စားပြဲတင္ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ ရဲ႕ သမုိင္းအစ

Types of Personal Computers

ALL IN ONE PC

  Two popular types of personal computers are the IBM compatible and Macintosh computers. The first personal computer was produced by IBM in 1981 and was called the IBM PC. In 1984, Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh, or Mac, and it became the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface or GUI (pronounced gooey). Although both IBM and Apple computers are personal computers, the term PC came to refer to IBM or IBM-compatible personal computers.

ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ အမ်ိဳးအစားႏွစ္မ်ိဳးကေတာ့ IBM compatible ႏွင့္ Macintosh  တုိ႔ပါဘဲ၊ ပထမဦးဆုံး လူတစ္ဦးတည္းသုံးကြန္ပ်ဴတာကုိ IBM ကုမၸဏီမွ 1981 ခုႏွစ္မွာ ထုတ္လုပ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္၊ အဲဒီ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာကုိ IBM PC လုိ႔ အမည္ေပးခဲ့ပါတယ္၊ 1984 မွာေတာ့ Apple ကုမၸဏီမွ Macintosh (ေခၚ) Mac ကုိ စတင္ထုတ္လုပ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္ .... ပထမဦးဆုံး Apple ရဲ႕ PC ကြန္ပ်ဴတာေလာကမွာ အမ်ားဆုံးအေရာင္းစံခ်ိန္တင္ခဲ့ပါတယ္၊ အဲဒါ Window ရဲ႕ အစလုိေတာင္ ဆုိရမွာပါ၊ ဘာေၾကာင္းလည္း ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ သမားေတြသုံးေနတာက Command Line Interface ထဲမွာ သုံးေနၾကတာပါ .. ခု Apple က Graphical User Interface ရုပ္ပုံ Icon မ်ားႏွင့္ ခုိင္းလုိ႔ရတဲ့ PC ကုိ စထုတ္လုပ္လုိက္လုိ႔ပါဘဲ၊  ႏွစ္မ်ိဳးစလုံးဟာ လူတစ္ဦးတည္း PC ကြန္ပ်ဴတာစနစ္ကုိ စျပီးထုတ္လုပ္လုိက္တာပါဘဲ၊ PC သမုိင္းအစ ... IBM က ၊ လူတစ္

တည္းသုံးကြန္ပ်ဴတာ IBM compatible.
Apple now produces a Macintosh computer called the iMac, which is a desktop computer that features an all-in-one design. This means all the internal components are located behind the monitor, rather than in a tower case, which is customary in desktop computers.

While our training is intended for people who use PCs and the Windows operating system, some of our information also applies to Macintosh computers.

Apple ကလည္း  Macintosh ကြန္ပ်ဴတာအမ်ိဳးအစားကုိ iMac ဆုိျပီး ထုတ္လုပ္ပါတယ္၊ အဲဒီ iMac ကုိ အကုန္လုံး တပါတည္းပါ၀င္ေအာင္ တည္ေဆာက္ထားပါတယ္၊  ဆုိလုိတာကေတာ့ အတြင္းပုိင္းအဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားအားလုံးကုိ Monitor ရဲ႕ေနာက္ဘက္မွာ ထည့္သြင္းတည္ေဆာက္ထားပါတယ္၊ ဆုိလုိတာ System Unit ကုိ သီးျခား စီမထားဘဲ တတြဲလုိက္ ထုတ္လုပ္တာကုိ ေျပာျခင္းပါ၊ အဲဒါဟာ စားပြဲတင္ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ အမ်ိဳးအစားဒီဇုိင္းတစ္မ်ိဳးဘဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္ အဲဒီကြန္ပ်ဴတာ အမ်ိဳးအစားကုိ PC အေနျဖင့္ လူတစ္ဦးတည္းသုံး ပုံစံႏွင့္ စက္လည္ေသာ စနစ္ ပရုိဂရမ္မ်ားကုိ တပါတည္း ထည့္သြင္းေစခဲ့ပါတယ္၊ Macintosh computers သုံးနည္းကုိ သီးသန္႕ တင္ေပးသြားပါမယ္ ၊

ကြန္ပ်ဴတာအမ်ိဳးအစားမ်ားအေၾကာင္း

What are the Different Types of Computers?

There are many types of computers, but personal computers such as desktop and laptop computers are probably the two type of computers that you think of first.

