MAC OS X Snow Leopard the Missing Manual (English, Paperback, Pogue David)
For a company that promised to "put a pause on new features," Apple sure has been busy-there's barely a feature left untouched in Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard." There's more speed, more polish, more refinement-but still no manual. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, with the humor and expertise that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for eight years straight. You get all the answers with jargon-free introductions to:
About The Author
David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how- to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the "For Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music). In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles.
Table of Contents
The Mac OS X Desktop
Chapter 1 Folders & Windows
Chapter 2 Organizing Your Stuff
- Getting into Mac OS X
- Windows and How to Work Them
- The Four Window Views
- Icon View
- List View
- Column View
- Cover Flow View
- Quick Look
- Logging Out, Shutting Down
- Getting Help in Mac OS X
Chapter 3 Spotlight
- The Mac OS X Folder Structure
- Icon Names
- Selecting Icons
- Moving and Copying Icons
- Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once
- Color Labels
- The Trash
- Get Info
Chapter 4 Dock, Desktop, & Toolbars
- The Spotlight Menu
- The Spotlight Window
- Customizing Spotlight
- Smart Folders
- The Dock
- Setting Up the Dock
- Using the Dock
- The Finder Toolbar
- Designing Your Desktop
- Menulets: The Missing Manual
Programs in Mac OS X
Chapter 5 Documents, Programs, & Spaces
Chapter 6 Entering Data, Moving Data, & Time Machine
- Opening Mac OS X Programs
- The "Heads-Up" Program Switcher
- Exposé: Death to Window Clutter
- Spaces: Your Free Quad-Display Mac
- Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way
- How Documents Know Their Parents
- Keyboard Control
- The Save and Open Dialog Boxes
- Two Kinds of Programs: Cocoa and Carbon
- The Cocoa Difference
- Universal Apps (Intel Macs) and Rosetta
- Installing Mac OS X Programs
- Dashboard
- Web Clips: Make Your Own Widgets
Chapter 7 Services, Automator, & AppleScript
- The Macintosh Keyboard
- Notes on Right-Clicking
- Power Typing in Snow Leopard
- The Many Languages of Mac OS X Text
- Data Detectors
- Moving Data Between Documents
- Exchanging Data with Other Macs
- Exchanging Data with Windows PCs
- Time Machine
Chapter 8 Windows on Macintosh
- Services
- Automator
- Building Your Own Workflow
- Doing More with Automator
- AppleScript
- Boot Camp
- Windows in a Window
- Life with Microsoft Exchange
The Components of Mac OS X
Chapter 9 System Preferences
Chapter 10 The Free Programs
- The System Preferences Window
- Accounts
- Appearance
- Bluetooth
- CDs & DVDs
- Date & Time
- Desktop & Screen Saver
- Displays
- Dock
- Energy Saver
- Expose & Spaces
- Keyboard
- Language & Text
- MobileMe
- Mouse
- Network
- Parental Controls
- Print & Fax
- Security
- Sharing
- Software Update
- Sound
- Speech
- Spotlight
- Startup Disk
- Time Machine
- Trackpad
- Universal Access
Chapter 11 CDs, DVDs, & iTunes
- Your Free Mac OS X Programs
- Address Book
- Automator
- Calculator
- Chess
- Dashboard
- Dictionary
- DVD Player
- Font Book
- Front Row
- GarageBand
- iCal
- iChat
- iDVD
- Image Capture
- iMovie, iPhoto
- iSync
- iTunes
- Photo Booth
- Preview
- QuickTime Player
- Safari
- Stickies
- System Preferences
- TextEdit
- Time Machine
- Utilities: Your Mac OS X Toolbox
- Disks Today
- Disks In, Disks Out
- Startup Disks
- Burning CDs and DVDs
- iTunes: The Digital Jukebox
- DVD Movies
The Technologies of Mac OS X
Chapter 12 Accounts, Parental Controls, & Security
Chapter 13 Networking, File Sharing, & Screen Sharing
- Introducing Accounts
- Creating an Account
- Parental Controls
- Editing Accounts
- Setting Up the Login Process
- Signing In, Logging Out
- Sharing Across Accounts
- Fast User Switching
- Five Mac OS X Security Shields
Chapter 14 Printing, Faxing, Fonts, & Graphics
- Wiring the Network
- File Sharing
- Accessing Shared Files
- Networking with Windows
- Screen Sharing
- More Dialing In from the Road
Chapter 15 Sound, Movies, & Speech
- Mac Meets Printer
- Making the Printout
- Managing Printouts
