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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• Public. If you’re on a network, or if others use the same Mac when you’re not
around, this folder can be handy: It’s the “Any of you guys can look at these files”
folder. Other people on your network, as well as other people who sit down at your
machine, are allowed to see whatever you’ve put in here, even if they don’t have
your password. (If your Mac isn’t on an office network and isn’t shared, you can
safely throw away this folder.) Details on sharing the Mac are in Chapter 12, and
those on networking are in Chapter 9.
• Sites. Mac OS X has a built-in Web server—software that turns your Mac into
an Internet Web site that people all over the world can connect to. (This feature
is practical only if your Mac has a full-time Internet connection.) This Mac
OS X feature relies on a program called the Apache Web server, which is so highly
regarded in the Unix community that programmers lower their voices when they
mention it.
This is the folder where you put the actual Web pages you want available to the
Internet at large.
File and Folder Icons
Just as in Windows, every document, program, folder, and disk on your Mac is rep-
resented by an icon. In Mac OS X, icons look more like photos than cartoons, and
you can scale them to just about any size (page 39). Otherwise, icons work just as
they do in Windows. They’re your ticket to moving, cop ...
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