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Mac

Maximum delegates: 8

This course is delivered by an Apple Certified Instructor.

Payment for your course can be made via BACS, cheque or credit card

High-quality training book supplied with this course

Included with course:

Apple OSX Essentials - 1 day

Installation

Install Mac OS X Leopard
Creating your first user account
Installation options

Setting up the Mac

First time setup
Adding different user accounts
Differences between Standard and Admin Users

Intro to OS X

Take a tour of the Desktop
Explore the Menu Bar and Dock

File management and Spotlight

A look at the Finder
Setting different views
Customising the side bar
Moving and deleting files
Quicklook

System Preferences

The four types of preferences
Changing user and system settings

Time Machine

Set up Time Machine
Simulate backup, delete and restore

Included applications

Explore applications included with OS X

Mail

Setting up mail accounts
Customising mail folders
Adding smart mailboxes
Using rules, using integration features
Data detectors and notes

iCal

Seeing events added from Mail
Adding, amending and deleting events
Adding, publishing and deleting calandars
Using To Dos inside iCal

Address Book

Adding, moving and sorting contacts
Integrating with Mail

Safari

Setting preferences
Using tabs
Creating a Dashboard item
Web Clips
History and Top Sites

Dashboard

Customising Dashboard Widgets
Adding and removing
Accessing using function keys
Setting a hot corner

Exposé/Spaces

Using and customising Exposé
Creating Mmltiple Desktops with Spaces

Fast user switching

Switching between users
Understanding advantages and security risks

File permissions and sharing

Transferring files between users
Understanding the dropbox
Changing file permissions

Shut down

Safely shut down
Restart, Sleep and Force Quit

Level: Introduction

Duration: 1 day

Cost: £279 ex VAT

Claim £70 FlexiCredit

Exam included: NO

Mac

Maximum delegates: 8

This course is delivered by an Apple Certified Instructor.

Payment for your course can be made via BACS, cheque or credit card

High-quality training book supplied with this course

Included with course:

Apple OSX Essentials - 1 day

Offers

FlexiCredit

FlexiDeal^®

The FlexiCredit - earn rewards on short courses

It's very simple: get rewarded if you book any of our short courses with training credits. Just book any 1-day or 2-day scheduled course at our London Covent Garden or Cardiff training centres and you will receive credit towards any course in the future – that's the FlexiCredit!

You can use these credits within 12 months of your first qualifying booking, and even accumulate your FlexiCredits.

Collecting FlexiCredits

Book a 1-day course - get £70 + VAT off a future course
Book a 2-day course - get £100 + VAT off a future course

This offer does not include private training

How to book

Just email us confirmation of your valid booking(s) that qualified for the FlexiCredit.

Terms and conditions

The FlexiCredit scheme started on the 22nd August, 2011 and only applies to bookings after this date
FlexiCredits can only be used as payment or part-payment towards a Certitec training course running at locations mentioned
You will be emailed your FlexiCredits after payment and completion of your course with Certitec
FlexiCredit is applicable only if the full RRP is paid for your course(s). Any discounting invalidates the FlexiCredit. If discounting has been applied you can pay back the difference in order to qualify for the offer
Any booking paid or part-paid by a FlexiCredit does not earn FlexiCredits
FlexiCredits cannot be used against any 'special deals' - only courses on our main website
You can 'give' your FlexiCredits to another person/company providing you email us intention of 'hand-over' and the delegate name(s) for the course benefitting from the credits. This will entail an administration charge of either £50 + VAT or the same number of FlexiCredits.
The FlexiCredit offer lasts for 12 months from the first date of your qualifying booking(s).

The FlexiDeal^® - free training

Our courses come with free training at London Covent Garden and Cardiff!

It's very simple: just book a day of private training or one of our 3-day, 4-day or 5-day scheduled courses (or any combination days) and you'll qualify for additional free training at our London Covent Garden or Cardiff training centres – that's the FlexiDeal^®.

And as long as you take these additional courses within 6 months of your first qualifying booking, you can even accumulate your FlexiDeal®.

