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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. You get all the answers with jargon-free introductions to: 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. 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. Shortcuts. This must be the tippiest, trickiest Mac book ever written. Undocumented surprises await on every page. 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. About The Author 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. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the "For Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music). In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles. Table of Contents The Mac OS X Desktop Chapter 1 Folders & Windows Getting into Mac OS X Windows and How to Work Them The Four Window Views Icon View List View Column View Cover Flow View Quick Look Logging Out, Shutting Down Getting Help in Mac OS X Chapter 2 Organizing Your Stuff The Mac OS X Folder Structure Icon Names Selecting Icons Moving and Copying Icons Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once Color Labels The Trash Get Info Chapter 3 Spotlight The Spotlight Menu The Spotlight Window Customizing Spotlight Smart Folders Chapter 4 Dock, Desktop, & Toolbars The Dock Setting Up the Dock Using the Dock The Finder Toolbar Designing Your Desktop Menulets: The Missing Manual Programs in Mac OS X Chapter 5 Documents, Programs, & Spaces Opening Mac OS X Programs The "Heads-Up" Program Switcher Exposé: Death to Window Clutter Spaces: Your Free Quad-Display Mac Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way How Documents Know Their Parents Keyboard Control The Save and Open Dialog Boxes Two Kinds of Programs: Cocoa and Carbon The Cocoa Difference Universal Apps (Intel Macs) and Rosetta Installing Mac OS X Programs Dashboard Web Clips: Make Your Own Widgets Chapter 6 Entering Data, Moving Data, & Time Machine The Macintosh Keyboard Notes on Right-Clicking Power Typing in Snow Leopard The Many Languages of Mac OS X Text Data Detectors Moving Data Between Documents Exchanging Data with Other Macs Exchanging Data with Windows PCs Time Machine Chapter 7 Services, Automator, & AppleScript Services Automator Building Your Own Workflow Doing More with Automator AppleScript Chapter 8 Windows on Macintosh Boot Camp Windows in a Window Life with Microsoft Exchange The Components of Mac OS X Chapter 9 System Preferences The System Preferences Window Accounts Appearance Bluetooth CDs & DVDs Date & Time Desktop & Screen Saver Displays Dock Energy Saver Expose & Spaces Keyboard Language & Text MobileMe Mouse Network Parental Controls Print & Fax Security Sharing Software Update Sound Speech Spotlight Startup Disk Time Machine Trackpad Universal Access Chapter 10 The Free Programs Your Free Mac OS X Programs Address Book Automator Calculator Chess Dashboard Dictionary DVD Player Font Book Front Row GarageBand iCal iChat iDVD Image Capture iMovie, iPhoto iSync iTunes Mail Photo Booth Preview QuickTime Player Safari Stickies System Preferences TextEdit Time Machine Utilities: Your Mac OS X Toolbox Chapter 11 CDs, DVDs, & iTunes Disks Today Disks In, Disks Out Startup Disks Burning CDs and DVDs iTunes: The Digital Jukebox DVD Movies The Technologies of Mac OS X Chapter 12 Accounts, Parental Controls, & Security Introducing Accounts Creating an Account Parental Controls Editing Accounts Setting Up the Login Process Signing In, Logging Out Sharing Across Accounts Fast User Switching Five Mac OS X Security Shields Chapter 13 Networking, File Sharing, & Screen Sharing Wiring the Network File Sharing Accessing Shared Files Networking with Windows Screen Sharing More Dialing In from the Road Chapter 14 Printing, Faxing, Fonts, & Graphics Mac Meets Printer Making the Printout Managing Printouts Printer Sharing Faxing PDF Files Fonts—and Font Book ColorSync Graphics in Mac OS X Screen-Capture Keystrokes Chapter 15 Sound, Movies, & Speech Playing Sounds Recording Sound QuickTime Movies Speech Recognition The Mac Reads to You VoiceOver Ink: Handwriting Recognition Front Row Chapter 16 The Unix Crash Course Terminal Navigating in Unix Working with Files and Directories Online Help Terminal Preferences Terminal Tips and Tricks Changing Permissions with Terminal 20 Useful Unix Utilities Putting It Together Chapter 17 Hacking Mac OS X TinkerTool: Customization 101 Redoing Mac OS X's Graphics Replacing the Finder Icons Rewriting the Words Your Bright Hacking Future Mac OS Online Chapter 18 Internet Setup & MobileMe The Best News You've Heard All Day Network Central—and Multihoming Broadband Connections Cellular Modems Dial-up Modem Connections Switching Locations Internet Sharing MobileMe Internet Location Files Chapter 19 Mail & Address Book Setting Up Mail Checking Your Mail Writing Messages Stationery Reading Email The Anti-Spam Toolkit RSS Feeds Notes To Dos Address Book Chapter 20 Safari Safari Tips for Better Surfing Tabbed Browsing RSS: The Missing Manual Chapter 21 iChat Welcome to iChat Three Chat Networks Signing Up The Buddy Lists Making a List Let the Chat Begin Text Chatting Audio Chats Video Chats Sharing Your Screen iChat Theater iChat Tweaks Chapter 22 SSH, FTP, VPN, & Web Sharing Web Sharing FTP Connecting from the Road Remote Access with SSH Virtual Private Networking Appendixes Appendix Installing Mac OS X 10.6 Getting Ready to Install Two Kinds of Installation The Automatic Installation The Erase & Install Option The Setup Assistant Uninstalling Mac OS X 10.6 Appendix Troubleshooting Minor Eccentric Behavior Frozen Programs (Force Quitting) Can't Move or Rename an Icon Application Won't Open Startup Problems Fixing the Disk Where to Get Troubleshooting Help Appendix The Windows-to-Mac Dictionary About [this program] Accessibility Options control panel Active Desktop Add Hardware control panel Add or Remove Programs control panel All Programs Alt key Automatic Update Backspace key Battery Level BIOS Briefcase Calculator Camera and Scanner Wizard CDs Character Map Clean Install Clipboard Command line Control Panel Copy, Cut, Paste Ctrl key Date and Time Delete Key (Forward Delete) Desktop Directories Disk Defragmenter Disks Display control panel DLL files DOS prompt Drivers End Task dialog box Exiting programs Explorer Favorites Faxing File Sharing Floppy disks Folder Options Fonts Help and Support Hibernation Internet Explorer Internet Options IRQs Java Keyboard control panel Logging in Mail control panel Maximize button Menus Minimize button Mouse control panel (My) Computer (My) Documents, (My) Pictures, (My) Music (My) Network Places Network Neighborhood Notepad Personal Web Server Phone and Modem Options control panel Power Options Printer Sharing Printers and Faxes PrntScrn key Program Files folder Properties dialog box Recycle Bin Regional and Language Options control panel Registry Run command Safe Mode ScanDisk Scheduled Tasks Scrap files Screen saver Search Shortcut menus Shortcuts Sounds and Audio Devices Speech control panel Standby mode Start menu StartUp folder System control panel System Tray Taskbar Taskbar and Start Menu control panel "Three-fingered salute" ToolTips TweakUI User Accounts control panel Window edges Windows (or WINNT) folder Windows logo key Windows Media Player Windows Messenger WordPad Zip files Appendix Where to Go from Here Web Sites Free Email Newsletters Advanced Books, Programming Books Appendix The Master Mac OS X Secret Keystroke List Startup Keystrokes In the Finder Menu Finder Menu File Menu Edit Menu View Menu Go Menu Window Menu Help Menu Power Keys The Dock Managing Programs Dialog Boxes Colophon