Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Lion Edition

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Lion Edition

by David Pogue
Released March 2012
Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ISBN: 9781449398538

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Ready to move to the Mac? This incomparable guide helps you make a smooth transition. New York Times columnist and Missing Manuals creator David Pogue gets you past three challenges: transferring your stuff, assembling Mac programs so you can do what you did with Windows, and learning your way around Mac OS X.

Learning to use a Mac is not a piece of cake, but once you do, the rewards are oh-so-much better. No viruses, worms, or spyware. No questionable firewalls or inefficient permissions. Just a beautiful machine with a thoroughly reliable system. Whether you're using Windows XP or Windows 7, we've got you covered.

  • Transfer your stuff. Moving files from a PC to a Mac is the easy part. This guide gets you through the tricky things: extracting your email, address book, calendar, Web bookmarks, buddy list, desktop pictures, and MP3 files.
  • Re-create your software suite. Big-name programs from Microsoft, Adobe, and others are available in both Mac and Windows versions. But hundreds of other programs are Windows-only. Learn the Macintosh equivalents and how to move data to them.
  • Learn Mac OS X Lion. Once you've moved into the Macintosh mansion, it's time to learn your way around. You're in good hands with the author of Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, the #1 bestselling guide to Mac OS X.

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Table of contents

  1. Switching to the Mac Lion Edition: The Missing Manual®
  2. Dedication
  3. A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
  4. The Missing Credits
    1. About the Author
    2. About the Creative Team
    3. Acknowledgments
    4. The Missing Manual Series
      1. For Macintosh
      2. For Windows
      3. Web Sites
      4. Web and Graphic Design
      5. Phones, Tablets, and Gadgets
      6. The Analog World
  5. Introduction
    1. What Mac OS X Gives You
    2. What Mac OS X Takes Away
    3. About This Book
      1. About→These→Arrows
      2. About MissingManuals.com
    4. The Very Basics
    5. The Lion Difference: iPad Techniques
      1. Launchpad
      2. Full Screen Mode, Safari
      3. Full-Screen Apps, Mission Control
  6. I. Welcome to Macintosh
    1. 1. How the Mac Is Different
      1. Power On, Dude
      2. That One-Button Mouse
      3. On, Off, and Sleep
        1. Sleep Mode
        2. Restart
        3. Shut Down
        4. The “Reopen windows” Option
        5. Log Out
      4. The Menu Bar
      5. Finder = Windows Explorer
      6. Dock = Taskbar
      7. Menulets = Tray
      8. Keyboard Differences
        1. Where the Windows Keys Went
        2. What the Special Mac Keys Do
        3. The Complicated Story of the Function Keys
      9. Disk Differences
      10. Where Your Stuff Is
        1. Applications Folder
        2. Home Folder
        3. System Folder
      11. Window Controls
        1. Title Bar
        2. The Folder Proxy Icon
        3. Close Button
        4. Minimize Button
        5. Zoom Button
        6. The Finder Sidebar
          1. Fine-tuning the Sidebar
        7. Window Management
        8. Scroll Bars
        9. Resizable Edges
        10. Path Bar
        11. Status Bar
      12. Terminology Differences
    2. 2. Folders, Dock & Windows
      1. Getting into Mac OS X
        1. Logging In
        2. The Elements of the Mac OS X Desktop
          1. Disk icons
          2. The Dock
          3. The menu
          4. The menu bar
      2. The Four Window Views
      3. Icon View
        1. Icon Size
        2. Icon Previews
        3. Icon View Options
          1. Always open in icon view
          2. Browse in icon view
          3. Arrange By, Sort By
          4. Icon size
          5. Grid spacing
          6. Text size
          7. Label position
