macOS Catalina: The Missing Manual

macOS Catalina: The Missing Manual

by David Pogue
Released December 2019
Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ISBN: 9781492075066

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Book description

Apple gives macOS new features and improvements right on your desktop and under the hood with Catalina—aka OS X 10.15. With this updated guide, you’ll learn how to use your iPad as a second screen, work with iPad apps on your Mac, and use Screen Time on your Mac. This new edition of the #1 bestselling Mac book shows you how to use the revamped apps for Music, Podcasts, and TV.

Loaded with illustrations, step-by-step instructions, tips, and tricks, this book from David Pogue—Missing Manual series creator, New York Times columnist, and Emmy-winning tech correspondent for CNBC, CBS, and NPR—covers everything Catalina has to offer with lots of humor and technical insight.

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Table of contents

  1. The Missing Credits
    1. About the Author
    2. About the Creative Team
    3. Acknowledgments
    4. About The Missing Manuals
  2. Introduction
    1. What’s New in Catalina
      1. Death of iTunes
      2. Sidecar
      3. Screen Time
      4. Voice Control
      5. Security Tweaks
      6. Radical Photos Redesign
      7. New Notes
      8. New Reminders
      9. Lots of Misc.
      10. The Dearly Departed
    2. About This Book
      1. About the Outline
      2. About MissingManuals.com
      3. About→These→Arrows
    3. The Very Basics
  3. I. The macOS Desktop
  4. 1. Folders, Windows & Finder Tabs
    1. Getting into macOS
      1. Logging In
      2. The Elements of the macOS Desktop
    2. Windows and How to Work Them
      1. The Sidebar
      2. Title Bar
      3. Close Button
      4. Minimize Button
      5. Full Screen Button
      6. The Folder Proxy Icon
      7. Two Clicks, One Window
      8. The Finder Toolbar
      9. Scroll Bars
      10. Insta–Full Screen
      11. Old Finder Mode
      12. Resizable Edges
      13. Snappable Windows
      14. Path Bar
      15. Status Bar
      16. The Preview Pane
    3. The Four Window Views
    4. Icon View
      1. Icon Size
      2. Icon Previews
      3. Icon-View Options
      4. Group By and Sort By
    5. List View
      1. Sorting the List
      2. Grouping 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. Gallery View
    8. The Preview Pane
    9. Quick Look
      1. What Quick Look Knows
      2. The Quick Look Slideshow
      3. Fun with Quick Look
    10. Keep Folders on Top
    11. Finder Tabs
      1. Creating Tabs
      2. Using Tabs
      3. Tab Management
    12. Tabs in Other Apps
    13. Logging Out, Shutting Down
      1. Sleep Mode
      2. Restart
      3. Shut Down
      4. The “Reopen Windows” Option
      5. Log Out
    14. Getting Help in macOS
  5. 2. Organizing Your Stuff
    1. The macOS Folder Structure
      1. Your Home Folder
      2. What’s on Your Hard Drive
      3. What’s in Your Home Folder
    2. Desktop Stacks
    3. Icon Names
      1. Rename One File
      2. Renaming Batches of Files
    4. Selecting Icons
      1. Selecting by Clicking
      2. Selecting Icons from the Keyboard
    5. Moving and Copying Icons
      1. By Dragging
      2. 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
    6. Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once
      1. What’s Good About Aliases
      2. Broken Aliases
    7. Finder Tags
      1. What Tags Are Good For
      2. Creating Tags
      3. Editing Tag Names and Colors
      4. Two Sets of Favorites Tags
      5. Applying Tags
      6. Using Tags
      7. Detagging Files
    8. The Trash
      1. Rescuing Files and Folders from the Trash
