Mac Newbie. Help! :P

So I got a MacBook Air 11' almost a month ago. The thing is that I didn't opened it, my brother did and I don't know if it let it charged for the amount of hours that it's supposed to be charged. I think the battery doesn't last much (about 2-3 hours and I think that's much) also someone told me not to turn it off because that dammages the computer so I just close it when I finish using it. So I was wondering if I turn it off and leave it charging for I don't know, you tell me how many hours, will that help with the battery life? Is it true that if I turn it off will be damaged? One more thing, my dad got a MacBook Pro so he's also wondering for how long should we leave it charginr for first time or is it just a myth? THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!

It doesn't matter if it was fully charged to begin with, just plug it in and it will charge until it's full and then the charger light will turn green indicating a full charge. The charger will only charge when necessary indicated by the orange light.
It won't damage your Mac to turn it off, that's a myth. I typically leave my on and just sleep it by closing the lid. I leave it on the charger when at home and use battery on the road. If your battery life is short then you can do things like reduce the screen brightness, turn off bluetooth if not needed etc. Look for applications that consume lots of CPU and end them when not in active use.
Regards,
Captfred

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penk
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com.oracle.java.Java-Updater
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com.hp.devicemonitor
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com.facebook.videochat.thomasbrown.updater
com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae
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com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist
com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist
com.sierrawireless.SwitchTool.plist
com.wdc.WDDMservice.plist
com.wdc.WDSmartWareServer.plist
/Library/PreferencePanes:
Flash Player.prefPane
HP Scanjet.prefPane
JavaControlPanel.prefPane
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools:
.DS_Store
NasNavigator2.app
com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper
com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper
/Library/QuickLook:
GBQLGenerator.qlgenerator
iWork.qlgenerator
/Library/QuickTime:
AppleIntermediateCodec.component
AppleMPEG2Codec.component
/Library/ScriptingAdditions:
/Library/Spotlight:
GBSpotlightImporter.mdimporter
Microsoft Entourage.mdimporter
Microsoft Office.mdimporter
iWeb.mdimporter
iWork.mdimporter
/Library/StartupItems:
ChmodBPF
HP IO
LocSvc
/etc/mach_init.d:
/etc/mach_init_per_login_session.d:
/etc/mach_init_per_user.d:
Library/Address Book Plug-Ins:
SkypeABDialer.bundle
SkypeABSMS.bundle
Library/Fonts:
04b-08.suit
Arial
Brush Script
Times New Roman
Verdana
Wingdings
Wingdings 2
Wingdings 3
encodings.dir
fonts.dir
fonts.list
fonts.scale
Library/Frameworks:
EWSMac.framework
Library/Internet Plug-Ins:
FacebookVideoCalling.bundle
Move-Media-Player.plugin
PlayerPlugin.bundle
fbplugin_1_0_3.plugin
Library/Keyboard Layouts:
Library/LaunchAgents:
com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae.plist
com.facebook.videochat.thomasbrown.plist
com.nds.pcshow.plist
com.nds.pcshow.uninstall.plist
Library/PreferencePanes:
Opera Preferences
TomTomHOMERunner, LDMStatusItem, apple-scc-20130209-112927
thank you much for helping...sincerely. tlenbro.

