OS X Yosemite: The Missing Manual

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With Yosemite, Apple has unleashed the most innovative version of OS X yet—and once again, David Pogue brings his expertise and humor to the #1 bestselling Mac book. Mac OS X 10.10 includes more innovations from the iPad and adds a variety of new features throughout the operating system. This updated edition covers it all with something new on practically every page.

  • Get the scoop on Yosemite’s big-ticket changes
  • Learn enhancements to existing applications, such as Safari and Mail
  • Take advantage of shortcuts and undocumented tricks
  • Use power user tips for networking, file sharing, and building your own services

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Table of contents

  1. OS X Yosemite: The Missing Manual
  2. A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
  3. The Missing Credits
    1. About the Author
      1. About the Author
    2. About the Creative Team
      1. Acknowledgments
      2. The Missing Manual Series
        1. For the Mac
        2. For Windows
        3. Electronics
        4. Web Technologies
        5. Life
  4. Introduction
    1. The Mac Becomes an iPad
    2. What’s New in Yosemite
    3. About This Book
      1. About the Outline
      2. About→These→Arrows
      3. About MissingManuals.com
    4. The Very Basics
  5. One. The OS X Desktop
    1. 1. Folders & Windows
      1. Getting into OS X
        1. Logging In
        2. The Elements of the OS X Desktop
          1. The Dock
          2. The menu
          3. The menu bar
          4. Disk icons on the desktop
      2. Windows and How to Work Them
        1. The Sidebar
          1. Fine-tuning the Sidebar
        2. Title Bar
        3. Close Button
        4. Minimize Button
        5. Full Screen Button
        6. The Folder Proxy Icon
        7. The Finder Toolbar
        8. Two Clicks, One Window
        9. Old Finder Mode
        10. Scroll Bars
        11. Resizable Edges
        12. Path Bar
        13. Status Bar
      3. The Four Window Views
      4. Icon View
        1. Icon Size
        2. Icon Previews
        3. Icon-View Options
          1. Always open in icon view
          2. Browse in icon view
          3. Arrange By, Sort By
          4. Icon size
          5. Grid spacing
          6. Text size
          7. Label position
          8. Show item info
          9. Show icon preview
          10. Background
          11. Use as Defaults
        4. Arrange By and Sort By
          1. Arranging
          2. Sorting
          3. Free dragging—and grid spacing
      5. List View
        1. Sorting the List
        2. Arranging the List
        3. Flippy Triangles
        4. Your Choice of Columns
        5. Other View Options
        6. Rearranging Columns
        7. Adjusting Column Widths
      6. Column View
        1. Column View by Keyboard
        2. Manipulating the Columns
        3. Grouping the Column Contents
        4. View Options
      7. Cover Flow View
      8. Yosemite’s New Preview Pane
      9. Quick Look
        1. What Quick Look Knows
        2. Fun with Quick Look
        3. The Quick Look Slideshow
      10. Finder Tabs
        1. Creating Tabs
        2. Using Tabs
        3. Tab Management
      11. Logging Out, Shutting Down
        1. Sleep Mode
        2. Restart
        3. Shut Down
        4. The “Reopen windows” Option
        5. Log Out
      12. Getting Help in OS X
    2. 2. Organizing Your Stuff
      1. The OS X Folder Structure
        1. Your Home Folder
        2. What’s on Your Hard Drive
        3. What’s in Your Home Folder
      2. Icon Names
        1. Rename One File
        2. Renaming Batches of Files
      3. Selecting Icons
        1. Selecting by Clicking
        2. Selecting Icons from the Keyboard
      4. Moving and Copying Icons
        1. Copying by Dragging
        2. Copying or Moving with Copy and Paste
        3. Dragging from the Title Bar
        4. Spring-Loaded Folders: Dragging Icons into Closed Folders
        5. Making Spring-Loaded Folders Work
      5. Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once
        1. What’s Good about Aliases
        2. Broken Aliases
      6. Finder Tags
        1. What Tags Are Good For
        2. Creating Tags
        3. Editing Tag Names and Colors
        4. Two Sets of Favorite Tags
        5. Applying Tags
        6. Using Tags
        7. Detagging Files
      7. The Trash
        1. Rescuing Files and Folders from the Trash
        2. Emptying the Trash I: Quick and Easy
        3. Emptying the Trash II: Secure and Forever
