Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual

Table of Contents

The Missing Credits; About the Author; Introduction; The Mac Becomes an iPad; About This Book; The Very Basics; Part One: The Mac OS X Desktop; Chapter 0: The New Lion Landscape; 1.1 Launchpad; 1.2 Full Screen Mode, Safari; 1.3 Full-Screen Apps, Mission Control; Chapter 1: Folders & Windows; 2.1 Getting into Mac OS X; 2.2 Windows and How to Work Them; 2.3 The Four Window Views; 2.4 Icon View; 2.5 List View; 2.6 Column View; 2.7 Cover Flow View; 2.8 Quick Look; 2.9 Logging Out, Shutting Down; 2.10 Getting Help in Mac OS X; Chapter 2: Organizing Your Stuff; 3.1 The Mac OS X Folder Structure; 3.2 Icon Names; 3.3 Selecting Icons; 3.4 Moving and Copying Icons; 3.5 Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once; 3.6 Color Labels; 3.7 The Trash; 3.8 Get Info; 3.9 Shortcut Menus, Action Menus; Chapter 3: Spotlight; 4.1 The Spotlight Menu; 4.2 The Spotlight Window; 4.3 Customizing Spotlight; 4.4 Smart Folders; Chapter 4: Dock, Desktop & Toolbars; 5.1 The Dock; 5.2 Setting Up the Dock; 5.3 Using the Dock; 5.4 The Finder Toolbar; 5.5 Designing Your Desktop; 5.6 Menulets: The Missing Manual; Part Two: Programs in Mac OS X; Chapter 5: Documents, Programs, & Mission Control; 6.1 The Mac App Store; 6.2 Other Ways to Get Mac Software; 6.3 Opening Mac OS X Programs; 6.4 Launchpad; 6.5 Windows that Auto-Reopen; 6.6 The “Heads-Up” Program Switcher; 6.7 Mission Control: Death to Window Clutter; 6.8 Dashboard; 6.9 Exposé; 6.10 Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way; 6.11 How Documents Know Their Parents; 6.12 Keyboard Control; 6.13 The Save and Open Dialog Boxes; 6.14 Auto Save and Versions; 6.15 Cocoa and Carbon; Chapter 6: Entering Data, Moving Data & Time Machine; 7.1 The Macintosh Keyboard; 7.2 Notes on Right-Clicking; 7.3 Power Typing; 7.4 The Many Languages of Mac OS X Text; 7.5 Data Detectors; 7.6 Moving Data Between Documents; 7.7 Exchanging Data with Other Macs; 7.8 Exchanging Data with Windows PCs; 7.9 Time Machine; Chapter 7: Services, Automator & AppleScript; 8.1 Services; 8.2 Automator; 8.3 Building Your Own Workflow; 8.4 Doing More with Automator; 8.5 AppleScript; Chapter 8: Windows on Macintosh; 9.1 Boot Camp; 9.2 Windows in a Window; 9.3 Life with Microsoft Exchange; Part Three: The Components of Mac OS X; Chapter 9: System Preferences; 10.1 The System Preferences Window; 10.2 Bluetooth; 10.3 CDs & DVDs; 10.4 Date & Time; 10.5 Desktop & Screen Saver; 10.6 Displays; 10.7 Dock; 10.8 Energy Saver; 10.9 General; 10.10 iCloud; 10.11 Keyboard; 10.12 Language & Text; 10.13 Mail, Contacts & Calendars; 10.14 Mission Control; 10.15 MobileMe; 10.16 Mouse; 10.17 Network; 10.18 Parental Controls; 10.19 Print & Scan; 10.20 Security & Privacy; 10.21 Sharing; 10.22 Software Update; 10.23 Sound; 10.24 Speech; 10.25 Spotlight; 10.26 Startup Disk; 10.27 Time Machine; 10.28 Trackpad; 10.29 Universal Access; 10.30 Users & Groups; Chapter 10: The Free Programs; 11.1 Your Free Mac OS X Programs; 11.2 Address Book; 11.3 App Store; 11.4 Automator; 11.5 Calculator; 11.6 Chess; 11.7 Dashboard; 11.8 Dictionary; 11.9 DVD Player; 11.10 FaceTime; 11.11 Font Book; 11.12 GarageBand; 11.13 iCal; 11.14 iChat; 11.15 iDVD; 11.16 Image Capture; 11.17 iMovie, iPhoto; 11.18 iTunes; 11.19 Launchpad; 11.20 Mail; 11.21 Mission Control; 11.22 Photo Booth; 11.23 Preview; 11.24 QuickTime Player; 11.25 Safari; 11.26 Stickies; 11.27 System Preferences; 11.28 TextEdit; 11.29 Time Machine; 11.30 