System MAC OS X Preferences

This is the famous dashboard grouping within it all of your configuration settings. Simply enter your settings by selecting the "System Preferences" menu in the menu "apple" or click on the gray icon with gears on the left in the "Dock". Then you open the dashboard and a new window appears:

Here are the main settings that you can perform through "System Preferences"- General: To adjust the overall appearance, font smoothing ...- Desktop & Screen Saver. Screen To select a wallpaper and a screensaver.- Dock: Adjusts the Dock preferences (see below).- Mission Control: Includes the following features three former "Presentation" allows to miniaturize the windows to find the right or the hunting of the screen to access a desktop item, "Dashboard" that shows "gadgets "and" Spaces "that manages your virtual desktops.- Language and Text: Setting the system language and format of the date, time, numbers and keyboard.- Privacy: To enable or disable FileVault and configure the firewall. Also enables the location service and make privacy settings.- Spotlight: This is the search feature Mac OS X.- Notifications: Allows you to configure notifications to be displayed in the center of notifications- CD and DVD: Selects what will the computer when inserting a CD or DVD in the drive.- Monitor: Resolution and screen depth.- Energy Saver: To set the sleep timer on the computer and / or the screen, and to schedule a shutdown or start up your Mac to a specific time!- Keyboard: Speed ​​limits and key repeat, keyboard shortcuts.- Mouse: Setting mouse. You can also launch the configuration of a Bluetooth mouse.- Trackpad: Set the trackpad.- Printers and scanners: Here you can set up your printers, but also set up your scanning tasks (as MOUNTAIN LION can scan without having to install drivers for your scanner).- Sound: To select an alert and set the audio output sound.- ICloud: To create and manage their account in "the cloud."- Mail, Contacts and Calendar: Allows you to configure your account to use with Contacts, Calendar, Messages, Mail and other applications. You can also set up your Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Vimeo .... not to mention iCloud.- Network: Set the Internet connection (This is where you enter the login, password etc ...).- Bluetooth: For wireless connections using the "Bluetooth"- Sharing: Enables various partitions (Screen, files, printers, scanners, web, Internet, Bluetooth ...).- Users and Groups: Lets you create, modify, or delete system users and the setting of his account, the login items. Also allows to activate parental controls on a particular account.- Parental Control: Parental Control Management.- Date and Time: Set the date, time, time zone, and time display in the menu bar.- Update software: Allows you to configure the update system and purchased on Mac App Store.- Voice and Speech Dictation: Setting recognition and speech synthesis. Setting the dictation.- Time Machine: Setting the Time Machine backup.- Accessibility: Provides easier access for people with disabilities and opportunities.- Start: Specifies the boot disk used by the computer (OS X, OS X secondary partition or a bootable DVD).You can also add other modules to this list (they appear under "Other"). Some applications (eg "Flip4Mac", "Printopia" or "TeckTool Pro") or as a module here the Wacom "Bamboo" and setting module "DivX" can be configured directly via the table edge "System Preferences."Ink: If you have a tablet, you can thanks to Ink, insert your written documents. This module "Ink" does not immediately appear in the window "System Preferences": This module does indeed appear in your window "System Preferences" if you connect a graphics tablet.