        4. Locked Files: The Next Generation
      8. Get Info
        1. Uniwindow vs. Multiwindow
        2. The Get Info Panels
      9. Shortcut Menus, Action Menus
        1. New Folder with Selection
        2. Share
    3. 3. Spotlight
      1. The Spotlight Menu
        1. The Preview Pane
        2. Opening a Result
        3. Spotlight Results Tips
        4. Times You Might Not Think of Spotlight
        5. Advanced Menu Searches
          1. Use quotes
          2. Limit by kind
          3. Limit by recent date
          4. Limit by tag
          5. Limit by metadata
          6. Boolean searches
      2. The Searching Window
        1. From Spotlight
        2. From the Finder
        3. The Basic Search
          1. Where to look
          2. The suggestions list
        4. Power Searches with Tokens
        5. Power Searching the Old Way
          1. Kind
          2. Last opened date/Last modified date/Created date
          3. Name
          4. Contents
          5. Other
        6. What to Do with Search Results
      3. Customizing Spotlight
        1. Privacy Settings
      4. Smart Folders
    4. 4. Dock, Desktop & Toolbars
      1. The Dock
      2. Setting Up the Dock
        1. Organizing and Removing Dock Icons
        2. Pop-Up Dock Folders (“Stacks”)
          1. Fan vs. grid vs. list
        3. The Finer Points of Pop-up Dock Folders
        4. Three Ways to Get the Dock Out of Your Hair
          1. Auto-hiding the Dock
          2. Shrinking and enlarging the Dock
          3. Moving the Dock to the sides of the screen
      3. Using the Dock
        1. Switch Applications
        2. Operate the Dock by Keyboard Control
        3. Secret Menus
        4. Conduct Speed Tests
        5. Drag and Drop
        6. Do Your Filing
        7. Great Things to Put in Your Dock
      4. The Finder Toolbar
        1. Hiding or Shrinking the Toolbar
        2. Customizing the Icons on the Toolbar
          1. Apple’s toolbar-icon collection
          2. Adding your own stuff
        3. Rearranging or Removing Toolbar Icons
      5. Designing Your Desktop
        1. System Preferences
        2. Graphic Designers’ Corner: The Gray Look
        3. Dark Menu Bar and Dock
        4. Desktop Sounds
      6. Menulets: The Missing Manual
  6. Two. Programs in OS X
    1. 5. Documents, Programs & Mission Control
      1. The Mac App Store
      2. Other Ways to Get Mac Software
        1. Downloading Compressed Files
          1. Disk images (.dmg files)
          2. Performing the installation
        2. Uninstalling Software
      3. Opening OS X Programs
      4. Launchpad
        1. Redesigning the Launchpad Screens
        2. Folders
        3. Deleting App Store Programs
      5. Windows That Auto-Reopen
        1. The Application Menu
        2. Quitting Programs
        3. Force Quitting Programs
      6. The “Heads-Up” Program Switcher
      7. Full Screen Mode
      8. Mission Control: Death to Window Clutter
        1. Starting and Stopping Mission Control
          1. Mission Control keystrokes
          2. Screen corners
        2. Managing Windows in Mission Control
        3. Spaces in Mission Control
        4. Creating a Desktop
        5. Switching Spaces
        6. Rearranging Spaces
        7. Spaces and Multiple Monitors
        8. Two Eccentric Spaces Settings
        9. Pictures for Every Desktop
        10. Deleting a Desktop
      9. Dashboard
        1. The Widget Browser
        2. Dashboard Tips
        3. Dashboard Preferences
        4. Widget Catalog
          1. Calculator
          2. Calendar
          3. Contacts
          4. Dictionary
          5. ESPN
          6. Flight Tracker
          7. Movies
          8. Stickies
          9. Stocks
          10. Tile Game
          11. Translation
          12. Unit Converter
          13. Weather
          14. Web Clip
          15. World Clock
        5. More Widgets
          1. Installing a widget
        6. Web Clips
          1. Creating a Web Clip widget
      10. Exposé
        1. One-App Exposé
        2. Desktop Exposé
        3. Exposé Tip-O-Rama
      11. Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way
        1. Hiding the Program You’re Using
        2. Hiding All Other Programs
        3. The Bring-Forward, Hide-All-Others Trick
        4. Hiding (Minimizing) Individual Windows
      12. How Documents Know Their Parents
        1. Reassigning Documents to Programs
          1. Reassigning a certain document—just once
          2. Reassigning a certain document—permanently
          3. Reassigning all documents of one type
