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Chapter 1: Introduction and Installation of Mac OS X

Figure 1-1: Internet Explorer’s package contents.

Figure 1-2: The Restart button in the Install Mac OS X program restarts the computer with the Mac OS X Install CD to begin installation.

Figure 1-3: Though the Options pane does not provide the partition customizing abilities of the Disk Utility, it is the only place that you can make a bootable volume.

Figure 1-4: No installation is complete without checking for product updates.

Chapter 2: Exploring Aqua GUI

Figure 2-1: A gray Apple logo with a spinning set of bars is among the first stages of the startup process.

Figure 2-2: A progress gauge and a series of messages report on later stages of the startup process.

Figure 2-3: When logging in to Mac OS X, you may get to select a user account from a list (left) or you may have to type a valid account name (right).

Figure 2-4: After clicking one of the account names listed in the initial login window, you must enter the password for the account.

Figure 2-5: The menu bar is a permanent fixture at the top of the screen. Note the application menu’s title shows the name of the active application, in this case Finder.

Figure 2-6: Pullout menus are a useful addendum to standard menus.

Figure 2-7: An arrowhead marks a pop-up menu in the Print dialog.

Figure 2-8: Pressing the Control key while clicking an item may display a contextual menu.

Figure 2-9: The Mac OS X Aqua environment has several different types of windows: a Finder window (a), a document (b) a dialog (c), a sheet (d), an alert (e), and a palette (f).

Figure 2-10: Windows are made up of numerous controls and objects. Learning what they all do is crucial to an efficient computing experience. These highlighted items are common to many windows.

Figure 2-11: Click a push button in an Aqua window to cause an action to take place.

Figure 2-12: Click a radio button in an Aqua window to select one setting from a group.

Figure 2-13: Click checkboxes in Aqua windows to turn settings on and off individually.

Figure 2-14: Drag a slider in an Aqua window to change a setting across a range of values.

Figure 2-15: Click or press a little arrow in an Aqua window to change a value incrementally.

Figure 2-16: Click a disclosure triangle to adjust the amount of detail shown.

Figure 2-17: Scroll a list to see an item you want and then click to select it (Shift-click or z-click to select multiple items) in an Aqua window.

Figure 2-18: Icons of Mac OS X applications depict the kind of nformation the application creates or views and what you can do with it.

Figure 2-19: A utility application’s icon in Mac OS X depicts the function that the utility performs.

Figure 2-20: Document icons represent files that contain music, address information, stories, or other data.

Figure 2-21: Folder icons may indicate the kind of items inside. This is a view of a user’s home folder (covered later in this Chapter).

Figure 2-22: Disk icons represent the type of disks mounted.

Figure 2-23: Aliases are shortcuts to other files, enabling users to access files easily without removing them from their original location.

Figure 2-24: Restricted folders are inaccessible to the current user. This is a view of another user’s home folder. Notice that Public and Sites are not restricted.

Figure 2-25: The Dock contains icons for frequently used applications, files, minimized windows, and so forth.

Figure 2-26: Each user account has its own private desktop, and items you put on your desktop are kept in your Desktop folder.

Figure 2-27: The first level of a standard Mac OS X hard drive, known as the root level, contains various subfolders that perform very important functions.

Figure 2-28: The home folders.

Figure 2-29: An alert appears when you press the power key on some keyboards, the Control and Eject keys on some other keyboards, or the power button on some Apple displays. Alternately, the computer may just go to Sleep mode, with little or no warning.

Figure 2-30: After choosing Log Out from the Apple menu, you must confirm or cancel your intention to log out.

Chapter 3: Managing Your Workspace

Figure 3-1: The Go menu contains shortcuts to numerous commonly used locations.

Figure 3-2: The View menu includes options to adjust the appearance of items in a Finder window or on the desktop.

Figure 3-3: Finder windows are the primary tools used to view available files within folders or disks. These are some items unique to Finder windows.

Figure 3-4: A standard Finder window (top) changes to a much simpler look (bottom) after clicking the Hide/Show button.

Figure 3-5: The Search field enables users to quickly search for items. As you enter text, the search refines, reducing the amount of displayed items.

Figure 3-6: A Finder window before (left) and after (right) the icons are arranged neatly.

Figure 3-7: A Finder window before (left) and after (right) the icons are arranged alphabetically.

Figure 3-8: Drag a column heading’s borderline to resize the column.

Figure 3-9: Drag a column heading to move the column.

Figure 3-10: A list view with expanded and collapsed folders.

Figure 3-11: Click a disclosure triangle to expand a folder and display its contents.

Figure 3-12: A column view shows the folder structure on a disk

Figure 3-13: Preview your movie, sound, graphics, and text files in a Finder window viewed as columns.

Figure 3-14: See the path through your folder structure by z-clicking the title of a Finder window.

Figure 3-15: The active window is in front of inactive windows, and its controls are more conspicuous (especially when you see the windows in color).

Figure 3-16: As the pointer passes over items in an Aqua background window, responsive items become more pronounced (left), but unresponsive items don’t (right).

Figure 3-17: Bring a Finder window to the front by choosing it from the Window menu.

Figure 3-18: Finder windows can become intermingled with windows belonging to other Mac OS X applications.

Figure 3-19: Mac OS X highlights the selected icon by surrounding it with a shadow and highlighting the title.

Figure 3-20: In a list view, you can select items from multiple folders.

Figure 3-21: Drag across adjacent icons to select all of them.

Figure 3-22: The Mac OS X Finder lets you decide whether to replace existing files of the same name.

Figure 3-23: Select all of an icon name (left), part of an icon name (middle), or simply type new text from an insertion point (right).

Figure 3-24: The Get Info windows a disk (left) and a movie file (right), each with different disclosure triangles exposed.

Figure 3-25: Folder Actions are a convenient way to make folders into tools that perform certain selected operations when items are placed within.

Figure 3-26: Configure Actions is a convenient way to turn off actions without removing them from folders; it’s also a helpful tool to see how many actions are currently in place.

Figure 3-27: To select a new folder for Folder Actions, select it from this dialog.

Figure 3-28: To add actions to a folder, select one from this dialog.

Figure 3-29: Various types of volumes have different icons.

Figure 3-30: The alert when a blank or burnable disc is inserted.

Figure 3-31: The CDs & DVDs preference pane gives you control of the Finder’s behavior when discs are inserted. The window contains controls for blank media as well as formatted media.

Figure 3-32: After selecting Burn Disc in the File menu, this dialog box appears to confirm your intention.

Figure 3-33: During the burn process, this progress meter appears to assure you that all is well. First the disc gets burned (left), then the Mac OS verifies the data (right).

Figure 3-34: If you choose File Empty Trash or press z-Shift-Delete, the Finder confirms that you really want to empty the Trash.

