Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual

Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual

by David Pogue
Released December 2007
Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ISBN: 9780596529529

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Book description

With Leopard, Apple has unleashed the greatest version of Mac OS X yet, and David Pogue is back with another meticulous Missing Manual to cover the operating system with a wealth of detail. The new Mac OS X 10.5, better known as Leopard, is faster than its predecessors, but nothing's too fast for Pogue and this Missing Manual. It's just one of reasons this is the most popular computer book of all time.

Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition is the authoritative book for Mac users of all technical levels and experience. If you're new to the Mac, this book gives you a crystal-clear, jargon-free introduction to the Dock, the Mac OS X folder structure, and the Mail application. There are also mini-manuals on iLife applications such as iMovie, iDVD, and iPhoto, and a tutorial for Safari, Mac's web browser.

This Missing Manual is amusing and fun to read, but Pogue doesn't take his subject lightly. Which new Leopard features work well and which do not? What should you look for? What should you avoid? Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition offers an objective and straightforward instruction for using:

  • Leopard's totally revamped Finder
  • Spaces to group your windows and organize your Mac tasks
  • Quick Look to view files before you open them
  • The Time Machine, Leopard's new backup feature
  • Spotlight to search for and find anything in your Mac
  • Front Row, a new way to enjoy music, photos, and videos
  • Enhanced Parental Controls that come with Leopard
  • Quick tips for setting up and configuring your Mac to make it your own

There's something new on practically every page of this new edition, and David Pogue brings his celebrated wit and expertise to every one of them. Mac's brought a new cat to town and Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition is a great new way to tame it.

Table of contents

  1. Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual
  2. A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
  3. The Missing Credits
    1. About the Author
    2. About the Creative Team
    3. Acknowledgments
    4. The Missing Manual Series
      1. For Macintosh:
      2. For Windows:
    5. For Starters
  4. Introduction
    1. What’s New in Leopard
    2. About This Book
      1. About the Outline
      2. About→These→Arrows
      3. About MissingManuals.com
    3. The Very Basics
      1. Notes on the Keyboard
      2. Notes on Right-Clicking
  5. I. The Mac OS X Desktop
    1. 1. Folders and Windows
      1. Getting into Mac OS X
        1. Logging In
        2. The Elements of the Mac OS X Desktop
          1. Disk icons
          2. The Dock
          3. The menu
          4. The menu bar
      2. Windows and How to Work Them
        1. The Sidebar
        2. Fine-tuning the Sidebar
        3. Title Bar
        4. Close Button
        5. Minimize Button
        6. Zoom Button
        7. The Folder Proxy Icon
        8. The Finder Toolbar
        9. Two Clicks, One Window
        10. Old Finder Mode: The Toolbar Disclosure Button
          1. Leaving Old Finder mode
        11. Scroll Bars
        12. Resize Handle
        13. Path Bar
        14. Status Bar
      3. The Four Window Views
      4. Icon View
        1. Icon View Options
          1. Always open in icon view
          2. Icon size
          3. Grid spacing
          4. Text size
          5. Label position
          6. Show item info
          7. Show icon preview
          8. Arrange by
          9. Background
          10. Use as Defaults
        2. Keeping Icons Neat and Sorted
          1. Grid alignment
          2. Sorted alignment
      5. List View
        1. Sorting the List
        2. Flippy Triangles
        3. Your Choice of Columns
        4. Other View Options
        5. Rearranging Columns
        6. Adjusting Column Widths
      6. Column View
        1. Column View by Keyboard
        2. Manipulating the Columns
        3. View Options
      7. Cover Flow View
      8. Quick Look
        1. What Quick Look Knows
        2. Fun with Quick Look
        3. The Quick Look Slideshow
      9. Logging Out, Shutting Down
        1. Sleep Mode
        2. Restart
        3. Shut Down
        4. Log Out
      10. Getting Help in Mac OS X
    2. 2. Organizing Your Stuff
      1. The Mac OS X Folder Structure
        1. Your Home Folder
        2. What’s On Your Hard Drive
        3. What’s in Your Home Folder
      2. Icon Names
      3. Selecting Icons
        1. Selecting by Clicking
