OS X Yosemite · the Missing Manual by Pogue, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

OS X Yosemite: The Missing Manual A Note Regarding Supplemental Files The Missing Credits

About the Author

About the Creative Team

Acknowledgments The Missing Manual Series

For the Mac For Windows Electronics Web Technologies Life

Introduction

The Mac Becomes an iPad What’s New in Yosemite About This Book

About the Outline About→These→Arrows About MissingManuals.com

The Very Basics

One. The OS X Desktop

1. Folders & Windows

Getting into OS X

Logging In The Elements of the OS X Desktop

The Dock The menu The menu bar Disk icons on the desktop

Windows and How to Work Them

The Sidebar

Fine-tuning the Sidebar

Title Bar Close Button Minimize Button Full Screen Button The Folder Proxy Icon The Finder Toolbar Two Clicks, One Window Old Finder Mode Scroll Bars Resizable Edges Path Bar Status Bar

The Four Window Views Icon View

Icon Size Icon Previews Icon-View Options

Always open in icon view Browse in icon view Arrange By, Sort By Icon size Grid spacing Text size Label position Show item info Show icon preview Background Use as Defaults

Arrange By and Sort By

Arranging Sorting Free dragging—and grid spacing

List View

Sorting the List Arranging the List Flippy Triangles Your Choice of Columns Other View Options Rearranging Columns Adjusting Column Widths

Column View

Column View by Keyboard Manipulating the Columns Grouping the Column Contents View Options

Cover Flow View Yosemite’s New Preview Pane Quick Look

What Quick Look Knows Fun with Quick Look The Quick Look Slideshow

Finder Tabs

Creating Tabs Using Tabs Tab Management

Logging Out, Shutting Down

Sleep Mode Restart Shut Down The “Reopen windows” Option Log Out

Getting Help in OS X

2. Organizing Your Stuff

The OS X Folder Structure

Your Home Folder What’s on Your Hard Drive What’s in Your Home Folder

Icon Names

Rename One File Renaming Batches of Files

Selecting Icons

Selecting by Clicking Selecting Icons from the Keyboard

Moving and Copying Icons

Copying by Dragging Copying or Moving with Copy and Paste Dragging from the Title Bar Spring-Loaded Folders: Dragging Icons into Closed Folders Making Spring-Loaded Folders Work

Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once

What’s Good about Aliases Broken Aliases

Finder Tags

What Tags Are Good For Creating Tags Editing Tag Names and Colors Two Sets of Favorite Tags Applying Tags Using Tags Detagging Files

The Trash

Rescuing Files and Folders from the Trash Emptying the Trash I: Quick and Easy Emptying the Trash II: Secure and Forever Locked Files: The Next Generation

Get Info

Uniwindow vs. Multiwindow The Get Info Panels

Shortcut Menus, Action Menus

New Folder with Selection Share

3. Spotlight

The Spotlight Menu

The Preview Pane Opening a Result Spotlight Results Tips Times You Might Not Think of Spotlight Advanced Menu Searches

Use quotes Limit by kind Limit by recent date Limit by tag Limit by metadata Boolean searches

The Searching Window

From Spotlight From the Finder The Basic Search

Where to look The suggestions list

Power Searches with Tokens Power Searching the Old Way

Kind Last opened date/Last modified date/Created date Name Contents Other

What to Do with Search Results

Customizing Spotlight

Privacy Settings

Smart Folders

4. Dock, Desktop & Toolbars

The Dock Setting Up the Dock

Organizing and Removing Dock Icons Pop-Up Dock Folders (“Stacks”)

Fan vs. grid vs. list

The Finer Points of Pop-up Dock Folders Three Ways to Get the Dock Out of Your Hair

Auto-hiding the Dock Shrinking and enlarging the Dock Moving the Dock to the sides of the screen

Using the Dock

Switch Applications Operate the Dock by Keyboard Control Secret Menus Conduct Speed Tests Drag and Drop Do Your Filing Great Things to Put in Your Dock

The Finder Toolbar

Hiding or Shrinking the Toolbar Customizing the Icons on the Toolbar

Apple’s toolbar-icon collection Adding your own stuff

Rearranging or Removing Toolbar Icons

Designing Your Desktop

System Preferences Graphic Designers’ Corner: The Gray Look Dark Menu Bar and Dock Desktop Sounds

