Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition

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Is Windows giving you pause? Ready to make the leap to the Mac instead? There has never been a better time to switch from Windows to Mac, and this incomparable guide will help you make a smooth transition. New York Times columnist and Missing Manuals creator David Pogue gets you past three challenges: transferring your stuff, assembling Mac programs so you can do what you did with Windows, and learning your way around Mac OS X.

Learning to use a Mac is not a piece of cake, but once you do, the rewards are oh-so-much better. No viruses, worms, or spyware. No questionable firewalls, inefficient permissions, or other strange features. Just a beautiful machine with a thoroughly reliable system. Whether you're using Windows XP or Vista, we've got you covered.

If you're ready to take on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the latest edition of this bestselling guide tells you everything you need to know:

  • Transferring your stuff -- Moving photos, MP3s, and Microsoft Office documents is the easy part. This book gets you through the tricky things: extracting your email, address book, calendar, Web bookmarks, buddy list, desktop pictures, and MP3 files.


  • Re-creating your software suite -- Big-name programs (Word, Photoshop, Firefox, Dreamweaver, and so on) are available in both Mac and Windows versions, but hundreds of other programs are available only for Windows. This guide identifies the Mac equivalents and explains how to move your data to them.

  • Learning Snow Leopard -- Once you've moved into the Mac, a final task awaits: Learning your way around. Fortunately, you're in good hands with the author of Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, the #1 bestselling guide to the Macintosh.

Moving from Windows to a Mac successfully and painlessly is the one thing Apple does not deliver. Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition is your ticket to a new computing experience.

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Table of contents

