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- Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
- Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
- Table of Contents
- The Missing Credits
- About the Author
- About the Creative Team
- Acknowledgments
- The Missing Manual Series
- Introduction
- What Mac OS X Gives You
- What Mac OS X Takes Away
- The Dual-Platform Option
- A Word About Intel
- About This Book
- The Very Basics
- Part One: Welcome to Macintosh
- Chapter 1. How the Mac Is Different
- Section 1.1. Power On, Dude
- Section 1.2. That One-Button Mouse
- Section 1.3. On, Off, and Sleep
- Section 1.4. The Menu Bar
- Section 1.5. Finder Windows Explorer
- Section 1.6. Dock Taskbar
- Section 1.7. Menulets Tray
- Section 1.8. Keyboard Differences
- Section 1.9. Disk Differences
- Section 1.10. Where Your Stuff Is
- Section 1.11. Window Controls
- Section 1.12. Terminology Differences
- Chapter 2. Windows and Icons
- Section 2.1. Logging In
- Section 2.2. The Elements of the Mac OS X Desktop
- Section 2.3. Icon View
- Section 2.4. List View
- Section 2.5. Column View
- Section 2.6. What s in Your Home Folder
- Section 2.7. File and Folder Icons
- Section 2.8. Moving and Copying Icons
- Section 2.9. Aliases (Shortcuts)
- Section 2.10. Color Labels
- Section 2.11. The Trash
- Section 2.12. Get Info (Properties)
- Section 2.13. Finding Files 1: Spotlight
- Section 2.14. Finding Files 2: The Find Command
- Section 2.15. Smart Folders
- Chapter 3. The Dock, Desktop, Toolbar, and Sidebar
- Section 3.1. The Dock
- Section 3.2. Dock Features
- Section 3.3. The Sidebar
- Section 3.4. The Finder Toolbar
- Section 3.5. Designing Your Desktop
- Section 3.6. Menulets
- Chapter 4. Programs and Documents
- Section 4.1. Launching Mac OS X Programs
- Section 4.2. Switching Programs
- Section 4.3. Expos: The End of Window Clutter
- Section 4.4. Dashboard
- Section 4.5. How Documents Know Their Parents
- Section 4.6. Keyboard Control
- Section 4.7. The Save and Open Dialog Boxes
- Section 4.8. Three Kinds of Programs: Cocoa, Carbon, Classic
- Section 4.9. The Cocoa Difference
- Section 4.10. How to Use Classic, If You Must
- Section 4.11. Installing Mac OS X Programs
- Section 4.12. Removing Mac OS X Programs
- Part Two: Moving In
- Chapter 5. Five Ways to Transfer Your Files
- Section 5.1. Transfers by Disk
- Section 5.2. Transfers by Network
- Section 5.3. Transfers by File-Sending Web Site
- Section 5.4. Transfers by Email
- Section 5.5. Transfers by iDisk
- Section 5.6. Transfers by Bluetooth
- Section 5.7. Where to Put Your Copied Files
- Section 5.8. Document-Conversion Issues
- Chapter 6. Transferring Email and Contacts
- Section 6.1. Transferring Your Outlook Mail
- Section 6.2. Transferring Your Outlook Address Book
- Section 6.3. Transferring from Outlook Express
- Section 6.4. Transferring Your Eudora Mail