Utilities: Your Mac OS X Toolbox; Chapter 11: CDs, DVDs & iTunes; 12.1 Disks Today; 12.2 Disks In, Disks Out; 12.3 Startup Disks; 12.4 Burning CDs and DVDs; 12.5 iTunes: The Digital Jukebox; 12.6 DVD Movies; Part Four: The Technologies of Mac OS X; Chapter 12: Accounts, Parental Controls & Security; 13.1 Introducing Accounts; 13.2 Creating an Account; 13.3 Parental Controls; 13.4 Editing Accounts; 13.5 Setting Up the Login Process; 13.6 Signing In, Logging Out; 13.7 Sharing Across Accounts; 13.8 Fast User Switching; 13.9 Five Mac OS X Security Shields; 13.10 Two Mac OS X Privacy Shields; Chapter 13: Networking, File Sharing & AirDrop; 14.1 Wiring the Network; 14.2 File Sharing: Three Ways; 14.3 AirDrop; 14.4 Sharing Your Public Folder; 14.5 Sharing Any Folder; 14.6 Accessing Shared Files; 14.7 Networking with Windows; 14.8 Screen Sharing; 14.9 More Dialing In from the Road; Chapter 14: Printing, Scanning, Fonts & Graphics; 15.1 Mac Meets Printer; 15.222222 Making the Printout; 15.3 Managing Printouts; 15.4 Printer Sharing; 15.5 Faxing; 15.6 PDF Files; 15.7 Fonts—and Font Book; 15.8 ColorSync; 15.9 Graphics in Mac OS X; 15.10 Screen-Capture Keystrokes; Chapter 15: Sound, Movies & Speech; 16.1 Playing Sounds; 16.2 Recording Sound; 16.3 QuickTime Player; 16.4 Speech Recognition; 16.5 The Mac Reads to You; 16.6 VoiceOver; 16.7 Ink: Handwriting Recognition; Chapter 16: The Unix Crash Course; 17.1 Terminal; 17.2 Navigating in Unix; 17.3 Working with Files and Directories; 17.4 Unix Help; 17.5 Terminal Preferences; 17.6 Terminal Tips and Tricks; 17.7 Changing Permissions; 17.8 20 Useful Unix Utilities; 17.9 Putting It Together; Part Five: Mac OS X Online; Chapter 17: Internet Setup & iCloud; 18.1 The Best News You’ve Heard All Day; 18.2 Network Central and Multihoming; 18.3 Broadband Connections; 18.4 Cellular Modems; 18.5 Tethering; 18.6 Dial-Up Modem Connections; 18.7 Switching Locations; 18.8 Internet Sharing; 18.9 iCloud; 18.10 Internet Location Files; Chapter 18: Mail & Contacts; 19.1 Setting Up Mail; 19.2 Checking Your Mail; 19.3 Writing Messages; 19.4 Stationery; 19.5 Reading Email; 19.6 The Anti-Spam Toolkit; 19.7 RSS Feeds; 19.8 Notes; 19.9 To Dos; 19.10 Address Book; Chapter 19: Safari; 20.1 The Three Biggies in Lion; 20.2 Browsing Basics; 20.3 Tips for Better Surfing; 20.4 Tabbed Browsing; 20.5 RSS: The Missing Manual; Chapter 20: iChat; 21.1 Welcome to iChat; 21.2 Many Chat Networks; 21.3 Setting Up Your Chat Account(s); 21.4 The Buddy List; 21.5 Making a List; 21.6 Let the Chat Begin; 21.7 Text Chatting; 21.8 Audio Chats; 21.9 Video Chats; 21.10 Juggling Chats and Windows; 21.11 Sharing Your Screen; 21.12 iChat Theater; Chapter 21: SSH, FTP, VPN & Web Sharing; 22.1 Web Sharing; 22.2 FTP; 22.3 Connecting from the Road; 22.4 Remote Access with SSH; 22.5 Virtual Private Networking; Part Six: Appendixes; Installing Mac OS X Lion; Hardware Requirements; Psychological Requirements; The Standard Installation; The Setup Assistant; The Homemade Lion Installer Disk; Uninstalling Mac OS X 10.7 Lion; Troubleshooting; Minor Eccentric Behavior; Frozen Programs (Force Quitting); Recovery Mode: Three Emergency Disks; Application Won’t Open; Startup Problems; Fixing the Disk; Where to Get Troubleshooting Help; The Windows-to-Mac Dictionary; About [this program]; The Master Mac OS X Secret Keystroke List; Startup Keystrokes; Colophon;

David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how- to authors. In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles.