Macs For Dummies®, 8th Edition

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Edition: 8th
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Pub. Date: 2004-05-01
Publisher(s): For Dummies
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Summary

The Mac is famous for its user-friendliness. Maybe that's why you bought one in the first place. But to make the most of all its marvelous capabilities, you'll be glad to have an equally friendly resource to help you use it.Written by the renowned New York Times technology columnist David Pogue, Macs For Dummies has long been the bestselling Mac book because it provides just what you need to know to get the best performance from your Mac. And like the Mac itself, this book is easy to use, with plain-English explanations and step-by-step instructions. The revised eighth edition covers Basics for beginners Setting up your printer Working with OS X Getting online and using e-mail Creating and saving documents Using iTunes, iPhoto, and iMovie What to do if things go wrong Whether this is your first computer or you've just upgraded to OS X, you'll find help when you need it in this handy guide. You'll discover how to Set up your Mac, connect printers and other devices, and navigate the desktop and Dock Establish an account with an Internet service provider, set up e-mail, and start surfing the Web Use all the basic software programs and work with files Edit home movies with iMovie, download music and use iTunes, burn CDs and DVDs, and edit images with iPhoto Share your Mac or set up a home network Perform basic Mac maintenance, find and fix problems, upgrade your Mac, and more With Macs For Dummies, 8 th Edition by your side, you'll be prepared to take advantage of every exciting feature that Mac and OS X have to offer. Before you know it, you'll be living the digital lifestyle, cruising the Internet like a pro, printing documents and photos-and even getting some work done!

Author Biography

David Pogue writes a weekly New York Times column on high-tech gizmos, is a tech correspondent for CBS News

