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Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Lion Edition
Switching to the Mac Lion Edition: The Missing Manual®
Dedication
A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
The Missing Credits
About the Author
About the Creative Team
Acknowledgments
The Missing Manual Series
For Macintosh
For Windows
Web Sites
Web and Graphic Design
Phones, Tablets, and Gadgets
The Analog World
Introduction
What Mac OS X Gives You
What Mac OS X Takes Away
About This Book
About→These→Arrows
About MissingManuals.com
The Very Basics
The Lion Difference: iPad Techniques
Launchpad
Full Screen Mode, Safari
Full-Screen Apps, Mission Control
I. Welcome to Macintosh
1. How the Mac Is Different
Power On, Dude
That One-Button Mouse
On, Off, and Sleep
Sleep Mode
Restart
Shut Down
The “Reopen windows” Option
Log Out
The Menu Bar
Finder = Windows Explorer
Dock = Taskbar
Menulets = Tray
Keyboard Differences
Where the Windows Keys Went
What the Special Mac Keys Do
The Complicated Story of the Function Keys
Disk Differences
Where Your Stuff Is
Applications Folder
Home Folder
System Folder
Window Controls
Title Bar
The Folder Proxy Icon
Close Button
Minimize Button
Zoom Button
The Finder Sidebar
Fine-tuning the Sidebar
Window Management
Scroll Bars
Resizable Edges
Path Bar
Status Bar
Terminology Differences
2. Folders, Dock & Windows
Getting into Mac OS X
Logging In
The Elements of the Mac OS X Desktop
Disk icons
The Dock
The menu
The menu bar
The Four Window Views
Icon View
Icon Size
Icon Previews
Icon View Options
Always open in icon view
Browse in icon view
Arrange By, Sort By
Icon size
Grid spacing
Text size
Label position
Show item info
Show icon preview
Arrange by
Background
Use as Defaults
Arrange By and Sort By
Arranging
Sorting
Free dragging—and grid spacing
List View
Sorting the List
Arranging the List
Flippy Triangles
Your Choice of Columns
Other View Options
Rearranging Columns
Adjusting Column Widths
Column View
Manipulating the Columns
Grouping the Column Contents
View Options
Cover Flow View
Quick Look
What Quick Look Knows
Fun with Quick Look
The Quick Look Slideshow
The Dock
Setting Up the Dock
Organizing and Removing Dock Icons
Pop-up Dock Folders (“Stacks”)
Fan vs. grid vs. list
The Finer Points of Pop-up Dock Folders
Three Ways to Get the Dock Out of Your Hair
Shrinking and enlarging the Dock
Auto-hiding the Dock
Moving the Dock to the sides of the screen
Using the Dock
Switch applications
Secret menus
Drag and Drop
Do Your Filing
The Finder Toolbar
Hiding or Shrinking the Toolbar
Rearranging, Customizing, or Removing Toolbar Icons
Getting Help in Mac OS X
3. Files, Icons & Spotlight
Renaming Icons
Selecting Icons
Selecting by Clicking
Selecting Icons from the Keyboard
Moving and Copying Icons
Copying by Dragging
Copying by Using Copy and Paste
Spring-Loaded Folders: Dragging Icons into Closed Folders
Making Spring-Loaded Folders Work
Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once
What’s Good about Aliases
Broken Aliases
Color Labels
What Labels Are Good For
Changing Labels
The Trash
Rescuing Files and Folders from the Trash
Emptying the Trash I: Quick and Easy
Emptying the Trash II: Secure and Forever
Locked Files: The Next Generation
Get Info
The Get Info Panels
The Spotlight Menu
Spotlight-Menu Tips
Advanced Menu Searches
Use quotes
Limit by kind
Limit by recent date
Limit by metadata
The Spotlight Window
From the Spotlight Menu
From the Finder
The Basic Search
Where to look
The suggestions list
Power Searches with Tokens
Power Searching the Old Way
Kind
Last opened date/Last modified date/Created date
Name
Contents
Other
What to Do with Search Results
Customizing Spotlight
Privacy Settings
Smart Folders
4. Documents, Programs & Mission Control
A Word About Lion Apps
