Errata

In the example of uses for the Fn key on laptops, you state the Fn key turns the up arrow key into the "Home" key, over in fact it turns the up arrow into "page up" as detailed on page 11.

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If you've read the preceding paragraphs and gone on a squealing delete-fest just to see how much damage you could inflict on your Sidebar, it's time for a splash of cold water. Once you drag the Macintosh HD or iDisk icon out of the top of the Sidebar, you can?t drag them back in. Suddenly you?re stuck with the orphaned horizontal divider, with nothing to divide. The top half of your list is empty.
That's why Apple gives you a quick way to restore the Sidebar to its factory settings.

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In the pre-Leopard days, dragging stuff out of the Sidebar to get rid of them sometimes posed a small quandary: Once you dragged the Macintosh HD, Home, or iDisk icons out of the Sidebar, you couldn?t drag them back in. Suddenly you were stuck with the orphaned horizontal divider, with nothing to divide. The top half of your list was empty.
In Leopard, mercifully, anything you drag out of the Sidebar can be dragged back in again, including the big-ticket items like Home and Macintosh HD.
Even so, there?s a quicker way to restore the Sidebar to its factory settings.

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* Double-click a folder or disk icon on your desktop.

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* Double-click a folder or disk icon on your desktop.
* Press Command as you make a selection from a window?s title-bar menu (page 26).

Replace entire Stacks discussion with this:

A stack is what you get when you click a disk or folder icon on the Dock-and it's one of Leopard's marquee new features. The effect is shown in Figure 4-2.
Tip: If you press Shift as you click, the stack opens in slow motion. Amaze your friends.
In essence, Mac OS X is fanning out the folder's contents so you can see all of them. If it could talk, it would be saying, "Pick a card, any card."
Tip: You can change how the icons in a particular stack fan are sorted: alphabetically, chronologically, or whatever. Use the "Sort by" section of the shortcut menu (Figure 4-2, top left).
Fan vs. grid vs. list
When Leopard debuted, Stacks were not, ahem, among its most popular features. The essential problem was that too few icons fit in a fan (Figure 4-2, top right). Oh, Apple had sort of thought of that-if there were more than a handful of files in a folder, you?d get a grid effect instead (Figure 4-2, bottom).
But the grid, too, has limited storage space for icons. (The exact number depends on your monitor size.) In any case, if there are too many icons to display at once, the last icon says, "24 more in Finder" (or whatever the number is). You have to click that icon to open the folder's regular window, where all the contents are available. Of course, you've now defeated the fan?s step-saving purpose.
Clearly, none of this was as good as what Mac OS X had in 10.0 through 10.4: a simple pop-up list of everything in a Dock folder. This menu scrolled as necessary, so you could always get to the complete contents of a disk or folder.
Better yet, it was a hierarchical list, meaning that you could burrow into folders within folders, all from the original Dock icon, all without opening a single new window (Figure 4-2, top left). People used to stick their entire Home folders or even disk icons onto the Dock, simply because they knew they now had complete menu access to everything inside, right from the Dock.
Fortunately, Apple restored the List view option in its 10.5.2 update. Now, in fact, you can choose List, Fan, or Grid view on a folder-by-folder basis, simply by using the shortcut menu of each Dock folder (page 126) or the Options submenu in List view, shown in Figure 4-2.
Note: When your Dock is positioned on a side of the screen instead of the bottom, the Fan option isn't available. Also, if you choose Automatic from a Dock folder's "View content as" menu, then Mac OS X chooses either Fan or Grid view, depending on how many icons are in the folder.
ECFIS: Ever-Changing Folder-Icon Syndrome
In the original Stacks feature, folder icons on the Dock changed to resemble whatever you most recently put into them. For example, a folder might look like an Excel spreadsheet icon, a PDF icon, or a photo-but never a folder. It was wildly disorienting, since you couldn't get to know a folder by its icon.
This, too, was fixed in Mac OS X 10.5.2. The shortcut menu of every Dock folder now bears a "Display as" section, shown in Figure 4-2. It lets you choose either Folder (a folder looks like a folder) or Stack (the folder's icon changes to reflect its contents.)

The note at the bottom of page 65 states that a "...circled question-mark button <appears> in the lower
right corner of each System Preferences panel..."

This question-mark button does not appear (on my system at least) in a few of the preference panes -
namely Spotlight and Startup Disk.

Recommend changing "each System Preferences panel..." to "...most of the System Preferences panels..."

Your text is:

"To force a particular FOLDER to appear at the top of the list view window, insert a SPACE before the
name."

My comment:
This USED to be true and still is... partly.
BUT
1. This naming trick works for NY file. Not just folders.
2. More important - this trick is conflicting with QUICKVIEW [activated by space]
One trick to getting to a file is typing the first letter of its name.
Try this with a SPACE and Quick Look opens the currently selected file...

So I would change SPACE into UnderLine or another non-space special character.

Link to web page for stuffit expander from the Missing CD-Rom link on catalog page doesn't work.

Maybe a mistake.

Jan 2008 printing, OS 10.5.2

The text in the "General" bullet and the text in the "Name & Extension" bullet both say that in this
location you can view and edit the name of the icon. I seem to be able to do this only in the "Name &
Extension" portion of the Get Info screen.

created:=6/1/08
does not work at all, because of a meaningless equal sign.
created:6/1/08
works correctly.
An equal sign is not only unnecessary, but also a mistake.

In contrast to Tiger, Leopard spotlight highlights "Top Hit", otherwise the second row such as "Application", "Documents", "Folders" and so on, but never "Show All".
To open Spotlight window without clicking, we must use the up-arrow key once.

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If the Spotlight menu-its Most Likely to Succeed list-doesn't include what you're looking for, click Show All (or just press Return or Enter). You've just opened the Spotlight window.

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If the Spotlight menu-its Most Likely to Succeed list-doesn't include what you're looking for, click Show All. You've just opened the Spotlight window.

By default the spotlight search combines each word with AND.
Therefore,
kind:jpeg AND kind:pdf
brings out he same result as
kind:jpeg kind:pdf
or
(kind:jpeg kind:pdf)
Meanwhile OR combination of each word springs out the different result.

The 'Note' box states the following:

'Note: If no folder window is open when you press Cmd-F, this button says "Casey" (or whatever); it identifies your Home folder. That is, Spotlight is prepared to search all your stuff on this Mac.'

Actually that is not correct. In such usage-scenario Spotlight identifies folder that has been set up in General section of Finder Preferences. Procedure of defining this folder is described in the 'Tip' box on page 33.

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Mac
OS X switches to the appropriate virtual screen automatically, and then returns you to what you were doing on the first screen

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Mac
OS X switches to the appropriate virtual screen automatically.

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An iPod is an extremely fine music player with enormous capacity. That's because it contains an actual hard drive that stores the songs.
But because the modern iPod has a USB connector, it makes a dandy portable hard drive for everyday files, too?not just music.

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An iPod is an extremely fine music player with enormous capacity. That's because it contains an actual hard drive (or a bunch of memory) that stores the songs.
But because the modern iPod has a USB connector, most models make dandy portable hard drives for everyday files, too-not just music.

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* Search bar. Type a few letters of somebody's name here. As you type, the widget homes in on that person's entry from the Address Book program.
If you see numbers at the bottom edge that say, for example, "1/12," then you've found more than one match. You're looking at the first of 12 matches. You can click the little right/left arrows to page through them. Click the circled X at the right end of the bar to erase the box and start over.

* Big red dot. Click to open Address Book, with this person's entry staring you in the face. That's what you'd do if, for example, you wanted to edit the entry.

* Phone number. Click it to fill your screen with an enormous version of the phone number that you could see from outer space. The idea here is that it's big enough to see from across the room as you dial the number on your desk phone.

* Email address. Click to fire up the Mail program (or whatever email program you use), complete with a fresh outgoing message already addressed to this person. All you have to do is type your message and click Send.

* Mailing address. Clicking the mailing address fires up your Web browser and takes you to MapQuest.com, already opened up to a map that reveals the pinpoint location of the specified address. Very, very slick.

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* Search bar. Type a few letters of somebody's name here. As you type, the widget fills with matching names from the Address Book program.
Tip: Actually, it shows you entries with text that match from any part of each person's "card," not just names. For example, you could type 212 to find everyone with that area code, or cherr to find someone whose name you've forgotten-but you know they live on Cherrystone Avenue.
When you spot the name of the person you're looking for, click it to open that person's full Rolodex card. (In Leopard, you get the information right in the widget; clicking a name doesn't open up Address Book itself. On the other hand, you can no longer edit Address Book entries from within the widget.)

* Phone number. Click it to fill your screen with an enormous version of the phone number that you could see from outer space. The idea here is that it's big enough to see from across the room as you dial the number on your desk phone.

* Email address. Click to fire up the Mail program (or whatever email program you use), complete with a fresh outgoing message already addressed to this person. All you have to do is type your message and click Send.