  1. Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition
  2. A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
  3. The Missing Credits
    1. About the Author
    2. About the Creative Team
    3. Acknowledgments
    4. The Missing Manual Series
  4. Introduction
    1. What Mac OS X Gives You
    2. What Mac OS X Takes Away
    3. About This Book
      1. About→These→Arrows
      2. About MissingManuals.com
    4. The Very Basics
  5. I. Welcome to Macintosh
    1. 1. How the Mac Is Different
      1. Power On, Dude
      2. That One-Button Mouse
      3. On, Off, and Sleep
        1. Sleep Mode
        2. Restart
        3. Shut Down
        4. Log Out
      4. The Menu Bar
      5. Finder = Windows Explorer
      6. Dock = Taskbar
      7. Menulets = Tray
      8. Keyboard Differences
        1. Where the Windows Keys Went
        2. What the Special Mac Keys Do
        3. The Complicated Story of the Function Keys
      9. Disk Differences
      10. Where Your Stuff Is
        1. Applications Folder
        2. Home Folder
        3. System Folder
      11. Window Controls
        1. Title Bar
        2. The Folder Proxy Icon
        3. Close Button
        4. Minimize Button
        5. Zoom Button
        6. The Finder Sidebar
          1. Fine-tuning the Sidebar
        7. Window Management
        8. Scroll Bars
        9. Resize Box
        10. Path Bar
        11. Status Bar
      12. Terminology Differences
    2. 2. Folders, Dock, & Windows
      1. Getting into Mac OS X
        1. Logging In
        2. The Elements of the Mac OS X Desktop
          1. Disk icons
          2. The Dock
          3. The menu
          4. The menu bar
      2. The Four Window Views
      3. Icon View
        1. Icon Size
        2. Icon Previews
        3. Icon View Options
          1. Always open in icon view
          2. Icon size
          3. Grid spacing
          4. Text size
          5. Label position
          6. Show item info
          7. Show icon preview
          8. Arrange by
          9. Background
          10. Use as Defaults
        4. Keeping Icons Neat and Sorted
          1. Grid alignment
          2. Sorted alignment
      4. List View
        1. Sorting the List
        2. Flippy Triangles
        3. Your Choice of Columns
        4. Other View Options
        5. Rearranging Columns
        6. Adjusting Column Widths
      5. Column View
        1. Manipulating the Columns
        2. View Options
      6. Cover Flow View
      7. Quick Look
        1. What Quick Look Knows
        2. Fun with Quick Look
        3. The Quick Look Slideshow
      8. The Dock
        1. Setting Up the Dock
        2. Organizing and Removing Dock Icons
        3. Pop-up Dock Folders (“Stacks”)
          1. Fan vs. grid vs. list
        4. The Finer Points of Pop-up Dock Folders
        5. 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
        6. Using the Dock
          1. Switch applications
          2. Secret menus
        7. Drag and Drop
        8. Do Your Filing
      9. The Finder Toolbar
        1. Removing or Shrinking the Toolbar
        2. Rearranging or Removing Toolbar Icons
      10. Getting Help in Mac OS X
    3. 3. Files, Icons, & Spotlight
      1. Renaming Icons
      2. Selecting Icons
        1. Selecting by Clicking
        2. Selecting Icons from the Keyboard
      3. Moving and Copying Icons
        1. Copying by Dragging
        2. Copying by Using Copy and Paste
        3. Spring-Loaded Folders: Dragging Icons into Closed Folders
        4. Making Spring-Loaded Folders Work
      4. Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once
        1. What’s Good about Aliases
        2. Broken Aliases
      5. Color Labels
        1. What Labels Are Good For
        2. Changing Labels
      6. 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
      7. Get Info
        1. The Get Info Panels
      8. The Spotlight Menu
        1. Spotlight-Menu Tips
        2. Advanced Menu Searches
          1. Use quotes
          2. Limit by kind
          3. Limit by recent date
          4. Limit by metadata
          5. Boolean searches
      9. The Spotlight Window
        1. Spotlight Window from Spotlight Menu
        2. Opening the Spotlight Window Directly
        3. The Basic Search
        4. Power Searches
        5. Where to Look
        6. Search by Contents/Search by Name
        7. Complex Searches
          1. Kind
          2. Last opened date/Last modified date/Created date