          8. Show item info
          9. Show icon preview
          10. Arrange by
          11. Background
          12. Use as Defaults
        4. Arrange By and Sort By
          1. Arranging
          2. Sorting
          3. Free dragging—and grid spacing
      4. List View
        1. Sorting the List
        2. Arranging the List
        3. Flippy Triangles
        4. Your Choice of Columns
        5. Other View Options
        6. Rearranging Columns
        7. Adjusting Column Widths
      5. Column View
        1. Manipulating the Columns
        2. Grouping the Column Contents
        3. View Options
      6. Cover Flow View
      7. Quick Look
        1. What Quick Look Knows
        2. Fun with Quick Look
        3. The Quick Look Slideshow
      8. The Dock
        1. Setting Up the Dock
        2. Organizing and Removing Dock Icons
        3. Pop-up Dock Folders (“Stacks”)
          1. Fan vs. grid vs. list
        4. The Finer Points of Pop-up Dock Folders
        5. Three Ways to Get the Dock Out of Your Hair
          1. Shrinking and enlarging the Dock
          2. Auto-hiding the Dock
          3. Moving the Dock to the sides of the screen
        6. Using the Dock
          1. Switch applications
          2. Secret menus
        7. Drag and Drop
        8. Do Your Filing
      9. The Finder Toolbar
        1. Hiding or Shrinking the Toolbar
        2. Rearranging, Customizing, or Removing Toolbar Icons
      10. Getting Help in Mac OS X
    3. 3. Files, Icons & Spotlight
      1. Renaming Icons
      2. Selecting Icons
        1. Selecting by Clicking
        2. Selecting Icons from the Keyboard
      3. Moving and Copying Icons
        1. Copying by Dragging
        2. Copying by Using Copy and Paste
        3. Spring-Loaded Folders: Dragging Icons into Closed Folders
        4. Making Spring-Loaded Folders Work
      4. Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once
        1. What’s Good about Aliases
        2. Broken Aliases
      5. Color Labels
        1. What Labels Are Good For
        2. Changing Labels
      6. The Trash
        1. Rescuing Files and Folders from the Trash
        2. Emptying the Trash I: Quick and Easy
        3. Emptying the Trash II: Secure and Forever
        4. Locked Files: The Next Generation
      7. Get Info
        1. The Get Info Panels
      8. The Spotlight Menu
        1. Spotlight-Menu Tips
        2. Advanced Menu Searches
          1. Use quotes
          2. Limit by kind
          3. Limit by recent date
          4. Limit by metadata
      9. The Spotlight Window
        1. From the Spotlight Menu
        2. From the Finder
        3. The Basic Search
          1. Where to look
          2. The suggestions list
        4. Power Searches with Tokens
        5. Power Searching the Old Way
          1. Kind
          2. Last opened date/Last modified date/Created date
          3. Name
          4. Contents
          5. Other
        6. What to Do with Search Results
      10. Customizing Spotlight
        1. Privacy Settings
      11. Smart Folders
    4. 4. Documents, Programs & Mission Control
      1. A Word About Lion Apps
      2. The Mac App Store
      3. Other Ways to Get Mac Software
        1. Downloading Compressed Files
          1. Disk images (.dmg files)
          2. Performing the installation
        2. Uninstalling Software
      4. Opening Mac OS X Programs
      5. Launchpad
        1. Redesigning the Launchpad Screens
        2. Folders
        3. Deleting Mac Store Apps
      6. Windows that Auto-Reopen
      7. The Application Menu
      8. Quitting Programs
        1. Force Quitting Programs
      9. The “Heads-Up” Program Switcher
      10. Mission Control: Death to Window Clutter
        1. Starting and Stopping Mission Control
          1. Mission Control keystrokes
          2. Screen corners
        2. Managing Windows in Mission Control
        3. Spaces in Mission Control
        4. Creating a Desktop
        5. Switching Spaces
        6. Deleting a Desktop
      11. Dashboard
        1. Dashboard Tips
