Book description
Get the most out of the latest version of OS X
This reference combines eight content-rich minibooks in one complete package to give you all-access, easy-to-understand coverage of the key features and tools needed to get the most out of the latest OS X release from Apple. In OS X Yosemite All-in-One For Dummies, you'll learn the ins and outs of OS X basics, navigating and running programs, searching with Spotlight, having fun with Photo Booth, keeping in touch with Contacts, using Reminders, writing in Notes, setting up the Notification Center, customizing the OS X desktop, jamming with iTunes, organizing and tweaking photos with iPhoto, making movie magic with iMovie, turning your Mac into a DVD theater, publishing documents with Pages, chatting with Messages and FaceTime, letting your imagination run wild with iBooks, expanding your horizons with iCloud, and so much more.
Combining the power and stability of UNIX with Apple's legendary elegance and style, OS X is the default operating system installed on every desktop and laptop computer sold by Apple. In OS X Yosemite All-in-One For Dummies, you'll get the best-of-the-best content from indispensable For Dummies books: Introducing OS X; Customizing and Sharing; The Digital hub; Using iWork; The Typical Internet Stuff; Networking in OS X; Expanding Your System; and Advanced OS X.
Goes well beyond the basics of how to use OS X
Covers the key features and tools essential for all users of OS X
Shows you how to use OS X to make your work and personal life more organized and fun
If you're a first-time Apple consumer just switching over from a PC, or a beginner-to-intermediate Mac user upgrading to the newest version of OS X, this comprehensive and all-encompassing guide will have you whizzing around OS X like a pro in no time.
Table of contents
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- Introduction
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Book I: Getting Started with OS X
- Chapter 1: Shaking Hands with OS X
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Chapter 2: Navigating and Running Programs
- Restarting, Sleeping, and Shutting Down
- A Window Is Much More Than a Frame: Navigating Windows
- Menu Mysteries Explained
- Icons ’R Us
- Selecting Icons for Fun and Profit
- Keyboard Shortcuts for the True Power User
- Houston, We’re Go to Launch Programs
- Switching ’Twixt Programs with Aplomb
- Opening and Saving Your Stuff in an Application
- Quitting Applications
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Chapter 3: Basic OS X Housekeeping
- Finder: The Wind beneath Your Wings
- Copying and Moving Files and Folders
- Cloning Your Items — It’s Happening Now!
- Deleting That Which Should Not Be
- Emptying That Wastepaper Basket
- Wait! I Need That after All!
- Renaming Your Items
- Adding a Dash of Color with Tags
- Displaying the Facts on Files and Folders
- Creating an Alias
- Using the Apple Menu
- Availing Yourself of OS X Services
- Get Thee Hence: Using the Go Menu
- Monkeying with the Menu Bar
- Eject, Tex, Eject!
- Common Tasks Aplenty
- All You Really Need to Know about Printing
- Chapter 4: Searching Everything with Spotlight
- Chapter 5: Fun with Photo Booth
- Chapter 6: Using Reminders, Notes, and Notifications
- Chapter 7: Keeping Track with Contacts and Maps
- Chapter 8: Marking Time with Calendar
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Chapter 9: The Joys of Maintenance
- Deleting Applications the Commonsense Way
- Popping the Hood: Using the System Information Utility
- Tracking Performance with Activity Monitor
- Fixing Things with Disk Utility
- Updating OS X
- I Demand That You Back Up Your Hard Drive
- I Further Demand That You Defragment
- Special Start-Up Keys for Those Special Times
- Crave the Newest Drivers
- Chapter 10: Getting Help for the Big X
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Chapter 11: Troubleshooting the X
- Don’t Panic!
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The Troubleshooting Process
- Step 1: Always try a simple shutdown
- Step 2: Check all cable connections
- Step 3: Retrace your steps
- Step 4: Run Disk Utility
- Step 5: Run antivirus software
- Step 6: Check the Trash
- Step 7: Check online connections
- Step 8: Disable troublesome Login Items
- Step 9: Turn off your screen saver
- Step 10: Check for write protection
- Step 11: Check your System Information
- Step 12: Reboot with the OS X Recovery HD volume
- Do I Need to Reinstall OS X?
- It’s Still Not Moving: Troubleshooting Resources
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Book II: Customizing and Sharing
- Chapter 1: Building the Finder of Your Dreams
- Chapter 2: Giving Your Desktop the Personal Touch
- Chapter 3: Delving under the Hood with System Preferences
- Chapter 4: You Mean Others Can Use My Mac, Too?