Menulets: The Missing Manual

Two. Programs in OS X

5. Documents, Programs & Mission Control

The Mac App Store Other Ways to Get Mac Software

Downloading Compressed Files

Disk images (.dmg files) Performing the installation

Uninstalling Software

Opening OS X Programs Launchpad

Redesigning the Launchpad Screens Folders Deleting App Store Programs

Windows That Auto-Reopen

The Application Menu Quitting Programs Force Quitting Programs

The “Heads-Up” Program Switcher Full Screen Mode Mission Control: Death to Window Clutter

Starting and Stopping Mission Control

Mission Control keystrokes Screen corners

Managing Windows in Mission Control Spaces in Mission Control Creating a Desktop Switching Spaces Rearranging Spaces Spaces and Multiple Monitors Two Eccentric Spaces Settings Pictures for Every Desktop Deleting a Desktop

Dashboard

The Widget Browser Dashboard Tips Dashboard Preferences Widget Catalog

Calculator Calendar Contacts Dictionary ESPN Flight Tracker Movies Stickies Stocks Tile Game Translation Unit Converter Weather Web Clip World Clock

More Widgets

Installing a widget

Web Clips

Creating a Web Clip widget

Exposé

One-App Exposé Desktop Exposé Exposé Tip-O-Rama

Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way

Hiding the Program You’re Using Hiding All Other Programs The Bring-Forward, Hide-All-Others Trick Hiding (Minimizing) Individual Windows

How Documents Know Their Parents

Reassigning Documents to Programs

Reassigning a certain document—just once Reassigning a certain document—permanently Reassigning all documents of one type

Keyboard Control

Control the Menus Control the Dock Cycle Through Your Windows Control the Toolbar Control Tool Palettes Control Menulets Control Dialog Boxes Changing a Menu Keyboard Shortcut Redefining a Keystroke

The Save and Open Dialog Boxes

Sheets The Mini Finder Spotlight Insta-Jumping to a Folder Location The File Format Pop-Up Menu The Open File Dialog Box

Auto Save and Versions

Versions

Rewinding to an earlier version Revert

iCloud Drive

iCloud Drive Defined Putting Files onto the iCloud Drive iCloud Drive on Other Devices

Cocoa and Carbon

The Cocoa Difference

The Font panel Retina friendliness Title-bar tricks Secret keyboard shortcuts Cool text-selection tricks Background window control

6. Data: Typing, Dictating, Sharing & Backing Up

The Mac Keyboard

The Complicated Story of the Function Keys

Notes on Right-Clicking Power Typing

The OS X Spelling and Grammar Checker Text Substitution (Abbreviation Expansion)

Insert the proper typographical symbols Replace abbreviations with much longer phrases

Case Swapping

Dictation

Dictation Step by Step Punctuation Enhanced Dictation Speech Settings

The Many Languages of OS X Text

Formats Input Sources The Character Viewer Keyboard Viewer

Data Detectors Moving Data Between Documents

Cut, Copy, and Paste Drag-and-Drop

When to use drag-and-drop Drag-and-drop to the desktop

Export/Import

Exchanging Data with Other Macs

By Network By Email Using Dropbox Via iCloud Drive By CD or DVD FireWire Disk Mode/Thunderbolt Disk Mode (Target Disk Mode) Via Flash Drive Via Bluetooth

Sending a file Fetching a file

Exchanging Data with Windows PCs

Preparing the Document for Transfer

Is the document in a file format Windows understands? Does the file have the correct file name suffix?

Notes on Disk Swapping Network Notes Via the Internet

The Share Button ()

Editing the Share Menu

Time Machine

Setting Up Time Machine How the Backups Work Local Snapshots Changing Time Machine Settings Recovering Lost or Changed Files

Recovering from Contacts and Mail Recovering the entire hard drive Recovering to another Mac

Frequently Asked Questions

7. Mac+iPhone: Handoff, AirDrop & Continuity

Mac as Speakerphone

And if It’s Not Working

Texting from the Mac Instant Hotspot Handoff AirDrop

From iPhone to Mac

8. Windows on the Mac

Boot Camp

Installing Boot Camp

Phase 1: Build the drivers drive Phase 2: Create the Windows partition on your Mac Phase 3: Install Windows Phase 4: Install the Mac drivers

