Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual

Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual

by David Pogue
Released October 2009
Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ISBN: 9781449388782

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Book description

For a company that promised to "put a pause on new features," Apple sure has been busy-there's barely a feature left untouched in Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard." There's more speed, more polish, more refinement-but still no manual. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, with the humor and expertise that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for eight years straight. You get all the answers with jargon-free introductions to:

  • Big-ticket changes. A 64-bit overhaul. Faster everything. A rewritten Finder. Microsoft Exchange compatibility. All-new QuickTime Player. If Apple wrote it, this book covers it.
  • Snow Leopard Spots. This book demystifies the hundreds of smaller enhancements, too, in all 50 programs that come with the Mac: Safari, Mail, iChat, Preview, Time Machine.
  • Shortcuts. This must be the tippiest, trickiest Mac book ever written. Undocumented surprises await on every page.
  • Power usage. Security, networking, build-your-own Services, file sharing with Windows, even Mac OS X's Unix chassis-this one witty, expert guide makes it all crystal clear.

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Table of contents

  1. Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual
  2. A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
  3. The Missing Credits
    1. About the Author
    2. About the Creative Team
    3. Acknowledgments
    4. The Missing Manual Series
      1. For Macintosh:
      2. For Windows:
  4. Introduction
    1. Introduction
      1. The Snow Leopard Anomaly
    2. About This Book
      1. Snow Leopard Spots
        1. About the Outline
      2. About→These→Arrows
      3. About MissingManuals.com
    3. The Very Basics
  5. One. The Mac OS X Desktop
    1. 1. Folders & Windows
      1. Getting into Mac OS X
        1. Logging In
        2. The Elements of the Mac OS X Desktop
          1. Disk icons
          2. The Dock
          3. The menu
          4. The menu bar
      2. Windows and How to Work Them
        1. The Sidebar
          1. Fine-tuning the Sidebar
        2. Title Bar
        3. Close Button
        4. Minimize Button
        5. Zoom Button
        6. The Folder Proxy Icon
        7. The Finder Toolbar
        8. Two Clicks, One Window
        9. Old Finder Mode: The Toolbar Disclosure Button
        10. Scroll Bars
        11. Resize Handle
        12. Path Bar
        13. Status Bar
      3. The Four Window Views
      4. Icon View
        1. Icon Size
        2. Icon Previews
        3. Icon View Options
          1. Always open in icon view
          2. Icon size
          3. Grid spacing
          4. Text size
          5. Label position
          6. Show item info
          7. Show icon preview
          8. Arrange by
          9. Background
          10. Use as Defaults
        4. Keeping Icons Neat and Sorted
          1. Grid alignment
          2. Sorted alignment
      5. List View
        1. Sorting the List
        2. Flippy Triangles
        3. Your Choice of Columns
        4. Other View Options
        5. Rearranging Columns
        6. Adjusting Column Widths
      6. Column View
        1. Column View by Keyboard
        2. Manipulating the Columns
        3. View Options
      7. Cover Flow View
      8. Quick Look
        1. What Quick Look Knows
        2. Fun with Quick Look
        3. The Quick Look Slideshow
      9. Logging Out, Shutting Down
        1. Sleep Mode
        2. Restart
        3. Shut Down
        4. Log Out
      10. Getting Help in Mac OS X
    2. 2. Organizing Your Stuff
      1. The Mac OS X Folder Structure
        1. Your Home Folder
        2. What’s on Your Hard Drive
        3. What’s in Your Home Folder
      2. Icon Names
      3. Selecting Icons
        1. Selecting by Clicking
        2. Selecting Icons from the Keyboard
      4. Moving and Copying Icons
        1. Copying by Dragging
        2. Copying by Using Copy and Paste
        3. Dragging from the Title Bar
        4. Spring-Loaded Folders: Dragging Icons into Closed Folders
        5. Making Spring-Loaded Folders Work
      5. Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once
        1. What’s Good about Aliases
        2. Broken Aliases
      6. Color Labels
        1. What Labels Are Good For
        2. Changing Labels
      7. The Trash
        1. Rescuing Files and Folders from the Trash
        2. Emptying the Trash I: Quick and Easy