        2. Selecting Icons from the Keyboard
      4. Moving and Copying Icons
        1. Copying by Dragging
        2. Copying by Using Copy and Paste
        3. Dragging from the Title Bar
        4. Spring-Loaded Folders: Dragging Icons into Closed Folders
        5. Making Spring-Loaded Folders Work
        6. Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once
        7. What’s Good about Aliases
        8. Broken Aliases
      5. Color Labels
        1. What Labels Are Good For
        2. Changing Labels
      6. The Trash
        1. Rescuing Files and Folders from the Trash
        2. Emptying the Trash I: Quick and Easy
        3. Emptying the Trash II: Secure and Forever
        4. Locked Files: The Next Generation
      7. Get Info
        1. Uni-window vs. Multi window
        2. The Get Info Panels
    3. 3. Spotlight
      1. The Spotlight Menu
        1. Spotlight-Menu Tips
        2. Advanced Menu Searches
          1. Use quotes
          2. Limit by kind
          3. Limit by recent date
          4. Limit by metadata
          5. Boolean searches
      2. The Spotlight Window
        1. Spotlight Window from Spotlight Menu
        2. Opening the Spotlight Window Directly
        3. The Basic Search
        4. Power Searches
        5. Where to Look
        6. Search by Name/Search by Contents
        7. Complex Searches
          1. Kind
          2. Last opened date/Last modified date/Created date
          3. Name
          4. Contents
          5. Other
        8. What to Do with Search Results
      3. Customizing Spotlight
        1. Privacy Settings
      4. Smart Folders
    4. 4. Dock, Desktop, and Toolbars
      1. The Dock
      2. Setting Up the Dock
        1. Organizing and Removing Dock Icons
        2. Stacks
          1. Fan vs. grid
          2. Ready-made stacks
          3. Creating and removing stacks
          4. Type-selecting in stacks
          5. Bypassing stacks
        3. Three Ways to Get the Dock Out of Your Hair
          1. Auto-hiding the Dock
          2. Shrinking and enlarging the Dock
          3. Moving the Dock to the sides of the screen
      3. Using the Dock
        1. Switch Applications
        2. Operate the Dock by Keyboard Control
        3. Secret Menus
        4. Conduct Speed Tests
        5. Drag and Drop
        6. Do Your Filing
        7. Great Things to Put in Your Dock
      4. The Finder Toolbar
        1. Removing or Shrinking the Toolbar
        2. Adding Your Own Icons to the Toolbar
          1. Apple’s toolbar-icon collection
          2. Adding your own stuff
        3. Rearranging or Removing Toolbar Icons
      5. Designing Your Desktop
        1. System Preferences
        2. Graphic Designers’ Corner: The Gray Look
        3. Desktop Sounds
      6. Menulets: The Missing Manual
  6. II. Programs in Mac OS X
    1. 5. Documents, Programs, and Spaces
      1. Opening Mac OS X Programs
        1. The Application Menu
        2. Quitting Programs
        3. Force Quitting Programs
      2. The “Heads-Up” Program Switcher
      3. Exposé: Death to Window Clutter
        1. More Ways to Exposé
          1. Find one window in the current program
          2. Return to the desktop
          3. Another way to Exposé
        2. Three Triggers for Exposé
          1. Screen corners
          2. Keystrokes
          3. Multiple-button mouse clicks
      4. Spaces: Your Free Quad-Display Mac
        1. Turning on Spaces
        2. Using Spaces
          1. The big picture
          2. Moving windows among screens
      5. Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way
        1. Hiding the Program You’re Using
        2. Hiding All Other Programs
        3. The Bring-Forward, Hide-All-Others Trick
        4. Hiding (Minimizing) Individual Windows
      6. How Documents Know Their Parents
        1. Reassigning Documents to Programs
          1. Reassigning a certain document—just once
          2. Reassigning a certain document—permanently
          3. Reassigning all documents of one type
      7. Keyboard Control
        1. Control the Menus
        2. Control the Dock
        3. Cycle Through Your Windows
        4. Control the Toolbar
        5. Control Tool Palettes
        6. Control Dialog Boxes
        7. Changing a Menu Command
      8. The Save and Open Dialog Boxes
        1. Sheets
        2. The Mini Finder
        3. Spotlight
        4. Insta-Jumping to a Folder Location
        5. The File Format Pop-up Menu
        6. The Open File Dialog Box
      9. Two Kinds of Programs: Cocoa and Carbon
      10. The Cocoa Difference
        1. The Font Panel
        2. Title Bar Tricks
        3. Services
          1. ChineseTextConverter
          2. Disk Utility
          3. Finder
          4. Font Book
          5. Grab
          6. Import Image