I followed this procedure to check my files:
Please read this whole message before doing anything.
The following procedure will help whether your system has been modified. Don’t be alarmed by the complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out and won’t change anything on your Mac.
These steps are to be taken while booted in “normal” mode, not in safe mode. If you’re now running in safe mode, reboot as usual before continuing.
Below are instructions to enter some UNIX shell commands. The commands are harmless, but they must be entered exactly as given in order to work. If you have doubts about the safety of the procedure suggested here, search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects.
Some of the commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then either copy or drag it. The headings “Step 1” and so on are not part of the commands.
Note: If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. The other steps should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.
Step 1
Copy or drag — do not type — the line below into the Terminal window, then press return:
kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}'
Post the lines of output (if any) that appear below what you just entered (the text, please, not a screenshot.) You can omit the final line ending in “$”.
Step 2
Repeat with this line:
sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix)|edu\.mit|org\.(amavis|apache|cups|isc|ntp|postfix|x)/{print $3}'
This time, you'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. You don't need to post the warning.
Note: If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before taking this step. If that’s not possible, skip to the next step.
Step 3
launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|edu\.mit|org\.(x|openbsd)/{print $3}'
Step 4
ls -1A /e*/mach* {,/}L*/{Ad,Compon,Ex,Fram,In,Keyb,La,Mail/Bu,P*P,Priv,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo,Sta}* L*/Fonts 2> /dev/null
Step 5
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of every login item' 2> /dev/null
Remember, steps 1-5 are all drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste, whichever you prefer — no typing, except your password. Also remember to post the output.
You can then quit Terminal.
I believe that I have a keylogger or some sort of spyware installed on my mac, please help!
POST YOUR OUTPUT FOR REVIEW/COMMENT.
After running these commands, here is the output. Can you please tell me if you see anything here. I would be so grateful.
com.oxsemi.driver.OxsemiDeviceType00 (1.28.13)
at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch (4052)
Password:
com.wdc.WDSmartWareServer
com.wdc.WDDMservice
com.sierrawireless.SwitchTool
com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper
com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool
com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper
com.lacie.desktopmanager.service
com.google.keystone.daemon
com.adobe.fpsaud
at.obdev.littlesnitchd
jp.buffalo.NASPower
com.oracle.java.Java-Updater
com.lacie.eventsactions.launcher.agent
com.hp.messagecenter.launcher
com.hp.devicemonitor
com.google.keystone.system.agent
at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent
com.nds.pcshow.uninstall
com.nds.pcshow
com.facebook.videochat.thomasbrown.updater
com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae
com.adobe.AAM.Scheduler-1.0
LaCie DiscRecording/LaCie DiscRecording.pkg:
Contents
/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins:
/Library/Components:
/Library/Extensions:
/Library/Frameworks:
AEProfiling.framework
AERegistration.framework
Adobe AIR.framework
AudioMixEngine.framework
EWSMac.framework
HPDeviceModel.framework
HPPml.framework
HPScan.framework
HPServicesInterface.framework
HPSmartPrint.framework
HPSmartX.framework
NyxAudioAnalysis.framework
PluginManager.framework
Snapfish.framework
iLifeFaceRecognition.framework
iLifeKit.framework
iLifePageLayout.framework
iLifeSQLAccess.framework
iLifeSlideshow.framework
iTunesLibrary.framework
/Library/Input Methods:
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins:
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
Quartz Composer.webplugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
SharePointWebKitPlugin.webplugin
Silverlight.plugin
flashplayer.xpt
googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin
iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin
nsIQTScriptablePlugin.xpt
o1dbrowserplugin.plugin
/Library/Keyboard Layouts:
/Library/LaunchAgents:
at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent.plist
com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
com.google.keystone.agent.plist
com.hp.devicemonitor.plist
com.hp.messagecenter.launcher.plist
com.lacie.eventsactions.launcher.agent.plist
com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist
jp.buffalo.NASPower.plist
jp.buffalo.NASPower_pla.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons:
at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist
com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
com.apple.remotepairtool.plist
com.google.keystone.daemon.plist
com.lacie.desktopmanager.service.plist
com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist
com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist
com.sierrawireless.SwitchTool.plist
com.wdc.WDDMservice.plist
com.wdc.WDSmartWareServer.plist
/Library/PreferencePanes:
Flash Player.prefPane
HP Scanjet.prefPane
JavaControlPanel.prefPane
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools:
.DS_Store
NasNavigator2.app
com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper
com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper
/Library/QuickLook:
GBQLGenerator.qlgenerator
iWork.qlgenerator
/Library/QuickTime:
AppleIntermediateCodec.component
AppleMPEG2Codec.component
/Library/ScriptingAdditions:
/Library/Spotlight:
GBSpotlightImporter.mdimporter
Microsoft Entourage.mdimporter
Microsoft Office.mdimporter
iWeb.mdimporter
iWork.mdimporter
/Library/StartupItems:
ChmodBPF
HP IO
LocSvc
/etc/mach_init.d:
/etc/mach_init_per_login_session.d:
/etc/mach_init_per_user.d:
Library/Address Book Plug-Ins:
SkypeABDialer.bundle
SkypeABSMS.bundle
Library/Fonts:
04b-08.suit
Arial
Brush Script
Times New Roman
Verdana
Wingdings
Wingdings 2
Wingdings 3
encodings.dir
fonts.dir
fonts.list
fonts.scale
Library/Frameworks:
EWSMac.framework
Library/Internet Plug-Ins:
FacebookVideoCalling.bundle
Move-Media-Player.plugin
PlayerPlugin.bundle
fbplugin_1_0_3.plugin
Library/Keyboard Layouts:
Library/LaunchAgents:
com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae.plist
com.facebook.videochat.thomasbrown.plist
com.nds.pcshow.plist
com.nds.pcshow.uninstall.plist
Library/PreferencePanes:
Opera Preferences
TomTomHOMERunner, LDMStatusItem, apple-scc-20130209-112927
thank you much for helping...sincerely. tlenbro.

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My phone is not showing up in itunes. I want to sync it. I have a MAC and I have restarted the phone, it's charged, I have the most current version of itunes. What do I do now? It says to reinstall itunes if you have windows but not for mac. Help!

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I'm battling to change my primary iCloud account on my mac, please help? I want to replace it with my secondary account by can't find a way to do this?

I'm battling to change my primary iCloud account on my mac, please help? I want to replace it with my secondary account by can't find a way to do this? Tony

System Preferences/iCloud - log out and then log in with your other ID.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3390335?tstart=0
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I have a MacBook Pro 15" laptop with Retina running OSX 10.8.5. It will not recognize that my android device (Samsung Galaxy Note3). I am using the standard USB that came out of the box to connect my device to my MAC. Deleted Kies 4 MAC. Help Pls!

I have a MacBook Pro 15" laptop with Retina running OSX 10.8.5. It will not recognize that my android device (Samsung Galaxy Note3). I am using the standard USB that came out of the box to connect my device to my MAC. Deleted Kies 4 MAC. Help Pls!

Dee002 wrote:
MacBook's only have 2.0 USB ports.
Wrong.
If you're not going to provide correct advice then don't repsond at all.
http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/

Brand new Mac user help please! How do you connect a 17" monitor to the MacBook? I have the monitor plugged into the Mac, but the F8 that I am used to with PC does not work. Please help. Thanks.

Brand new Mac user help please! How do you connect a 17" monitor to the MacBook? I have the monitor plugged into the Mac, but the F8 that I am used to with PC does not work. Please help. I am getting lots of spelling errors as the MacBook laptop screen is too small. Thank you so much! .

Contentmom6 wrote:
Brand new Mac user help please! How do you connect a 17" monitor to the MacBook? I have the monitor plugged into the Mac, but the F8 that I am used to with PC does not work.
Normally, you just connect the monitor to the MacBook using a VGA adaptor that you can buy from an Apple Store. Now try System Preferences > Displays > Detect Displays. You should now be able to select a display mode for the monitor. If it still doesn't work, then I'd check that everything is properly connected. I've had problems with colours disappearing due to a faulty connection in the VGA adaptor.
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