Table of Contents| Index
The Missing Credits
Introduction
Part 1: Welcome to Macintosh
Chapter 1. How the Mac Is Different
Section 1.1. Power On, Dude
Section 1.2. That One-Button Mouse
Section 1.3. On, Off, and Sleep
Section 1.4. The Menu Bar
Section 1.5. Finder = Windows Explorer
Section 1.6. Dock = Taskbar
Section 1.7. Menulets = Tray
Section 1.8. Keyboard Differences
Section 1.9. Disk Differences
Section 1.10. Where Your Stuff Is
Section 1.11. Window Controls
Section 1.12. Terminology Differences
Chapter 2. Folders, Dock, & Windows
Section 2.1. Getting into Mac OS X
Section 2.2. The Four Window Views
Section 2.3. Icon View
Section 2.4. List View
Section 2.5. Column View
Section 2.6. Cover Flow View
Section 2.7. Quick Look
Section 2.8. The Dock
Section 2.9. The Finder Toolbar
Section 2.10. Getting Help in Mac OS X
Chapter 3. Files, Icons, & Spotlight
Section 3.1. Renaming Icons
Section 3.2. Selecting Icons
Section 3.3. Moving and Copying Icons
Section 3.4. Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once
Section 3.5. Color Labels
Section 3.6. The Trash
Section 3.7. Get Info
Section 3.8. The Spotlight Menu
Section 3.9. The Spotlight Window
Section 3.10. Customizing Spotlight
Section 3.11. Smart Folders
Chapter 4. Documents, Programs, & Spaces
Section 4.1. Opening Mac OS X Programs
Section 4.2. The New, Improved "Alt-Tab"
Section 4.3. Exposé: Death to Window Clutter
Section 4.4. Spaces: Your Free Quad-Display Mac
Section 4.5. Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way
Section 4.6. How Documents Know Their Parents
Section 4.7. Keyboard Control
Section 4.8. The Save and Open Dialog Boxes
Section 4.9. Two Kinds of Programs: Cocoa and Carbon
Section 4.10. The Cocoa Difference
Section 4.11. Universal Apps (Intel Macs)
Section 4.12. Installing Mac OS X Programs
Section 4.13. Dashboard
Section 4.14. Web Clips: Make Your Own Widgets
Part 2: Moving In
Chapter 5. Eight Ways to Transfer Your Files
Section 5.1. Transfer by Apple Genius
Section 5.2. Transfers by iTornado
Section 5.3. Transfers by Disk
Section 5.4. Transfers by Network
Section 5.5. Transfers by File-Sending Web Site
Section 5.6. Transfers by Email
Section 5.7. Transfers by iDisk
Section 5.8. Transfers by Bluetooth
Section 5.9. Where to Put Your Copied Files
Section 5.10. Document-Conversion Issues
Chapter 6. Transferring Email and Contacts
Section 6.1.
Section 6.2. A Reminder That Could Save You Hours
Section 6.3. Transferring Your Outlook Mail
Section 6.4. Transferring Your Outlook Address Book
Section 6.5. Transferring from Outlook Express
Section 6.6. Transferring Your Eudora Mail
Section 6.7. Transferring Your Eudora Address Book
Section 6.8. Email Settings
Chapter 7. Special Software, Special Problems
Section 7.1. ACDSee
Section 7.2. Acrobat Reader
Section 7.3. ACT
Section 7.4. Ad Subtract (Pop-up Stopper)
Section 7.5. Adobe [your favorite program here]
Section 7.6. America Online
Section 7.7. AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)
Section 7.8. Children's Software
Section 7.9. Earthlink Total Access
Section 7.10. Easy CD Creator
Section 7.11. Encarta
Section 7.12. Eudora
Section 7.13. Excel
Section 7.14. Firefox
Section 7.15. Games
Section 7.16. Google Desktop Search
Section 7.17. ICQ
Section 7.18. Internet Explorer
Section 7.19. iTunes
Section 7.20. Kazaa
Section 7.21. Limewire
Section 7.22. MacAfee VirusScan
Section 7.23. Microsoft Access
Section 7.24. Microsoft Money
Section 7.25. Microsoft Office
Section 7.26. Microsoft Publisher
Section 7.27. Microsoft Visio
Section 7.28. Minesweeper
Section 7.29. MSN Messenger
Section 7.30. NaturallySpeaking
Section 7.31. Netscape
Section 7.32. Newsgroup Readers
Section 7.33. Norton AntiVirus
Section 7.34. Norton Utilities
Section 7.35. Notepad
Section 7.36. Outlook/Outlook Express
Section 7.37. Paint Shop Pro
Section 7.38. Palm Desktop
Section 7.39. Picasa
Section 7.40. Pocket PC
Section 7.41. PowerPoint
Section 7.42. QuickBooks
Section 7.43. Quicken
Section 7.44. RealPlayer
Section 7.45. RssReader
Section 7.46. Skype
Section 7.47. SnagIt
Section 7.48. Solitaire
Section 7.49. Street Atlas USA
Section 7.50. TaxCut, TurboTax
Section 7.51. WinAmp, MusicMatch
