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Charles Moore Review: Mac OS X: The Missing Manual


Friday, February 15, 2002


By Applelinks Contributing Editor Charles W. Moore

Appendix 2: Mac OS X: The Missing Manual Table of Contents

Introduction

What Mac OS X Gives You

What Mac OS X Takes Away

Three OSes in One

About this Book

The Very Basics

Part One: The Mac OS X Desktop

Chapter 1: Folders and Windows

Getting into Mac OS X

Windows and How to Work Them

Icon View, List View, and Column View

Logging Out, Shutting Down

Getting Help in Mac OS X

Chapter 2: Organizing Your Stuff

The Mac OS X Folder Structure

Icon Names

Selecting Icons

Moving and Copying Icons

Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once

Favorites

The Trash

The New “Get Info”

Chapter 3: Dock, Desktop, and Toolbar

The Dock

Setting Up the Dock

Using the Dock

The Finder Toolbar

Designing Your Desktop

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Part Two: Applications in Mac OS X

Chapter 4: Programs and Documents

Launching Mac OS X Programs

Juggling Programs with the Dock

How Documents Know Their Parents

Controlling Menus from the Keyboard

The Save and Open Dialog Boxes

Three Kinds of Programs: Cocoa, Carbon, Classic

The Cocoa Difference

Installing Mac OS X programs

Chapter 5: Back to Mac OS 9

Two Roads to Mac OS 9

Classic: Mac OS 9 on Mac OS X

Restarting in Mac OS 9

Chapter 6: Exchanging Data

Moving Data Between Documents

Exchanging Data with Windows PCs

Chapter 7: An Introduction to AppleScript

Running Ready-Made AppleScripts

Writing Your Own AppleScripts

Recording Scripts in “Watch Me” Mode

Saving a Script

Writing Commands by Hand

Where to Learn More

Part Three: The Components of Mac OS X

Chapter 8: System Preferences

The System Preferences Window

Personal Settings

Hardware Settings

Internet & Network

System Settings

Chapter 9: The Free Programs of Mac OS X

Your Free Mac OS X Programs

Utilities: Your Mac OS X Toolbox

Chapter 10: CDs, DVDs, and iTunes 2

How the Mac Does Disks

Burning CDs and DVDs

iTunes 2: The CD and MP3 Jukebox

Playing DVD Movies

table of contents vii

Part Four: The Technologies of Mac OS X

Chapter 11: One Mac, Many Users

Introducing User Accounts

Setting up Accounts

Setting Up the Login/Logout Process

Signing In

Logging Out

The Root Account

Chapter 12: Networking in Mac OS X

Wiring the Network

File Sharing

Networking with Windows

Managing Groups

Dialing in from the Road

Forgettable Passwords: The Keychain

Chapter 13: Graphics, Fonts, and Printing

Mac Meets Printer

Making the Printout

Managing Printouts

PDF Files

Fonts in Mac OS X

Font Fuzziness on the Screen

ColorSync

Graphics in Mac OS X

Screen-Capture Keystrokes

Chapter 14: Sound, Movies, and Speech

Playing Sounds

Recording Sound

QuickTime Movies

Speech Recognition

The Mac Talks Back

Chapter 15: Terminal: The Unix Window

Terminal

Navigating in Unix

Working with Files and Directories

Online Help

Terminal Preferences

Terminal Tips and Tricks

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Chapter 16: Fun with Terminal

Moving Unmovable Files and Directories

Enabling the Root Account

Eight Useful Unix Utilities

Where to Go from Here

Putting It Together

Chapter 17: Hacking Mac OS X

TinkerTool: Customization 101

Redefining Keystrokes

Redoing Mac OS X’s Graphics

Rewriting the Words

Part Five: Mac OS X Online

Chapter 18: Internet Setup, iDisk, and iTools

The Best News You’ve Heard All Day

Connecting by Dial-up Modem

Switching Locations

Multihoming

iTools @ Apple.com

Internet Location Files

Chapter 19: Mail

Setting Up Mail

Checking Your Mail

Writing Messages

Reading Email

Address Book

Chapter 20: Sherlock

Finding Icons

Finding Text in Your Files

Searching the Internet

Chapter 21: Web Sharing, FTP, and Remote Access

Web Sharing 497

FTP

Connecting from the Road

Remote Access with SSH

table of contents ix

Part Six: Appendixes

Appendix A: The “Where’d It Go?” Dictionary

Appendix B: Mac OS X, Menu by Menu

Apple (a) Menu

Finder

File Menu

Edit Menu

View Menu

Go Menu

Window Menu

Help Menu

Appendix C: Installing Mac OS X

Getting Ready to Install

The OS X Installer, Step by Step

Uninstalling Mac OS X

Reinstalling Mac OS X-and the Clean Install

Appendix D: Troubleshooting Mac OS X

Five Problems That Aren’t Problems

Minor Eccentric Behavior

Frozen Programs (Force Quitting)

The Wrong Program Opens

Can’t Empty the Trash

Can’t Move or Rename an Icon

Application Won’t Open

Program Icons Turn to Folders

Startup Problems

Fixing the Disk

Where to Get Troubleshooting Help

Appendix E: Where to Go From Here

Web Sites

Advanced Books

Books

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