Introduction | p. 1 |
What's Really Required | p. 2 |
About This Book | p. 2 |
Conventions Used in This Book | p. 3 |
How This Book Is Organized | p. 4 |
Icons Used in This Book | p. 6 |
Where to Go from Here | p. 7 |
A Final Word | p. 7 |
Tie Myself Down with a Desktop? Preposterous! | p. 9 |
Hey, It Really Does Have Everything I Need | p. 11 |
An Overview of Your Mac Laptop | p. 12 |
Meet the MacBooks | p. 19 |
Location, Location, Location! | p. 25 |
Unpacking and Connecting Your Laptop | p. 26 |
Great, a Lecture about Handling My Laptop | p. 28 |
An Overview of Mac Software Goodness | p. 29 |
Other Stuff That Nearly Everyone Wants | p. 31 |
Turning On Your Portable Powerhouse | p. 35 |
Tales of the On Button | p. 35 |
Mark's Favorite Signs of a Healthy Laptop | p. 36 |
You're Not Going to Lecture about Batteries, Are You? | p. 37 |
Setting Up and Registering Your Laptop | p. 40 |
Importing Stuff from Another Mac | p. 42 |
Importing Stuff from Windows (If You Must) | p. 45 |
The Laptop Owner's Introduction to OS X | p. 47 |
Your Own Personal Operating System | p. 48 |
And Just in Case You Need Help | p. 54 |
Shaking Hands with OSX | p. 57 |
Opening and Closing and Tapping and Such | p. 59 |
Using the All-Powerful Finder | p. 60 |
Wait a Second: Where the Heck Are the Mouse Buttons? | p. 62 |
Launching and Quitting Applications with Aplomb | p. 65 |
Juggling Folders and Icons | p. 69 |
Keys and Keyboard Shortcuts to Fame and Fortune | p. 75 |
Performing Tricks with Finder Windows | p. 77 |
Getting to the Heart of Mountain Lion | p. 81 |
Home, Sweet Home Folder | p. 81 |
Personalizing Your Desktop | p. 84 |
Customizing the Dock Just So | p. 86 |
What's with the Trash? | p. 88 |
Working Magic with Mission Control and the Dashboard | p. 90 |
Printing in OSX | p. 94 |
A Nerd's Guide to System Preferences | p. 97 |
An Explanation - in English, No Less | p. 97 |
Locating That Certain Special Setting | p. 100 |
Popular Preference Panes Explained | p. 101 |
Sifting through Your Stuff | p. 115 |
A Not-So-Confusing Introduction to Spotlight | p. 115 |
Other Search Tools Are Available, Too | p. 123 |
With Widgets, the Internet Is Your Resource | p. 124 |
Using Reminders, Notes, and Notifications | p. 127 |
Remind Me to Use Reminders | p. 127 |
Taking Notes the Mountain Lion Way | p. 130 |
Staying Current with Notification Center | p. 132 |
Connecting and Communicating | p. 135 |
Let's Go on Safari! | p. 137 |
Pretend You've Never Used This Thing | p. 137 |
Visiting Websites | p. 139 |
Navigating the Web | p. 141 |
Setting Up Your Home Page | p. 144 |
Adding and Using Bookmarks | p. 145 |
Downloading Files | p. 147 |
Using History | p. 148 |
Tabs Are Your Browsing Friends | p. 148 |
Saving Web Pages | p. 150 |
Protecting Your Privacy | p. 151 |
iCIoud Is Made for MacBooks | p. 155 |
So How Does iCIoud Work, Anyway? | p. 155 |
Configuring iCIoud | p. 157 |
Managing Your iCIoud Storage | p. 158 |
Your Laptop Goes Multiuser | p. 161 |
Once Upon a Time (an Access Fairy Tale) | p. 162 |
Big-Shot Administrator Stuff | p. 163 |
Mundane Chores for the Multiuser Laptop | p. 175 |
Working Well with Networks | p. 181 |
What Exactly Is the Network Advantage? | p. 181 |
Should You Go Wired or Wireless? | p. 182 |
Be a Pal - Share Your Internet! | p. 184 |
What Do I Need to Connect? | p. 186 |
Connecting to the Network | p. 194 |
Use Your Firewall! | p. 199 |
Spreading the Word with Messages and Face Time | p. 201 |
Configuring Messages | p. 202 |
Working with Messages | p. 203 |
Changing Modes in Messages | p. 205 |
Will You Be My Buddy? | p. 207 |
Chat! Chat, I Say! | p. 208 |
Conversing with iMessages | p. 211 |
Sharing Screens with Aplomb | p. 212 |
Sending Files with Messages | p. 213 |
Eliminating the Riffraff | p. 214 |
Adding Visual Effects | p. 215 |
Conversing with FaceTime | p. 216 |
Living the iLife | p. 219 |
The Multimedia Joy of iTunes | p. 221 |
What Can I Play on iTunes? | p. 221 |
Playing an Audio CD | p. 223 |
Playing Digital Audio and Video | p. 224 |
Keeping Slim Whitman and Slim Shady Apart: Organizing with Playlists | p. 229 |
Know Your Songs | p. 230 |
Ripping Audio Files | p. 233 |
Tweaking the Audio for Your Ears | p. 235 |
A New Kind of Radio Station | p. 236 |
iSending iStuff to iPod | p. 238 |
Sharing Media across a Network | p. 239 |
Burning Music to Shiny Plastic Discs | p. 240 |