Figure 3-35: Secure Empty Trash is a better way to ensure that your unwanted data is erased permanently, as a determined person can often very easily undo the normal Empty Trash command.

Figure 3-36: Window Clutter!

Figure 3-37: Expos is a very easy way to switch between applications and any open windows.

Figure 3-38: Within one application, many windows can be open at once, Expos makes finding a desired window within a particular application easy to find.

Figure 3-39: A very helpful way to carve through the clutter to open an item hidden on the desktop.

Chapter 4: Enhancing Your Workspace

Figure 4-1: Set the Desktop background in the Desktop & Screen Saver pane of System Preferences.

Figure 4-2: Screen savers engage after a set period of inactivity, replacing your screen’s displayed items by showing photos, cycling interesting patterns, or changing colors.

Figure 4-3: The Hot Corners dialog enables instant activation of screen savers, or a quick way to disable all screen savers, simply by moving the pointer to the appropriate corner.

Figure 4-4: The Appearance preference pane is the location of many options adjusting the general look and feel of the Mac OS X environment.

Figure 4-5: The Color Picker is the primary tool provided by Apple to allow users to choose a color using a number of different methods.

Figure 4-6: Change Dock size, magnification, hiding, position, and visual effect in the Dock pane of System Preferences.

Figure 4-7: The Dock at maximum size, filling the width of the screen (top), the Dock at minimum size (bottom).

Figure 4-8: Magnification is a way to better see the items in the Dock as the pointer approaches.

Figure 4-9: Get to any part of a folder when its icon is in the Dock.

Figure 4-10: The pop-up Dock menu of an open application may include items that are specific to the application.

Figure 4-11: Expos ’s preference pane offers options to change the keys, hot corners, or mouse buttons assigned to activate each of Expos ’s modes.

Figure 4-12: The Finder’s preference settings affect desktop icons, Finder windows, the Trash, and file extensions.

Figure 4-13: Add, remove, and rearrange buttons in a Finder window’s toolbar by using the Customize Toolbar dialog box.

Figure 4-14: A Finder window’s toolbar displaying both icons and text (top), only icons without text (middle), and only text (bottom).

Figure 4-15: The View Options windows for icon view (left), and list view (right).

Figure 4-16: Icons in a Finder window at minimum (16 x 16 pixels) size (top), at standard (48 x 48 pixels) size (middle), and at maximum (128 x 128 pixels) size (bottom).

Figure 4-17: The background of icon view windows can be a color or a picture. While fun, this can get distracting.

Figure 4-18: After copying an image, you can paste it as a custom icon in the Info window.

Figure 4-19: To help items visually stand out, apply colored labels to them with the File menu.

Figure 4-20: Labeled item’s names are surrounded with a colored border. A selected and labeled item’s text is surrounded with the selection color, plus the label’s color as a border, and in addition, he icon is highlighted.

Figure 4-21: Labels are especially noticeable in list view.

Figure 4-22: Be aware that the alias of an item (bottom) is primarily differentiated from the original (top) by the small arrow in the corner (always present), rather than by the word alias which can be removed.

Figure 4-23: The Finder displays an alert when it can’t find an alias’s original item.

Figure 4-24: Choose a new original for a broken alias.

Chapter 5: Working with Applications and Documents

Figure 5-1: The drag-install is the easiest install method available. Simply drag the folder to the desired location, and go to work!

Figure 5-2: The installation program method is a commonly used technique for adding programs, although it tends to feel a bit old-fashioned.

Figure 5-3: In Mac OS X applications, the Open dialog is like a list or column view in the Finder.

Figure 5-4: While opening a file, the open dialog may offer numerous options.

Figure 5-5: When you drag a document to a compatible application, the application’s icon becomes highlighted.

Figure 5-6: The Info window contains the means to switch a document’s parent application.

Figure 5-7: The select new parent application dialog is helpful when the Mac OS doesn’t recognize your desired parent application as being compatible with a particular document.

Figure 5-8: The Recent Items submenu is a helpful shortcut to find recently opened documents and applications.

Figure 5-9: The application switch command in action.

Figure 5-10: When an application’s icon jumps out of the Dock, the application needs your attention.

Figure 5-11: With drag-and-drop editing, you can move data within a document.

Figure 5-12: With drag-and-drop editing, you can also move text, images, and other data between windows and even other applications.

Figure 5-13: You can make a stationery pad in the Finder’s Info window.

Figure 5-14: Click the disclosure button to switch between the simple Save dialog (first image) and the expanded Save dialog (second image).

Figure 5-15: Some applications let you save a document as a stationery pad, also called a template.

Figure 5-16: You’re asked to save open documents when you quit an application.

Figure 5-17: Select a runaway application you wish to have quit.

Figure 5-18: The process listing in the Activity Monitor provides the opportunity to view allocation of system resources, and to quit stalled processes and applications.

Chapter 6: Going on the Internet

Figure 6-1: This is the first screen of the Setup Assistant.

Figure 6-2: Tell the Setup Assistant how your computer is connected to the Internet in the “How Do You Connect” section.

Figure 6-3: Set your Mac to dial-up by typing in your name, password, and telephone information.

Figure 6-4: Using DHCP is the most common method for connecting with a cable modem.

Figure 6-5: DSL usually uses the Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE).

Figure 6-6: After choosing PPPoE, the next screen asks you for your login information.

Figure 6-7: This display is shown when your Mac automatically retrieves its network settings. You can use the automatic ones, or set them manually.

Figure 6-8: Setting up your local Ethernet connection manually looks something like this.

Figure 6-9: Choose your wireless network from the list.

Figure 6-10: Apple presents this Get .Mac options screen after each setup is finished.

Figure 6-11: This is the Internet Connect application showing what the internal modem screen looks like.

Figure 6-12: A successful dial-up connection yields a display like this.

Figure 6-13: Click the telephone icon in the menu bar to display modem connection commands and options without opening a separate application.

Figure 6-14: Select the Built-in Ethernet option if you want to connect through a DSL.

Figure 6-15: Click the little picture of the Ethernet symbol in the menu bar to see its options.

Figure 6-16: The AirPort configuration screen of the Internet Connect Application looks like this.

Figure 6-17: Full AirPort signal is displayed as thick black lines.

Figure 6-18: No AirPort signal is shown with gray lines in place of black ones.

Figure 6-19: AirPort powered off is displayed as an outline of the signal strength indicator.

Figure 6-20: Safari displays a Web page. Note the icons of Safari’s toolbar buttons, and the placement of the address field and Google search bar.

Figure 6-21: Clicking on the Add Bookmark button presents you with the option to name your bookmark and save it to the location of your choice.

Figure 6-22: A page in the process of loading displays a progress bar in the address field.

