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 1 What's New in Yosemite 3 About This Book 5 The Very Basics 8 Part One: The OS X Desktop Chapter 1: Folders & Windows 13 Getting into OS X 13 Windows and How to Work Them 17 The Four Window Views 33 Icon View 34 List View 45 Column View 52 Cover Flow View 55 Yosemite's New Preview Pane 57 Quick Look 58 Finder Tabs 63 Logging Out, Shutting Down 65 Getting Help in OS X 68 Chapter 2: Organizing Your Stuff 71 The OS X Folder Structure :.. 71 Icon Names 76 Selecting Icons 80 Moving and Copying Icons 83 Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once 88 Finder Tags 90 The Trash 95 Get Info 98 Shortcut Menus, Action Menus 101 Chapter 3: Spotlight 105 The Spotlight Menu 105 The Searching Window 119 Customizing Spotlight 132 Smart Folders 134
Chapter 4: Dock, Desktop & Toolbars 137 The Dock 137 Setting Up the Dock 138 Using the Dock 146 The Finder Toolbar 152 Designing Your Desktop 156 Menulets: The Missing Manual 157 Part Two: Programs in OS X Chapter 5: Documents, Programs & Mission Control 163 The Mac App Store 163 Other Ways to Get Mac Software 166 Opening OS X Programs 169 Launchpad 170 Windows That Auto-Reopen 174 The "Heads-Up" Program Switcher 177 Full Screen Mode 178 Mission Control: Death to Window Clutter 179 Dashboard 189 Expose 202 Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way 207 How Documents Know Their Parents 210 Keyboard Control 214 The Save and Open Dialog Boxes 219 Auto Save and Versions 224 icioud Drive 229 Cocoa and Carbon 232 Chapter 6: Data: Typing, Dictating, Sharing & Backing Up 239 The Mac Keyboard 239 Notes on Right-Clicking 243 Power Typing 245 Dictation 251 The Many Languages of OS X Text 258 Data Detectors 263 Moving Data Between Documents 265 Exchanging Data with Other Macs 268 Exchanging Data with Windows PCs 273 The Share Button (&) 275 Time Machine 277
Chapter 7: Mac+iPhone: Handoff, AirDrop & Continuity 289 Mac as Speakerphone 290 Texting from the Mac 292 Instant Hotspot 293 Handoff 294 AirDrop 296 Chapter 8: Windows on the Mac 299 Boot Camp 300 Windows in a Window 308 Part Three: The Components of OS X Chapter 9: System Preferences 313 The System Preferences Window 313 Accessibility 315 App Store 325 Bluetooth 326 CDs & DVDs 328 Date & Time 329 Desktop & Screensaver 331 Dictation & Speech 336 Displays 336 Dock 341 Energy Saver 341 Extensions 345 General 346 icioud 349 Internet Accounts 349 Keyboard 349 Language & Region 350 Mission Control 351 Mouse 351 Network 352 Notifications 352 Parental Controls 352 Printers & Scanners 352 Security & Privacy 352 Sharing 352 Sound 353 Spotlight 355 Startup Disk 355 Time Machine 355 Trackpad 356 Users & Groups 358
Chapter 10: Notifications 359 Insta-Respond to Bubbles 360 Shutting Up the Bubbles 360 The Notification Center 362 Chapter 11: The Free Programs of OS X 369 Your Free OS X Programs 369 App Store 370 Automator 370 Calculator 370 Calendar 372 Chess 387 Contacts 389 Dashboard 389 Dictionary 390 DVD Player 392 FaceTime 392 Font Book 395 Game Center 395 GarageBand 398 ibooks 398 ichat 404 Image Capture 404 iphoto/photos 409 imovie 409 itunes 410 Launchpad 410 Mail 410 Maps 410 Messages 416 Mission Control 416 Notes 416 Numbers, Pages 419 Photo Booth 419 Preview 423 Reminders 435 QuickTime Player 438 Safari : 438 Stickies 439 System Preferences 441 TextEdit 441 Time Machine 449 Utilities: Your OS X Toolbox 450
