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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appendix a: the “where’d it go?” dictionary 481
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ll the words and pictures so far in this book are just great for leisure reading.
But in a crisis of helplessness on your new Mac, this appendix may be more
useful. It’s an alphabetical listing of every common Windows function and
where to find it in Mac OS X. After all, an operating system is an operating system.
The actual functions are pretty much the same—they’re just in different places.
About [This Program]
To find out the version number of the program you’re using, don’t look in the Help
menu. Instead, look in the application menu next to the a menu—the one that bears
the name of the program you’re in. That’s where you find the About command for
Macintosh programs.
Accessibility Options Control Panel
The special features that let you operate the computer even with impaired vision,
hearing, or motor control are called Universal Access in Mac OS X. It’s in System
Preferences (see Chapter 8).
Active Desktop
The Mac never displays Web pages directly on the desktop—and knowing Apple,
that’s probably a point of pride. But Dashboard (Chapter 5) keeps Internet informa-
tion only a keystroke away.
Add Hardware Control Panel
The Mac requires no program for installing the driver for a new external gadget. The
drivers for most printers, mice, keyboards, cameras, camcorders, and other acces-
sories are preinstalled. If you plug something ...
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