Mac OS X Lion Pocket Guide by Seibold, Chris -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Mac OS X Lion Pocket Guide

Preface

Conventions Used in This Book

Menu Symbols

Attribution and Permissions Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

1. What’s New in Lion?

Getting Your Hands on Lion A Brand-New Look

Resize from Any Edge

Full-Screen Applications Mission Control Launchpad All My Files Gestures AirDrop Auto Save and Versions Resume Mail What Lion Can’t Do

2. Installing Lion and Migrating Data

What You Need to Run Lion Preparing for the Install Installing Lion

After the Install Moving Data and Applications from Another Computer Networking Options When Migrating Data Fine-Tuning Data Migration

3. A Quick Guide to Lion

What You Need to Know About Mac OS X

User Accounts

Setting up accounts

The Home Folder

Using Lion

Starting Up

Startup key commands

Logging In Logging Out, Sleeping, and Shutting Down

Shut down and log out shortcuts

Lion Basics

The Menu Bar

The Apple menu The Application menu Standard Application menus Menu extras The Accounts menu Spotlight Use the menu bar less

The Desktop Mastering the Finder

The Finder window Customizing the Finder toolbar The sidebar Finder preferences Finder views Common Finder tasks

The Dock

Dock Exposé Dock menus Stack view options Trash Dock preferences

The Application Switcher

Standard Window Controls Files and Folders

Regular Folders Burn Folders Smart Folders

Nonessential (but Useful) Mac OS X Features

The Dashboard

Personalizing widgets Adding and removing widgets Getting more widgets Making your own widgets

Searching with Spotlight

Changing the order of Spotlight’s results Controlling the results Spotlight displays Controlling what Spotlight indexes

Managing File Info

Spotlight comments General More Info Name & Extension Open with Preview Sharing & Permissions

Spaces

4. Troubleshooting Mac OS X

Common Problems

Misbehaving Applications

An application stops responding The Finder stops responding Force quitting greedy processes USB device problems Battery problems Display problems

Startup Problems

Your Mac beeps at you instead of starting Your hard drive is making noises Startup troubleshooting Reset your PRAM

5. System Preferences

Preference Pane Rundown

General Desktop & Screen Saver Dock Mission Control Language & Text Security & Privacy

General tab FileVault tab Firewall tab Privacy

Spotlight Universal Access

Seeing tab Hearing tab Keyboard tab Mouse tab (Mouse & Trackpad tab on MacBooks)

CDs and DVDs Displays Energy Saver Keyboard

Keyboard tab Keyboard Shortcuts tab

Mouse

Magic Mouse options Mighty Mouse options If you’re using a non-Apple mouse

Trackpad

Multitouch trackpads

Print & Scan Sound

Sound Effects tab Output tab Input tab

Mail, Contacts & Calendars MobileMe Network Bluetooth Sharing Users & Groups Parental Controls

Apps tab Web tab People tab Time Limits tab Other tab

Date & Time Software Update Speech

Speech Recognition tab Text to Speech tab

Time Machine Startup Disk

Non-Apple Preference Panes

6. Built-in Applications and Utilities

Applications Installed with Lion

Address Book App Store Automator Calculator Chess Dashboard Dictionary DVD Player FaceTime Font Book iCal iChat Image Capture iTunes Launchpad Mail

Adding new accounts Add a signature to outgoing mail Enable junk mail filtering Manage mailboxes Quickly delete junk mail Search your mail

Mission Control Photo Booth Preview QuickTime Player Safari

Change the home page Change the default browser Control which pages are shown in Top Sites Find a page you didn’t bookmark Block pop-up ads Change where downloaded items are saved Control cookies Get rid of Safari’s history Add a URL to the desktop Browse privately Make Safari remember passwords for website logins Use a different default RSS reader Customize Safari’s toolbar

Stickies System Preferences TextEdit Time Machine

Utilities Included with Lion

Activity Monitor AirPort Utility AppleScript Editor Audio MIDI Setup Bluetooth File Exchange Boot Camp Assistant ColorSync Utility Console DigitalColor Meter Disk Utility Grab Grapher Java Preferences Keychain Access Migration Assistant Network Utility Podcast Capture Podcast Publisher

Content Creation Podcast Management Podcast Publishing

RAID Utility System Information Terminal VoiceOver Utility X11

7. Managing Passwords in Lion

Password Management

Recovering a Forgotten Password Make a Great Password Storing Secure Notes Add a Keychain Access Menu Extra Securing Your Data

8. Keyboard Commands and Special Characters

Key Commands

Customizing Key Commands

Typing Special Characters in Mac OS X

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