          3. Name
          4. Contents
          5. Other
        8. What to Do with Search Results
      10. Customizing Spotlight
        1. Privacy Settings
      11. Smart Folders
    4. 4. Documents, Programs, & Spaces
      1. Opening Mac OS X Programs
        1. The Application Menu
        2. Quitting Programs
        3. Force-Quitting Programs
      2. The New, Improved “Alt-Tab”
      3. Exposé: Death to Window Clutter
        1. All-Apps Exposé
        2. One-App Exposé
        3. Desktop Exposé
        4. Exposé Tip-O-Rama
        5. Exposé Meets Quick Look
        6. More Triggers for Exposé
          1. Screen corners
          2. Keystrokes
          3. Multiple-button mouse clicks
      4. Spaces: Your Free Quad-Display Mac
        1. Turning on Spaces
        2. Using Spaces
          1. The big picture
          2. Moving windows among screens
      5. Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way
        1. Hiding the Program You’re Using
        2. Hiding (Minimizing) Individual Windows
      6. 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
      7. 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 Snow Leopard Keystroke
      8. The Save and Open Dialog Boxes
        1. Sheets
        2. The Mini Finder
        3. Spotlight
        4. The File Format Pop-up Menu
        5. The Open File Dialog Box
      9. Universal Apps (Intel Macs)
      10. Installing Mac OS X Programs
        1. .sit, .zip, .tar, .gz, and .dmg
        2. Disk Images (.dmg files)
        3. Cleaning Up after Decompression
        4. Performing the Installation
        5. Uninstalling Software
      11. Dashboard
        1. Dashboard Tips
        2. Dashboard Preferences
        3. More Widgets
          1. Installing a widget
      12. Web Clips: Make Your Own Widgets
        1. Creating a Web Clip Widget
      13. Power Typing in Snow Leopard
        1. The Mac 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
      14. The Many Languages of Mac OS X Text
        1. Formats Tab
        2. Input Menu Tab
        3. Keyboard Viewer: The Return of Key Caps
      15. Data Detectors
  6. II. Making the Move
    1. 5. Seven Ways to Transfer Your Files
      1. Transfers by Apple Genius
      2. Transfers by Network
      3. Transfers by Disk
      4. Transfers by File-Sending Web Site
      5. Transfers by Email
      6. Transfers by iDisk
      7. Transfers by Bluetooth
      8. Where to Put Your Copied Files
        1. Desktop Pictures (Wallpaper)
        2. Sound Effects
        3. Bookmarks (Favorites)
        4. Everything Else
      9. Document Conversion Issues
        1. FireWire Disk Mode (Target Disk Mode)
    2. 6. Transferring Email & Contacts
      1. Ways to Move Your Email
        1. Ways to Move Your Email
        2. Ways to Move Your Address Book
      2. A Reminder That Could Save You Hours
      3. Transferring Your Outlook Mail
        1. O2M Method (Quick, Simple, $10)
        2. Thunderbird Method (Time-Consuming, Free)
          1. Phase 1: Import to Thunderbird
          2. Phase 2: Copy to the Mac
          3. Phase 3: Import into Mail
          4. Phase 4: Import into Entourage (optional)
        3. Outlook and Exchange
      4. Transferring Your Outlook Addresses
        1. O2M Method (Easy, $10)
        2. Thunderbird Method (Time-Consuming, Free)
        3. CSV Method (Free, to Entourage Only)
      5. Transferring from Outlook Express (Windows Mail)
        1. Moving Your Address Book
        2. Moving Your Mail
      6. Email Settings
        1. Finding the Settings on Windows
          1. Outlook
          2. Outlook Express/Windows Mail
          3. Thunderbird
        2. Configuring the Settings on Your Mac
          1. Apple Mail
          2. Microsoft Entourage
      7. Life with Microsoft Exchange
        1. Connecting to Exchange
        2. Exchange in Mail
        3. Exchange in Address Book
        4. Exchange in iCal
    3. 7. Special Software, Special Problems
      1. ACDSee
      2. Acrobat Reader
      3. ACT
      4. Ad Subtract (Pop-up Stopper)
      5. Adobe [your favorite program here]
      6. America Online
      7. AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)
      8. Children’s Software
      9. Easy CD Creator
      10. Encarta
      11. Eudora
      12. Excel
      13. Firefox
      14. Games
      15. Google Desktop Search
      16. ICQ
      17. Internet Explorer
      18. iTunes