The Mac App Store
Other Ways to Get Mac Software
Downloading Compressed Files
Disk images (.dmg files)
Performing the installation
Uninstalling Software
Opening Mac OS X Programs
Launchpad
Redesigning the Launchpad Screens
Folders
Deleting Mac Store Apps
Windows that Auto-Reopen
The Application Menu
Quitting Programs
Force Quitting Programs
The “Heads-Up” Program Switcher
Mission Control: Death to Window Clutter
Starting and Stopping Mission Control
Mission Control keystrokes
Screen corners
Managing Windows in Mission Control
Spaces in Mission Control
Creating a Desktop
Switching Spaces
Deleting a Desktop
Dashboard
Dashboard Tips
Dashboard Preferences
More Widgets
Installing a widget
Web Clips: Make Your Own Widgets
Creating a Web Clips Widget
Exposé
One-App Exposé
Desktop Exposé
Exposé Tip-O-Rama
Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way
Hiding the Program You’re Using
Hiding All Other Programs
The Bring-Forward, Hide-All-Others Trick
Hiding (Minimizing) Individual Windows
How Documents Know Their Parents
Reassigning Documents to Programs
Reassigning a certain document—just once
Reassigning a certain document—permanently
Reassigning all documents of one type
Keyboard Control
Control the Menus
Control the Dock
Cycle Through Your Windows
Control the Toolbar
Control Tool Palettes
Control Menulets
Control Dialog Boxes
Changing a Menu Keyboard Shortcut
Redefining a Keystroke
The Save and Open Dialog Boxes
Sheets
The Mini Finder
Insta-Jumping to a Folder Location
Spotlight
The File Format Pop-up Menu
The Open File Dialog Box
Auto Save and Versions
Versions
Rewinding to an earlier version
Locking documents
5. Entering, Moving & Backing Up Data
Power Typing
The Mac OS X Spelling and Grammar Checker
Text Substitution (Abbreviation Expansion)
Insert the proper typographical symbols
Replace abbreviations with much longer phrases
Case Swapping
The Many Languages of Mac OS X Text
Formats Tab
Input Sources Tab
The Character Viewer
Keyboard Viewer
Data Detectors
Moving Data Between Documents
Cut, Copy, and Paste
Drag-and-Drop
When to use drag-and-drop
Drag-and-drop to the desktop
Export/Import
Exchanging Data with Other Macs
By Network
By Email
Using Dropbox
By CD or DVD
FireWire Disk Mode/Thunderbolt Disk Mode (Target Disk Mode)
Via the iPod
Via Flash Drive
Via Bluetooth
Sending a file
Fetching a file
Exchanging Data with Windows PCs
Time Machine
Setting up Time Machine
How the Backups Work
Local Snapshots
Changing Time Machine Settings
Recovering Lost or Changed Files
Recovering from Address Book and Mail
Recovering the entire hard drive
Recovering to another Mac
Frequently Asked Questions
II. Making the Move
6. Transferring Your Files to the Mac
Transfers by Apple Genius
The Windows Migration Assistant
Manual Network Transfers
Transfers by Disk
Transfers by File-Sending Web Site
Transfers by Email
Where to Put Your Copied Files
Desktop Pictures (Wallpaper)
Sound Effects
Bookmarks (Favorites)
iTunes Music
Document Conversion Issues
7. Special Software, Special Problems
ACDSee
Acrobat Reader
ACT
Ad Subtract (Pop-up Stopper)
Adobe [your favorite program here]
America Online
AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)
Children’s Software
Easy CD Creator
Encarta
Eudora
Excel
Firefox
Games
Google Desktop Search
Google Earth
Google Chrome
ICQ
Internet Explorer
iTunes
LimeWire
McAfee VirusScan
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Money
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft Visio
Minesweeper
MSN Messenger
NaturallySpeaking
Netscape
Newsgroup Readers
Norton AntiVirus
Norton Utilities
Notepad
Outlook/Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Paint Shop Pro
Palm Desktop
Picasa
PowerPoint
QuickBooks
Quicken
RealPlayer
RssReader
Skype
SnagIt
Solitaire
Street Atlas USA
TaxCut, TurboTax
WinAmp, MusicMatch