Forth and Back, Windows/Mac Keyboard Translation Guide Accessing Mac Files from the Dark Side—and Vice Versa

Windows in a Window

Virtualization Tip-O-Rama

Three. The Components of OS X

9. System Preferences

The System Preferences Window Accessibility

Display Zoom VoiceOver Descriptions Captions Audio Keyboard Mouse & Trackpad Switch Control Dictation

App Store Bluetooth

Pairing Advanced Options The Bluetooth Menulet

CDs & DVDs Date & Time

Date & Time Tab Time Zone Tab Clock Tab

Desktop & Screen Saver

Desktop Pictures

Using your own pictures Making the picture fit Auto picture changing

Screen Saver

Slideshows Nonphotographic displays Activating the screensaver

Dictation & Speech Displays

Display Tab Arrangement Tab (Multiple Monitors)

The wired way The wireless way

The Arrangement Tab Color Tab

Dock Energy Saver

Sleep Sliders Checkbox Options Scheduled Startup and Shutdown

Extensions General

Changing Colors Sidebar Icon Size Tweaking the Scroll Bars Default Web Browser Ask to Keep Changes When Closing Documents Close Windows When Quitting an App Number of Recent Items Allow Handoff Between This Mac and Your iCloud Devices Use LCD Font Smoothing When Available

iCloud Internet Accounts Keyboard

Keyboard Tab Text Tab Shortcuts Tab Input Sources

Language & Region Mission Control Mouse

Tracking Speed, Double-Click Speed The Mighty Mouse and Magic Mouse

Network Notifications Parental Controls Printers & Scanners Security & Privacy Sharing Sound

Sound Effects Tab Output Tab Input Tab

Spotlight Startup Disk Time Machine Trackpad

Point & Click Scroll & Zoom More Gestures

Users & Groups

10. Notifications

Insta-Respond to Bubbles Shutting Up the Bubbles

Dismiss One Bubble Do Not Disturb (Manual) Do Not Disturb (Automatic)

The Notification Center

Notifications Tab Today Tab Messaging, Tweeting, or Facebooking Customizing the Notification Center

11. The Free Programs of OS X

Your Free OS X Programs App Store Automator Calculator

Conversions

Calendar

Working with Views Making an Appointment

The mousy way The Quick Event way Location, alarms, travel time, and other details

What to Do with an Appointment

Editing events Rescheduling events Lengthening or shortening events Printing events Searching for events Deleting events

The “Calendar” Category Concept “Publishing” Calendars to the Web

Publishing Subscribing

Google, Yahoo, and Facebook Calendars Syncing Calendar with Your iPhone, iPad, and Other Computers

Chess

Playing a Game of Chess Chess Prefs Studying Your Games

Contacts Dashboard Dictionary DVD Player FaceTime

Placing a Call FaceTime Audio Calls Receiving Calls

Font Book Game Center

Getting Started Points and Achievements Making Friends Finding Games Managing Game Center

GarageBand iBooks

Downloading Books ePub Files PDF Files Your Library Reading Notes, Bookmarks, Highlighting, Dictionary iBooks Settings

General tab Store tab Parental tab

iChat Image Capture

Import To: Import Some, Import All Scanning

More power to you

iPhoto/Photos iMovie iTunes Launchpad Mail Maps

Meet Maps Finding Yourself Searching the Maps The Details Screen Bookmarks, Recents, Contacts Finding Friends and Businesses Directions Traffic Flyover Flyover Tours

Messages Mission Control Notes

Interior Design Pinning Notes Notes Folders Syncing Notes Notes Accounts

Numbers, Pages Photo Booth

Still Photos 4-Up Photos Movies Exporting Shots and Movies

Preview

Importing Camera Photos Operating Your Scanner Multiple Pages, Multiple Views Preview as Graphics Viewer

Bunches o’ graphics Cropping graphics Fixing up photos Cutting backgrounds out Converting file formats

Preview as PDF Reader Annotations and Drawing Tools Signing PDF Documents with Your Real Signature Fill in PDF Forms The Toolbar

Reminders

The Details Bubble The Calendar of Deadline Hell Lists Syncing Reminders

QuickTime Player Safari Stickies

Creating Sticky Notes Growing and Shrinking Notes Formatting Notes Saving Sticky Notes