        3. Emptying the Trash II: Secure and Forever
        4. Locked Files: The Next Generation
      8. Get Info
        1. Uni-window vs. Multiwindow
        2. The Get Info Panels
    3. 3. Spotlight
      1. The Spotlight Menu
        1. Spotlight-Menu Tips
        2. Advanced Menu Searches
          1. Use quotes
          2. Limit by kind
          3. Limit by recent date
          4. Limit by metadata
          5. Boolean searches
      2. The Spotlight Window
        1. Spotlight Window from Spotlight Menu
        2. Opening the Spotlight Window Directly
        3. The Basic Search
        4. Power Searches
        5. Where to Look
        6. Search by Contents/Search by Name
        7. Complex Searches
          1. Kind
          2. Last opened date/Last modified date/Created date
          3. Name
          4. Contents
          5. Other
        8. What to Do with Search Results
      3. Customizing Spotlight
        1. Privacy Settings
      4. Smart Folders
    4. 4. Dock, Desktop, & Toolbars
      1. The Dock
      2. Setting Up the Dock
        1. Organizing and Removing Dock Icons
        2. Pop-up Dock Folders (“Stacks”)
          1. Fan vs. grid vs. list
        3. The Finer Points of Pop-up Dock Folders
        4. Three Ways to Get the Dock Out of Your Hair
          1. Auto-hiding the Dock
          2. Shrinking and enlarging the Dock
          3. Moving the Dock to the sides of the screen
      3. Using the Dock
        1. Switch Applications
        2. Operate the Dock by Keyboard Control
        3. Secret Menus
        4. Conduct Speed Tests
        5. Drag and Drop
        6. Do Your Filing
        7. Great Things to Put in Your Dock
      4. The Finder Toolbar
        1. Removing or Shrinking the Toolbar
        2. Adding Your Own Icons to the Toolbar
          1. Apple’s toolbar-icon collection
          2. Adding your own stuff
        3. Rearranging or Removing Toolbar Icons
      5. Designing Your Desktop
        1. System Preferences
        2. Graphic Designers’ Corner: The Gray Look
        3. Desktop Sounds
      6. Menulets: The Missing Manual
  6. Two. Programs in Mac OS X
    1. 5. Documents, Programs, & Spaces
      1. Opening Mac OS X Programs
        1. The Application Menu
        2. Quitting Programs
        3. Force Quitting Programs
      2. The “Heads-Up” Program Switcher
      3. Exposé: Death to Window Clutter
        1. All-Apps Exposé
        2. One-App Exposé
        3. Desktop Exposé
        4. Exposé Tip-O-Rama
        5. Exposé Meets Quick Look
        6. More Triggers for Exposé
          1. Screen corners
          2. Keystrokes
          3. Multiple-button mouse clicks
      4. Spaces: Your Free Quad-Display Mac
        1. Turning On Spaces
        2. Using Spaces
          1. The big picture
          2. Moving windows among screens
      5. Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way
        1. Hiding the Program You’re Using
        2. Hiding All Other Programs
        3. The Bring-Forward, Hide-All-Others Trick
        4. Hiding (Minimizing) Individual Windows
      6. How Documents Know Their Parents
        1. Reassigning Documents to Programs
          1. Reassigning a certain document—just once
          2. Reassigning a certain document—permanently
          3. Reassigning all documents of one type
      7. Keyboard Control
        1. Control the Menus
        2. Control the Dock
        3. Cycle Through Your Windows
        4. Control the Toolbar
        5. Control Tool Palettes
        6. Control Menulets
        7. Control Dialog Boxes
        8. Changing a Menu Keyboard Shortcut
        9. Redefining a Snow Leopard Keystroke
      8. The Save and Open Dialog Boxes
        1. Sheets
        2. The Mini Finder
        3. Spotlight
        4. Insta-Jumping to a Folder Location
        5. The File Format Pop-up Menu
        6. The Open File Dialog Box
      9. Two Kinds of Programs: Cocoa and Carbon
      10. The Cocoa Difference
        1. The Font Panel
        2. Title Bar Tricks
        3. Toolbar Tricks
        4. Secret Keyboard Shortcuts
        5. Cool Text-Selection Tricks
        6. Background Window Control
      11. Universal Apps (Intel Macs) and Rosetta
      12. Installing Mac OS X Programs
        1. .sit, .zip, .tar, .gz, and .dmg
        2. Disk Images (dmg files)
        3. Cleaning Up after Decompression
        4. Performing the Installation
        5. Uninstalling Software
      13. Dashboard
        1. Dashboard Tips
        2. Dashboard Preferences
        3. Widget Catalog
          1. The Widget widget
          2. Address Book
          3. Business (a.k.a. Yellow Pages)
          4. Calculator
          5. Dictionary
          6. ESPN