        2. Dashboard Preferences
        3. More Widgets
          1. Installing a widget
        4. Web Clips: Make Your Own Widgets
        5. Creating a Web Clips Widget
      12. Exposé
        1. One-App Exposé
        2. Desktop Exposé
        3. Exposé Tip-O-Rama
      13. Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way
        1. Hiding the Program You’re Using
        2. Hiding All Other Programs
        3. The Bring-Forward, Hide-All-Others Trick
        4. Hiding (Minimizing) Individual Windows
      14. How Documents Know Their Parents
        1. Reassigning Documents to Programs
          1. Reassigning a certain document—just once
          2. Reassigning a certain document—permanently
          3. Reassigning all documents of one type
      15. Keyboard Control
        1. Control the Menus
        2. Control the Dock
        3. Cycle Through Your Windows
        4. Control the Toolbar
        5. Control Tool Palettes
        6. Control Menulets
        7. Control Dialog Boxes
        8. Changing a Menu Keyboard Shortcut
        9. Redefining a Keystroke
      16. The Save and Open Dialog Boxes
        1. Sheets
        2. The Mini Finder
        3. Insta-Jumping to a Folder Location
        4. Spotlight
        5. The File Format Pop-up Menu
        6. The Open File Dialog Box
      17. Auto Save and Versions
        1. Versions
          1. Rewinding to an earlier version
          2. Locking documents
    5. 5. Entering, Moving & Backing Up Data
      1. Power Typing
        1. The Mac OS X Spelling and Grammar Checker
        2. Text Substitution (Abbreviation Expansion)
          1. Insert the proper typographical symbols
          2. Replace abbreviations with much longer phrases
        3. Case Swapping
      2. The Many Languages of Mac OS X Text
        1. Formats Tab
        2. Input Sources Tab
        3. The Character Viewer
        4. Keyboard Viewer
      3. Data Detectors
      4. Moving Data Between Documents
        1. Cut, Copy, and Paste
        2. Drag-and-Drop
          1. When to use drag-and-drop
          2. Drag-and-drop to the desktop
        3. Export/Import
      5. Exchanging Data with Other Macs
        1. By Network
        2. By Email
        3. Using Dropbox
        4. By CD or DVD
        5. FireWire Disk Mode/Thunderbolt Disk Mode (Target Disk Mode)
        6. Via the iPod
        7. Via Flash Drive
        8. Via Bluetooth
          1. Sending a file
          2. Fetching a file
      6. Exchanging Data with Windows PCs
      7. Time Machine
        1. Setting up Time Machine
        2. How the Backups Work
        3. Local Snapshots
        4. Changing Time Machine Settings
        5. Recovering Lost or Changed Files
          1. Recovering from Address Book and Mail
          2. Recovering the entire hard drive
          3. Recovering to another Mac
        6. Frequently Asked Questions
  7. II. Making the Move
    1. 6. Transferring Your Files to the Mac
      1. Transfers by Apple Genius
      2. The Windows Migration Assistant
      3. Manual Network Transfers
      4. Transfers by Disk
      5. Transfers by File-Sending Web Site
      6. Transfers by Email
      7. Where to Put Your Copied Files
        1. Desktop Pictures (Wallpaper)
        2. Sound Effects
        3. Bookmarks (Favorites)
        4. iTunes Music
      8. Document Conversion Issues
    2. 7. Special Software, Special Problems
      1. ACDSee
      2. Acrobat Reader
      3. ACT
      4. Ad Subtract (Pop-up Stopper)
      5. Adobe [your favorite program here]
      6. America Online
      7. AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)
      8. Children’s Software
      9. Easy CD Creator
      10. Encarta
      11. Eudora
      12. Excel
      13. Firefox
      14. Games
      15. Google Desktop Search
      16. Google Earth
      17. Google Chrome
      18. ICQ
      19. Internet Explorer
      20. iTunes
      21. LimeWire
      22. McAfee VirusScan
      23. Microsoft Access
      24. Microsoft Money
      25. Microsoft Office
      26. Microsoft Publisher
