Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual

Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual

by David Pogue
Released October 2011
Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ISBN: 9781449397494

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With Lion, Apple has unleashed the most innovative version of Mac OS X yet—and once again, David Pogue brings his humor and expertise to the #1 bestselling Mac book. Mac OS X 10.7 completely transforms the Mac user interface with multi-touch gestures borrowed from the iPhone and iPad, and includes more 250 brand-new features. This book reveals them all with a wealth of insight and detail--and even does a deep dive into iCloud, Apple's wireless, free syncing service for Macs, PCs, iPhones, and iPads.



  • Perfect for newcomers. Get crystal-clear, jargon-free introduction to the Dock, the Mac OS X folder structure, Safari, Mail, and iCloud.

  • Go in-depth. Learn how use key new features such as full-screen apps, Mission Control, the new Mac App Store, Launchpad, Resume, Auto Save, Versions, AirDrop, and more. Are you even more of a power user? Learn to set up a network, make a Lion flash drive, and even learn the basics of Lion's underlying Unix.

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. Apple's brought a new cat to town, and Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual is the best way to tame it.

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Table of contents

  1. Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual
  2. Dedication
  3. A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
  4. The Missing Credits
    1. About the Author
      1. About the Author
      2. About the Creative Team
      3. Acknowledgments
      4. The Missing Manual Series
        1. For Macintosh:
        2. For Windows:
  5. Introduction
    1. The Mac Becomes an iPad
    2. About This Book
      1. About the Outline
      2. About→These→Arrows
      3. About MissingManuals.com
    3. The Very Basics
  6. One. The Mac OS X Desktop
    1. 0. The New Lion Landscape
      1. Launchpad
      2. Full Screen Mode, Safari
      3. Full-Screen Apps, Mission Control
    2. 1. Folders & Windows
      1. Getting into Mac OS X
        1. Logging In
        2. The Elements of the Mac OS X Desktop
          1. The Dock
          2. The menu
          3. The menu bar
          4. Disk icons on the desktop
      2. Windows and How to Work Them
        1. The Sidebar
          1. Fine-tuning the Sidebar
        2. Title Bar
        3. Close Button
        4. Minimize Button
        5. Zoom Button
        6. The Folder Proxy Icon
        7. The Finder Toolbar
        8. Two Clicks, One Window
        9. Old Finder Mode
        10. Scroll Bars
        11. Resizable Edges
        12. Path Bar
        13. Status Bar
      3. The Four Window Views
      4. Icon View
        1. Icon Size
        2. Icon Previews
        3. Icon-View Options
          1. Always open in icon view
          2. Browse in icon view
          3. Arrange By, Sort By
          4. Icon size
          5. Grid spacing
          6. Text size
          7. Label position
          8. Show item info
          9. Show icon preview
          10. Background
          11. Use as Defaults
        4. Arrange By and Sort By
          1. Arranging
          2. Sorting
          3. Free dragging—and grid spacing
      5. List View
        1. Sorting the List
        2. Arranging the List
        3. Flippy Triangles
        4. Your Choice of Columns
        5. Other View Options
        6. Rearranging Columns
        7. Adjusting Column Widths
      6. Column View
        1. Column View by Keyboard
        2. Manipulating the Columns
        3. Grouping the Column Contents
        4. 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. The “Reopen windows” option
        5. Log Out
      10. Getting Help in Mac OS X
    3. 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 or Moving with Copy and Paste
        3. Dragging from the Title Bar
        4. Spring-Loaded Folders: Dragging Icons into Closed Folders
        5. Making Spring-Loaded Folders Work
      5. Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once
        1. What’s Good about Aliases
        2. Broken Aliases
      6. Color Labels
        1. What Labels Are Good For
        2. Changing Labels
      7. 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
      8. Get Info
        1. Uniwindow vs. Multiwindow
        2. The Get Info Panels
      9. Shortcut Menus, Action Menus
    4. 3. Spotlight
      1. The Spotlight Menu
        1. How to Handle Your Results
        2. Spotlight-Menu Tips
        3. 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. From Spotlight Menu
        2. From the Finder
        3. The Basic Search
          1. Where to look
          2. The suggestions list
        4. Power Searches with Tokens
        5. Power Searching the Old Way
          1. Kind
          2. Last opened date/Last modified date/Created date
          3. Name
          4. Contents
          5. Other
        6. What to Do with Search Results