      13. Keyboard Control
        1. Control the Menus
        2. Control the Dock
        3. Cycle Through Your Windows
        4. Control the Toolbar
        5. Control Tool Palettes
        6. Control Menulets
        7. Control Dialog Boxes
        8. Changing a Menu Keyboard Shortcut
        9. Redefining a Keystroke
      14. The Save and Open Dialog Boxes
        1. Sheets
        2. The Mini Finder
        3. Spotlight
        4. Insta-Jumping to a Folder Location
        5. The File Format Pop-Up Menu
        6. The Open File Dialog Box
      15. Auto Save and Versions
        1. Versions
          1. Rewinding to an earlier version
          2. Revert
      16. iCloud Drive
        1. iCloud Drive Defined
        2. Putting Files onto the iCloud Drive
        3. iCloud Drive on Other Devices
      17. Cocoa and Carbon
        1. The Cocoa Difference
          1. The Font panel
          2. Retina friendliness
          3. Title-bar tricks
          4. Secret keyboard shortcuts
          5. Cool text-selection tricks
          6. Background window control
    2. 6. Data: Typing, Dictating, Sharing & Backing Up
      1. The Mac Keyboard
        1. The Complicated Story of the Function Keys
      2. Notes on Right-Clicking
      3. Power Typing
        1. The OS X Spelling and Grammar Checker
        2. Text Substitution (Abbreviation Expansion)
          1. Insert the proper typographical symbols
          2. Replace abbreviations with much longer phrases
        3. Case Swapping
      4. Dictation
        1. Dictation Step by Step
        2. Punctuation
        3. Enhanced Dictation
        4. Speech Settings
      5. The Many Languages of OS X Text
        1. Formats
        2. Input Sources
        3. The Character Viewer
        4. Keyboard Viewer
      6. Data Detectors
      7. Moving Data Between Documents
        1. Cut, Copy, and Paste
        2. Drag-and-Drop
          1. When to use drag-and-drop
          2. Drag-and-drop to the desktop
        3. Export/Import
      8. Exchanging Data with Other Macs
        1. By Network
        2. By Email
        3. Using Dropbox
        4. Via iCloud Drive
        5. By CD or DVD
        6. FireWire Disk Mode/Thunderbolt Disk Mode (Target Disk Mode)
        7. Via Flash Drive
        8. Via Bluetooth
          1. Sending a file
          2. Fetching a file
      9. Exchanging Data with Windows PCs
        1. Preparing the Document for Transfer
          1. Is the document in a file format Windows understands?
          2. Does the file have the correct file name suffix?
        2. Notes on Disk Swapping
        3. Network Notes
        4. Via the Internet
      10. The Share Button ()
        1. Editing the Share Menu
      11. Time Machine
        1. Setting Up Time Machine
        2. How the Backups Work
        3. Local Snapshots
        4. Changing Time Machine Settings
        5. Recovering Lost or Changed Files
          1. Recovering from Contacts and Mail
          2. Recovering the entire hard drive
          3. Recovering to another Mac
        6. Frequently Asked Questions
    3. 7. Mac+iPhone: Handoff, AirDrop & Continuity
      1. Mac as Speakerphone
        1. And if It’s Not Working
      2. Texting from the Mac
      3. Instant Hotspot
      4. Handoff
      5. AirDrop
        1. From iPhone to Mac
    4. 8. Windows on the Mac
      1. Boot Camp
        1. Installing Boot Camp
          1. Phase 1: Build the drivers drive
          2. Phase 2: Create the Windows partition on your Mac
          3. Phase 3: Install Windows
          4. Phase 4: Install the Mac drivers
        2. Forth and Back, Windows/Mac
        3. Keyboard Translation Guide
        4. Accessing Mac Files from the Dark Side—and Vice Versa
      2. Windows in a Window
        1. Virtualization Tip-O-Rama
  7. Three. The Components of OS X
    1. 9. System Preferences
      1. The System Preferences Window
      2. Accessibility
        1. Display
        2. Zoom
        3. VoiceOver
        4. Descriptions
        5. Captions
        6. Audio
        7. Keyboard
        8. Mouse & Trackpad
        9. Switch Control
        10. Dictation
      3. App Store
      4. Bluetooth
        1. Pairing
        2. Advanced Options
        3. The Bluetooth Menulet
      5. CDs & DVDs
      6. Date & Time
        1. Date & Time Tab
        2. Time Zone Tab
        3. Clock Tab
      7. Desktop & Screen Saver
        1. Desktop Pictures
          1. Using your own pictures
          2. Making the picture fit
          3. Auto picture changing
        2. Screen Saver
          1. Slideshows
          2. Nonphotographic displays
          3. Activating the screensaver
      8. Dictation & Speech
      9. Displays
        1. Display Tab
        2. Arrangement Tab (Multiple Monitors)
          1. The wired way
          2. The wireless way
        3. The Arrangement Tab
        4. Color Tab
      10. Dock
      11. Energy Saver
        1. Sleep Sliders
        2. Checkbox Options
        3. Scheduled Startup and Shutdown
      12. Extensions
      13. General
        1. Changing Colors
        2. Sidebar Icon Size
        3. Tweaking the Scroll Bars
        4. Default Web Browser
        5. Ask to Keep Changes When Closing Documents
        6. Close Windows When Quitting an App
        7. Number of Recent Items
        8. Allow Handoff Between This Mac and Your iCloud Devices
        9. Use LCD Font Smoothing When Available
      14. iCloud
      15. Internet Accounts
      16. Keyboard
        1. Keyboard Tab
        2. Text Tab
        3. Shortcuts Tab
        4. Input Sources
      17. Language & Region
      18. Mission Control
      19. Mouse
        1. Tracking Speed, Double-Click Speed
        2. The Mighty Mouse and Magic Mouse
      20. Network
      21. Notifications
      22. Parental Controls
      23. Printers & Scanners
      24. Security & Privacy
      25. Sharing
      26. Sound
        1. Sound Effects Tab
        2. Output Tab
        3. Input Tab
      27. Spotlight
      28. Startup Disk
      29. Time Machine
      30. Trackpad
        1. Point & Click
        2. Scroll & Zoom
        3. More Gestures
      31. Users & Groups
    2. 10. Notifications
      1. Insta-Respond to Bubbles
      2. Shutting Up the Bubbles
        1. Dismiss One Bubble
        2. Do Not Disturb (Manual)
        3. Do Not Disturb (Automatic)
      3. The Notification Center
        1. Notifications Tab
        2. Today Tab
        3. Messaging, Tweeting, or Facebooking
        4. Customizing the Notification Center
    3. 11. The Free Programs of OS X
      1. Your Free OS X Programs
      2. App Store
      3. Automator
      4. Calculator
        1. Conversions
      5. Calendar
        1. Working with Views
        2. Making an Appointment
          1. The mousy way
          2. The Quick Event way
          3. Location, alarms, travel time, and other details
        3. What to Do with an Appointment
          1. Editing events
          2. Rescheduling events
          3. Lengthening or shortening events
          4. Printing events
          5. Searching for events
          6. Deleting events
        4. The “Calendar” Category Concept
        5. “Publishing” Calendars to the Web
          1. Publishing
          2. Subscribing
        6. Google, Yahoo, and Facebook Calendars
        7. Syncing Calendar with Your iPhone, iPad, and Other Computers
      6. Chess
        1. Playing a Game of Chess
        2. Chess Prefs
        3. Studying Your Games
      7. Contacts
      8. Dashboard
      9. Dictionary
      10. DVD Player
      11. FaceTime
        1. Placing a Call
        2. FaceTime Audio Calls
        3. Receiving Calls
      12. Font Book
      13. Game Center
        1. Getting Started
        2. Points and Achievements
        3. Making Friends
        4. Finding Games
        5. Managing Game Center
      14. GarageBand
      15. iBooks
        1. Downloading Books
        2. ePub Files
        3. PDF Files
        4. Your Library
        5. Reading
        6. Notes, Bookmarks, Highlighting, Dictionary
        7. iBooks Settings
          1. General tab
          2. Store tab
          3. Parental tab
      16. iChat
      17. Image Capture
        1. Import To:
        2. Import Some, Import All
        3. Scanning
          1. More power to you
      18. iPhoto/Photos
      19. iMovie
      20. iTunes
      21. Launchpad
      22. Mail
      23. Maps
        1. Meet Maps
        2. Finding Yourself
        3. Searching the Maps
        4. The Details Screen
        5. Bookmarks, Recents, Contacts
        6. Finding Friends and Businesses
        7. Directions
        8. Traffic
        9. Flyover
        10. Flyover Tours
      24. Messages
      25. Mission Control
      26. Notes
        1. Interior Design
        2. Pinning Notes
        3. Notes Folders
        4. Syncing Notes
        5. Notes Accounts
      27. Numbers, Pages
      28. Photo Booth
        1. Still Photos
        2. 4-Up Photos
        3. Movies
        4. Exporting Shots and Movies
      29. Preview
        1. Importing Camera Photos
        2. Operating Your Scanner
        3. Multiple Pages, Multiple Views
        4. Preview as Graphics Viewer
          1. Bunches o’ graphics
