Switching to the Mac · the Missing Manual, Mountain Lion Edition by Pogue, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Mountain Lion Edition 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

What OS X Gives You What OS X Takes Away About This Book

About→These→Arrows About MissingManuals.com

The Very Basics The Mountain Lion Difference

Launchpad Full-Screen Mode, Safari Full-Screen Apps, Mission Control

One. Welcome to Macintosh

1. How the Mac Is Different

Power On, Dude Right-Clicking and Shortcut Menus Logging Out, Shutting Down

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

The Menu Bar Finder = Windows Explorer Dock = Taskbar Menulets = Tray Keyboard Differences

Where the Windows Keys Went What the Special Mac Keys Do The Complicated Story of the Function Keys

Disk Differences Where Your Stuff Is

Applications Folder Home Folder System Folder

Window Controls

Title Bar The Folder Proxy Icon Close Button Minimize Button Zoom Button The Finder Sidebar

Fine-tuning the Sidebar

Window Management Scroll Bars Resizable Edges Path Bar Status Bar

Terminology Differences

2. Folders, Dock & Windows

Getting into OS X

Logging In The Elements of the OS X Desktop

Disk icons The Dock The menu The menu 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 Quick Look

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

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 Secret Menus Drag and Drop Do Your Filing Great Things to Put in Your Dock

The Finder Toolbar

Hiding or Shrinking the Toolbar Rearranging, Customizing, or Removing Toolbar Icons

Getting Help in OS X

3. Files, Icons & Spotlight

Renaming Icons Selecting Icons

Selecting by Clicking Selecting Icons from the Keyboard

Moving and Copying Icons

Copying by Dragging Copying or Moving with Copy and Paste 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

Color Labels

What Labels Are Good For Changing Labels

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

Get Info

The Get Info Panels

Shortcut Menus, Action Menus

New Folder with Selection Share

The Spotlight Menu

Spotlight-Menu Tips Advanced Menu Searches

Use quotes Limit by kind Limit by recent date Limit by metadata

The Spotlight Window

From Spotlight Menu 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. Documents, Programs & Mission Control

A Word About Apps 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 Apps

Windows that Auto-Reopen The Application Menu

Quitting Programs Force Quitting Programs

The “Heads-Up” Program Switcher 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 Deleting a Desktop

Dashboard

The Widget Browser Dashboard Tips Dashboard Preferences More Widgets

Installing a widget

Web Clips: Make Your Own Widgets Creating a Web Clips 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 The File Format Pop-up Menu Insta-Jumping to a Folder Location The Open File Dialog Box

Auto Save and Versions

Versions

Rewinding to an earlier version Revert Locking documents

Documents in the Cloud

Saving, Opening, and Moving Files Documents Across Devices

5. Entering, Moving & Backing up Data

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 Speech Settings

The Many Languages of OS X Text

Formats Tab Input Sources Tab 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 By CD or DVD FireWire Disk Mode/Thunderbolt Disk Mode (Target Disk Mode) Via Flash Drive Via the iPod Via Bluetooth

Sending a file Fetching a file

Exchanging Data with Windows PCs The Mountain Lion Share Button 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

Two. Making the Move

6. Transferring Your Files to the Mac

Transfers by Apple Genius The Windows Migration Assistant Manual Network Transfers Transfers by Disk Transfers by File-Sending Web Site Transfers by Email Where to Put Your Copied Files

Desktop Pictures (Wallpaper) Sound Effects Bookmarks (Favorites) iTunes Music

Document Conversion Issues

7. Special Software, Special Problems

ACDSee Acrobat Reader ACT Ad Subtract (Pop-Up Stopper) Adobe [your favorite program here] AOL AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) Children’s Software Chrome Easy CD Creator Encarta Eudora Excel Firefox Games Google Desktop Search Google Earth Google Chrome ICQ Internet Explorer iTunes McAfee VirusScan Microsoft Access Microsoft Money Microsoft Office Microsoft Publisher Microsoft Visio Minesweeper MSN Messenger NaturallySpeaking Netscape Newsgroup Readers Norton AntiVirus Norton Utilities Notepad Outlook/Outlook Express/Windows Mail Paint Shop Pro Palm Desktop Picasa PowerPoint QuickBooks Quicken RealPlayer RssReader Skype SnagIt (Screenshots) Solitaire Street Atlas USA TaxCut, TurboTax WinAmp, MusicMatch Windows Media Player WinZip Word WordPerfect Yahoo Messenger