Collecting FlexiDeals^®

Book a 1-day private course – get 1 day free
Book a 3-day scheduled course – get 1 day free
Book a 4-day scheduled course – get 1 day free
Book a 5-day scheduled course – get 2 days free

See below for courses you can claim for free in the FlexiDeal^®

Acrobat

After Effects

Dreamweaver

Flash

Flash Introduction (2 day)

Illustrator

InDesign

Photoshop

Premiere Pro (Cardiff only)

Premiere Pro Introduction (3 day)

How to book

Just email us confirmation of your valid booking(s) that qualified for the FlexiDeal^®.

Terms and conditions

FlexiDeal^® is applicable only if the full RRP is paid for your course(s). Any discounting invalidates the FlexiDeal^®. If discounting has been applied you can pay back the difference in order to qualify for the offer
The FlexiDeal^® offer lasts for 6 months from the first date of your qualifying bookings
The FlexiDeal^® is not available to funded individuals although we might apply at our descretion depending upon the number of training days booked under the particular scheme

Level: Introduction

Duration: 1 day

Cost: £279 ex VAT

Claim £70 FlexiCredit

Exam included: NO

Mac

Maximum delegates: 8

This course is delivered by an Apple Certified Instructor.

Payment for your course can be made via BACS, cheque or credit card

High-quality training book supplied with this course

Included with course:

Apple OSX Essentials - 1 day

If you don't see any suitable dates here, it might be more economical to deliver a private training course for you

Level: Introduction

Duration: 1 day

Cost: £279 ex VAT

Claim £70 FlexiCredit

Exam included: NO

Mac

Maximum delegates: 8

This course is delivered by an Apple Certified Instructor.

Payment for your course can be made via BACS, cheque or credit card

High-quality training book supplied with this course

Included with course:

Apple OSX Essentials - 1 day

Our guarantee of training satisfaction

No questions, no quibbles, no problem! Should you ever need to take your course again, just let us know. Find out more…

Requirements

Basic knowledge of Windows or Macintosh.
Understand how to launch an application and save files.
For web courses you will need to have knowledge of web browsers.

General information

Courses start at 10am and finish at 5pm. Please arrive 30 minutes prior to the start of the course on the first day.
We operate a casual dress code.
We supply all computers, software and courseware, pads, pens, lunch and refreshments.
We have both Apple OSX Lion and Windows 7 systems.
Bring along a USB/Flash drive so you can take away your course files.
Following your course, we will email you an Adobe Authorised Course Completion Certificate.
Each course comes with either on-line assets (electronic book/PDF or movies) to download or a high-quality Visual Quickstart 500-page training book. We are migrating most course assets to on-line downloads during 2012.
Access to a secure section of our site that offers useful tips and tricks.

Lunch

London Covent Garden and Cardiff - Flexible lunch vouchers are used and redeemable at outlets nearby such as Bella Italia, Eat, Nandos, Pizza Express, Pret A Manger, Starbucks, Sainsbury's and Tesco to name but a few.

Bristol - Look out for our designer cold buffet lunch.

Support

We supply 6-months rock-solid support via email on the subject matter covered during the course. Find out more…

Level: Introduction

Duration: 1 day

Cost: £279 ex VAT

Claim £70 FlexiCredit

Exam included: NO

Mac

Maximum delegates: 8

This course is delivered by an Apple Certified Instructor.

Payment for your course can be made via BACS, cheque or credit card

High-quality training book supplied with this course

Included with course:

Apple OSX Essentials - 1 day

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Level: Introduction

Duration: 1 day

Cost: £279 ex VAT

Claim £70 FlexiCredit

Exam included: NO

Mac

Maximum delegates: 8

This course is delivered by an Apple Certified Instructor.

Payment for your course can be made via BACS, cheque or credit card

High-quality training book supplied with this course

Included with course:

Apple OSX Essentials - 1 day

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Level: Introduction

Duration: 1 day

Cost: £279 ex VAT

Claim £70 FlexiCredit

Exam included: NO

Mac

Maximum delegates: 8

This course is delivered by an Apple Certified Instructor.

Payment for your course can be made via BACS, cheque or credit card