Windows Media Player
WinZip
Word
WordPerfect
Yahoo Messenger
8. Windows on Macintosh
Boot Camp
Installing Boot Camp
Phase 1: Prepare the drivers disk
Phase 2: Partition your drive
Phase 3: Install Windows
Phase 4: Install the drivers
Forth and Back, Windows/Mac
Keyboard Translation Guide
Accessing Mac Files from Windows—and Vice Versa
Windows in a Window
Virtualization Tip-o-Rama
Windows via OnLive Desktop
Life with Microsoft Exchange
Connecting to Exchange
Exchange in Mail
Exchange in iCal
Exchange in Address Book
9. Hardware on the Mac
Printers and Printing
Setting Up a Printer
Printer Preferences
Making the Printout
Printing
Managing Printouts
Printer Sharing
Faxing
PDF Files
Opening PDF Files
Creating PDF Files
Fonts—and Font Book
Where Fonts Live
Font Book: Installing and Managing Fonts
Looking over your fonts
Printing a reference sheet
Eliminating duplicates
Adding, removing, and hiding fonts
Font collections
Font libraries
The Fonts Panel
Choosing fonts from the Fonts panel
Designing collections and favorites
Digital Cameras
Disks
Startup Disks
Selecting a startup disk
Erasing a disk
Burning CDs and DVDs
Burn Folders: Without the Disc
When you have a blank disc on hand
iTunes: The Digital Jukebox
Library
Store
Devices
Shared
Genius
Playlists
Creating playlists
Smart playlists
Audio CDs
Copying (ripping) CD songs to your hard drive
The iPod, iPhone, and iPad
Playing with Playback
Turning on visuals
Keyboard control
Playing with the graphic equalizer
Sound Check: Preventing ear-blast syndrome
Burning Music CDs
DVD Movies
Playing a Movie
Language Fun
Chapter Thumbnails
Keyboard
Text-Navigation Keystrokes
Mouse
Scanners
More power to you
III. Making Connections
10. Internet Setup & iCloud
Network Central and Multihoming
Multihoming
Broadband Connections
Automatic Configuration
Manual Configuration
Settings from Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Windows 7
Settings from Windows 98, Windows Me
Applying the settings
Ethernet Connections
WiFi Connections
Commercial Hot Spots
Cellular Modems
Tethering
Dial-Up Modem Connections
Switching Locations
Creating a New Location
Making the Switch
Internet Sharing
Turning On Internet Sharing
iCloud
Starting Up iCloud
iCloud Sync
Photo Stream
Find My Mac, Find My iPhone
Email
Books, Music, Apps, Movies: The Locker in the Sky
11. Mail & Address Book
Checking Your Mail
The Mailboxes List
Tailoring the Look of Mail
Tweaking the Lion layout
Tweaking the Classic layout
The toolbar
Writing Messages
Attaching Files to Messages
Signatures
Stationery
Reading Email
Conversation View
Adding the Sender to Your Address Book
Data Detectors
Opening Attachments
Replying to a Message
Forwarding Messages
Redirecting Messages
Printing Messages
Filing Messages
Flagging Messages
Finding Messages
Deleting Messages
Emptying the Trash folder
Turning deleted mail invisible
Archiving messages
Message Rules
Setting up message rules
The Anti-Spam Toolkit
Using the Junk Mail Filter
More Anti-Spam Tips
RSS Feeds
Adding RSS Feeds
Managing Feeds
Notes
Address Book
Importing Addresses
Importing from Yahoo, Google, Exchange, or another Internet service
Importing from another address-book program
About vCards
Creating Address Cards
Editing an address
Adding addresses from Mail
Groups
Smart groups
Removing someone from a group
Adding Pictures
Replacing and removing a picture
Finding an Address
Changing the Address Book Display
Printing Options
Address Book Backups
12. Safari & iChat
Browsing Basics
Scrolling
Safari Toolbars
Toolbar (address bar)
Toolbar buttons
Bookmarks Bar
Status Bar
Tips for Better Surfing
Reader
The Reading List
Full Screen and Gestures
The Download Manager
Graphics Worth Saving
SnapBack
Stifle Pop-Ups and Pop-Unders
Five Ways to Magnify a Page
Keyboard Control
Viewing Web Pages Offline
Where Am I?