- Chapter 5: Setting Up Multiuser Accounts
- Chapter 6: Sharing Documents for Fun and Profit
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Book III: The Digital Hub
- Chapter 1: The World According to Apple
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Chapter 2: Browsing Your Library with iTunes and iBooks
- What Can I Play on iTunes?
- Playing an Audio CD
- Playing Digital Audio
- Watching Video
- Keeping Slim Whitman and Slim Shady Apart: Organizing with Playlists
- Know Your Songs
- Ripping Audio Files
- Tweaking the Audio for Your Ears
- A New Kind of Radio Station
- iTunes and iCloud Together
- iSending iStuff to iPod, iPhone, and iPad
- Sharing Your Media across Your Network
- Burning Music to Shiny Plastic Circles
- Feasting on iTunes Visuals
- Exercising Parental Authority
- Buying Digital Media the Apple Way
- Reading the Electronic Way
- Chapter 3: Focusing on iPhoto
- Chapter 4: Making Magic with iMovie
- Chapter 5: Becoming a Superstar with GarageBand
- Chapter 6: No, It’s Not Called iQuickTime
- Chapter 7: Turning Your Mac into a DVD Theater
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Book IV: Using iWork
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Chapter 1: Desktop Publishing with Pages
- Creating a New Pages Document
- Open an Existing Pages Document
- Saving Your Work
- Touring the Pages Window
- Entering and Editing Text
- Using Text and Graphics Boxes
- The Three Amigos: Cut, Copy, and Paste
- Formatting Text the Easy Way
- Adding a Spiffy Table
- Adding Alluring Photos
- Adding a Background Shape
- Are You Sure about That Spelling?
- Printing Your Pages Documents
- Sharing That Poster with Others
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Chapter 2: Creating Spreadsheets with Numbers
- Before You Launch Numbers . . .
- Creating a New Numbers Document
- Opening an Existing Spreadsheet File
- Save Those Spreadsheets!
- Exploring the Numbers Window
- Navigating and Selecting Cells in a Spreadsheet
- Entering and Editing Data in a Spreadsheet
- Selecting the Correct Number Format
- Aligning Cell Text Just So
- Formatting with Shading
- Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns
- The Formula Is Your Friend
- Adding Visual Punch with a Chart
- Printing Your Spreadsheet
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Chapter 3: Building Presentations with Keynote
- Creating a New Keynote Project
- Opening a Keynote Presentation
- Saving Your Presentation
- Putting Keynote to Work
- Adding Slides
- Working with Text and Graphics Boxes
- Adding and Editing Slide Text
- Formatting Slide Text for the Perfect Look
- Using Presenter’s Notes in Your Project
- Every Good Presentation Needs Media
- Adding a Background Shape
- Creating Your Keynote Slideshow
- Printing Your Slides and Notes
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Chapter 1: Desktop Publishing with Pages
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Book V: Typical Internet Stuff
- Chapter 1: Getting on the Internet
- Chapter 2: Using Apple Mail
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Chapter 3: Staying in Touch with Messages and FaceTime
- Configuring Messages
- Working with Messages
- Changing Modes in Messages
- Will You Be My Buddy?
- Chat! Chat, I Say!
- Conversing with iMessages
- Sending and Receiving SMS and MMS Texts
- Sharing Screens with Aplomb
- Sending Files with Messages
- Eliminating the Riffraff
- Adding Visual Effects
- Conversing with FaceTime
- Using Your Mac as, Well, a Telephone
- Chapter 4: Expanding Your Horizons with iCloud
- Chapter 5: Going Places with Safari
- Chapter 6: Staying Secure Online
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Book VI: Networking in OS X
- Chapter 1: Setting Up a Small Network
- Chapter 2: Using Your Network
- Chapter 3: Going Wireless
- Chapter 4: Sharing That Precious Internet Thing
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Book VII: Expanding Your System
- Chapter 1: Hardware That Will Make You Giddy
- Chapter 2: Add RAM, Hard Drive Space, and Stir
- Chapter 3: Port-o-Rama: Using Thunderbolt, USB, and FireWire
- Chapter 4: I’m Okay, You’re a Printer
- Chapter 5: Applications That You’ve (Probably) Gotta Have
- Chapter 6: Putting Bluetooth to Work
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Book VIII: Advanced OS X
- Chapter 1: Running Windows on Your Mac with Boot Camp
- Chapter 2: . . . And Unix Lurks Beneath
- Chapter 3: AppleScript Just Plain Rocks
- Chapter 4: Talking with and Writing to Your Macintosh
- About the Author
- Cheat Sheet
- More Dummies Products
Product information
- Title: OS X Yosemite All-in-One For Dummies
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2014
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9781118990896
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