          2. Cropping graphics
          3. Fixing up photos
          4. Cutting backgrounds out
          5. Converting file formats
        5. Preview as PDF Reader
        6. Annotations and Drawing Tools
        7. Signing PDF Documents with Your Real Signature
        8. Fill in PDF Forms
        9. The Toolbar
      30. Reminders
        1. The Details Bubble
        2. The Calendar of Deadline Hell
        3. Lists
        4. Syncing Reminders
      31. QuickTime Player
      32. Safari
      33. Stickies
        1. Creating Sticky Notes
        2. Growing and Shrinking Notes
        3. Formatting Notes
        4. Saving Sticky Notes
      34. System Preferences
      35. TextEdit
        1. TextEdit’s Two Personalities
        2. Working in TextEdit
        3. Style Sheets
        4. Tables
        5. TextEdit as Web Designer
        6. The TextEdit Preferences
        7. TextEdit’s Other Writing Tools
      36. Time Machine
      37. Utilities: Your OS X Toolbox
        1. Activity Monitor
          1. The Processes table
          2. The System monitor tabs
        2. AirPort Utility
        3. Audio MIDI Setup
        4. Bluetooth File Exchange
        5. Boot Camp Assistant
        6. ColorSync Utility
        7. Console
        8. DigitalColor Meter
        9. Disk Utility
          1. Disk Utility, the hard drive repair program
          2. Disk Utility, the disk-image program
          3. Turning an image into a CD
        10. Grab
        11. Grapher
        12. Keychain Access
        13. Migration Assistant
        14. Network Utility
        15. Script Editor
        16. System Information
        17. Terminal
        18. VoiceOver Utility
    4. 12. Disks, Drives & iTunes
      1. Disks Today
        1. Hard Drives
        2. CDs, DVDs
        3. Flash Drives
      2. Disks In, Disks Out
      3. Startup Disks
        1. Selecting a Startup Disk
      4. Erasing a Disk
      5. Burning CDs and DVDs
      6. iTunes: The Digital Jukebox
        1. Your Stuff
        2. Three Ways to Fill Your Library
        3. Playlists
          1. Smart playlists
          2. Editing and deleting playlists
        4. iTunes Store
        5. Music ()
        6. TV (), Movies (), and Movie Rentals
        7. Podcasts ()
        8. iTunes U ()
        9. Audiobooks ()
        10. Apps ()
        11. Internet Radio ()
        12. Authorizing Computers
        13. Syncing an iPad or iPhone
          1. Connecting the phone with a cable
          2. Connecting over WiFi
        14. iTunes Radio
          1. Playing iTunes Radio
          2. Make your own station
          3. Deleting or editing a station
        15. Playing with Playback
          1. Turning on visuals
          2. Keyboard control
          3. Sound Check: Preventing ear-blast syndrome
          4. Playing with the graphic equalizer
  8. Four. The Technologies of OS X
    1. 13. Accounts, Security & Gatekeeper
      1. Introducing Accounts
        1. The First Account
      2. Creating an Account
        1. Phase 1: Choose an Account Type
          1. Administrator accounts
          2. Standard accounts
          3. Managed accounts with Parental Controls
          4. Sharing Only account
          5. Group
          6. The Guest account
        2. Phase 2: Name, Password, and Status
        3. Phase 3: Choose a Picture
        4. Phase 4: Login Items (Startup Items)
      3. Parental Controls
        1. Apps Tab
          1. Limit Applications
          2. Use Simple Finder
        2. Web Tab
        3. People Tab
        4. Time Limits
        5. Other Tab
      4. Editing Accounts
        1. Deleting Accounts
      5. Setting Up the Login Process
      6. Signing In, Logging Out
        1. Identifying Yourself
        2. Logging Out
        3. Logout Options
      7. Sharing Across Accounts
      8. Fast User Switching
      9. OS X and Security
      10. Gatekeeper
      11. FileVault
      12. The Firewall
      13. The Password Assistant
      14. The Keychain
        1. Locking and Unlocking the Keychain
        2. Managing Keychain
        3. Multiple Keychains
        4. Keychain Files
      15. Five Privacy Shields
        1. Location Services
        2. Contacts, Calendars, Reminders
        3. Twitter, Facebook
        4. Accessibility
        5. Diagnostic and Usage Data
    2. 14. Networking, File Sharing & AirDrop
      1. Wiring the Network
        1. Ethernet Networks
        2. WiFi Networks
        3. Cell Networks
        4. FireWire Networks
      2. File Sharing: Three Ways
      3. AirDrop
        1. Sending by AirDrop
        2. Eight Reasons AirDrop Might Seem Not to Work
