Good book for first-time computer user?

I need to teach someone who has never used a computer how to use one. I have used computers all my life, so I don't know where to start. I thought I'd get a book. If it were Windows, I'm sure I could find a hundred books for a newbie. On a Mac, though, I'm not sure what exists out there, because most new Mac users have used Windows, whereas most new Windows users have never used a computer.
Does anyone know of a good book that teaches a first-time computer user how to use a Mac?

The David Pogue books are excellent but first, have you seen Mac 101?
-mj
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Hello all, first time user here. Downloaded the trial and am thinking about purchasing the full version. I have a few questions here;
1. If I click buy to get the serial number, after authorizing the program, will the "Trial" word disappear from all the menus and setting? And will the library name changed from Aperture 3 Trial Library automatically to just Aperture 3 Library?
2. When I start importing photos from camera into A3, will I be able to use iPhoto to view or edit if I delete the original iPhoto library? In short, will iPhoto be able to share the same library when I start using A3?
3. After importing all existing photos from iPhoto, should and can I delete my iPhoto library?
4. Will I be able to use and install A3 on both my laptop and iMac at the same time or is it restricted to 1 computer?
Thanks all.

Jaryl wrote:
Hello all, first time user here. Downloaded the trial and am thinking about purchasing the full version. I have a few questions here;
1. If I click buy to get the serial number, after authorizing the program, will the "Trial" word disappear from all the menus and setting? And will the library name changed from Aperture 3 Trial Library automatically to just Aperture 3 Library?
I don't think it will change the library name, but you should create a new library and import the trial library anyway IMHO
2. When I start importing photos from camera into A3, will I be able to use iPhoto to view or edit if I delete the original iPhoto library? In short, will iPhoto be able to share the same library when I start using A3?
In short: no, but you can view the images from one library in the other and drag them in if you like.
3. After importing all existing photos from iPhoto, should and can I delete my iPhoto library?
You can, but wait until you know everything is working right and backed up.
4. Will I be able to use and install A3 on both my laptop and iMac at the same time or is it restricted to 1 computer?
Yes the EULA allows a desktop and a laptop but not simultaneously. (If they're on the same network, it won't allow you to run them simultaneously.)
DLS

Must Have Apps & Utilities for first time mac user?

Hello Everyone,
This is my first mac and I was just wondering if the are any must have system utilities out there. I already have techtool deluxe which came with the apple care cd. I hear a lot of people talking about disk warrior and other programs...so I'm just wondering if there's some sort of a consensus on any must have utilities .
Do macs even really need system utilities like PCs?
Any advice would be very much appreciated,
Thanks

My two cents:
There are no "must have" applications or utilities. Anything you must have is already built into the system.
If you run your Mac 24/7 the periodic scripts will take care of themselves. If not, run them once a month with MacJanitor or Onyx or Cocktail or just in Terminal by entering :
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
Enter your admin password and press Return. (You will not see your password.)
I'm always very skeptical about getting freeware.This is an unfounded fear. You should fear both equally Actually, there are some excellent freeware apps and some are better than their shareware or even commercial counterparts.
DiskWarrior is an excellent app to have and hopefully never have to use.(EDIT: TechTool Deluxe will also rebuild your directory if needed) I do very little to my Macs, unless I experience some problem which is seldom.
Enjoy your Mac:)
-mj
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PLEASE help me!!! I,ve been all over looking for help/store or whatever to down load adobe flash player to open a certain website. I need that app or something similar. I am a first time iPad user and not that swift on a computer either

Please!!
help me down load adobe flash player or something similar for my iPad. I want to open a certain website and it's required. I don't know where to go. i am a first time iPad user and not to swift on a computer either. Thank you

Allan Eckert wrote:
You are going to have to get Steve Jobs to change his opinion about Flash which will be like getting a Baptist to drink beer, next to impossible.
Allan
Funny you mentioned that analogy... because John the Baptist was a heavy drinker... (could steve jobs be secretly accessing flash content on his ipad?)

X230 - Setup Is Preparing Your Computer For First Time Use

Dear all,
I just received my X230 bought on Ebay and as I first turned on the computer, Windows was frozen and showed "Setup Is Preparing Your Computer For First Time Use" for hours (I guess its a whole day). Since I do not have any recovery media provided, does anyone has alternative solution?
Thanks in advance!

