- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Introduction
- Part 1: Tie Myself Down with a Desktop? Preposterous!
- Chapter 1: Hey, It Really Does Have Everything I Need
- An Overview of Your Mac Laptop
- Meet the MacBooks
- Location, Location, Location!
- Unpacking and Connecting Your Laptop
- Great — a Lecture about Handling My Laptop
- An Overview of Mac Software Goodness
- Other Stuff That Nearly Everyone Wants
- Chapter 2: Turning On Your Portable Powerhouse
- Tales of the On Button
- Mark’s Favorite Signs of a Healthy Laptop
- You Won’t Lecture Me about Batteries, Will You?
- Setting Up and Registering Your Laptop
- Importing Stuff from Another Mac
- Importing Stuff from Windows (If You Must)
- Chapter 3: The MacBook Owner’s Introduction to macOS Big Sur
- Your Own Personal Operating System
- The Big Sur Desktop
- Wait a Second: Where the Heck Are the Mouse Buttons?
- Launching and Quitting Applications with Aplomb
- Performing Tricks with Finder Windows
- Juggling Folders and Icons
- Keys and Keyboard Shortcuts to Fame and Fortune
- Home, Sweet Home Folder
- Working with Mission Control
- Switching Desktops with Spaces
- Personalizing Your Desktop
- Taking Control of Your MacBook
- Customizing the Dock
- What’s with the Trash?
- All You Really Need to Know about Printing
- And Just in Case You Need Help …
- Part 2: Shaking Hands with macOS Big Sur
- Chapter 4: What’s New in macOS Big Sur?
- Introducing the Control Center
- The Return of the Widgets
- Your Guide to the Perfect Trip
- Safari Covers New Ground
- Messages Adds Effects, Images, and … Pins?
- Becoming One with Your Battery
- Chapter 5: A Nerd’s Guide to System Preferences
- An Explanation — without Jargon, No Less
- Locating That Certain Special Setting
- Popular Preferences Panes Explained
- Chapter 6: Sifting Through Your Stuff
- Doing a Basic Search
- How Cool Is That? Discovering What Spotlight Can Do
- Expanding Your Search Horizons
- Customizing Spotlight to Your Taste
- Chapter 7: Using Reminders, Notes, Notifications, and Maps
- Remind Me to Use Reminders
- Taking Notes the Big Sur Way
- Staying Current with Notification Center
- Introducing the Maps Application
- Switching Views in Maps
- Getting Directions Over Yonder
- Creating and Using Guides
- Part 3: Connecting and Communicating
- Chapter 8: Let’s Go on Safari!
- Pretend You’ve Never Used This Thing
- Visiting Websites
- Navigating the Web
- Configuring Your Home Page and Start Page
- Adding and Using Bookmarks
- Working with the Reading List
- Downloading Files
- Using History
- Tabs Are Your Browsing Friends
- Printing Web Pages
- Protecting Your Privacy
- Chapter 9: iCloud Is Made for MacBooks
- So How Does iCloud Work, Anyway?
- Moving, Saving, and Opening iCloud Documents
- Putting Handoff to Work
- Expanding Your Horizons with Sidecar
- Configuring iCloud
- Managing Your iCloud Storage
- Chapter 10: Your Laptop Goes Multiuser
- Once Upon a Time (an Access Fairy Tale)
- Big-Shot Administrator Stuff
- Tackling Mundane Chores for the Multiuser Laptop
- Chapter 11: Working Well with Networks
- What Exactly Is the Network Advantage?
- Should You Go Wired or Wireless?
- Be a Pal: Share Your Internet!
- What Do I Need to Connect?
- Connecting to the Network
- USE YOUR FIREWALL!
- Playing Buck Rogers with FaceTime
- Sending Instant Messages Across the Network
- Part 4: Living the iLife
- Chapter 12: The Multimedia Joys of Music and TV
- What Can I Play in Music?
