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Is Windows giving you pause? Ready to make the leap to the Mac instead? There has never been a better time to switch from Windows to Mac, and this incomparable guide will help you make a smooth transition. New York Times columnist and Missing Manuals creator David Pogue gets you past three challenges: transferring your stuff, assembling Mac programs so you can do what you did with Windows, and learning your way around Mac OS X.
Learning to use a Mac is not a piece of cake, but once you do, the rewards are oh-so-much better. No viruses, worms, or spyware. No questionable firewalls, inefficient permissions, or other strange features. Just a beautiful machine with a thoroughly reliable system. Whether you're using Windows XP or Vista, we've got you covered.
If you're ready to take on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the latest edition of this bestselling guide tells you everything you need to know:
- Transferring your stuff -- Moving photos, MP3s, and Microsoft Office documents is the easy part. This book gets you through the tricky things: extracting your email, address book, calendar, Web bookmarks, buddy list, desktop pictures, and MP3 files.
- Learning Snow Leopard -- Once you've moved into the Mac, a final task awaits: Learning your way around. Fortunately, you're in good hands with the author of Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, the #1 bestselling guide to the Macintosh.
Re-creating your software suite -- Big-name programs (Word, Photoshop, Firefox, Dreamweaver, and so on) are available in both Mac and Windows versions, but hundreds of other programs are available only for Windows. This guide identifies the Mac equivalents and explains how to move your data to them.
Moving from Windows to a Mac successfully and painlessly is the one thing Apple does not deliver. Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition is your ticket to a new computing experience.
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Table of contents
- Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- The Missing Credits
- Introduction
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I. Welcome to Macintosh
- 1. How the Mac Is Different
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2. Folders, Dock, & Windows
- Getting into Mac OS X
- The Four Window Views
- Icon View
- List View
- Column View
- Cover Flow View
- Quick Look
- The Dock
- The Finder Toolbar
- Getting Help in Mac OS X
- 3. Files, Icons, & Spotlight
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4. Documents, Programs, & Spaces
- Opening Mac OS X Programs
- The New, Improved “Alt-Tab”
- Exposé: Death to Window Clutter
- Spaces: Your Free Quad-Display Mac
- Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way
- How Documents Know Their Parents
- Keyboard Control
- The Save and Open Dialog Boxes
- Universal Apps (Intel Macs)
- Installing Mac OS X Programs
- Dashboard
- Web Clips: Make Your Own Widgets
- Power Typing in Snow Leopard
- The Many Languages of Mac OS X Text
- Data Detectors
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II. Making the Move
- 5. Seven Ways to Transfer Your Files
- 6. Transferring Email & Contacts
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7. Special Software, Special Problems
- ACDSee
- Acrobat Reader
- ACT
- Ad Subtract (Pop-up Stopper)
- Adobe [your favorite program here]
- America Online
- AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)
- Children’s Software
- Easy CD Creator
- Encarta
- Eudora
- Excel
- Firefox
- Games
- Google Desktop Search
- ICQ
- Internet Explorer
- iTunes
- Limewire
- McAfee VirusScan
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Money
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Publisher
- Microsoft Visio
- Minesweeper
- MSN Messenger
- NaturallySpeaking
- Netscape
- Newsgroup Readers
- Norton AntiVirus
- Norton Utilities
- Notepad
- Outlook/Outlook Express/Windows Mail
- Paint Shop Pro
- Palm Desktop
- Picasa
- PowerPoint
- QuickBooks
- Quicken
- RealPlayer
- RssReader
- Skype
- SnagIt
- Solitaire
- Street Atlas USA
- TaxCut, TurboTax
- WinAmp, MusicMatch
- Windows Media Player
- WinZip
- Word
- WordPerfect
- Yahoo Messenger
- 8. Windows on Macintosh
- 9. Hardware on the Mac
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III. Making Connections
- 10. Internet Setup & MobileMe
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11. Mail & Address Book
- Checking Your Mail
- Writing Messages
- Stationery
- Reading Email
- The Anti-Spam Toolkit
- RSS Feeds
- Notes
- To Dos
- Address Book
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12. Safari & iChat
- Safari
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Tips for Better Surfing
- SnapBack
- Stifle Pop-Ups and Pop-Unders
- Three Ways to Magnify Web Text
- Keyboard Control
- Impersonating Internet Explorer
- Where am I?
