Macs for dummies
Record details
- ISBN: 9780470456750 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0470456752 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780470456781 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 0470456787 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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1 online resource (xviii, 386 p.) : ill. - Edition: 10th ed.
- Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley Pub. ; Chichester : John Wiley [distributor], c2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Previous ed.: 2006. Includes index. Description based on print version record. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- About this book -- Conventions used in this book -- How this book is organized -- Part 1: Freshman Year At Drag-And-Drop Tech -- Part 2: Mac Daily Dealings -- Part 3: Rocketing Into Cyberspace -- Part 4: Getting An Ilife -- Part 5: Creepy Geeky Section -- Part 6: Part Of Tens -- Icons used in this book -- Where to go from here -- Part 1: Freshman Year At Drag-And-Drop Tech -- 1: Adventuring into the Mac World -- Mac-spectacular computing -- Communicating with your Mac -- Living the ilife -- Reaching outside the box -- Staying safe and trouble-free -- 2: Nuts and bolts of your Mac -- Turning on and tuning in your Mac -- Mousing around the interface -- Knowing what's handy about the keyboard -- Storing stuff on the hard drive -- Memory essentials, or RAM on -- Locating the common ports and connectors -- 3: Getting to the core of the Apple -- Navigating the Mac desktop -- Clicking the menu bar -- Understanding icons, folders, and windows -- What's up dock? -- Gaggle of freebie programs -- 4: Here a Mac, there a Mac, everywhere a Mac Mac -- Intel's inside? -- Big Mac or little Mac? the laptop versus desktop decision -- If a desktop is you poison -- Going mobile -- Taming the trackpad -- Keeping your notebook juiced -- Part 2: Mac Daily Dealings -- 5: Making the Mac your own -- Establishing user accounts -- Entering the photo booth -- Using parental controls: when father (or mother) knows best -- Lowdown on logging on -- Letting someone go -- Changing appearances -- Tidying up with expose -- Getting spaced out -- System preferences: choosing priorities -- 6: Apple's feline fetish -- How many new feature? let me count the ways -- Searcing with spotlight -- Fiddling with dashboard widgets -- Unleashing automator -- 7: Handling all that busy work -- Form and function: the essentials of word processing -- Creating a document -- Selecting text in a document -- Dragging and dropping -- Cutting and pasting -- Changing the font -- Formatting your document -- Saving your work -- Making revisions -- Talking out the trash -- Never mind: retrieving what you've tossed -- Making an alias -- 8: Printing and faxing -- Choosing a printer -- Connecting and activating a printer -- Ready set print -- When printers stop printing -- Hooking up a scanner -- Turning the Mac into a fax machine -- Part 3: Rocketing Into Cyberspace -- 9: Stairway to the internet -- Dialing in -- Taking the broadband express -- Let me in -- Going on a safari -- Using an alternative browser -- Skinny on search engines -- 10: Going postal over e-mail -- Understanding e-mail -- Worldwide e-mail exchange -- Setting up a new e-mail account -- Before you click send -- Managing the flood of incoming mail -- Making the most of your mail -- Taking note (and to-dos) -- 11: Caught up in the web -- Chat rooms -- Communicating one-on-one: instant messaging -- Having an online voice -- Social networking -- Virtual meet market -- Buying stuff online -- 2: Joining MobileMe, the club that will have you for a member -- Why belong? -- Setting up mobile me on your Mac -- Idisk backups in the sky -- Other backup methods -- Mobileme mail -- Back to my Mac -- Sharing your digital masterpieces -- 13: Mounting a defense strategy -- Truth about internet security -- Firewalls -- Filevault -- Password management: the key to keychains -- Loggin in and logging out -- Entering a time machine -- Part 4: Getting An iLife -- 14: Living in an iTunes nation -- Choosing your ipod -- Itunes: the great Mac jukebox -- Managing your music -- Finding music (andmore) online -- Itunes: more than just music -- 15: Taking an iPhoto close-up -- Getting pictures into the computer -- Finding and organizing images -- Touching up your photos -- Admiring and sharing pictures -- MobileMe gallery -- Iphoto meet iweb -- Preserving your digital shoebox --16: Shooting an iMovie screen test -- Shooting your oscar winner -- From here to eternity: camcorder to imovie -- Mastering post-production -- Sharing your blockbuster -- When imovie and idvd get together -- Burn baby burn -- 17: Show must go on -- Forming a garageband -- Magic garageband -- Creating podcasts -- Sharing your work -- Part 5: Creepy Geeky Section -- 18: Networking madness -- Networking done right -- Let's share -- Brushing up on bluetooth -- 19: Surviving in a windows world -- What Mac and windows have in common -- Making the switch -- Enlisting in boot camp -- Parallels (and fusion) universe -- 20: Handling trouble in paradise -- Cranky computer -- Frozen computer or program -- Disk utility -- Startup problems -- Reinstalling OS X -- Reinstalling OS 9 -- Common fixes to other problems -- Useful routine maintenance -- Summoning outside help -- Part 6: Part Of Tens -- 21: Ten clever dashboard widgets -- Cocktail -- Countdown plus -- Gas -- Hurricane tracker -- Istat pro -- Movies -- Pearlyrics/sing that itune -- Send SMS -- Wikipedia -- Word of the day -- 22: Ten indispensable Mac web sites -- Appleinsider -- Macfixit -- MacOSX hints -- Macrumors -- Macsurfer -- Macworld -- Other world computing -- Unofficial apple weblog -- Version tracker -- And last but not least, apple-com -- 23: Ten things to leave you with -- Remote madness -- If math moves you -- Speaking another language -- Zip it in the bud -- FYI on FTP -- Screen capture -- Watching TV on a Mac -- Reading magazines -- Would you like to play a game of chess? -- Speech recognition -- Index. |
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