Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition » (Reprint)

David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how- to authors. In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles.

For readers switching from a Windows PC to a Mac, this incomparable guide delivers what new users need to know to successfully and painlessly move to a new system.

Introduction     1
What Mac OS X Gives You     3
What Mac OS X Takes Away     5
About This Book     6
The Very Basics     8
Welcome to Macintosh
How the Mac Is Different     11
Power On, Dude     11
That One-Button Mouse     12
On, Off, and Sleep     13
The Menu Bar     15
Finder = Windows Explorer     15
Dock = Taskbar     16
Menulets = Tray     16
Keyboard Differences     19
Disk Differences     24
Where Your Stuff Is     25
Window Controls     28
Terminology Differences     36
Folders, Dock, & Windows     37
Getting into Mac OS X     37
The Four Window Views     39
Icon View     41
List View     47
Column View     52
Cover Flow View     55
Quick Look     57
The Dock     60
The Finder Toolbar     69
Getting Help in Mac OS X     70
Files, Icons, & Spotlight     75
Renaming Icons     75
Selecting Icons     77
Moving and Copying Icons     79
Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once     84
Color Labels     85
The Trash     88
Get Info     91
The Spotlight Menu     94
The Spotlight Window     100
Customizing Spotlight     107
Smart Folders     109
Documents, Programs, & Spaces     111
Opening Mac OS X Programs     112
The New, Improved "Alt-Tab"     115
Expose: Death to Window Clutter     116
Spaces: Your Free Quad-Display Mac     122
Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way     127
How Documents Know Their Parents     129
Keyboard Control     134
The Save and Open Dialog Boxes     136
Two Kinds of Programs: Cocoa and Carbon     141
The Cocoa Difference     142
Universal Apps (Intel Macs)     145
Installing Mac OS X Programs     146
Dashboard     150
Web Clips: Make Your Own Widgets     154
Moving In
Eight Ways to Transfer Your Files     159
Transfer by Apple Genius     160
Transfers by iTornado     161
Transfers by Disk      162
Transfers by Network     163
Transfers by File-Sending Web Site     163
Transfers by Email     164
Transfers by iDisk     164
Transfers by Bluetooth     164
Where to Put Your Copied Files     165
Document-Conversion Issues     167
Transferring Email and Contacts     171
A Reminder That Could Save You Hours     172
Transferring Your Outlook Mail     172
Transferring Your Outlook Address Book     180
Transferring from Outlook Express     184
Transferring Your Eudora Mail     184
Transferring Your Eudora Address Book     187
Email Settings     188
Special Software, Special Problems     191
ACDSee     191
Acrobat Reader     192
ACT     192
Ad Subtract (Pop-up Stopper)     193
Adobe [your favorite program here]     194
America Online     194
AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)     195
Children's Software     195
Earthlink Total Access     196
Easy CD Creator     196
Encarta     196
Eudora     197
Excel      197
Firefox     197
Games     197
Google Desktop Search     197
ICQ     198
Internet Explorer     198
iTunes     198
Kazaa     198
Limewire     198
MacAfee VirusScan     198
Microsoft Access     199
Microsoft Money     200
Microsoft Office     201
Microsoft Publisher     203
Microsoft Visio     203
Minesweeper     203
MSN Messenger     203
NaturallySpeaking     203
Netscape     204
Newsgroup Readers     204
Norton AntiVirus     204
Norton Utilities     204
Notepad     204
Outlook/Outlook Express     204
Paint Shop Pro     205
Palm Desktop     205
Picasa     205
Pocket PC     205
PowerPoint     206
QuickBooks     206
Quicken     206
RealPlayer     207
RssReader     207
Skype     207
Snaglt     207
Solitaire     208
Street Atlas USA     209
TaxCut, TurboTax     209
WinAmp, MusicMatch     209
Windows Media Player     209
WinZip     210
Word     210
WordPerfect     210
Yahoo Messenger     210
Windows on Macintosh     211
Boot Camp     212
Windows in a Window     220
Hardware on the Mac     223
Printers and Printing     223
Managing Printouts     229
Faxing     232
PDF Files     236
Fonts-and Font Book     237
Digital Cameras     242
Disks     243
Burning CDs and DVDs     245
iTunes: The Digital Jukebox     250
DVD Movies     258
Keyboard     261
Mouse     262
Monitors     263
Time Machine     263
.Mac Sync     275
The Mac Online
Internet Setup     279
Network Central-and Multihoming     279
Broadband Connections     281
Dial-up Modem Connections     287
Switching Locations     291
Internet Sharing     292
.Mac Services     295
Internet Location Files     300
Mail & Address Book     301
Checking Your Mail     301
Writing Messages     304
Stationery     308
Reading Email     310
The Anti-Spam Toolkit     324
RSS Feeds     325
Notes     327
To Dos     328
Address Book     331
Safari & iChat     339
Safari     340
Tips for Better Surfing     346
Tabbed Browsing     350
iChat     356
Text Chats     363
Audio Chats     365
Video Chats     366
Sharing Your Screen     370
iChat Theater     372
Putting Down Roots
Accounts, Parental Controls, & Security     377
Introducing Accounts     377
Creating an Account     379
Parental Controls     387
Editing Accounts     395
Setting Up the Login Process     396
Signing In, Logging Out     398
Sharing Across Accounts     399
Fast User Switching     400
Four Mac OS X Security Shields      401
Networking, File Sharing, & Screen Sharing     413
Wiring the Network     413
File Sharing     416
Accessing Shared Files     422
Networking with Windows     426
Screen Sharing     431
System Preferences     437
The System Preferences Window     437
.Mac     439
Accounts     440
Appearance     440
Bluetooth     442
CDs & DVDs     444
Date & Time     445
Desktop & Screen Saver     447
Displays     454
Dock     456
Energy Saver     456
Expose & Spaces     460
International     460
Keyboard & Mouse     464
Network     469
Parental Controls     469
Print & Fax     469
QuickTime     469
Security     469
Sharing     469
Software Update     471
Sound     471
Speech     473
Spotlight     475
Startup Disk     475
Time Machine     475
Universal Access     475
The Free Programs     479
Address Book     480
AppleScript     480
Automator     481
Calculator     482
Chess     484
Dashboard     485
Dictionary     485
DVD Player     487
Expose     487
Font Book     487
Front Row     487
GarageBand     489
iCal     489
iChat     498
iDVD     498
iMovie, iPhoto     498
iTunes     498
Mail     498
Photo Booth     498
Preview     502
QuickTime Player     507
Safari     509
Stickies     509
System Preferences     511
TextEdit     511
Time Machine     517
Utilities: Your Mac OS X Toolbox     517
Appendixes
Installation & Troubleshooting     537
Getting Ready to Install     537
Four Kinds of Installation     538
The Basic Installation     538
The Upgrade Installation     540
The Clean Install ("Archive and Install")     540
Erase & Install     541
The Setup Assistant     541
Troubleshooting     544
The "Where'd It Go?" Dictionary     555
The Master Mac OS X Secret Keystroke List     569