How to Transfer Video to the MacBook Air (9 Steps)

Attach a USB hard drive to a secondary computer and copy any video files you wish to transfer to your MacBook Air. On either an OS X or Windows-based computer, highlight the files you want to transfer and use your mouse to drag them onto the external hard drive.
Eject the hard drive and connect it to your MacBook Air. Use the hard drive's USB cable to connect to a USB 2.0 port on the side of the MacBook Air.
Wait several seconds for the hard drive to appear within the MacBook Air's Finder. Select the hard drive's entry under 'Devices' --- on the left side of the Finder window --- to bring up the hard drive's contents.
Select the video files saved on the USB hard drive. Drag them with your mouse from the USB hard drive onto your MacBook's desktop. This will cause a transfer progress bar to appear. Once the bar is finished, your video files will be transferred onto the MacBook Air.
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How to Burn Photos to a CD on a Macbook Pro

Click on the desktop or in a folder on your MacBook Pro. Click 'File' from the MacBook Pro's Finder menu, and then click 'New Burn Folder.' A burn folder will be created on the desktop or in the folder you clicked in.
Drag photos from a folder on your MacBook into the Burn Folder. Aliases of the photos will appear in the Burn Folder, while the photos themselves will stay where they are. This lets you burn a CD of photos while keeping them in different folders on your MacBook's hard drive.
Double-click the Burn Folder to open it.
Click on the 'Burn' button at the top of the Burn Folder's window. Type a name for the CD at the prompt. Insert a blank CD into the MacBook Pro's optical drive.
Click 'Burn' to burn a CD of your photos that any recently made Mac or PC can read.
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How to Convert MP4 to DVD on a Mac

Download and install the free Burn software program to the Mac's desktop (see link in Resources). Run the Burn software program. Select the 'Video' tab at the top of the Burn software program's main window.
Drag the MP4 video file into the open space at the center of the Burn software program's main window. Click on 'Yes' when a window pops up asking to convert the MP4 file to the MPEG-2 video format.
Click on the drop-down menu in the window that appears and select 'NTSC.' Navigate to where the MPEG-2 file should be saved and click on 'OK' to close the window. Wait as the MPEG-2 video file is created from the MP4 video file.
Click in the open column next to the icon of a disk at the top of the Burn software program's main window, and enter in a name for the DVD you are going to make.
Select 'DVD-Video' from the drop-down menu to the right of the name of the DVD you are going to make.
Click on the MP4 file in the open space of the Burn software program's main window. Press the 'Delete' key to remove the MP4 file. Drag the MPEG-2 file into the open space where the MP4 file was.
Click on the 'Burn' button on the Burn software program's main window. Wait as the DVD burner's disk tray ejects. Put a blank, recordable DVD on the disk tray. Press the 'Close Disk Tray' button on the window that appears to close the disk tray.
Wait as the DVD is burned. Quit the Burn software program when the DVD has been completely burned. Eject the DVD and watch the video you have converted from an MP4 video file on a stand-alone DVD player.
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How to Use a Touchpad on a Mac

Put one finger on the touchpad, and move it around to control the pointer on your screen. When you see the folder or icon you want to click, press the touchpad once. There are no buttons on the touchpad. The whole surface is a button.
Press the touchpad twice to double-click on an item.
Click an item with your thumb, and keep your thumb pressed down on the touchpad. Drag the item by using a finger to drag it to its new location.
Press the touchpad with two fingers to right-click on an item.
To browse through items in a window or on a webpage, move two fingers across the trackpad horizontally.
To scroll through windows and webpages vertically, move two fingers up and down on the trackpad
To rotate a picture, twist your thumb and forefinger clockwise, or counterclockwise, on the touchpad.
To zoom in on a picture, put your thumb and index finger together in the center of the trackpad. Then, spread your fingers apart.
To zoom out on a picture, put your thumb and index finger apart on the trackpad. Then, pinch your fingers together.
To reveal your desktop, place all four fingers on the trackpad and move them up.
To reveal all of the open windows on your laptop, place all four fingers on the touchpad and move them down.
To reveal the application switcher, place all four fingers on the touchpad and move them from left to right. Then, click on the icon of the application you want to go to.
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How to Take a Screen Shot With a MacBook

