Errata

"Move the mouse to the top of the screen to make the menus reappear."

It should be "Move the cursor to the top of the screen to make the menus reappear."

Note from the Author or Editor:
Reader is correct. Fixed in the 2nd printing of the book (May 2012).

"(On the Magic Mouse, swipe with one finger.)"

It should be "(On the Magic Mouse, swipe with two fingers.)"

Note from the Author or Editor:
Reader is correct. Fixed in the 2nd printing of the book (May 2012).

On the paragraph where it is said: " Once you've accumulated several full-screen apps, and you've full-screened them, you can use a similar swipe - with three (four is the correct) fingers on the trackpad - to flip among full-screen apps.

(On the Magic Mouse, swipe with one (two is the correct) finger(s)).

Note from the Author or Editor:
Reader is correct. Fixed in the 2nd printing of the book (May 2012).

If you have a Magic Mouse, double tap (instead of tap).

Note from the Author or Editor:
Reader is correct. Fixed in the 2nd printing of the book (May 2012).

I have safari open in full screen as requested but don't have a trackpad only a magic mouse. You tell me to click on launchpad on the Dock, however as I am in full screen mode my dock is not visible. I am aware that I could leave full screen mode, but this defeats the object of the exercise. Not very impressed that such as basic over sight has happened, before I even get to chapter 1. Have tried moving mouse to bottom of page to see if dock appears it doesn't. Hope the book improves, my apple experience so far has not been a good one, far more difficult to set up than my old dell which just worked straight out of the box, have had to phone apple support twice with the new iMac

Note from the Author or Editor:
Reader is correct. Fixed in the 2nd printing of the book (May 2012).

Original text says: "By the way, you can close, minimize, or zoom a background window without the help of the "command" key. Just click one of those three corresponding title-bar buttons normally. Mac OS X does its thing without taking you out of your current window or program."

It seems that the corrections needed are:
- "By the way, you can close, minimize, or zoom a background window WITH the help of the "command" key. Just click "command" and one of those three corresponding title-bar buttons."
- In the phrase "Mac OS X does its thing without taking you out of your current window or program." what is it meant with "does its thing"? The style could perhaps be a better one...

Thanks.

Note from the Author or Editor:
You are correct--thank you! Fixed in the 2nd printing, May 2012.

When it says "By the way, you can close, minimize, or zoom a background window without the help of the command key", it works for close and minimize, but it doesn't work with the zoom because it takes us out of the current window, turning the window that was zoomed (green button) active.

Note from the Author or Editor:
You are correct--thank you! Fixed in the 2nd printing, May 2012.

"But another option awaits you when you choose →System Preferences→Appearance..."

should read:

"But another option awaits you when you choose →System Preferences→General..."

3 rd sentence should read:

Just move the *cursor carefully to the exact top etc. etc.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Reader is correct. Fixed in the 2nd printing of the book (May 2012).

?? you can?t even see their names.?
That was true in the corresponding Figure 1-14 in the Snow Leopard book, but not here where the sample windows contain wide icons with short names.

Note from the Author or Editor:
You are correct--thank you! Fixed in the 2nd printing, May 2012.

The last sentence of the paragraph references the location of the control to change the system to the "Gray Look". Here is what is written:

To try out this look, choose "apple">System Preferences; click Appearance, and then choose Graphite from the Appearance pop-up menu.


There is no longer an "Appearance" panel in OSX as it has been renamed "General". The corrected sentence should be written:

To try out this look, choose "apple">System Preferences; click General, and then choose Graphite from the General pop-up menu.

Note from the Author or Editor:
You are correct--thank you! Fixed in the 2nd printing, May 2012!

p 192 Tile Game Tip:
My iMac with OS X Lion came with a photo of a lion (not snow leopard) for the Tile Game ? purchased Sep 2011.

Note from the Author or Editor:
You are correct--thank you! Fixed in the 2nd printing, May 2012.

This section implies Keyboard Viewer can produce hearts and all kinds of other such symbols, which is really not the case -- you must use Character Viewer for such stuff. Suggested changes:

Para 2: Delete first sentence. In sentence 2 change "easier" to "easy".

Para 3: In sentence 1, replace "is one solution" by "can generate a few of them." In sentence 2 replace "there's a better one:" by "to get the full possible range you need"

Note from the Author or Editor:
Reader is correct. Fixed in the 2nd printing of the book (May 2012).

The last words "in each font" are not correct. The ability to switch fonts was deleted from Keyboard Viewer already in OS X 10.6.

The fix is to delete these words or replace them by "in each keyboard layout".

Note from the Author or Editor:
Reader is correct. Fixed in the 2nd printing of the book (May 2012).

To see the user Library folder, press Option while choosing Go --> Library (not View-->Library)

Note from the Author or Editor:
Reader is correct. Fixed in the 2nd printing of the book (May 2012).

"zoom in" should be: command +, not command=

"page 362" should be "page 364"

Note from the Author or Editor:
You are correct--thank you! Fixed in the 2nd printing, May 2012.

This is excellent advice. However Mr Pogue says to use "sparse disk image" for the Image Format: whereas help for OS X Lion (Disk image formats) says to use "sparse bundle disk image" and that (This format replaces sparse disk image.)

Van

Note from the Author or Editor:
You are correct--thank you! Fixed in the 2nd printing, May 2012.

The last sentence in the caption is not appropriate. Information about open slots for extra RAM is not in fact '(shown here)' in the figure.

Note from the Author or Editor:
You are correct--thank you! Fixed in the 2nd printing, May 2012.

"You probably already know about the Finder's Secure Empty Trash option (page 508)." You're on page 508, the section titled "Emptying the Trash II: Secure and Forever" is on page 95.

Note from the Author or Editor:
You are correct--thank you! Fixed in the 2nd printing, May 2012.

The (') is before the (~) in the command. It should be after it.

mkdir -p '~/Documents/Finished/Early iMovie Attempts'


It should be

mkdir -p ~'/Documents/Finished/Early iMovie Attempts'

Note from the Author or Editor:
You are correct--thank you! Fixed in the 2nd printing, May 2012.

I recommend deletion of the last sentence beginning "To change the factory setting...". It is a longstanding quirk of Mail that this setting doesn't actually do anything by itself, much to the consternation of users who naturally assume it will generate a rich text message. Nothing happens unless you separately select a font/size/color for each outgoing email individually.

This is documented in the Help

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/10.7/en/mlhlp1009.html

"Unless a message actually contains rich text (such as formatting and different text styles), it will not be sent as rich text, even if rich text format is selected."

Note from the Author or Editor:
Reader is correct. Fixed in the 2nd printing of the book (May 2012).

To save a message as a draft, the sentence says, among other things to, "...click the Save as Draft button..." There is no such button and none to be had by choosing View>Customize Tool Bar.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Reader is correct. Fixed in the 2nd printing of the book (May 2012).

The text is misleading.

Character map shows you what characters are in a font and lets you copy/paste them. The OS X equivalent is Character Viewer.

(OS X Keyboard Viewer can't select a font and is a tool for direct keyboard input, totally different. Windows has its own "On Screen Keyboard" found under "Ease of Access" which is the counterpart of the OS X Keyboard Viewer.)

Note from the Author or Editor:
Reader is correct. Fixed in the 2nd printing of the book (May 2012).

"International" became "Language & Text" back in 10.6.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Reader is correct. Fixed in the 2nd printing of the book (May 2012).

The keystrokes shown for a restart are: Control-Command-power. The word "power" should be replaced with the eject symbol as reflected in the three previous items.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Reader is correct. Fixed in the 2nd printing of the book (May 2012).