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Index
Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
About This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Beyond the Book
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Part I: Introducing OS X El Capitan: The Basics
Chapter 1: OS X El Capitan 101 (Prerequisites: None)
Gnawing to the Core of OS X
A Safety Net for the Absolute Beginner (or Any User)
Not Just a Beatles Movie: Help and the Help Menu
Chapter 2: Desktop and Windows and Menus (Oh My!)
Touring the Finder and Its Desktop
Anatomy of a Window
Dialog Dealie-Boppers
Working with Windows
Menu Basics
Chapter 3: What’s Up, Dock?
A Quick Introduction to Your Dock
Customizing Your Dock
Chapter 4: Delving Deeper into the Finder and Its Desktop
Introducing the Finder and Its Minions: The Desktop and Icons
Aliases Are Awesome!
The View(s) from a Window
Finder on the Menu
Customizing Finder Windows
Digging for Icon Data in the Info Window
Part II: Inside El Capitan (or How Stuff Works)
Chapter 5: Have It Your Way
Introducing System Preferences
Putting a Picture on the Desktop
Setting Up a Screen Saver
Putting Widgets on the Dashboard
Giving Buttons, Menus, and Windows a Makeover
Adjusting the Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad, and Other Hardware
Styling Your Sound
Chapter 6: The Care and Feeding of Files and Folders
A Quick Primer on Finding Files
Understanding the OS X Folder Structure
Saving Your Document Before It’s Too Late
Open, Sez Me
Organizing Your Stuff in Folders
Shuffling Files and Folders
The Incredible New iCloud Drive
Chapter 7: Four Terrific Timesaving Tools
With a Quick Look
Spotlight on Finding Files and Folders Faster
Blast Off with Mission Control
Launchpad: The Place for Applications
Customizing Your Launchpad
Part III: Getting Things Done in El Capitan
Chapter 8: Organizing Your Life
Keeping Track with Calendar
Reminders: Protection Against Forgetting
Everything You Need to Know about the Notification Center
Use Notes for Making Notes
Chapter 9: (Inter)Networking
Getting Connected to the Internet
Browsing the Web with Safari
Audio and Video Calls with FaceTime
Chapter 10: Finding People and Places
Collecting Your Contacts
Maps Are Where It’s At
Chapter 11: Communicating with Mail and Messages
Sending and Receiving Email with Mail
Communicating with Messages
Chapter 12: Sharing Your Mac and Liking It
Introducing Networks and File Sharing
Setting Up File Sharing
Access and Permissions: Who Can Do What
Connecting to a Shared Disk or Folder on a Remote Mac
Changing Your Password
More Types of Sharing
Part IV: Getting Creative in El Capitan
Chapter 13: The Musical Mac
Apple Music and iTunes Match Rock!
Introducing iTunes
Working with Media
All About Playlists
Chapter 14: The Multimedia Mac
Playing Movies and Music in QuickTime Player
iBooks on the Mac
You’re the Star with Photo Booth
Viewing and Converting Images and PDFs in Preview
Importing Media
Chapter 15: Words and Letters
Processing Words with TextEdit
Font Mania
Chapter 16: Publish or Perish: The Fail-Safe Guide to Printing
Before Diving In …
Ready: Connecting and Adding Your Printer
Set: Setting Up Your Document with Page Setup
Print: Printing with the Print Sheet
Preview and PDF Options
Part V: The Care and Feeding of El Capitan
Chapter 17: Features for the Way You Work
Talking and Listening to Your Mac
Automatic Automation
A Few More Useful Goodies
Chapter 18: Safety First: Backups and Other Security Issues
Backing Up Is (Not) Hard to Do
Why You Need Two Sets of Backups
Non-Backup Security Concerns
Protecting Your Data from Prying Eyes
Chapter 19: Utility Chest
Calculator
Activity Monitor
Disk Utility
Grab
Grapher
Keychain Access
Migration Assistant
System Information
Terminal
Chapter 20: Troubleshooting OS X
About Startup Disks and Booting
Recovering with Recovery HD
If Your Mac Crashes at Startup
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Chapter 21: Almost Ten Ways to Speed Up Your Mac Experience
Use Those Keyboard Shortcuts
Improve Your Typing Skills
Resolution: It’s Not Just for New Year’s Day Anymore
A Mac with a View — and Preferences, Too
Get a New, Faster Model
You Can Never Have Too Much RAM!
Get an Accelerated Graphics Card
Get a Solid-State Drive (SSD)
Get a New Hard Drive
Chapter 22: Ten Great Websites for Mac Freaks
The Mac Observer
Macworld
AppleWorld.Today
TidBITS
Download.com
Alltop
Apple Support
Other World Computing
EveryMac.com
dealmac
About the Author
Cheat Sheet
Connect with Dummies
End User License Agreement
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