My new Mac : 52 simple projects to get you started / / Wallace Wang

• Autore: Wang Wally
• Pubblicazione: San Francisco, CA, : No Starch Press, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (484 p.)
• Disciplina: 005.4/4682
• Soggetto topico: Macintosh (Computer) - Programming; Operating systems (Computers)
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Brief Contents -- Contents in Detail -- Introduction -- Understanding Computer Terms -- Telling the Computer What to Do -- Finding a Command -- Using the Keyboard -- How This Book Is Organized -- Part 1: Basic Training -- 1: Turning a Macintosh On and Off Manually or Automatically -- What You'll Be Using -- Turning a Macintosh Off the Normal Way -- Forcing Your Macintosh to Shut Down -- Restarting a Macintosh -- Scheduling a Time to Turn Your Macintosh On or Off -- Starting Programs When Your Macintosh Turns On -- 2: Learning to Use the Mouse -- What You'll Be Using -- How to Point and Click the Mouse -- Dragging the Mouse -- Double-Clicking the Mouse -- Right-Clicking the Mouse -- Using the Scroll Ball -- Using the Side Buttons -- Additional Ideas for Using the Mouse -- 3: Choosing Commands on the Menu Bar -- What You'll Be Using -- Understanding the Menu Bar -- Understanding Dialogs -- Understanding the Parts of the Menu Bar -- Additional Ideas for Using the Menu Bar -- 4: Controlling Programs with the Dock -- What You'll Be Using -- Understanding Program Icons -- Understanding the Dock -- Removing an Icon from the Dock -- Adding an Icon to the Dock -- Hiding or Moving the Dock -- Magnifying the Dock -- Switching Programs from the Dock -- Quitting Programs from the Dock -- Additional Ideas for Using the Dock -- 5: Manipulating Windows -- What You'll Be Using -- Arranging Windows -- Closing a Window -- Moving a Window -- Resizing a Window -- Scrolling a Window -- Minimizing a Window -- Zooming a Window -- Hiding the Toolbar of a Window -- Hiding and Displaying Windows with Exposé -- Hiding All Windows out of Sight -- Displaying Only Windows from a Single Program -- Viewing All Windows as Thumbnail Images -- Working with Multiple Desktops with Spaces -- Setting Up Spaces -- Switching Between Desktops -- Moving Windows Between Desktops. ; Additional Ideas for Manipulating Windows -- 6: Navigating Through Folders with the Finder -- What You'll Be Using -- Understanding Drives, Folders, and Files -- Understanding the Finder -- Viewing the Contents of a Drive -- Viewing a Folder Hierarchy -- Opening a Folder -- Identifying Your Location in the Folder Hierarchy -- Navigating Back and Forth Through Folders -- Shortcuts to Viewing Folders -- Additional Ideas for Navigating the Folder Hierarchy -- Placing a Folder in the Sidebar -- Placing a Folder as a Stack on the Dock -- 7: Creating, Copying, Moving, and Renaming Files and Folders -- What You'll Be Using -- Creating Files and Folders -- Creating a Folder in the Save Dialog -- Creating a Folder in the Finder Window -- Changing the View of Folders -- Peeking Inside a File -- Renaming a File or Folder -- Deleting a File or Folder -- Copying a File or Folder -- Moving a File or Folder -- Additional Ideas for Creating, Copying, Moving, and Renaming Files and Folders -- 8: Conserving Energy While Using Your Macintosh -- What You'll Be Using -- The Parts of Your Macintosh That Will Go to Sleep -- Forcing Your Macintosh to Sleep -- Making Your Macintosh Sleep on a Schedule -- Additional Ideas for Conserving Energy -- Part 2: Making Life Easier with Shortcuts -- 9: Working Faster with Shortcut Commands -- What You'll Be Using -- Using Keyboard Shortcuts -- Using Buttons -- Using Shortcut Menus -- Additional Ideas for Using Shortcuts -- 10: Learning to Drag and Drop -- What You'll Be Using -- Dragging and Dropping Text -- Dragging and Dropping Website Addresses in Safari -- Dragging and Dropping Graphics -- Dragging and Dropping Files into Programs -- Additional Ideas for Dragging and Dropping -- 11: Controlling Your Macintosh with Hot Corners -- What You'll Be Using -- Defining a Hot Corner -- Using a Hot Corner. ; Additional Ideas for Using Hot Corners -- 12: Finding Files Fast -- What You'll Be Using -- Finding Specific Files with Spotlight -- Using Spotlight Through the Finder -- Using Spotlight from the Menu Bar -- Using Smart Folders -- Placing Folders on the Sidebar -- Placing Folders on the Dock -- Peeking at Files Without Opening Them -- Additional Ideas for Finding Files -- 13: Organizing Files and Folders by Color and Weird Words -- What You'll Be Using -- Labeling Files and Folders by Color -- Searching Files and Folders by Color -- Adding Spotlight Comments -- Additional Ideas for Labeling Files and Folders with Colors and Comments -- 14: Putting Information at Your Fingertips with Dashboard -- What You'll Be Using -- Starting Dashboard -- Adding and Removing Dashboard Widgets -- Adding Widgets to Dashboard -- Removing Widgets from Dashboard -- Rearranging Widgets on Dashboard -- Customizing Widgets -- Finding More Widgets -- Erasing Widgets -- Additional Ideas for Using Dashboard -- 15: Giving a Macintosh Multiple Personalities with User Accounts -- What You'll Be Using -- Understanding User Accounts -- Creating User Accounts -- Logging Out of and In to an Account -- Fast Switching Between Accounts -- Turning on Fast User Switching -- Changing Accounts with Fast User Switching -- Deleting an Account -- Additional Ideas for Using Accounts -- 16: Slapping Parental Controls on Your Kids -- What