      19. Limewire
      20. McAfee VirusScan
      21. Microsoft Access
      22. Microsoft Money
      23. Microsoft Office
      24. Microsoft Publisher
      25. Microsoft Visio
      26. Minesweeper
      27. MSN Messenger
      28. NaturallySpeaking
      29. Netscape
      30. Newsgroup Readers
      31. Norton AntiVirus
      32. Norton Utilities
      33. Notepad
      34. Outlook/Outlook Express/Windows Mail
      35. Paint Shop Pro
      36. Palm Desktop
      37. Picasa
      38. PowerPoint
      39. QuickBooks
      40. Quicken
      41. RealPlayer
      42. RssReader
      43. Skype
      44. SnagIt
      45. Solitaire
      46. Street Atlas USA
      47. TaxCut, TurboTax
      48. WinAmp, MusicMatch
      49. Windows Media Player
      50. WinZip
      51. Word
      52. WordPerfect
      53. Yahoo Messenger
    4. 8. Windows on Macintosh
      1. Boot Camp
        1. Installing Boot Camp
          1. Phase 1: Partition your drive
          2. Phase 2: Install Windows
          3. Phase 3: Install the 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
    5. 9. Hardware on the Mac
      1. Printers and Printing
        1. Setting Up a Printer
        2. The Printer List
        3. Making the Printout
        4. Page Setup
        5. The Print Command
        6. Printing
        7. Managing Printouts
        8. Printer Sharing
      2. Faxing
        1. Setting Up Faxing
        2. Sending a Fax
          1. Sending
          2. Checking the log, checking the queue
        3. Receiving a Fax
      3. PDF Files
        1. Opening PDF Files
        2. Creating PDF Files
      4. 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 libraries
        3. The Fonts Panel
          1. Choosing fonts from the Fonts panel
      5. Digital Cameras
      6. Disks
        1. Startup Disks
          1. Creating a startup disk
          2. Selecting a startup disk
        2. Erasing a Disk
      7. Burning CDs and DVDs
        1. Burn Folders: Without the Disc
        2. When You Have a Blank Disc on Hand
      8. iTunes: The Digital Jukebox
        1. Library
        2. Store
        3. Devices
        4. Shared
        5. Genius
        6. Playlists
          1. Creating playlists
          2. Smart playlists
        7. Audio CDs
          1. Copying (ripping) CD songs to your hard drive
        8. The iPod and iPhone
        9. Playing with Playback
          1. Turning on visuals
          2. Keyboard control
          3. Preventing ear-blast syndrome
          4. Playing with the graphic equalizer
        10. Burning Music CDs
      9. DVD Movies
        1. Playing a Movie
        2. Language Fun
        3. Chapter Thumbnails
        4. Parental Controls
        5. The Big Picture
      10. Keyboard
        1. Text-Navigation Keystrokes
      11. Mouse
      12. Monitors
      13. Time Machine Backups
        1. Setting up Time Machine
        2. How the Backups Work
        3. Changing Time Machine Settings
        4. Recovering Lost or Changed Files
          1. Recovering from iPhoto, Address Book, and Mail
          2. Recovering the entire hard drive
          3. Recovering to another Mac
        5. Frequently Asked Questions
  7. III. Making Connections
    1. 10. Internet Setup & MobileMe
      1. Network Central—and Multihoming
        1. Multihoming
      2. Broadband Connections
        1. Automatic Configuration
        2. Manual Configuration
          1. Settings from Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Windows 7
          2. Settings from Windows 98, Windows Me
          3. Applying the Settings
        3. Ethernet Connections
        4. AirPort (WiFi) Connections
        5. Commercial Hot Spots
      3. Cellular Modems
      4. Dial-up Modem Connections
        1. Setting Up the Modem
        2. The Advanced Button
        3. Disconnecting
      5. Switching Locations
        1. Creating a New Location
        2. Making the Switch
      6. Internet Sharing
        1. Turning On Internet Sharing
      7. MobileMe
        1. Signing Up for MobileMe
        2. MobileMe Sync
        3. The iDisk
          1. Pulling it onto your screen
          2. Making the iDisk fast and synchronized
          3. The Public folder
          4. iDisk options
        4. Email
        5. Galleries
        6. Web Sites
      8. Internet Location Files
    2. 11. Mail & Address Book
      1. Checking Your Mail
        1. The Mailboxes List
      2. Writing Messages
