The Complete Idiot's Guide to MAC OS X

Contents

Part 1 Getting Started 5

1 Meet the New Mac 7

• What Is Mac OS X? 8
• Installing Mac OS X 12

• Face to (Inter)face with Mac OS X 23
• What's New in Mac OS X 27
• Application Madness: Classic, Carbon, and Cocoa 33

• What's on the (Help) Menu 37
• Getting Help Offline 41
• A Big Helping of the Web 42

• Printer Mania 46
• Seeing Through Scanners 48
• Getting Input from Mice and More 50
• Zips, Hard Drives, and All That Jaz 51
• Making Connections 53

5 Managing Your Files 59

• Your Drive's Built-In Folders 60
• Let There Be Files and Folders 65
• Moving, Copying, and Renaming Files and Folders 67
• Living Under an Alias 69
• But I Can't Find Anything! 70

• Logging In, Logging Out 76
• Here a User, There a User 77
• Playing Well with Others 79

• Everything but the Stapler 82
• Writing the Great American Memo 84
• Move Over, Michelangelo 85

• Carbon Fibers 90
• Cocoa Loco 91
• Jurassic Classic 93
• What's New, Dock? 95

• The DJ on Your Desktop 98
• Let's Go to the iMovies 100
• The Hardware You'll Need 102
• The Fine Print 103

• The Mac's Classic Games 106
• Made for Mac OS X 107
• Freaky Machines: Gaming Hardware 111

11 How to Succeed in Networking Without Even Trying 117

• Building a Hard-Wired Network 118
• Out of the Ether 121
• Sharing Files 123
• Sharing Internet Access 126
• Printing 127

• Managing Those Funky Fonts 130
• Exercising Your Printing Options 133
• Getting Down to Printing Business 136

• Phone Modems: Dial Me Impressed 142
• High Times with High-Speed Access 145
• Think Globally, Act Locally 149
• Hello, Central 151

• Surf's Up! 156
• Searching the Web with Sherlock 160
• Using E-Mail 163
• Other Internet Applications 169
• Apple Makes It Easy 169

• Creating a Site with iTools 173
• Home Cooking: Doing It Yourself 178
• Hey! Free Stuff! 182

16 Interacting with Earlier Versions of Mac OS 187

• Sharing Files with Sneakernet 187
• Mary Had a Little LAN 189
• Vintage Mac Software 193

• Moving Files with Sneakernet 196
• Moving Files Across a Network 197
• Printing Both Ways 200
• Running Windows Software 202

• Sharing Files with Sneakernet 204
• Exchanging Files over a Network 206
• File Formats 208
• Sharing Printers 209
• Running Unix Software 209

19 Setting System Preferences 215

• Getting Going 216
• Nuts and Bolts 218
• Keeping Connected 222
• Playing with Peripherals 225
• Messing with Multimedia 226

• Hickory Dickory Dock 230
• Desktop Decisions 236
• Juggling Disks 239

• Here a Window, There a Window 241
• We Do Windows 245
• Info Overload 247

• Getting Things Back Where They Belong 254
• More Third-Party Help 256
• Familiar Faces, New Names 259

23 Automating Your Work with AppleScript 263

• Why Should You Care About AppleScript? 263
• Cooking Up Scripts 264
• Putting Your Scripts to Work 268

• Color Management: Not Labor-Intensive 271
• Speaking in Tongues 275
• Talking Back to Your Mac 276

• What's Unix, Anyway? 281
• Using a Command-Line Interface 282
• Using Unix Applications 287

26 Good MacHousekeeping 293

• Periodic Mac Maintenance 293
• When It's Time to Go 299
• A Few Useful Tools 299

• Backup Strategies 304
• Backing Up on a LAN 305
• Backing Up to the Net 307

• Analyzing the Problem 310
• What Goes There? 311
• Other Helpful Resources 316

• The Best Mac Sites 319
• Mac Software Archives 322
• Learning About Unix 323
• All-Around Useful Sites 324
• Speak Like a Geek 327
• Index 335