          7. Look Up in Dictionary
          8. Mail
          9. Make New Sticky Note
          10. Open URL
          11. Script Editor
          12. Search with Google
          13. Send File to Bluetooth Device
          14. Speech
          15. Spotlight
          16. Summarize
          17. TextEdit
        4. Toolbar Tricks
        5. Secret Keyboard Shortcuts
        6. Cool Text-Selection Tricks
        7. Background Window Control
      11. Universal Apps (Intel Macs)
      12. Installing Mac OS X Programs
        1. .sit, .zip, .tar, .gz, and .dmg
        2. Disk Images (.dmg files)
        3. Cleaning Up after Decompression
        4. Performing the Installation
        5. Uninstalling Software
      13. Dashboard
        1. Dashboard Tips
        2. Dashboard Preferences
        3. Widget Catalog
          1. The Widgets widget
          2. Address Book
          3. Business (a.k.a. Yellow Pages)
          4. Calculator
          5. Dictionary
          6. ESPN
          7. Flight Tracker
          8. Google
          9. iCal
          10. iTunes
          11. Movies
          12. People (a.k.a. White Pages)
          13. Ski Report
          14. Stickies
          15. Stocks
          16. Tile Game
          17. Translation
          18. Unit Converter
          19. Weather
          20. Web Clips
          21. World Clock
        4. More Widgets
          1. Installing a widget
      14. Web Clips: Make Your Own Widgets
        1. Creating a Web Clip Widget
    2. 6. Time Machine, Syncing, and Moving Data
      1. Moving Data Between Documents
        1. Cut, Copy, and Paste
        2. Drag-and-Drop
          1. When to use drag-and-drop
          2. Drag-and-drop to the desktop
        3. Export/Import
      2. Exchanging Data with Other Macs
        1. By Network
        2. By CD or DVD
        3. FireWire Disk Mode (Target Disk Mode)
        4. Via the iPod
        5. Via Flash Drive
        6. Via Bluetooth
          1. Sending a file
        7. Fetching a File
      3. Exchanging Data with Windows PCs
        1. Preparing the Document for Transfer
          1. Is the document in a file format Windows understands?
          2. Does the file have the correct filename suffix?
        2. Notes on Disk Swapping
          1. Creating a Windows disk on the Mac
        3. Network Notes
        4. Via the Internet
      4. Time Machine
        1. Setting up Time Machine
        2. How the Backups Work
        3. Changing Time Machine Settings
        4. Recovering Lost or Changed Files
          1. Recovering from iPhoto, Address Book, and Mail
          2. Recovering the entire hard drive
          3. Recovering to another Mac
        5. Frequently Asked Questions
      5. iSync
      6. .Mac Sync
    3. 7. Automator and AppleScript
      1. Introducing Automator
        1. Navigating the Screen
          1. Starting Points menu
          2. Toolbar
          3. Library pane
          4. Search box
          5. Library
          6. Description field
          7. The button
          8. Workflow pane
          9. Log viewer
        2. Opening Existing Workflows
        3. Editing a Workflow
      2. Building Your Own Workflow
        1. Emailing an iTunes Song
        2. Burning an iPhoto Picture CD
        3. Converting and Renaming Images
      3. Doing More with Automator
        1. Getting More Action(s)
        2. Watch Me Mode
          1. Change your Startup Disk
      4. Workflows as Programs and Plug-ins
        1. Saving a Workflow as an Application
        2. Workflows as Plug-ins
      5. Getting Started with AppleScript
        1. The Script Menu
          1. Address Book Scripts
          2. Basics
          3. ColorSync
          4. Finder Scripts
          5. Folder Actions
          6. Font Book
          7. FontSync Scripts
          8. iChat
          9. Info Scripts
          10. Internet Services
          11. Mail Scripts
          12. Navigation Scripts
          13. Printing Scripts
          14. Script Editor Scripts
          15. UI Element Scripts
          16. URLs
        2. Working with Existing AppleScripts
        3. Writing Your Own Scripts
        4. AppleScript vs. Automator
    4. 8. Windows on Macintosh
      1. Boot Camp
        1. Installing Boot Camp
          1. Phase 1: Partition your drive
          2. Phase 2: Install Windows
          3. Phase 3: Install the drivers
        2. Forth and Back, Windows/Mac
        3. Keyboard Translation Guide
        4. Boot Camp Tip-O-Rama
      2. Windows in a Window
        1. Virtualization Tip-O-Rama
  7. III. The Components of Mac OS X
    1. 9. System Preferences
      1. The System Preferences Window
      2. .Mac
      3. Accounts
      4. Appearance
        1. Changing Colors
        2. Tweaking the Scroll Bars
