Installing Programs

Hi, as you will soon find out, I'm a new Mac user. I have a question about installing programs/applications;What do I do with the left over/newely created icons on my desktop? The .dmg's,the hard disk looking icons...I'm sorry but like I said, I'm a newbie. Perhaps there's a tutorial page somewhere online that I haven't found yet. Let me know.
Thanks.

"What do I do with the left over/newely created icons on my desktop?"
Hi Yendor...
You can simply send those items to the trash. The white hard drive icons are what's contained within the .dmg's, so you'll have to drag those to the trash before the .dmg files.

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