Chapter . Perform Miscellaneous Configurations

This section points out some chief miscellaneous customizations that you should not neglect in your eagerness to get on with using Tiger. Don’t be fooled by the fact that this section comes late in the ebook. It comes late because its information couldn’t be categorized into an earlier section. But these customizations are not unimportant. Indeed, many of them are crucial, allowing you to do such things as read your screen more clearly or use your mouse more effectively—things that are fundamental to your accomplishing anything at all with Tiger.

Set Up Login Items

Your login items are the Mac OS X equivalent of what Mac OS 9 and earlier systems called “startup items”—applications that launch automatically. ...

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