        3. Number of Recent Items
        4. Font Smoothing Style
        5. Turning Off Smoothing on Tiny Fonts
      5. Bluetooth
        1. Advanced Options
      6. CDs & DVDs
      7. Date & Time
        1. Date & Time Tab
        2. Time Zone Tab
        3. Clock Tab
      8. Desktop & Screen Saver
        1. Desktop
          1. Using your own pictures
          2. Making the picture fit
          3. Auto picture-changing
        2. Screen Saver
          1. Apple
          2. Pictures
          3. Activating the screen saver
      9. Displays
        1. Display Tab
        2. Geometry Tab
        3. Arrangement Tab
        4. Color Tab
      10. Dock
      11. Energy Saver
        1. Sleep Tab
        2. Laptop Options
        3. Scheduled Startup and Shutdown
        4. Waking and Other Options
      12. Exposé & Spaces
      13. International
        1. Another Language—Instantly
        2. Formats Tab
        3. Input Menu Tab
          1. Keyboard Viewer: The Return of Key Caps
          2. Change the Keyboard Viewer font
      14. Keyboard & Mouse
        1. Keyboard Tab
        2. Mouse Tab
        3. Trackpad Tab
          1. Trackpad Gestures
          2. Trackpad options
        4. Bluetooth Tab
        5. Keyboard Shortcuts
      15. Network
      16. Parental Controls
      17. Print & Fax
      18. QuickTime
      19. Security
      20. Sharing
      21. Software Update
        1. Scheduled Check Tab
        2. Installed Updates Tab
      22. Sound
        1. Sound Effects Tab
        2. Output Tab
        3. Input Tab
      23. Speech
      24. Spotlight
      25. Startup Disk
      26. Time Machine
      27. Universal Access
        1. Seeing Tab (Magnifying the Screen)
          1. VoiceOver
          2. Zoom
          3. Display (inverted colors)
        2. Hearing Tab (Flashing the Screen)
        3. Keyboard Tab (Typing Assistance)
        4. Mouse & Trackpad Tab (Cursor Control from the Keyboard)
    2. 10. The Free Programs
      1. Your Free Mac OS X Programs
      2. Address Book
      3. AppleScript
      4. Automator
      5. Calculator
        1. Conversions
      6. Chess
        1. Playing a Game of Chess
        2. Chess Prefs
        3. Studying Your Games
      7. Dashboard
      8. Dictionary
      9. DVD Player
      10. Exposé
      11. Font Book
      12. Front Row
      13. GarageBand
      14. iCal
        1. Working with Views
        2. Making an Appointment
          1. The easy way
          2. The long way
        3. What to Do with an Appointment
          1. Editing events
          2. Rescheduling events
          3. Lengthening or shortening events
          4. Printing events
          5. Deleting events
        4. Searching for Events
        5. The “Calendar” Category Concept
        6. “Publishing” Calendars to the Web
          1. Publishing
          2. Subscribing
        7. To Do Lists
      15. iChat
      16. iDVD
      17. Image Capture
        1. Download Folder
        2. Automatic Task
        3. Download Some, Download All
        4. Downloading from Across the Network
        5. Downloading from Across the Internet
        6. Image Capture as Web Spycam
        7. Scanning
      18. iMovie, iPhoto
      19. iSync
      20. iTunes
      21. Mail
      22. Photo Booth
        1. Still Photos
        2. 4-Up Photos
        3. Movies
        4. Exporting Shots and Movies
      23. Preview
        1. Preview as Graphics Viewer
          1. Bunches o’ graphics
          2. Cropping graphics
          3. Fixing up photos
          4. Cutting people out of backgrounds
          5. Converting file formats
        2. The Sidebar
        3. Preview as PDF Reader
        4. The Toolbar
      24. QuickTime Player
      25. Safari
      26. Stickies
        1. Creating Sticky Notes
        2. Growing and Shrinking Notes
        3. Formatting Notes
        4. Saving Sticky Notes
      27. System Preferences
      28. TextEdit
        1. TextEdit’s Two Personalities
        2. Working in TextEdit
        3. Style Sheets
        4. Tables
        5. TextEdit as Web Designer
        6. The TextEdit Preferences
        7. TextEdit’s Other Writing Tools
      29. Time Machine
      30. Utilities: Your Mac OS X Toolbox
        1. Activity Monitor
          1. The Processes table
          2. The System monitor tabs
        2. AirPort Utility
        3. Audio MIDI Setup
        4. Bluetooth File Exchange
        5. Boot Camp Assistant
        6. ColorSync Utility
        7. Console
        8. DigitalColor Meter
        9. Directory
        10. Directory Utility
        11. Disk Utility
          1. Disk Utility, the hard drive–repair program
          2. Disk Utility, the disk-image program
          3. Turning an image into a CD
        12. Grab
        13. Grapher
        14. Java
