Book description
Your new Mac with OS X Leopard is so cool! You have digital media, including iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, and iMovie, at your fingertips, as well as everything the Internet has to offer. Where do you start to make the most of it? With
Mac OS X Leopard All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies,
of course! Here are seven handy minibooks, each devoted to one aspect of your Mac OS X Leopard.
One section is devoted to the digital media you love, another to the Internet, others to networking, customizing, sharing, and expanding your Mac. There’s even a minibook for you geeky types who want to tweak the system with AppleScript. You’ll find information on:
Locating anything with Spotlight and Sherlock
Personalizing your desktop
Creating movies and burning DVDs
Jamming with iTunes and your iPod
Making your own music with GarageBand
Collecting, editing, and sharing photos with iPhoto
Browsing the Web with Safari and staying safe online
Setting up a wireless network
Adding RAM, hard drive space, and cool extra applications
Using AppleScript to program even more customizations
With Mac OS X Leopard All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies, you can find what you need in a hurry and get on with the fun your Mac makes possible. It just may be the best friend a Leopard can have!
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Author's Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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I. Introducing Mac OS X
- 1. Shaking Hands with Mac OS X
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2. Navigating and Running Programs
- Restarting, Sleeping, and Shutting Down
- A Window Is Much More Than a Frame
- Menu Mysteries Explained
- Icons ’R Us
- Selecting Icons for Fun and Profit
- Keyboard Shortcuts for the True Power User
- Houston, We're Go to Launch Programs
- Switching ’Twixt Programs with Aplomb
- Opening and Saving Your Stuff in an Application
- Quitting Programs
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3. Basic OS X Housekeeping
- The Finder: It's the Wind beneath Your Wings
- Copying and Moving Files and Folders
- Cloning Your Items — It's Happening Now!
- Deleting That Which Should Not Be
- Emptying That Wastepaper Basket
- WAIT! I Need That After All!
- Renaming Your Items
- Adding a Dash of Color
- Displaying the Facts on Files and Folders
- Creating an Alias
- Using the Apple Menu
- Availing Yourself of Mac OS X Services
- Get Thee Hence: Using the Go Menu
- Monkeying with the Menu Bar
- Eject, Tex, Eject!
- Common Tasks Aplenty
- All You Really Need to Know about Printing
- 4. Searching Everything with Spotlight
- 5. Fun with Photo Booth and Front Row
- 6. Keeping Track with the Address Book
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7. The Joys of Maintenance
- Deleting Applications the Common Sense Way
- Popping the Hood: Using the System Profiler
- Tracking Performance with Activity Monitor
- Fixing Things with the Disk Utility
- Updating Mac OS X
- I Demand That You Back Up Your Hard Drive
- I Further Demand That You Defragment
- Special Start‐Up Keys for Those Special Times
- Crave the Newest Drivers
- 8. Getting Help for the Big X
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9. Troubleshooting the X
- Don't Panic!
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The Troubleshooting Process
- Step 1: Always try a simple shutdown
- Step 2: Check all cable connections
- Step 3: Retrace your steps
- Step 4: Run Disk Utility
- Step 5: Run antivirus software
- Step 6: Check the Trash
- Step 7: Check online connections
- Step 8: Disable troublesome Login Items
- Step 9: Turn off your screen saver
- Step 10: Check for write‐protection
- Step 11: Check your System Profiler
- Step 12: Reboot with the Mac OS X Installation Disc
- Do I Need to Reinstall Mac OS X?
- It's Still Not Moving: Troubleshooting Resources
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II. Customizing and Sharing
- 1. Building the Finder of Your Dreams
- 2. Giving Your Desktop the Personal Touch
- 3. Delving under the Hood with System Preferences
- 4. You Mean Others Can Use My Mac, Too?
- 5. Setting Up Multi‐User Accounts
- 6. Sharing Documents for Fun and Profit
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III. The Digital Hub
- 1. The World According to Apple
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2. Jamming with iTunes and iPod
- What Can I Play on iTunes?
- Playing an Audio CD
- Playing Digital Audio and Video
- Keeping Slim Whitman and Slim Shady Apart: Organizing with Playlists
- Know Your Songs
- Ripping Audio Files
- Tweaking the Audio for Your Ears
- A New Kind of Radio Station
- iSending iStuff to iPod
- Sharing Your Media across Your Network
- Burning Music to Shiny Plastic Circles
- Feasting on iTunes Visuals
- Buying Digital Media the Apple Way
- 3. Focusing on iPhoto
- 4. Making Magic with iMovie
- 5. Burn Those DVDs! Using iDVD
- 6. Becoming a Superstar with GarageBand
- 7. Crafting a Web Site with iWeb
- 8. No, It's Not Called iQuickTime
- 9. Turning Your Mac into a DVD Theater
- 1. Getting on the Internet
- 2. Using Apple Mail
- 3. Staying in Touch with iChat
- 4. Expanding Your Horizons with iDisk
- 5. Going Places with Safari
- 6. Staying Secure Online
- 1. Setting Up a Small Network
- 2. Using Your Network
- 3. You May Even Need AppleTalk
- 4. Going Wireless
- 5. Sharing That Precious Internet Thing
- 1. Hardware That Will Make You Giddy
- 2. Add RAM, Hard Drive Space, and Stir
- 3. Port‐o‐rama: Using USB and FireWire
- 4. I'm Okay, You're a Printer
- 5. Applications That You've (Probably) Gotta Have
- 1. …And UNIX Lurks Beneath
- 2. AppleScript Just Plain Rocks
- 3. Talking and Writing to Your Macintosh
- 4. Hosting a Web Site with Mac OS X
Product information
- Title: Mac OS® X Leopard™ All‐in‐One Desk Reference For Dummies®
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2007
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9780470054345
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