      27. Microsoft Visio
      28. Minesweeper
      29. MSN Messenger
      30. NaturallySpeaking
      31. Netscape
      32. Newsgroup Readers
      33. Norton AntiVirus
      34. Norton Utilities
      35. Notepad
      36. Outlook/Outlook Express/Windows Mail
      37. Paint Shop Pro
      38. Palm Desktop
      39. Picasa
      40. PowerPoint
      41. QuickBooks
      42. Quicken
      43. RealPlayer
      44. RssReader
      45. Skype
      46. SnagIt
      47. Solitaire
      48. Street Atlas USA
      49. TaxCut, TurboTax
      50. WinAmp, MusicMatch
      51. Windows Media Player
      52. WinZip
      53. Word
      54. WordPerfect
      55. Yahoo Messenger
    3. 8. Windows on Macintosh
      1. Boot Camp
        1. Installing Boot Camp
          1. Phase 1: Prepare the drivers disk
          2. Phase 2: Partition your drive
          3. Phase 3: Install Windows
          4. Phase 4: Install the drivers
        2. Forth and Back, Windows/Mac
        3. Keyboard Translation Guide
        4. Accessing Mac Files from Windows—and Vice Versa
      2. Windows in a Window
        1. Virtualization Tip-o-Rama
      3. Windows via OnLive Desktop
      4. Life with Microsoft Exchange
        1. Connecting to Exchange
        2. Exchange in Mail
        3. Exchange in iCal
        4. Exchange in Address Book
    4. 9. Hardware on the Mac
      1. Printers and Printing
        1. Setting Up a Printer
        2. Printer Preferences
      2. Making the Printout
        1. Printing
      3. Managing Printouts
      4. Printer Sharing
      5. Faxing
      6. PDF Files
        1. Opening PDF Files
        2. Creating PDF Files
      7. Fonts—and Font Book
        1. Where Fonts Live
        2. Font Book: Installing and Managing Fonts
          1. Looking over your fonts
          2. Printing a reference sheet
          3. Eliminating duplicates
          4. Adding, removing, and hiding fonts
          5. Font collections
          6. Font libraries
        3. The Fonts Panel
          1. Choosing fonts from the Fonts panel
          2. Designing collections and favorites
      8. Digital Cameras
      9. Disks
        1. Startup Disks
          1. Selecting a startup disk
          2. Erasing a disk
        2. Burning CDs and DVDs
          1. Burn Folders: Without the Disc
          2. When you have a blank disc on hand
      10. iTunes: The Digital Jukebox
        1. Library
        2. Store
        3. Devices
        4. Shared
        5. Genius
        6. Playlists
          1. Creating playlists
          2. Smart playlists
        7. Audio CDs
          1. Copying (ripping) CD songs to your hard drive
        8. The iPod, iPhone, and iPad
        9. Playing with Playback
          1. Turning on visuals
          2. Keyboard control
          3. Playing with the graphic equalizer
          4. Sound Check: Preventing ear-blast syndrome
        10. Burning Music CDs
      11. DVD Movies
        1. Playing a Movie
        2. Language Fun
        3. Chapter Thumbnails
      12. Keyboard
        1. Text-Navigation Keystrokes
      13. Mouse
      14. Monitors
      15. Scanners
        1. More power to you
  8. III. Making Connections
    1. 10. Internet Setup & iCloud
      1. Network Central and Multihoming
        1. Multihoming
      2. Broadband Connections
        1. Automatic Configuration
        2. Manual Configuration
          1. Settings from Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Windows 7
          2. Settings from Windows 98, Windows Me
          3. Applying the settings
        3. Ethernet Connections
        4. WiFi Connections
        5. Commercial Hot Spots
      3. Cellular Modems
      4. Tethering
      5. Dial-Up Modem Connections
      6. Switching Locations
        1. Creating a New Location
        2. Making the Switch
      7. Internet Sharing
        1. Turning On Internet Sharing
      8. iCloud
        1. Starting Up iCloud
        2. iCloud Sync
        3. Photo Stream
        4. Find My Mac, Find My iPhone
        5. Email
        6. Books, Music, Apps, Movies: The Locker in the Sky