Figure 6-23: Change the default Web browser or your homepage in Safari’s General preferences.

Figure 6-24: When you tell Safari to save names and passwords in the AutoFill preferences, it lets you choose how to handle individual pages when you enter or change a password.

Figure 6-25: You know you’re in a secure site by the presence of the lock icon in the upper-right-hand corner, and by the https:// instead of just http:// in the address field.

Figure 6-26: Click on the orange arrow to snapback to your original list of search results.

Figure 6-27: Tabbed windows look like this.

Figure 6-28: Keep your bookmarks out of the menu and the toolbar with Safari’s bookmark manager.

Figure 6-29: Auto-Tab takes you from this...

Figure 6-30: ...to this!

Figure 6-31: The first time you launch Mail, you are asked to type in your email settings.

Figure 6-32: Customize your account in Mail’s preferences.

Figure 6-33: Mail’s main window. Notice the toolbar, the mailboxes drawer, and the one unread message.

Figure 6-34: If you’ve got an IMAP account, Mail gives you the option to save a folder on the server, or locally on your Mac, as shown here.

Figure 6-35: A new message (click on the Compose button) looks like this.

Figure 6-36: Choose an address from your Address Book by clicking the address button in the messages’ toolbar.

Figure 6-37: Mail displays attachments that you are sending inline with the text of the email.

Figure 6-38: Mail thinks this is a junk-mail message.

Figure 6-39: Change the junk-mail filter from training mode to automatic by choosing the option in the junk-mail preferences.

Figure 6-40: Selecting one message will subtly highlight other messages from the same email conversation.

Chapter 7: Searching with Find and Sherlock

Figure 7-1: Every Finder window includes a Search field in its toolbar.

Figure 7-2: Narrow Finder windows place the Search command in a pop-up menu on the right side of the toolbar.

Figure 7-3: Use the Find window to search for files.

Figure 7-4: Search results display in a separate Search Results window.

Figure 7-5: Choose “Specific places” from the Search In pop-up menu of the Find window.

Figure 7-6: Select the folder you want to add to Find’s list of searchable sources and then click Choose.

Figure 7-7: The Find window can search contents of several types of files in volumes of the computer that have been indexed.

Figure 7-8: After searching by contents, Find ranks found documents by their relevance to the keywords.

Figure 7-9: Indexes can be updated using the Content index pane of the Get Info window.

Figure 7-10: Make indexing faster and make indexes smaller by selecting fewer languages.

Figure 7-11: Adding criteria to the Find window can narrow the search results to more precise results.

Figure 7-12: The initial, simple path view takes up only one line at the bottom of the Search Results window.

Figure 7-13: Expanding the path-viewing area allows the item names to be seen.

Figure 7-14: Expanding the path-viewing area reveals each hierarchy level on its own line.

Figure 7-15: Sherlock’s hat and magnifying glass icon appears in the Applications folder and the Dock.

Figure 7-16: The Sherlock Channels panel in its default state, showing the Channel toolbar, Collections sidebar, and channel information list.

Figure 7-17: The Internet channel window with the text box highlighted.

Figure 7-18: The Internet channel window after a successful search, listing the found Web sites in order of relevance.

Figure 7-19: The information area at the bottom of the Sherlock window tells you more about the item selected in the list above it.

Figure 7-20: Use the Stocks channel to track stocks and see financial news.

Figure 7-21: When Sherlock searches the Movies channel, the results include movies currently playing, theatres, show times, a synopsis, a poster, and the movie’s trailer.

Figure 7-22: Use the Phone Book channel to find contact information for people or businesses, and see their locations automatically displayed on a map.

Figure 7-23: Use the eBay channel to shop and bid on auctions.

Figure 7-24: Use the Flights channel to search for information on current flight status.

Figure 7-25: Use the Dictionary channel to search for information on words, acronyms, and famous names.

Figure 7-26: Use the Translation channel to translate text to and from languages.

Figure 7-27: Use Sherlock to access Apple’s helpful online Knowledge Base articles.

Figure 7-28: Use the Customize Toolbar sheet to rearrange and delete the channels in the toolbar.

Figure 7-29: The Sherlock Preferences window lets you view and change settings for cookies.

Figure 7-30: You can view a list of the cookies Sherlock uses and delete whichever ones you wish.

Chapter 8: Getting Help

Figure 8-1: You can also open the Help Viewer application within the Finder using the key combination Command-?.

Figure 8-2: Browse Mac OS Help displays a consolidated list of help topics that are based on most common and frequent help inquiries.

Figure 8-3: Opening the Help Viewer from Sherlock shows Sherlock-specific help. As with the Finder, you can also open the Help Viewer application within the Sherlock using the key combination Command-?.

Figure 8-4: Click an underlined link to see related material in the Help Viewer.

Figure 8-5: Depending upon the Help article, it may contain shortcuts to System Preference or OS X–included applications related to the assistance being sought.

Figure 8-6: A help tag describes the object under the pointer in a Mac OS X application.

Chapter 9: Printing and Faxing

Figure 9-1: General document printing parameters are set in the Page Setup sheet.

Figure 9-2: Add a printer.

Figure 9-3: The Printer List sheet facilitates the selection of printers.

Figure 9-4: AppleTalk may be getting long in the tooth, but it’s still a common protocol found on most Macintosh networks.

Figure 9-5: Select IP Printing from the pop-up menu to connect to a printer by specifying the printers DNS name.

Figure 9-6: Although I do not have a name, I am central to printing!

Figure 9-7: All pages, odd pages, even pages, it’s all good.

Figure 9-8: Use the Save to File dialog to save the PDF of your document to your computer.

Figure 9-9: To make locally attached printers and fax modems available to other users via a network, place a checkmark in the box to left of Share my printers with other computers.

Figure 9-10: The Email to feature is dependent on Mac OS X’s included Mail application.

Figure 9-11: The operation of Mac OS X’s built-in faxing is similar to that of FaxSTF.

Figure 9-12: Use fax address book to select your Fax recipients.

Figure 9-13: Printer configuration occurs in the Printer Setup Utility.

Figure 9-14: The queue depicted above is from a HP DeskJet 5550.

Figure 9-15: Except that it is managing modem queues, the administration of the Fax List is identical in operation to a Printer List.

Figure 9-16: You can choose from many options.

Chapter 10: Accessing Files over a Network

Figure 10-1: Your journey to a file server connection begins with this box.

Figure 10-2: Establish your identity as a guest or registered user of a file server.

Figure 10-3: Set preferences for your password and your connection.

Figure 10-4: Select the volumes you want to mount from the file server.

Figure 10-5: The login screen for a Windows file server.

Figure 10-6: The login screen for an FTP server.

Figure 10-7: Browsing for local network servers. This network has one server available, called Silversides.

