate posts such as yours.

My apologies... but after years of hearing this canard from NON-Mac users who haven't a clue, I erroneously lumped you in with them. Sorry.

To turn on your double clicking... under the Apple menu, select System Preferences. That will bring up a window with the controls for the Mac. Select "Keyboard and Mouse" and select the "Mouse" tab. This will allow you to configure your mouse as you prefer.

If you have a Macbook, you can set your track pad to left click with a single finger and right click with two fingers on the pad. Two fingers and drag scrolls.

Again, my apologies. I maintain the Mac Ping list on FreeRepublic. The threads are good places to get answers to questions... especially ones that don't come across as confrontational. Would you like to be included with the other 295 members? Let me know in a Freemail.

[Fishrrman]

“Precisely what I’m trying to do; become educated. Dh bought me an imac for Christmas. I’m starting with nothing, except little pieces of help from FReepers. One day, I’ll get on over to the area Apple store and learn even more. Until then, I’ll continue to ask questions, which unfortunately means I’ll continue to tolerate posts such as yours.”

You might try..
“The Little Mac Book”
“The Mac Bible, Tiger version” (not sure if a Leopard version is out yet)
“ Mac OS X - The Missing Manual”

The first two would be just what you’re looking for...

- John