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Macs for dummies / by dward C. Baig.

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ISBN: 9781118517192 (pbk.)
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Physical Description: xx, 436 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Edition: 12th ed.
Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2013.

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Table of Contents

Summary

Introduction

(4)

About This Book

(1)

Conventions Used in This Book

(1)

How This Book Is Organized

(1)

Part I: Getting Started with Macs

(1)

Part II: Mac Daily Dealings

(1)

Part III: Rocketing into Cyberspace

(1)

Part IV: Getting an ILife

(1)

Part V: The Creepy Geeky Section

(1)

Part VI: The Part of Tens

(1)

Icons Used in This Book

(1)

Where to Go from Here

(1)

Part I Getting Started with Macs

(66)

Chapter 1 Adventuring into the Mac World

(6)

Mac-Spectacular Computing

(2)

Checking out shapes and sizes

(1)

Matching a Mac to your needs

(1)

Selecting handy peripherals

(1)

Communicating with Your Mac

(2)

It's a GUI

(1)

With great tools for you

(1)

And output, too

(1)

Living the iLife

(1)

Reaching Outside the Box

(1)

Getting online

(1)

Hanging in the iClouds

(1)

Networking with or without wires

(1)

Staying Safe and Trouble-Free

(1)

Chapter 2 The Nuts and Bolts of Your Mac

(18)

Turning On and Tuning In Your Mac

(6)

Finding the On button

(1)

Getting credentials

(2)

Creating an identity

(1)

Clocking in

(1)

Registering your Mac

(1)

Making acquaintances

(1)

Shutting down

(1)

Giving your Mac a nap

(1)

Mousing around the Interface

(2)

Left- and right-clicking

(1)

Pointing and clicking on a laptop

(1)

What a drag

(1)

Touchy-feely computing

(1)

Knowing What's Handy about the Keyboard

(4)

Finding the major functions

(1)

The keys you use every day

(1)

More keys to success

(2)

Taking a shortcut

(1)

Storing Stuff on the Hard Drive or SSD

(1)

Memory Essentials, or RAM On

(1)

Locating the Common Ports and Connectors

(4)

Peripherally speaking: USB versus FireWire

(1)

Introducing Thunderbolt

(1)

Two of a kind: The phone jack and Ethernet

(1)

Jacks of all trades

(1)

Chapter 3 Getting to the Care of the Apple

(28)

Navigating the Mac Desktop

(2)

Clicking the Menu Bar

(1)

Understanding Icons, Folders, and Windows

(7)

Windows dressing

(1)

A stunning view

(2)

By icon

(1)

By list

(1)

By columns

(1)

By Cover Flow

(2)

Have a Quick Look

(1)

What's Up, Dock?

(8)

What you'll find on the dock

(2)

Loading up the dock

(1)

Docking the dock

(1)

A minimizing effect

(1)

Stockpiling Stacks

(2)

Quitting time

(1)

A Gaggle of Freebie Programs

(10)

Staying organized

(6)

Tooling around for a reference

(4)

Chapter 4 Here a Mac, There a Mac, Everywhere a Mac Mac

(12)

Intel's Inside?

(1)

Two chips are better than one

(1)

But are you giving up something to get something?

(1)

Big Mac or Little Mac? The Laptop-versus-Desktop Decision

(1)

If a Desktop Is Your Poison

(3)

iMac

(1)

Mac mini

(1)

Mac Pro: A Mac with muscle

(1)

Going Mobile

(3)

MacBook Pro

(1)

MacBook Air

(2)

Taming the Trackpad

(1)

Keeping Your Notebook Juiced

(3)

Part II Mac Daily Dealings

(76)

Chapter 5 Making the Mac Your Own

(26)

Establishing User Accounts

(4)

Ranking user accounts

(1)

Creating new accounts

(2)

Entering the Photo Booth

(3)

Taking a Photo Booth picture

(1)

Applying special effects

(1)

Admiring and sharing Photo Booth photos

(1)

Using Parental Controls: When Father (or Mother) Knows Best

(3)

The Lowdown on Logging In

(2)

And logging out

(1)

Pulling a fast one

(1)

Letting Someone Go

(1)

Changing Appearances

(3)

Altering buttons and the desktop

(1)

Choosing a screen saver

(2)

Tidying Up with Mission Control

(4)

Sitting Dockside

(1)

Launching Launchpad

(2)

