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To Zip compress a folder full of items, right click it and select “Compress (item)” from the Contextual Menu. If you highlight a group of items in the Finder, you can right-click (ie. control-click or two-finger-click) one of them to…

To bring up the Contextual Menu (right click), hold control and click. On a laptop that supports multi-touch you can enable the “Secondary click - Click with two fingers” option within System Preferences > Trackpad > Point & Click.

If a program is unresponsive or the spinning beach ball of death isn’t going away, wait for a while (your Mac sometimes just needs a bit of time to think). If it is still spinning after several minutes, you can…

If you forgot a password that your computer had stored for you previously, go to Applications > Utilities > Keychain Access. From there, look down the list of items until you find the one you’re looking for, double click it,…

To make sure you are connected to the right wireless network, look under the Airport menu in the top right of your screen to ensure there is a checkbox next to your network. The Airport menu is the one that…

To add an Application to the dock, go into the Applications folder and drag it down onto the Dock. You can move it to any location you like on the Dock; you'll see the other icons shift and move to…

To select multiple items in a list, highlight the first item then shift-click the last item. Command-click to select or deselect individual items, and to add or remove items from your existing selection.

To take a screenshot, press command-shift-3 to capture the full screen area. To capture a smaller area you define, press command-shift-4 then release all three keys and drag a box around what you want to capture. The image will appear…