Mac OS X Tiger Pocket Guide

Mac OS X Tiger Pocket Guide

by Chuck Toporek
Released June 2005
Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ISBN: 9780596528775

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Book description

There's a new cat in town, and Mac OS X Tiger is the next big thing from Apple. The latest version of Mac OS X, Tiger is faster than its predecessors, and packs a host of new features including Spotlight, Dashboard, a totally new Mail application, Automator for making complex tasks simple, and many more.The Mac OS X Tiger Pocket Guide introduces you to the fundamental concepts of using Mac OS X Tiger. The book starts out with a quick run down of Tiger's cool new features, including the new RSS screen saver and the built-in dictionary/thesaurus you can use from any application.The Mac OS X Tiger Pocket Guide shows you how to use the Finder, the Dock, Expos , Spotlight, Dashboard, including tips, tricks, and keyboard shortcuts along the way. You'll learn how to configure your Tiger system using the System Preferences application, and also how to keep your Mac secure with things like FileVault, the Password Assistant, and Tiger's enhanced Firewall capabilities. And because Mac OS X Tiger is Unix-based, you'll also learn how to issue basic Unix commands using the Terminal application.This handy book has over 250 tips and tricks for using and configuring your Mac OS X system, and has been completely revised to cover Mac OS X Tiger.Chuck Toporek has been using Macs since 1988, and is the author of Inside .Mac. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, cat, and far too many books.

Table of contents

  1. Contents (1/2)
  2. Contents (2/2)
  3. Introduction
    1. Beyond This Book
    2. Conventions Used in This Book
  4. What’s New in Tiger?
    1. Cool New Features in Tiger (1/2)
    2. Cool New Features in Tiger (2/2)
  5. Mac OSX Survival Guide
    1. Your User Account
      1. What’s in Your Home Folder?
      2. Logging In and Fast User Switching
      3. Sleep Mode, Logging Out, and Shutting Down
      4. Startup and Shutdown Keys
      5. Quick Tips for Users
    2. Parental Controls
    3. Using Software Update
    4. Security
      1. FileVault
      2. Keychains
      3. Firewall Settings
      4. Sharing Services
      5. Other Security Features
      6. Password Security
    5. Force Quitting Applications
    6. Relaunching the Finder
    7. Keyboard Shortcuts
      1. Basic Keyboard Shortcuts
  6. Mac OS X Basics
    1. The Menu Bar
      1. The Apple Menu
      2. The Application Menu
      3. Standard Application Menus
      4. Menu Extras
      5. The Accounts Menu
      6. The Application Switcher
    2. Window Controls
      1. Window Tips
    3. The Dock
      1. Dock Menus
      2. Using and Configuring the Dock
      3. Dock Tricks
    4. Trash
    5. The Finder
      1. Finder Views
        1. Icon View
        2. List View
        3. Column View
      2. The Finder’s Sidebar
      3. The Finder’s Toolbar (1/2)
      4. The Finder’s Toolbar (2/2)
        1. Hiding the toolbar
        2. Customizing the toolbar
        3. The Action Menu
      5. Searching from the Finder
      6. Finder Tips
    6. Creating New Folders
    7. The Services Menu
    8. Exposé
    9. Dashboard
      1. Viewing the Dashboard
      2. Widget Preferences
    10. Spotlight
      1. Searching with Spotlight
      2. Spotlight’s Preferences
    11. Get Info and File Permissions
  7. System Preferences
    1. Searching for Preferences
    2. System Preferences Overview
      1. Personal
      2. Hardware
      3. Internet & Network
      4. System
  8. Applications and Utilities
    1. Applications
    2. Utilities
    3. Xcode Tools
      1. Installing the Xcode Tools
      2. Overview of the Xcode Tools
  9. Unix Basics
    1. Configuring and Using the Terminal
      1. Terminal Settings
      2. Keyboard Shortcuts
      3. Additional Terminal Shortcuts
    2. Basic Unix Commands (1/2)
    3. Basic Unix Commands (2/2)
    4. Special Mac Unix Commands
      1. Finding Stuff with locate
        1. Creating the locate database
        2. Searching with locate
      2. Change and Set Preferences with defaults
        1. Examples
      3. Using the open Command
      4. Spotlight’s Metadata Utilities
      5. The root User Account
  10. Configuring Your Mac
    1. Customizing the System (1/2)
    2. Customizing the System (2/2)
    3. Files and Folders (1/2)
    4. Files and Folders (2/2)
    5. Fonts and Font Management
    6. Spotlight and Searching for Files
    7. Obtaining Information About the System
    8. .Mac
    9. Safari and the Internet
    10. Mail.app
    11. Modems and Dial-Up Networking
    12. Networking
    13. AirPort and Wireless Networking
    14. Printer Configuration and Printing
    15. Maintenance and Troubleshooting
  11. Special Characters
  12. Index (1/4)
  13. Index (2/4)
  14. Index (3/4)
  15. Index (4/4)

Product information

  • Title: Mac OS X Tiger Pocket Guide
  • Author(s): Chuck Toporek
  • Release date: June 2005
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9780596528775