Thanks! It took me a whole day to figure out what happened and I ended up format the whole drive and reinstall the windows. Yes, you are right, X230 is a good machine and acutally I was thinking to puchase X240 since there is kind of back to school program that you can purchase X240 at a deep discount price. After so many bad comments I chose X230 instead for:
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2. 2 ram slots
3. normal voltage CPU
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Using iPod shuffle 4th generation for first time and receiving the error : one of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and windows does not recognize it. For assistance in solving this problem, click this message

Using iPod shuffle 4th generation for first time and receiving the error : one of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and windows does not recognize it. For assistance in solving this problem, click this message.
Using win 7 and latest iTunes [10.6.3]. Have already gone through below links and did not find any solution.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2292
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1369
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-17997-ipod-not-detected

I was hoping it would be something like a USB device conflict, but now the shuffle is the only thing connected...
This article was one of the ones you linked to above in your initial post
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1369
Under Part 9. Verify that USB drivers are installed, did you try the steps in If only "Unknown Device" appears? That appears to be your situation.
Also, you said that the shuffle initially worked well enough to do a sync, then it had the same problem again. If you can get it to work again initially, before doing anything else, try the following. Select the shuffle in the iTunes sidebar, under DEVICES. Over to the right, go to the Summary tab. By default, the checkbox for Enable disk use should be unchecked. If so, check it and Apply the change. See if that makes any difference.
(If Enable disk use was already checked, try unchecking it and Apply the change. Basically, set it the "other way" and see if there is any improvement.)
NOTE: When disk use is enabled, you have to eject the iPod in iTunes before disconnecting it physically.
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Opening premier elements for first time. Been "gathering user info" for 15 minutes...what to do?

Opening premier elements for first time. Been "gathering user info" for 15 minutes...what to do? Previously hit "organize", ran for 25 min till hit 100%, then "had to close"?

Unfortunately, there's not enough info listed to give you an effective answer.
Can you give more detailed system spec's. There are a lot of differences in RAM, & Hard Drive Technologies. Is your 2TB a single hard drive, or multiple drives in RAID? While a single 2TB drive is nice for the storage capacity, they also sacrifice some performance to reach that capacity... What speed is the RAM, & I'm assuming it's properly opperating in Dual Channel mode (watch your POST screen to be sure). Which Core i7 CPU are you running, & what Operating System are you running. Finally, bring up your task manager, & see what processes are using CPU cycles. Also, are you starting up PrE8 through the default shortcut which uses the Welcome screen?
A quick guess is that Auto Analyzer & the Welcome screen are behind your troubles, but can't be sure till more info is available.
There is a current thread about Auto Analyzer, & I've posted a way to bypass the Welcome screen in several threads.
See my post in this thread to bypass the Welcome screen http://forums.adobe.com/thread/516524 (2nd post in thread)
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How to disable chanllenging questions while user log in for first time

Hi All,
How to disable challenging questions while user log in for first time in OIM 10g and OIM 11g
also i need to know how to change the Oracle logo with custom logo in both versions

In 11G:
To disable challenge questions at start up: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17904_01/doc.1111/e14308/system_props.htm#BABBDCJH (System Property Named: "Force to set question at start up)
To change logo: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14571_01/doc.1111/e14309/uicust.htm#CHDIFJEJ
In 10G:
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BB

HT204380 help. tried for first time to use FaceTime with another iPhone user & it would not work. "FaceTime failed". we are both on wi-fi networks & iTunes accounts are set up correctly.

help. tried for first time to use FaceTime with another iPhone user & call refused to connect. Call would dial, allow us to accept call, then error message "FaceTime failed" would appear & call disconnect. we are both on wi-fi networks, both phones have updated software & both enabled FaceTime with iTunes logged in. don't know what else to do to get FaceTime to connect. Someone please help.

Thanks Helen for the response. At least you can get some of the contacts to work. Absolutely none of mine will. Feel like my phone is cheating me out something it should do. Think I'm going to just have to dump all the Apple products in general because this phone hasn't worked right since I got it.