- Faster Browsing Without Graphics
- Expanding Web Forms
- Viewing Web Pages Offline
- Sending a Page to a Friend
- Designate Your Start Page
- Finding Text on Web Pages
- Zoom in on PDF Pages
- The History Menu
- Tabbed Browsing
- RSS: The Missing Manual
- iChat
- Making a List
- Let the Chat Begin
- Text Chatting
- Audio Chats
- Video Chats
- iChat Tweaks
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IV. Putting Down Roots
- 13. Accounts, Parental Controls, & Security
- 14. Networking, File Sharing, & Screen Sharing
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15. System Preferences
- The System Preferences Window
- Accounts
- Appearance
- Bluetooth
- CDs & DVDs
- Date & Time
- Desktop & Screen Saver
- Displays
- Dock
- Energy Saver
- Exposé & Spaces
- Keyboard
- Language & Text
- MobileMe
- Mouse
- Network
- Parental Controls
- Print & Fax
- Security
- Sharing
- Software Update
- Sound
- Speech
- Spotlight
- Startup Disk
- Time Machine
- Trackpad
- Universal Access
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16. The Free Programs
- Address Book
- Automator
- Calculator
- Chess
- Dashboard
- Dictionary
- DVD Player
- Font Book
- Front Row
- GarageBand
- iCal
- iChat
- iDVD
- Image Capture
- iMovie, iPhoto
- iTunes
- Photo Booth
- Preview
- QuickTime Player
- Safari
- Stickies
- System Preferences
- TextEdit
- Time Machine
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Utilities: Your Mac OS X Toolbox
- Activity Monitor
- AirPort Utility
- AppleScript Editor
- Audio MIDI Setup
- Bluetooth File Exchange
- Boot Camp Assistant
- ColorSync Utility
- Console
- DigitalColor Meter
- Disk Utility
- Grab
- Grapher
- Java Preferences
- Keychain Access
- Migration Assistant
- Network Utility
- Podcast Capture
- RAID Utility
- Remote Install Mac OS X
- Spaces
- System Profiler
- Terminal
- VoiceOver Utility
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V. Appendixes
- A. Installation & Troubleshooting
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B. The “Where’d It Go?” Dictionary
-
About [This Program]
- About [This Program]
- Accessibility Options Control Panel
- Active Desktop
- Add Hardware Control Panel
- Add or Remove Programs Control Panel
- All Programs
- Alt Key
- Automatic Update
- Backspace key
- Battery Level
- BIOS
- Briefcase
- Calculator
- Camera and Scanner Wizard
- Character Map
- Clean Install
- Clipboard
- Command Line
- Control Panel
- Copy, Cut, Paste
- Ctrl+Alt+Delete
- Ctrl Key
- Date and Time
- Delete Key (Forward Delete)
- Desktop
- Directories
- Disk Defragmenter
- Disks
- Display Control Panel
- DLL Files
- DOS Prompt
- Drivers
- Eject
- End Task Dialog Box
- Exiting Programs
- Explorer
- Favorites
- Faxing
- File Sharing
- Floppy Disks
- Folder Options
- Fonts
- FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
- Help and Support
- Hibernation
- Internet Explorer
- Internet Options
- IRQs
- Java
- Keyboard Control Panel
- Logging In
- Mail Control Panel
- Maximize Button
- Menus
- Minimize Button
- Mouse Control Panel
- My Computer
- My Documents, My Pictures, My Music
- My Network Places
- Network Neighborhood
- Notepad
- Personal Web Server
- Phone and Modem Options Control Panel
- Power Options
- Printer Sharing
- Printers and Faxes
- PrntScrn Key
- Program Files Folder
- Properties Dialog Box
- Recycle Bin
- Regional and Language Options Control Panel
- Registry
- Run Command
- Safe Mode
- ScanDisk
- Scheduled Tasks
- Scrap Files
- Screen Saver
- Search
- Shortcut Menus
- Shortcuts
- Sounds and Audio Devices
- Speech Control Panel
- Standby Mode
- Start Menu
- StartUp Folder
- System Control Panel
- System Tray
- Taskbar
- Taskbar and Start Menu Control Panel
- ToolTips
- TweakUI
- User Accounts Control Panel
- Window Edges
- Windows (or WINNT) Folder
- Windows Logo Key
- Windows Media Player
- Windows Messenger
- WordPad
- Zip Files
-
About [This Program]
- C. The Master Mac OS X Secret Keystroke List
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2009
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449383084
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