        3. Receiving a File by AirDrop
      4. Sharing Your Public Folder
      5. Sharing Any Folder
        1. The Get Info Method
        2. The System Preferences Method
      6. Accessing Shared Files
        1. Connection Method A: Use the Sidebar
        2. Connection Method B: Connect to Server
        3. Disconnecting Yourself
        4. Disconnecting Others
      7. Networking with Windows
        1. Seated at the Mac, Seeing the PC
        2. Seated at the PC, Seeing the Mac
        3. More Mac-Windows Connections
      8. Screen Sharing
        1. Other Mac: Give Permission in Advance
        2. Your Mac: Take Control
        3. The Toolbar
        4. Variations on Screen Sharing
          1. Screen sharing through Messages
          2. Screen sharing the manual way
          3. Screen sharing with Back to My Mac
      9. More Dialing In from the Road
    3. 15. Graphics, Fonts & Printing
      1. Mac Meets Printer
        1. Setting Up a Printer
        2. Printer Preferences
      2. Making the Printout
        1. Printing
      3. Managing Printouts
      4. Printer Sharing
      5. Faxing
      6. PDF Files
        1. Opening PDF Files
        2. Creating PDF Files
      7. Fonts—and Font Book
        1. Where Fonts Live
        2. Font Book: Installing and Managing Fonts
          1. Looking over your fonts
          2. Printing a reference sheet
          3. Eliminating duplicates
          4. Adding, removing, and hiding fonts
          5. Font collections
          6. Smart collections
          7. Font libraries
          8. Exporting fonts
        3. The Fonts Panel
          1. Choosing fonts from the Fonts panel
          2. Designing collections and favorites
      8. ColorSync
        1. Getting ColorSync Profiles
        2. Default Profiles
        3. More on ColorSync
      9. Graphics in OS X
        1. Graphics Formats on the Mac
      10. Screen-Capture Keystrokes
        1. The Whole Screen
        2. One Section of the Screen
        3. A Dialog Box, Menu, Window, or Icon
    4. 16. Sound, Movies & Speech
      1. Playing Sounds
        1. Controlling the Volume
        2. Alert Beeps and You
          1. Choosing an alert beep
          2. Adding new alert beeps
      2. Recording Sounds
        1. Making the Recording
      3. QuickTime Player
        1. Fancy Playback Tricks
          1. Editing movies
          2. Recording movies with QuickTime Player
          3. Recording screen movies of the Mac
          4. Recording movies of an iPhone or iPad screen
        2. Internet Streaming QuickTime
          1. Streaming video from your browser
        3. Eleven Ways to Export Your Video
          1. Post to YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, Facebook
          2. Send to Email, Message, AirDrop
          3. Saving the finished movie
      4. The Mac Reads to You
        1. Setting Up the Mac’s Voice
          1. Announce when alerts are displayed
          2. Announce when alerts are displayed
          3. Speak selected text when the key is pressed
      5. VoiceOver
      6. Ink: Handwriting Recognition
  9. Five. OS X Online
    1. 17. Internet Setup & iCloud
      1. The Best News You’ve Heard All Day
      2. Network Central and Multihoming
        1. Multihoming
      3. Broadband Connections
        1. Automatic Configuration
        2. Manual Configuration
        3. Ethernet Connections
        4. WiFi Connections
        5. Commercial Hotspots
      4. Cellular Modems
      5. Tethering (Personal Hotspot)
      6. Dial-Up Modem Connections
      7. Switching Locations
        1. Creating a New Location
        2. Making the Switch
      8. Internet Sharing
        1. Turning On Internet Sharing
      9. Meet iCloud
      10. iCloud Drive
      11. Photos
        1. My Photo Stream
        2. iCloud Photo Sharing
        3. iCloud Photo Library
        4. Mail
        5. Data Synchronization
      12. Find My Mac, Find My iPhone
      13. Back to My Mac
      14. Family Sharing
        1. Setting Up Family Sharing
        2. Life in Family Sharing
      15. More iCloud Features
        1. Automatic backup
        2. Continuity
        3. Books, Music, Apps, Movies: The Locker in the Sky
    2. 18. Mail & Contacts
      1. Setting Up Mail
        1. Importing Old Mail
      2. Checking Your Mail
        1. The Mailboxes List
      3. Tailoring the Look of Mail
        1. Tweaking the Three-Column Layout
        2. Tweaking the Classic Layout
        3. The Toolbar
      4. Writing Messages
        1. Attaching Files to Messages
        2. Mail Drop: Sending Huge Attachments