        1. Attaching Files to Messages
        2. Signatures
      3. Stationery
      4. Reading Email
        1. Threading
        2. Adding the Sender to Your Address Book
        3. Data Detectors
        4. Opening Attachments
        5. Replying to a Message
        6. Forwarding Messages
        7. Redirecting Messages
        8. Printing Messages
        9. Filing Messages
        10. Flagging Messages
        11. Finding Messages
          1. Finding messages within a mailbox
          2. Finding text within an open message
        12. Deleting Messages
          1. Method 1: Emptying the Trash folder
          2. Method 2: Deleted mail turns invisible
        13. Archiving Mailboxes
        14. Message Rules
          1. Setting up message rules
      5. The Anti-Spam Toolkit
        1. Using the Junk Mail Filter
        2. More Anti-Spam Tips
      6. RSS Feeds
        1. Adding RSS Feeds
        2. Managing Feeds
      7. Notes
      8. To Dos
        1. Creating To Dos
        2. Completing and Deleting To Dos
        3. To Do List: Mail/iCal Joint Custody
      9. Address Book
        1. Creating Address Cards
          1. Editing an address
          2. Adding addresses from Mail
        2. Importing Addresses
          1. About vCards
          2. Syncing with Google, Yahoo, MobileMe, or Exchange
        3. Groups
          1. Removing someone from a group
        4. Adding Pictures
          1. Replacing and removing a picture
        5. Finding an Address
        6. Changing the Address Book Display
        7. Printing Options
        8. Address-Book Backups
    3. 12. Safari & iChat
      1. Safari
        1. Browsing Basics and Toolbars
        2. Safari Toolbars
          1. Address bar
          2. Address-bar buttons
          3. Bookmarks bar
        3. Status Bar
      2. Tips for Better Surfing
        1. SnapBack
        2. Stifle Pop-Ups and Pop-Unders
        3. Three Ways to Magnify Web Text
        4. Keyboard Control
        5. Impersonating Internet Explorer
        6. Where am I?
        7. Faster Browsing Without Graphics
        8. Expanding Web Forms
        9. Viewing Web Pages Offline
        10. Sending a Page to a Friend
        11. Designate Your Start Page
        12. Finding Text on Web Pages
        13. Zoom in on PDF Pages
        14. The History Menu
      3. Tabbed Browsing
      4. RSS: The Missing Manual
        1. Viewing an RSS Feed
        2. RSS Tricks
          1. Creating RSS summaries
          2. The personal clipping service
          3. The RSS screen saver
          4. Make feeds open automatically
      5. iChat
        1. Three Chat Networks
        2. Signing Up
        3. How to Get a Free MobileMe Account
        4. How to Get a Free Jabber (or Gmail) Account
        5. How to Get a Free AIM Account
        6. The Buddy Lists
      6. Making a List
        1. Broadcasting Your Status
      7. Let the Chat Begin
        1. They Invite You
        2. You Invite Them
      8. Text Chatting
        1. In-chat Fun
      9. Audio Chats
      10. Video Chats
        1. Bluescreen Backdrops and Video FX
        2. Sharing Your Screen
        3. iChat Theater
      11. iChat Tweaks
  8. IV. Putting Down Roots
    1. 13. Accounts, Parental Controls, & Security
      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
          5. Group
          6. The Guest account
        2. Phase 2: Name, Password, and Status
        3. Phase 3: Choose a Picture
        4. Phase 4: Startup Items
      3. Parental Controls
        1. System
          1. Use Simple Finder
          2. Only allow selected applications
        2. Content (Dictionary and Web)
          1. Hide profanity in Dictionary
          2. Web Site Restrictions
        3. Mail & iChat
        4. Time Limits
        5. Logs
      4. Editing Accounts
        1. Deleting Accounts
      5. Setting Up the Login Process
      6. Signing In, Logging Out
        1. Identifying Yourself
        2. Logging Out
      7. Sharing Across Accounts
      8. Fast User Switching
      9. Five Mac OS X Security Shields
        1. The Firewall
        2. FileVault
        3. Logout Options
        4. The Password Assistant
        5. The Keychain
          1. Locking and unlocking the Keychain
          2. Managing Keychain
          3. Multiple Keychains
          4. Keychain files
    2. 14. Networking, File Sharing, & Screen Sharing
      1. Wiring the Network
        1. Ethernet Networks
        2. AirPort Networks
