"Mac OS X: The Missing Manual" Tiger Edition 3rd Printing Changes, January 17, 2006 Chapter 00 (intro) 8 (Update) Replace sidebar with this text: Version 10.4.4 and Beyond Only two weeks after the debut of Mac OS X 10.4, Apple began its traditional flood of system updates. These multi-megabyte installers patch holes, fix bugs, improve compatibility with external gadgets, and make the whole system work more smoothly. Version 10.4.1, for example, fixed a long list of bug fixes in several broad categories, including file sharing over networks, graphics-card drivers, .Mac synchronization, and programs like Address Book, iCal, Font Book, and Mail. Only a few weeks later, 10.4.2 came out, offering 80 bug fixes, many in iChat, file sharing, and Automator. It also changed the way you download Dashboard widgets (Chapter 5): instead of automatically installing them--an invitation to virus writers--Tiger now gives you the opportunity to test-drive a widget before installing it. 10.4.3 was another bundle of fixes and updates, without any new features. 10.4.4, released in January 2006, was the first Mac OS X version released that could run on the Intel-based Macs (see page 11). Among other treats, it introduced several new Dashboard widgets, including the invaluable People widget (a national White Pages phone book). You don't have to go out of your way to get these updates: One day you'll be online with your Mac, and a Software Update dialog box will appear before you, offering you the chance to download and install the patch. Almost always, doing so is a good idea. As for the differences between the "first decimal point" versions of Mac OS X: You'll Ūnd this book useful no matter which version you have, but it describes and illustrates version 10.4 and later. If you're still working with 10.1 through 10.3, you'll probably feel most comfortable if you seek out the first, second, or third edition of this book. Or, better yet, upgrade to Tiger. --------------- Chapter 00 (intro) 9 (Update) [reprinted for text flow] --------------- Chapter 00 (intro) 10 (Update) [reprinted for text flow] --------------- Chapter 00 (intro) 11 (Update) The text used to read: Intel Inside By the end of 2006, Apple will have switched the entire Mac product line over to Intel's blazing-fast Core Duo processors (the successor to the Pentium). Yes, that Intel. The company that Mac partisans had derided for years as part of the Dark Side. The company that Steve Jobs routinely belittled in his demonstrations of PowerPC chips (which IBM and Motorola supplied to Apple for more than a decade). The company whose marketing mascot Apple lit on fire in a 1996 attack ad on TV. Why the change? Apple's computers can only be as fast as the chips inside them, and the chips that IBM had in the works just weren't keeping up with the industry. As one editorial put it, "Apple's doing a U-turn out of a dead-end road." And it's not just speed; it's also power. Laptops are the fastest-growing slice of the market--and in a laptop, a cool, power-stingy chip is everything. But whereas Apple's laptops were stuck with G4 chips and three-hour battery life for years, Intel's laptop chips are fast, they're cool, and they can drive Windows laptop batteries for five or six hours. But behind the scenes, Apple had to execute two massive software transitions: Operating Systems: Apple has already recompiled (rejiggered) Mac OS X to run on Intel chips, beginning with Mac OS X 10.4.4. The new Macs start up and run much faster than the old Macs, thanks to the endless march of speed improvements in the chip-making world. What Apple keeps quiet, however, is that the new Macs are capable of running Microsoft Windows, too. You can't just install an off-the-shelf copy of Windows. But as soon as some enterprising programmer writes the proper kit (containing, for example, laptop trackpad drivers and so on), you'll be able to restart your Mac in Windows to run the thousands of Windows-only programs for business, accounting, gaming, and more, right on your Mac--and dive right back into Mac OS X when you're finished. The opposite, however, is not true: You can't run Mac OS X on, say, Dell and HP boxes. Hackers have attempted to jerry-rig such a system, but Apple has done everything in its legal and technical power to stop them. Programs. The other half of the Mac experience, of course, is the library of programs: TextEdit, Photoshop, Word, and so on. Luckily, Intel-based Macs run today's versions of most programs seamlessly, thanks to an invisible translation program code-named Rosetta. You'll have only two indications that you're using a program originally designed for PowerPC-based Macs: first, you'll see a notation in the program's Get Info window (saying Application: PowerPC instead of Application: Universal). Second, you'll probably discover that the program isn't as fast as it used to be. To make their programs perform at full speed on Intel-based Macs, programmers have to update their wares. All the big software companies have promised to make their programs into universal binaries--programs that run equally well on PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs with a double-click on the very same Finder icon. You can expect to have to pay an upgrade fee to get the new, universal software versions. (Disk-intensive programs like video and audio editors are among those that won't run successfully, if at all, in Rosetta. If your job involves these apps, you should not upgrade to an Intel Mac until they've been issued as universal binaries.) Back in the real world, the chip inside a computer is like the engine in a car. It determines how fast the thing can go, but most people do just fine without knowing the details what's going on inside. So if all this talk about architectures and chips makes your brain hurt, you can at least take comfort in one fact: No matter which kind of Mac you've got Tiger installed on, every feature, tip, and trick you've learned from this book will work exactly the same. --------------- Chapter 00 (intro) 12 (Update) [reprinted for text flow] --------------- Chapter 1 16 (Update) The text used to read: Chapter 11 offers much more on this business of user accounts and logging in It now reads: Chapter 12 offers much more on this business of user accounts and logging in --------------- Chapter 1 32 (Update) The text used to read: visit the Appearance panel of System Preferences, described on page 224 It now reads: visit the Appearance panel of System Preferences, described on page 267 --------------- Chapter 6 214 (Update) The text used to read: Just click the icon you want and then click the arrow button at the lower right. It now reads: Just click the icon you want and then click the arrow button at the lower right. (On Intel-based Macs, the disks are labeled, and the Restart/Continue buttons are absent.) --------------- Chapter 9 306 (Update) Add this paragraph: At the bottom of this window, you'll find the Cursor Size slider. It's a godsend not only to people with failing vision, but also to anyone using one of Apple's large, super-high-resolution screens; as the pixel density increases, the arrow cursor gets smaller and smaller. This slider lets you make the arrow cursor larger--much larger, if you like--making it much easier to see. --------------- Chapter 10 385 (Update) The text used to read: Note: Disk Utility can't verify, repair, erase, or partition your startup disk--the disk on which your system software is currently running. That would be like a surgeon performing an appendectomy on himself--not a great idea. (It can fix the permissions of the disk it's on, thank goodness.) If you want to use Disk Utility to fix or reformat your startup disk, you must start up your Mac from a different system disk, such as the Mac OS X Install disc. It now reads: Note: In Mac OS X 10.4.3 and later, Disk Utility can, for the first time in Mac history, check the startup disk for damage--the disk on which your system software is currently running. (You used to have to start up from a different disk first.) It can also fix the permissions of the disk it's on, thank goodness. Any other operation, like reformatting, erasing, partitioning, or actually repairing the disk, still requires the Mac to start up from a different disk (your Tiger DVD, for example). Otherwise, it'd be like a surgeon performing an appendectomy on himself--not a great idea. --------------- Chapter 11 401 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: Apple shocked the world when, in 1997, it introduced the iMac It now reads: Apple shocked the world when, in 1998, it introduced the iMac --------------- Chapter 12 473 (Update) The text used to read: RBrowser Lite It now reads: RBrowser --------------- Chapter 21 726 (Update) The text used to read: For example, at www.admiumx.com It now reads: For example, at www.adiumx.com --------------- Chapter 22 745 (Update) The text used to read: and the free RBrowser Lite It now reads: and the free RBrowser --------------- Chapter 22 746 (Update) The caption used to read: fire up RBrowser Lite It now reads: fire up RBrowser --------------- Chapter 29 (index) 828 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: cursor see also mouse enlarging, 7 It now reads: cursor see also mouse enlarging, 306 --------------- Chapter 29 (index) 828 (Update) Add this entry: Core Duo processors, 11 --------------- Chapter 29 (index) 832 (Update) Insert new entry: Get Info window, 81-85 application type (PowerPC vs. Universal Binary), 11 --------------- Chapter 29 (index) 834 (Update) The text used to read: Intel processors, 11, 193, 199 It now reads: Intel processors, 11, 193, 199, 214 --------------- Chapter 29 (index) 836 (Update) The text used to read: Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.2, 8 It now reads: Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.4 (Intel), 8 --------------- Chapter 29 (index) 838 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: mouse enlarging the cursor, 7 It now reads: mouse enlarging the cursor, 306 --------------- Chapter 29 (index) 843 (Update) The text used to read: startup disks, 404 It now reads: startup disks, 214, 404 --------------- Chapter 000 (front matter) (Update) printing history updated. --------------- Chapter 000 (front matter) (Update) [updated book list] ---------------