      2. Emptying the Trash I: Quick and Easy
      3. Emptying the Trash II: Even Easier
      4. Locked Files: The Next Generation
    9. Get Info
      1. Uniwindow vs. Multiwindow
      2. The Get Info Panels
    10. Shortcut Menus, Action Menus
      1. New Folder with Selection
      2. Share
    11. Optimized Storage
      1. Store in iCloud
      2. Optimize
      3. Empty Trash Automatically
      4. Reduce Clutter
      5. More to Delete
  6. 3. Spotlight
    1. The Spotlight Menu
      1. Searching Your Mac
      2. Searching the Internet
      3. Calculations and Conversions
      4. The Preview Pane
      5. Opening a Result
      6. Spotlight Results Tips
      7. Advanced Menu Searches
    2. The Searching Window
      1. From Spotlight
      2. From the Finder
      3. The Basic Search
      4. Power Searches with Tokens
      5. Power Searching the Old Way
      6. What to Do with Search Results
    3. Customizing Spotlight
      1. Privacy Settings
    4. Smart Folders
  7. 4. Dock, Desktop & Toolbars
    1. The Dock
    2. Setting Up the Dock
      1. Organizing and Removing Dock Icons
      2. Pop-Up Dock Folders (“Stacks”)
      3. Three Ways to Get the Dock Out of Your Hair
    3. Using the Dock
      1. Switch Applications
      2. Operate the Dock by Keyboard Control
      3. Find Secret Menus
      4. Drag and Drop
      5. Do Your Filing
      6. Find Great Things to Put in Your Dock
    4. The Finder Toolbar
      1. Hiding or Shrinking the Toolbar
      2. Customizing the Icons on the Toolbar
      3. Rearranging or Removing Toolbar Icons
    5. Designing Your Desktop
      1. Backgrounds and Screen Savers
      2. Accent Colors
      3. Dark Mode
      4. Desktop Sounds
    6. Menulets: The Missing Manual
  8. II. Programs in macOS
  9. 5. Documents, Programs & Mission Control
    1. The Mac App Store
    2. Other Ways to Get Mac Software
      1. Disk Images (.dmg Files)
      2. Performing the Installation
      3. Uninstalling Software
    3. The Death of 32-Bit Programs
    4. Opening macOS Programs
    5. Launchpad
      1. Redesigning the Launchpad Screens
      2. Folders
      3. Deleting App Store Programs
    6. Windows That Auto-Reopen
    7. The Application Menu
      1. Quitting Programs
      2. Force-Quitting Programs
    8. The App Switcher
    9. Full Screen Mode
    10. Split Screen Mode
      1. Starting Split Screen Mode, Method 1
      2. Starting Split Screen Mode, Method 2
      3. Exiting Split Screen Mode
    11. Mission Control: Death to Window Clutter
      1. Starting and Stopping Mission Control
      2. Managing Windows in Mission Control
    12. Spaces (Virtual Desktops)
      1. Creating a Desktop
      2. Switching Spaces
      3. Deleting a Desktop
      4. The Finer Points of Spaces
      5. Two Eccentric Spaces Settings
    13. Exposé
      1. One-App Exposé
      2. Desktop Exposé
      3. Exposé Tip-O-Rama
    14. 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
    15. How Documents Know Their Parents
      1. Reassigning Documents to Programs
    16. Keyboard Control
      1. Control the Menus
      2. Control the Dock
      3. Cycle Through Your Windows
      4. Control Tool Palettes
      5. Control Menulets
      6. Control Dialog Boxes
      7. Changing a Menu Keyboard Shortcut
      8. Redefining a Keystroke
    17. The Save and Open Dialog Boxes
      1. Sheets
      2. The Mini-Finder
      3. Insta-Jumping to a Folder Location
      4. The File Format Pop-Up Menu
      5. The Open Dialog Box
    18. Auto Save and Versions
      1. Versions
    19. iCloud Drive
      1. iCloud Drive Defined
      2. Putting Files onto the iCloud Drive
      3. Sharing iCloud Drive Files
