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Index
Mac at Work
Credits
About the Author
Introduction
Conventions
Mouse Conventions
Menu commands
Keyboard conventions
Acknowledgments
A Tour of the Mac
A Macintosh History Lesson
The Mac Family
The desktops
The Mac Pro
The iMac
The Mac Mini
The laptops
The MacBook
The MacBook Pro
The MacBook Air
Which Mac is right for you?
A Tour of the Mac OS X User Interface
Installing, Removing, and Updating Applications
Installing applications
Removing Mac OS X applications
Getting Mac OS X updates
File Management
Maintenance and Troubleshooting
Basic maintenance
Disk defragmentation
Getting help
Backing Up
Why Back Up?
Apple’s Backup Tools
Time Machine
Restoring files with Time Machine
External disks and Time Machine
Which hard disk for Time Machine?
Time Capsule
Cloning Your Mac
Disk Status and Recovery
File-Specific Backup
Network Data Backup
Online Backup
Offsite Backup Services
Privacy and security
Backup speed
Backup Strategies Compared
Test your backups
Backup redundancy
Sample backup plans
The home office’s backup plan
The Mac office’s backup plan
Useful Utilities
TextExpander
Default Folder X
Hazel
LaunchBar
The Internet and Your Mac
The Web Browser Options
Apple Safari
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Choosing a browser
Bookmark Syncing
Taming Flash
RSS
Instapaper
Web 2.0 and the Future
Using E-mail
E-mail Protocols
POP e-mail
IMAP e-mail
Mail Clients
Apple Mail
Apple Mail add-ons
Mail Act-On
MailTags
MailSteward
Gmail
Microsoft Outlook and Entourage
Microsoft Exchange and the Mac
Microsoft Outlook and Entourage
Apple Mail, iCal, and Address Book
Using Lotus Notes or Novell GroupWise
Fighting Spam
E-mail Best Practices
Inbox management
Folder management
E-mail notification
Contacts and Calendars
Contacts
Web Contact Tools
Calendars
iCal
BusyCal
Google Calendar
Integrated Calendars and Contacts
Microsoft Outlook and Entourage
Daylite
Shipping with Your Mac
Macs and Mobile Devices
iOS Devices
iTunes Sync
Backing up
Dangers of file-sharing
The Missing Sync for iPhone
Other Devices
BlackBerry and the Mac
Android and the Mac
Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7, and the Mac
WebOS and the Mac
Other devices
Talking to Your Mac
Mac OS X Speech Tools
Dragon Dictate
Dictating to your Mac
Using voice commands
Vocabulary Editor
MacSpeech Scribe
Task Management
Task-Management Fundamentals
Capture
Organize
Process
Review
Task-Management Software
iCal tasks
Remember the Milk
Things
OmniFocus
Collecting tasks and sorting your Inbox
Organizing and processing tasks
Reviewing tasks
Notes and Outlines
OmniOutliner
Circus Ponies NoteBook
Evernote
MindNode Pro
Notational Velocity
Livescribe Pulse Smartpen
Word Processing
Microsoft Word
Apple iWork Pages
Scrivener
Writing sans Distraction
Cleaning Dirty Text
Web-Based Word Processing
Managing PDF Files
Creating PDFs
PDF Applications
Preview
PDFpen
PDFpenPro
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Which PDF Document Application?
Converting PDF Documents
Graphics for Business
OmniGraffle
The drawing tools
The Selection tool
The Shape tool
The Line tool
The Text tool
The Pen tool
The Diagramming tool
The Style Brush tool
The Rubber Stamp tool
The Magnet tool
The Zoom tool
The Hand tool
The Browse tool
Using stencils
Inspectors
Organizational charts
Apple Preview
Preview image tools
Removing backgrounds
Other Graphics Software
Presentations
Keynote versus PowerPoint
Apple iWork Keynote
Creating a presentation
Outlines and Keynote
Using objects
Animations and transitions
Timelines
Presentation day
Other uses for Keynote
Microsoft PowerPoint
Presentation Mojo
Spreadsheets
Microsoft Excel
Apple iWork Numbers
Google Spreadsheets
OpenOffice
OmniGraphSketcher
Pie Charts or Bar Charts?
Databases
FileMaker Pro
Using FileMaker Pro
Sharing data with FileMaker Pro
Bento
Creating a database with Bento
Data fields
Sharing Bento libraries
Enhancing Mac OS X applications
Databases and Spreadsheets
Project Management
How Henry Gantt Became Famous
Desktop Project Management
OmniPlan
FastTrack Schedule
Working with Microsoft Project
Web Tools
Basecamp
Tom’s Planner
Billing and Invoicing
QuickBooks
AccountEdge
Billings
Getting Help with Accounting
Personal Finance
The Paperless Mac
Getting Paper Records on Your Mac
Saving Electronic Records
Organizing Scanned Documents
OCR and Stored Documents
Faxing on a Mac
Networking
The Mac Server Network
File Sharing
Sharing files from a Mac
Sharing Files from a Windows PC
Online file sharing
Sharing external media
Sharing Printers
Remote Access
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection
CoRD
VNC applications
Apple Remote Desktop
Back to My Mac
Synchronization
Local Syncing
Internet Synchronization Tools
MobileMe
Dropbox
Box.net
Windows on Your Mac
Why Windows?
Boot Camp
Installing Boot Camp
Using Boot Camp
Desktop Virtualization Software
Parallels Desktop
Fusion
VirtualBox
Which virtual machine application?
CrossOver Mac
Windows AntiVirus Software and Backup
What about Linux?
Security
Physical Security
Insuring Your Mac
AppleCare
Theft, loss, and damage policies
Data Security
System password
Data encryption
File Vault
Mac OS X secured disk images
PGP encryption
Using the firewall
Viruses and Other Malware
Viruses and antivirus software
Trojan horse attacks
Phishing
Managing Passwords
Security and Mac OS X Server
Mac Automation
Automator
Resizing images
Creating an action
Creating a service
AppleScript
AppleScript Editor
Some simple scripts
Script Debugger
Debunking Myths about Macs
Macs aren’t secure
Macs can’t be managed as easily as PCs
Macs will slow down the network
Macs aren’t standards-compliant
Macs won’t work with ActiveX
Macs are not PCs
Macs are expensive
Macs don’t run Windows
Macs don’t work with Exchange Server
There are no work applications for the Mac
Macs are a fad. It’ll never last
The Mac is a toy, not a real computer
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