    2. 11. Mail & Address Book
      1. Checking Your Mail
        1. The Mailboxes List
        2. Tailoring the Look of Mail
          1. Tweaking the Lion layout
          2. Tweaking the Classic layout
          3. The toolbar
      2. Writing Messages
        1. Attaching Files to Messages
        2. Signatures
      3. Stationery
      4. Reading Email
        1. Conversation View
        2. Adding the Sender to Your Address Book
        3. Data Detectors
        4. Opening Attachments
        5. Replying to a Message
        6. Forwarding Messages
        7. Redirecting Messages
        8. Printing Messages
        9. Filing Messages
        10. Flagging Messages
        11. Finding Messages
        12. Deleting Messages
          1. Emptying the Trash folder
          2. Turning deleted mail invisible
          3. Archiving messages
        13. Message Rules
          1. Setting up message rules
      5. The Anti-Spam Toolkit
        1. Using the Junk Mail Filter
        2. More Anti-Spam Tips
      6. RSS Feeds
        1. Adding RSS Feeds
        2. Managing Feeds
      7. Notes
      8. Address Book
        1. Importing Addresses
          1. Importing from Yahoo, Google, Exchange, or another Internet service
          2. Importing from another address-book program
          3. About vCards
        2. Creating Address Cards
          1. Editing an address
          2. Adding addresses from Mail
        3. Groups
          1. Smart groups
          2. Removing someone from a group
        4. Adding Pictures
          1. Replacing and removing a picture
        5. Finding an Address
        6. Changing the Address Book Display
        7. Printing Options
        8. Address Book Backups
    3. 12. Safari & iChat
      1. Browsing Basics
        1. Scrolling
        2. Safari Toolbars
          1. Toolbar (address bar)
        3. Toolbar buttons
        4. Bookmarks Bar
        5. Status Bar
      2. Tips for Better Surfing
        1. Reader
        2. The Reading List
        3. Full Screen and Gestures
        4. The Download Manager
        5. Graphics Worth Saving
        6. SnapBack
        7. Stifle Pop-Ups and Pop-Unders
        8. Five Ways to Magnify a Page
        9. Keyboard Control
        10. Viewing Web Pages Offline
        11. Where Am I?
        12. Sending a Page to a Friend
        13. Expanding Web Forms
        14. Designate Your Start Page
        15. Finding Text on Web Pages
        16. The History Menu
        17. PDF Pages Online
      3. Tabbed Browsing
      4. RSS: The Missing Manual
        1. Viewing an RSS Feed
        2. RSS Tricks
          1. Creating RSS summaries
          2. The personal clipping service
          3. The RSS screen saver
          4. Make feeds open automatically
      5. iChat
      6. Many Chat Networks
      7. Setting Up Your Chat Account(s)
      8. The Buddy List
      9. Making a List
        1. Broadcasting Your Status
      10. Let the Chat Begin
        1. They Invite You
        2. You Invite Them
      11. Text Chatting
        1. In-Chat Fun
        2. Popping the Balloons
      12. Audio Chats
      13. Video Chats
        1. Equipment Requirements
        2. Starting the Video Call
        3. Bluescreen Backdrops and Video FX
      14. Juggling Chats and Windows
      15. Sharing Your Screen
      16. iChat Theater
  9. IV. Putting Down Roots
    1. 13. Accounts, Parental Controls & Security
      1. Introducing Accounts
        1. The First Account
      2. Creating an Account
        1. Phase 1: Choose an Account Type
          1. Administrator accounts
          2. Standard accounts
          3. Managed accounts with Parental Controls
          4. Sharing Only account
        2. Group
          1. The Guest account
        3. Phase 2: Name, Password, and Status
        4. Phase 3: Choose a Picture
        5. Phase 4: Startup Items
      3. Parental Controls
        1. Apps Tab
        2. Use Simple Finder
        3. Web Tab
        4. People Tab
        5. Time Limits
        6. Other Tab
