Student Email Accounts
....how to get started using your QISD account
New for the 2011-12 school year, Quanah ISD will be providing students grades 6 through 12 with their own personal school email account. The student email login page can be accessed via a button titled Student Email, located in the right hand column of the Jr. High and High School web pages on www.qisd.net website. . . . read more
How to Properly Wind your MacBook Power Adapter Cord
Please watch this short video on the proper way to wind your MacBook Power Adapter Cord for storage. Damage due to improper care of your MacBook Power Adapter is not covered under the Apple Care warranty. Please make sure you are taking care of MacBook and all accessories that are . . . read more
How to Back up your Data, Music, iTunes, Picture, etc....
It's just about time to collect the student MacBooks for the summer for regular maintenance and upgrade. The MacBooks will be wiped clean during summer maintenance, therefore all data will be removed. Quanah ISD will not be responsible for backing up your data, music, movies, pictures, etc. However, we will provide some . . . read more
MacBook Tip - Capture Screen Shots
In Mac OS X, you can use simple keyboard shortcuts to do all sorts of things, including capturing images of what’s on your Mac screen. For example, you can take a screen shot of your entire screen by holding down the Command and Shift keys and pressing a 3. If you hold down the Command and Shift keys and press 4, Mac OS X . . . read more
MacBook Tip - Get Dictionary Definitions in One Click
You’re using Safari to research a paper on climate change and you find the phrase “anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.” What exactly does “anthropogenic” mean? Here’s a fast way to get the definition of a word you’re not familiar with. Hover your mouse over the word and right-click. Choose Look . . . read more
MacBook Tip - Quickly Switch Between Applications
The Mac makes it easy to have multiple applications — Mail, Safari, iTunes, Pages, iChat, iPhoto, and others — open at the same time. So how do you quickly switch from Safari, let’s say, to Mail? Just hold down the Command key and press the Tab key (Command-Tab). Mac OS X immediately displays a mini-Dock with icons for each of . . . read more
MacBook Tip - Take a Quick Look
How do you quickly find a photo without opening them one at a time? Let Quick Look help you. A new feature in Leopard, Quick Look lets you browse files — photos, Pages documents, Keynote presentations, QuickTime movies, Microsoft Word and Excel files — without having to open an application. Here’s how: In the Finder, open . . . read more
Taking Care of Your Macbook Over the Holidays
Keep it out of sight Just as you wouldn’t leave your wallet, iPod or cell phone sitting exposed in your parked car, take the extra precaution to hide your Macbook computer. Take it with you if you can, or lock it in your trunk, if there is no chance of it freezing. Laptop thefts have been growing . . . read more
Exposé Show-Off Trick
Pro Tip: Showing off Exposé to a friend or co-worker who uses a PC is more than a blast, it’s your duty, because even Windows XP still has nothing like it. But if you really want to be a major hambone, before you press F9 to invoke Exposé, start a QuickTime movie clip, have a DVD playing, or have iTunes playing a song and click on . . . read more
Knowing When to Force Quit
Pro Tip: With the Force Quit command in OS X, you can escape from “frozen” applications on your Mac without shutting down the whole computer or disrupting work in other programs. If an application hasn’t responded for a while to mouse clicks, trackpad scrolling, or other persuasive actions, click on the Apple menu and . . . read more
Managing Your Login Items
applications, documents, etc. that you want to open at start up
Pro Tip: Your Mac lets you decide which, if any, applications open automatically each time you log into your account in Mac OS X Leopard. For example, you might want iChat and Mail to open every time you sign on. These automatically opening programs are called Login items, and here’s how to manage them. From the Apple menu, . . . read more
Spell-Check on the Fly
Pro Tip: Mac OS X offers a really quick way to check the spelling of individual words in Pages, Numbers, Keynote, TextEdit, Mail, Stickies, and other text-based applications. In fact, you can check spelling on the fly without leaving the application you’re using. Here’s how. When you misspell a word — or type one . . . read more
The Secret Screen Capture Shortcut
Pro Tip: Okay, you probably already know the ol’ Command-Shift-3 shortcut for taking a screen capture of your entire screen, and you may even know about Command-Shift-4, which gives you a crosshair cursor so you can choose which area of the screen you want to capture. But perhaps the coolest, most-secret hidden capture shortcut is . . . read more
Using Zoom for Demos
Pro Tip: If you’re a trainer or you need to demo a technique in front of a group of people, there is nothing worse than losing your audience because they can’t see your cursor or the detail you’re pointing at. Fortunately, Mac OS X has a built-in solution for this problem: screen zoom. To enable screen zooming, open . . . read more
Apple Laptop - Important Safety Information
WARNING: Failure to follow these safety instructions could result in fire, electric shock, or other injury or damage. Avoiding water and wet locations Keep your MacBook Pro away from sources of liquid, such as drinks, washbasins, bathtubs, shower stalls, and so on. Protect your MacBook Pro from dampness or wet weather, . . . read more
Apple Laptop - Putting Your MacBook Pro to Sleep or Shutting It Down
When you finish working with your MacBook Pro, you can put it to sleep or shut it down. Putting Your MacBook Pro to Sleep If you’ll be away from your MacBook Pro for only a short time, put it to sleep. When the computer is in sleep, you can quickly wake it and bypass the startup process. To put your MacBook Pro to . . . read more
Apple Laptop - Useful Trackpad Tips & Shortcuts
Use the trackpad to move the cursor and to scroll, tap, double-tap, and drag. How far the pointer moves onscreen is affected by how quickly you move your finger across the trackpad. To move the pointer a short distance, move your finger slowly across the trackpad; the faster you move your finger, the farther the pointer moves. To . . . read more