Figure 10-8: The pared-down Connect to Server dialog that appears when you connect to a local server.

Figure 10-9: Click the Connect button from the column view to access the server.

Figure 10-10: The server volumes and their contents appear directly in the Finder.

Figure 10-11: Mac OS X Finder can store the locations of servers in individual documents that can be launched with a double-click.

Figure 10-12: Special folder icons and an icon in the status bar indicate your access privileges.

Figure 10-13: Open a file from a server just as though it is a local disk.

Figure 10-14: Saving a new keychain.

Figure 10-15: Enter the password for your new keychain twice.

Figure 10-16: Creating a new password item.

Figure 10-17: Creating a new secure note item.

Figure 10-18: Click the Show password button to see an item’s password.

Figure 10-19: The Access Control pane of Keychain Access allows different levels of security for keychain items in the same keychain.

Figure 10-20: Control the settings for automatically locking a keychain.

Figure 10-21: The Sharing preference pane.

Figure 10-22: Each of your files and folders can have different privilege levels in three user categories.

Figure 10-23: Use the Firewall subpane of the Sharing pane to turn the built-in firewall on and off and to change its settings.

Figure 10-24: The New button on the Firewall tab of the Sharing pane enables you to add specific ports to be opened through your system’s firewall.

Figure 10-25: Share your Internet connection with other Macs.

Chapter 11: Taking Advantage of Services

Figure 11-1: After content is selected, here the name of a file highlighted in TextEdit, use the Finder’s services to Open, Reveal, and Show Info.

Figure 11-2: Grab Services include full screen, screen selection, and timed full-screen captures.

Figure 11-3: The Grab service has captured part of the screen and inserted it into a TextEdit document.

Figure 11-4: Use Mail’s Send To service to create a mail message addressed to the selected name.

Figure 11-5: Use Mail’s Send Selection service to make an email message from selected text, as seen here, or from other media.

Figure 11-6: From the Finder, select a file (top); select the Mail service’s Send File command (middle) and a new message will open with the file included as an attachment (bottom).

Figure 11-7: Use the Make New Sticky Note service to turn any selected text into a Sticky note.

Figure 11-8: Use Speech’s Start Speaking Text command to hear the text, notes, or email read aloud.

Figure 11-9: Use the Summarize service (top) to prepare a summary (bottom right) of selected text (bottom left).

Figure 11-10: Select a full path (lower left), choose the Open Selected File command (top), and the file opens (bottom right).

Figure 11-11: Use the New Window Containing Selection command (top) to create a TextEdit document (bottom right) from selected text (bottom left).

Chapter 12: Wrestling Fonts into Submission

Figure 12-1: Bitmap fonts contain dot-for-dot pictures of characters. (Times capital A and G at 12-, 14-, and 18-point sizes enlarged to show detail.)

Figure 12-2: Bitmap fonts look best at installed sizes; in this scaling of the Times 24 font, note the blockiness of the 20- and 30-point font sizes. (Enlarged to show detail.)

Figure 12-3: PostScript fonts are based on outlines. (Times capital G shown.)

Figure 12-4: TrueType fonts scale smoothly to all sizes and resolutions. (Enlarged to show detail.)

Figure 12-5: Font Book’s interface, showing the Sample style of font preview.

Figure 12-6: Font Book’s Preferences pane.

Figure 12-7: Font Book’s preview feature set to Repertoire, showing part of the complete glyph set for Lucinda Grande Regular.

Figure 12-8: Clicking on the Font column’s Disable button (at bottom) causes this sheet to appear; clicking the Disable button will disable the selected font, Helvetica Neue Regular.

Figure 12-9: Clicking the plus sign button at the bottom of Font Book’s Collection column creates a new collection, which can be renamed from New-x to any name you wish, here OS X Bible.

Figure 12-10: Fonts to be removed from a collection have been selected, the delete key pressed, and this sheet appears. Press the Remove button to complete the process.

Figure 12-11: Here, the font Comic Sans MS is marked with a bullet to its right as having one or more duplicates. The Resolve Duplicates command straightens out the problem.

Figure 12-12: Entering the word italic into the Search field at the top-right of the Font Book window causes the selected collection (here, All Fonts) to be searched for fonts that match, and the results displayed in the Font column. Note that every font listed is an italic.

Figure 12-13: Mac OS X 10.3’s Font panel. The Action pop-up menu is shown at the bottom.

Figure 12-14: The Typography dialog, summoned from Font panel’s Action menu, provides an easy way to control ligatures, tracking, and to shift the text baseline to a higher position.

Figure 12-15: The Character Palette, set to view Roman characters and symbols by Category, with the Miscellaneous category selected and displayed.

Figure 12-16: The Input Menu can be turned on or off, and have its contents selected, from the International Preference pane. Here two items have been selected, Show Character Palette and Show Keyboard Viewer.

Figure 12-17: The Character Palette with the Character Info and Font Variation disclosure triangles turned down to reveal its extended interface. The Roman numeral seven is selected from the Unicode block Number Forms, revealing its Related Characters and Glyph Variations.

Figure 12-18: The Suitcase X1 interface, previewing the fonts in the Project One Set in 18 points, showing the preview style pop-up menu set to ABC 123.

Figure 12-19: This sheet appears in Suitcase X1 when you try to activate a font suitcase that contains fonts in conflict with those in your Mac OS X System Folder. You could use the very helpful Manage System Fonts feature in this situation.

Figure 12-20: The Font Reserve Browser with a set, Project A, disclosed to show the fonts it contains; to their left are dots that indicate their activation status.

Figure 12-21: The Font Reserve Browser’s Preview window showing the Apple-Chancery font in a Waterfall-style preview.

Figure 12-22: A Mac OS X 10.3 Finder window set to column view, showing the path to the System fonts. The fonts to be optionally removed, as mentioned in this section, are highlighted.

Figure 12-23: The Mac OS X Keyboard Viewer, doing something the previous utility Key Caps could never do: showing the lowercase characters of the Unicode font Zapfino on the keys.

Chapter 13: Setting System Preferences

Figure 13-1: When the System Preferences application opens, the window displays buttons for all available preference panes.

Figure 13-2: Change the toolbar mode in System Preferences by Command-clicking the toolbar button.

Figure 13-3: Unlock protected preference settings by entering the name and password of an administrator account.

Figure 13-4: The CDs & DVDs pane determines the behavior of Mac OS X upon optical media insertion.

Figure 13-5: Date & Time panel also contains an Open International button that is a shortcut to the International preferences pane.

Figure 13-6: Set your time zone in the Time Zone panel of Date & Time preferences.

Figure 13-7: The Clock panel allows for the configuration of the appearance of the clock in Mac OS X.