Sending a Page to a Friend
Expanding Web Forms
Designate Your Start Page
Finding Text on Web Pages
The History Menu
PDF Pages Online
Tabbed Browsing
RSS: The Missing Manual
Viewing an RSS Feed
RSS Tricks
Creating RSS summaries
The personal clipping service
The RSS screen saver
Make feeds open automatically
iChat
Many Chat Networks
Setting Up Your Chat Account(s)
The Buddy List
Making a List
Broadcasting Your Status
Let the Chat Begin
They Invite You
You Invite Them
Text Chatting
In-Chat Fun
Popping the Balloons
Audio Chats
Video Chats
Equipment Requirements
Starting the Video Call
Bluescreen Backdrops and Video FX
Juggling Chats and Windows
Sharing Your Screen
iChat Theater
IV. Putting Down Roots
Introducing Accounts
The First Account
Creating an Account
Phase 1: Choose an Account Type
Administrator accounts
Standard accounts
Managed accounts with Parental Controls
Sharing Only account
Group
The Guest account
Phase 2: Name, Password, and Status
Phase 3: Choose a Picture
Phase 4: Startup Items
Parental Controls
Apps Tab
Use Simple Finder
Web Tab
People Tab
Time Limits
Other Tab
Editing Accounts
Deleting Accounts
Setting Up the Login Process
Signing In, Logging Out
Identifying Yourself
Logging Out
Sharing Across Accounts
Fast User Switching
Five Mac OS X Security Shields
The Firewall
FileVault
Logout Options
The Password Assistant
The Keychain
Locking and unlocking the Keychain
Managing Keychain
Multiple Keychains
Keychain files
Two Mac OS X Privacy Shields
Send Diagnostic & Usage Data to Apple
Enable Location Services
14. Networking, File Sharing & Screen Sharing
Wiring the Network
Ethernet Networks
WiFi Networks
Cell Networks
File Sharing: Three Ways
AirDrop
Sharing Your Public Folder
Sharing Any Folder
The Get Info Method
The System Preferences Method
Accessing Shared Files
Connection Method A: Use the Sidebar
Connection Method B: Connect to Server
Disconnecting Yourself
Disconnecting Others
Networking with Windows
Seated at the Mac, Seeing the PC
Seated at the PC, Seeing the Mac
More Mac-Windows Connections
Screen Sharing
Other Mac: Give Permission in Advance
Your Mac: Take Control
Variations on Screen Sharing
Screen sharing through iChat
Screen sharing with Back to My Mac
15. System Preferences
The System Preferences Window
Bluetooth
CDs & DVDs
Date & Time
Date & Time Tab
Time Zone Tab
Clock Tab
Desktop & Screen Saver
Desktop Pictures
Using your own pictures
Making the picture fit
Auto picture changing
Screen Saver
Activating the screen saver
Displays
Display Tab
Arrangement Tab
Color Tab
Dock
Energy Saver
Sleep Sliders
Checkbox Options
Scheduled Startup and Shutdown
General
Changing Colors
Tweaking the Scroll Bars
Number of Recent Items
Restore Windows when Quitting and Reopening Apps
Use LCD Font Smoothing when Available
iCloud
Keyboard
Keyboard
Keyboard Shortcuts
Language & Text
Mail, Contacts & Calendars
Mission Control
MobileMe
Mouse
Tracking Speed, Double-Click Speed
The Mighty Mouse and Magic Mouse
Network
Parental Controls
Print & Scan
Security & Privacy
Sharing
Software Update
Sound
Sound Effects Tab
Output Tab
Input Tab
Speech
Talking to the Mac
The Feedback window
The Speech Commands window
Speaking to the Mac
Customizing Speech Recognition
Changing when the Mac listens
Triggering menus by voice
Improving the Mac’s vocabulary
Speech tips, tricks, and troubleshooting
The Mac Reads to You
Setting Up the Mac’s Voice
Announce when alerts are displayed
Announce when an application requires your attention
Speak selected text when the key is pressed
Spotlight
Startup Disk
Time Machine
Trackpad
Point & Click
Scroll & Zoom
More Gestures
Universal Access
Seeing Tab (Magnifying the Screen)
VoiceOver
Zoom
Display (inverted colors)
Hearing Tab (Flashing the Screen)
Keyboard Tab (Typing Assistance)
Mouse & Trackpad Tab (Cursor Control from the Keyboard)
Users & Groups
16. The Freebie Programs
Your Free Mac OS X Programs
Address Book
App Store
Automator
Calculator
Conversions
Chess
Playing a Game of Chess
Chess Prefs
Studying Your Games
Dashboard
Dictionary
DVD Player
FaceTime
Place a FaceTime Call
Once You’re Connected
Receiving Calls
Font Book
GarageBand
iCal
Working with Views
Making an Appointment
The mousy way
The Quick Event way
Alarms, repeats, and other details
What to Do with an Appointment
Editing events
Rescheduling events
Lengthening or shortening events
Printing events
Deleting events
Searching for Events
The “Calendar” Category Concept
“Publishing” Calendars to the Web