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(4)
Who Needs a Mac Book?
1(1)
How to Use This Book (Other Than as a Mouse Pad)
2(3)
Macintosh conventions
2(1)
Conventions in this book
2(1)
The cult of Macintosh
3(2)
Part I: For the Absolute Mac Virgin 5(120)
Chapter 1: How to Turn On Your Mac (and What to Do Next)
7(18)
Switching On the Mac
7(2)
What Happens Next
9(5)
The Setup Assistant
9(3)
The Welcome screen
12(1)
The desktop and menu bar
12(1)
The big turn-off
13(1)
Why not to turn off the Mac
14(1)
Desktop, Dock, and Icons
14(8)
Macintosh syntax
17(1)
The complete list of window doodads
18(1)
Double-clicking in theory and practice
19(1)
One window
20(1)
Multiple windows
21(1)
Where to Get Help
22(2)
Pit stop
23(1)
Top Ten Similarities between You and Your Mac
24(1)
Chapter 2: Windows, Icons, and Trashes
25(20)
Becoming Manipulative
25(6)
Meet the hard drive
25(1)
Foldermania
26(1)
Your Home folder
26(1)
Folder factory
27(1)
Keyboard shortcuts
28(3)
The Sidebar
31(1)
Icon, List, and Column Views
32(6)
Icon view
34(1)
List view
35(1)
Column view
36(2)
How to Trash Something
38(2)
Top Ten Window and Icon Tips
40(5)
Chapter 3: Actually Accomplishing Something
45(34)
Your Software Collection
46(2)
Getting more software
46(1)
Where to buy it
47(1)
The Dock
48(4)
How the Dock works
48(1)
Adding your own icons
49(1)
Minimizing a window
50(1)
Four fancy Dock tricks
51(1)
The First Tutorial
52(9)
The Calculator
53(1)
Stickies
53(2)
Triangles in the Dock
55(1)
The cornerstone of human endeavor: Copy and Paste
56(2)
Quitting a program
58(1)
Hiding a program
59(1)
Expose: Clearing the decks
59(2)
More Exposé
61(1)
System Preferences
61(10)
Date & Time
63(1)
Desktop & Screen Saver
64(3)
Displays
67(1)
Energy Saver
67(1)
Expose
68(1)
Keyboard & Mouse
69(1)
Software Update
69(1)
Sound
70(1)
Quitting System Preferences
70(1)
The Mac Keyboard
71(2)
Top Ten Freebie Programs
73(6)
Chapter 4: Typing, Saving, and Finding Again
79(34)
Your Very First Bestseller
79(7)
Top three rules of word processing
79(1)
The excitement begins
80(1)
Editing for the linguistically blessed
81(3)
Puff, the Magic Drag-N-Drop
84(2)
Form and Format
86(10)
The return of Return
86(1)
Appealing characters
87(2)
Formatting paragraphs
89(1)
Working with Documents
90(1)
Meet your memory
90(1)
The Save command
91(1)
Navigating the Save File sheet
92(2)
Closing a file, with a sigh
94(1)
How to find out what's going on
95(1)
Getting It All Back Again
96(3)
Crazy relationships: Parents and kids
96(1)
File-name suffixes
97(1)
Fetch: How to retrieve a document
98(1)
Save Me Again!
99(1)
How to Back Up - and Burn CDs
100(5)
The importance of being backed up
101(1)
What to back up
101(1)
Method 1: Burn a CD or DVD
101(3)
Method 2: Back up onto another Mac
104(1)
Method 3: Buy a backup drive
105(1)
When What Was Found Is Now Lost
105(4)
The Search bar
105(2)
The Find command
107(2)
Top Ten Word-Processing Tips
109(4)
Chapter 5: A Quiet Talk about Printers, Printing, and Fonts
113(12)
Inkjet Printers
113(1)
Laser Printers
114(1)
Hooking Up the Printer
115(3)
After All That: How You Actually Print
118(3)
Using the Tab key in dialog boxes
118(1)
Other options
119(1)
Micro-managing your printouts
120(1)
Font Book: Just Your Type
121(6)
Inspecting your fonts
123(1)
Adding, removing, and hiding fonts
124(1)
Part II: The Internet Defanged 125(62)
Chapter 6: Faking Your Way onto AOL and the Internet
127(26)
Two Ways to Go Online
128(1)
Connecting via Modem
129(1)
America Online or Direct to the Internet?
129(2)
America Online (AOL), the Cyber-Grocery
131(7)
Your first online session
132(1)
Exploring by icon
133(1)
Navigating by keyword
134(1)
How to find your way back to the good stuff
135(1)
The e-mail connection
135(1)
The party line
136(1)
Talking behind their backs
137(1)
How to find - and get - free software
138(1)
Signing Up with EarthLink
138(2)
The EarthLink sign-up program
138(1)
A little ISP housekeeping
139(1)
What's on the Internet
140(3)
E-mail
140(1)
The Web
140(1)
Newsgroups
141(2)
How to Hang Up
143(1)
How to Open Downloaded Goodies
144(4)
Problem 1: It's encoded
145(1)
Problem 2: Wrong format
146(2)
The Internet as Giant Backup Disk
148(4)
Copying files to your iDisk
149(2)
The Public folder
151(1)
Top Ten Best/Worst Aspects of the Net
152(1)
Chapter 7: The Weird Wide Web
153(18)
Getting to the Web
153(1)
Internet Made Idiotproof: Link-Clicking
154(1)
Where to Go, What to Do on the Web
154(7)
Ways to search for a particular topic
156(3)
Useful Web pages: The tip of the iceberg
159(2)
Safari Tip-O-Rama
161(9)
More address shortcuts
161(1)
Even less typing
161(1)
Saving a good picture
162(1)
Where's home for you'?
163(1)
Faster - please, make it faster!
163(1)
Bookmark it
164(2)
Stop the pop-ups!
166(1)
Open a new window
167(1)
Open a new tab
168(2)
Learn to love history
170(1)
Chapter 8: E-mail for He-males and Females
171(16)
Getting into E-Mail
171(10)
Sending e-mail
172(6)
Four tips for sending mail
178(1)
Four ways not to be loathed online
179(2)
Checking Your Mail
181(3)
Processing a message you've read
182(2)
The Anti-Spam Handbook
184(3)
Part III. Software Competence 187(64)
Chapter 9: iTunes, iPod, iConquered
189(18)
Meet iTunes
189(9)
Opening iTunes
190(1)
Window Fun
191(2)
Audio CDs
193(1)
Copying CD songs to your hard drive
193(1)
Playlists
194(1)
Smart Playlists
195(1)
Burning music CDs
196(2)
The iTunes Music Store
198(7)
Welcome to the Music Store
198(5)
Buying music