System Preferences: Choosing Priorities

(5)

Getting in sync with date and time

(1)

Displays

(1)

Sound

(1)

Software update

(1)

Accessibility

(3)

Chapter 6 Apple's Feline Fetish

(12)

How Many Features? Let Me Count the Ways

100

(1)

Searching with Spotlight

100

(8)

Rummaging through your stuff

101

(3)

Intelligent searching

104

(2)

Searching your way

106

(1)

Smart Folders

107

(1)

Fiddling with Dashboard Widgets

108

(3)

Chapter 7 Handling All That Busy Work

111

(24)

Form and Function: The Essentials of Word Processing

112

(1)

Creating a Document

113

(2)

Selecting Text in a Document

115

(2)

Dragging and Dropping

117

(1)

Cutting and Pasting

118

(1)

Changing the Font

119

(5)

Revealing the Font Book

120

(3)

Changing colors

123

(1)

Printing fonts

123

(1)

Formatting Your Document

124

(4)

Saying What's on Your Mind

128

(1)

Saving Your Work

128

(2)

Making Revisions

130

(1)

Taking Out the Trash

131

(1)

Never Mind: Retrieving What You've Tossed

132

(1)

Making an Alias

132

(3)

Chapter 8 Printing and Faxing

135

(12)

Choosing a Printer

136

(2)

Inkjets

136

(1)

Lasers

137

(1)

All-in-ones

137

(1)

Connecting and Activating a Printer

138

(1)

Ready, Set, Print

138

(5)

Printing it your way

140

(2)

Previewing your print

142

(1)

When Printers Stop Printing

143

(1)

Running out of ink or toner

143

(1)

Running out of paper

143

(1)

Hooking Up a Scanner

143

(4)

Turning the Mac into a fax machine

144

(1)

Sending a fax

145

(1)

Receiving a fax

146

(1)

Part III Rocketing into Cyberspace

147

(110)

Chapter 9 Stairway to the Internet

149

(26)

Dialing In

150

(1)

Taking the Broadband Express

150

(2)

DSL, cable

151

(1)

Always on always connected

152

(1)

Let Me In

152

(1)

Going on a Safari

153

(17)

Just browsing

154

(1)

Smart addressing

154

(1)

Clicking links

155

(2)

Using bookmarks

157

(2)

Employing the tools of the trade in Safari

159

(11)

Using an Alternative Browser

170

(1)

The Skinny on Search Engines

171

(4)

Google this

171

(2)

Bing and Yahoo!

173

(1)

The Davids to the search Goliaths

173

(2)

Chapter 10 Delivering the Goods on E-Mail

175

(24)

Understanding E-Mail

176

(1)

The Worldwide E-Mail Exchange

176

(1)

Setting Up a New E-Mail Account

176

(2)

Before You Click Send

178

(7)

Addressing your missive

179

(1)

Composing messages

180

(1)

Choosing stationery

181

(1)

Saving drafts

181

(1)

Attaching files

182

(1)

Spell checking

183

(2)

Signing off with a signature

185

(1)

Managing the Flood of Incoming Mail

185

(9)

Choosing what to read

186

(1)

Replying to messages

187

(1)

Organizing Mail by conversation

187

(1)

VIP Mail

188

(1)

Opening mail from strangers

189

(1)

Junking the junk

190

(1)

Tips for avoiding

191

(1)

Setting the rules

191

(1)

Smart Mailboxes

192

(1)

Searching mail

193

(1)

Opening attachments

194

(1)

Making the Most of Your Mail

194

(2)

Take Note (and To-Dos)

196

(3)

Note-taking 101

196

(1)

Much ado about to-dos

197

(2)

Chapter 11 Caught Up in the Web

199

(32)

Chat Rooms

200

(1)

Communicating One on One: Instant Messaging

201

(12)

Messages

202

(1)

Hey buddy

203

(4)

Chatting

207

(2)

Seeing is believing: hearing too

209

(2)

Theater

211

(1)

Screen sharing

212

(1)

Face Time for FaceTime

213

(6)

Getting started with FaceTime

214

(1)

Making a FaceTime call

215

(1)

Receiving a FaceTime call

216

(2)

More FaceTime tricks

218

(1)

Having an Online Voice

219

(1)

Newsgroups

219

(1)

Blogs

219

(1)

Social Networking

220

(3)

Twitter

222

(1)

The Virtual Meet Market

223

(1)

Buying Stuff Online: The Mac App Store

224

(5)

Finding apps

224

(1)

Figuring out whether an app is worth it

225

(1)

Making a purchase

226

(2)

Managing travel

228

(1)

Showing Your Game Face

229

(2)

Chapter 12 Joining iCloud, the Club That Will Have You for a Member

231

(12)

Why Belong?