        3. Marking Up, Signing, and Drawing on Attachments
        4. Signatures
      5. Stationery
      6. Reading Email
        1. Conversation View
        2. Adding the Sender to Contacts
        3. Data Detectors
        4. Opening File Attachments
        5. Replying to a Message
        6. Forwarding Messages
        7. Redirecting Messages
        8. Printing Messages
        9. Filing Messages
        10. Flagging Messages
        11. Finding Messages
        12. Deleting Messages
          1. Emptying the Trash folder
          2. Turning deleted mail invisible
          3. Archiving messages
        13. Exporting Mailboxes
        14. Message Rules
          1. Setting up message rules
      7. VIPs
      8. The Anti-Spam Toolkit
        1. Using the Junk Mail Filter
        2. More Anti-Spam Tips
      9. Contacts (Address Book)
        1. Importing Addresses
          1. Importing from Yahoo, Google, Exchange, or another Internet service
          2. Importing from another address-book program
          3. About vCards
        2. Creating Address Cards
          1. Editing an address
          2. Adding addresses from Mail
        3. Groups
          1. Smart groups
          2. Removing someone from a group
        4. Adding Pictures
          1. Replacing and removing a picture
          2. Free headshots from Facebook
        5. Finding an Address
        6. Changing the Contacts Display
        7. Printing Options
        8. Contacts Backups
    3. 19. Safari
      1. The Unified Address/Search Bar
        1. Searching the Web
        2. Address/Search Bar Tips
      2. Bookmarks, Favorites, and Top Sites
        1. Adding a Bookmark
        2. Organizing Bookmarks in the Sidebar
        3. Organizing Bookmarks in the Editor
        4. Favorites View
        5. Favorites Bar
        6. Top Sites
      3. Full Screen and Gestures
        1. Scrolling
        2. Five Ways to Magnify a Page
      4. Customizing the Toolbar
      5. Saved Passwords: The iCloud Keychain
        1. Memorized Contact Information
        2. Memorized Passwords
        3. Auto-Filled-In Credit Cards
        4. Synchronized Passwords
        5. Setting Up iCloud Keychain
          1. Set up the first Mac
          2. Adding another Mac to your iCloud Keychain
          3. Adding an iOS gadget to your iCloud Keychain
        6. Auto-Generated Passwords
      6. 15 Tips for Better Surfing
        1. The Reading List
        2. The Download Manager
        3. Reader
        4. Status Bar
        5. Keyboard Control
        6. Graphics Worth Saving
        7. Saving Web Pages to Disk
        8. Sending a Page to a Friend
        9. Expanding Web Forms
        10. Designate Your Start Page
        11. Finding Text on Web Pages
        12. The History Menu
        13. PDF Pages Online
        14. Shared Links and RSS Feeds
          1. RSS subscriptions
      7. Tabbed Browsing
        1. Tab View
          1. iCloud tabs
      8. Privacy and Security Features
        1. Erasing Your History
        2. Private Browsing
        3. Cookie Control—and Privacy Control
        4. Stifle Pop-Ups and Pop-Unders
    4. 20. Messages
      1. Welcome to Messages
        1. More on iMessages
      2. Setting Up Messages
        1. The Buddy List
          1. Filling your buddy list
          2. Broadcasting Your Status
          3. Sorting and sizing your friends
          4. Bonjour buddies
      3. Let the Chat Begin
        1. If This Is an iMessage Chat
        2. They Invite You
      4. Text Chatting
        1. In-Chat Fun
        2. Group Chats
      5. Audio Chats
      6. Video Chats
        1. Equipment Requirements
        2. Starting the Video Call
        3. Bluescreen Backdrops and Video FX
      7. Sharing Your Screen
        1. iCloud Screen Sharing
        2. Screen Sharing with Non-iCloud Accounts
    5. 21. FTP, SSH & VPN
      1. FTP
        1. Uploading and Downloading from FTP Sites
        2. Just Downloading from FTP Sites
      2. Connecting from the Road
      3. Remote Access with SSH
        1. Getting In
        2. Remote Control Program Killing
      4. Virtual Private Networking
        1. Setting Up the VPN Connection
        2. Connecting to a VPN
        3. The Fine Points of VPN
  10. Six. Appendixes
    1. A. Installing OS X Yosemite
      1. Hardware Requirements
      2. Psychological Requirements
      3. The Standard Installation
      4. The Setup Assistant
        1. After Installing over Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks
        2. After Installing onto a Blank Drive
      5. The Homemade Installer Disk