      2. File Sharing
        1. Setup: The Public Folder
        2. Setup: Sharing Any Folder
          1. The Get Info method
          2. The System Preferences method
      3. Accessing Shared Files
        1. Connection Method A: Use the Sidebar
        2. Connection Method B: Connect to Server
        3. Disconnecting Yourself
      4. Networking with Windows
        1. Seated at the Mac, Seeing the PC
        2. Seated at the PC, Seeing the Mac
        3. More Mac-Windows Connections
      5. Screen Sharing
        1. Mac #1: Give Permission in Advance
        2. Mac #2: Take Control
          1. Screen Sharing with Back to My Mac
    3. 15. System Preferences
      1. The System Preferences Window
      2. Accounts
      3. Appearance
        1. Changing Colors
        2. Tweaking the Scroll Bars
        3. Number of Recent Items
        4. Font Smoothing Style
        5. Turning Off Smoothing on Tiny Fonts
      4. Bluetooth
      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. Apple
          2. Pictures
          3. Activating the screen saver
      8. Displays
        1. Display Tab
        2. Arrangement Tab
        3. Color Tab
      9. Dock
      10. Energy Saver
        1. Sleep Sliders
        2. Checkbox Options
        3. Scheduled Startup and Shutdown
      11. Exposé & Spaces
      12. Keyboard
        1. Keyboard
        2. Keyboard Shortcuts
      13. Language & Text
      14. MobileMe
      15. Mouse
        1. Tracking Speed, Double-Click Speed
        2. The Mighty Mouse and Magic Mouse
      16. Network
      17. Parental Controls
      18. Print & Fax
      19. Security
      20. Sharing
      21. Software Update
        1. Scheduled Check Tab
        2. Installed Software
      22. Sound
        1. Sound Effects Tab
        2. Output Tab
        3. Input Tab
      23. Speech
      24. Spotlight
      25. Startup Disk
      26. Time Machine
      27. Trackpad
        1. Trackpad Gestures
          1. One Finger
          2. Two Fingers
          3. Three Fingers
          4. Four Fingers
      28. Universal Access
        1. Seeing Tab (Magnifying the Screen)
          1. VoiceOver
          2. Zoom
          3. Display (inverted colors)
        2. Hearing Tab (Flashing the Screen)
        3. Keyboard Tab (Typing Assistance)
        4. Mouse & Trackpad Tab (Cursor Control from the Keyboard)
    4. 16. The Free Programs
      1. Address Book
      2. Automator
      3. Calculator
        1. Conversions
      4. Chess
        1. Playing a Game of Chess
      5. Dashboard
      6. Dictionary
      7. DVD Player
      8. Font Book
      9. Front Row
      10. GarageBand
      11. iCal
        1. Working with Views
        2. Making an Appointment
          1. The easy way
          2. The long way
        3. What to Do with an Appointment
          1. Editing events
          2. Rescheduling events
          3. Lengthening or shortening events
          4. Printing events
          5. Deleting events
        4. Searching for Events
        5. The “Calendar” Category Concept
        6. “Publishing” Calendars to the Web
          1. Publishing
          2. Subscribing
        7. Google and Yahoo Calendars
        8. To Do Lists
      12. iChat
      13. iDVD
      14. Image Capture
        1. Import To:
        2. Import Some, Import All
        3. Scanning
          1. More power to you
      15. iMovie, iPhoto
      16. iTunes
      17. Mail
      18. Photo Booth
        1. Still Photos
        2. 4-Up Photos
        3. Movies
        4. Exporting Shots and Movies
      19. 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. Converting file formats
        5. Preview as PDF Reader
      20. QuickTime Player
        1. Playing movies with QuickTime Player
          1. Playing movies with QuickTime Player
          2. Changing the screen size
        2. Recording Movies with QuickTime Player
        3. Recording Screen Movies
        4. Trimming Video
        5. Four Ways to Export Your Video
          1. Send to iTunes
          2. Post to MobileMe Gallery
          3. Post to YouTube
          4. Saving the finished movie
      21. Safari
      22. Stickies
        1. Creating Sticky Notes
        2. Organizing Stickies
        3. Formatting Notes
        4. Saving Sticky Notes
      23. System Preferences
      24. TextEdit
        1. TextEdit’s Two Personalities
        2. Working in TextEdit
        3. Style Sheets
        4. Tables
        5. TextEdit as Web Designer