Publishing
Subscribing
Google and Yahoo Calendars
To Do Lists
Syncing iCal with Your iPhone, iPad, and Other Computers
iChat
iDVD
Image Capture
Import To:
Import Some, Import All
Scanning
iMovie, iPhoto
iTunes
Launchpad
Mail
Mission Control
Photo Booth
Still Photos
4-Up Photos
Movies
Exporting Shots and Movies
Preview
Importing Camera Photos
Operating Your Scanner
Multiple Pages, Multiple Views
Preview as Graphics Viewer
Bunches o’ graphics
Cropping graphics
Fixing up photos
Converting file formats
Preview as PDF Reader
The Toolbar
QuickTime Player
Fancy Playback Tricks
Editing movies
Recording movies with QuickTime Player
Recording screen movies
Audio Recording
Eight Ways to Export Your Video
Send to iTunes
Post to YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, Facebook
Send to iMovie
Send to Mail
Saving the finished movie
Safari
Stickies
Creating Sticky Notes
Growing and Shrinking Notes
Formatting Notes
Saving Sticky Notes
System Preferences
TextEdit
TextEdit’s Two Personalities
Working in TextEdit
Style Sheets
Tables
TextEdit as Web Designer
Time Machine
Utilities: Your Mac OS X Toolbox
Activity Monitor
The Processes table
The System monitor tabs
AirPort Utility
AppleScript Editor
Audio MIDI Setup
Bluetooth File Exchange
Boot Camp Assistant
ColorSync Utility
Console
DigitalColor Meter
Disk Utility
Disk Utility, the hard drive repair program
Disk Utility, the disk-image program
Turning an image into a CD
Grab
Grapher
Java Preferences
Keychain Access
Migration Assistant
Network Utility
Podcast Capture
RAID Utility
System Information
Saving a report
Terminal
VoiceOver Utility
V. Appendixes
A. Installation
Hardware Requirements
Psychological Requirements
The Standard Installation
The Setup Assistant
After Installing Over Snow Leopard
After Installing onto a Blank Drive
The Homemade Lion Installer Disk
Phase 1: Format the Drive
Phase 2: Build Your Installer
Uninstalling Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
B. Troubleshooting
Minor Eccentric Behavior
First Resort: Repair Permissions
Second Resort: Look for an Update
Third Resort: Toss the Prefs File
Fourth Resort: Restart
Last Resort: Trash and Reinstall the Program
Frozen Programs (Force Quitting)
Recovery Mode: Three Emergency Disks
The Recovery HD
Lion Internet Recovery
Physical Recovery Disks
Application Won’t Open
Startup Problems
Kernel Panic
Safe Mode (Safe Boot)
Forgotten Password
Fixing the Disk
Method 1: Disk Utility
Method 2: fsck at the Console
Where to Get Troubleshooting Help
Help Online
Help by Telephone
C. The “Where’d-It-Go?” Dictionary
About [this program]
Accessibility Options control panel
Active Desktop
Add Hardware control panel
Add or Remove Programs control panel
All Programs
Alt key
Automatic Update
Backspace key
Battery level
BIOS
Briefcase
Calculator
Camera and Scanner Wizard
CDs
Character Map
Clean Install
Clipboard
Command line
Control Panel
Copy, Cut, Paste
Ctrl key
Date and Time
Delete Key (Forward Delete)
Desktop
Directories
Disk Defragmenter
Disks
Display control panel
DLL files
DOS prompt
Drivers
End Task dialog box
Exiting programs
Explorer
Favorites
Faxing
File Sharing
Floppy disks
Folder Options
Fonts
Help and Support
Hibernation
Internet Explorer
Internet Options
IRQs
Java
Keyboard control panel
Logging in
Mail control panel
Maximize button
Menus
Minimize button
Mouse control panel
(My) Computer
(My) Documents, (My) Pictures, (My) Music
(My) Network Places
Network Neighborhood
Notepad
Personal Web Server
Phone and Modem Options control panel
Power Options
Printer Sharing
Printers and Faxes
PrntScrn key
Program Files folder
Properties dialog box
Recycle Bin
Regional and Language Options control panel
Registry
Run command
Safe Mode
ScanDisk
Scheduled Tasks
Scrap files
Screen saver
Search
Shortcut menus
Shortcuts
Sounds and Audio Devices
Speech control panel
Standby mode
Start menu
Startup folder
System control panel
System Tray
Taskbar
Taskbar and Start Menu control panel
“Three-fingered salute”
ToolTips
TweakUI
User Accounts control panel
Windows (or WINNT) folder
Windows logo key
Windows Media Player
Windows Messenger
WordPad
Zip files
D. The Master Mac OS X Keystroke List
Startup Keystrokes
In the Finder
Menu
Finder Menu
File Menu
Edit Menu
View Menu
Go Menu
Window Menu
Help Menu
Power Keys
The Dock
Managing Programs
Dialog Boxes
Trackpad Gestures
Magic Mouse Gestures
Index
About the Author
Colophon
Copyright
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