System Preferences TextEdit

TextEdit’s Two Personalities Working in TextEdit Style Sheets Tables TextEdit as Web Designer The TextEdit Preferences TextEdit’s Other Writing Tools

Time Machine Utilities: Your OS X Toolbox

Activity Monitor

The Processes table The System monitor tabs

AirPort Utility Audio MIDI Setup Bluetooth File Exchange Boot Camp Assistant ColorSync Utility Console DigitalColor Meter Disk Utility

Disk Utility, the hard drive repair program Disk Utility, the disk-image program Turning an image into a CD

Grab Grapher Keychain Access Migration Assistant Network Utility Script Editor System Information Terminal VoiceOver Utility

12. Disks, Drives & iTunes

Disks Today

Hard Drives CDs, DVDs Flash Drives

Disks In, Disks Out Startup Disks

Selecting a Startup Disk

Erasing a Disk Burning CDs and DVDs iTunes: The Digital Jukebox

Your Stuff Three Ways to Fill Your Library Playlists

Smart playlists Editing and deleting playlists

iTunes Store Music () TV (), Movies (), and Movie Rentals Podcasts () iTunes U () Audiobooks () Apps () Internet Radio () Authorizing Computers Syncing an iPad or iPhone

Connecting the phone with a cable Connecting over WiFi

iTunes Radio

Playing iTunes Radio Make your own station Deleting or editing a station

Playing with Playback

Turning on visuals Keyboard control Sound Check: Preventing ear-blast syndrome Playing with the graphic equalizer

Four. The Technologies of OS X

13. Accounts, Security & Gatekeeper

Introducing Accounts

The First Account

Creating an Account

Phase 1: Choose an Account Type

Administrator accounts Standard accounts Managed accounts with Parental Controls Sharing Only account Group The Guest account

Phase 2: Name, Password, and Status Phase 3: Choose a Picture Phase 4: Login Items (Startup Items)

Parental Controls

Apps Tab

Limit Applications Use Simple Finder

Web Tab People Tab Time Limits Other Tab

Editing Accounts

Deleting Accounts

Setting Up the Login Process Signing In, Logging Out

Identifying Yourself Logging Out Logout Options

Sharing Across Accounts Fast User Switching OS X and Security Gatekeeper FileVault The Firewall The Password Assistant The Keychain

Locking and Unlocking the Keychain Managing Keychain Multiple Keychains Keychain Files

Five Privacy Shields

Location Services Contacts, Calendars, Reminders Twitter, Facebook Accessibility Diagnostic and Usage Data

14. Networking, File Sharing & AirDrop

Wiring the Network

Ethernet Networks WiFi Networks Cell Networks FireWire Networks

File Sharing: Three Ways AirDrop

Sending by AirDrop Eight Reasons AirDrop Might Seem Not to Work Receiving a File by AirDrop

Sharing Your Public Folder Sharing Any Folder

The Get Info Method The System Preferences Method

Accessing Shared Files

Connection Method A: Use the Sidebar Connection Method B: Connect to Server Disconnecting Yourself Disconnecting Others

Networking with Windows

Seated at the Mac, Seeing the PC Seated at the PC, Seeing the Mac More Mac-Windows Connections

Screen Sharing

Other Mac: Give Permission in Advance Your Mac: Take Control The Toolbar Variations on Screen Sharing

Screen sharing through Messages Screen sharing the manual way Screen sharing with Back to My Mac

More Dialing In from the Road

15. Graphics, Fonts & Printing

Mac Meets Printer

Setting Up a Printer Printer Preferences

Making the Printout

Printing

Managing Printouts Printer Sharing Faxing PDF Files

Opening PDF Files Creating PDF Files

Fonts—and Font Book

Where Fonts Live Font Book: Installing and Managing Fonts

Looking over your fonts Printing a reference sheet Eliminating duplicates Adding, removing, and hiding fonts Font collections Smart collections Font libraries Exporting fonts