      4. iCloud Drive on Other Devices
      5. iCloud Desktop & Documents
    20. Screen Time
      1. [Your Name]
      2. Options
      3. Turn On/Turn Off
      4. App Usage
      5. Notifications
      6. Pickups
      7. Downtime
      8. App Limits
      9. Always Allowed
      10. Content & Privacy Restrictions
  10. 6. Data: Typing, Sharing & Backing Up
    1. The Mac Keyboard
      1. The Complicated Story of the Function Keys
    2. The Touch Bar + Fingerprint Reader
      1. The Fingerprint Reader
      2. The Control Strip
      3. Customizing the Touch Bar
      4. QuickType on the Touch Bar
    3. Notes on Right-Clicking
    4. Power Typing
      1. The Spelling and Grammar Checker
      2. Text Substitution (Abbreviation Expansion)
      3. Auto-Periods, Auto-Caps
      4. Case Swapping
    5. The Many Languages of macOS Text
      1. Formats
      2. Input Sources
      3. The Character Viewer
      4. Keyboard Viewer
    6. Ink: Handwriting Recognition
    7. Data Detectors
    8. Moving Data Between Documents
      1. Cut, Copy, and Paste
      2. Drag-and-Drop
      3. Export/Import
    9. Exchanging Data with Other Macs
      1. By AirDrop or Network
      2. By Email
      3. Using Dropbox
      4. Via iCloud Drive
      5. Via Flash Drive
      6. FireWire Disk Mode/Thunderbolt Disk Mode (Target Disk Mode)
      7. Via Bluetooth
    10. Exchanging Data with iPhones or iPads
    11. Exchanging Data with Windows PCs
      1. Preparing the Document for Transfer
      2. Notes on Disk Swapping
      3. Network Notes
      4. Via the Internet
    12. The Share Button
      1. Editing the Share Menu
    13. 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
      6. Frequently Asked Questions
  11. 7. Voice Control, Dictation & Siri
    1. Voice Control
      1. Clicking Unlabeled Spots
      2. Speaking Your Text
      3. Editing Text
      4. Putting It All Together
      5. Custom Commands
    2. Dictation
      1. Dictation Step by Step
      2. Punctuation
    3. Siri on the Mac
    4. How to Use Siri
      1. “Hey Siri”
      2. Type to Siri
    5. What to Say to Siri
      1. When Things Go Wrong
      2. Siri’s Personality
      3. What to Do with Siri’s Results
    6. Advanced Siri
      1. Teach Siri About Your Relationships
      2. Fix Siri’s Name Comprehension
      3. Siri Settings
    7. The Mac Reads to You
      1. Setting Up the Mac’s Voice
  12. 8. Continuity: Mac + iPhone
    1. Mac as Speakerphone
      1. And If It’s Not Working
    2. Texting from the Mac
    3. Instant Hotspot
    4. AirDrop
    5. Handoff
    6. Continuity Camera
    7. Continuity Sketch
    8. Continuity Markup
    9. The Universal Clipboard
    10. Apple Watch Login and Approval
  13. III. The Components of macOS
  14. 9. System Preferences
    1. The System Preferences Window
      1. Choosing a Preferences Pane
      2. Hiding the Icons You Never Use
    2. Apple ID, Family Sharing
    3. Accessibility
      1. Overview Tab
      2. VoiceOver Tab
      3. Zoom Tab
      4. Display
      5. Speech
      6. Descriptions
      7. Audio
      8. RTT/TTY
      9. Captions
      10. Voice Control
      11. Keyboard
      12. Pointer Control
      13. Switch Control
      14. Siri
      15. Shortcut Tab
    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
      2. Screen Saver
    8. Displays
      1. Display Tab
      2. Arrangement Tab (Multiple Monitors)
      3. Color Tab
      4. Night Shift
    9. Dock
    10. Energy Saver
      1. Sleep Sliders
      2. Checkbox Options
      3. Scheduled Startup and Shutdown
    11. Extensions
    12. General
    13. Internet Accounts
    14. Keyboard
      1. Keyboard Tab
      2. Text Tab
      3. Shortcuts Tab