        1. Phase 1: Format the Drive
        2. Phase 2: Build Your Installer
        3. Phase 3: Replace the “Packages” Alias
        4. How to Use Your Emergency Disk
    2. B. Troubleshooting
      1. Minor Eccentric Behavior
        1. First Resort: Repair Permissions
        2. Second Resort: Look for an Update
        3. Third Resort: Toss the Prefs File
        4. Fourth Resort: Restart
        5. Last Resort: Trash and Reinstall the Program
      2. Frozen Programs (Force Quitting)
      3. Recovery Mode: Three Emergency Disks
        1. The Recovery HD
        2. Yosemite Internet Recovery
        3. Physical Recovery Disks
      4. Application Won’t Open
      5. Startup Problems
        1. Kernel Panic
        2. Safe Mode (Safe Boot)
        3. Gray Screen During Startup
        4. Blue Screen During Startup
        5. Forgotten Password
      6. Fixing the Disk
        1. Method 1: Disk Utility
        2. Method 2: fsck at the Console
          1. Single-user mode (⌘-S at startup)
      7. Where to Get Troubleshooting Help
        1. Help Online
        2. Help by Telephone
    3. C. The Windows-to-Mac Dictionary
      1. About [this program]
        1. About [this program]
        2. Accessibility Options/Ease of Access Center
        3. Active Desktop
        4. Add Hardware control panel
        5. Add or Remove Programs control panel
        6. All Programs
        7. Alt key
        8. Automatic Update
        9. Backspace key
        10. Battery level
        11. BIOS
        12. Briefcase
        13. Calculator
        14. Camera and Scanner Installation Wizard
        15. CDs and DVDs
        16. Character Map
        17. Clean install
        18. Clipboard
        19. Command Prompt
        20. Control Panel
        21. Copy, Cut, Paste
        22. Ctrl key
        23. Date and Time
        24. Delete Key (Forward Delete)
        25. Desktop
        26. Directories
        27. Disk Defragmenter
        28. Disks
        29. Display control panel
        30. DLL files
        31. DOS prompt
        32. Drivers
        33. End Task dialog box
        34. Exiting programs
        35. Explorer
        36. Favorites
        37. Faxing
        38. File Sharing
        39. Floppy disks
        40. Folder Options
        41. Fonts
        42. Help and Support
        43. Hibernation
        44. Internet Explorer
        45. Internet Options
        46. IRQs
        47. Java
        48. Keyboard control panel
        49. Logging in
        50. Mail control panel
        51. Maximize button
        52. Menus
        53. Minimize button
        54. Mouse control panel
        55. (My) Computer
        56. (My) Documents, (My) Pictures, (My) Music
        57. (My) Network Places
        58. Network Neighborhood
        59. Notepad
        60. Personal Web Server
        61. Phone and Modem Options control panel
        62. Power Options
        63. Printer Sharing
        64. Printers and Faxes
        65. PrntScrn key
        66. Program Files folder
        67. Properties dialog box
        68. Recycle Bin
        69. Regional and Language Options control panel
        70. Registry
        71. Run command
        72. Safe Mode
        73. ScanDisk
        74. Scheduled Tasks
        75. Scrap files
        76. Screen saver
        77. Search
        78. Shortcut menus
        79. Shortcuts
        80. Sounds and Audio Devices
        81. Speech control panel
        82. Standby mode
        83. Start menu
        84. StartUp folder
        85. System control panel
        86. System Tray
        87. Taskbar
        88. Taskbar and Start Menu control panel
        89. “Three-fingered salute”
        90. ToolTips
        91. Tweak UI
        92. User Accounts control panel
        93. Windows (or WINNT) folder
        94. Windows logo key
        95. Windows Media Player
        96. Windows Messenger
        97. WordPad
        98. Zip files
    4. D. The Master OS X Secret Keystroke List
      1. Startup Keystrokes
        1. Startup Keystrokes
        2. In the Finder
        3. Menu
        4. Finder Menu
        5. File Menu
        6. Edit Menu
        7. View Menu
        8. Go Menu
        9. Window Menu
        10. Help Menu
        11. Power Keys
        12. The Dock
        13. Managing Programs
        14. Dialog Boxes
        15. Trackpad Gestures
        16. Magic Mouse Gestures
    5. E. Colophon
  11. Index
  12. About the Author
  13. Copyright

Product information

  • Title: OS X Yosemite: The Missing Manual
  • Author(s): David Pogue
  • Release date: December 2014
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9781491947166