- 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 1
Tie Myself Down with a Desktop? Preposterous!
IN THIS PART …
Tour the features of your MacBook and macOS Big Sur.
Compare the different MacBook models.
Unpack and set up your MacBook.
Maintain your laptop’s battery the right way.
Familiarize yourself with the basics of macOS.
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