      4. Input Sources
      5. Dictation
    15. Language & Region
    16. Mission Control
    17. Mouse
      1. Scroll Direction
      2. Secondary Click
      3. Primary Mouse Button
      4. Tracking Speed
      5. Smart Zoom
      6. Scrolling Speed
      7. Double-Click Speed
    18. Network
    19. Notifications
    20. Printers & Scanners
    21. Screen Time
    22. Security & Privacy
    23. Sharing
    24. Sidecar
      1. Starting Sidecar
      2. Mirroring the Screen
      3. What to Do on the iPad
    25. Siri
    26. Software Update
    27. Sound
      1. Sound Effects Tab
      2. Output Tab
      3. Input Tab
    28. Spotlight
    29. Startup Disk
    30. Time Machine
    31. Touch ID
      1. Fingerprints for Apps, Websites, and Apple Pay
    32. Trackpad
      1. Point & Click
      2. Scroll & Zoom
      3. More Gestures
      4. The Force Touch Trackpad
    33. Users & Groups
    34. Wallet & Apple Pay
  15. 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. Today Tab
      2. Notifications Tab
      3. Customizing the Notification Center
  16. 11. The Free Programs of macOS
    1. Automator
    2. Books
      1. Downloading Books
      2. Audiobooks
      3. ePub Files
      4. PDF Files
      5. Your Library
      6. Reading
      7. Notes, Highlighting, and Other Options
      8. Books Settings
    3. Calculator
      1. Conversions
    4. Calendar
      1. Working with Views
      2. Making an Appointment
      3. What to Do with an Appointment
      4. Searching for events
      5. The “Calendar” Category Concept
      6. “Publishing” Calendars to the Web
      7. Google, Yahoo, and Facebook Calendars
      8. Syncing Calendar with Your iPhone, iPad, and Other Computers
    5. Chess
      1. Playing a Game of Chess
      2. Studying Your Games
    6. Dictionary
    7. DVD Player
    8. FaceTime
      1. Placing a Call
      2. Group FaceTime
      3. FaceTime Audio Calls
      4. Receiving Calls
    9. Find My
      1. People
      2. Devices
    10. GarageBand
    11. Home
    12. Image Capture
      1. Import To:
      2. Import Some, Import All
      3. Operating Your Scanner
    13. iMovie
    14. iTunes
    15. 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. Public Transportation
      10. Flyover
      11. Flyover Tours
    16. News
    17. Notes
      1. Creating a Note
      2. The Notes List
      3. Collaborative Notes
      4. The Attachments Browser
      5. Locking Notes
      6. Notes Folders
      7. Tables
      8. Notes Accounts
    18. Numbers, Pages
    19. Photo Booth
      1. Still Photos
      2. 4-Up Photos
      3. Movies
      4. Exporting Shots and Movies
    20. Podcasts
      1. Subscribing
      2. Settings
      3. Listening
      4. The Queue (Up Next)
    21. Reminders
      1. The Four Smart Lists
      2. My Lists
      3. Reminder Groups (Sublists)
      4. Creating a Reminder
      5. The Info Bubble
      6. Subtasks
      7. Checking Off Reminders
      8. Sharing Lists
      9. Syncing Reminders
    22. Stickies
      1. Creating Sticky Notes
      2. Growing and Shrinking Notes
      3. Formatting Notes
      4. Saving Sticky Notes
    23. Stocks
      1. Customizing Your Portfolio
    24. TextEdit
      1. TextEdit’s Two Personalities
      2. Working in TextEdit
      3. Style Sheets
      4. Tables
      5. TextEdit as Web Designer
      6. TextEdit Preferences
      7. TextEdit’s Other Writing Tools
    25. Utilities: Your macOS Toolbox
      1. Activity Monitor
      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
      10. Grapher
      11. Keychain Access
      12. Migration Assistant
      13. Screenshot
      14. Script Editor
      15. System Information
      16. Terminal