You'll Be Using -- Creating a Managed with Parental Controls Account -- Setting Parental Controls -- Restricting Programs -- Restricting Content -- Restricting Email and iChat Contact -- Setting Time Limits for Using the Macintosh -- Viewing Account Usage -- Additional Ideas for Using Managed Parental Controls Accounts -- 17: Making Your Mac Easier to See, Hear, and Control -- What You'll Be Using -- Enlarging Text on the Screen. ; Changing the Screen Resolution -- Magnifying Parts of a Screen -- Replacing Beeps with Screen Flashing -- Turning on Sticky Keys -- Using Mouse Keys to Control the Keyboard -- Additional Ideas for Using Universal Access Features -- Part 3: Putting Your Macintosh to Work -- 18: Jotting Down Notes -- What You'll Be Using -- Storing Notes in the Stickies Program -- Creating Notes -- Color Coding Notes -- Keeping Notes Floating Around -- Deleting a Note -- Storing Notes in the Stickies Dashboard Widget -- Creating a Blank Stickies Widget in Dashboard -- Color Coding a Stickies Widget -- Deleting a Stickies Widget -- Additional Ideas for Jotting Down Notes -- 19: Turning Your Mac into an Electronic Reminder -- What You'll Be Using -- Scheduling Events in iCal -- Displaying a Reminder on the Screen -- Creating a Reminder -- Viewing a Reminder -- Opening a File -- Sending an Email Reminder -- Additional Ideas for Setting Reminders -- 20: Never Forget a Birthday Again -- What You'll Be Using -- Storing Names and Birthdays in the Address Book -- Automatically Creating a Birthdays Calendar -- Additional Ideas for Tracking Important Dates -- 21: Playing Audio CDs and Audio Files on Your Macintosh -- What You'll Be Using -- Playing Audio CDs -- Importing Digital Audio Files -- Deleting Digital Audio Files in iTunes -- Playing Music -- Rewinding (and Skipping) a Song -- Adjusting the Volume -- Using Playlists -- Creating a Playlist -- Adding (and Removing) Songs from a Playlist -- Creating a Smart Playlist -- Editing a Smart Playlist -- Deleting a Playlist -- Tagging Your Songs -- Identifying all Playlists in which a Song Appears -- Additional Ideas for Playing Music on a Macintosh -- 22: Ripping and Burning an Audio CD -- What You'll Be Using -- Picking an Audio File Format -- Ripping Songs from a CD -- Choosing a CD Format -- Burning a Custom Audio CD. ; Additional Ideas for Ripping and Burning CDs -- 23: Playing Your Favorite Parts of a DVD -- What You'll Be Using -- Switching Between Full Screen and Window Mode -- Viewing DVD Movie Chapters -- Playing Specific DVD Chapters -- Using Bookmarks -- Creating a Bookmark -- Viewing a Bookmark -- Deleting a Bookmark -- Using Video Clips -- Defining a Video Clip -- Viewing a Video Clip -- Deleting a Video Clip -- Additional Ideas for Viewing Your Favorite Parts of a DVD -- 24: Storing Files on a CD or DVD -- What You'll Be Using -- Identifying the Discs Your Macintosh Can Use -- Erasing a Read/Write (RW) Disc -- Choosing Files to Burn to a CD or DVD -- Creating a Burn Folder -- Burning Files Directly to Disc -- Additional Ideas for Burning CDs and DVDs -- 25: Transferring Images to a Macintosh -- What You'll Be Using -- Transferring Photos from a Digital Camera -- Transferring Images from a Scanner -- Copying Images from a Web Page -- Saving an Image as a File -- Copying and Pasting an Image into Another Program -- Capturing Screen Images -- Additional Ideas for Storing Images -- 26: Organizing Digital Photographs in iPhoto -- What You'll Be Using -- How iPhoto Works -- Working with Events -- Viewing the Photos in an Event -- Naming an Event -- Viewing All Your Photos -- Working with Albums -- Creating an Album -- Copying Photos to an Album -- Removing Photos from an Album -- Deleting Photos and Albums -- Deleting Photos from iPhoto -- Deleting an Album -- Additional Ideas for Organizing Digital Photographs in iPhoto -- 27: Tagging and Sorting Digital Photographs in iPhoto -- What You'll Be Using -- Tagging Photos -- Renaming a Photo -- Rating a Photo -- Adding Keywords to a Photo -- Making Your Own Keywords -- Sorting Photos -- Additional Ideas for Sorting Digital Photographs in iPhoto -- 28: Editing Digital Photographs in iPhoto -- What You'll Be Using. ; Rotating and Straightening Photos.
• Sommario/riassunto: You finally took the plunge and bought a Mac. Whether yours is a MacBook, Mac Pro, Mac mini, or iMac &mdash it's still a Mac, and it runs the Macintosh operating system, Mac OS X. But what do you do with your Mac after you turn it on? Do you even know how to turn it on and off properly or put it to sleep? You need a book like "My New Mac" to make everything easy. Wallace Wang, author of the best-selling "Steal This Computer Book," will show you, step-by-step, how to use tools like iPhoto to organize your photos, track birthdays with iCal, and clip and save information from the Internet so you can find it again. You'll find simple projects that will show you how to: Organize your files and folders by color and keyword View stocks, flights, and the weather Set up and manage parental controls to limit your children's computer and Internet access Play and burn CDs and DVDs Transfer photos from your digital camera to your computer Share songs, images, and documents wirelessly between Macs Don't put off learning how to use your new computer. Let Wallace Wang show you the ropes with "My New Mac,"
• Titolo autorizzato: My new Mac
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910967586903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II