မတူညီတဲ့ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ အမ်ိဳးအစားမ်ား ဘယ္ႏွစ္မိ်ဳးေလာက္ရွိသလဲ ?

ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ အမ်ိဳးအစားေတြကေတာ့ အမ်ားၾကီးပါဘဲ၊ ဒါေပမဲ့  Personal Computer  (PC) လူတစ္ဦးတည္းသုံးကြန္ပ်ဴတာမွာေတာ့ (Desktop) စားပြဲတင္ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာနဲ႕ (Laptop) မွတ္စုစာအုပ္အရြယ္၊ ဘယ္ေနရာမဆုိ ယူသြားလုိ႔လြယ္တဲ့ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ ဆုိျပီး ႏွစ္မ်ိဳးႏွစ္စား ရွိတယ္ဆုိတာကုိ ပထမဆုံး မွတ္ထားသင့္ပါတယ္။

Desktop Computers

Many people use desktop computers, or desktops as they are often referred to, at work, home, school, or the library. They can be small, medium, or large in style, and usually sit on a desk. The term desktop actually refers to the casing, or the tower. Once you add a monitor, mouse, and a keyboard, you have what is typically known as a desktop computer.

လူေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားက Desktop Computer (စားပြဲတင္ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ)အမ်ိဳးအစားကုိ အသုံးျပဳေလ့ရွိပါတယ္၊ ဘာလုိ႔လည္းဆုိေတာ့ သူတုိ႔ကုိ ရုံးလုပ္ငန္းေတြ၊ အိမ္၊ စာသင္ေက်ာင္း၊ သကၠသုိလ္၊ စာၾကည့္တုိက္ေတြမွာ အသုံးျပဳေလ့ရွိပါတယ္၊ သူတုိ႔ေတြရဲ႕ အရြယ္အစားေတြကေတာ့ ဆုိက္စုံပါဘဲ   ၾကီး၊ လတ္၊ ေသး ပုံစံအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးရွိပါတယ္ ပုံမွန္အားျဖင့္ေတာ့ မိမိအလုပ္စားပြဲမွာ ေနရာခ်ထား အသုံးျပဳေလ့ရွိပါတယ္၊ Desktop ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ အမ်ိဳးအစားကုိ သူတုိ႔ရဲ႕ System Box အေနအထားအရ အလွဲအေနအထားကုိ Desktop ၊ အေထာင္အေနအထားကုိ Tower ဆုိျပီး ေခၚႏုိင္ပါတယ္။ Desktop ကြန္ပ်ဴတာအမ်ိဳးအစား တြင္ ခ်ိတ္ဆက္ျပီး အသုံးျပဳရမယ့္ Monitor Mouse ႏွင့္ Keyboard မ်ားကုိ အျပင္တြင္သီးျခားပုံစံျဖင့္တည္ေဆာက္ထားျပီး ဆက္စပ္ပစၥည္းမ်ားကုိ System box တြင္ တပ္ဆင္ျပီး အသုံးျပဳရပါတယ္။ ဘာေၾကာင့္ ေယဘုယအားျဖင့္ Desktop computer တာလုိ႔ လူသိမ်ားသလဲဆုိရင္ ....

Most desktop computers are easy to upgrade and expand, or add new parts. In addition to expandability, another benefit of desktop computers is the cost. If you compare a desktop computer with 128 MB of RAM and a 2 GB hard drive to a laptop with the same features, you will most likely find that the desktop computer is priced lower.
Desktop ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ ၏ တည္ေဆာက္ပုံအရ ဆပ္စပ္ပစၥည္းမ်ားဟာ သီးျခားရွိေနေသာေၾကာင့္ ပ်က္သြားေသာ အစိတ္အပုိင္းမ်ားကုိ လွဲလယ္ျခင္း၊ အသစ္တုိးျမွင့္ျခင္း၊ ျပဳလုပ္ရလြယ္ကူပါတယ္၊ အျခားေကာင္းက်ိဳးအေနျဖင့္ Desktop computer အပုိပစၥည္းမ်ားဟာ ေစ်းသက္သက္သာသာျဖင့္ ၀ယ္ယူရရွိႏုိ္င္ပါတယ္ ...။ အကယ္ရဲ႕ 128 MB ၊ HD 2GB အဆင့္ရွိတဲ့ Desktop ကြန္ပ်ဴတာနဲ႕ Laptop မွာ ထည့္သြင္းတဲ့ 128 MB ၊ HD 2GB ပစၥည္းခ်င္းတူေနမယ္ဆုိရင္ .. အလုပ္လုပ္ပုံခ်င္းတူေနပါလိမ့္မယ္ ဒါေပမဲ့ Laptop ကေတာ့ ေစ်းပုိၾကီးပါလိမ့္မယ္ ။
The term desktop computer originated when the computer case was wide and flat, and was designed specifically to fit on your desktop with the monitor on top.
တည္ေဆာက္ပုံစနစ္အရ Desktop ကြန္ပ်ဴတာဟာ Casing (ပုံခြံ) တည္ေဆာက္ပုံအရ၊ က်ယ္က်ယ္၀န္း၀န္းတည္ေဆာက္ထားလုိ႔ စားပြဲေပၚမွာထားျပီး အသုံးျပဳဖုိ႔ သင့္ေတာ္တာ မုိ႕လုိ႕ Desktop Computer လုိ႔ ေခၚတြင္တာပါ။ 