        15. Keychain Access
        16. Migration Assistant
        17. Network Utility
        18. ODBC Administrator
        19. Podcast Capture
        20. RAID Utility
        21. System Profiler
          1. Saving a report
        22. Terminal
        23. VoiceOver Utility
        24. X11
    3. 11. CDs, DVDs, and iTunes
      1. How the Mac Does Disks
        1. Disks Today
          1. Hard drives and the iPod
          2. CDs, DVDs
          3. Flash drives
        2. Disks In, Disks Out
        3. Startup Disks
          1. Creating a startup disk
          2. Selecting a startup disk
        4. Erasing a Disk
      2. Burning CDs and DVDs
        1. Burn Folders: Without the Disc
        2. Burn Folders: With a Blank Disc On Hand
      3. iTunes: The Digital Jukebox
        1. MP3 Files and Company
        2. Audio CDs
        3. The iPod and iPhone
        4. The iTunes Music Store
          1. Buying music
          2. Restrictions
        5. Playing Music
        6. Playing with Playback
          1. Turning on visuals
          2. Keyboard control
          3. Playing with the graphic equalizer
          4. Preventing ear-blast syndrome
        7. Copying (Ripping) CD Songs to Your Hard Drive
        8. Playlists—and Smart Playlists
          1. Creating playlists
          2. Playing with criteria
        9. iTunes: Burning Music CDs
      4. DVD Movies
        1. Playing a Movie
        2. Full-Screen Playback
        3. Language Fun
        4. Bookmarks and Video Clips
        5. Chapter Thumbnails
        6. The Big Picture
  8. IV. The Technologies of Mac OS X
    1. 12. Accounts, Parental Controls, and Security
      1. Introducing Accounts
        1. The First Account
      2. Creating an Account
        1. Phase 1: Choose an Account Type
          1. Administrator accounts
          2. Standard accounts
          3. Managed accounts with Parental Controls
          4. Sharing Only
          5. Group
          6. The Guest account
        2. Phase 2: Name, Password, and Status
        3. Phase 3: Choose a Picture
        4. Phase 4: Startup Items
      3. Parental Controls
        1. System
          1. Use Simple Finder
          2. Only allow selected applications
        2. Content (Dictionary and Web)
          1. Hide profanity in Dictionary
          2. Web S ite Restrictions
        3. Mail & iChat
        4. Time Limits
        5. Logs
      4. Editing Accounts
        1. Deleting Accounts
      5. Setting Up the Login Process
      6. Signing In, Logging Out
        1. Identifying Yourself
        2. Logging Out
      7. Sharing Across Accounts
      8. Fast User Switching
      9. Six Mac OS X Security Shields
        1. The Firewall
        2. FileVault
        3. Logout Options
        4. The Password Assistant
        5. The Keychain
          1. Locking and unlocking the Keychain
          2. Managing Keychain
          3. Multiple Keychains
          4. Keychain files
        6. Secure Virtual Memory
    2. 13. Networking, File Sharing, and Screen Sharing
      1. Wiring the Network
        1. Ethernet Networks
        2. AirPort Networks
        3. FireWire Networks
      2. File Sharing
        1. Setup: The Public Folder
        2. Setup: Sharing Any Folder
          1. The Get Info method
          2. The System Preferences method
      3. Accessing Shared Files
        1. Connection Method A: Use the Sidebar
        2. Connection Method B: Connect to Server
        3. Disconnecting Yourself
        4. Disconnecting Others
      4. Networking with Windows
        1. Seated at the Mac, Seeing the PC
        2. Seated at the PC, Seeing the Mac
        3. More Mac-Windows Connections
      5. Screen Sharing
        1. Mac #1: Give Permission in Advance
        2. Mac #2: Take Control
        3. Variations on Screen Sharing
          1. Screen Sharing through iChat
          2. Screen Sharing with a pre-Leopard Mac
          3. Screen Sharing the manual way
          4. Screen Sharing with Back to My Mac
      6. More Dialing In from the Road
    3. 14. Printing, Faxing, Fonts, and Graphics
      1. Mac Meets Printer
        1. Setting Up a Printer
        2. The Printer List
      2. Making the Printout
        1. Page Setup
        2. The Print Command
        3. Printing
      3. Managing Printouts
      4. Printer Sharing
      5. Faxing
        1. Setting Up Faxing
        2. Sending a Fax
          1. Sending
          2. Checking the log, checking the queue
        3. Receiving a Fax
      6. PDF Files
        1. Opening PDF Files
        2. Creating PDF Files
      7. Fonts—and Font Book
        1. Where Fonts Live
        2. Font Book: Installing and Managing Fonts
          1. Looking over your fonts
          2. Printing a reference sheet
          3. Eliminating duplicates