      17. VoiceOver Utility
    26. Core Services: The Island of Misfit Apps
      1. About This Mac
      2. Archive Utility
      3. Directory Utility
      4. DVD Player
      5. Feedback Assistant
      6. Folder Actions Setup
      7. Network Utility
      8. Screen Sharing
      9. Storage Management
      10. Wireless Diagnostics
  17. IV. The Technologies of macOS
  18. 12. Accounts, Security & Gatekeeper
    1. Introducing Accounts
      1. The First Account
    2. Creating an Account
      1. Phase 1: Choose an Account Type
      2. Phase 2: Name, Password, and Status
      3. Phase 3: Choose a Picture
      4. Phase 4: Login Items (Startup Items)
    3. Editing Accounts
      1. Deleting Accounts
    4. Setting Up the Login Process
    5. Signing In, Logging Out
      1. Identifying Yourself
      2. Logging Out
      3. Logout Options
    6. Sharing Across Accounts
    7. Fast User Switching
    8. macOS and Security
      1. Two-Factor Authentication
      2. Gatekeeper
      3. FileVault
      4. The Firewall
      5. The Password Assistant
      6. The Keychain
    9. 16 Privacy Shields
  19. 13. Networking, File Sharing & Remote Access
    1. Wiring the Network
      1. Ethernet Networks
      2. Wi-Fi Networks
      3. Cell Networks
      4. FireWire Networks
    2. File Sharing: Three Ways
    3. AirDrop
      1. Sending by AirDrop
      2. 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
    9. Connecting from the Road
      1. FTP
      2. Remote File Sharing
      3. Remote Access with SSH
      4. Virtual Private Networking
  20. 14. Photos
    1. The Top Controls
    2. The Sidebar
      1. Photos
      2. Memories
      3. Favorites
      4. People
      5. Places
      6. Recents
      7. Imports
      8. Recently Deleted
      9. Activity
      10. Shared Albums
      11. Media Types
      12. My Albums
      13. My Projects
    3. Opening Photos
    4. Editing Photos
      1. Auto Enhance
      2. Crop
      3. Filters
      4. Adjust
      5. More Control Sliders
    5. Shared Albums
      1. Share Some Photos
      2. Shared-Photo Management
    6. My Photo Stream
    7. iCloud Photos
  21. 15. Printing, Scanning, Fonts & Graphics
    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. PDF Files
      1. Opening PDF Files
      2. Creating PDF Files
    6. Preview
      1. Scanning
      2. Importing Camera Photos
      3. Multiple Pages, Multiple Views
      4. Preview as Graphics Viewer
      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
    7. Faxing
    8. Fonts—and Font Book
      1. Where Fonts Live
      2. Font Book: Installing and Managing Fonts
      3. The Fonts Panel
    9. ColorSync
      1. Getting ColorSync Profiles
      2. Default Profiles
      3. More on ColorSync
    10. Graphics in macOS
      1. Graphics Formats on the Mac
    11. Screen Capture
      1. The Screenshot Toolbar
      2. The Screenshot Editor
      3. The Old Whole-Screen Keystroke
      4. One Section of the Screen
      5. A Dialog Box, Menu, Window, or Icon
  22. 16. Movies, Music & Sound
    1. QuickTime Player
      1. Fancy Playback Tricks
      2. Editing Movies
      3. Recording Movies with QuickTime Player
      4. Recording Screen Movies from the Mac
      5. Recording Movies from an iPhone or iPad Screen
      6. Creating a Video from Stills
      7. Ways to Export Your Video
    2. TV
      1. How to Play a Video
      2. TV Output
    3. Music
      1. Apple Music
      2. For You
      3. Browse
      4. Radio Tab
      5. Library
      6. Four Ways to Fill Your Library
      7. Playlists
      8. Authorizing Computers
      9. Playing with Playback
    4. Playing Sounds
      1. Controlling the Volume
      2. Alert Beeps and You
