Table of Contents | Getting Started with Your Mac and Mac OS X Tiger: Peachpit Learning Series

Getting Started with Your Mac and Mac OS X Tiger
By Scott Kelby
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Publisher: Peachpit Press
Pub Date: May 25, 2005
ISBN: 0-321-33052-8
Pages: 176

Table of Contents | Index

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

THIS BOOK BREAKS THE SACRED RULE OF COMPUTER BOOKS

Really?

So where should you start?

So I get to start doing fun stuff now?

Lesson 0. Four Things You Might Need to Know First

Moving Around Your Mac Using a Mouse

How to Double-Click (and Why You'd Want to)

How to Launch an Application

How to Switch Between Applications

Lesson 1. How to Set Up Your Address Book

STEP ONE

STEP TWO

STEP THREE

STEP FOUR

STEP FIVE

STEP SIX

STEP SEVEN

STEP EIGHT

STEP NINE

STEP TEN

STEP ELEVEN

STEP TWELVE

STEP THIRTEEN

STEP FOURTEEN

STEP FIFTEEN

STEP SIXTEEN

STEP SEVENTEEN

STEP EIGHTEEN

STEP NINETEEN

STEP TWENTY

STEP TWENTY-ONE

STEP TWENTY-TWO

STEP TWENTY-THREE

Lesson 2. How to Set Up Your Calendar

STEP ONE (Accessing iCal)

STEP TWO (Preparing Your Home Calendar)

STEP THREE (Changing Months)

STEP FOUR (Adding a New Event)

STEP FIVE (Creating Events for a Work Calendar)

STEP SIX (Easily View Specific Calendars)

STEP SEVEN (Making Custom Calendars)

STEP EIGHT (Scheduling Events for a Custom Calendar)

STEP NINE (Viewing Only Your Custom Calendar)

STEP TEN (Setting a Duration for an Event)

STEP ELEVEN (Setting a Specific Event Time)

STEP TWELVE (Setting an Alarm)

STEP THIRTEEN (Choosing Options for Your Alarm)

Lesson 3. Playing Music on Your Mac (and Your iPod)

STEP ONE (Setting Up iTunes)

STEP TWO (Playing a Music CD, Part 1)

STEP THREE (Playing a Music CD, Part 2)

STEP FOUR (Importing Songs from Your CD)

STEP FIVE (Accessing the iTunes Music Store)

STEP SIX (Finding Songs in the iTunes Music Store)

STEP SEVEN (Buying Songs)

STEP EIGHT (Viewing Your Downloaded Music)

STEP NINE (Organizing Your Music)

STEP TEN (Creating Playlists)

STEP ELEVEN (Getting Music on Your iPod)

Lesson 4. Getting Photos into Your Mac (Viewing, Editing, and Printing)

STEP ONE (Connecting Your Camera to Your Mac)

STEP TWO (Importing Photos from Your Digital Camera)

STEP THREE (Organizing Your Photos Before You Import)

STEP FOUR (Disconnecting Your Camera or Memory Card Reader)

STEP FIVE (Viewing Your Imported Photos)

STEP SIX (Editing Your Photos for Contrast and Color)

STEP SEVEN (Removing Red Eye)

STEP EIGHT (Retouching a Photo)

STEP NINE (Creating an Album)

STEP TEN (Using Albums)

STEP ELEVEN (Putting Your Photos in Order)

STEP TWELVE (Creating Slide Shows)

STEP THIRTEEN (Editing Your Slide Show)

STEP FOURTEEN (Adding Music to Your Slide Show)

STEP FIFTEEN (Emailing a Photo, Part 1)

STEP SIXTEEN (Emailing a Photo, Part 2)

STEP SEVENTEEN (Emailing a Photo, Part 3)

STEP EIGHTEEN (Printing Your Photos, Part 1)

STEP NINETEEN (Printing Your Photos, Part 2)

STEP TWENTY (Printing Your Photos, Part 3)

STEP TWENTY-ONE (Printing Your Photos, Part 4)

Lesson 5. Email and the Internet

STEP ONE (Setting Up Your Email Account)