Feasting on iTunes Visuals | p. 242 |
Exercising Parental Authority | p. 243 |
Buying Digital Media the Apple Way | p. 245 |
The Masterpiece That Is iPhoto | p. 247 |
Delving into iPhoto | p. 247 |
Working with Images in iPhoto | p. 250 |
Producing Your Own Coffee-Table Masterpiece | p. 265 |
Putting Photo Stream to Work | p. 269 |
Making Film History with iMovie | p. 271 |
Shaking Hands with the iMovie Window | p. 272 |
A Bird's-Eye View of Moviemaking | p. 275 |
Importing the Building Blocks | p. 276 |
Building the Cinematic Basics | p. 283 |
Creating an Honest-to-Goodness Movie Trailer | p. 289 |
Sharing Your Finished Classic with Others | p. 291 |
Recording Your Hits with GarageBand | p. 293 |
Shaking Hands with Your Band | p. 294 |
Composing and Podcasting Made Easy | p. 296 |
Automatic Composition with Magic GarageBand | p. 309 |
Sharing Your Songs and Podcasts | p. 311 |
Getting Productive with iWork | p. 315 |
Desktop Publishing with Pages | p. 317 |
Creating a New Pages Document | p. 317 |
Opening an Existing Pages Document | p. 318 |
Saving Your Work | p. 319 |
Touring the Pages Window | p. 320 |
Entering and Editing Text | p. 321 |
Using Text and Graphics Boxes | p. 321 |
The Three Amigos: Cut, Copy, and Paste | p. 322 |
Formatting Text the Easy Way | p. 323 |
Adding a Spiffy Table | p. 324 |
Adding Alluring Photos | p. 325 |
Adding a Background Shape | p. 327 |
Are You Sure about That Spelling? | p. 327 |
Printing Your Pages Documents | p. 328 |
Sharing That Poster with Others | p. 329 |
Creating Spreadsheets with Numbers | p. 331 |
Before You Launch Numbers… | p. 332 |
Creating a New Numbers Document | p. 332 |
Opening an Existing Spreadsheet File | p. 333 |
Save Those Spreadsheets! | p. 334 |
Exploring the Numbers Window | p. 335 |
Navigate and Select Cells in a Spreadsheet | p. 336 |
Entering and Editing Data in a Spreadsheet | p. 337 |
Selecting the Correct Number Format | p. 338 |
Aligning Cell Text Just So | p. 339 |
Format with Shading | p. 340 |
Insert and Delete Rows and Columns | p. 341 |
The Formula Is Your Friend | p. 342 |
Adding Visual Punch with a Chart | p. 344 |
Building Presentations with Keynote | p. 347 |
Creating a New Keynote Project | p. 348 |
Opening a Keynote Presentation | p. 349 |
Saving Your Presentation | p. 349 |
Putting Keynote to Work | p. 350 |
Adding Slides | p. 351 |
Working with Text and Graphics Boxes | p. 352 |
Adding and Editing Slide Text | p. 353 |
Formatting Slide Text for the Perfect Look | p. 354 |
Using Notes in Your Project | p. 354 |
Every Good Presentation Needs Media | p. 355 |
Adding a Background Shape | p. 356 |
Creating Your Keynote Slideshow | p. 356 |
Printing Your Slides and Notes | p. 357 |
Necessary Evils: Troubleshooting, Upgrading, Maintaining | p. 361 |
When Good Mac Laptops Go Bad | p. 363 |
Repeat after Me: Yes, I Am a Tech! | p. 363 |
Step-by-Step Laptop Troubleshooting | p. 364 |
Okay, I Kicked It, and It Still Won't Work | p. 375 |
Adding New Stuff to Your Laptop | p. 377 |
More Memory Will Help | p. 377 |
Considering a Hard Drive Upgrade? | p. 382 |
A List of Dreamy Laptop Add-Ons | p. 386 |
Tackling the Housekeeping | p. 389 |
Cleaning Unseemly Data Deposits | p. 389 |
Backing Up Your Treasure | p. 393 |
Maintaining Hard Drive Health | p. 397 |
Automating Those Mundane Chores | p. 397 |
Updating OS X Automatically | p. 400 |
The Part of Tens | p. 401 |
Top Ten Laptop Rules to Follow | p. 403 |
Keep Your Laptop in a Bag | p. 403 |
Maximize Your RAM | p. 404 |
Install a Tracker Application | p. 405 |
Keepest Thy Drive Encrypted | p. 405 |
Brand Your MacBook | p. 406 |
Disable Your Wireless | p. 406 |
Bring a Surge Protector with You | p. 407 |
Use Power-Saving Features | p. 408 |
Use an External Keyboard and Mouse | p. 408 |
Not Again! What Is It with You and Backing Up? | p. 409 |
Ten Things to Avoid Like the Plague | p. 411 |
USB 1.1 Storage Devices | p. 411 |
Phishing Operations | p. 412 |
Oddly Shaped Optical Discs | p. 413 |
Submerged Keyboards | p. 414 |
Antiquated Utility Software | p. 414 |
Software Piracy | p. 414 |
The Forbidden Account | p. 415 |
Unsecured Wireless Connections | p. 415 |
Refurbished Hardware | p. 416 |
Dirty Laptops | p. 417 |
Index | p. 419 |
Bonus Chapter 1: Putting Bluetooth to Work | p. B1 |
Bonus Chapter 2: Running Windows with Boot Camp | p. B9 |
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