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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And by the way, your menu-bar clock always shows the current time. When you
need to know today’s date, just click the clock. A menu drops down revealing the
complete date.
Desktop & Screen Saver
This pane offers two ways to show off Mac OS X’s glamorous graphics features: desktop
pictures and screen savers.
Desktop
Mac OS X comes with several ready-to-use collections of desktop pictures, ranging
from National Geographic–style nature photos to plain solid colors. To install a new
background picture, first choose one of the image categories in the list at the left side
of the window, as shown in Figure 13-7.
Note: Several of Apple’s ready-to-use desktop pictures come in two sizes. The elongated versions (with the
flatter, squashed-down thumbnails) are designed to perfectly fill the extra-wide screens on 15- and 17-inch
PowerBooks, Apple Cinema Displays, and other unusually wide screens.
Figure 13-7:
Using the list of
picture sources at left,
you can preview an
entire folder of your
own images before
installing one specific
image as your new
desktop picture. Use
the Choose Folder
option to select a
folder of assorted
graphics—or, if you’re
an iPhoto veteran,
click an iPhoto album
name, as shown here.
Clicking one of the
thumbnails installs
the correspond-
ing picture on the
desktop.
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