      3. Customizing Spotlight
        1. Privacy Settings
      4. Smart Folders
    5. 4. Dock, Desktop & Toolbars
      1. The Dock
      2. Setting Up the Dock
        1. Organizing and Removing Dock Icons
        2. Pop-up Dock Folders (“Stacks”)
          1. Fan vs. grid vs. list
        3. The Finer Points of Pop-up Dock Folders
        4. 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. Hiding or Shrinking the Toolbar
        2. Customizing the Icons on 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
  7. Two. Programs in Mac OS X
    1. 5. Documents, Programs, & Mission Control
      1. The Mac App Store
      2. Other Ways to Get Mac Software
        1. Downloading Compressed Files
          1. Disk images (.dmg files)
          2. Performing the installation
        2. Uninstalling Software
      3. Opening Mac OS X Programs
      4. Launchpad
        1. Redesigning the Launchpad Screens
        2. Folders
        3. Deleting Mac Store Apps
      5. Windows that Auto-Reopen
        1. The Application Menu
        2. Quitting Programs
        3. Force Quitting Programs
      6. The “Heads-Up” Program Switcher
      7. Mission Control: Death to Window Clutter
        1. Starting and Stopping Mission Control
          1. Mission Control keystrokes
          2. Screen corners
        2. Managing Windows in Mission Control
        3. Spaces in Mission Control
        4. Creating a Desktop
        5. Switching Spaces
        6. Two Eccentric Spaces Settings
        7. Pictures for Every Desktop
        8. Deleting a Desktop
      8. Dashboard
        1. Dashboard Tips
        2. Dashboard Preferences
        3. Widget Catalog
          1. The Widgets widget
          2. Address Book
          3. Calculator
          4. Dictionary
          5. ESPN
          6. Flight Tracker
          7. iCal
          8. Movies
          9. Ski Report
          10. Stickies
          11. Stocks
          12. Tile Game
          13. Translation
          14. Unit Converter
          15. Weather
          16. Web Clip
          17. World Clock
        4. More Widgets
          1. Installing a widget
        5. Web Clips: Make Your Own Widgets
        6. Creating a Web Clips Widget
      9. Exposé
        1. One-App Exposé
        2. Desktop Exposé
        3. Exposé Tip-O-Rama
      10. 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
      11. 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
      12. 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 Menulets
        7. Control Dialog Boxes
        8. Changing a Menu Keyboard Shortcut
        9. Redefining a Keystroke
      13. 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
      14. Auto Save and Versions
        1. Versions
          1. Rewinding to an earlier version
          2. Locking documents
      15. Cocoa and Carbon
        1. The Cocoa Difference
          1. The Font Panel
          2. Title bar tricks
          3. Secret keyboard shortcuts
          4. Cool text-selection tricks
          5. Background window control
    2. 6. Entering Data, Moving Data & Time Machine
      1. The Macintosh Keyboard
        1. The Complicated Story of the Function Keys
      2. Notes on Right-Clicking
      3. Power Typing
        1. The Mac OS X Spelling and Grammar Checker
        2. Text Substitution (Abbreviation Expansion)
          1. Insert the proper typographical symbols
          2. Replace abbreviations with much longer phrases
        3. Case Swapping
      4. The Many Languages of Mac OS X Text
        1. Formats Tab
        2. Input Sources Tab
        3. The Character Viewer
        4. Keyboard Viewer: The Return of Key Caps
      5. Data Detectors
      6. 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
      7. Exchanging Data with Other Macs
        1. By Network
        2. By Email
        3. Using Dropbox
        4. By CD or DVD
        5. FireWire Disk Mode/Thunderbolt Disk Mode (Target Disk Mode)
        6. Via the iPod
        7. Via Flash Drive
        8. Via Bluetooth
          1. Sending a file
          2. Fetching a file
      8. 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 file name suffix?
        2. Notes on Disk Swapping
        3. Network Notes
        4. Via the Internet
      9. Time Machine
        1. Setting up Time Machine
        2. How the Backups Work
        3. Local Snapshots
        4. Changing Time Machine Settings
        5. Recovering Lost or Changed Files
          1. Recovering from Address Book and Mail
          2. Recovering the entire hard drive
          3. Recovering to another Mac
        6. Frequently Asked Questions
    3. 7. Services, Automator & AppleScript
      1. Services
        1. Six Services that Come in Handy
          1. Drop in screenshots as you type
          2. One-click desktop picture
          3. Text-to-email, in one step
          4. Text to a spoken iTunes track
          5. Make a new sticky note
          6. Shorten a long-winded writer
        2. More Great Examples from Downloadable Services
        3. Turning Them On and Off—and Adding Keyboard Shortcuts
      2. Automator