      4. Editing Accounts
        1. Deleting Accounts
      5. Setting Up the Login Process
      6. Signing In, Logging Out
        1. Identifying Yourself
        2. Logging Out
      7. Sharing Across Accounts
      8. Fast User Switching
      9. Five Mac OS X Security Shields
        1. The Firewall
        2. FileVault
        3. Logout Options
        4. The Password Assistant
        5. The Keychain
          1. Locking and unlocking the Keychain
          2. Managing Keychain
          3. Multiple Keychains
          4. Keychain files
      10. Two Mac OS X Privacy Shields
        1. Send Diagnostic & Usage Data to Apple
        2. Enable Location Services
    2. 14. Networking, File Sharing & Screen Sharing
      1. Wiring the Network
        1. Ethernet Networks
        2. WiFi Networks
        3. Cell Networks
      2. File Sharing: Three Ways
      3. AirDrop
      4. Sharing Your Public Folder
      5. Sharing Any Folder
        1. The Get Info Method
        2. The System Preferences Method
      6. Accessing Shared Files
        1. Connection Method A: Use the Sidebar
        2. Connection Method B: Connect to Server
        3. Disconnecting Yourself
        4. Disconnecting Others
      7. Networking with Windows
        1. Seated at the Mac, Seeing the PC
        2. Seated at the PC, Seeing the Mac
        3. More Mac-Windows Connections
      8. Screen Sharing
        1. Other Mac: Give Permission in Advance
        2. Your Mac: Take Control
        3. Variations on Screen Sharing
          1. Screen sharing through iChat
          2. Screen sharing with Back to My Mac
    3. 15. System Preferences
      1. The System Preferences Window
      2. Bluetooth
      3. CDs & DVDs
      4. Date & Time
        1. Date & Time Tab
        2. Time Zone Tab
        3. Clock Tab
      5. Desktop & Screen Saver
        1. Desktop Pictures
          1. Using your own pictures
          2. Making the picture fit
          3. Auto picture changing
        2. Screen Saver
          1. Activating the screen saver
      6. Displays
        1. Display Tab
        2. Arrangement Tab
        3. Color Tab
      7. Dock
      8. Energy Saver
        1. Sleep Sliders
        2. Checkbox Options
        3. Scheduled Startup and Shutdown
      9. General
        1. Changing Colors
        2. Tweaking the Scroll Bars
        3. Number of Recent Items
        4. Restore Windows when Quitting and Reopening Apps
        5. Use LCD Font Smoothing when Available
      10. iCloud
      11. Keyboard
        1. Keyboard
        2. Keyboard Shortcuts
      12. Language & Text
      13. Mail, Contacts & Calendars
      14. Mission Control
      15. MobileMe
      16. Mouse
        1. Tracking Speed, Double-Click Speed
        2. The Mighty Mouse and Magic Mouse
      17. Network
      18. Parental Controls
      19. Print & Scan
      20. Security & Privacy
      21. Sharing
      22. Software Update
      23. Sound
        1. Sound Effects Tab
        2. Output Tab
        3. Input Tab
      24. Speech
        1. Talking to the Mac
          1. The Feedback window
          2. The Speech Commands window
          3. Speaking to the Mac
        2. Customizing Speech Recognition
          1. Changing when the Mac listens
          2. Triggering menus by voice
          3. Improving the Mac’s vocabulary
          4. Speech tips, tricks, and troubleshooting
        3. The Mac Reads to You
        4. Setting Up the Mac’s Voice
          1. Announce when alerts are displayed
          2. Announce when an application requires your attention
          3. Speak selected text when the key is pressed
      25. Spotlight
      26. Startup Disk
      27. Time Machine
      28. Trackpad
        1. Point & Click
        2. Scroll & Zoom
        3. More Gestures
      29. Universal Access
        1. Seeing Tab (Magnifying the Screen)
          1. VoiceOver
          2. Zoom
          3. Display (inverted colors)
        2. Hearing Tab (Flashing the Screen)
        3. Keyboard Tab (Typing Assistance)
        4. Mouse & Trackpad Tab (Cursor Control from the Keyboard)