          4. Adding, removing, and hiding fonts
          5. Font collections
          6. Font libraries
          7. Exporting fonts
        3. The Fonts Panel
          1. Choosing fonts from the Fonts panel
          2. Designing collections and favorites
      8. ColorSync
        1. Getting ColorSync Profiles
        2. Default Profiles
        3. More on ColorSync
      9. Graphics in Mac OS X
        1. Graphics Formats in Mac OS X
      10. Screen-Capture Keystrokes
        1. The Whole Screen
        2. One Section of the Screen
        3. A Dialog Box, Menu, Window, or Icon
    4. 15. Sound, Movies, and Speech
      1. Playing Sounds
        1. Controlling the Volume
        2. Alert Beeps and You
          1. Choosing an alert beep
          2. Adding new alert beeps
      2. Recording Sound
        1. Making the Recording
          1. The GarageBand method
          2. The QuickTime Player Pro method
      3. QuickTime Movies
        1. QuickTime Player
          1. Playing movies with QuickTime Player
          2. Hidden controls
          3. Fancy playback tricks
        2. Internet Streaming QuickTime
          1. Streaming video from your browser
          2. Manipulating your Favorites
        3. QuickTime Player Pro
          1. Selecting footage
          2. Pasting footage
          3. Saving the finished movie
          4. Exporting the finished work
          5. Compression and special effects
      4. Speech Recognition
        1. Your First Conversation with the Mac
          1. The Feedback window
          2. The Speakable Commands window
          3. Speaking to the Mac
        2. Customizing Speech Recognition
          1. Changing when the Mac listens
          2. Changing the feedback
          3. Triggering menus by voice
          4. Improving the PlainTalk vocabulary
          5. Application-specific commands
          6. PlainTalk tips, tricks, and troubleshooting
      5. The Mac Reads to You
        1. Setting Up the Mac’s Voice
          1. Announce when alerts are displayed
          2. Announce when an application requires your attention
          3. Speak selected text when the key is pressed
      6. VoiceOver
        1. Turning on VoiceOver
        2. “Feeling” the Screen
        3. VoiceOver Menu Lists
        4. Operating Onscreen Controls
        5. VoiceOver Preferences
        6. The VoiceOver Master Keyboard List
      7. Ink: Handwriting Recognition
      8. Front Row
    5. 16. The Unix Crash Course
      1. Terminal
        1. Unix Programs
      2. Navigating in Unix
        1. pwd (Print Working Directory, or “Where am I?”)
        2. ls (List, or “What’s in here?”)
          1. About flags
        3. cd (Change Directory, or “Let Me See Another Folder”)
        4. .. (Dot-Dot, or “Back Me Out”)
        5. Keystroke-Saving Features
          1. Tab completion
          2. Using the history
          3. Wildcards
        6. Directory Switching
        7. The ~ Shortcut
          1. Special keys
      3. Working with Files and Directories
        1. cp (Copy)
          1. Copying in place
          2. Copying and renaming
          3. Copying without renaming
          4. Multiple files
        2. mv (Moving and Renaming Files and Directories)
          1. Moving files and directories
          2. Option flags
        3. mkdir (Create New Directories)
        4. touch (Create Empty Files)
        5. rm (Remove Files and Directories)
        6. srm (Secure Removal)
        7. echo (A Final Check)
      4. Online Help
        1. Using man
        2. Other Online Help
      5. Terminal Preferences
        1. Startup
        2. Settings
          1. Text
          2. Window
          3. Shell
          4. Keyboard
        3. Window Groups
        4. Connect to Server
      6. Terminal Tips and Tricks
        1. Switching Windows
        2. Non-Contiguous Selection
        3. Double-Clickable Unix Tools
      7. Changing Permissions with Terminal
        1. Looking at Permissions
        2. File-Mode Code
        3. Group Detective Work
        4. chmod (Change Mode)
        5. Permission to Change Permissions
          1. sudo
        6. Protecting Files En Masse
        7. Making Files Hide
      8. 20 Useful Unix Utilities
        1. 20 Useful Unix Utilities
          1. bc
          2. kill
          3. open
          4. ps
          5. shutdown
          6. tar, gzip, zip
        2. top (table of processes)
        3. xattr (extended attributes)
        4. Aliases
        5. nano, emacs, vim
          1. date
          2. grep
          3. find
          4. mdfind
          5. launchd
          6. ftp
      9. Putting It Together
    6. 17. Hacking Mac OS X
      1. TinkerTool: Customization 101
      2. Redoing Mac OS X’s Graphics
        1. Editing the Trash, Dashboard, and Finder Icons