    5. Voice Memos
      1. Editing Your Recording
    6. Using the Microphone
      1. Making the Recording
  23. V. macOS Online
  24. 17. Internet Setup & iCloud
    1. Network Central and Multihoming
      1. Multihoming
    2. Broadband Connections
      1. Automatic Configuration
      2. Manual Configuration
      3. Ethernet Connections
      4. Wi-Fi Connections
      5. Commercial Hotspots
    3. Tethering (Personal Hotspot)
    4. Cellular Modems
    5. Dial-Up Modem Connections
    6. Switching Locations
      1. Creating a New Location
      2. Making the Switch
    7. Internet Sharing
      1. Turning On Internet Sharing
    8. Meet iCloud
    9. iCloud Drive
    10. Photos
    11. Mail
    12. Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Notes…
    13. Find My Mac, Find My iPhone
      1. Offline Finding
    14. Family Sharing
      1. Setting Up Family Sharing
      2. Your Rights as the Organizer
      3. Your Rights as an Underling
      4. Life in Family Sharing
    15. Apple Pay on the Web
      1. The Setup
      2. The Shopping
    16. More iCloud Features
      1. Automatic Backup
      2. Continuity
      3. Books, Music, Apps, Movies: The Locker in the Sky
  25. 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. Dark Mode in Mail
      2. The Toolbar
    4. Writing Messages
      1. Attaching Files to Messages
      2. Mail Drop: Sending Huge Attachments
      3. Signatures
      4. Marking Up, Signing, and Drawing on Attachments
    5. Reading Email
      1. Conversation View
      2. Filters
      3. Adding the Sender to Contacts
      4. Data Detectors
      5. Opening File Attachments
      6. Replying to a Message
      7. Forwarding Messages
      8. Redirecting Messages
      9. Printing Messages
      10. Filing Messages
      11. Flagging Messages
      12. Mark as Read/Unread
      13. Finding Messages
      14. Deleting Messages
      15. Exporting Mailboxes
      16. Message Rules
    6. VIPs
    7. The Anti-Spam Toolkit
      1. Using the Junk Mail Filter
      2. The Unsubscribe Button
      3. More Anti-Spam Tips
    8. Contacts
      1. Importing Addresses
      2. Creating Address Cards
      3. Groups
      4. Adding Pictures
      5. Finding an Address
      6. Changing the Contacts Display
      7. Printing Options
      8. Contacts Backups
  26. 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 Bar
      5. The Start Page
      6. Top Sites
    3. Full Screen and Gestures
    4. Scrolling
    5. Five Ways to Magnify a Page
    6. Customizing the Toolbar
    7. Autofill: Your Name and Info
    8. Autofill: Your Passwords
      1.  
    9. Autofill: Credit Cards
    10. Autofill: Text-Message Authentication Codes
    11. Tabbed Browsing
      1. Tab View
      2. Pinned Tabs
    12. Tips for Better Surfing
      1. The Reading List
      2. Keyboard Control
      3. The Download Manager
      4. Status Bar
      5. Reader
      6. Graphics Worth Saving
      7. Expanding Web Forms
      8. Saving Web Pages to Disk
      9. Sending a Page to a Friend
      10. Designate Your Start Page
      11. Finding Text on Web Pages
      12. The History Menu
      13. PDF Pages Online
      14. Picture-in-Picture Video
    13. Per-Website Settings
    14. Privacy and Security Features
      1. Erasing Your History
      2. Private Browsing
      3. Cookie Control—and Privacy Control
      4. Stifle Pop-Ups and Pop-Unders
  27. 20. Messages
    1. Welcome to Messages
    2. Let the Chat Begin
    3. iMessages
    4. Group Chats
    5. Audio and Video Chats
    6. Sharing Your Screen
      1. iCloud Screen Sharing
  28. VI. Appendixes
  29. A. Appendix A Installing macOS Catalina
    1. Hardware Requirements
    2. The Standard Installation