Figure 13-8: Unlike the Clock application included with iterations of Mac OS X prior to Version 10.3, the view clock in window option can’t be dragged into the Dock.

Figure 13-9: The Customize Voice sheet has every possible option except sound normal.

Figure 13-10: When using an iBook or a PowerBook that is attached to an external monitor, use the Detect Displays button to have OS X recognize that display.

Figure 13-11: Use the Displays menu to directly open the Displays preferences pane without having to first open the System Preference application.

Figure 13-12: If your screen image isn’t centered, use the Geometry panel to adjust the shape and position of image on the screen.

Figure 13-13: You can set the display’s color profile or calibrate the display by clicking the Color panel of the Displays preferences pane.

Figure 13-14: Display Calibrator walks you through calibrating a display and creating a custom profile.

Figure 13-15: Use the Arrangement panel to move the menu bar from one screen to another.

Figure 13-16: The Screen Saver button is a shortcut that opens the Screen Saver panel of the Desktop & Screen Saver preferences pane.

Figure 13-17: Use the Schedule pane to set your computer to start up and shut down automatically.

Figure 13-18: Use the Energy Saver preferences pane’s Option panel to specify wake options.

Figure 13-19: Before Inkwell can be used, click the On button to the right of Handwriting recognition is, at the top of the Ink preferences pane.

Figure 13-20: The Ink menu provides the ability to enable or disable Write Anywhere, Show or Hide Ink Window, and open the Ink preferences pane.

Figure 13-21: Consider the Restore Defaults button as your insurance policy against wreaking havoc in the Settings panel Options sheet.

Figure 13-22: Though not as complex as using Palm’s Graffiti method of data input, one must avail themselves of gestures in order to properly use Inkwell’s handwriting recognition.

Figure 13-23: Given enough time, Mac OS X’s Ink pad will have you gesturing at the computer.

Figure 13-24: Set the language you want for Mac OS X menus and dialogs in the Language panel.

Figure 13-25: The Languages portion of the Show Info window of an application allows you to select your preferred language for that application.

Figure 13-26: SACR BLEU — QuickTime en Fran ais!

Figure 13-27: El Queso es viejo y mojado — QuickTime en Espa ol.

Figure 13-28: The Measurement Units pop-up menu allows for the selection of U.S. and Metric units.

Figure 13-29: Select keyboard layouts for the Mac OS X Keyboard menu in the Input Menu panel.

Figure 13-30: Switch Mac OS X’s keyboard layout by choosing another one from the Keyboard menu.

Figure 13-31: Use the Keyboard Viewer to identify what key combinations generate which characters.

Figure 13-32: Japanese and other languages with many characters offer additional input methods besides a keyboard.

Figure 13-33: Set optional methods of switching the Mac OS X keyboard layout by clicking Options in the Input Menu panel.

Figure 13-34: The field that contains Type here to test settings allows for you to immediately test your settings without having leaving the Keyboard & Mouse preferences pane.

Figure 13-35: Use the Ignore accidental trackpad input to minimize unintentional mouse movement while using a trackpad as an input device.

Figure 13-36: Keyboard shortcuts can be of great utility for those who have difficulties using a mouse.

Figure 13-37: Use the Sound icon to adjust the main volume level.

Figure 13-38: Adjust volume and balance controls and select an alert using this Sound Effects panel.

Figure 13-39: Choose an audio output device and set its stereo balance by using the Output panel.

Figure 13-40: Choose an audio input device and set its input volume using the Input panel.

Figure 13-41: Whether you live on the Aleutian Islands or you’re just a lonely soul turning on speech recognition is not the answer.

Figure 13-42: A feedback window indicates when speech recognition is idle (left), listening for a command (middle), or hearing a command (right).

Figure 13-43: Help tags above and below the speech feedback window display the command that the computer recognized and its response, if any.

Figure 13-44: While minimized in the Dock, the speech feedback window continues to indicate speech recognition status.

Figure 13-45: The Speech Commands window lists commands you have spoken, responses to them, and commands you can speak.

Figure 13-46: Speech recognition can be set for push-to-talk listening, but be warned, prolonged use of speech may also push your buttons.

Figure 13-47: Speech recognition set for code name listening.

Figure 13-48: Speech recognition organizes commands by group.

Figure 13-49: Before closing the Spoken User Interface panel, try out your settings by using the Demonstrate Settings button.

Figure 13-50: Although the options appear to be bountiful, try as you may, no combination of options here, will get you close to having your computer sound like HAL.

Figure 13-51: Speech is available as a Service to many OS X applications.

Figure 13-52: The Startup Disk preferences pane is used to designate which Mac OS System Folder is used the next time your computer starts up.

Figure 13-53: For individuals with difficulty seeing, the Seeing panel of Universal Access provides vision-oriented display options.

Figure 13-54: For individuals with difficulty hearing, the Hearing panel of Universal Access provides hearing-oriented display options.

Figure 13-55: Use the Set Key Repeat button as a shortcut for opening the Keyboard & Mouse preferences pane to adjust the key repeat delay time.

Figure 13-56: The Mouse panel also provides a button shortcut to the Keyboard & Mouse preferences pane, aptly titled Open Keyboard Preferences.

Chapter 14: Managing User Accounts and Privileges

Figure 14-1: The Accounts preferences pane.

Figure 14-2: The Login window.

Figure 14-3: The Deleted Users folder.

Figure 14-4: Login Options offers additional customization of the login process.

Figure 14-5: Using fast user switching alleviates the need for a logged in user to log out, so another user account can be utilized.

Figure 14-6: Switching to user account that requires the entry of a password will prompt you with a dialog similar in appearance to Mac OS X’s initial login screen.

Figure 14-7: Apple provides supplied pictures in the Picture panel.

Figure 14-8: Create your own picture selections by taking a video snap shot or using a preexisting image.

Figure 14-9: Select Allow user to administer this machine, only if you want to grant the account being administered admin privileges; otherwise, makes sure that this option is turned off

Figure 14-10: Use the Limitations panel to limit the actions of a user account on a Mac OS X system.

Figure 14-11: Change the list of items opened during login by clicking the Startup Items tab in the Login Preferences window.

Figure 14-12: Turn down the chevron adjacent to the Details label in order to gain access to all the variables that can be configured within the Ownership and Permissions portion of the Finder’s Show Info window.

Chapter 15: Setting Up a Local Network

Figure 15-1: The Network Status display provides a quick display of your network connectivity.

Figure 15-2: Let the colored dots be your guide. The Network Status display pictured here indicates how you are connected; in this case, both AirPort and Ethernet are being given IP addresses, and AirPort takes priority as it is first in the list.

Figure 15-3: Every port has TCP/IP settings. These belong to an Ethernet port.

Figure 15-4: Activate AppleTalk with a single click.

