Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

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TweakUI

The closest equivalent for this free, downloadable, but unsupported Microsoft utility

for tweaking the look of your PC is TinkerTool for Mac OS X. You can find it at, and

download it from, www.versiontracker.com.

User Accounts Control Panel

Like Windows 2000 and Windows XP, Mac OS X was designed from square one to

be a multiuser operating system, keeping the files, mail, and settings of each person

separate. You set up and manage these accounts in System PreferencesÆAccounts

(Chapter 12).

Window Edges

You can enlarge or shrink a Mac OS X window only by dragging its lower-right

corner—not its edges.

Windows (or WINNT) Folder

Mac OS X’s operating system resides in a folder simply called System, which sits in

your main hard drive window. Exactly as in recent Windows versions, you’re forbid-

den to add, remove, or change anything inside. Also as in Windows, most of it is

invisible anyway.

Windows Logo Key

The Mac has no equivalent for the w key on most PC keyboards.

Tip: If you hook up a USB Windows keyboard to your Mac, the w key behaves like the Mac’s c key.

Windows Media Player

The Mac comes with individual programs for playing multimedia files:

• QuickTime Player (Chapter 14) to play back movies and sounds.

• iTunes (Chapter 8) to play CDs, Internet radio, MP3 files, and other audio files.

(iTunes for Mac, like its Windows brother ...