- Playing Digital Audio Files
- Keeping Slim Whitman and Slim Shady Apart: Organizing with Playlists
- Know Your Songs
- Ripping Audio Files
- Tweaking the Audio for Your Ears
- A New Kind of Radio Station
- iSending iStuff to iPhone and iPad
- Burning Music to Shiny Plastic Circles
- Feasting on Music Visuals
- Exercising Parental Authority
- Watching Video with TV
- Buying Digital Media the Apple Way
- Chapter 13: Focusing on Photos
- Delving into Photos
- Working with Images in Photos
- Exploring iCloud Photos
- Putting My Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Sharing to Work
- Chapter 14: Making Film History with iMovie
- Shaking Hands with the iMovie Window
- A Bird’s-Eye View of Moviemaking
- Importing the Building Blocks
- Building the Cinematic Basics
- Creating an Honest-to-Goodness Movie Trailer
- Browsing Your Video Library
- Sharing Your Finished Classic
- Chapter 15: Recording Your Hits with GarageBand
- Shaking Hands with Your Band
- Composing Made Easy
- Sharing Your Songs
- Part 5: Getting Productive and Maintaining Your MacBook
- Chapter 16: Desktop Publishing with Pages
- Creating a New Pages Document
- Opening an Existing Pages Document
- Saving Your Work
- Touring the Pages Window
- Entering and Editing Text
- Using Text, Shapes, and Graphics Boxes
- The Three Amigos: Cut, Copy, and Paste
- Formatting Text the Easy Way
- Adding a Spiffy Table
- Adding Alluring Photos
- Adding a Background Shape
- Are You Sure about That Spelling?
- Set Your Font Defaults and Speed Things Up
- Printing Your Pages Documents
- Sharing That Poster with Others
- Chapter 17: Creating Spreadsheets with Numbers
- Before You Launch Numbers …
- Creating a New Numbers Document
- Opening an Existing Spreadsheet File
- Save Those Spreadsheets!
- Exploring the Numbers Window
- Navigating and Selecting Cells in a Spreadsheet
- Entering and Editing Data in a Spreadsheet
- Selecting the Correct Number Format
- Aligning Cell Text Just So
- Formatting with Shading
- Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns
- The Formula Is Your Friend
- Adding Visual Punch with a Chart
- Printing Your Spreadsheet
- Chapter 18: Building Presentations with Keynote
- Creating a New Keynote Project
- Opening a Keynote Presentation
- Saving Your Presentation
- Putting Keynote to Work
- Adding Slides
- Working with Text, Shapes, and Graphics Boxes
- Adding and Editing Slide Text
- Formatting Slide Text for the Perfect Look
- Using Presenter’s Notes in Your Project
- Every Good Presentation Needs Media
- Adding a Background Shape
- Creating Your Keynote Slideshow
- Printing Your Slides and Notes
- Chapter 19: When Good Mac Laptops Go Bad
- Repeat after Me: Yes, I Am a Tech!
- Step-by-Step Laptop Troubleshooting
- Using Mark’s MacBook Troubleshooting Tree
- Okay, I Kicked It, and It Still Won’t Work
- And Now … Windows?
- Chapter 20: Adding New Stuff to Your Laptop
- More Memory Will Help
- Considering an Internal Drive Upgrade?
- A List of Dreamy Laptop Add-Ons
- Chapter 21: Tackling the Housekeeping
- Cleaning Unseemly Data Deposits
- Backing Up Your Treasure
- Maintaining Drive Health
- Automating Those Mundane Chores
- Updating macOS Automatically
- Part 6: The Part of Tens
- Chapter 22: Ten Laptop Rules to Follow
- Keep Your Laptop in a Bag
- Maximize Your RAM
- Keep Tabs on Your MacBook
- Keepeth Thy Drive Encrypted
- Brand Your MacBook
- Disable Your Wireless
- Take a Surge Protector with You
- Use Power-Saving Features
- Use an External Keyboard and Mouse
- Not Again! What Is It with You and Backing Up?
- Chapter 23: Ten Things to Avoid Like the Plague
- USB 2.0 Storage Devices
- Phishing Operations
- The Twin Terrors: Viruses and Malware
- Submerged Keyboards
- Antiquated Utility Software
- Software Piracy
- The Forbidden Account
- Unsecured Wireless Connections
- Refurbished Hardware
- Dirty Laptops
- Index
- About the Author
- Connect with Dummies
- End User License Agreement
Part 3
Connecting and Communicating
IN THIS PART …
Surf the web with ease using Apple’s Safari browser.
Sync documents and data automatically using iCloud.
Share your laptop with other users safely.
Join or create a wireless network with your MacBook.
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