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In Cover Flow view, the browser is split horizontally into two sections.

Youll learn how to use menus, buttons, and accessibility features that make it easier to use your computer, as well as how to work with applications and windows.

It can display icons for hard disks, CDs, and any servers connected to your computer.

You can also store files and folders directly on your desktop for quick access.

Using System Preferences, you can customize the appearance of your desktop and choose the types of items shown on the desktop.

When you open a folder on the desktop, a new Finder window opens automatically.

For example, if you have a file named travel plans on the desktop, type T to move to it.

To display a Finder window, click the Finder icon in the Dock (its always the first icon in the Dock).

Under the buttons, along the top of the window, is a toolbar used to navigate, change the view, find items, and perform other actions.

Below the toolbar, the window is split into two sections called the sidebar and the view browser.

Choices in the Action menu include New Folder, Get Info, or Open.

You can use the buttons below the search field to focus the search to a particular location.

The Places section has icons for folders you use most frequently, including your home folder and some folders inside it, such as Documents, Music, and Pictures.

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The Downloads folder is the default location for any software or files you download from the Internet.

The Search For section includes Smart Folders that collect items meeting specific criteria, such as all files, folders, and applications you used yesterday, or all PDF documents.

These folders are useful for quickly finding an item when youve forgotten where it is in your computers folder hierarchy.

You can use a toolbar button to view the contents in icon, list, column, or Cover Flow views.

You use VoiceOver commands or gestures to open and navigate Finder windows.

You can use Finder shortcuts to work with selected files and folders.

Then navigate to the Finder, which is the first item in the Dock.

You can also use Mac OS X shortcuts by pressing Command-Tab and then using the arrow keys to navigate to the Finder.

Press VO-Right Arrow key until you hear the view you want to use.

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