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Basic Mac skills
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McGraw-Hill
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
Preface
1. Choosing a Mac
1.1. Processors
1.2. RAM
1.3. Hard disk size
1.4. Getting started: the Mac Mini
1.5. Family workhorse: the iMac
1.6. Creative professionals: Mac Pro
1.7. The portable MacBook
1.8. Professional portability: the MacBook Pro
1.9. Graphics cards, and DVD-writers
1.10. Mac vs PC: time to stop arguing!
2. How Macs work
2.1. Starting up
2.2. The Desktop
2.3. Basic mouse skills
2.4. Menus, dialogs and windows
2.5. Using the Dock
2.6. Starting applications
2.7. Using the Finder
2.8. Your Home folder
2.9. Managing folders and files
2.10. Finding files
2.11. What if your Mac crashes?
2.12. Shutdown and sleep
3. Plug-in devices
3.1. What devices work with a Mac?
3.2. Types of connection
3.3. Choosing a printer
3.4. Scanning your old photos
3.5. Connecting a digital camera
3.6. Using a memory card reader
3.7. Movies from your camcorder
3.8. Why external hard drives are useful
3.9. Portable stick drives
3.10. Keyboards and mice
4. What's new in Leopard
4.1. Do you need to upgrade?
4.2. Stacks
4.3. Cover Flow
4.4. Finder Sidebar
4.5. Smart Folders
4.6. Quick Look
4.7. Spaces
4.8. Time Machine
4.9. Boot Camp
4.10. Application enhancements
5. Internet and email
5.1. Getting online
5.2. Getting started with Safari
5.3. Using bookmarks
5.4. Searching online
5.5. Buying online
5.6. Working with tabs
5.7. Getting starting with Mail
5.8. Organizing your mail
5.9. Sending and receiving mail
5.10. Dealing with junk mail
6. iWork '08
6.1. What is iWork '08?
6.2. Writing a letter in Pages
6.3. Designing a leaflet in Pages
6.4. Creating a Keynote presentation
6.5. Adding a chart
6.6. Introducing spreadsheets
6.7. What's different about Numbers
6.8. Swapping documents with others
7. Mac Office 2004
7.1. No Mac is an island!
7.2. Mac Office vs Windows Office
7.3. Mac Office vs iWork '08
7.4. Microsoft Word basics
7.5. Outlining in Word
7.6. Inserting graphics in Word
7.7. Excel basics
7.8. PowerPoint basics
7.9. Entourage - unique to the Mac
7.10. Managing your projects
7.11. Office 2008 is coming
8. Working with PCs
8.1. Swapping files
8.2. Joining a network
8.3. Common file types
9. iPhoto
9.1. What is iPhoto?
9.2. How iPhoto works
9.3. Importing photos
9.4. Viewing and browsing photos
9.5. Creating albums
9.6. Using keywords and comments
9.7. Using ratings
9.8. Smart albums
9.9. Editing photos
9.10. Printing photos
9.11. Creating slideshows
9.12. Cards, books and calendars
9.13. Creating web albums
10. Using iTunes
10.1. What is iTunes?
10.2. Copying CDs to your Library
10.3. Organizing your music
10.4. Creating playlists
10.5. Enjoying your music
10.6. Creating audio CDs
10.7. Synchronizing with iPods
10.8. The iTunes store
10.9. What's DRM?
10.10. What are podcasts?
10.11. What's Internet radio?
11. iMovie and iDVD
11.1. What iMovie does
11.2. What iDVD does
11.3. Getting clips into iMovie
11.4. Organizing and browsing clips
11.5. Creating a project
11.6. Adding transitions
11.7. Adding titles
11.8. Adding a voiceover
11.9. Exporting the movie
11.10. Creating a new iDVD project
11.11. Importing video
11.12. Simple modifications
11.13. Burning a DVD
12. Organize your life with iCal
12.1. What does iCal do?
12.2. Creating an appointment
12.3. Setting a reminder
12.4. Using multiple calendars
12.5. Adding a To Do
12.6. Viewing your To Dos in Mail
12.7. What does Address Book do?
12.8. Organizing contacts into groups
12.9. New: Smart Groups
13. Get online with iWeb
13.1. Getting started
13.2. Adding your own text
13.3. Adding your own photos
13.4. Adding other objects
13.5. Building a website
13.6. Websites versus blogs
13.7. Going live
14. Subscribing to .Mac
14.1. What is .Mac?
14.2. iPhoto web galleries
14.3. Email
14.4. Website publishing
14.5. iDisk
14.6. Synchronization
14.7. Is it worth it?
15. Dashboard widgets
15.1. What are Dashboard widgets?
15.2. Configuring widgets
15.3. Where to get more
15.4. Favourite widgets
16. Games and utilities
16.1. Game types and top sellers
16.2. Where to get Mac games
16.3. Games online
16.4. Mac utilities
17. Multiple users
17.1. Your user account
17.2. Adding a user
17.3. Switching between users
18. System Preferences
18.1. Personal Perferences
18.2. Hardware Preferences
18.3. Internet & Network Preferences
18.4. System Preferences
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9780071598415
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