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2 Table of Contents Introduction 1 The Mac Becomes an ipad 1 What's New in Mavericks 3 About This Book 4 The Very Basics 6 Part One: The 05 X Desktop Chapter 1: Folders & Windows 11 Getting into OS X 11 Windows and How to Work Them 15 The Four Window Views 31 Icon View 33 List View 42 Column View 49 Cover Flow View 53 Quick Look 55 Finder Tabs 59 Logging Out, Shutting Down 62 Getting Help in OS X 64 Chapter 2: Organizing Your Stuff 69 The OS X Folder Structure 69 Icon Names 74 Selecting Icons 76 Moving and Copying Icons 79 Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once 85 Finder Tags 87 The Trash 92 Get Info 95 Shortcut Menus, Action Menus 98 Chapter 3: Spotlight 101 The Spotlight Menu 101 The Spotlight Window 112 Customizing Spotlight 125 Smart Folders 128 V

3 Chapter 4: Dock, Desktop & Toolbars 129 The Dock 129 Setting Up the Dock 130 Using the Dock 138 The Finder Toolbar 143 Designing Your Desktop 147 Menulets: The Missing Manual 148 Part Two: Programs in OS X Chapter 5: Documents, Programs & Mission Control 155 The Mac App Store 155 Other Ways to Get Mac Software 158 Opening OS X Programs 161 Launchpad 162 Windows That Auto-Reopen 166 The "Heads-Up" Program Switcher 170 Full Screen Mode 170 Mission Control: Death to Window Clutter 172 Dashboard 181 Expose1 195 Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way 201 How Documents Know Their Parents 204 Keyboard Control 208 The Save and Open Dialog Boxes 213 Auto Save and Versions 218 Documents in the Cloud 222 Cocoa and Carbon 224 Chapter 6: Data: Typing, Dictating, Sharing & Backing Up 231 The Mac Keyboard 231 Notes on Right-Clicking 235 Power Typing 237 Dictation 243 The Many Languages of OS X Text 250 Data Detectors 256 Moving Data Between Documents 258 Exchanging Data with Other Macs 261 Exchanging Data with Windows PCs 266 The Share Button 267 Time Machine 270 Chapter 7: Automator, AppleScript & Services 281 Services 283 Automator 287 AppleScript 298 vi

4 Chapter 8: Windows on Macintosh 303 Boot Camp 304 Windows in a Window 312 Life with Microsoft Exchange 314 Part Three: The Components of OS X Chapter 9: System Preferences 319 The System Preferences Window 319 Accessibility 322 App Store 328 Bluetooth 329 CDs & DVDs 331 Date & Time 332 Desktop & Screen Saver 334 Dictation & Speech 340 Displays 340 Dock 344 Energy Saver 344 General 348 icioud 351 Internet Accounts 351 Keyboard 351 Language & Region 352 Mission Control 353 Mouse 353 Network 354 Notifications 354 Parental Controls 354 Printers & Scanners 354 Security & Privacy 354 Sharing 354 Sound 355 Spotlight 357 Startup Disk 357 Time Machine 358 Trackpad 358 Users & Groups 361 Chapter 10: Notifications 363 Insta-Respond to Bubbles 364 Shutting Up the Bubbles 365 The Notification Center 366

5 Chapter 11: The Free Programs of OS X 371 Your Free OS X Programs 371 App Store 372 Automator 372 Calculator 372 Calendar 374 Chess 389 Contacts 392 Dashboard 392 Dictionary 392 DVD Player 394 FaceTime 394 Font Book 397 Game Center 397 GarageBand 400 ibooks 400 ichat 406 Image Capture 406 imovie, iphoto 411 itunes 412 Launchpad 412 Mail 412 Maps 412 Messages 418 Mission Control 418 Notes 418 Photo Booth 421 Preview 425 Reminders 435 QuickTime Player 439 Safari 439 Stickies 440 System Preferences 442 TextEdit 442 Time Machine 450 Utilities: Your OS X Toolbox 451 Chapter 12: CDs, DVDs & itunes 471 Disks Today 471 Disks In, Disks Out 472 Startup Disks 473 Erasing a Disk 474 Burning CDs and DVDs 475 itunes: The Digital Jukebox 479 DVD Movies 491

6 Part Four: The Technologies of OS X Chapter 13: Accounts, Security & Gatekeeper 497 Introducing Accounts 497 Creating an Account 499 Parental Controls 508 Editing Accounts 516 Setting Up the Login Process 517 Signing In, Logging Out 521 Sharing Across Accounts 523 Fast User Switching 525 Six OS X Security Shields 527 And Four Privacy Shields 543 Chapter 14: Networking, File Sharing & AirDrop 545 Wiring the Network 545 File Sharing: Three Ways 549 Accessing Shared Files 559 Networking with Windows 567 Screen Sharing 574 More Dialing In from the Road 583 Chapter 15: Graphics, Fonts & Printing 585 Mac Meets Printer 585 Making the Printout 589 Managing Printouts 592 Printer Sharing 593 Faxing 594 PDF Files 595 Fonts-and Font Book 597 ColorSync 605 Graphics in OS X 606 Screen-Capture Keystrokes 608 Chapter 16: Sound, Movies & Speech 611 Playing Sounds 611 Recording Sounds 613 QuickTime Player 614 The Mac Reads to You 625 VoiceOver 629 Ink: Handwriting Recognition 629 ix

7 Part Five: OS X Online Chapter 17: Internet Setup & icioud 633 The Best News You've Heard All Day 634 Network Central and Multihoming 634 Broadband Connections 636 Cellular Modems 642 Tethering 642 Dial-Up Modem Connections 643 Switching Locations 643 Internet Sharing 645 icioud 648 Chapter 18: Mail & Contacts 659 Setting Up Mail 659 Checking Your Mail 663 Tailoring the Look of Mail 664 Writing Messages 670 Stationery 676 Reading 679 VIPs 696 The Anti-Spam Toolkit 697 Contacts (Address Book) 698 Chapter 19: Safari 713 Browsing Basics 713 The Unified Address/Search Bar 714 Full Screen and Gestures 716 Top Sites 717 Customizing the Toolbar 718 Bookmarks (and the Sidebar) 721 Saved Passwords and the icioud Keychain Tips for Better Surfing 730 Tabbed Browsing 739 Privacy and Security Features 742 Chapter 20: Messages 745 Welcome to Messages 745 imessages 746 The Traditional Chat Networks 749 Let the Chat Begin 754 Text Chatting 755 Audio Chats 758 Video Chats 759 Juggling Chats and Windows 764 Sharing Your Screen 764 Messages Theater 766 x

8 Chapter 21: SSH, FTP & VPN 769 FTP 769 Connecting from the Road 772 Remote Access with SSH 773 Virtual Private Networking 775 Part Six: Appendixes Appendix A: Installing OS X Mavericks 783 Hardware Requirements 784 Psychological Requirements 785 The Standard Installation 785 The Setup Assistant 788 The Homemade Installer Disk 792 Appendix B: Troubleshooting 795 Minor Eccentric Behavior 795 Frozen Programs (Force Quitting) 797 Recovery Mode: Three Emergency Disks 798 Application Won't Open 802 Startup Problems 802 Fixing the Disk 805 Where to Get Troubleshooting Help 808 Appendix C: The Windows-to-Mac Dictionary 809 Appendix D: The Master OS X Secret Keystroke List 823 Index 831 Xi

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Farnham osx Yosemite the missing manual The book that should have been in the box' David Pogue O'REILLY Beijing Cambridge Koln Sebastopol Tokyo Table of Contents Introduction 1 The Mac Becomes an ipad