Introduction |
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How to Use This Book (Other Than as a Mouse Pad) |
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Part I: For the Absolute Mac Virgin |
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Chapter 1: How to Turn On Your Mac (and What to Do Next) |
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Why not to turn off the Mac |
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The complete list of window doodads |
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Double-clicking in theory and practice |
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Top Ten Similarities between You and Your Mac |
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Chapter 2: Windows, Icons, and Trashes |
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Icon, List, and Column Views |
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Top Ten Window and Icon Tips |
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Chapter 3: Actually Accomplishing Something |
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The cornerstone of human endeavor: Copy and Paste |
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Expose: Clearing the decks |
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Quitting System Preferences |
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Chapter 4: Typing, Saving, and Finding Again |
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Your Very First Bestseller |
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Top three rules of word processing |
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Editing for the linguistically blessed |
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Puff, the Magic Drag-N-Drop |
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Navigating the Save File sheet |
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Closing a file, with a sigh |
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How to find out what's going on |
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Getting It All Back Again |
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Crazy relationships: Parents and kids |
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96 | (1) |
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Fetch: How to retrieve a document |
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How to Back Up - and Burn CDs |
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The importance of being backed up |
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Method 1: Burn a CD or DVD |
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Method 2: Back up onto another Mac |
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Method 3: Buy a backup drive |
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When What Was Found Is Now Lost |
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Top Ten Word-Processing Tips |
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Chapter 5: A Quiet Talk about Printers, Printing, and Fonts |
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After All That: How You Actually Print |
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Using the Tab key in dialog boxes |
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Micro-managing your printouts |
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Font Book: Just Your Type |
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Adding, removing, and hiding fonts |
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Part II: The Internet Defanged |
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Chapter 6: Faking Your Way onto AOL and the Internet |
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America Online or Direct to the Internet? |
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America Online (AOL), the Cyber-Grocery |
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Your first online session |
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How to find your way back to the good stuff |
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Talking behind their backs |
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How to find - and get - free software |
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Signing Up with EarthLink |
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The EarthLink sign-up program |
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A little ISP housekeeping |
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How to Open Downloaded Goodies |
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The Internet as Giant Backup Disk |
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Copying files to your iDisk |
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Top Ten Best/Worst Aspects of the Net |
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Chapter 7: The Weird Wide Web |
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Internet Made Idiotproof: Link-Clicking |
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Where to Go, What to Do on the Web |
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Ways to search for a particular topic |
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Useful Web pages: The tip of the iceberg |
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Faster - please, make it faster! |
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Chapter 8: E-mail for He-males and Females |
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Four tips for sending mail |
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Four ways not to be loathed online |
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Processing a message you've read |
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Part III. Software Competence |
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Chapter 9: iTunes, iPod, iConquered |
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189 | (18) |
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189 | (9) |
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190 | (1) |
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191 | (2) |
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Copying CD songs to your hard drive |
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Welcome to the Music Store |
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What to do with music you've bought |
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Chapter 10: An Eye for iPhoto |
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iPhoto: The Digital Shoebox |
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207 | (4) |
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The post-import slide show |
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212 | (1) |
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Removing the redeye demons |
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Painting out freckles, warts, and zits |
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Adjusting brightness and contrast |
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Chapter 11: iSpielberg: Digital Movies and DVDs |
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Step 1: Dump the Footage into iMovie |
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230 | (4) |
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How much footage can your Mac hold? |
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Naming, playing, and trimming clips |
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Background music and sound FX |
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Sending your movie back to the camcorder |
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Saving your movie as a QuickTime file |
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Burning your movie onto a real DVD |
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Part IV Toward a New, Nerdier You |
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Chapter 12: Back to Mac OS 9 |
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Classic: The Mac OS 9 Simulator |
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Understanding the Classic world |
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257 | (1) |
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258 | (5) |
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Switching to Mac OS X (long way) |
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Switching to Mac OS X (short way) |
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Chapter 13: Mono-Mac, Multi-People |
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264 | (5) |
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Chapter 14: Networks for Nitwits |
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Two Ways to Build the Network |
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Phase 1: Setting up the computers |
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Phase 2: Connecting from your Mac |
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Phase 3: What you can do once you're in |
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Chapter 15: The Book of iBook and PowerBook |
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Sleep is good. We like sleep |
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Battery positives and negatives |
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Trackpad Proficiency Drill |
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The Keyboard: Not Your Father's Typewriter |
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Have Laptop, Might Travel |
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Top Tips for Maximizing Battery Power |
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Chapter 16: When Bad Things Happen to Good Macs |
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Introduction to Computer Hell |
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299 | (1) |
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Last resort: Restart the Mac |
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Some crazy program opens itself every time you start up |
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"I don't want to have to log in every day - it's my own Mac!" |
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"I can't log in! I'm in an endless startup loop!" |
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304 | (1) |
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System Preferences controls are dimmed |
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Your mouse is jerky or sticky |
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Double-clicking doesn't work |
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310 | (1) |
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Reassigning documents to programs |
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"You do not have sufficient access privileges" |
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"DNS Entry not found" or "Error 404" |
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Chapter 17: Beyond the Mac: Where to Go from Here |
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Where to Turn in Times of Trouble |
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319 | (2) |
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Your 15 minutes of free help |
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319 | (1) |
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320 | (1) |
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Where to Get the Inside Dirt |
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Upgrading to Mac OS 10.4 - and Beyond |
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Save Changes Before Closing? |
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323 | (2) |
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Chapter 18: Ten Cool Things You Didn't Know Your Mac Could Do |
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327 | (18) |
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327 | (4) |
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327 | (2) |
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Make Free Phone (and Video) Calls |
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331 | (2) |
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333 | (1) |
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334 | (1) |
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Turning on speech recognition |
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What the Mac can understand |
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Take Pictures of the Screen |
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342 | (1) |
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Chapter 19: Ten Tricks That Didn't Quite Fit the Outline |
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Closing All Windows at Once |
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345 | (1) |
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The Secret Life of a Scroll Bar |
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349 | (1) |
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An Instant "You Are Here" Map |
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350 | (1) |
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Folder Burrowing in the Dock |
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350 | (1) |
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The Secret Program's Dock Menu |
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351 | (1) |
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Redesigning the Finder Toolbar |
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352 | (3) |
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Different buttons, smaller buttons |
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Chapter 20: Ten Back-of-the-Mac Jacks |
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External Monitor (Adapter) |
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External Monitor (Apple Only) |
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