Switching to the MAC
by Pogue, DavidEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2008-02-01
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Summary
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. Why is this such a good time to switch? Upgrading from one version of Windows to another used to be simple. But now there's Windows Vista, a veritable resource hog that forces you to relearn everything. Learning 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. And if you're still using Windows XP, we've got you covered, too.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| What Mac OS X Gives You | p. 3 |
| What Mac OS X Takes Away | p. 5 |
| About This Book | p. 6 |
| The Very Basics | p. 8 |
| Welcome to Macintosh | |
| How the Mac Is Different | p. 11 |
| Power On, Dude | p. 11 |
| That One-Button Mouse | p. 12 |
| On, Off, and Sleep | p. 13 |
| The Menu Bar | p. 15 |
| Finder = Windows Explorer | p. 15 |
| Dock = Taskbar | p. 16 |
| Menulets = Tray | p. 16 |
| Keyboard Differences | p. 19 |
| Disk Differences | p. 24 |
| Where Your Stuff Is | p. 25 |
| Window Controls | p. 28 |
| Terminology Differences | p. 36 |
| Folders, Dock, & Windows | p. 37 |
| Getting into Mac OS X | p. 37 |
| The Four Window Views | p. 39 |
| Icon View | p. 41 |
| List View | p. 47 |
| Column View | p. 52 |
| Cover Flow View | p. 55 |
| Quick Look | p. 57 |
| The Dock | p. 60 |
| The Finder Toolbar | p. 69 |
| Getting Help in Mac OS X | p. 70 |
| Files, Icons, & Spotlight | p. 75 |
| Renaming Icons | p. 75 |
| Selecting Icons | p. 77 |
| Moving and Copying Icons | p. 79 |
| Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once | p. 84 |
| Color Labels | p. 85 |
| The Trash | p. 88 |
| Get Info | p. 91 |
| The Spotlight Menu | p. 94 |
| The Spotlight Window | p. 100 |
| Customizing Spotlight | p. 107 |
| Smart Folders | p. 109 |
| Documents, Programs, & Spaces | p. 111 |
| Opening Mac OS X Programs | p. 112 |
| The New, Improved "Alt-Tab" | p. 115 |
| Expose: Death to Window Clutter | p. 116 |
| Spaces: Your Free Quad-Display Mac | p. 122 |
| Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way | p. 127 |
| How Documents Know Their Parents | p. 129 |
| Keyboard Control | p. 134 |
| The Save and Open Dialog Boxes | p. 136 |
| Two Kinds of Programs: Cocoa and Carbon | p. 141 |
| The Cocoa Difference | p. 142 |
| Universal Apps (Intel Macs) | p. 145 |
| Installing Mac OS X Programs | p. 146 |
| Dashboard | p. 150 |
| Web Clips: Make Your Own Widgets | p. 154 |
| Moving In | |
| Eight Ways to Transfer Your Files | p. 159 |
| Transfer by Apple Genius | p. 160 |
| Transfers by iTornado | p. 161 |
| Transfers by Disk | p. 162 |
| Transfers by Network | p. 163 |
| Transfers by File-Sending Web Site | p. 163 |
| Transfers by Email | p. 164 |
| Transfers by iDisk | p. 164 |
| Transfers by Bluetooth | p. 164 |
| Where to Put Your Copied Files | p. 165 |
| Document-Conversion Issues | p. 167 |
| Transferring Email and Contacts | p. 171 |
| A Reminder That Could Save You Hours | p. 172 |
| Transferring Your Outlook Mail | p. 172 |
| Transferring Your Outlook Address Book | p. 180 |
| Transferring from Outlook Express | p. 184 |
| Transferring Your Eudora Mail | p. 184 |
| Transferring Your Eudora Address Book | p. 187 |
| Email Settings | p. 188 |
| Special Software, Special Problems | p. 191 |
| ACDSee | p. 191 |
| Acrobat Reader | p. 192 |
| ACT | p. 192 |
| Ad Subtract (Pop-up Stopper) | p. 193 |
| Adobe [your favorite program here] | p. 194 |
| America Online | p. 194 |
| AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) | p. 195 |
| Children's Software | p. 195 |
| Earthlink Total Access | p. 196 |
| Easy CD Creator | p. 196 |
| Encarta | p. 196 |
| Eudora | p. 197 |
| Excel | p. 197 |
| Firefox | p. 197 |
| Games | p. 197 |
| Google Desktop Search | p. 197 |
| ICQ | p. 198 |
| Internet Explorer | p. 198 |
| iTunes | p. 198 |
| Kazaa | p. 198 |
| Limewire | p. 198 |
| MacAfee VirusScan | p. 198 |
| Microsoft Access | p. 199 |
| Microsoft Money | p. 200 |
| Microsoft Office | p. 201 |
| Microsoft Publisher | p. 203 |
| Microsoft Visio | p. 203 |
| Minesweeper | p. 203 |
| MSN Messenger | p. 203 |
| NaturallySpeaking | p. 203 |
| Netscape | p. 204 |
| Newsgroup Readers | p. 204 |
| Norton AntiVirus | p. 204 |
| Norton Utilities | p. 204 |
| Notepad | p. 204 |
| Outlook/Outlook Express | p. 204 |