Have the content that you want as a screen shot centered on your screen. Press the 'Command-Shift-“4.” The cursor becomes a crosshair.
Move the cursor to the corner of the screen where you want the picture to start.
Click and drag your mouse to select the content for the screen shot. A selection rectangle appears in the area you define. To adjust this rectangle keep holding down the mouse key as you proceed through the next steps.
Move the selection rectangle as needed by pressing the space bar and moving the cursor. The rectangle follows this movement.
Resize the rectangle around the selection center as needed by pressing the “Option” key and move the cursor. The rectangle resizes.
Constrain the selection rectangle as needed by pressing the “Shift” key while letting go of the other keys. Moving the cursor horizontally constrains the vertical size and vice versa.
Release all the keys, including the mouse. The screenshot will appear on the desktop with the name “Picture” and a number, such as “Picture 1.”
Double-click on the screenshot so you can open and inspect it.
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How to Remove All Documents Permanently From a MacBook Hard Drive Using Mac OS X

Open a new Finder window by clicking on the 'Finder' icon in the dock.
Highlight the 'Documents' directory from the 'Places' list on the left side of the window.
Drag and drop the entire 'Documents' directory to the 'Trash' icon at the far right end of the dock.
Open the 'Finder' menu at the top of the screen and choose the 'Secure Empty Trash' option.
Click 'OK' to confirm your decision to permanently delete the data in the Documents folder from your MacBook's hard drive.
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How to Eject Flash Drive on Macintosh (4 Steps)

When you insert your flash drive into the USB port, does it have a little light that blinks on and off? If it does, that's good, because that light tells you when the computer is accessing the drive. Most drives have a blinky light, but if yours doesn't, consider buying a different one.
When you want to remove your flash drive, you first have to 'dismount' the disk from the system. On a PC there's a little menu item in the lower right corner where you can choose 'safely remove hardware' or something like that. On a Mac, you have several choices to remove the drive. The easiest and most common way is to drag the disk's icon to the trash.(Note that when you do this, the trash icon turns into an 'eject' icon - which is a line and a triangle pointing upward. In the old days people used to be afraid to drag their disks to the trash can for fear they would delete their files. So they changed the icon.)
Wait until the icon disappears from the desktop, but DON'T PULL IT OUT OF THE USB PORT YET. Look at the flash drive. Is the light blinking? If so, leave it in. When it stops blinking, you can pull it out.
Sometimes the computer refuses to let the flash drive eject. It will tell you that files on it are still in use. It can't eject as long as the computer is using the drive. The problem is that your applications sometimes use the drive, even after you are finished. So if you get this message, first make sure all docments are closed, and if that doesn't work, quit any applications you were using with the flashdrive. (Glance down at your dock - there will be a little black triangle under each icon with an open application.)If your computer just won't let go of your thumb drive, even with all applications closed, you can try two other measures. Use option-command-escape to bring up the 'force quit' window, and choose the Finder. You can't actually quit the Finder, but you can 'restart' it, and that will cause the screen to blink and redraw. If all other applications are closed, you should be able to eject your flash drive after that.On rare occasions, some process may still be locking up your flash drive. The last resort is to shut your computer down. When it's off, it's always safe to remove the usb flash drive or thumb drive.
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How to Recover a Bookmark on a MacBook

Open a new Finder window. Click on the symbol that resembles a miniature house. This often has the user's name beside it.
Scroll down to 'Library.' Within the Library file there will be a file labeled 'Safari.' Click on 'Safari' and scroll down to 'Bookmarks.plist.' Hold down the 'Option' key and drag the file to the desktop. This won't delete the file; it will only copy it to the new location.
Open the Safari application and click 'File.' Scroll down to 'Import Bookmarks.' Click this and follow the prompts to select 'Bookmarks.plist' from the desktop to import. If this step does not work, continue to Step 4.
Open Time Machine. This software makes backups of files on Mac OS X. The Time Machine software must have been activated prior to losing the initial bookmarks or it won't help. Follow the prompts to move back to the time period before the bookmarks disappeared and prompt the software to restore the application to that time.
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How to Put a Screensaver Picture on a Mac

Open iPhoto and drag your pictures into the iPhoto library, in the top left corner of the window, if they are not there already.
Click on the '+' sign in the bottom right corner to create a new album. Name it 'Screensaver,' or something else you will remember.
Drag your pictures for the screensaver into the album you just created.
Select the 'Apple' menu (the menu that has an icon of an apple as its heading), and choose 'System Preferences.'
In the 'System Preferences' window that opens, click on 'Desktop & Screen Saver.'
Click on the 'Screensaver' tab at the top of the window that opens.
Cursor down the sidebar on the left until you see your screensaver album and click on it.
Click on the 'Options' button and make your selections for order, zoom and centering. Click 'OK' when done.
Use the slider to control when the screensaver comes on.
Click the red dot at the top left of the window to save your changes and close the window.
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