        2. Replacing the Poof
        3. Editing Your Menulets
      3. Replacing the Finder Icons
      4. Rewriting the Words
        1. Renaming the Trash
        2. Rewording the Dock
      5. Your Bright Hacking Future
  9. V. Mac OS Online
    1. 18. Internet Setup
      1. The Best News You’ve Heard All Day
      2. Network Central—and Multihoming
        1. Multihoming
      3. Broadband Connections
        1. Automatic Configuration
        2. Manual Configuration
        3. Ethernet Connections
        4. AirPort (Wi-Fi) Connections
        5. Commercial Hot Spots
      4. Dial-up Modem Connections
        1. Setting Up the Modem
        2. The Advanced Button
          1. The Modem tab
          2. The PPP tab
        3. Going Online
        4. Disconnecting
      5. Switching Locations
        1. Creating a New Location
        2. Making the Switch
        3. Internet Sharing
        4. Turning On Internet Sharing
        5. The Software Base Station Effect
      6. .Mac Services
        1. Signing Up for .Mac
        2. iDisk
          1. Pulling it onto your screen
          2. Making the iDisk fast and synchronized
          3. The Public folder
          4. iDisk options
        3. Email
        4. HomePage
        5. Backup
        6. iSync
      7. Internet Location Files
    2. 19. Mail and Address Book
      1. Setting Up Mail
      2. Checking Your Mail
        1. The Mailboxes List
      3. Writing Messages
        1. Attaching Files to Messages
        2. Signatures
      4. Stationery
      5. Reading Email
        1. Threading
        2. Adding the Sender to Your Address Book
        3. Data Detectors
        4. Opening Attachments
          1. When attachments don’t open
        5. Replying to a Message
        6. Forwarding Messages
        7. Redirecting Messages
        8. Printing Messages
        9. Filing Messages
        10. Flagging Messages
        11. Finding Messages
          1. Finding messages within a mailbox
          2. Finding text within an open message
        12. Deleting Messages
          1. Method 1: Emptying the Trash folder
          2. Method 2: Deleted mail turns invisible
        13. Archiving Mailboxes
        14. Message Rules
          1. Setting up message rules
      6. The Anti-Spam Toolkit
        1. Using the Junk Mail Filter
        2. More Anti-Spam Tips
      7. RSS Feeds
        1. Adding RSS Feeds
        2. Managing Feeds
      8. Notes
      9. To Dos
        1. Creating To Dos
        2. Completing and Deleting To Dos
        3. To Do List: Mail/iCal Joint Custody
      10. Address Book
        1. Creating Address Cards
          1. Editing an address
          2. Adding addresses from Mail
        2. Importing Addresses
          1. About vCards
        3. Groups
          1. Removing someone from a group
        4. Adding Pictures
          1. Replacing and removing a picture
        5. Finding an Address
        6. Changing the Address Book Display
        7. Printing Options
        8. Address-Book Backups
    3. 20. Safari
      1. Safari
        1. Browsing Basics and Toolbars
        2. Safari Toolbars
          1. Address bar
          2. Bookmarks bar
        3. Status Bar
        4. Tips for Better Surfing
          1. SnapBack
          2. Stifle pop-ups and pop-unders
          3. Impersonating Internet Explorer
          4. Where am I?
          5. Faster browsing without graphics
          6. Viewing Web pages offline
          7. Sending a page to a friend
          8. Expanding Web forms
          9. Designate your home page
          10. The History Menu
          11. Finding text within Web pages
          12. Zoom in on PDF pPages
        5. Tabbed Browsing
      2. RSS: The Missing Manual
        1. Viewing an RSS Feed
        2. RSS Tricks
          1. Creating RSS summaries
          2. The personal clipping service
          3. The RSS screen saver
          4. Make feeds open automatically
    4. 21. iChat
      1. Welcome to iChat
      2. Three Chat Networks
      3. Signing Up
        1. How to get a free .Mac account
        2. How to get a free Jabber (or Gmail) account
        3. How to get a free AIM account
      4. The Buddy Lists
      5. Making a List
        1. Broadcasting Your Status
        2. Sorting and sizing your friends
      6. Let the Chat Begin
        1. They Invite You
        2. You Invite Them
      7. Text Chatting
        1. In-chat fun
        2. Popping the Balloons
      8. Audio Chats
      9. Video Chats
        1. Bluescreen Backdrops and Video FX
      10. Sharing Your Screen
      11. iChat Theater
      12. iChat Tweaks
    5. 22. SSH, FTP, VPN, and Web Sharing
      1. Web Sharing
        1. Firing Up Web Sharing
        2. The Mac’s Own Web Site
        3. The Easiest Way to Distribute Files