The Fonts Panel

Choosing fonts from the Fonts panel Designing collections and favorites

ColorSync

Getting ColorSync Profiles Default Profiles More on ColorSync

Graphics in OS X

Graphics Formats on the Mac

Screen-Capture Keystrokes

The Whole Screen One Section of the Screen A Dialog Box, Menu, Window, or Icon

16. Sound, Movies & Speech

Playing Sounds

Controlling the Volume Alert Beeps and You

Choosing an alert beep Adding new alert beeps

Recording Sounds

Making the Recording

QuickTime Player

Fancy Playback Tricks

Editing movies Recording movies with QuickTime Player Recording screen movies of the Mac Recording movies of an iPhone or iPad screen

Internet Streaming QuickTime

Streaming video from your browser

Eleven Ways to Export Your Video

Post to YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, Facebook Send to Email, Message, AirDrop Saving the finished movie

The Mac Reads to You

Setting Up the Mac’s Voice

Announce when alerts are displayed Announce when alerts are displayed Speak selected text when the key is pressed

VoiceOver Ink: Handwriting Recognition

Five. OS X Online

17. Internet Setup & iCloud

The Best News You’ve Heard All Day Network Central and Multihoming

Multihoming

Broadband Connections

Automatic Configuration Manual Configuration Ethernet Connections WiFi Connections Commercial Hotspots

Cellular Modems Tethering (Personal Hotspot) Dial-Up Modem Connections Switching Locations

Creating a New Location Making the Switch

Internet Sharing

Turning On Internet Sharing

Meet iCloud iCloud Drive Photos

My Photo Stream iCloud Photo Sharing iCloud Photo Library Mail Data Synchronization

Find My Mac, Find My iPhone Back to My Mac Family Sharing

Setting Up Family Sharing Life in Family Sharing

More iCloud Features

Automatic backup Continuity Books, Music, Apps, Movies: The Locker in the Sky

18. Mail & Contacts

Setting Up Mail

Importing Old Mail

Checking Your Mail

The Mailboxes List

Tailoring the Look of Mail

Tweaking the Three-Column Layout Tweaking the Classic Layout The Toolbar

Writing Messages

Attaching Files to Messages Mail Drop: Sending Huge Attachments Marking Up, Signing, and Drawing on Attachments Signatures

Stationery Reading Email

Conversation View Adding the Sender to Contacts Data Detectors Opening File Attachments Replying to a Message Forwarding Messages Redirecting Messages Printing Messages Filing Messages Flagging Messages Finding Messages Deleting Messages

Emptying the Trash folder Turning deleted mail invisible Archiving messages

Exporting Mailboxes Message Rules

Setting up message rules

VIPs The Anti-Spam Toolkit

Using the Junk Mail Filter More Anti-Spam Tips

Contacts (Address Book)

Importing Addresses

Importing from Yahoo, Google, Exchange, or another Internet service Importing from another address-book program About vCards

Creating Address Cards

Editing an address Adding addresses from Mail

Groups

Smart groups Removing someone from a group

Adding Pictures

Replacing and removing a picture Free headshots from Facebook

Finding an Address Changing the Contacts Display Printing Options Contacts Backups

19. Safari

The Unified Address/Search Bar

Searching the Web Address/Search Bar Tips

Bookmarks, Favorites, and Top Sites

Adding a Bookmark Organizing Bookmarks in the Sidebar Organizing Bookmarks in the Editor Favorites View Favorites Bar Top Sites

Full Screen and Gestures

Scrolling Five Ways to Magnify a Page

Customizing the Toolbar Saved Passwords: The iCloud Keychain

Memorized Contact Information Memorized Passwords Auto-Filled-In Credit Cards Synchronized Passwords Setting Up iCloud Keychain

Set up the first Mac Adding another Mac to your iCloud Keychain Adding an iOS gadget to your iCloud Keychain

Auto-Generated Passwords

15 Tips for Better Surfing

The Reading List The Download Manager Reader Status Bar Keyboard Control Graphics Worth Saving Saving Web Pages to Disk Sending a Page to a Friend Expanding Web Forms Designate Your Start Page Finding Text on Web Pages The History Menu PDF Pages Online Shared Links and RSS Feeds

RSS subscriptions

Tabbed Browsing

Tab View

iCloud tabs

Privacy and Security Features

Erasing Your History Private Browsing Cookie Control—and Privacy Control Stifle Pop-Ups and Pop-Unders

20. Messages

Welcome to Messages