Figure 15-5: Bypass proxy restrictions in the Proxies pane.

Figure 15-6: Take charge of your AirPort settings here.

Figure 15-7: Take charge of your Ethernet-specific settings here.

Figure 15-8: Take charge of your PPPoE options here.

Figure 15-9: Take charge of your Internal Modem settings here.

Figure 15-10: The wealth of PPP connection options.

Figure 15-11: Use the System Profiler if you are unsure of your modem type.

Figure 15-12: The unique settings for your Bluetooth modem adaptor.

Figure 15-13: Change the Network Port Configurations settings in Network preferences to affect which port configuration Mac OS X uses.

Figure 15-14: Choosing to duplicate a port presents you with the dialog, which gives you the option to name your duplicate.

Figure 15-15: Behold, the birth of a computer-to-computer wireless network.

Figure 15-16: The AirPort Setup Assistant leads you through setting up a base station device.

Figure 15-17: Change many settings on an AirPort base station device by using the AirPort Admin Utility application.

Figure 15-18: When you choose to pair a device, available Bluetooth devices show up in the list displayed. In this case, Silversides, a computer, and a Bluetooth mouse are available.

Figure 15-19: You can use Bluetooth to send files to other devices.

Figure 15-20: You can take files from other devices with Bluetooth as well.

Chapter 16: Deploying More Network Services

Figure 16-1: See the IP address of any network port in the Network pane of System Preferences.

Figure 16-2: Start Web sharing in the Sharing pane of System Preferences.

Figure 16-3: Visitors to your personal Web site see a provisional home page until you place your Web site’s files in your home folder’s Sites folder.

Figure 16-4: Visitors to your computer’s common Web site see another provisional Web page until someone using your computer puts Web site files in the /Library/WebServer/Documents/ folder.

Figure 16-5: If your Web site folder has no home page, visitors see a listing of the folder’s contents.

Figure 16-6: Turn the built-in FTP server on or off in the Sharing pane of System Preferences.

Figure 16-7: Using Transmit to log into a remote FTP server.

Figure 16-8: FTP File System Authentication.

Figure 16-9: Turn Mac OS X’s remote login services on or off in the Sharing pane of System Preferences.

Figure 16-10: Use the ssh command in the Terminal window to log in remotely and control the remote computer with Unix commands.

Figure 16-11: Transmit, can log into another computer’s SFTP server and securely copy files by using the same two-pane view as it uses for FTP.

Chapter 17: Using Classic

Figure 17-1: Classic Applications like Scrapbook run alongside Mac OS X applications (Safari), but have the old Platinum look down to the jagged icon in the Dock.

Figure 17-2: The Classic preference pane allows you to control and set up the Classic application environment. In the top-right of the figure, note the new Classic status menu item.

Figure 17-3: The Advanced panel provides access to controls that let you troubleshoot Classic, as well as configure the amount of time before Classic sleeps.

Figure 17-4: The first time you start the Classic application environment for a given user, you will be asked if you want to copy the contents of the Mac OS 9 Apple Menu Items, Favorites, Internet Search Sites, Launcher Items, Preferences, and the Startup and Shutdown Items to the user’s home folder.

Figure 17-5: The Memory/Versions panel of Classic Preferences, with the Show background applications option checked, allowing you to view the Classic support process.

Figure 17-6: The Classic application environment starting up, click the triangle under the progress bar to collapse the view.

Figure 17-7: Because force quitting an application is a drastic measure, Apple asks you to confirm that this is your true intention.

Figure 17-8: Classic windows have many controls.

Figure 17-9: The Themes tab of the Appearance control panel lets you switch all the control panel’s settings at once in the Classic application environment.

Figure 17-10: The General Controls control panel allows you to configure settings like insertion point blinking.

Figure 17-11: Use the Extensions Manager control panel to easily deactivate and activate Classic startup items.

Figure 17-12: Access the Selected Set popup menu from the top of the Extensions Manager window.

Figure 17-13: Set smoothing and performance options for PostScript fonts in Classic applications by using the ATM control panel.

Figure 17-14: Use the Chooser to access printers in the Classic application environment.

Figure 17-15: Though unsupported, the main screen of the Desktop Printer Utility allows you to configure LPR- and USB-attached PostScript printers in the Classic application environment.

Figure 17-16: Click Change in the top half of the window to set the printer description file.

Figure 17-17: Select the printer description that matches the printer you want to use. In a pinch, choose Generic.

Figure 17-18: It is very important to be certain of the IP address of your printer, so you can use the Verify button to check if you have entered a valid address.

Figure 17-19: Names are important.

Figure 17-20: The LaserWriter 8 Page Setup allows you to format the page attributes for the specific printer you are printing to.

Figure 17-21: The pull-down menu allows you to access the PostScript Options for LaserWriter 8 Page Setup.

Figure 17-22: The LaserWriter 8 Print dialog box is similar to the Mac OS X print dialog box, but you can’t switch among all of your printers, only those that use the LaserWriter 8 PostScript driver.

Figure 17-23: View queued print requests from Classic applications in the PrintMonitor window.

Figure 17-24: In a busy work environment when you need to print a 400-page document, it’s courteous to schedule it to begin after every one leaves so that it will be ready when you arrive in the morning.

Figure 17-25: You don’t have to know where everything in the Classic Folder belongs, or even what you’re putting there — Mac OS X can autoroute the item for you by type, just drop it on the System Folder.

Chapter 18: Using .Mac Internet Services Suite

Figure 18-1: Apple’s .Mac welcome page. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-2: The .Mac log in Web page. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-3: The .Mac sign-up page. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-4: Apple’s .Mac welcome page. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-5: Set up your membership at the .Mac panel.

Figure 18-6: The Mail application’s Accounts sheet at the Account Information panel.

Figure 18-7: The .Mac mail on the Web interface. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-8: The .Mac Mail on the Web Preferences page. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-9: The .Mac Address Book Synchronization Learn More page appears the first time you click the Address Book icon in .Mac mail on the Web. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-10: Choose My iDisk from the Finder’s Go menu to connect to your iDisk.

Figure 18-11: The folders inside an iDisk. Notice the syncing progress bar at the bottom of the window.

Figure 18-12: The .Mac System Preference pane’s iDisk panel.

Figure 18-13: The icons for a mounted iDisk Public Folder and a local iDisk.

Figure 18-14: This window appears as you are creating a local copy of your iDisk.

Figure 18-15: When your local iDisk is fully synchronized with your remote iDisk, this window appears.

Figure 18-16: The HomePage welcome page. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-17: The HomePage congratulations page. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-18: The HomePage welcome page is now customized for your Web site. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-19: The HomePage “Edit your links” page. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-20: The HomePage Create a site page. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Visitors will see this page when you password protect your HomePage Web site. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-21: The Desktop and Screen Saver System Preference Subscriptions and Display Options sheet.