Laptop Computers

The second type of computer that you may be familiar with is a laptop computer, or laptops as they are often referred to. Laptops are battery or AC-powered personal computers that can be easily carried and used in a variety of locations.
ဒုတိယကြန္ပ်ဴတာအမ်ိဳးအစားကေတာ့ အမ်ားလည္း ရင္းႏွီးကၽြမ္း၀င္စြာသိထားျပီးျဖစ္တဲ့ Laptop Computer အမ်ိဳးအစားဘဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္ ။ Laptops အမ်ိဳအစားမ်ားကေတာ့သယ္ေဆာင္ရလြယ္ကူျပီး  ေနရာမေရြးယူ
သြားႏုိင္ပါတယ္ Laptop ကြန္ပ်ဴတာမ်ားဟာ မီးအားျဖင့္တုိက္ရုိက္သုံးႏုိင္သလုိ ၊ဘထၳရီ ျဖင့္လည္း အသုံးျပဳႏုိင္ပါတယ္။ 

A quick glance at the size of a laptop and you might guess that it would be difficult to expand or upgrade. While the desktop computer case is relatively easy to open and access internal components, the small laptop case makes this more difficult in comparison; however, the primary benefit of a laptop computer is its small size and easy portability.A laptop computer is sometimes called a notebook computer because of its size.

အားနည္းခ်က္ကေတာ့ ပစၥည္းအစားထုိးျခင္း၊ တုိးျမွင့္ျခင္းမ်ား လုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္ခက္ခဲပါတယ္၊ Laptop ကြန္ပ်ဴတာမ်ားဟာ အစားထုိးပစၥည္းမ်ား ေစ်းႏႈန္း ျမင့္မားပါတယ္ ၊ အားသာခ်က္ကေတာ့ အင္တာနက္စနစ္ကုိ အလြယ္တကူ အသုံးျပဳႏုိင္ရန္ Wireless  ၾကိဳးမဲ့စနစ္ ပါရွိပါတယ္၊ အရြယ္အစားဟာ ေသးငယ္တဲ့အတြက္ သယ္ေဆာင္ရလြယ္ကူပါတယ္၊ Laptop ကြန္ပ်ဴတာမ်ားကုိ Notebook ကြန္ပ်ဴတာလုိ႔လည္း ေခၚႏုိင္ပါေသးတယ္။

 

အေျခခံ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ

Computers Simplified

Part of the Computer Motherboard For beginning computer users, the computer aisles at an electronics store can be quite a mystery, not to mention overwhelming. However, computers really aren't that mysterious. All types of computers consist of two basic parts – hardware and software.