        1. Seven Startup Templates
        2. Automator Tour
          1. Toolbar
          2. Library pane
          3. Search box
          4. Library
          5. Description field
          6. button
          7. Workflow pane
          8. Log viewer
        3. Opening Existing Workflows
        4. Understanding a Workflow
      3. Building Your Own Workflow
        1. Build Your Own Web Browser
        2. Burn an iPhoto Picture CD
      4. Doing More with Automator
        1. Getting More Action(s)
        2. Watch Me Do Mode
          1. Change your startup disk
      5. AppleScript
        1. Two Sample AppleScripts
          1. Open a folder
          2. The metronome script
        2. AppleScript vs. Automator
    4. 8. Windows on Macintosh
      1. Boot Camp
        1. Installing Boot Camp
          1. Phase 1: Prepare the drivers disk
          2. Phase 2: Partition your drive
          3. Phase 3: Install Windows
          4. Phase 4: Install the drivers
        2. Forth and Back, Windows/Mac
        3. Keyboard Translation Guide
        4. Accessing Mac Files from the Dark Side—and Vice Versa
      2. Windows in a Window
        1. Virtualization Tip-o-Rama
      3. Life with Microsoft Exchange
        1. Connecting to Exchange
        2. Exchange in Mail
        3. Exchange in iCal
        4. Exchange in Address Book
  8. Three. The Components of Mac OS X
    1. 9. System Preferences
      1. The System Preferences Window
      2. Bluetooth
        1. Advanced Options
      3. CDs & DVDs
      4. Date & Time
        1. Date & Time Tab
        2. Time Zone Tab
        3. Clock Tab
      5. Desktop & Screen Saver
        1. Desktop Pictures
          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
      6. Displays
        1. Display Tab
        2. Arrangement Tab
        3. Color Tab
      7. Dock
      8. Energy Saver
        1. Sleep Sliders
        2. Checkbox Options
        3. Scheduled Startup and Shutdown
      9. General
        1. Changing Colors
        2. Tweaking the Scroll Bars
        3. Number of Recent Items
        4. Restore Windows when Quitting and Reopening Apps
        5. Use LCD Font Smoothing when Available
        6. Turning Off Text Smoothing for Font Sizes __ and Smaller
      10. iCloud
      11. Keyboard
        1. Keyboard
        2. Keyboard Shortcuts
      12. Language & Text
      13. Mail, Contacts & Calendars
      14. Mission Control
      15. MobileMe
      16. Mouse
        1. Tracking Speed, Double-Click Speed
        2. The Mighty Mouse and Magic Mouse
      17. Network
      18. Parental Controls
      19. Print & Scan
      20. Security & Privacy
      21. Sharing
      22. Software Update
        1. Scheduled Check Tab
        2. Installed Software
      23. Sound
        1. Sound Effects Tab
        2. Output Tab
        3. Input Tab
      24. Speech
      25. Spotlight
      26. Startup Disk
      27. Time Machine
      28. Trackpad
        1. Point & Click
        2. Scroll & Zoom
        3. More Gestures
      29. 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)
      30. Users & Groups
    2. 10. The Free Programs
      1. Your Free Mac OS X Programs
      2. Address Book
      3. App Store
      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. FaceTime
        1. Place a FaceTime Call
        2. Once You’re Connected
        3. Receiving Calls
      11. Font Book
      12. GarageBand
      13. iCal
        1. Working with Views
        2. Making an Appointment
          1. The mousy way
          2. The Quick Event way
          3. Alarms, repeats, and other details
        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. Google and Yahoo Calendars
        8. To Do Lists
        9. Syncing iCal with Your iPhone, iPad, and Other Computers
      14. iChat
      15. iDVD
      16. Image Capture
        1. Import To:
        2. Import Some, Import All
        3. Scanning
          1. More power to you
      17. iMovie, iPhoto
      18. iTunes
      19. Launchpad
      20. Mail
      21. Mission Control
      22. Photo Booth
        1. Still Photos
        2. 4-Up Photos
        3. Movies
        4. Exporting Shots and Movies
      23. Preview
        1. Importing Camera Photos
        2. Operating Your Scanner
        3. Multiple Pages, Multiple Views
        4. 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
        5. Preview as PDF Reader
        6. 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. AppleScript Editor
        4. Audio MIDI Setup
        5. Bluetooth File Exchange
        6. Boot Camp Assistant
        7. ColorSync Utility
        8. Console
        9. DigitalColor Meter
        10. Disk Utility
          1. Disk Utility, the hard drive repair program
          2. Disk Utility, the disk-image program
          3. Turning an image into a CD
        11. Grab
        12. Grapher
        13. Java Preferences
        14. Keychain Access
        15. Migration Assistant
        16. Network Utility
        17. Podcast Capture
        18. RAID Utility
        19. System Information
          1. Saving a report
        20. Terminal
