mac os x snow leopard the missing manual

The book that should have been in the box ® David Pogue Mac OS X Snow Leopard New York TimesWired www.it-ebooks.info For a company that promised to “put a pause on new features,” Apple sure has been busy—there’s barely a feature left untouched in Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard.” There’s more speed, more polish, more refinement—but still no manual. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, with the humor and expertise that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for eight years straight. n  Big-ticket changes. A 64-bit overhaul. Faster everything. A rewritten Finder. Microsoft Exchange compatibility. All-new QuickTime Player. If Apple wrote it, this book covers it. n  Snow Leopard Spots. This book demystifies the hundreds of smaller enhancements, too, in all 50 programs that come with the Mac: Safari, Mail, iChat, Preview, Time Machine… n  Shortcuts. This must be the tippiest, trickiest Mac book ever written. Undocumented sur- prises await on every page. n  Power usage. Security, networking, build- your-own Services, file sharing with Windows, even Mac OS X’s Unix chassis—this one witty, expert guide makes it all crystal clear. The important stuff you need to know Answers found here! MACINTOSH Why I started the Missing Manual series. People learn best when informa- tion is engaging, clearly written, and funny. Unfortunately, most computer books read like dry catalogs. That’s why I created the Missing Manuals. They’re entertaining, unafraid to state when a feature is useless or doesn’t work right, and—oh, by the way—written by actual writers. And on every page, we answer the simple question: “What’s this feature for?” David Pogue is the New York Times tech columnist, an Emmy-winning CBS News correspondent, and creator of the Missing Manual series. missingmanuals.com CAN $43.99 www.it-ebooks.info THE MISSING MANUAL Mac OS X Snow Leopard The book that should have been in the box ®ˇ www.it-ebooks.info www.it-ebooks.info David Pogue Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Köln • Sebastopol • Taipei • Tokyo Mac OS X Snow Leopard www.it-ebooks.info Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual by David Pogue Copyright © 2009 David Pogue. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472. O’Reilly Media books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also available for most titles: safari@oreilly. com. 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ISBN: 978-0-596-15328-1 www.it-ebooks.info table of contents v Table of Contents Introduction 1 What’s New in Snow Leopard 1 About This Book 4 The Very Basics 8 Part One: The Mac OS X Desktop Chapter 1: Folders & Windows 13 Getting into Mac OS X 13 Windows and How to Work Them 17 The Four Window Views 32 Icon View 34 List View 42 Column View 49 Cover Flow View 52 Quick Look 54 Logging Out, Shutting Down 58 Getting Help in Mac OS X 60 Chapter 2: Organizing Your Stuff 63 The Mac OS X Folder Structure 63 Icon Names 68 Selecting Icons 70 Moving and Copying Icons 74 Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once 80 Color Labels 82 The Trash 84 Get Info 88 Chapter 3: Spotlight 93 The Spotlight Menu 93 The Spotlight Window 103 Customizing Spotlight 114 Smart Folders 117 www.it-ebooks.info vi table of contents Chapter 4: Dock, Desktop, & Toolbars 119 The Dock 119 Setting Up the Dock 120 Using the Dock 129 The Finder Toolbar 134 Designing Your Desktop 1 39 Menulets: The Missing Manual 1 41 Part Two: Programs in Mac OS X Chapter 5: Documents, Programs, & Spaces 149 Opening Mac OS X Programs 150 The “Heads-Up” Program Switcher 154 Exposé: Death to Window Clutter 155 Spaces: Your Free Quad-Display Mac 164 Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way 1 70 How Documents Know Their Parents 173 Keyboard Control 177 The Save and Open Dialog Boxes 1 83 Two Kinds of Programs: Cocoa and Carbon 188 The Cocoa Difference 189 Universal Apps (Intel Macs) and Rosetta 193 Installing Mac OS X Progr ams 1 95 Dashboard 200 Web Clips: Make Your Own Widgets 215 Chapter 6: Entering Data, Moving Data, & Time Machine 219 The Macintosh Keyboard 219 Notes on Right-Clicking 2 24 Power Typing in Snow Leopard 2 26 The Many Languages of Mac OS X T ext 2 31 Data Detectors 235 Moving Data Between Documents 2 37 Exchanging Data with Other Macs 2 41 Exchanging Data with Windows PCs 2 46 Time Machine 2 48 Chapter 7: Services, Automator, & AppleScript 261 Services 263 Automator 2 69 Building Your Own Workflow 2 80 Doing More with Automator 285 AppleScript 289 www.it-ebooks.info table of contents vii Chapter 8: Windows on Macintosh 293 Boot Camp 295 Windows in a Window 302 Life with Microsoft Exchange 305 Part Three: The Components of Mac OS X Chapter 9: System Preferences 311 The System Preferences Window 311 Accounts 314 Appearance 314 Bluetooth 316 CDs & DVDs 3 18 Date & Time 320 Desktop & Screen Saver 323 Displays 331 Dock 333 Energy Saver 334 Exposé & Spaces 337 Keyboard 3 37 Language & Text 338 MobileMe 339 Mouse 3 39 Network 3 40 Parental Controls 340 Print & Fax 3 40 Security 340 Sharing 340 Software Update 3 41 Sound 3 43 Speech 3 45 Spotlight 3 45 Startup Disk 3 45 Time Machine 3 45 Trackpad 3 46 Universal Access 3 48 www.it-ebooks.info viii table of contents Chapter 10: The Free Programs 353 Your Free Mac OS X Programs 353 Address Book 354 Automator 354 Calculator 354 Chess 3 56 Dashboard 3 58 Dictionary 358 DVD Player 361 Font Book 3 61 Front Row 3 61 GarageBand 3 61 iCal 361 iChat 3 75 iDVD 3 75 Image Capture 375 iMovie, iPhoto 382 iSync 3 82 iTunes 382 Mail 382 Photo Booth 3 82 Preview 386 QuickTime Player 395 Safari 3 95 Stickies 3 96 System Preferences 399 TextEdit 399 Time Machine 40 7 Utilities: Your Mac OS X Toolbox 408 Chapter 11: CDs, DVDs, & iTunes 431 Disks Today 431 Disks In, Disks Out 432 Startup Disks 435 Burning CDs and DVDs 436 iTunes: The Digital Jukebox 44 1 DVD Movies 451 www.it-ebooks.info [...]... • Netbooks: The Missing Manual by J.D Biersdorfer • Home Networking: The Missing Manual by Scott Lowe • Your Brain: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald • Your Body: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald • Living Green: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner • Facebook: The Missing Manual by E.A Vander Veer • Wikipedia: The Missing Manual by John Broughton For Macintosh: • Photoshop Elements for Mac: The Missing. .. 2007: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover • Excel 2007: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald • PowerPoint 2007: The Missing Manual by Emily A Vander Veer the missing credits xv www.it-ebooks.info • Access 2007: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald • Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore • PCs: The Missing Manual by Andy Rathbone • Photoshop Elements 8: The Missing Manual by... 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