Section 7.52. Windows Media Player
Section 7.53. WinZip
Section 7.54. Word
Section 7.55. WordPerfect
Section 7.56. Yahoo Messenger
Chapter 8. Windows on Macintosh
Section 8.1. Boot Camp
Section 8.2. Windows in a Window
Chapter 9. Hardware on the Mac
Section 9.1. Printers and Printing
Section 9.2. Managing Printouts
Section 9.3. Faxing
Section 9.4. PDF Files
Section 9.5. Fonts—and Font Book
Section 9.6. Digital Cameras
Section 9.7. Disks
Section 9.8. Burning CDs and DVDs
Section 9.9. iTunes: The Digital Jukebox
Section 9.10. DVD Movies
Section 9.11. Keyboard
Section 9.12. Mouse
Section 9.13. Monitors
Section 9.14. Time Machine
Section 9.15. .Mac Sync
Part 3: The Mac Online
Chapter 10. Internet Setup
Section 10.1. Network Central—and Multihoming
Section 10.2. Broadband Connections
Section 10.3. Dial-up Modem Connections
Section 10.4. Switching Locations
Section 10.5. Internet Sharing
Section 10.6. .Mac Services
Section 10.7. Internet Location Files
Chapter 11. Mail & Address Book
Section 11.1. Checking Your Mail
Section 11.2. Writing Messages
Section 11.3. Stationery
Section 11.4. Reading Email
Section 11.5. The Anti-Spam Toolkit
Section 11.6. RSS Feeds
Section 11.7. Notes
Section 11.8. To Dos
Section 11.9. Address Book
Chapter 12. Safari & iChat
Section 12.1. Safari
Section 12.2. Tips for Better Surfing
Section 12.3. Tabbed Browsing
Section 12.4. iChat
Section 12.5. Text Chats
Section 12.6. Audio Chats
Section 12.7. Video Chats
Section 12.8. Sharing Your Screen
Section 12.9. iChat Theater
Part 4: Putting Down Roots
Chapter 13. Accounts, Parental Controls, & Security
Section 13.1. Introducing Accounts
Section 13.2. Creating an Account
Section 13.3. Parental Controls
Section 13.4. Editing Accounts
Section 13.5. Setting Up the Login Process
Section 13.6. Signing In, Logging Out
Section 13.7. Sharing Across Accounts
Section 13.8. Fast User Switching
Section 13.9. Four Mac OS X Security Shields
Chapter 14. Networking, File Sharing, & Screen Sharing
Section 14.1. Wiring the Network
Section 14.2. File Sharing
Section 14.3. Accessing Shared Files
Section 14.4. Networking with Windows
Section 14.5. Screen Sharing
Chapter 15. System Preferences
Section 15.1. The System Preferences Window
Section 15.2. .Mac
Section 15.3. Accounts
Section 15.4. Appearance
Section 15.5. Bluetooth
Section 15.6. CDs & DVDs
Section 15.7. Date & Time
Section 15.8. Desktop & Screen Saver
Section 15.9. Displays
Section 15.10. Dock
Section 15.11. Energy Saver
Section 15.12. Exposé & Spaces
Section 15.13. International
Section 15.14. Keyboard & Mouse
Section 15.15. Network
Section 15.16. Parental Controls
Section 15.17. Print & Fax
Section 15.18. QuickTime
Section 15.19. Security
Section 15.20. Sharing
Section 15.21. Software Update
Section 15.22. Sound
Section 15.23. Speech
Section 15.24. Spotlight
Section 15.25. Startup Disk
Section 15.26. Time Machine
Section 15.27. Universal Access
Chapter 16. The Free Programs
Section 16.1. Address Book
Section 16.2. AppleScript
Section 16.3. Automator
Section 16.4. Calculator
Section 16.5. Chess
Section 16.6. Dashboard
Section 16.7. Dictionary
Section 16.8. DVD Player
Section 16.9. Exposé
Section 16.10. Font Book
Section 16.11. Front Row
Section 16.12. GarageBand
Section 16.13. iCal
Section 16.14. iChat
Section 16.15. iDVD
Section 16.16. iMovie, iPhoto
Section 16.17. iTunes
Section 16.18. Mail
Section 16.19. Photo Booth
Section 16.20. Preview
Section 16.21. QuickTime Player
Section 16.22. Safari
Section 16.23. Stickies
Section 16.24. System Preferences
Section 16.25. TextEdit
Section 16.26. Time Machine
Section 16.27. Utilities: Your Mac OS X Toolbox
Part 5: Appendixes
Appendix A. Installation & Troubleshooting
Section A.1. Getting Ready to Install
Section A.2. Three Kinds of Installation
Section A.3. The Basic Installation
Section A.4. The Upgrade Installation
Section A.5. The Clean Install ("Archive and Install")
Section A.6. Erase & Install
Section A.7. The Setup Assistant
Section A.8. Troubleshooting
Appendix B. The "Where'd It Go?" Dictionary
Section B.1.
Appendix C. The Master Mac OS X Secret Keystroke List
Section C.1.
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