        21. VoiceOver Utility
    3. 11. CDs, DVDs & iTunes
      1. Disks Today
        1. Hard Drives
        2. CDs, DVDs
        3. Flash Drives
      2. Disks In, Disks Out
      3. Startup Disks
        1. Selecting a Startup Disk
        2. Erasing a Disk
      4. Burning CDs and DVDs
        1. Burn Folders: Without the Disc
        2. When You Have a Blank Disc on Hand
      5. iTunes: The Digital Jukebox
        1. Library
        2. Store
        3. Devices
        4. Shared
        5. Genius
        6. Playlists
          1. Creating playlists
          2. Smart playlists
        7. Audio CDs
          1. Copying (ripping) CD songs to your hard drive
        8. The iPod, iPhone, and iPad
        9. Playing with Playback
          1. Turning on visuals
          2. Keyboard control
          3. Playing with the graphic equalizer
          4. Sound Check: Preventing ear-blast syndrome
        10. Burning Music CDs
      6. DVD Movies
        1. Playing a Movie
        2. Language Fun
        3. Bookmarks and Video Clips
        4. Chapter Thumbnails
        5. The Big Picture
        6. Mac OS X and Disk Capacity
  9. Four. The Technologies of Mac OS X
    1. 12. Accounts, Parental Controls & 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 account
          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. Apps Tab
          1. Use Simple Finder
        2. Web Tab
        3. People Tab
        4. Time Limits
        5. Other Tab
      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. Five 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
      10. Two Mac OS X Privacy Shields
        1. Send Diagnostic & Usage Data to Apple
        2. Enable Location Services
    2. 13. Networking, File Sharing & AirDrop
      1. Wiring the Network
        1. Ethernet Networks
        2. WiFi Networks
        3. Cell Networks
        4. FireWire Networks
      2. File Sharing: Three Ways
      3. AirDrop
      4. Sharing Your Public Folder
      5. Sharing Any Folder
        1. The Get Info Method
        2. The System Preferences Method
      6. Accessing Shared Files
        1. Connection Method A: Use the Sidebar
        2. Connection Method B: Connect to Server
        3. Disconnecting Yourself
        4. Disconnecting Others
      7. Networking with Windows
        1. Seated at the Mac, Seeing the PC
        2. Seated at the PC, Seeing the Mac
        3. More Mac-Windows Connections
      8. Screen Sharing
        1. Other Mac: Give Permission in Advance
        2. Your Mac: Take Control
        3. The Toolbar
        4. 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
      9. More Dialing In from the Road
    3. 14. Printing, Scanning, Fonts & Graphics
      1. Mac Meets Printer
        1. Setting Up a Printer
        2. Printer Preferences
      2. Making the Printout
        1. Printing
      3. Managing Printouts
      4. Printer Sharing
      5. Faxing
      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 & 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
      3. QuickTime Player
        1. Fancy Playback Tricks
          1. Editing movies
          2. Recording movies with QuickTime Player
          3. Recording screen movies
        2. Internet Streaming QuickTime
          1. Streaming video from your browser
        3. Eight Ways to Export Your Video
          1. Send to iTunes
          2. Post to YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, Facebook
          3. Send to iMovie
          4. Send to Mail
          5. Saving the finished movie
      4. Speech Recognition
        1. Your First Conversation with the Mac
          1. The Feedback window
          2. The Speech 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 Mac’s vocabulary
          5. Application-specific commands
          6. Speech 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
      7. Ink: Handwriting Recognition
    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. Unix Help
        1. Using man
        2. Other Unix 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. Split Windows
        2. Switching Windows
        3. Noncontiguous Selection
        4. Double-Clickable Unix Tools
        5. Services for Terminal
      7. Changing Permissions
        1. Looking at Permissions
        2. File-Mode Code
        3. Group Detective Work
        4. chmod (Change Mode)
        5. Permission to Change Permissions
        6. sudo
        7. chgrp (Change Group)
        8. Protecting Files En Masse
        9. Making Files Hide
      8. 20 Useful Unix Utilities
        1. bc
        2. kill
        3. open
        4. ps
        5. shutdown
        6. tar, gzip, zip
        7. top (table of processes)
        8. xattr (extended attributes)
        9. Aliases
        10. nano
        11. date
        12. grep
        13. find
        14. mdfind
        15. launchd
        16. sips
        17. FTP and SFTP
      9. Putting It Together
  10. Five. Mac OS X Online
    1. 17. Internet Setup & iCloud
      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. WiFi Connections
        5. Commercial Hot Spots
