Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual By David Pogue This page contains errors corrected in the 5/00 reprint. Here's a key to the markup: [page-number]: serious technical mistake {page-number}: minor technical mistake : important language/formatting problem (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification (Front cover, back cover, inside back cover, title pages): Removed colon from title. (vi) The Apple-menu logo symbol appeared, in the original printing, as a capital letter A in two places. The correct font was restored in this printing. (ix) Last paragraph: Sentence restores the missing word "for" in the sentence: "Danny has done work for several big New York trade housesŠ" Added this line to end of page: "Quicken 2001 by Kathy Ivens and Thomas E. Barich" (1) The comma was restored to the list that includes "Application menu, Control StripŠ" <14> The text used to read: (If you, an iMac or iBook owner, find some of these keys missing from your keyboard, install KeySwapper, included with this book.) It now reads: "(If you find some of these keys missing from your keyboard, install KeySwapper, available at www.missingmanual.com.)" (95) The caption used to read: "the Mac reminds you that youčre about eliminate it forever" It now reads: "the Mac reminds you that youčre about to eliminate it forever" (143) The reference (in the second paragraph) to Figure 9-4 has been corrected to say "see Figure 9-3." [331] Changed "sneaky hackers" to "casual hackers." [331] The text used to read: "Caution: There is one way to get around the Multiple Users security‹if your Mac can start up from an older version of the Mac OS. By pressing the letter C key during startup, someone could startup the Mac from, for example, the Mac OS 8.6 CD-ROM, which predates the Multiple Users feature. In that event, the trespasser has full access to all folders on the Mac." It now reads: "Caution: There is one way to get around the Multiple Users security: Insert a system-software CD-ROM that can start up your Mac. By pressing the letter C key during startup, someone could start up the Mac from this CD; open the System Folder -> Preferences folder; and throw away the Multiple Users preferences file. In that event, the trespasser has full access to all folders on the Mac. (This tip is useful if youčve forgotten your password, too.)" [438] Inserted this new sidebar: Frequently Asked Question All About Mac OS 9.0.4 In April 2000, Apple released an update called Mac OS 9.0.4. You can get it in one of three ways: … Open your Software Update control panel, as described on page 210, and click the Update Now button. If your Internet connection and karma are both good, youčll be offered the chance to download and install the new software. … Second, you can download the updater directly from http://asu.info.apple.com. (Search for 9.0.4.) … Buy a CD containing the updater by sending $19.95 to Apple Order Center, Attn: 9.0.4 CD Upgrade, Box 2270, Buffalo, NY 14240-2270. So what do you get for your trouble? Bug fixes. Your Apple DVD Player software, for example, is less likely to exhibit "sound drift," in which the soundtrack gradually gets more and more out of sync with the picture. The Mac now recognizes more FireWire gadgets (camcorders and hard drives, for example), makes networking more reliable, solves some laptop battery problems, and improves the stability of audio, video, and graphics software. You dončt get any new features, per se. Installer beware, however; like any updater these days, this one brings with it further incompatibilities. For example, Action Utilities and Palm Desktop require free updaters to remain compatible with 9.0.4. If youčre on the fence about performing this installation, consult the Mac OS 9.0.4 reports at www.macfixit.com and www.macintouch.com‹fully armed, however, with the acknowledgment that most people dončt send their reports to such Web sites if everything went well with the upgrade. [453] Added an index entry: Mac OS 9/9.0.4 upgrade, 438