      30. Users & Groups
    4. 16. The Freebie Programs
      1. Your Free Mac OS X Programs
      2. Address Book
      3. App Store
      4. Automator
      5. Calculator
        1. Conversions
      6. Chess
        1. Playing a Game of Chess
        2. Chess Prefs
        3. Studying Your Games
      7. Dashboard
      8. Dictionary
      9. DVD Player
      10. FaceTime
        1. Place a FaceTime Call
        2. Once You’re Connected
        3. Receiving Calls
      11. Font Book
      12. GarageBand
      13. iCal
        1. Working with Views
        2. Making an Appointment
          1. The mousy way
          2. The Quick Event way
          3. Alarms, repeats, and other details
        3. What to Do with an Appointment
          1. Editing events
          2. Rescheduling events
          3. Lengthening or shortening events
          4. Printing events
          5. Deleting events
        4. Searching for Events
        5. The “Calendar” Category Concept
        6. “Publishing” Calendars to the Web
          1. Publishing
          2. Subscribing
        7. Google and Yahoo Calendars
        8. To Do Lists
        9. Syncing iCal with Your iPhone, iPad, and Other Computers
      14. iChat
      15. iDVD
      16. Image Capture
        1. Import To:
        2. Import Some, Import All
        3. Scanning
      17. iMovie, iPhoto
      18. iTunes
      19. Launchpad
      20. Mail
      21. Mission Control
      22. Photo Booth
        1. Still Photos
        2. 4-Up Photos
        3. Movies
        4. Exporting Shots and Movies
      23. Preview
        1. Importing Camera Photos
        2. Operating Your Scanner
        3. Multiple Pages, Multiple Views
        4. Preview as Graphics Viewer
          1. Bunches o’ graphics
          2. Cropping graphics
          3. Fixing up photos
          4. Converting file formats
        5. Preview as PDF Reader
        6. The Toolbar
      24. QuickTime Player
        1. Fancy Playback Tricks
          1. Editing movies
          2. Recording movies with QuickTime Player
          3. Recording screen movies
          4. Audio Recording
        2. Eight Ways to Export Your Video
          1. Send to iTunes
          2. Post to YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, Facebook
          3. Send to iMovie
          4. Send to Mail
          5. Saving the finished movie
      25. Safari
      26. Stickies
        1. Creating Sticky Notes
        2. Growing and Shrinking Notes
        3. Formatting Notes
        4. Saving Sticky Notes
      27. System Preferences
      28. TextEdit
        1. TextEdit’s Two Personalities
        2. Working in TextEdit
        3. Style Sheets
        4. Tables
        5. TextEdit as Web Designer
      29. Time Machine
      30. Utilities: Your Mac OS X Toolbox
        1. Activity Monitor
          1. The Processes table
          2. The System monitor tabs
        2. AirPort Utility
        3. AppleScript Editor
        4. Audio MIDI Setup
        5. Bluetooth File Exchange
        6. Boot Camp Assistant
        7. ColorSync Utility
        8. Console
        9. DigitalColor Meter
        10. Disk Utility
          1. Disk Utility, the hard drive repair program
          2. Disk Utility, the disk-image program
          3. Turning an image into a CD
        11. Grab
        12. Grapher
        13. Java Preferences
        14. Keychain Access
        15. Migration Assistant
        16. Network Utility
        17. Podcast Capture
        18. RAID Utility
        19. System Information
          1. Saving a report
        20. Terminal
        21. VoiceOver Utility
  10. V. Appendixes
    1. A. Installation
      1. Hardware Requirements
      2. Psychological Requirements
      3. The Standard Installation
      4. The Setup Assistant
        1. After Installing Over Snow Leopard
        2. After Installing onto a Blank Drive
      5. The Homemade Lion Installer Disk
        1. Phase 1: Format the Drive
        2. Phase 2: Build Your Installer
      6. Uninstalling Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