      4. Cellular Modems
      5. Tethering
      6. Dial-Up Modem Connections
      7. Switching Locations
        1. Creating a New Location
        2. Making the Switch
      8. Internet Sharing
        1. Turning On Internet Sharing
      9. iCloud
        1. What iCloud Giveth
        2. What iCloud Taketh Away
        3. From Mobile Me to iCloud
        4. Starting Up iCloud
        5. iCloud Sync
        6. Photo Stream
        7. Find My Mac, Find My iPhone
        8. Email
        9. Books, Music, Apps, Movies: the Locker in the Sky
      10. Internet Location Files
    2. 18. Mail & Contacts
      1. Setting Up Mail
        1. Importing Old Mail
      2. Checking Your Mail
        1. The Mailboxes List
        2. Tailoring the Look of Mail
          1. Tweaking the Lion layout
          2. Tweaking the Classic layout
          3. The toolbar
      3. Writing Messages
        1. Attaching Files to Messages
        2. Signatures
      4. Stationery
      5. Reading Email
        1. Conversation View
        2. Adding the Sender to Your Address Book
        3. Data Detectors
        4. Opening Attachments
        5. Replying to a Message
        6. Forwarding Messages
        7. Redirecting Messages
        8. Printing Messages
        9. Filing Messages
        10. Flagging Messages
        11. Finding Messages
        12. Deleting Messages
          1. Emptying the Trash folder
          2. Turning deleted mail invisible
          3. Archiving messages
        13. Exporting 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
      10. Address Book
        1. Importing Addresses
          1. Importing from Yahoo, Google, Exchange, or another Internet service
          2. Importing from another address-book program
          3. About vCards
        2. Creating Address Cards
          1. Editing an address
          2. Adding addresses from Mail
        3. Groups
          1. Smart groups
          2. 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. 19. Safari
      1. The Three Biggies in Lion
        1. Full Screen and Gestures
        2. The Reading List
        3. The Download Manager
      2. Browsing Basics
        1. Scrolling
        2. Safari Toolbars
          1. Toolbar (address bar)
        3. Toolbar buttons
        4. Bookmarks Bar
        5. Status Bar
      3. Tips for Better Surfing
        1. Reader
        2. Graphics Worth Saving
        3. SnapBack
        4. Stifle Pop-Ups and Pop-Unders
        5. Five Ways to Magnify a Page
        6. Keyboard Control
        7. Where Am I?
        8. Faster Browsing without Graphics
        9. Viewing Web Pages Offline
        10. Sending a Page to a Friend
        11. Expanding Web Forms
        12. Designate Your Start Page
        13. The History Menu
        14. Finding Text on Web Pages
        15. PDF Pages Online
      4. Tabbed Browsing
      5. 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. 20. iChat
      1. Welcome to iChat
      2. Many Chat Networks
      3. Setting Up Your Chat Account(s)
      4. The Buddy List
      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. Equipment Requirements
        2. Starting the Video Call
        3. Bluescreen Backdrops and Video FX
      10. Juggling Chats and Windows
      11. Sharing Your Screen
      12. iChat Theater
    5. 21. SSH, FTP, VPN & 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. 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
  11. Six. Appendixes
    1. A. Installing Mac OS X Lion
      1. Hardware Requirements
      2. Psychological Requirements
      3. The Standard Installation
      4. The Setup Assistant
        1. After Installing Over Snow Leopard
        2. After Installing onto a Blank Drive
      5. The Homemade Lion Installer Disk
        1. Phase 1: Format the Drive
        2. Phase 2: Build Your Installer
      6. Uninstalling Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
    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. Recovery Mode: Three Emergency Disks
        1. The Recovery HD
        2. Lion Internet Recovery
        3. Physical Recovery Disks
      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]
        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. Windows (or WINNT) folder
        94. Windows logo key
        95. Windows Media Player
        96. Windows Messenger
        97. WordPad
        98. Zip files
    4. D. The Master Mac OS X Secret Keystroke List
      1. Startup Keystrokes
        1. Startup Keystrokes
        2. In the Finder
        3. Menu
        4. Finder Menu
        5. File Menu
        6. Edit Menu
        7. View Menu
        8. Go Menu
        9. Window Menu
        10. Help Menu
        11. Power Keys
        12. The Dock
        13. Managing Programs
        14. Dialog Boxes
        15. Trackpad Gestures
        16. Magic Mouse Gestures
  12. Index
  13. About the Author
  14. Colophon
  15. Copyright

Product information

  • Title: Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual
  • Author(s): David Pogue
  • Release date: October 2011
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9781449397494