Introduction |
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Part 1: Getting Started With MACS |
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Chapter 1 Adventuring into the Mac World |
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Mac-Spectacular Computing |
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Checking out shapes and sizes |
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Matching a Mac to your needs |
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Selecting handy peripherals |
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Communicating with Your Mac |
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Living the Essentials Life |
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Networking with or without wires |
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Staying Safe and Trouble-Free |
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Chapter 2 The Nuts and Bolts of Your Mac |
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Turning On and Tuning In Your Mac |
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Mousing Around the Interface |
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Learning the basic mouse (or trackpad) moves |
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Knowing What's Handy about the Keyboard |
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Finding the major functions |
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Pressing the keys to success |
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Storing Stuff on the Hard Drive or SSD |
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Memory Essentials, or RAM On |
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Locating the Common Ports and Connectors |
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Adding everyday peripherals with USB |
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FireWire: Pumping data through a bigger hose |
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Chapter 3 Getting to the Core of the Apple |
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Navigating the Mac Desktop |
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Biting into the Apple menu |
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Finding icons and folders |
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Unlocking the Finder window |
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What you'll find on the dock |
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Re-opening minimized windows |
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A Gaggle of Freebie Programs |
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Tooling around for a reference |
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Chapter 4 Here a Mac, There a Mac, Everywhere a Mac Mac |
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If a Desktop Is Your Poison |
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Mac Pro: A Mac with muscle |
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Keeping Your Notebook Juiced |
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Part 2: MAC Daily Dealings |
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Chapter 5 : Making the Mac Your Own |
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Establishing User Accounts |
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Taking a Photo Booth picture |
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Admiring and sharing Photo Booth photos |
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Using Parental Controls: When Father (or Mother) Knows Best |
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The Lowdown on Logging In |
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Altering buttons menus, and windows |
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Setting your wallpaper and screen saver |
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Tidying Up with Mission Control |
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Working on multiple desktops |
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Navigating application windows |
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Customizing Mission Control |
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System Preferences: Choosing Priorities |
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Chapter 6 El Capitan: No More Feline Fetish |
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Rummaging through your stuff |
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Fiddling with Dashboard Widgets |
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Chapter 7 Handling All That Busy Work |
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Form and Function: The Essentials of Word Processing |
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Selecting text in a document |
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Speaking what's on your mind |
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Securing, copying, and otherwise managing your file |
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Never Mind: Retrieving What You've Tossed |
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Chapter 8 Printing and Scanning |
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Connecting and Activating a Printer |
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When Printers Stop Printing |
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Running out of ink or toner |
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Part 3: Rocketing Into Cyberspace |
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Chapter 9 Stairway to the Internet |
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Taking the Broadband Express |
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Always on, always connected |
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Employing the tools of the trade in Safari |
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Chapter 10 Delivering the Goods on Email |
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Setting Up a New Email Account |
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Signing off with a signature |
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Managing the Flood of Incoming Mail |
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Organizing Mail by conversation |
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Opening mail from strangers |
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Making the Most of Your Mail |
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Chapter 11 Schmoozing, Shopping, and Moving in Cyberspace |
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Messaging with the Messages App |
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Getting started with the Messages app |
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Seeing is believing; hearing, too |
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Getting started with FaceTime |
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Receiving a FaceTime call |
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Doing more FaceTime tricks |
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Buying Stuff Online: The Mac App Store |
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Figuring out whether an app is worth it |
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Read All About It: iBooks |
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Finding something to read |
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Chapter 12 Mounting a Defense Strategy |
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The Truth about Internet Security |
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Password Management: The Key to Keychains |
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Logging In and Logging Out |
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Restricting App Downloads |
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Hiding Your Mac's Whereabouts |
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Part 4: Getting An iLife |
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Chapter 13 Living in an iTunes Nation |
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iTunes: The Great Mac Jukebox |
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Tuning in to the iTunes interface |
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When playlists get even smarter |
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Loading tunes onto a portable device |
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Tuning In to Internet Radio |
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Finding Music (and More) Online |
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Seeking online music recommendations |
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The search for great music continues |
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Sharing music with other computers |
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iTunes: More Than Just Music |
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Catching up on Mad Men and Game of Thrones |
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Buying and renting movies |
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Chapter 14 Taking a Photos Close-Up |
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Getting Pictures into the Computer |
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Connecting a digital camera or iOS mobile device |
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Importing images from other sources |
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Demystifying iCloud images |
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Finding and Organizing Images |
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Seeing everything in Photos view |
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Facing everyone in Faces view |
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Mapping photos in Places view |
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Placing your work in albums |
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Creating a Smart Album for photos |
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Enjoying Full Screen view |
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Admiring and Sharing Pictures |
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Chapter 15 iMovie and GarageBand: The Show Must Go On |
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Touring the iMovie Interface |
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Shooting Your Oscar Winner |
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From Here to Eternity: Camcorder to iMovie |
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Importing videos from other destinations |
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Using an iSight, FaceTime, or other camera to record directly to iMovie |
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Milking the skimming feature |
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Playing around with playback |
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Turning Your Clips into a Movie |
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Adding music or sound effects |
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Adding transitions between clips |
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Making further adjustments |
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Making a quick QuickTime movie |
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Shortening the QuickTime movie |
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Connecting external instruments |
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Beating the GarageBand drums |
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Part 5: The Creepy Geeky Section |
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Chapter 16 Networking Madness |
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Landing safely at the AirPort |
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Boarding the AirPort Express |
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Chapter 17 Handling Trouble in Paradise |
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A Frozen Computer or Program |
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When a program quits on you |
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Common Fixes for Other Problems |
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My Mac can no longer tell time |
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Curing the trash-can blues |
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Useful Routine Maintenance |
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Purge unnecessary files and programs |
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Backing up your treasures |
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Chapter 18 Surviving in a Windows World |
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What the Mac and Windows Have in Common |
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Using an existing network |
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Switching operating systems |
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A Parallels (and Fusion) Universe |
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Part 6: The Part Of Tens |
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Chapter 19 Ten Indispensable Mac Websites |
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MacSurfer's Headline News |
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Last but Not Least, Apple.com |
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Chapter 20 Ten Things to Leave You With |
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Remote Software Installation |
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Screen Capture (Stills and Video) |
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Would You Like to Play a Game of Chess? |
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