အေျခခံ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ
ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ အေျခခံအရင္းအျမစ္အေနနဲ႕ အခုမွ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာကုိ စတင္ ေလ့လာမယ့္ သူအေနနဲ႕ သိထားသင့္တာကေတာ့၊ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာဟာ လွ်ပ္စစ္နဲ႕ဓာတ္အားနဲ႕ လည္ပတ္တာဆုိေတာ့ သူရဲ႕ အလုပ္လုပ္ပုံ၊ လွ်ဳိ႕၀ွက္နက္နဲ႕ပုံ၊ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာျဖင့္ အရာရာကုိ ဖန္တီးႏုိင္တယ္လုိ႔ေတာ့ ေျပာလုိ႔ေတာ့ မရဘူးေပါ့၊ ဒါလည္း သူေနရာႏွင့္ သူေပါ့။ ဒါေပမဲ့ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာဟာ အမွန္တကယ္ လွ်ိဳ၀ွက္နက္နဲ႕မႈေတြရွိမေနဘူးလား? 
 အေျခခံအား ကြန္ပ်ဴတာမ်ားကုိ အစိတ္အပုိင္းႏွစ္မ်ိဳးျဖင့္ တည္ေဆာက္ထားပါတယ္။ ... အဲဒါကေတာ့ ရုပ္ပုိင္းဆုိင္ရာ(စက္ပုိင္း) Hardware၊ ပရုိပရမ္မ်ား (Software ) စက္လည္ေစေသာစနစ္မ်ား၊ သက္ဆုိင္ရာ အသုံးခ် program မ်ား။
(စက္ႏွင့္ စက္ကုိ ေမာင္းႏွင္မည့္ စနစ္) hardware and software. 

Hardware is any part of your computer that has a physical structure, such as the computer monitor or keyboard. If you can touch it, it is hardware. Software is any set of instructions that tells the hardware what to do. It is what guides the hardware and tells it how to accomplish each task.

 Hardware စက္ပုိင္းဆုိတာက ကြန္ပ်ဴတာရဲ႕ ရုပ္ပုိင္းဆုိင္ရာတည္ေဆာက္ပုံပါဘဲ၊ တနည္းေျပာရရင္ Monitor (အေပၚစက္) ၊ keyboard (ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ လက္ႏွိပ္ခုံ)၊ အဲဒါေတြကုိ လက္နဲ႕ထိၾကည့္၊ ကိုင္ၾကည္မယ္ဆုိရင္ျဖစ္ႏုိင္ပါတယ္၊ အဲဒါေတြဟာ စက္ပုိင္းဆုိင္ရာေတြေပ့ါ (hardware) ၊ 

Software ဆုိတာကေတာ့ ညႊန္ၾကားခ်က္အစီအစဥ္ေတြပါဘဲ ၄င္းကေနျပီးေတာ့ စက္ပုိင္းဆုိင္ရာေတြကုိ ဘာေတြလုပ္ရမယ္ဆုိျပီး စီစဥ္ပါတယ္ ၊ Software ကေနျပီေတာ့ hardware ကုိ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္တစ္ခုခ်င္းဆီကုိ ဘယ္လုိလုပ္ဆုိျပီး ညႊန္ၾကားမႈေတြေပးတဲ့ အတုိင္း စက္ပုိင္းဆုိင္ရာမွျပီးဆုံးေအာင္လုပ္ေဆာင္ရပါတယ္။

Anything you buy for your computer can be classified as either hardware or software. Once you learn more about these items, computers are actually very straightforward.

ကြန္ပ်ဴတာတစ္လုံးကုိ သင္၀ယ္တဲ့အခါမွာ ဘယ္ဟာကေတာ့ ရုပ္ပုိင္း၊ ဘယ္ဟာကေတာ့ Software ပုိင္းဆုိျပီး ခြဲျခားႏုိင္ျပီေပါ့။

The first electronic computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), was developed in 1946. It measured 18 feet by 80 feet and weighed 30 tons.
ပထမဆုံး လွ်ပ္စစ္ကြန္ပ်ဴတာက 1946ခုႏွစ္မွာ စျပီးတီထြင္ခဲ့ျပီေတာ့ ထုတည္က 18 ေပ ျမင့္ျပီး တန္ 30 ေလာက္အေလးခ်ိန္ ရွိခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ ဆုိတာ ဘာလဲ?

What is a Computer?

 A computer is an electronic device that manipulates information or "data." It has the ability to store, retrieve, and process data. You can use a computer to type documents, send email, and surf the Internet. You can also use it to handle spreadsheets, accounting, database management, presentations, games, and more.

Whether you realize it or not, computers play an important role in our lives. When you withdraw cash from an ATM, scan groceries at the store, or use a calculator, you're using a type of computer.

ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ ဆုိတာ ဘာလဲ?
ကြန္ပ်ဴတာဆုိတာ လွ်ပ္စစ္ပစၥည္းတစ္ခုပါဘဲ သူကေတာ့ သတင္းအခ်က္လက္မ်ား (သုိ႔) ကြန္ပ်ဴတာအခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကုိ  လက္ျဖင့္ကုိင္တြယ္အသုံးခ်ႏုိင္ပါတယ္။ ၄င္းမွာ အခ်က္လက္မ်ားကုိ သိမ္းဆည္းႏုိင္ျခင္း၊ ျပန္လည္ရယူအသုံးျပဳႏုိင္ျခင္း၊ မိမိအသုံးျပဳလုိေသာ စနစ္ကုိ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေပးႏုိင္ျခင္းမ်ားကုိ လုပ္ေဆာင္ႏုိင္စြမ္းရွိပါတယ္၊ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာစံနစ္ကုိသုံးျပီးမွ ေက်ာင္းသုံး၊ ရုံးသုံးအေနျဖင့္ စာစီစာရုိက္လုပ္မလား၊ ေက်ာင္းသုံးအေထာက္အကူျပဳလုပ္ျခင္း၊ လုပ္ငန္းအေနျဖင့္၊ အီးေမးလ္ ပုိ႕ျခင္း၊ အင္တာနက္ ၀င္ေရာက္အသုံးျပဳျခင္းမ်ားကုိလည္းျပဳလုပ္ႏုိင္ပါတယ္၊ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာရဲ႕လုပ္ေဆာင္ႏုိင္စြမ္းဟာ အင္မတန္မွ က်ယ္ျပန္႕ပါတယ္၊ စာရင္းကုိင္နယ္ပယ္မွာဆုိရင္ စာရင္းအင္းႏွင့္ပတ္သတ္ျပီးလည္း သုံးႏုိင္ပါတယ္၊ စာရင္းကုိင္ပညာ၊ အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကုိ စံမံခန္႕ခြဲျခင္း၊ အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားႏွင့္ သရုပ္ျပျခင္း၊ ဂိမ္းကစားနည္းမ်ား၊ အျခားေသာ အေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ားကုိလည္း ျပဳလုပ္ႏုိင္ပါေသးတယ္။

အေျခအေနဟာဆုိရင္ လူသားမ်ားရဲ႕ေန႕စဥ္ဘ၀ႏွင့္ မိတ္ေဆြသဖြယ္ တူယွဥ္တြဲလ်က္အေရးၾကီးတဲ့ က႑မွာ ရွိေနခဲ့ပါတယ္၊ ဘဏ္ကုိ ATM ကဒ္မွ ေငြသြားထုတ္မလား? ကုန္တုိက္ေတြမွာသြားျပီး ေစ်းသြား၀ယ္မလား? ေစ်းသုံးစရင္းေတြကုိ တြက္ခ်က္မလား? ဒါဟာ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာရဲ႕ အသုံး၀င္မႈေတြပဲမဟုတ္ပါလား၊

What is window operaiting system? ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ ၀င္းဒုိးစက္လည္ပတ္ေသာ စံနစ္

An operating system is the most important software that runs on a computer. You might be thinking, “OK, but what is software?” Software is any set of instructions that performs some task on a computer. The operating system performs many essential tasks for your computer.

It controls the memory needed for computer processes, manages disk space, controls peripheral devices, and allows you to communicate with the computer without knowing exactly how a computer works. Without an operating system, a computer is useless. 

ကြန္ပ်ဴတာစနစ္ကုိ လည္ပတ္ဖုိ႕အတြက္ မရွိမျဖစ္အေရးၾကီးတဲ့စနစ္ဟာဆုိရင္ operating system လုိ႕ဆုိတဲ့ Window ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဟုတ္ျပီ ဒါဆုိရင္ Software ဆုိတာဘာလဲ ? Software ဆုိတာက တဆင့္ျပီးတဆင့္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ဖုိ႕ ညႊန္ၾကားထားတဲ့ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ၏ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္အစီအစဥ္တစ္ရပ္ပါဘဲ။ Operating System ကလည္းဘဲ မ်ားစြာေသာ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ၏လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္မ်ားကုိ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးပါတယ္၊
၄င္းစံနစ္ကသည္ပင္ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာစံနစ္မ်ားလုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္ လုိအပ္ေသာ မွတ္ညဏ္လုိအပ္ခ်က္မ်ား၊ ဖုိင္ေနရာခ်ထားေရး၊ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ ခ်ိတ္ဆက္ပစၥည္းမ်ား၊ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာအခ်င္းခ်င္း ခ်ိတ္ဆက္ျပီး အလုပ္မ်ားလုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္ စသည္မ်ားကုိ စံမံလုပ္ေဆာင္ေပးပါတယ္၊ Window လုိဆုိတဲ့ Operating System ရဲ႕လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္ကုိ မသိဘဲ တိက်ေသာ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္မ်ား၊ ၄င္းစံနစ္မ်ား မရွိဘဲ လုပ္ေဆာင္ဖုိ႕ဆုိတာ၊ Window လုိေခၚ Operating System မရွိဘူးဆုိရင္ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာဟာ အသုံးမတဲ့အရာ ၾကီး ျဖစ္ေနပါလိမ့္မယ္....။

