iMac For Dummies^®, 6th Edition

by Mark L. Chambers

• ISBN13: 9780470607374
• ISBN10: 0470607378
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-01
• Publisher: For Dummies

Summary

What the book covers: setting up and configuring your iMac, navigating around the Finder, Dock, and desktop, getting acquainted with Mac OS X, searching with Spotlight, using the Safari Web browser to surf the Internet, setting up an e-mail account, creating and printing documents, working with iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, and iWeb, using Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, building (or joining) a network, creating a multi-user iMac, communicating with wireless devices, backing up and restoring your files with Time Machine, troubleshooting, automating mundane chores, and more. Updated coverage of the new hardware: This new edition will have will have approximately 40-50% new content. This includes coverage of the next generation iMac hardware, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, iLife '09, iWork '09, and the latest trends and tools in the market. Series features: Information presented in the straightforward but fun language that has defined the Dummies series for more than eighteen years.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Know Your iMac

Okay, This Machine Looks Really, Really Weird

Life! Give My iMac Life!

Introducing the Apple of Your iMac

Shaking Hands with Mac OS X

Opening and Closing and Clicking and Such

A Plethora of Powerful Fun

A Nerd's Guide to System Preferences

Searching amidst iMac Chaos

Connecting and Communicating

Let's Go on Safari!

Moving to MobileMe

Hooking Up with Handy Helpers

Living the iLife

The Multimedia Joy of iTunes

The Masterpiece That Is iPhoto

Making Film History with iMovie

iDVD - Your DVD Movie Factory

Recording Your Hits with GarageBand

Creating a Web Site with iWeb

Getting Productive with iWork and Other Tools

Desktop Publishing with Pages

Creating Spreadsheets with Numbers

Building Presentations with Keynote

Creating a Multiuser iMac

Building (Or Joining) a Network

The Necessary Evils: Troubleshooting, Upgrading, Maintaining

It Just . . . Sits . . . There

I Want to Add Stuff

Tackling the Housekeeping

The Part of Tens

Ten Ways to Speed Up Your iMac

Ten Things to Avoid Like the Plague

Index

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