- Printer Sharing
- Faxing
- PDF Files
- Fonts—and Font Book
- ColorSync
- Graphics in Mac OS X
- Screen-Capture Keystrokes
Chapter 16 The Unix Crash Course
- Playing Sounds
- Recording Sound
- QuickTime Movies
- Speech Recognition
- The Mac Reads to You
- VoiceOver
- Ink: Handwriting Recognition
- Front Row
Chapter 17 Hacking Mac OS X
- Terminal
- Navigating in Unix
- Working with Files and Directories
- Online Help
- Terminal Preferences
- Terminal Tips and Tricks
- Changing Permissions with Terminal
- 20 Useful Unix Utilities
- Putting It Together
- TinkerTool: Customization 101
- Redoing Mac OS X's Graphics
- Replacing the Finder Icons
- Rewriting the Words
- Your Bright Hacking Future
Mac OS Online
Chapter 18 Internet Setup & MobileMe
Chapter 19 Mail & Address Book
- The Best News You've Heard All Day
- Network Central—and Multihoming
- Broadband Connections
- Cellular Modems
- Dial-up Modem Connections
- Switching Locations
- Internet Sharing
- MobileMe
- Internet Location Files
Chapter 20 Safari
- Setting Up Mail
- Checking Your Mail
- Writing Messages
- Stationery
- Reading Email
- The Anti-Spam Toolkit
- RSS Feeds
- Notes
- To Dos
- Address Book
Chapter 21 iChat
- Safari
- Tips for Better Surfing
- Tabbed Browsing
- RSS: The Missing Manual
Chapter 22 SSH, FTP, VPN, & Web Sharing
- Welcome to iChat
- Three Chat Networks
- Signing Up
- The Buddy Lists
- Making a List
- Let the Chat Begin
- Text Chatting
- Audio Chats
- Video Chats
- Sharing Your Screen
- iChat Theater
- iChat Tweaks
- Web Sharing
- FTP
- Connecting from the Road
- Remote Access with SSH
- Virtual Private Networking
Appendixes
Appendix Installing Mac OS X 10.6
Appendix Troubleshooting
- Getting Ready to Install
- Two Kinds of Installation
- The Automatic Installation
- The Erase & Install Option
- The Setup Assistant
- Uninstalling Mac OS X 10.6
Appendix The Windows-to-Mac Dictionary
- Minor Eccentric Behavior
- Frozen Programs (Force Quitting)
- Can't Move or Rename an Icon
- Application Won't Open
- Startup Problems
- Fixing the Disk
- Where to Get Troubleshooting Help
Appendix Where to Go from Here
- About [this program]
- Accessibility Options control panel
- Active Desktop
- Add Hardware control panel
- Add or Remove Programs control panel
- All Programs
- Alt key
- Automatic Update
- Backspace key
- Battery Level
- BIOS
- Briefcase
- Calculator
- Camera and Scanner Wizard
- CDs
- Character Map
- Clean Install
- Clipboard
- Command line
- Control Panel
- Copy, Cut, Paste
- Ctrl key
- Date and Time
- Delete Key (Forward Delete)
- Desktop
- Directories
- Disk Defragmenter
- Disks
- Display control panel
- DLL files
- DOS prompt
- Drivers
- End Task dialog box
- Exiting programs
- Explorer
- Favorites
- Faxing
- File Sharing
- Floppy disks
- Folder Options
- Fonts
- Help and Support
- Hibernation
- Internet Explorer
- Internet Options
- IRQs
- Java
- Keyboard control panel
- Logging in
- Mail control panel
- Maximize button
- Menus
- Minimize button
- Mouse control panel
- (My) Computer
- (My) Documents, (My) Pictures, (My) Music
- (My) Network Places
- Network Neighborhood
- Notepad
- Personal Web Server
- Phone and Modem Options control panel
- Power Options
- Printer Sharing
- Printers and Faxes
- PrntScrn key
- Program Files folder
- Properties dialog box
- Recycle Bin
- Regional and Language Options control panel
- Registry
- Run command
- Safe Mode
- ScanDisk
- Scheduled Tasks
- Scrap files
- Screen saver
- Search
- Shortcut menus
- Shortcuts
- Sounds and Audio Devices
- Speech control panel
- Standby mode
- Start menu
- StartUp folder
- System control panel
- System Tray
- Taskbar
- Taskbar and Start Menu control panel
- "Three-fingered salute"
- ToolTips
- TweakUI
- User Accounts control panel
- Window edges
- Windows (or WINNT) folder
- Windows logo key
- Windows Media Player
- Windows Messenger
- WordPad
- Zip files
Appendix The Master Mac OS X Secret Keystroke List
- Web Sites
- Free Email Newsletters
- Advanced Books, Programming Books
- Startup Keystrokes
- In the Finder
- Menu
- Finder Menu
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- View Menu
- Go Menu
- Window Menu
- Help Menu
- Power Keys
- The Dock
- Managing Programs
- Dialog Boxes
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