Figure 18-22: Apple’s iSight Web camera. (Image courtesy Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-23: The iChat Setup Assistant’s Set Up New iChat Account panel.

Figure 18-24: iChat’s Buddy List.

Figure 18-25: iChat’s Buddy List, showing the user (My Name) pulling down the Available pop-up menu to mark their status as Away.

Figure 18-26: iChat’s video chat window, showing remote image (man unaware Christmas lights in background seem like foolish antenna), and the user in the small screen in the lower right (obviously trying not to be too rude about it). Such problems are only possible through iChat.

Figure 18-27: The Address Book window.

Figure 18-28: The Address Book Preferences window’s General pane.

Figure 18-29: A new card has just been created in Address Book.

Figure 18-30: A single vCard (upper left) bears the contact’s name, but a vCard with multiple contacts (lower left) is called “vCards.” Double- clicking “vCards” brings down the “Importing cards” sheet and clicking Review Duplicates brings up the Reviewing Card window.

Figure 18-31: The Address Book print dialog, set to the Layout panel.

Figure 18-32: The iCal interface.

Figure 18-33: iCal’s Preferences window.

Figure 18-34: iCal’s Publish sheet.

Figure 18-35: iCal’s Subscribe sheet.

Figure 18-36: Using iCal’s Export command produces an .ics file.

Figure 18-37: iCal’s Print dialog.

Figure 18-38: The iSync window as it first appears.

Figure 18-39: The iSync Preferences window.

Figure 18-40: iSync’s Reset All Devices window.

Figure 18-41: This window appears when Backup is first launched and is unable to connect to the .Mac servers via the Internet.

Figure 18-42: The Backup interface.

Figure 18-43: During a backup to your iDisk, the Backup window shrinks to look like this.

Figure 18-44: The Backup Schedule sheet.

Figure 18-45: When first launched, Virex asks for an administrator’s password to perform an eUpdate, a download of the latest virus definition files.

Figure 18-46: The main Virex window.

Figure 18-47: A Virex Diagnose scan in progress.

Figure 18-48: The default settings in the Virex Preferences sheet.

Figure 18-49: When the Server Settings button is clicked, Virex’s eUpdate Server Settings dialog opens.

Figure 18-50: The iCards welcome page. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-51: Clicking on an iCards category leads to its collection of images. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-52: The iCards edit card page. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-53: The iCards Address Cards page. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-54: The iCards Thank you page appears after you have sent your iCard. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Figure 18-55: A folder called iCard Photos, has been copied to the iDisk, where its contents can be selected and previewed in the iCards Create Your Own page. (Web page courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Chapter 19: Working with Included Programs

Figure 19-1: A big step forward from the traditional little black book.

Figure 19-2: The Calculator shows off its Advanced functions and Tape window.

Figure 19-3: The Chess program showing a grass board, fur pieces, the Speech bug, the Game Log, a saved game file, and how to drag an edge.

Figure 19-4: The Font Book interface.

Figure 19-5: iCal’s week view.

Figure 19-6: Amaze your friends and influence people with the movies you create using iMovie and a digital camcorder.

Figure 19-7: Devices can be added to the iSync interface.

Figure 19-8: Image Capture’s Preferences window.

Figure 19-9: The Preview application with a PDF document open. On the right, the cursor points to the button that displays the document’s table of contents, shown below it.

Figure 19-10: Preview’s Customize Toolbar sheet, showing the Customize tool being dragged to the toolbar.

Figure 19-11: The QuickTime Player interface.

Figure 19-12: The Stickies welcome notes contain basic information about using the application.

Figure 19-13: The System Preferences pane showing the default icons.

Figure 19-14: The TextEdit interface, showing the ruler.

Figure 19-15: TextEdit’s Preferences window, showing the default settings.

Figure 19-16: Use the contextual menu to correct s pelling errors in TextEdit.

Figure 19-17: The Activity Monitor window, showing the three available CPU graph styles in front of it.

Figure 19-18: The AudioMIDI Setup utility provides control of the audio and MIDI inputs and outputs on the computer.

Figure 19-19: The Browse Device window of Bluetooth File Exchange.

Figure 19-20: The Select File to Send window of Bluetooth File Exchange.

Figure 19-21: The Bluetooth Serial Utility interface.

Figure 19-22: The Bluetooth Setup Assistant.

Figure 19-23: The ColorSync Utility interface, showing the default profiles for each color space.

Figure 19-24: The Console displays all the error and informational messages sent by applications and processes.

Figure 19-25: Know what color is under your pointer anywhere on the screen. Here a pixel in the DigitalColor Meter icon is being measured.

Figure 19-26: The Directory Access interface, showing the default state of the plug-ins.

Figure 19-27: Disk Utility’s First Aid panel, after the selected disk has been verified.

Figure 19-28: Disk Utility’s Verify Permissions function at work.

Figure 19-29: Disk Utility’s Erase panel.

Figure 19-30: Partition a disk into multiple volumes by clicking Disk Utility’s Partition button.

Figure 19-31: The Restore panel of Disk Utility.

Figure 19-32: This image of Grab’s Capture menu is an example of what you can produce with a Timed Screen Grab.

Figure 19-33: Grab’s Preferences and Image Inspector windows represent the height of interface minimalism.

Figure 19-34: The Keychain Access interface.

Figure 19-35: The Netinfo Manager interface, with the root user selected.

Figure 19-36: Network Utility provides a graphic interface to a collection of Unix-based network search commands.

Figure 19-37: The ODBC Administrator interface.

Figure 19-38: The Printer List window of the Printer Setup Utility, showing one installed printer.

Figure 19-39: The Fax List window of the Printer Setup Utility, showing its default state.

Figure 19-40: If you double-click the Stuffit Expander icon, you will see this larger image to drop your files on top of.

Figure 19-41: System Profiler tells you more than ever wanted to know about your hardware and software.

Figure 19-42: The System Profiler can be opened by clicking the More Info... button in the About This Mac window.

Figure 19-43: The Terminal window after the command top has been entered (see the description of Activity Monitor for an explanation of top).

Figure 19-44: The X11 interface with its default command prompt. Two auxiliary windows are also seen here, the xman and xlogo windows.

Chapter 20: QuickTime and the iLife Suite

Figure 20-1: Use controls below a movie file to play, pause, browse, or step through it and adjust its sound volume.

Figure 20-2: A badge identifies a movie without a controller, here seen in a Microsoft Word document.

Figure 20-3: QuickTime Player has the controls for movie playback seen on most VCRs.

Figure 20-4: QuickTime Player has hidden audio controls.

Figure 20-5: QuickTime Player can display your favorite movies in its Favorites list.

