Basic Mac skills

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

Glossary

Index