Configure the Airport and use Safari

At this point the guide you will be eager to learn how to install and uninstall applications. Let's start by saying that, in Mac OS X, there is no standard procedure for installing new applications, but there are several ways. Given that the intention of this guide is to guide the user step by step in various operations, you will need to connect to the Internet and download a test application to show how to install.

To be able to surf the Internet is of course necessary to have an ADSL line and connect our computer with an Ethernet cable (so you do not need any configuration, just plug the cable and you're ready to navigate) or connect via Wi-Fi using the Airport. To access this tool is enough to click on this icon in the status bar at the top:

The icon representing the Airport, from the graphical point of view, it changes depending on the status of the connection. In the screenshot shown the computer is connected to a Wi-Fi network and the signal is maximum. Sometimes, sometimes, not to receive the signal to amssima power and you will see that the black cleats will be outnumbered and replaced with a light gray cleat. If however the Airport is off the icon will be as follows:

Regardless of the graphical representation of the Airport if you click on the icon will open the following menu:

The first entry shows the state implemented the Airport, we have the words in the screenshot proposed Airport: Looking for network users indicating that the Airport is trying to detect other Wi-Fi networks. Once the scanning process, the state will change in the Airport Airport: active, indicating that the instrument is in fact active. Just under the menu item allows you to turn off the Airport; vice versa when the Airport is disabled and click its icon on this menu item will change to 'Turn Airport.

Continuing the analysis of the menu we find the whole list of Wi-Fi Airport identified. The number of detected Wi-Fi networks are ordered according to the received signal strength, from highest to lowest. Looking at the screenshot above you will notice that the proposed network Matthew has a check mark indicating that currently own my device is connected to that network.

As we can see the list of available networks, each line consists essentially of three distinct elements: the network name, the padlock symbol which indicates that the network is protected by a password and the signal strength associated with the network. If we try to click on any network protected by a password will open the following window:

As you can see, the new window shows the name of the network and there is a field in which you can enter the password for network access. In this field there are two check boxes: the first simply shows the password field inside the special field without replacing the usual asterisks to each character, while the second allows you to save the entered password. If you check this option every time you turn on the Airport latter, if we find a network that you have previously saved, will connect to it in a completely automatic. Tracsuriamo deliberately utilme analysis of three menu items given the lack of educational interest for our purposes.

Ultimately, that's all there is to know about the Airport and their configurations to be made to obtain connectivity to a given network. We are now ready to open the Safari browser which is offered to us by Apple with the installation of Mac OS X. To launch Safari, you can search for it using Spotlight or by going to the Applications folder by searching for "manually" the desired application.

Once you open Safari you will come to a program, from the point of view of the graphical interface is very similar to any browser. So if the user has espperienza using Internet Explorer or Firefox will certainly have no problems to navigate within the program.

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