          7. Flight Tracker
          8. Google
          9. iCal
          10. iTunes
          11. Movies
          12. People (a.k.a. White Pages)
          13. Ski Report
          14. Stickies
          15. Stocks
          16. Tile Game
          17. Translation
          18. Unit Converter
          19. Weather
          20. Web Clips
          21. World Clock
        4. More Widgets
          1. Installing a widget
      14. Web Clips: Make Your Own Widgets
        1. Creating a Web Clip Widget
    2. 6. Entering Data, Moving Data, & Time Machine
      1. The Macintosh Keyboard
        1. The Complicated Story of the Function Keys
      2. Notes on Right-Clicking
      3. Power Typing in Snow Leopard
        1. The Mac OS X Spelling and Grammar Checker
        2. Text Substitution (Abbreviation Expansion)
          1. Insert the proper typographical symbols
          2. Replace abbreviations with much longer phrases
        3. Case Swapping
      4. The Many Languages of Mac OS X Text
        1. Formats Tab
        2. Input Menu Tab
        3. Keyboard Viewer: The Return of Key Caps
      5. Data Detectors
      6. Moving Data Between Documents
        1. Cut, Copy, and Paste
        2. Drag-and-Drop
          1. When to use drag-and-drop
          2. Drag-and-drop to the desktop
        3. Export/Import
      7. Exchanging Data with Other Macs
        1. By Email
        2. By Network
        3. By iDisk
        4. By CD or DVD
        5. FireWire Disk Mode (Target Disk Mode)
        6. Via the iPod
        7. Via Flash Drive
        8. Via Bluetooth
          1. Sending a file
          2. Fetching a file
      8. Exchanging Data with Windows PCs
        1. Preparing the Document for Transfer
          1. Is the document in a file format Windows understands?
          2. Does the file have the correct filename suffix?
        2. Notes on Disk Swapping
        3. Network Notes
        4. Via the Internet
      9. Time Machine
        1. Setting up Time Machine
        2. How the Backups Work
        3. Changing Time Machine Settings
        4. Recovering Lost or Changed Files
          1. Recovering from iPhoto, Address Book, and Mail
          2. Recovering the entire hard drive
          3. Recovering to another Mac
        5. Frequently Asked Questions
    3. 7. Services, Automator, & AppleScript
      1. Services
        1. Seven Services that Come in Handy
          1. Drop in screenshots as you type
          2. One-click desktop picture
          3. Text-to-email, in one step
          4. Text to a spoken iTunes track
          5. Make a new sticky note
          6. Shorten a long-winded writer
        2. More Great Examples from Downloadable Services
        3. Turning Them On and Off—and Adding Keyboard Shortcuts
      2. Automator
        1. Seven Startup Templates
        2. Automator Tour
          1. Toolbar
          2. Library pane
          3. Search box
          4. Library
          5. Description field
          6. button
          7. Workflow pane
          8. Log viewer
          9. Opening existing workflows
        3. Understanding a Workflow
      3. Building Your Own Workflow
        1. Send a File Attachment from the Desktop
        2. Burn an iPhoto Picture CD
      4. Doing More with Automator
        1. Getting more action(s)
          1. Getting more action(s)
          2. Watch Me Do mode
          3. Change your startup disk
      5. AppleScript
        1. Two Sample AppleScripts
          1. Open a folder
          2. The metronome script
        2. AppleScript vs. Automator
    4. 8. Windows on Macintosh
      1. Boot Camp
        1. Installing Boot Camp
          1. Phase 1: Partition your drive
          2. Phase 2: Install Windows
          3. Phase 3: Install the drivers
        2. Forth and Back, Windows/Mac
        3. Keyboard Translation Guide
        4. Accessing Mac Files from the Dark Side—and Vice Versa
      2. Windows in a Window
        1. Virtualization Tip-O-Rama
      3. Life with Microsoft Exchange
        1. Connecting to Exchange
        2. Exchange in Mail
        3. Exchange in Address Book
        4. Exchange in iCal
  7. Three. The Components of Mac OS X
    1. 9. System Preferences
      1. The System Preferences Window
      2. Accounts
      3. Appearance
        1. Changing Colors
        2. Tweaking the Scroll Bars
        3. Number of Recent Items
        4. Font Smoothing Style
        5. Turning Off Smoothing on Tiny Fonts
      4. Bluetooth
        1. Advanced Options
      5. CDs & DVDs
      6. Date & Time
        1. Date & Time Tab
        2. Time Zone Tab
        3. Clock Tab
      7. Desktop & Screen Saver
        1. Desktop Pictures
          1. Using your own pictures
