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What do you get when you cross a Mac with an iPad? OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Its 200 new features include iPaddish goodies like dictation, Notification Center, and Reminders—but not a single page of instructions. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, with the expertise and humor that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for over 10 years straight. Big-ticket changes. Twitter and Facebook intgration. Air-Play TV mirroring. Power Nap. Game Center. Documents in the Cloud. iMessages. Gatekeeper. If Apple wrote it, this book covers it Mountain Lion Watch. This book demystifies the hundreds of smaller enhancements, too, in all 50 programs that come with the Mac: Safari, Mail, Messages, Preview Shortcuts. This must be the tippiest, trickiest Mac book ever written. Undocumented surprises await on every page. Power users. Security, accounts, networking, build-your own Services, file sharing with Windows—this one witty, expert guide makes it all crystal clear. There's something new on practically every page of this new edition, and David Pogue brings his celebrated wit and expertise to every one of them. Apple's brought a new cat to town, and Mac OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual is the best way to tame it. 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. 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 Chapter 0 The Mountain Lion Landscape         Launchpad         Full-Screen Mode, Safari         Full-Screen Apps, Mission Control     Chapter 1 Folders & Windows         Getting into 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 OS X     Chapter 2 Organizing Your Stuff         The 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         Shortcut Menus, Action Menus     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 OS X     Chapter 5 Documents, Programs & Mission Control         The Mac App Store         Other Ways to Get Mac Software         Opening OS X Programs         Launchpad         Windows that Auto-Reopen         The “Heads-Up” Program Switcher         Mission Control: Death to Window Clutter         Dashboard         Exposé         Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way         How Documents Know Their Parents         Keyboard Control         The Save and Open Dialog Boxes         Auto Save and Versions         Documents in the Cloud         Cocoa and Carbon     Chapter 6 Data: Typing, Dictating, Sharing & Backing Up         The Macintosh Keyboard         Notes on Right-Clicking         Power Typing         Dictation         The Many Languages of OS X Text         Data Detectors         Moving Data Between Documents         Exchanging Data with Other Macs         Exchanging Data with Windows PCs         The Mountain Lion Share Button         Time Machine     Chapter 7 Automator, AppleScript & Services         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 OS X     Chapter 9 System Preferences         The System Preferences Window         Accessibility         Bluetooth         CDs & DVDs         Date & Time         Desktop & Screen Saver         Dictation & Speech         Displays         Dock         Energy Saver         General         iCloud         Keyboard         Language & Text         Mail, Contacts & Calendars         Mission Control         Mouse         Network         Notifications         Parental Controls         Print & Scan         Security & Privacy         Sharing         Software Update         Sound         Spotlight         Startup Disk         Time Machine         Trackpad         Users & Groups     Chapter 10 Reminders, Notes & Notification Center         Notification Center         Reminders         Notes     Chapter 11 The Other Free Programs         Your Free OS X Programs         Address Book         App Store         Automator         Calculator         Calendar         Chess         Contacts         Dashboard         Dictionary         DVD Player         FaceTime         Font Book         Game Center         GarageBand         iChat         Image Capture         iMovie, iPhoto         iTunes         Launchpad         Mail         Messages         Mission Control         Notes         Photo Booth         Preview         Reminders         QuickTime Player         Safari         Stickies         System Preferences         TextEdit         Time Machine         Utilities: Your OS X Toolbox     Chapter 12 CDs, DVDs, iTunes & AirPlay         Disks Today         Disks In, Disks Out         Startup Disks         Erasing a Disk         Burning CDs and DVDs         iTunes: The Digital Jukebox         DVD Movies         AirPlay         The Technologies of OS X     Chapter 13 Accounts, Security & Gatekeeper         Introducing Accounts         Creating an Account         Parental Controls         Editing Accounts         Setting Up the Login Process         Signing In, Logging Out         Sharing Across Accounts         Fast User Switching         Six OS X Security Shields         And Four Privacy Shields     Chapter 14 Networking, File Sharing & AirDrop         Wiring the Network         File Sharing: Three Ways         Accessing Shared Files         Networking with Windows         Screen Sharing         More Dialing In from the Road     Chapter 15 Graphics, Fonts & Printing         Mac Meets Printer         Making the Printout         Managing Printouts         Printer Sharing         Faxing         PDF Files         Fonts—and Font Book         ColorSync         Graphics in OS X         Screen-Capture Keystrokes     Chapter 16 Sound, Movies & Speech         Playing Sounds         Recording Sounds         QuickTime Player         The Mac Reads to You         VoiceOver         Ink: Handwriting Recognition         OS X Online     Chapter 17 Internet Setup & iCloud         The Best News You’ve Heard All Day         Network Central and Multihoming         Broadband Connections         Cellular Modems         Tethering         Dial-Up Modem Connections         Switching Locations         Internet Sharing         iCloud         Internet Location Files     Chapter 18 Mail & Contacts         Setting Up Mail         Checking Your Mail         Writing Messages         Stationery         Reading Email         VIPs         The Anti-Spam Toolkit         Contacts (Address Book)     Chapter 19 Safari         Browsing Basics         The New, Unified Address/Search Bar         Bookmarks         15 Tips for Better Surfing         Tabbed Browsing     Chapter 20 Messages         Welcome to Messages         iMessages         The Traditional Chat Networks         Let the Chat Begin         Text Chatting         Audio Chats         Video Chats         Juggling Chats and Windows         Sharing Your Screen         Messages Theater     Chapter 21 SSH, FTP, VPN & Web Sharing         FTP         Connecting from the Road         Remote Access with SSH         Virtual Private Networking Appendixes     Appendix A Installing OS X Mountain Lion         Hardware Requirements         Psychological Requirements         The Standard Installation         The Setup Assistant         The Homemade Installer Disk     Appendix B 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     Appendix C The Windows-to-Mac Dictionary         About [this program]     Appendix D The Master OS X Secret Keystroke List         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