203(1)
Buying an audiobook
204(1)
Signing out
204(1)
What to do with music you've bought
204(1)
The iPod
205(2)
Chapter 10: An Eye for iPhoto
207(20)
iPhoto: The Digital Shoebox
207(4)
iPhoto meets camera
208(1)
The post-import slide show
209(2)
Editing Pictures
211(5)
Rotating a picture
211(1)
Cropping a picture
212(1)
Fixing the colors
213(1)
Removing the redeye demons
214(1)
Painting out freckles, warts, and zits
215(1)
B & W and Sepia
215(1)
Adjusting brightness and contrast
215(1)
Organizing into "Albums"
216(2)
Showing Off Your Photos
218(5)
Making prints
218(1)
Having a slide show
219(1)
Sending pix by e-mail
219(1)
Ordering prints
220(1)
Professional bookmaking
220(2)
HomePage
222(1)
Desktop or Screen Saver
222(1)
.Mac Slides
223(1)
Backing Up Your Photos
223(4)
Chapter 11: iSpielberg: Digital Movies and DVDs
227(24)
Got What It Takes?
227(2)
Filming Your Life
229(1)
Step 1: Dump the Footage into iMovie
230(4)
Capturing clips
231(1)
How much footage can your Mac hold?
232(1)
Naming, playing, and trimming clips
233(1)
Step 2: Build the Movie
234(7)
Meet the Timeline viewer
235(1)
Adding a cross-fade
236(1)
Adding titles
237(1)
Color Effects
238(1)
Background music and sound FX
239(2)
Step 3: Find an Audience
241(12)
Sending your movie back to the camcorder
241(1)
Saving your movie as a QuickTime file
242(2)
Burning your movie onto a real DVD
244(7)
Part IV Toward a New, Nerdier You 251(112)
Chapter 12: Back to Mac OS 9
253(10)
A Tale of Two Systems
253(1)
Two Mac OS 9 Methods
254(1)
Classic: The Mac OS 9 Simulator
255(3)
Understanding the Classic world
257(1)
Getting out of Classic
257(1)
Restarting in Mac OS 9
258(5)
Switching to Mac OS 9
259(1)
Switching to Mac OS X (long way)
260(1)
Switching to Mac OS X (short way)
261(2)
Chapter 13: Mono-Mac, Multi-People
263(12)
All About Accounts
263(1)
Setting Up Accounts
264(5)
Creating an account
265(2)
Building a Rubber Room
267(2)
Logging On
269(1)
Shared Folders
270(1)
Logging Off - Or Not
271(2)
Deleting Accounts
273(2)
Chapter 14: Networks for Nitwits
275(14)
Two Ways to Build the Network
276(5)
Ethernet made eathy
276(1)
Your ride to the AirPort
277(4)
Sharing Files
281(8)
Phase 1: Setting up the computers
281(2)
Phase 2: Connecting from your Mac
283(3)
Phase 3: What you can do once you're in
286(3)
Chapter 15: The Book of iBook and PowerBook
289(10)
iBook versus PowerBook
289(1)
Laptop Care and Feeding
290(2)
Sleep is good. We like sleep
290(1)
Battery positives and negatives
291(1)
Trackpad Proficiency Drill
292(2)
The Keyboard: Not Your Father's Typewriter
294(2)
Have Laptop, Might Travel
296(1)
X-ray machines and you
296(1)
Desperate for a fix
296(1)
Insta-Printer
297(1)
Top Tips for Maximizing Battery Power
297(2)
Chapter 16: When Bad Things Happen to Good Macs
299(20)
Introduction to Computer Hell
299(1)
Frozen Programs
299(2)
First resort: Force quit
300(1)
Last resort: Restart the Mac
300(1)
Things Are Too Slow
301(1)
Startup Problems
301(4)
No chime, no picture
301(1)
Picture, no ding
301(1)
Some crazy program opens itself every time you start up
302(1)
Kernel panic
302(1)
Freezes during startup
303(1)
"I don't want to have to log in every day - it's my own Mac!"
303(1)
"I can't log in! I'm in an endless startup loop!"
304(1)
Forgotten password
304(1)
Software Situations
305(4)
Minor eccentric behavior
305(3)
System Preferences controls are dimmed
308(1)
You can't rename a file
308(1)
Can't empty the Trash
308(1)
Hardware Headaches
309(1)
Your mouse is jerky or sticky
309(1)
Double-clicking doesn't work
310(1)
A CD won't come out
310(1)
The screen is too dim
310(1)
The Wrong Program Opens
310(4)
File name extensions
311(1)
Reassigning documents to programs
312(2)
Error Messages
314(2)
"You do not have sufficient access privileges"
314(2)
"DNS Entry not found" or "Error 404"
316(1)
Fixing the Disk
316(1)
Reinstalling Mac OS X
317(2)
Chapter 17: Beyond the Mac: Where to Go from Here
319(8)
Where to Turn in Times of Trouble
319(2)
Your 15 minutes of free help
319(1)
$150 for three years
320(1)
Free help sources
320(1)
Where to Get the Inside Dirt
321(1)
Upgrading to Mac OS 10.4 - and Beyond
322(1)
Save Changes Before Closing?
323(2)
Part U: The Part at Tens
325(2)
Chapter 18: Ten Cool Things You Didn't Know Your Mac Could Do
327(18)
Type Across the World
327(4)
Get a chat account
327(2)
The Buddy List
329(2)
Make Free Phone (and Video) Calls
331(2)
Talk to You
333(1)
Sing
334(1)
Listen
335(2)
Turning on speech recognition
335(1)
What the Mac can understand
336(1)
Speaking to the Mac
337(1)
Play DVDs
337(2)
Send Faxes
339(2)
Receive Faxes
341(1)
Take Pictures of the Screen
342(1)
Run Windows Programs
343(2)
Chapter 19: Ten Tricks That Didn't Quite Fit the Outline
345(10)
Closing All Windows at Once
345(1)
Multitasking Methods #1
345(1)
Multitasking Methods #2
346(1)
Make an Alias of a File
347(1)
Self-Launching Programs
348(1)
The Secret Life of a Scroll Bar
349(1)
An Instant "You Are Here" Map
350(1)
Folder Burrowing in the Dock
350(1)
The Secret Program's Dock Menu
351(1)
Redesigning the Finder Toolbar
352(3)
Different buttons, smaller buttons
352(1)
Adding your own stuff
353(2)
Chapter 20: Ten Back-of-the-Mac Jacks
355(8)
Lock
356(1)
Headphones
356(1)
Speakers
356(1)
FireWire
357(1)
Ethernet
358(1)
Phone Line
358(1)
USB
358(2)
External Monitor (Adapter)
360(1)
External Monitor (Apple Only)
361
S-Video Output
36(327)
Index 363

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