          2. Making the picture fit
          3. Auto picture-changing
        2. Screen Saver
          1. Apple
          2. Pictures
          3. Activating the screen saver
      8. Displays
        1. Display Tab
        2. Geometry Tab
        3. Arrangement Tab
        4. Color Tab
      9. Dock
      10. Energy Saver
        1. Sleep Sliders
        2. Checkbox Options
        3. Scheduled Startup and Shutdown
      11. Exposé & Spaces
      12. Keyboard
        1. Keyboard
        2. Keyboard Shortcuts
      13. Language & Text
      14. MobileMe
      15. Mouse
        1. Tracking Speed, Double-Click Speed
        2. The Mighty Mouse
      16. Network
      17. Parental Controls
      18. Print & Fax
      19. Security
      20. Sharing
      21. Software Update
        1. Scheduled Check Tab
        2. Installed Software
      22. Sound
        1. Sound Effects Tab
        2. Output Tab
        3. Input Tab
      23. Speech
      24. Spotlight
      25. Startup Disk
      26. Time Machine
      27. Trackpad
        1. Trackpad Gestures
          1. One Finger
          2. Two Fingers
          3. Three Fingers
          4. Four Fingers
      28. Universal Access
        1. Seeing Tab (Magnifying the Screen)
          1. VoiceOver
          2. Zoom
          3. Display (inverted colors)
        2. Hearing Tab (Flashing the Screen)
        3. Keyboard Tab (Typing Assistance)
        4. Mouse & Trackpad Tab (Cursor Control from the Keyboard)
    2. 10. The Free Programs
      1. Your Free Mac OS X Programs
      2. Address Book
      3. Automator
      4. Calculator
        1. Conversions
      5. Chess
        1. Playing a Game of Chess
        2. Chess Prefs
        3. Studying Your Games
      6. Dashboard
      7. Dictionary
      8. DVD Player
      9. Font Book
      10. Front Row
      11. GarageBand
      12. iCal
        1. Working with Views
        2. Making an Appointment
          1. The easy way
          2. The long way
        3. What to Do with an Appointment
          1. Editing events
          2. Rescheduling events
          3. Lengthening or shortening events
          4. Printing events
          5. Deleting events
        4. Searching for Events
        5. The “Calendar” Category Concept
        6. “Publishing” Calendars to the Web
          1. Publishing
          2. Subscribing
        7. Google and Yahoo Calendars
        8. To Do Lists
      13. iChat
      14. iDVD
      15. Image Capture
        1. Import To:
        2. Import Some, Import All
        3. Downloading from Across the Network
        4. Image Capture as Spycam
        5. Scanning
          1. More power to you
      16. iMovie, iPhoto
      17. iSync
      18. iTunes
      19. Mail
      20. Photo Booth
        1. Still Photos
        2. 4-Up Photos
        3. Movies
        4. Exporting Shots and Movies
      21. Preview
        1. Importing Camera Photos
        2. Operating Your Scanner
        3. Multiple Pages, Multiple Views
        4. Preview as Graphics Viewer
          1. Bunches o’ graphics
          2. Cropping graphics
          3. Fixing up photos
          4. Cutting people out of backgrounds
          5. Converting file formats
        5. Preview as PDF Reader
        6. The Toolbar
      22. QuickTime Player
      23. Safari
      24. Stickies
        1. Creating Sticky Notes
        2. Growing and Shrinking Notes
        3. Formatting Notes
        4. Saving Sticky Notes
      25. System Preferences
      26. TextEdit
        1. TextEdit’s Two Personalities
        2. Working in TextEdit
        3. Style Sheets
        4. Tables
        5. TextEdit as Web Designer
        6. The TextEdit Preferences
        7. TextEdit’s Other Writing Tools
      27. Time Machine
      28. Utilities: Your Mac OS X Toolbox
        1. Activity Monitor
          1. The Processes table
          2. The System monitor tabs
        2. AirPort Utility
        3. AppleScript Editor
        4. Audio MIDI Setup
        5. Bluetooth File Exchange
        6. Boot Camp Assistant
        7. ColorSync Utility
        8. Console
        9. DigitalColor Meter
        10. Disk Utility
          1. Disk Utility, the hard drive repair program
          2. Disk Utility, the disk-image program
          3. Turning an image into a CD
        11. Grab
        12. Grapher
        13. Java Preferences
        14. Keychain Access
        15. Migration Assistant
        16. Network Utility
        17. Podcast Capture
        18. RAID Utility
        19. Remote Install Mac OS X
        20. Spaces
        21. System Profiler
          1. Saving a report
        22. Terminal
        23. VoiceOver Utility
    3. 11. CDs, DVDs, & iTunes
      1. Disks Today
        1. Hard Drives, iPods
        2. CDs, DVDs
