Macworld® Mac® Secrets®, 6th Edition

by David Pogue (The New York Times); Joseph Schorr

• ISBN13: 9780764534157
• ISBN10: 0764534157
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This is the all new update to the phenomenally popular Macintosh classic, revised an enhanced to cover Apple's most significant OS upgrade in years. It's packed with useful advice and secrets for every aspect of Macintosh computing, including hardware, operating system, Internet, applications, and utilities. This 6TH EDITION features a companion Web site for readers with a complete list and links of Mac Secrets software, searchable versions of all chapters from the book, new searchable chapters posted on a regular basis, new David Pogue comments and content, PDFs of past editions, and more!

Author Biography

About the Authors David Pogue writes the weekly "State of the Art" column in the Circuits section of The New York Times. A former Computer Press Association Award-winning columnist for Macworld, he is the author of many bestselling Macintosh books, including The Mac For Dummies, The iMac For Dummies, and The iBook For Dummies. Joseph Schorr, a former Macworld contributing editor, is a long-time Mac columnist and the coauthor of the five previous editions of this book. He is currently heading up a software development team as a senior product manager for the Extensis Products Group.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xv
Part I: System Software Revealed	1	(314)
Your First Software: The Finder	3	(54)
Finder Command Secrets	57	(38)
Under the Apple Menu	95	(48)
Control Panels and Extensions	143	(86)
Enablers, Installers, and Apple Extras	229	(36)
The Multiple-User Mac	265	(18)
The System Software Museum	283	(32)
Part II: Secrets of the Machine	315	(272)
On, Off, and Everything In Between	317	(28)
The Disk Chapter	345	(28)
Memory	373	(22)
Keyboards and Mice	395	(24)
Monitors	419	(20)
The Macintosh Museum: Model by Model	439	(120)
Laptop Land	559	(28)
Part III: Application Secrets	587	(270)
Mac Application Basics	589	(32)
Mac to PC and Back	621	(22)
Word Processing	643	(64)
Graphics and 3D	707	(30)
The ResEdit Chapter	737	(38)
Utilities, Macros, and AppleScript	775	(34)
Speech and Sound	809	(22)
Movies	831	(26)
Part IV: The World Online	857	(112)
The Web, the Net, and Everything Online	859	(44)
Getting the Most Out of America Online	903	(14)
Everything E-Mail	917	(24)
A Web Site-Making Crash Course	941	(28)
Part V: Attachments	969	(240)
Inside Fonts	971	(44)
Printing Secrets	1015	(62)
Digital Cameras and Scanners	1077	(16)
CD-ROM, DVD, and Other Such Words	1093	(24)
The SCSI Chain, FireWire, and IDE	1117	(14)
PCI, NuBus, and Other Slots	1131	(6)
The Networking Chapter	1137	(44)
Troubleshooting	1181	(28)
Appendix A: The Dawn of Mac OS X	1209	(38)
Appendix B: Mac Secrets Unlimited Edition: The Virtual CD-ROM	1247	(18)
Index	1265