How to Pimp Your Mac

Change your background., Change the appearance and size of your cursor., For the dock, go to system preferences, click dock, you can make it bigger or smaller, or put magnification on., For voices, Go to system preferences, click speaking or speech...

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Step-by-Step Guide

  1. Step 1: Change your background.

    Go to system preferences, then click background and screensaver, click upload photo (or pick the ones already for you).
  2. Step 2: Change the appearance and size of your cursor.

    Go to system preferences, then click accessibility or universal access, on the top there will be tabs, such as hearing, seeing, e.t.c, click on mouse and trackpad.

    You can drag the size to make it bigger or smaller. , (If you want to remove things off of your dock, just 2 finger click and press remove from dock) , (If you want it to speak, highlight the text, 2 finger click, and press speak) , This one's the coolest! Go to iMovie, copy a picture, 2 finger click a folder, press get info, then go to edit at the top of your mac, and press paste.

    If you want to change the size, 2 finger click, click show view options, and you can drag the size and text.

    If you want to have highlighted text, 2 finger click, and click the little colored squares. , If when you put your mac to sleep, and when you open it, you want to have a password, that's simple.

    Go to system preferences, click security and privacy, check require password for sleep and screen saver. , If you want to change the colors when you x out of things, just click the thing above it.
  3. Step 3: For the dock

  4. Step 4: go to system preferences

  5. Step 5: click dock

  6. Step 6: you can make it bigger or smaller

  7. Step 7: or put magnification on.

  8. Step 8: For voices

  9. Step 9: Go to system preferences

  10. Step 10: click speaking or speech

  11. Step 11: then it will say system voice and it will say Alex

  12. Step 12: click Alex and you can click others.

  13. Step 13: Customize your folders.

  14. Step 14: Set up a password and sleep privacy.

  15. Step 15: If you want to change the highlight color

  16. Step 16: just go to general

  17. Step 17: and click highlight color.

Detailed Guide

Go to system preferences, then click background and screensaver, click upload photo (or pick the ones already for you).

Go to system preferences, then click accessibility or universal access, on the top there will be tabs, such as hearing, seeing, e.t.c, click on mouse and trackpad.

You can drag the size to make it bigger or smaller. , (If you want to remove things off of your dock, just 2 finger click and press remove from dock) , (If you want it to speak, highlight the text, 2 finger click, and press speak) , This one's the coolest! Go to iMovie, copy a picture, 2 finger click a folder, press get info, then go to edit at the top of your mac, and press paste.

If you want to change the size, 2 finger click, click show view options, and you can drag the size and text.

If you want to have highlighted text, 2 finger click, and click the little colored squares. , If when you put your mac to sleep, and when you open it, you want to have a password, that's simple.

Go to system preferences, click security and privacy, check require password for sleep and screen saver. , If you want to change the colors when you x out of things, just click the thing above it.

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