        3. Flash Drives
      2. Disks In, Disks Out
      3. Startup Disks
        1. Creating a Startup Disk
        2. Selecting a Startup Disk
        3. Erasing a Disk
      4. Burning CDs and DVDs
        1. Burn Folders: Without the Disc
        2. When You Have a Blank Disc On Hand
      5. iTunes: The Digital Jukebox
        1. Library
        2. Store
        3. Devices
        4. Shared
        5. Genius
        6. Playlists
          1. Creating playlists
          2. Smart playlists
        7. Audio CDs
          1. Copying (ripping) CD songs to your hard drive
        8. The iPod and iPhone
        9. Playing with Playback
          1. Turning on visuals
          2. Keyboard control
          3. Playing with the graphic equalizer
          4. Preventing ear-blast syndrome
        10. Burning Music CDs
      6. DVD Movies
        1. Playing a Movie
        2. Language Fun
        3. Bookmarks and Video Clips
        4. Chapter Thumbnails
        5. Parental Controls
        6. The Big Picture
  8. Four. The Technologies of Mac OS X
    1. 12. Accounts, Parental Controls, & Security
      1. Introducing Accounts
        1. The First Account
      2. Creating an Account
        1. Phase 1: Choose an Account Type
          1. Administrator accounts
          2. Standard accounts
          3. Managed accounts with Parental Controls
          4. Sharing Only
          5. Group
          6. The Guest account
        2. Phase 2: Name, Password, and Status
        3. Phase 3: Choose a Picture
        4. Phase 4: Startup Items
      3. Parental Controls
        1. System
          1. Use Simple Finder
          2. Only allow selected applications
        2. Content (Dictionary and Web)
          1. Hide profanity in Dictionary
          2. Web Site Restrictions
        3. Mail & iChat
        4. Time Limits
        5. Logs
      4. Editing Accounts
        1. Deleting Accounts
      5. Setting Up the Login Process
      6. Signing In, Logging Out
        1. Identifying Yourself
        2. Logging Out
      7. Sharing Across Accounts
      8. Fast User Switching
      9. Five Mac OS X Security Shields
        1. The Firewall
        2. FileVault
        3. Logout Options
        4. The Password Assistant
        5. The Keychain
          1. Locking and unlocking the Keychain
          2. Managing Keychain
          3. Multiple Keychains
          4. Keychain files
    2. 13. Networking, File Sharing, & Screen Sharing
      1. Wiring the Network
        1. Ethernet Networks
        2. AirPort Networks
        3. FireWire Networks
      2. File Sharing
        1. Setup: Sharing Through the Public Folder
        2. Setup: Sharing Through Any Folder
          1. The Get Info method
          2. The System Preferences method
      3. Accessing Shared Files
        1. Connection Method A: Use the Sidebar
        2. Connection Method B: Connect to Server
        3. Disconnecting Yourself
        4. Disconnecting Others
      4. Networking with Windows
        1. Seated at the Mac, Seeing the PC
        2. Seated at the PC, Seeing the Mac
        3. More Mac-Windows Connections
      5. Screen Sharing
        1. Mac #1: Give Permission in Advance
        2. Mac #2: Take Control
        3. Variations on Screen Sharing
          1. Screen sharing through iChat
          2. Screen sharing with a pre-Leopard Mac
          3. Screen sharing the manual way
          4. Screen sharing with Back to My Mac
      6. More Dialing In from the Road
    3. 14. Printing, Faxing, Fonts, & Graphics
      1. Mac Meets Printer
        1. Setting Up a Printer
        2. The Printer List
      2. Making the Printout
        1. Page Setup
        2. The Print Command
        3. Printing
      3. Managing Printouts
      4. Printer Sharing
      5. Faxing
        1. Setting Up Faxing
        2. Sending a Fax
          1. Sending
          2. Checking the log, checking the queue
        3. Receiving a Fax
      6. PDF Files
        1. Opening PDF Files
        2. Creating PDF Files
      7. Fonts—and Font Book
        1. Where Fonts Live
        2. FontBook: Installing and Managing Fonts
          1. Looking over your fonts
          2. Printing a reference sheet
          3. Eliminating duplicates
          4. Adding, removing, and hiding fonts
          5. Font collections
          6. Font libraries
          7. Exporting fonts
        3. The Fonts Panel
          1. Choosing fonts from the Fonts panel
          2. Designing collections and favorites
      8. ColorSync
        1. Getting ColorSync Profiles
        2. Default Profiles
        3. More on ColorSync
      9. Graphics in Mac OS X
        1. Graphics Formats in Mac OS X
      10. Screen-Capture Keystrokes