Chapter 12: Disks, Drives & itunes 471 Disks Today 471 Disks In, Disks Out 472 Startup Disks 473 Erasing a Disk 474 Burning CDs and DVDs 474 itunes: The Digital Jukebox 475 Part Four: The Technologies ofosx Chapter 13: Accounts, Security & Gatekeeper 491 Introducing Accounts 491 Creating an Account 493 Parental Controls 502 Editing Accounts 510 Setting Up the Login Process 511 Signing In, Logging Out 515 Sharing Across Accounts 518 Fast User Switching 520 OS X and Security 522 Gatekeeper 523 FileVault 525 The Firewall 528 The Password Assistant 530 The Keychain 531 Five Privacy Shields 535 Chapter 14: Networking, File Sharing & AirDrop 537 Wiring the Network 537 File Sharing: Three Ways 541 AirDrop 542 Sharing Your Public Folder 546 Sharing Any Folder 547 Accessing Shared Files 552 Networking with Windows 560 Screen Sharing 566 More Dialing In from the Road 574
Chapter 15: Graphics, Fonts & Printing 575 Mac Meets Printer 575 Making the Printout 579 Managing Printouts 581 Printer Sharing 583 Faxing 584 PDF Files 584 Fonts-and Font Book 586 ColorSync 594 Graphics in OS X 595 Screen-Capture Keystrokes 597 Chapter 16: Sound, Movies & Speech 601 Playing Sounds 601 Recording Sounds 603 QuickTime Player 604 The Mac Reads to You 614 VoiceOver 617 Ink: Handwriting Recognition 618 Part Five: OSX Online Chapter 17: Internet Setup & icioud 621 The Best News You've Heard All Day 622 Network Central and Multihoming 622 Broadband Connections 624 Cellular Modems 630 Tethering (Personal Hotspot) 630 Dial-Up Modem Connections 631 Switching Locations 631 Internet Sharing 633 Meet icioud 636 icioud Drive 636 Photos 637 Find My Mac, Find My iphone 642 Back to My Mac 645 Family Sharing 645 More icioud Features 650
Chapter 18: Mail & Contacts 653 Setting Up Mail 653 Checking Your Mail 656 Tailoring the Look of Mail 658 Writing Messages 663 Stationery 672 Reading Email 674 VIPs 691 The Anti-Spam Toolkit 692 Contacts (Address Book) 693 Chapter 19: Safari 707 The Unified Address/Search Bar 708 Bookmarks, Favorites, and Top Sites 712 Full Screen and Gestures 717 Customizing the Toolbar 719 Saved Passwords: The icioud Keychain 720 15 Tips for Better Surfing 727 Tabbed Browsing 737 Privacy and Security Features 739 Chapter 20: Messages 743 Welcome to Messages 743 Setting Up Messages 745 Let the Chat Begin 749 Text Chatting 752 Audio Chats 756 Video Chats 756 Sharing Your Screen 760 Chapter 21: FTP, SSH & VPN 763 FTP 763 Connecting from the Road 765 Remote Access with SSH 766 Virtual Private Networking 769 Part Six: Appendixes Appendix A: Installing OS X Yosemite 775 Hardware Requirements 778 Psychological Requirements 779 The Standard Installation 779 The Setup Assistant 782 The Homemade Installer Disk 786
Appendix B: Troubleshooting 789 Minor Eccentric Behavior 789 Frozen Programs (Force Quitting) 791 Recovery Mode: Three Emergency Disks 792 Application Won't Open 796 Startup Problems 796 Fixing the Disk 799 Where to Get Troubleshooting Help 802 Appendix C: The Windows-to-Mac Dictionary 803 Appendix D: The Master OS X Secret Keystroke List 817 Index 827