OS X Mavericks: Apps included with your Mac
Your Mac comes with a lot of fun and useful apps already installed. To see and open apps, click the Launchpad icon in the Dock.
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To get more apps, visit the Mac App Store.
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Calendar: Keep track of meetings or appointments, view multiple calendars at the same time, share your calendar information with others, and more. |
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Contacts: Store names, numbers, addresses, birthdays, IM buddy names, and more. Then, use your contacts for emails, chats, video calls, and more. |
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FaceTime: You can can easily make a video call and talk, hang out, and stay in touch with others, face to face, right from your Mac. You can call friends who have iPad 2 or later, iPhone 4 or later, iPod touch, or a Mac. |
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Game Center: Play games online with friends and share your game experiences. Or, enjoy a game by yourself. |
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GarageBand: A complete music studio on your Mac. Make your own music and share it with the world. |
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iBooks: Read the latest bestseller from the iBooks Store, study smarter using notes, highlights, and study cards, research faster with multiple books open, and more. |
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iMovie: Create movies and movie trailers, organize your video, and share your movies with others. |
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iPhoto: View, organize, improve, and share your photos. You can also use iPhoto to make albums, slideshows, and photo books. |
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iTunes: The ultimate digital jukebox. iTunes plays all your digital music, podcasts, and videos. It’s also a 24/7 entertainment superstore that lets you browse and buy songs, movies, TV shows, and more. |
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Keynote: Create beautiful presentations—just start with one of the many themes, then modify it however you like. |
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Mac App Store: The best way to find and download Mac apps. You can browse, purchase, install, update, and even write reviews for your apps. |
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Mail: Use your existing email accounts to send, receive, and organize all your email in one place. |
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Maps: Find locations, get turn-by-turn navigation, and see the world from a whole new perspective. |
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Messages: Use your IM accounts to text chat, video chat, audio chat, and share your screen. |
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Notes: Jot down things you need to remember and easily find them later. |
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Numbers: Create spreadsheets to organize your data. You can add tables, charts, calculations, images, and more. |
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Pages: Create professional-looking letters, reports, forms, cards, posters, newsletters, brochures, and more. |
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Photo Booth: Use the built-in camera on your Mac to take single photos, a quick burst of four photos, or a movie clip—ready to send to friends, use as a Messages icon, or add to your iPhoto library. |
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Reminders: Keep track of all the things you need to do, see, or buy. Set time or location notices for your reminders so you never forget anything. |
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Safari: A web browser that maximizes your browsing experience. It’s fast, easy to use, and lets you simply enjoy browsing the web. |
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Automator: Automate your work to accomplish time-consuming and repetitive manual tasks quickly and efficiently—no programming required. |
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Calculator: Perform simple arithmetic calculations, complex logarithmic calculations, and logical operations—and then review and print your calculations. |
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Chess: Challenge yourself to a game. Play against your Mac or another person, or watch your Mac play against itself. |
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Dictionary: Find definitions and synonyms in the New Oxford American Dictionary and Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus. Dictionary lets you quickly look up words directly from a variety of apps. |
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DVD Player: Watch DVDs on your Mac. Enjoy a front-row seat for everything from the latest action thriller to your latest family vacation—with dramatic sound and high-definition video. |
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Font Book: Install, preview, search, activate, and deactivate the fonts on your Mac with simple, letter-perfect type management. The changes you make are immediately available in all the apps on your Mac. |
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Image Capture: Transfer images from your iPhone, digital camera, or scanner to your Mac so you can use them in iPhoto and other apps. Image Capture lets you crop images to a variety of sizes and delete unwanted pictures from your camera. |
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Preview: View images and PDF documents, touch them up, annotate them, and share your comments. |
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QuickTime Player: Watch a wide range of video formats and files. QuickTime Player offers a clean, uncluttered interface with controls that fade out when they’re not needed. |
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Stickies: Keep notes on your desktop so you’ll never forget what you need. The notes can be customized with fonts, colors, and images. |
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System Information: View detailed information about your computer’s hardware, software, and network settings. Check System Information to see if your Mac meets the requirements for a new hardware or software product, and to help Apple Support troubleshoot your Mac. |
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TextEdit: An easy-to-use word processor. It’s great for creating simple documents, but it also includes features like spelling and grammar check, autosave, tables, lists, and graphics. |
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VoiceOver Utility: Customize VoiceOver, the screen access app that describes aloud what appears on your computer screen. Use VoiceOver Utility to set how you want to control your Mac. |