* Mailing address. Clicking the mailing address fires up your Web browser and takes you to MapQuest.com, already opened up to a map that reveals the pinpoint location of the specified address. Very, very slick.

The DISPLAY control panel has an option that appears ONLY when the "proper" display is connected.

ROTATE !

It allows you to define the display as rotated by 90 degree steps.
So you can put your [external] display sideways, or use PIVOT displays.

My own display is NOT recognized as "rotatable" so I do not have the exact wording at hand.
But this great feature works great.

Note from the Author or Editor:
No remaining monitors offer this.

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Fortunately, Keyboard Viewer lets you see the characters lurking within almost any installed font; just choose a font's name from the Font pop-up menu to see all of its modifier-key characters. (You may have to change the keyboard layout to see all symbols in some fonts.) Alas, this feature doesn't work in a few of the fonts where it would be the most useful-certain symbol fonts like Symbol and Zapf Dingbats.

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Different fonts contain different hidden characters. For example, Palatino contains an a character (pressing Shift-Option-K), but Adobe Garamond does not.
Keyboard Viewer used to let you see the characters lurking within any installed font, thanks to a Font pop-up menu at the bottom. Alas, that pop-up menu is gone in Leopard.
Instead, you get only a Font Mapping pop-up menu that lists the Mac's standard all-symbols fonts, like Webdings and Monotype Sorts. For any other font, you're out of luck.

Display (inverted colors) pressing Control-Option-Command-*(asterisk),inverts the colors of the screen
Should read: "pressing Control-Option-Command 8" as is illustrated on previous page Figure 9-17

The sentence reads: "You can even open animated GIFs by adding a play button to the toolbar as described below:"

I have searched "below" and I cannot find any reference to adding a play button.
The View&#8594;Slideshow action does not play animated GIFs.

Discussion on types of CDs & DVDs fails to mention DVD+R capability of current Macs

This isn't an error report but an addtitional tip to this section entitled "The Eject Button that Doesn't"

I had the misfortune to having a disk error message tying to load Windows onto my new iMac 7.1. I was stuck with a black screen telling me I had a disk error and the Windows XP CD stuck in the drive, which is a side slot loading one, not a drawer type. The suggestions in this box were unsuccessful (They seem to be aimed more at the drawer type of drive) and there is no pinhole I could discover to attack with a paper clip.

Apple Care had the following very successful suggestion: Power down the iMac and then restart while holding down the F12 key until the disk pops out. Which it did, thank heavens! I thought my imac might be lost forever.

This is my very first Mac and I have read your book on switching to the Mac Leopard and am now reading the full version to get all the finer details now that I have some understanding of my iMac. Your books are wonderful for the knowledge they contain as well as being a delight to read. I am not particularly computer savvy and your books have been a tremendous help. I would appreciate it if you would write one on iWork 08!

Many thanks for all your hard work in providing us with such terrific resources.

the item on moving your home folder still has a reference to netinfo manager presumably from the previous
edition of this book. Netinfo manager has disappeared from Leopard, so this is rather confusing.

You should clarify that if the "Firewall" is turned on (i.e. Allow only essential services), then the
firewall denies a network connection to the "WorkGroup". To ensure that the PCs and Macs see each other,
set the Mac Firewall to "Allow all incoming traffic" or "Set access for specific services and
applications".

If the WorkGroup is behind a router with its own hardware firewall, then it is not a problem to turn off
the Mac software firewall. See page 494, second bullet.

You did not make a technical mistake here, but I wanted to offer this suggestion.

Your note correctly states that the Address Book feature does not work in Word or Excel. However, you do
not have to type in the fax number by hand. There is an easy workaround:

1. Prepare your fax in Word (or Excel)
2. Choose File-->Print...
3. In the Print dialog window, click the Preview button.
4. After Preview launches, choose File-->Print...
5. Select Fax PDF... from the PDF popup menu.

You now have access to Apple's Address book and to all the usual fax sending features. It's an easier
process than leaving Word, opening Address Book, finding the fax number, copying it, switching back to
Word, and pasting the number.

Heading D should say E

Remove this paragraph:

* Use the Backup command. Periodically choose File?Back Up Address Book. If something goes wrong-say, a batch of important contacts gets inadvertently deleted-you can go back to a previously saved version to rescue the data by choosing File?Revert to Address Book Backup.

Change:

Command -O Close Window
Option-Command -O Close All

to:

Command -W Close Window
Option-Command -W Close All