    2. B. Troubleshooting
      1. Minor Eccentric Behavior
        1. First Resort: Repair Permissions
        2. Second Resort: Look for an Update
        3. Third Resort: Toss the Prefs File
        4. Fourth Resort: Restart
        5. Last Resort: Trash and Reinstall the Program
      2. Frozen Programs (Force Quitting)
      3. Recovery Mode: Three Emergency Disks
        1. The Recovery HD
        2. Lion Internet Recovery
        3. Physical Recovery Disks
      4. Application Won’t Open
      5. Startup Problems
        1. Kernel Panic
        2. Safe Mode (Safe Boot)
        3. Forgotten Password
      6. Fixing the Disk
        1. Method 1: Disk Utility
        2. Method 2: fsck at the Console
      7. Where to Get Troubleshooting Help
        1. Help Online
        2. Help by Telephone
    3. C. The “Where’d-It-Go?” Dictionary
      1. About [this program]
      2. Accessibility Options control panel
      3. Active Desktop
      4. Add Hardware control panel
      5. Add or Remove Programs control panel
      6. All Programs
      7. Alt key
      8. Automatic Update
      9. Backspace key
      10. Battery level
      11. BIOS
      12. Briefcase
      13. Calculator
      14. Camera and Scanner Wizard
      15. CDs
      16. Character Map
      17. Clean Install
      18. Clipboard
      19. Command line
      20. Control Panel
      21. Copy, Cut, Paste
      22. Ctrl key
      23. Date and Time
      24. Delete Key (Forward Delete)
      25. Desktop
      26. Directories
      27. Disk Defragmenter
      28. Disks
      29. Display control panel
      30. DLL files
      31. DOS prompt
      32. Drivers
      33. End Task dialog box
      34. Exiting programs
      35. Explorer
      36. Favorites
      37. Faxing
      38. File Sharing
      39. Floppy disks
      40. Folder Options
      41. Fonts
      42. Help and Support
      43. Hibernation
      44. Internet Explorer
      45. Internet Options
      46. IRQs
      47. Java
      48. Keyboard control panel
      49. Logging in
      50. Mail control panel
      51. Maximize button
      52. Menus
      53. Minimize button
      54. Mouse control panel
      55. (My) Computer
      56. (My) Documents, (My) Pictures, (My) Music
      57. (My) Network Places
      58. Network Neighborhood
      59. Notepad
      60. Personal Web Server
      61. Phone and Modem Options control panel
      62. Power Options
      63. Printer Sharing
      64. Printers and Faxes
      65. PrntScrn key
      66. Program Files folder
      67. Properties dialog box
      68. Recycle Bin
      69. Regional and Language Options control panel
      70. Registry
      71. Run command
      72. Safe Mode
      73. ScanDisk
      74. Scheduled Tasks
      75. Scrap files
      76. Screen saver
      77. Search
      78. Shortcut menus
      79. Shortcuts
      80. Sounds and Audio Devices
      81. Speech control panel
      82. Standby mode
      83. Start menu
      84. Startup folder
      85. System control panel
      86. System Tray
      87. Taskbar
      88. Taskbar and Start Menu control panel
      89. “Three-fingered salute”
      90. ToolTips
      91. TweakUI
      92. User Accounts control panel
      93. Windows (or WINNT) folder
      94. Windows logo key
      95. Windows Media Player
      96. Windows Messenger
      97. WordPad
      98. Zip files
    4. D. The Master Mac OS X Keystroke List
      1. Startup Keystrokes
      2. In the Finder
      3. Menu
      4. Finder Menu
      5. File Menu
      6. Edit Menu
      7. View Menu
      8. Go Menu
      9. Window Menu
      10. Help Menu
      11. Power Keys
      12. The Dock
      13. Managing Programs
      14. Dialog Boxes
      15. Trackpad Gestures
      16. Magic Mouse Gestures
  11. Index
  12. About the Author
  13. Colophon
  14. Copyright

Product information

  • Title: Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Lion Edition
  • Author(s): David Pogue
  • Release date: March 2012
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9781449398538