    3. The Setup Assistant
      1. After Installing over an Older Version
      2. After Installing onto a Blank Drive
    4. The Homemade Installer Disk
      1. How to Use Your Emergency Disk
  30. B. Appendix B Troubleshooting
    1. Slowdowns and Fans
    2. Minor Eccentric Behavior
      1. First Resort: Repair the Disk
      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
    3. Frozen Programs (Force-Quitting)
    4. Startup Problems
      1. Kernel Panic
      2. Safe Mode (Safe Boot)
      3. Gray Screen During Startup
      4. Forgotten Password
    5. Recovery Mode: Three Emergency Disks
      1. The Recovery HD
      2. Internet Recovery
      3. Physical Recovery Disks
    6. Rewinding macOS
    7. Fixing the Disk
      1. Method 1: Disk Utility
      2. Method 2: fsck at the Console
    8. Where to Get Troubleshooting Help
      1. Help Online
      2. Help by Telephone
  31. C. Appendix C The Windows-to-Mac Dictionary
    1. About [this program]
    2. Accessibility Options control panel/Ease of Access Settings panel
    3. Add Hardware control panel/Devices Settings panel
    4. All Apps
    5. Alt key
    6. Backspace key
    7. BIOS
    8. Calculator
    9. Camera and Scanner Wizard/Devices
    10. CDs and DVDs
    11. Character Map
    12. Clean Install/Fresh Start
    13. Clipboard
    14. Command line
    15. Control Panel/Settings
    16. Copy, Cut, Paste
    17. Ctrl key
    18. Date and Time
    19. Defragment and Optimize Drives
    20. Delete key (Forward Delete)
    21. Desktop
    22. Disks
    23. Display control panel or Settings panel
    24. (My) Documents, (My) Music, (My) Pictures
    25. DOS prompt
    26. End Task dialog box
    27. Exiting programs
    28. Favorites
    29. File Explorer
    30. File Sharing
    31. Folder Options/File Explorer Options
    32. Fonts
    33. Help and Support
    34. Hibernation/Sleep
    35. Internet Explorer
    36. Internet Options/Internet Properties
    37. Java
    38. Keyboard control panel
    39. Logging in
    40. Mail control panel/Email & Accounts Settings panel
    41. Maximize button
    42. Menus
    43. Minimize button
    44. Network Places
    45. Notepad
    46. Phone and Modem Options control panel
    47. Power Options
    48. Printer Sharing
    49. Printers and Faxes
    50. PrntScrn key
    51. Program Files folder
    52. Properties dialog box
    53. Recycle Bin
    54. Regional and Language Options control panel/Language Settings panel
    55. Registry
    56. Safe Mode
    57. ScanDisk
    58. Scheduled Tasks
    59. Scrap files
    60. Screen Saver Gallery
    61. Search
    62. Shortcut menus
    63. Shortcuts
    64. Start menu
    65. Startup folder
    66. System control panel
    67. Notification area
    68. Taskbar
    69. This PC or (My) Computer
    70. “Three-fingered salute”
    71. Tooltips
    72. Uninstall or Change a Program control panel
    73. User Accounts control panel/Accounts Settings panel
    74. Windows (or WINNT) folder
    75. Windows logo key
    76. Windows Media Player
    77. Windows Messenger
    78. WordPad
    79. Zip files
  32. D. Appendix D The Master Secret Keystroke List
    1. Keys to hold down at startup
    2. Speech recognition
    3. In the Finder
    4. Menu
    5. Finder menu
    6. File menu
    7. Edit menu
    8. View menu
    9. Go menu
    10. Window menu
    11. Help menu
    12. Power keys
    13. The Dock
    14. Managing programs
    15. Dialog boxes
    16. Trackpad gestures
    17. Magic Mouse gestures
  33. Index

Product information

  • Title: macOS Catalina: The Missing Manual
  • Author(s): David Pogue
  • Release date: December 2019
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9781492075066