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macOS High Sierra: The Missing Manual

Errata for macOS High Sierra: The Missing Manual

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Printed Page 194
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To see Apple’s current list of goodies, use one of these tactics:

•The short way. Right-click or two-finger click the Dashboard icon in the Dock.
From the shortcut menu, choose More Widgets.
•The long way. In Dashboard, open the Widgets browser; click More Widgets.

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neither of these work on macOS High Sierra.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8317708

 Anonymous  Aug 07, 2018 
Other Digital Version 194
Widget catalog

On the page is written the following:

For a detailed guide to each of these widgets, see the free downloadable appendix, “Dashboard Widgets,” on this book’s “Missing CD” page at www.missingmanuals.com.

But in the missing CD there is no such link!

 Ovidio Pitzurra  Feb 22, 2019 
ePub Page 237
“FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION DRAGGING TO COPY A DIS” Excerpt From: David Pogue. “macOS High Sierra: The Missing Manual.” iBooks. https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/macos-high-sierra-the-missing-manual/id1346261888?mt=11

DigitalColor meter is not a disk utility and the link does not take you to the info about the disk utility you wanted

 Brandon Wilson  Mar 15, 2018 
Printed Page 557
12th paragraph: Choose Lock Keychain "login" from the Keychain menulet

In High Sierra, Apple has unfortunately removed the preferences option to put the Keychain menulet in the menu bar. I personally liked to have quick access to the keychain for checking on passwords. The workaround is to put a Keychain alias into the dock.

 Mark Orwoll  May 12, 2021