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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486 switching to the mac: the missing manual
Favorites
In Mac OS X, there isn’t one single Favorites menu that lists both favorite Web sites
and favorite icons. The Bookmarks menu of Safari, the Web browser, lists only Web
sites. In the Finder, you can use your HomeÆFavorites folder to keep favorite files.
Faxing
Faxing is built into Tiger; it’s described on page 211. (Hint: Choose FileÆPrint; from
the PDF button at the bottom of the print dialog box, choose Fax PDF.)
File Sharing
See page 138 for an in-depth look at the Macintosh networking and file-sharing
system.
Floppy Disks
Floppy drives on Macs disappeared in about 1998. According to Apple, it’s much
more efficient to transfer files between machines using an Ethernet cable, a CD that
you burned, or email.
Of course, you can buy an external USB floppy drive for any Mac for about $45.
Folder Options
The Folder Options control panel in Windows is a crazy collection of unrelated set-
tings that boil down to this:
• General tab. Exactly as in Windows, it’s up to you whether or not double-clicking
a folder opens up a second window—or just changes what’s in the first one. On
the Mac, you make these changes using the FinderÆPreferences command. There
you’ll find the option called “Always open folders in a new window.”
• View tab. Most of the options here don’t exist on the Mac. For example, you can’t opt
to make all the invisible system files ...
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