September 2005
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
23h 55m
English
Content preview from Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
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switching to the mac: the missing manual
Note: Some of the material in this book is adapted from the bestselling Mac OS X: The Missing Manual,
Tiger Edition. That book is a much fatter, more in-depth guide to Mac OS X (and a worthy investment if you
grow into a true Macoholic).
At the end of the book, you’ll find two appendixes. The first is the “Where’d It Go?”
Dictionary—an essential reference for anyone who occasionally (or frequently)
flounders to find some familiar control in the new, alien Macintosh environment.
The second covers Boot Camp and Parallels, two ways to run Windows and Windows
programs on the latest Macs.
AboutÆTheseÆArrows
Throughout this book—and throughout the Missing Manual series—you’ll find sen-
tences like this one: “Open the SystemÆLibrariesÆFonts folder.” That’s shorthand for
a much longer instruction that directs you to open three nested folders in sequence,
like this: “On your hard drive, you’ll find a folder called System. Open that. Inside the
System folder window is a folder called Libraries; double-click it to open it. Inside that
folder is yet another one called Fonts. Double-click to open it, too.”
Similarly, this kind of arrow shorthand helps to simplify the business of choosing
commands in menus, as shown in Figure I-1.
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