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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index 511
finding Mac replacements,
181-202
Fonts panel, 121-122
games, 187
hiding and showing, 100-
101
hiding and showing (Ex-
posé), 104-108
included with Mac OS X,
387-462
installing, 128-131
Open at Login command, 87
opening, 97-98
parental controls, 328-332
printing, 203-211
quitting, 98-99
quitting from the Dock, 88
relationships with docu
-
ments, 110-114
Save dialog box, 116-119
Services, 122-123
shortage on the Mac, 5
single-icon format, 3
switching, 100
switching via Dock, 86
switching with a keystroke,
102-103
uninstalling, 131
Virtual PC, 5
won’t open, 473
properties, 489 see also Get
Info
Public folder, 53
Q
QIF (Quicken Interchange
Format), 190-192
QuickBooks, 197
Quicken, 190-192, 197-198
QuickTime preferences, 375
QuickTime Player, 431-433,
493
quitting programs, 98-99
R
RAID arrays, 446-447
Real Player, 198
reassigning file types, 110-114
globally, 114
one at a time, 113
Recycle bin, 489-490 see also
Trash
refresh rate, 364
Registry, 131, 490
Remote Desktop, 21
Remote Login, 375
renaming icons, 53
resizing windows, 33
Restart command, 16
restarting
in Mac OS 9, 125
Return key, 236
ripping CDs, 231-233
root account, 339-340
routers, 138-139
Internet sharing, 254-256
RSS feeds, 198, 300-304
screen saver, 303
RTF documents, 156-157
S
Safari (Web browser), 289-304
see also Web pages
address bar, 291
auto fill, 292-293
basics of, 289-291
bookmarks, 293-294
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