        1. The Whole Screen
        2. One Section of the Screen
        3. A Dialog Box, Menu, Window, or Icon
    4. 15. Sound, Movies, & Speech
      1. Playing Sounds
        1. Controlling the Volume
        2. Alert Beeps and You
          1. Choosing an alert beep
          2. Adding new alert beeps
      2. Recording Sound
        1. Making the Recording
      3. QuickTime Movies
        1. QuickTime Player
          1. Playing movies with QuickTime Player
          2. Fancy playback tricks
        2. Recording Movies with QuickTime Player
        3. Recording Screen Movies
        4. Internet Streaming QuickTime
          1. Streaming video from your browser
        5. Trimming Video
        6. Four Ways to Export Your Video
          1. Send to iTunes
          2. Post to MobileMe Gallery
          3. Post to YouTube
          4. Saving the finished movie
      4. Speech Recognition
        1. Your First Conversation with the Mac
          1. The Feedback window
          2. The Speakable Commands window
          3. Speaking to the Mac
        2. Customizing Speech Recognition
          1. Changing when the Mac listens
          2. Changing the feedback
          3. Triggering menus by voice
          4. Improving the PlainTalk vocabulary
          5. Application-specific commands
          6. PlainTalk tips, tricks, and troubleshooting
      5. The Mac Reads to You
        1. Setting Up the Mac’s Voice
          1. Announce when alerts are displayed
          2. Announce when an application requires your attention
          3. Speak selected text when the key is pressed
      6. VoiceOver
      7. Ink: Handwriting Recognition
      8. Front Row
    5. 16. The Unix Crash Course
      1. Terminal
        1. Unix Programs
      2. Navigating in Unix
        1. pwd (Print Working Directory, or “Where am I?”)
        2. ls (List, or “What’s in here?”)
          1. About flags
        3. cd (Change Directory, or “Let Me See Another Folder”)
        4. .. (Dot-Dot, or “Back Me Out”)
        5. Keystroke-Saving Features
          1. Tab completion
          2. Using the history
          3. Wildcards
        6. Directory Switching
        7. The ~ Shortcut
          1. Special keys
      3. Working with Files and Directories
        1. cp (Copy)
          1. Copying in place
          2. Copying and renaming
          3. Copying without renaming
          4. Multiple files
        2. mv (Moving and Renaming Files and Directories)
          1. Moving files and directories
          2. Option flags
        3. mkdir (Create New Directories)
        4. touch (Create Empty Files)
        5. rm (Remove Files and Directories)
        6. srm (Secure Removal)
        7. echo (A Final Check)
      4. Online Help
        1. Using man
        2. Other Online Help
      5. Terminal Preferences
        1. Startup
        2. Settings
          1. Text
          2. Window
          3. Shell
          4. Keyboard
        3. Window Groups
        4. Connect to Server
      6. Terminal Tips and Tricks
        1. Switching Windows
        2. Non-Contiguous Selection
        3. Double-Clickable Unix Tools
      7. Changing Permissions with Terminal
        1. Looking at Permissions
        2. File-Mode Code
        3. Group Detective Work
        4. chmod (Change Mode)
        5. Permission to Change Permissions
          1. sudo
        6. chgrp (Change Group)
        7. Protecting Files En Masse
        8. Making Files Hide
      8. 20 Useful Unix Utilities
        1. bc
          1. bc
          2. kill
          3. open
          4. ps
          5. shutdown
          6. tar, gzip, zip
          7. top (table of processes)
          8. xattr (extended attributes)
        2. Aliases
        3. nano, emacs, vim
          1. date
          2. grep
          3. find
          4. mdfind
          5. launchd
          6. ftp
      9. Putting It Together
    6. 17. Hacking Mac OS X
      1. TinkerTool: Customization 101
      2. Redoing Mac OS X’s Graphics
        1. Editing the Trash, Dashboard, and Finder Icons
        2. Replacing the Poof
        3. Editing Your Menulets
      3. Replacing the Finder Icons
      4. Rewriting the Words
        1. Renaming the Trash
        2. Rewording the Dock
      5. Your Bright Hacking Future
  9. Five. Mac OS Online
    1. 18. Internet Setup & MobileMe
      1. The Best News You’ve Heard All Day
      2. Network Central—and Multihoming
        1. Multihoming
      3. Broadband Connections
        1. Automatic Configuration
        2. Manual Configuration
        3. Ethernet Connections
        4. AirPort (WiFi) Connections
        5. Commercial Hot Spots
      4. Cellular Modems
      5. Dial-up Modem Connections
        1. Setting Up the Modem
