When I started out I used to use Aliases on the desktop but things became far too cluttered, now I use the Dock as its far easier to manipulate, you can get to software options easily and so on.
As has been explained, the Finder is similar to Windows Explorer in that things are listed there and you have full control over what appears in finder windows, there are many shortcuts to manipulate the finder, some have already been mentioned such as command-shift-u for utilities, command-shift-d for desktop, command-shift-h for home and so on. There are probably a heap more you could define in the "Keyboard shortcuts" of keyboard under "System References" but if you want even more power? Well then you may consider Keyboard Maistro which allows the full defining of hotkeys into macros and so on. A full discussion of finder, dock, desktop and keyboard shortcuts can be found in one of the Take Control series, can't remember the actual title for now. On 31/01/2011, at 4:57 PM, Wes Smith wrote: > Steph, > always think of the finder as windows explorer. It's like that, but > simplified a little. I don't find myself putting aliases (shortcuts), on the > desktop. I just use the doc. Hope this helps, > Wes :) > > On Jan 30, 2011, at 10:38 PM, Stephanie Mitchell wrote: > >> What's the difference between the doc, the finder and the desktop? It just >> seems confusing. Also is there a quick way to find my applications folder? >> Thanks. >> Steph >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