233

(10)

Setting up iCloud on your Mac

235

(1)

Storage in the sky

236

(1)

Other backup methods

237

(1)

iCloud Mail

238

(1)

Back to My Mac

238

(1)

Find My Mac (iPhone)

239

(4)

Chapter 13 Mounting a Defense Strategy

243

(14)

The Truth about Internet Security

243

(4)

Spies in our midst

245

(1)

Gone phishing

245

(2)

Firewalls

247

(1)

FileVault

248

(1)

Password Management: The Key to Keychains

249

(1)

Logging In and Logging Out

250

(1)

Hiding Your Mac's Whereabouts

251

(1)

Securing Your Privacy

251

(1)

Entering a Time Machine

252

(5)

Setting up Time Machine

252

(2)

Going back in time

254

(3)

Part IV Getting an iLife

257

(108)

Chapter 14 Living in an iTunes Nation

259

(28)

iTunes: The Great Mac Jukebox

260

(4)

Managing Your Music

264

(13)

Ripping audio CDs

264

(2)

Importing other ditties

266

(1)

Adding music from iCloud

266

(1)

iTunes Match

267

(1)

Creating playlists

267

(2)

When playlists get smart

269

(2)

When playlists get even smarter

271

(1)

Genius Mixes

272

(1)

Up Next?

273

(1)

MiniPlayer

273

(1)

Loading tunes onto a portable device

274

(1)

Burning audio CDs

275

(1)

Tuning in to Internet radio

276

(1)

Finding Music (and More) Online

277

(7)

Seeking online music recommendations

277

(2)

The search for great music continues

279

(1)

When you're ready to buy

280

(3)

Allowances and gifts

283

(1)

Sharing music with other computers

283

(1)

iTunes: More Than Just Music

284

(3)

Reading books

284

(1)

Listening to audiobooks

284

(1)

Capturing podcasts

284

(1)

Catching up on Lost and Family Guy

285

(1)

Buying and renting movies

286

(1)

The App Store

286

(1)

iTunes U

286

(1)

Chapter 15 Taking an iPhoto Close-Up

287

(36)

Getting Pictures into the Computer

288

(6)

Connecting a digital camera

289

(1)

Importing images from the camera

290

(2)

Importing images from other sources

292

(1)

Photo Stream

293

(1)

Finding and Organizing Images

294

(13)

The Photos view

294

(1)

Events planning

295

(1)

Skimming events

296

(1)

Splitting and merging events

296

(1)

Finding pictures by date

297

(1)

Facing up to pictures

298

(2)

There are places I remember

300

(2)

Assigning keywords

302

(2)

Assigning ratings

304

(1)

Placing your work into albums

304

(2)

Creating a smart photo album

306

(1)

Viewing pictures

306

(1)

Something to hide

307

(1)

Touching Up Your Photos

307

(6)

The full-screen treatment

307

(2)

Rotating an image

309

(1)

Cropping an image

309

(1)

Repairing blemishes

310

(1)

Straighten

311

(1)

Enhance and adjust

311

(1)

Reducing red-eye

311

(1)

Special effects

312

(1)

Admiring and Sharing Pictures

313

(5)

Creating slideshows

313

(2)

E-mailing pictures

315

(1)

Booking them

316

(1)

Cards and calendars

317

(1)

Themed prints

317

(1)

Order prints

318

(1)

Shared Photo Streams

318

(3)

Sharing on Facebook and Twitter

321

(1)

Preserving Your Digital Shoebox

322

(1)

Chapter 16 Shooting an iMovie Screen Test

323

(24)

Shooting Your Oscar Winner

324

(2)

Using a digital camcorder

325

(1)

From Here to Eternity: Camcorder to iMovie

326

(4)

Using a tape-based camcorder

326

(2)

Using a DVD, hard drive, or flash memory camcorder

328

(1)

Importing videos from other destinations

328

(1)

Using an iSight or FaceTime, (or another camera) to record directly to iMovie

329

(1)

Mastering Postproduction

330

(12)

Staging events

330

(1)

Milking the skimming feature

330

(1)

Playing around with playback

331

(1)

Working with video

332

(1)

Marking video

332

(1)

Cropping video

333

(1)

Improving the sound

334

(1)

Giving birth to a project

334

(1)

Pick a theme, any theme

335

(1)

Movie trailers

336

(2)

Adding music or sound effects

338

(1)

Recording a voiceover

339

(1)

The cutting room floor

339

(1)

Adding transitions between clips

340

(1)

Adding titles

341

(1)

Adding photos to a movie

341

(1)

Sharing Your Blockbuster

342

(2)

QuickTime X Marks the Spot

344

(3)

Making a quick QuickTime movie

344

(1)

Shortening the movie

345

(2)

Chapter 17 The Show Must Go On

347

(18)

Forming a GarageBand

348

(9)

Keeping on track(s)

350

(3)

Getting loopy

353

(2)

Building an arrangement

355

(1)

Multitake recording

355

(1)

Staying in the groove

356

(1)

Magic GarageBand

357

(1)

Creating Podcasts

358

(2)

Ducking

360

(1)

Importing video

360

(1)

Learning to Play

360

(2)

Sharing Your Work

362

(3)

Sharing podcasts

362

(2)

Sharing music projects

364

(1)

Part V The Creepy Geeky Section

365

(38)

Chapter 18 Networking Madness

367

(12)

Networking Done Right

367

(6)

The wired way

368

(1)

Cutting the cord

368

(1)

Landing safely at the AirPort

369

(2)

Boarding the AirPort Express

371

(1)

AirPlay

371

(1)

AirPlay Mirroring

372

(1)

Testing your network

373

(1)

Let's Share

373

(1)

AirDrop

374

(1)

Brushing Up on Bluetooth

375

(4)

Getting discovered

376

(1)

Pairing off

377

(2)

Chapter 19 Surviving in a Windows World

379

(8)

What the Mac and Windows Have in Common

380

(1)

Making the Switch

380

(2)

Help from Apple

381

(1)

Burning a disc

381

(1)

External hard drives

381

(1)

Using an existing network

381

(1)

The KVM switch

382

(1)

Enlisting in Boot Camp

382

(4)

Basic training

383

(2)

Switching operating systems

385

(1)

A Parallels (and Fusion) Universe

386

(1)

Chapter 20 Handling Trouble in Paradise

387

(16)

A Cranky Computer

387

(2)

A Frozen Computer or Program

389

(5)

Force Quit

389

(1)

When a program quits on you

390

(1)

Forcing a restart

391

(1)

Safe boot

391

(1)

Disk Utility

392

(1)

Permissions granted

392

(1)

Repair job

393

(1)

Get S.M.A.R.T.

393

(1)

Startup Problems

394

(1)

Reinstalling OS X

394

(2)

Common Fixes to Other Problems

396

(2)

A jumpy mouse

396

(1)

A stuck

396

(1)

My Mac can no longer tell time

397

(1)

Kernel clink

397

(1)

SOS for DNS

397

(1)

Curing the trash can blues

398

(1)

Useful Routine Maintenance

398

(2)

Purge unnecessary files and programs

398

(1)

Backing up your treasures

399

(1)

Updating software

399

(1)

Summoning Outside Help

400

(3)

Third-party software

400

(1)

AppleCare

401

(1)

Consulting Einstein

401

(1)

Help, I need somebody

402

(1)

Part VI The Part of Tens

403

(12)

Chapter 21 Ten Clever Dashboard Widgets

405

(6)

Cocktail

406

(1)

Countdown Plus

406

(1)

Daily Dilbert Widget

407

(1)

Mac Tips and Tricks

407

(1)

Movies

408

(1)

Power Switch

408

(1)

Quote of the Day

409

(1)

Starry Night Widget

409

(1)

Translate

410

(1)

Word of the Day

410

(1)

Chapter 22 Ten Indispensable Mac Websites

411

(4)

AppleInsider

411

(1)

Cult of Mac

412

(1)

MacFixIt

412

(1)

MacRumors

412

(1)

MacSurfer

413

(1)

Macworld

413

(1)

Other World Computing

413

(1)

The Unofficial Apple Weblog

413

(1)

VersionTracker

414

(1)

And Last but Not Least, Apple.com

414

(1)

Index

415

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