Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

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the onscreen remote control. (Use the commands in the Controls menu to choose a

vertical or horizontal orientation for the remote.)

Tip: Watching a movie while sitting in front of your iMac or Power Mac is not exactly the great American

movie-watching dream. But remember that you can connect the video-output jacks of your Mac (most

models) to your TV for a much more comfortable movie-watching experience.

Just be sure to connect the cables from the Mac’s video-output jacks directly to the TV. If you connect them

to your VCR instead, you may get a horrible, murky, color-shifting picture—the result of the built-in copy-

protection circuitry on your VCR.

Keyboard

As you know by now, switching to the Mac entails switching your brain, especially

when it comes to the old keyboard shortcuts. All of those Ctrl-key sequences become,

on the Mac, c-key sequences. (Check your Macintosh keyboard: The c key is right

next to the Space bar, usually on both sides.)

But plenty of other Mac keys may seem unfamiliar. For your reassurance pleasure,

here’s a rundown of what they do. (Laptops lack some of these keys.)

• F1, F2, F3… These function keys do pretty much the same thing they do in most

Windows programs: Nothing.

There are exceptions, though. F9, F10, and F11, for example, invoke the Exposé

window-hiding mode (page 104), and F12 brings up the Dashboard (page ...