      25. Time Machine
      26. Utilities: Your Mac OS X Toolbox
        1. Activity Monitor
          1. The Processes table
          2. The System monitor tabs
        2. AirPort Utility
        3. AppleScript Editor
        4. Audio MIDI Setup
        5. Bluetooth File Exchange
        6. Boot Camp Assistant
        7. ColorSync Utility
        8. Console
        9. DigitalColor Meter
        10. Disk Utility
          1. Disk Utility, the hard drive repair program
          2. Disk Utility, the disk-image program
          3. Turning an image into a CD
        11. Grab
        12. Grapher
        13. Java Preferences
        14. Keychain Access
        15. Migration Assistant
        16. Network Utility
        17. Podcast Capture
        18. RAID Utility
        19. Remote Install Mac OS X
        20. Spaces
        21. System Profiler
          1. Saving a report
        22. Terminal
          1. A Terminal crash course
          2. Unix programs
          3. Navigating in Unix
          4. Getting help
          5. Learning more
        23. VoiceOver Utility
  9. V. Appendixes
    1. A. Installation & Troubleshooting
      1. Getting Ready to Install
      2. Two Kinds of Installation
      3. The Automatic Installation
      4. The Erase & Install Option
      5. The Setup Assistant
      6. 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. Application Won’t Open
        4. Startup Problems
          1. Kernel panic
          2. Safe Mode (safe boot)
          3. Gray screen during startup
          4. Blue screen during startup
          5. Forgotten password
        5. Fixing the Disk
        6. Where to Get Troubleshooting Help
          1. Help Online
          2. Help by telephone
    2. B. The “Where’d It Go?” Dictionary
      1. About [This Program]
        1. About [This Program]
        2. Accessibility Options Control Panel
        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 Wizard
        15. Character Map
        16. Clean Install
        17. Clipboard
        18. Command Line
        19. Control Panel
        20. Copy, Cut, Paste
        21. Ctrl+Alt+Delete
        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. Eject
        34. End Task Dialog Box
        35. Exiting Programs
        36. Explorer
        37. Favorites
        38. Faxing
        39. File Sharing
        40. Floppy Disks
        41. Folder Options
        42. Fonts
        43. FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
        44. Help and Support
        45. Hibernation
        46. Internet Explorer
        47. Internet Options
        48. IRQs
        49. Java
        50. Keyboard Control Panel
        51. Logging In
        52. Mail Control Panel
        53. Maximize Button
        54. Menus
        55. Minimize Button
        56. Mouse Control Panel
        57. My Computer
        58. My Documents, My Pictures, My Music
        59. My Network Places
        60. Network Neighborhood
        61. Notepad
        62. Personal Web Server
        63. Phone and Modem Options Control Panel
        64. Power Options
        65. Printer Sharing
        66. Printers and Faxes
        67. PrntScrn Key
        68. Program Files Folder
        69. Properties Dialog Box
        70. Recycle Bin
        71. Regional and Language Options Control Panel
        72. Registry
        73. Run Command
        74. Safe Mode
        75. ScanDisk
        76. Scheduled Tasks
        77. Scrap Files
        78. Screen Saver
        79. Search
        80. Shortcut Menus
        81. Shortcuts
        82. Sounds and Audio Devices
        83. Speech Control Panel
        84. Standby Mode
        85. Start Menu
        86. StartUp Folder
        87. System Control Panel
        88. System Tray
        89. Taskbar
        90. Taskbar and Start Menu Control Panel
        91. ToolTips
        92. TweakUI
        93. User Accounts Control Panel
        94. Window Edges
        95. Windows (or WINNT) Folder
        96. Windows Logo Key
        97. Windows Media Player
        98. Windows Messenger
        99. WordPad
        100. Zip Files
    3. C. The Master Mac 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
  10. Index
  11. About the Author
  12. Colophon
  13. Copyright

Product information

  • Title: Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition
  • Author(s): David Pogue
  • Release date: December 2009
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9781449383084