8. Windows on Macintosh

Boot Camp

Installing Boot Camp 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

Life with Microsoft Exchange

Connecting to Exchange Exchange in Mail Exchange in Calendar Exchange in Contacts

9. Hardware on the Mac

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

Digital Cameras Disks Startup Disks

Selecting a Startup Disk

Erasing a Disk Burning CDs and DVDs

Burn Folders: Without the Disc When You Have a Blank Disc on Hand

iTunes: The Digital Jukebox

Library Store Devices Shared Genius Playlists

Creating playlists Smart playlists

Audio CDs

Copying (ripping) CD songs to your hard drive

The iPod, iPhone, and iPad Playing with Playback

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

Burning Music CDs

DVD Movies

Playing a Movie Language Fun Chapter Thumbnails The Big Picture

AirPlay

“Match Desktop Size” System Preferences AirPlay Sound

Keyboards

Text-Navigation Keystrokes

Mouse Monitors Scanners

More Power To You

Three. Making Connections

10. Internet Setup & iCloud

Network Central and Multihoming

Multihoming

Broadband Connections

Automatic Configuration Manual Configuration

Settings from Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Windows 7 Settings from Windows 98, Windows Me Applying the settings

Ethernet Connections WiFi Connections Commercial Hotspots

Cellular Modems Tethering Dial-Up Modem Connections Switching Locations

Creating a New Location Making the Switch

Internet Sharing

Turning On Internet Sharing

iCloud

What iCloud Giveth Starting Up iCloud iCloud Sync Photo Stream Find My Mac, Find My iPhone Email Books, Music, Apps, Movies: the Locker in the Sky

Internet Location Files

11. Mail & Contacts

Checking Your Mail

The Mailboxes List Tailoring the Look of Mail

Tweaking the three-column layout The toolbar

Writing Messages

Attaching Files to Messages 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

Message Rules

Setting up message rules

VIPs The Anti-Spam Toolkit

Using the Junk Mail Filter More Anti-Spam Tips

Contacts

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 Linked Cards

12. Safari & Messages

Browsing Basics The Unified Address/Search Bar

Searching the Web Address + Search Bar Tips Scrolling Full Screen and Gestures Five Ways to Magnify a Page Customizing the Toolbar

Bookmarks

Status Bar

14 Tips for Better Surfing

The Reading List Reader The Download Manager Let AutoFill Do the Typing Memorized Passwords Keyboard Control Graphics Worth Saving Saving Web Pages to Disk Sending a Page to a Friend Finding Text on Web Pages Expanding Web Forms PDF Pages Online Designate Your Start Page The History Menu

Tabbed Browsing

Tab View

Privacy and Security Features

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

Messages iMessages

Getting Started with iMessages Begin the iMessage Conversation

The Traditional Chat Networks

Setting Up Your Chat Accounts The Buddy List Making a List Broadcasting Your Status Sorting and Sizing Your Friends

Let the Chat Begin

They Invite You You Invite Them

Text Chatting

In-Chat Fun Popping the Balloons

Audio Chats Video Chats

Equipment Requirements Starting the Video Call Bluescreen Backdrops and Video FX

Juggling Chats and Windows Sharing Your Screen Messages Theater

Four. Putting Down Roots

13. Accounts, Parental Controls & Security

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

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

Sharing Across Accounts Fast User Switching Six OS X Security Shields

Gatekeeper The Firewall FileVault Logout Options The Password Assistant The Keychain