        4. More on Apache
      2. FTP
        1. Uploading and Downloading from FTP Sites
        2. Just Downloading from FTP Sites
        3. Becoming an FTP Server
      3. Connecting from the Road
      4. Remote Access with SSH
        1. Getting In
        2. Remote Control Program Killing
      5. Virtual Private Networking
        1. Setting Up the VPN Connection
        2. Connecting to a VPN
        3. The Fine Points of VPN
  10. VI. Appendixes
    1. A. Installing Mac OS X 10.5
      1. Getting Ready to Install
      2. Four Kinds of Installation
      3. The Basic Installation
        1. Phase 1: The Installer
      4. The Upgrade Installation
      5. The Clean Install (“Archive and Install”)
      6. Erase & Install
      7. The Setup Assistant
      8. Uninstalling Mac OS X 10.5
    2. B. Troubleshooting
      1. Minor Eccentric Behavior
        1. First Resort: Repair Permissions
        2. Second Resort: Look for an Update
        3. Third Resort: Toss the Prefs File
        4. Fourth Resort: Restart
        5. Last Resort: Trash and Reinstall the Program
      2. Frozen Programs (Force Quitting)
      3. Can’t Move or Rename an Icon
      4. Application Won’t Open
      5. Startup Problems
        1. Kernel Panic
        2. Safe Mode (Safe Boot)
        3. Gray Screen During Startup
        4. Blue Screen During Startup
        5. Forgotten Password
      6. Fixing the Disk
        1. Method 1: Disk Utility
        2. Method 2: fsck at the Console
          1. Single-user mode(⌘-S at startup)
      7. Where to Get Troubleshooting Help
        1. Help Online
        2. Help by Telephone
    3. C. The Windows-to-Mac Dictionary
      1. About [This Program]
      2. Accessibility Options control panel
      3. Active Desktop
      4. Add Hardware control panel
      5. Add or Remove Programs control panel
      6. All Programs
      7. Alt key
      8. Automatic Update
      9. Backspace key
      10. Battery Level
      11. BIOS
      12. Briefcase
      13. Calculator
      14. Camera and Scanner Wizard
      15. CDs
      16. Character Map
      17. Clean Install
      18. Clipboard
      19. Command line
      20. Control Panel
      21. Copy, Cut, Paste
      22. Ctrl key
      23. Date and Time
      24. Delete Key (Forward Delete)
      25. Desktop
      26. Directories
      27. Disk Defragmenter
      28. Disks
      29. Display control panel
      30. DLL files
      31. DOS prompt
      32. Drivers
      33. End Task dialog box
      34. Exiting programs
      35. Explorer
      36. Favorites
      37. Faxing
      38. File Sharing
      39. Floppy disks
      40. Folder Options
      41. Fonts
      42. Help and Support
      43. Hibernation
      44. Internet Explorer
      45. Internet Options
      46. IRQs
      47. Java
      48. Keyboard control panel
      49. Logging in
      50. Mail control panel
      51. Maximize button
      52. Menus
      53. Minimize button
      54. Mouse control panel
      55. My Computer
      56. My Documents, My Pictures, My Music
      57. My Network Places
      58. Network Neighborhood
      59. Notepad
      60. Personal Web Server
      61. Phone and Modem Options control panel
      62. Power Options
      63. Printer Sharing
      64. Printers and Faxes
      65. PrntScrn key
      66. Program Files folder
      67. Properties dialog box
      68. Recycle Bin
      69. Regional and Language Options control panel
      70. Registry
      71. Run command
      72. Safe Mode
      73. ScanDisk
      74. Scheduled Tasks
      75. Scrap files
      76. Screen saver
      77. Search
      78. Shortcut menus
      79. Shortcuts
      80. Sounds and Audio Devices
      81. Speech control panel
      82. Standby mode
      83. Start menu
      84. StartUp folder
      85. System control panel
      86. System Tray
      87. Taskbar
      88. Taskbar and Start Menu control panel
      89. “Three-fingered salute”
      90. ToolTips
      91. TweakUI
      92. User Accounts control panel
      93. Window edges
      94. Windows (or WINNT) folder
      95. Windows logo key
      96. Windows Media Player
      97. Windows Messenger
      98. WordPad
      99. Zip files
    4. D. Where to Go From Here
      1. Web Sites
        1. Mac OS X
        2. Mac OS X–Style Unix Lessons and Reference
      2. Free Email Newsletters
      3. Advanced Books, Programming Books
        1. Mac Essentials
        2. Unix Essentials
        3. Mac OS X Administration
    5. E. The Master Mac OS X Secret Keystroke List
  11. Index
  12. About the Author
  13. Colophon
  14. Copyright

Product information

  • Title: Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual
  • Author(s): David Pogue
  • Release date: December 2007
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9780596529529