        2. The Advanced Button
          1. The Modem tab
          2. The PPP tab
        3. Going Online
        4. Disconnecting
      6. Switching Locations
        1. Creating a New Location
        2. Making the Switch
      7. Internet Sharing
        1. Turning On Internet Sharing
      8. MobileMe
        1. Signing Up for MobileMe
        2. MobileMe Sync
        3. The iDisk
          1. Pulling it onto your screen
          2. Making the iDisk fast and synchronized
          3. The Public folder
          4. iDisk options
        4. Email
        5. Galleries
        6. Web Sites
      9. Internet Location Files
    2. 19. Mail & Address Book
      1. Setting Up Mail
      2. Checking Your Mail
        1. The Mailboxes List
      3. Writing Messages
        1. Attaching Files to Messages
        2. Signatures
      4. Stationery
      5. Reading Email
        1. Threading
        2. Adding the Sender to Your Address Book
        3. Data Detectors
        4. Opening Attachments
        5. Replying to a Message
        6. Forwarding Messages
        7. Redirecting Messages
        8. Printing Messages
        9. Filing Messages
        10. Flagging Messages
        11. Finding Messages
          1. Finding messages within a mailbox
          2. Finding text within an open message
        12. Deleting Messages
          1. Method 1: Emptying the Trash folder
          2. Method 2: Deleted mail turns invisible
        13. Archiving Mailboxes
        14. Message Rules
          1. Setting up message rules
      6. The Anti-Spam Toolkit
        1. Using the Junk Mail Filter
        2. More Anti-Spam Tips
      7. RSS Feeds
        1. Adding RSS Feeds
        2. Managing Feeds
      8. Notes
      9. To Dos
        1. Creating To Dos
        2. Completing and Deleting To Dos
        3. To Do List: Mail/iCal Joint Custody
      10. Address Book
        1. Creating Address Cards
          1. Editing an address
          2. Adding addresses from Mail
        2. Importing Addresses
          1. About vCards
          2. Syncing with Google, Yahoo, MobileMe, or Exchange
        3. Groups
          1. Removing someone from a group
        4. Adding Pictures
          1. Replacing and removing a picture
        5. Finding an Address
        6. Changing the Address Book Display
        7. Printing Options
        8. Address-Book Backups
    3. 20. Safari
      1. Safari
        1. Browsing Basics and Toolbars
        2. Safari Toolbars
          1. Address bar
          2. Address-bar buttons
          3. Bookmarks bar
        3. Status Bar
      2. Tips for Better Surfing
        1. SnapBack
        2. Stifle Pop-Ups and Pop-Unders
        3. Three Ways to Magnify Web Text
        4. Keyboard Control
        5. Impersonating Internet Explorer
        6. Faster Browsing Without Graphics
        7. Where am I?
        8. Viewing Web Pages Offline
        9. Expanding Web Forms
        10. Sending a Page to a Friend
        11. Designate Your Start Page
        12. Finding Text on Web Pages
        13. The History Menu
        14. Zoom in on PDF Pages
      3. Tabbed Browsing
      4. RSS: The Missing Manual
        1. Viewing an RSS Feed
        2. RSS Tricks
          1. Creating RSS summaries
          2. The personal clipping service
          3. The RSS screen saver
          4. Make feeds open automatically
    4. 21. iChat
      1. Welcome to iChat
      2. Three Chat Networks
      3. Signing Up
        1. How to Get a Free MobileMe Account
        2. How to Get a Free Jabber (or Gmail) Account
        3. How to Get a Free AIM Account
      4. The Buddy Lists
      5. Making a List
        1. Broadcasting Your Status
        2. Sorting and Sizing your Friends
      6. Let the Chat Begin
        1. They Invite You
        2. You Invite Them
      7. Text Chatting
        1. In-chat Fun
        2. Popping the Balloons
      8. Audio Chats
      9. Video Chats
        1. Bluescreen Backdrops and Video FX
      10. Sharing Your Screen
      11. iChat Theater
      12. iChat Tweaks
    5. 22. SSH, FTP, VPN, & Web Sharing
      1. Web Sharing
        1. Firing Up Web Sharing
        2. The Mac’s Own Web Site
        3. The Easiest Way to Distribute Files
        4. More on Apache
      2. FTP
        1. Uploading and Downloading from FTP Sites
        2. Just Downloading from FTP Sites
        3. Becoming an FTP Server
      3. Connecting from the Road
      4. Remote Access with SSH
        1. Getting In
        2. Remote Control Program Killing
      5. Virtual Private Networking
        1. Setting Up the VPN Connection
        2. Connecting to a VPN
        3. The Fine Points of VPN
  10. Six. Appendixes
    1. A. Installing Mac OS X 10.6