Mac OS X Mountain Lion iTunes and Entertainment

iTunes and Entertainment

There are so many ways to view and interact with media on your Mac. This includes everything from music and videos, to podcasts and academic lectures—even games that you can play online with your friends.

OS X Mountain Lion makes all of these things fun and accessible with iTunes and other built-in tools. You can even access your media on other Apple devices, using the corresponding apps for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.

Have More Than One Apple Device?

There are many benefits to using iTunes and other entertainment apps if you have more than one Apple device. They're designed specifically so you can access your media anywhere (on your Mac, iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch), no matter which device you used to purchase it.

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We'll be using the Mac for most of the demonstrations in this lesson, but if you have another device, don't worry. The corresponding apps for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch are very easy to use. The important thing is that you get to know some of the basic tools and features, and come away with a solid understanding of what each app can do. Then you can explore the apps some more on your own.

Reviewing Important Features

There are several things that we discuss in other parts of this tutorial that are an important part of using apps. If you're unfamiliar with any of the features below, go back to the lesson to review.

• Notifications (Lesson 2, OS X Mountain Lion Features)
  Notifications are pop-ups, banners, and other audio/visual cues. Many apps use them to notify you of new activity on your device.
  
• Preferences (Lesson 6, Changing Your Computer's Settings)
  There are many ways to manage the settings on your computer. This includes settings for each of your apps, which allows you to control the way they behave.
  
• iCloud (Lesson 7, Syncing with iCloud)
  Syncing is what links your Mac to your other devices (and your other devices to each other). Many apps will need to be set up in iCloud in order for them to sync.
  
• Siri (iPad tutorial, Siri)
  Siri is a mobile-only feature that comes with the most recent version of the iPad and the iPhone 4S and later. It allows you to control certain apps using voice commands instead of gestures or the keyboard.http://www.gcflearnfree.org/macosxmountainlion/11

Mac OS X Mountain Lion Camera and Photos

Camera and Photos

If you have an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch, you probably know how much fun it can be to take photos and videos on your mobile device. Did you know you can access your photos and videos on your Mac as well? To get started, you should make sure you're familiar with the apps below.

• Camera for taking photos and video on your mobile device
• Photos for viewing and organizing media on your mobile device
• And other desktop tools like iPhoto and Photo Booth

Have More Than One Apple Device?

There are many benefits to using these apps if you have more than one Apple device. They're designed specifically so you can access your photos and videos anywhere (on your iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, or Mac), no matter where the photo or video is saved.

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We'll be using the iPad for most of the demonstrations in this lesson, but if you have another device, don't worry. The corresponding apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Mac are fairly similar. The important thing is that you get to know some of the basic tools and features, and come away with a solid understanding of what each app can do. Then you can explore the apps some more on your own.

Reviewing Important Features

There are several things that we discuss in other parts of this tutorial that are an important part of using apps. If you're unfamiliar with any of the features below, go back to the lesson to review.

• Notifications (Lesson 2, OS X Mountain Lion Features)
  Notifications are pop-ups, banners, and other audio/visual cues. Many apps use them to notify you of new activity on your device.
  
• Preferences (Lesson 6, Changing Your Computer's Settings)
  There are many ways to manage the settings on your computer. This includes settings for each of your apps, which allows you to control the way they behave.
  
• iCloud (Lesson 7, Syncing with iCloud)
  Syncing is what links your Mac to your other devices (and your other devices to each other). Many apps will need to be set up in iCloud in order for them to sync.
  
• Siri (iPad tutorial, Siri)
  Siri is a mobile-only feature that comes with the most recent version of the iPad and the iPhone 4S and later. It allows you to control certain apps using voice commands instead of gestures or the keyboard.http://www.gcflearnfree.org/macosxmountainlion/10