|
My New Mac: 52 Simple Projects to Get You Started
Mac OS is a beautiful and reliable operating system, but it
can be confusing to brand new Mac owners-especially if they
come from Windows. After all, Mac OS is not Windows, and
that's a good thing. But that doesn't necessarily mean that
it's easy for new users to penetrate this different
operating system. Fortunately, with
My New Mac, it won't be
long before readers are relishing those differences. Rather
than focus each chapter on a specific program or feature of
Mac OS (as most beginner books do), Wallace Wang takes a
project-oriented approach that mirrors the sorts of things
people want to do with their Mac. For example, rather than
offering a tedious, step-by-step walkthrough of Photo Booth
or iChat, Wang focuses on using Photo Booth to organize
photos and post them to a website or using iChat to chat
with friends. Key aspects of each program needed to perform
a task are discussed and indexed for easy reference, but
this is not a reference book: it's designed to teach new
users how to get the most out of their Mac by having them
use it to actually do things.
CONTENTS:
PART I: Basic Training
Introduction
1. Turning a Macintosh On and Off Manually or Automatically
2. Learning to Use the Mouse
3. Choosing Commands on the Menu Bar
4. Controlling Programs with the Dock
5. Manipulating Windows
6. Navigating through Folders with the Finder
7. Creating, Copying, Moving, and Renaming Files and Folders
8. Conserving Energy While Using Your Macintosh
PART II: Making Life Easier with Shortcuts
9. Working Faster with Shortcut Commands
10. Learn to Drag and Drop
11. Controlling Your Macintosh with Hot Corners
12. Finding Files Fast
13. Organizing Files and Folders by Color and Weird Words
14. Putting Information at your Fingertips with Dashboard
15. Giving a Macintosh Multiple Personalities with User Accounts
16. Slapping Parental Controls on your Kids
17. Making Your Macintosh Easier to See, Hear, and Control
PART III: Putting your Macintosh to Work
18. Jotting Down Notes
19. Turning your Mac into an Electronic Reminder
20. Never Forget a Birthday Again
21. Playing Audio CDs and Audio Files on Your Macintosh
22. Ripping and Burning Audio CD
23. Playing Your Favorite Parts of a DVD
24. Storing Files on a CD or DVD
25. Transferring Images to a Macintosh
26. Organizing Digital Photographs in iPhoto
27. Tagging and Sorting Digital Pictures in iPhoto
28. Editing Digital Photographs in iPhoto
29. Turning your Macintosh into an Electronic Picture Frame
30. Sharing Files Without Connecting Cables
31. Retrieving Files Back in Time
32. Typing Foreign Languages
PART IV: Touching the World Through the Internet
33. Remembering your Favorite Websites
34. Reading the Latest Updates on Your Favorite Websites
35. Keeping Your Internet Activities Private
36. Saving Research Information from a Web Page
37. Creating an Electronic Clipping Service for Web Pages
38. Watching Videos on any Website
39. Expanding Your Mind by Listening to Free College Lectures
40. Listening to News, Music, and Talk Shows over the Internet
41. Setting Up an Email Account
42. Reading and Writing Email
43. Making Email Look Pretty
44. Organizing your Email
45. Dealing with Junk Email
PART V: Maintaining your Macintosh
46. Learning About Your Macintosh
47. Installing, Updating, and Uninstalling Software on Your Macintosh
48. Performing Preventative Maintenance on Your Macintosh
49. Ejecting Stuck CDs or DVDs
50. Password Protecting Your Macintosh
51. Encrypting your Data
52. Troubleshooting Your Printers
|
