Book description
So you finally took the plunge and bought a Mac. Whether it's a MacBook, Mac Pro, Mac mini, or iMac—it's still your Mac, and it runs the Macintosh operating system, OS X. But what do you do with your Mac after you turn it on? Do you even know how to turn it off and put it to sleep? Maybe you do. . . . But what about setting up an email account, or playing your favorite CDs and movies? You need a book like My New™ Mac to make everything easy.
In this new, Snow Leopard edition of the best-selling My New Mac, you'll find 52 simple projects that will have you doing useful things right away—like surfing the Internet, sending email, listening to music, taking notes, and playing with your digital photos. Fun stuff, if you know how to do it.
Wallace Wang, best-selling author of My New iPhone and several of those For Dummies® books, gives you step-by-step instructions for organizing your music with iTunes, tracking birthdays with iCal, and clipping and saving information from the Internet so you can find it again.
You'll also find simple projects that show you how to:
Organize your files and folders by color and keyword
Connect to the Internet, chat with your friends, and listen to online radio stations
Install and update your software—and get rid of programs you don't want anymore
Set up and manage parental controls to limit your children's computer and Internet access
Share songs, images, and documents with other computers wirelessly
Use your built-in firewall and keep your computer and information safe from intruders
Don't put off learning how to use your new computer. Let Wallace Wang show you the ropes with My New Mac.
Table of contents
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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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I. Basic Training
- 1. Turning Your Macintosh On and Off Manually or Automatically
- 2. Learning to Use the Mouse
- 3. Choosing Commands on the Menu Bar
- 4. Loading Programs and Files from the Dock
- 5. Customizing the Dock
- 6. Manipulating Windows
- 7. Navigating Through Folders with the Finder
- 8. Managing and Viewing Your Files and Folders
- 9. Conserving Energy While Using Your Macintosh
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II. Making Life Easier with Shortcuts
- 10. Working Faster with Shortcut Commands
- 11. Learning to Drag and Drop
- 12. Controlling Your Macintosh with Hot Corners
- 13. Finding Files Fast
- 14. Organizing Files and Folders by Color and Weird Words
- 15. Putting Information at Your Fingertips with Dashboard
- 16. Giving Your Macintosh Multiple Personalities with User Accounts
- 17. Slapping Parental Controls on Your Kids
- 18. Making Your Mac Easier to See, Hear, and Control
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III. Putting Your Macintosh to Work
- 19. Jotting Down Notes
- 20. Turning Your Mac into an Electronic Reminder
- 21. Never Forget a Birthday Again
- 22. Playing Audio CDs and Audio Files on Your Macintosh
- 23. Ripping and Burning an Audio CD
- 24. Playing Your Favorite Parts of a DVD
- 25. Storing Files on a CD or DVD
- 26. Transferring Images to Your Macintosh
- 27. Organizing Digital Photographs in iPhoto
- 28. Tagging and Sorting Digital Photographs in iPhoto
- 29. Editing Digital Photographs in iPhoto
- 30. Turning Your Macintosh into an Electronic Picture Frame
- 31. Sharing Files Wirelessly with Bluetooth
- 32. Retrieving Files Back in Time
- 33. Typing Foreign Languages
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IV. Touching the World Through the Internet
- 34. Getting on the Internet and Sharing Folders
- 35. Remembering Your Favorite Websites
- 36. Getting the Latest News Using RSS
- 37. Keeping Your Internet Activities Private
- 38. Saving Research Information from a Web Page
- 39. Creating an Electronic Clipping Service for Web Pages
- 40. Watching Video on Any Website
- 41. Expanding Your Mind by Listening to Free College Lectures
- 42. Listening to News, Music, and Talk Shows over the Internet
- 43. Setting Up an Email Account
- 44. Reading and Writing Email
- 45. Making Email Look Pretty
- 46. Organizing Your Email
- 47. Dealing with Junk Email
- 48. Instant Messaging with iChat
- V. Maintaining Your Macintosh
- The Next Step
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2009
- Publisher(s): No Starch Press
- ISBN: 9781593272098
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