Managing Keychain Multiple Keychains Keychain files

And Four Privacy Shields

Location Services Contacts Twitter, Facebook Diagnostic and Usage Data

14. Networking, File Sharing & Screen Sharing

Wiring the Network

Ethernet Networks WiFi Networks Cell Networks FireWire Networks

File Sharing: Three Ways

AirDrop

Drag into the AirDrop window Use the Share Sheet

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

15. System Preferences

The System Preferences Window Accessibility

Display Zoom VoiceOver Audio Keyboard Mouse & Trackpad Speakable Items

Bluetooth 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 Screen savers Activating the screen saver

Dictation & Speech Displays

Display Tab Arrangement Tab Color Tab

Dock Energy Saver

Sleep Sliders Checkbox Options Scheduled Startup and Shutdown

General

Changing Colors Sidebar Icon Size Tweaking the Scroll Bars Ask to Keep Changes when Closing Documents Close Windows When Quitting an Application Number of Recent Items Use LCD Font Smoothing When Available Turning Off Text Smoothing for Font Sizes __ and Smaller

iCloud Keyboard

Keyboard Keyboard Shortcuts

Language & Text Mail, Contacts & Calendars Mission Control Mouse

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

Network Notifications Parental Controls Print & Scan Security & Privacy Sharing Software Update Sound

Sound Effects Tab Output Tab Input Tab

Spotlight Startup Disk Time Machine Trackpad

Point & Click Scroll & Zoom More Gestures

Users & Groups

16. The Freebie Programs

Your Free OS X Programs App Store Automator Calculator

Conversions

Calendar

Working with Views Making an Appointment

The mousy way The Quick Event way Alarms, repeats, and other details

What to Do with an Appointment

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

Searching for Events The “Calendar” Category Concept “Publishing” Calendars to the Web

Publishing Subscribing

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

Chess

Playing a Game of Chess Chess Prefs

Contacts Dashboard Dictionary DVD Player FaceTime

Place a FaceTime Call Once You’re Connected Receiving Calls

Font Book Game Center

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

GarageBand Image Capture

Import To: Import Some, Import All Scanning

iMovie, iPhoto iTunes Launchpad Mail Messages Mission Control Notes

Interior Design Pinning Notes Notes Folders Syncing Notes Notes Accounts

Notification Center

Tweeting or Facebooking Customizing the Notification Center

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 Converting file formats

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

QuickTime Player Reminders

The Details Bubble The Calendar of Deadline Hell Lists Syncing Reminders

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

Time Machine Utilities: Your OS X Toolbox

Activity Monitor

The Processes table The System monitor tabs

AirPort Utility AppleScript Editor 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 Java Preferences Keychain Access Migration Assistant Network Utility RAID Utility System Information

Saving a report

Terminal VoiceOver Utility

Five. Appendixes

A. Installing OS X Mountain Lion

Hardware Requirements Psychological Requirements The Standard Installation The Setup Assistant

After Installing Over Snow Leopard or Lion After Installing onto a Blank Drive

The Homemade Installer Disk

Phase 1: Format the Drive Phase 2: Build Your Installer

B. Troubleshooting

Minor Eccentric Behavior

First Resort: Repair Permissions Second Resort: Look for an Update Third Resort: Toss the Prefs File Fourth Resort: Restart Last Resort: Trash and Reinstall the Program

Frozen Programs (Force Quitting) Recovery Mode: Three Emergency Disks

The Recovery HD Mountain Lion Internet Recovery Physical Recovery Disks

Application Won’t Open Startup Problems

Kernel Panic Safe Mode (Safe Boot) Gray Screen During Startup Blue Screen During Startup Forgotten Password

Fixing the Disk

Method 1: Disk Utility Method 2: fsck at the Console

Single-user mode (⌘-S at startup)

Where to Get Troubleshooting Help

Help Online Help by Telephone

C. The Windows-to-Mac Dictionary

About [this program]

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 and DVDs 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 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 Tweak UI User Accounts control panel Windows (or WINNT) folder Windows logo key Windows Media Player Windows Messenger WordPad Zip files

D. The Master OS X Secret Keystroke List

Startup Keystrokes

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 Trackpad Gestures Magic Mouse Gestures

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