| Paint Shop Pro | p. 205 |
| Palm Desktop | p. 205 |
| Picasa | p. 205 |
| Pocket PC | p. 205 |
| PowerPoint | p. 206 |
| QuickBooks | p. 206 |
| Quicken | p. 206 |
| RealPlayer | p. 207 |
| RssReader | p. 207 |
| Skype | p. 207 |
| Snaglt | p. 207 |
| Solitaire | p. 208 |
| Street Atlas USA | p. 209 |
| TaxCut, TurboTax | p. 209 |
| WinAmp, MusicMatch | p. 209 |
| Windows Media Player | p. 209 |
| WinZip | p. 210 |
| Word | p. 210 |
| WordPerfect | p. 210 |
| Yahoo Messenger | p. 210 |
| Windows on Macintosh | p. 211 |
| Boot Camp | p. 212 |
| Windows in a Window | p. 220 |
| Hardware on the Mac | p. 223 |
| Printers and Printing | p. 223 |
| Managing Printouts | p. 229 |
| Faxing | p. 232 |
| PDF Files | p. 236 |
| Fonts-and Font Book | p. 237 |
| Digital Cameras | p. 242 |
| Disks | p. 243 |
| Burning CDs and DVDs | p. 245 |
| iTunes: The Digital Jukebox | p. 250 |
| DVD Movies | p. 258 |
| Keyboard | p. 261 |
| Mouse | p. 262 |
| Monitors | p. 263 |
| Time Machine | p. 263 |
| .Mac Sync | p. 275 |
| The Mac Online | |
| Internet Setup | p. 279 |
| Network Central-and Multihoming | p. 279 |
| Broadband Connections | p. 281 |
| Dial-up Modem Connections | p. 287 |
| Switching Locations | p. 291 |
| Internet Sharing | p. 292 |
| .Mac Services | p. 295 |
| Internet Location Files | p. 300 |
| Mail & Address Book | p. 301 |
| Checking Your Mail | p. 301 |
| Writing Messages | p. 304 |
| Stationery | p. 308 |
| Reading Email | p. 310 |
| The Anti-Spam Toolkit | p. 324 |
| RSS Feeds | p. 325 |
| Notes | p. 327 |
| To Dos | p. 328 |
| Address Book | p. 331 |
| Safari & iChat | p. 339 |
| Safari | p. 340 |
| Tips for Better Surfing | p. 346 |
| Tabbed Browsing | p. 350 |
| iChat | p. 356 |
| Text Chats | p. 363 |
| Audio Chats | p. 365 |
| Video Chats | p. 366 |
| Sharing Your Screen | p. 370 |
| iChat Theater | p. 372 |
| Putting Down Roots | |
| Accounts, Parental Controls, & Security | p. 377 |
| Introducing Accounts | p. 377 |
| Creating an Account | p. 379 |
| Parental Controls | p. 387 |
| Editing Accounts | p. 395 |
| Setting Up the Login Process | p. 396 |
| Signing In, Logging Out | p. 398 |
| Sharing Across Accounts | p. 399 |
| Fast User Switching | p. 400 |
| Four Mac OS X Security Shields | p. 401 |
| Networking, File Sharing, & Screen Sharing | p. 413 |
| Wiring the Network | p. 413 |
| File Sharing | p. 416 |
| Accessing Shared Files | p. 422 |
| Networking with Windows | p. 426 |
| Screen Sharing | p. 431 |
| System Preferences | p. 437 |
| The System Preferences Window | p. 437 |
| .Mac | p. 439 |
| Accounts | p. 440 |
| Appearance | p. 440 |
| Bluetooth | p. 442 |
| CDs & DVDs | p. 444 |
| Date & Time | p. 445 |
| Desktop & Screen Saver | p. 447 |
| Displays | p. 454 |
| Dock | p. 456 |
| Energy Saver | p. 456 |
| Expose & Spaces | p. 460 |
| International | p. 460 |
| Keyboard & Mouse | p. 464 |
| Network | p. 469 |
| Parental Controls | p. 469 |
| Print & Fax | p. 469 |
| QuickTime | p. 469 |
| Security | p. 469 |
| Sharing | p. 469 |
| Software Update | p. 471 |
| Sound | p. 471 |
| Speech | p. 473 |
| Spotlight | p. 475 |
| Startup Disk | p. 475 |
| Time Machine | p. 475 |
| Universal Access | p. 475 |
| The Free Programs | p. 479 |
| Address Book | p. 480 |
| AppleScript | p. 480 |
| Automator | p. 481 |
| Calculator | p. 482 |
| Chess | p. 484 |
| Dashboard | p. 485 |
| Dictionary | p. 485 |
| DVD Player | p. 487 |
| Expose | p. 487 |
| Font Book | p. 487 |
| Front Row | p. 487 |
| GarageBand | p. 489 |
| iCal | p. 489 |
| iChat | p. 498 |
| iDVD | p. 498 |
| iMovie, iPhoto | p. 498 |
| iTunes | p. 498 |
| p. 498 | |
| Photo Booth | p. 498 |
| Preview | p. 502 |
| QuickTime Player | p. 507 |
| Safari | p. 509 |
| Stickies | p. 509 |
| System Preferences | p. 511 |
| TextEdit | p. 511 |
| Time Machine | p. 517 |
| Utilities: Your Mac OS X Toolbox | p. 517 |
| Appendixes | |
| Installation & Troubleshooting | p. 537 |
| Getting Ready to Install | p. 537 |
| Four Kinds of Installation | p. 538 |
| The Basic Installation | p. 538 |
| The Upgrade Installation | p. 540 |
| The Clean Install ("Archive and Install") | p. 540 |
| Erase & Install | p. 541 |
| The Setup Assistant | p. 541 |
| Troubleshooting | p. 544 |
| The "Where'd It Go?" Dictionary | p. 555 |
| The Master Mac OS X Secret Keystroke List | p. 569 |
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