MacBook Pro® Portable Genius, 2nd Edition

Introduction

From its distinctive white case, amazing display, and inviting design, the MacBook pro is amazing technology that looks as great as it works. Running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and including lots of amazing software, MacBook pros let you do more out of the box more easily than any other computer. In fact, MacBook pros do so much, it is easy to overlook some of the great things they can do. That's where this book comes in.

While you probably already know how to turn your MacBook pro on, you might not know how to use Spaces to create virtual working spaces on the desktop so that you can keep many applications and windows open at the same time and move among them easily. While you likely know how to use the trackpad to point to objects on the screen to select them, you might not know how to create your own keyboard shortcuts for just about any command in any application that you use. While you have probably thought that you need to back up your important data, you might not have actually done it. And, while you've surfed the Web, you might not have taken advantage of all that being connected does for you, from file sharing locally to communicating with people around the world easily and inexpensively.

The purpose of this book is to provide a resource for you when you are wondering how to do something better, how to do it more easily, or even how to do it at all. You'll find that each chapter is organized around a question. Within each chapter are answers to its question; these ...