Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

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Shortcut Menus

They work exactly the same as they do in Windows. You produce a shortcut menu

by Control-clicking things like icons, list items, and so on. (If you have a two-button

mouse, feel free to right-click instead of using the Control key.)

Shortcuts

On the Mac, they’re known as aliases. See page 57.

Sounds and Audio Devices

Open System Preferences; click the Sound icon. You may also want to explore the

Audio MIDI Setup program in ApplicationsÆUtilities.

Speech Control Panel

The Mac’s center for speech recognition and text-to-speech is the Speech pane of

System Preferences. As Chapter 14 makes clear, the Mac can read aloud any text in

any program, and it lets you operate all menus, buttons, and dialog boxes by voice

alone.

Standby Mode

On the Mac, it’s called Sleep, but it’s the same idea. You make a Mac laptop sleep by

closing the lid. You make a Mac desktop sleep by choosing aÆSleep, or just walk-

ing away; the Mac will go to sleep on its own, according to the settings in the Energy

Saver pane of System Preferences.

Start Menu

There’s no Start menu in Mac OS X. Instead, you stash the icons of the programs,

documents, and folders you use frequently onto the Dock at the edge of the screen,

or into the Sidebar at the left edge of every Finder window.

Exactly as with the Start menu, you can rearrange these icons (drag them horizonta