      1. Getting Ready to Install
      2. Two Kinds of Installation
      3. The Automatic Installation
      4. The Erase & Install Option
      5. The Setup Assistant
      6. Uninstalling Mac OS X 10.6
    2. B. Troubleshooting
      1. Minor Eccentric Behavior
        1. First Resort: Repair Permissions
        2. Second Resort: Look for an Update
        3. Third Resort: Toss the Prefs File
        4. Fourth Resort: Restart
        5. Last Resort: Trash and Reinstall the Program
      2. Frozen Programs (Force Quitting)
      3. Can’t Move or Rename an Icon
      4. Application Won’t Open
      5. Startup Problems
        1. Kernel Panic
        2. Safe Mode (Safe Boot)
        3. Gray Screen During Startup
        4. Blue Screen During Startup
        5. Forgotten Password
      6. Fixing the Disk
        1. Method 1: Disk Utility
        2. Method 2: fsck at the Console
          1. Single-user mode (⌘-S at startup)
      7. Where to Get Troubleshooting Help
        1. Help Online
        2. Help by Telephone
    3. C. The Windows-to-Mac Dictionary
      1. About [this program]
        1. About [this program]
        2. Accessibility Options control panel
        3. Active Desktop
        4. Add Hardware control panel
        5. Add or Remove Programs control panel
        6. All Programs
        7. Alt key
        8. Automatic Update
        9. Backspace key
        10. Battery Level
        11. BIOS
        12. Briefcase
        13. Calculator
        14. Camera and Scanner Wizard
        15. CDs
        16. Character Map
        17. Clean Install
        18. Clipboard
        19. Command line
        20. Control Panel
        21. Copy, Cut, Paste
        22. Ctrl key
        23. Date and Time
        24. Delete Key (Forward Delete)
        25. Desktop
        26. Directories
        27. Disk Defragmenter
        28. Disks
        29. Display control panel
        30. DLL files
        31. DOS prompt
        32. Drivers
        33. End Task dialog box
        34. Exiting programs
        35. Explorer
        36. Favorites
        37. Faxing
        38. File Sharing
        39. Floppy disks
        40. Folder Options
        41. Fonts
        42. Help and Support
        43. Hibernation
        44. Internet Explorer
        45. Internet Options
        46. IRQs
        47. Java
        48. Keyboard control panel
        49. Logging in
        50. Mail control panel
        51. Maximize button
        52. Menus
        53. Minimize button
        54. Mouse control panel
        55. (My) Computer
        56. (My) Documents, (My) Pictures, (My) Music
        57. (My) Network Places
        58. Network Neighborhood
        59. Notepad
        60. Personal Web Server
        61. Phone and Modem Options control panel
        62. Power Options
        63. Printer Sharing
        64. Printers and Faxes
        65. PrntScrn key
        66. Program Files folder
        67. Properties dialog box
        68. Recycle Bin
        69. Regional and Language Options control panel
        70. Registry
        71. Run command
        72. Safe Mode
        73. ScanDisk
        74. Scheduled Tasks
        75. Scrap files
        76. Screen saver
        77. Search
        78. Shortcut menus
        79. Shortcuts
        80. Sounds and Audio Devices
        81. Speech control panel
        82. Standby mode
        83. Start menu
        84. StartUp folder
        85. System control panel
        86. System Tray
        87. Taskbar
        88. Taskbar and Start Menu control panel
        89. “Three-fingered salute”
        90. ToolTips
        91. TweakUI
        92. User Accounts control panel
        93. Window edges
        94. Windows (or WINNT) folder
        95. Windows logo key
        96. Windows Media Player
        97. Windows Messenger
        98. WordPad
        99. Zip files
    4. D. Where to Go from Here
      1. Web Sites
        1. Mac OS X
        2. Mac OS X–Style Unix Lessons and Reference
      2. Free Email Newsletters
      3. Advanced Books, Programming Books
        1. Mac Essentials
        2. Unix Essentials
        3. Mac OS X Administration
    5. E. The Master Mace OS X Secret Keystroke List
      1. Startup Keystrokes
      2. In the Finder
      3. Menu
      4. Finder Menu
      5. File Menu
      6. Edit Menu
      7. View Menu
      8. Go Menu
      9. Window Menu
      10. Help Menu
      11. Power Keys
      12. The Dock
      13. Managing Programs
      14. Dialog Boxes
  11. Index
  12. About the Author
  13. Colophon
  14. Copyright

Product information

  • Title: Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual
  • Author(s): David Pogue
  • Release date: October 2009
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9781449388782