STEP TWO (Entering Some General Information)

STEP THREE (Getting Your Email Set Up)

STEP FOUR (Setting Up Your Mail Server)

STEP FIVE (Reviewing Your Information)

STEP SIX (Sending an Email)

STEP SEVEN (Customizing Your Text)

STEP EIGHT (Sending Your Email)

STEP NINE (Getting Email)

STEP TEN (Replying to Email)

STEP ELEVEN (Emailing Photos)

STEP TWELVE (Sending Text with Your Photo)

STEP THIRTEEN (Getting "on the Web")

STEP FOURTEEN (Navigating Websites)

STEP FIFTEEN (Finding Things on the Web)

STEP SIXTEEN (If You Know Where You Want to Go)

STEP SEVENTEEN (Getting Back to Places You've Been)

STEP EIGHTEEN (Finding Your Bookmarks)

STEP NINETEEN (Using Wireless Internet Access)

Lesson 6. Keeping in Touch with Your World Using Dashboard

STEP ONE (Getting to Your Dashboard)

STEP TWO (Your First Look at Dashboard)

STEP THREE (Closing Widgets You Don't Want)

STEP FOUR (Getting More Widgets)

STEP FIVE (Trying Out Widgets)

STEP SIX (Setting Up Your Hometown Weather)

STEP SEVEN (Finding Even More Widgets)

STEP EIGHT (Using Other Widgets)

STEP NINE (Tips for Widgets)

Lesson 7. How to Chat with Friends Online

STEP ONE (Launching iChat)

STEP TWO (Creating Accounts So You Can Chat)

STEP THREE (Preparing iChat)

STEP FOUR (Asking for Your Friends' Screen Names)

STEP FIVE (Searching for Friends' Screen Names)

STEP SIX (Adding Screen Names)

STEP SEVEN (Seeing Who Is Available to Chat)

STEP EIGHT (Inviting Someone to Chat)

STEP NINE (What Your Buddy Sees)

STEP TEN (Ending Your Chat)

STEP ELEVEN (Adding Your Photo Icon)

STEP TWELVE (Adjusting Your Photo Icon)

STEP THIRTEEN (Audio Chats)

STEP FOURTEEN (Muting Your Audio Chat)

STEP FIFTEEN (Preparing for a Video Chat)

STEP SIXTEEN (Inviting a Buddy to a Video Chat)

STEP SEVENTEEN (Video Chatting with More Than One Person)

Lesson 8. Finding Things on Your Mac

STEP ONE (Where to Look First)

STEP TWO (Where to Look Next: Spotlight)

STEP THREE (Using Spotlight)

STEP FOUR (Working with the Results)

STEP FIVE (Seeing Instant Results)

STEP SIX (Seeing More Results)

STEP SEVEN (Finding the Right Photo, Part 1)

STEP EIGHT (Finding the Right Photo, Part 2)

STEP NINE (Finding Movies and Music)

STEP TEN (Playing Music or Movies within Spotlight)

STEP ELEVEN (Sorting Your Results)

Lesson 9. How to Save Your Work So You Can Use It Again Later

STEP ONE (Launching TextEdit)

STEP TWO (Creating Your First Documenta Letter)

STEP THREE (To Save or Not to Save?)

STEP FOUR (Naming Your File Before You Save It)

STEP FIVE (Where to Save Your File)

STEP SIX (Actually Saving Your File)

STEP SEVEN (Finding the Documents Folder)

STEP EIGHT (Organizing Your Documents Folder)

STEP NINE (Deleting Files)

STEP TEN (Deleting Files for Good by Emptying the Trash)

Lesson 10. Using Your PowerBook or iBook Portable

STEP ONE (Putting Your PowerBook/iBook to Sleep)

STEP TWO (Setting It Up to Sleep Automatically)

STEP THREE (Saving Battery Power by Putting Your Display to Sleep)

STEP FOUR (Saving Battery Power by Dimming the Screen)

STEP FIVE (Another Battery-Saving Strategy)

STEP SIX (Shutting Down)

Index