HT4859 i have setup an ipad without connecting to computer, i am now connecting for first time to itunes it asks if i want to set up as new ipad or restore from previous backup (my iphone not ipad), i have backed ipad up to icloud when i connect back to i

i have set up my wifes ipad mini wirelesly, i am now connecting for first time to itunes it asks if i want to set up as new ipad or restore from previous backup (my iphone not ipad), i have backed ipad up to icloud when i connect back to itunes will it give me an option to restore from icloud, i dont want to lose the apps and data my wife has already installed through her account... any thoughts

1. set up as new
2. transfer you wife's purchases.
3. Just in case create one computer back up manually.
Enjoy.

Computer keeps Configuring and setting up for first time use

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It's been a couple days since you posted this problem. Did you get anywhere, or are you still stuck in that loop? If it's still stuck, you may just want to perform the recovery again.
- Peter

Just hooked up new apple tv for first time. able to connect to internet (netflix, youtube) but not able to connect to my itunes account via home sharing. apple tv tells me to make sure computer's itunes has home-sharing enabled, which it does. any advice?

Just hooked up new apple tv for first time. able to connect to internet (netflix, youtube) but not able to connect to my itunes account via home sharing. apple tv tells me to make sure computer's itunes has home-sharing enabled, which it does. any advice?

Have done both suggestions, still not working. Could it have somehting to do with my local network? I am using a wireless Internet provided by my apartment building so not sure if apple tv and my computer are not technically on the same "local network?"
apple tv and main computer are connecting to Internet fine. Just cannot see my itunes on apple tv.
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Long time to open workbook for first time

Hi,
I have a workbook with three queries . Performance of workbook is good when it was created for first time. It has additional 22 sheets with formulas and other sheets with values based on query sheets.
The problem starts after I close the existing session and open in another session when it takes 15 to 20 minutes to come up.But after that the book is slow even for single click button action.
Version of analysis 1.4.6
Win 7(64 bit)
Ms office 2010(32 bit)
Refresh on opening is disabled.
Few thing which I did:
>> I opened up task manager and did analyze wait chain, I found that excel.exe is waiting for splwow64.exe process.
>> I enabled logging at "debugging information" in support setting for workbook and checked things out in log file.
Found that
There was warning "AddSerializer failed (Command processors not initialized)
Looking at log file for events when book took time to open, I found that time stamp gap between following events"
-verbose: Working mode as serialized in document:'Local'
-verbose: Successfully deserialized system info from workbook XML
- verbose: ...its logs various properties of queries like query name,id etc"
and its immediate previous event of cache formula string is 20 mins.
>> in another session I opened a workbook with normal performance.Found above mentioned warning message and deserialization... information.
the difference in this case is that there is not delay in events.
Has anybody faced this issue? Any idea on deserialization of workbook xml in analysis.
Any idea where is metadata saved in analysis. is it in form of some hidden script object just as in BEx 7.0
Thanks
Pramod.

Hi Pramod,
Since you have several sheets in this workbook, have you checked the number of custom styles?
Please check the SAP note http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1899658
According to the note, too many styles slow down Analysis for Office.
The note also contains a macro that you can run on your workbook to delete the custom styles if you want to check.
Regards,
Filipe

HT1178 I'm setting up airport for first time. I'm getting error no DNS servers help

I'm setting up airport for first time. Getting error no DNS servers. What is DNS server and how do I fix this?

DNS server is that translation from a website address in words meaningful to us.. eg www.google.com to an actual number that computers can use. Without DNS the internet may work but you would have to know the ipv4 address of every site you want to visit.
Whenever you don't know the meaning of a term just type wiki plus the term in google search.
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Who is your ISP.. may be helpful??
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When you replace an existing computer or router that is plugged into it, with the TC, requires that you power cycle the modem. In some cases the off time is 5min.. for a lot of services, it needs to be off 20min.. and for some even longer.. maybe an hour or overnight.
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How do I sync my new ipad mini with my old ipad 2, without losing any apps or data in notes? I need step by step instructions for first-time sync with ipad mini. Thanks.

How do I sync my new ipad mini with my old ipad 2, without losing any apps or data in notes? I need step by step instructions for first-time sync with ipad mini. Thanks.

If you synced it many times, you have to have a backup. It's just a question of how old that backup is now. When did you last sync?
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http://www.everythingicafe.com/how-to-set-up-new-ipad/2012/03/16/

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