Figure 20-6: The QuickTime pane showing the Connection tab.

Figure 20-7: Use the Plug-In panel to alter QuickTime’s behavior within a Web browser.

Figure 20-8: Choose the types of media formats QuickTime handles in a Web browser with the MIME sheet of the Plug-In panel.

Figure 20-9: Use the Update panel to find and install new QuickTime components and applications.

Figure 20-10: Set the behavior of the QuickTime Player application in Player Preferences.

Figure 20-11: When you pan a QuickTime VR panorama, the pointer indicates the direction of movement.

Figure 20-12: Drag a QuickTime VR object in any direction to see another view of the object. (Images courtesy of John Greenleigh/Flipside Studios.)

Figure 20-13: Hot spots are revealed in a QuickTime VR panorama (the highlighted area).

Figure 20-14: The QuickTime Export Movie Settings dialog allows you to apply video special effects to a movie as you export it.

Figure 20-15: The Filters dialog lets you choose and preview filters for your movie.

Figure 20-16: The iTunes interface.

Figure 20-17: The iTunes progress bar lets you position the playhead anywhere within a song, if you only wish to listen to a part of the tune, or if you wish to replay a passage.

Figure 20-18: The iTunes Equalizer window adjusts balance of audio ranges.

Figure 20-19: Use the iPod Preferences window to change how iTunes and an iPod work together.

Figure 20-20: iTunes creates audio CDs for you from your MP3 playlists, if you have a compatible CD burner.

Figure 20-21: Use the iTunes Get Info window’s Info panel to enter information about a song.

Figure 20-22: Click the Browse button to filter by genre, artist, or album.

Figure 20-23: Visit the iTunes Music Store.

Figure 20-24: The iPhoto 2 interface.

Figure 20-25: The Edit panel of iPhoto, with an image crop in progress.

Figure 20-26: The Book panel of iPhoto, showing one of several possible layouts.

Figure 20-27: The iMovie 3 interface as it looks when you start a new project with a camera connected.

Figure 20-28: iMovie’s shelf, populated with auto-separated clips.

Figure 20-29: You select a transition here, and it will preview in the small pane at the upper right.

Figure 20-30: You can preview your credits or titles in the monitor if you wish.

Figure 20-31: Set effects options, preview the effects, and apply effects in the Effects panel. Note the Mirror effect shown in the Preview screen.

Figure 20-32: Add sound effects, narrative, or a background score using the Audio panel.

Figure 20-33: You can edit individual tracks in the timeline viewer.

Figure 20-34: Choose how you want to save your movie in the Export Movie dialog.

Figure 20-35: The splash screen you see when you launch iDVD.

Figure 20-36: The iDVD tutorial.

Figure 20-37: The iDVD interface, with the Settings panel showing in the Customize drawer.

Figure 20-38: The iDVD themes panel.

Figure 20-39: The iDVD Audio panel, showing information from iTunes.

Figure 20-40: The iDVD Slideshow editor, showing in the drawer the list of Libraries and Albums from iPhoto, as well as thumbnails of the photos in an album.

Figure 20-41: The onscreen remote used to test the navigation of your DVD project before you burn it to a disc.

Figure 20-42: The DVD Player interface.

Chapter 21: Enhancing Your System with Utility Software

Figure 21-1: When you drop a contextual menu plug-in, kernel extension, screensaver, or preference pane onto the Alfred application (or use the contextual menu plug-in provided) Alfred provides a dialog box that allows you to install locally (for the user) or system wide and to decide whether to enable or disable the package.

Figure 21-2: BatchMOD is a great little application that lets you change permissions on files and folders (recursively) using a drag-and-drop GUI. It comes complete with a Matrix/Batmanesque icon for your viewing enjoyment.

Figure 21-3: Carbon Copy Cloner has a very simple, easy to understand interface, just choose the source disk, then the target disk and then click the clone button. The preferences button reveals advanced features, even providing an easy means to install pSync.

Figure 21-4: DragThing allows you to organize shortcuts to the documents and applications you access the most frequently. Its appearance and customization is very flexible.

Figure 21-5: Drop Drawers provides handy places to keep a wide variety of objects at the tips of your fingers.

Figure 21-6: GraphicConverter can open so many formats they can’t even all be shown in one screenshot, note the up and down arrows on both ends of the pop-up.

Figure 21-7: Logorrhea is perfect for those cases when you just have to prove how ridiculous sounding your IM was.

Figure 21-8: Ranchero Software’s NetNewsWire is a great application for keeping up to date with the Web sites you visit regularly. It comes with preconfigured feeds you can subscribe to, as well as those you input on your own.

Figure 21-9: It’s a lot easier to see the image when it’s not a tiny preview in the paned view of the finder. Using QuickImageCM from the finder is easy and fast.

Figure 21-10: QuicKeys X2 helps you enter commonly used text at the touch of a button.

Figure 21-11: TinkerTool provides settings for a host of hidden Mac OS X options.

Chapter 22: Maintaining Mac OS X

Figure 22-1: Mac OS X’s Find command is very powerful and allows you to set many constraints on your file search. You can use the Find command to search for invisible files by selecting the Visibility pull down menu.

Figure 22-2: The Software Update Preference pane can be configured to automatically check for updates on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

Figure 22-3: Check off the updates you wish to install and click the install button. The number of items selected is displayed within the install button’s text.

Figure 22-4: The Software Update application conveniently downloads and installs the updates you have selected all at once, saving you the time of downloading and installing each one separately.

Chapter 23: Automating with AppleScript

Figure 23-1: A new script window appears when Script Editor opens.

Figure 23-2: Check your script for errors and format it for readability by clicking the Compile button.

Figure 23-3: An AppleScript dictionary defines suites of commands and objects for a scriptable application or a scripting addition file.

Figure 23-4: Script Editor can save a script in several formats.

Figure 23-5: Script Editor’s result pane shows the result of running a script.

Figure 23-6: An AppleScript dictionary defines the structure of a record provided by an AppleScript command.

Figure 23-7: This script uses the info for command to get file name and file type information.

Figure 23-8: This script uses conditional statements to determine where to put a file; it also incorporates user choice for PDF files.

Figure 23-9: This script application processes items dropped on its icon.

Figure 23-10: Scripts listed in Script Menu’s pop-up menu are always available no matter which application is currently active.

Figure 23-11: Set Mac OS X to receive remote Apple events by using the Sharing pane of System Preferences.

Chapter 24: Commanding Unix

Figure 24-1: The Terminal window doesn’t give you many hints on how to proceed.

Figure 24-2: Use the su command to temporarily change your identity.

Figure 24-3: Desktop and Documents are offered as possible completions for the letter D as entered. To complete either choice, continue typing either word, then hit tab as soon as it becomes unique.

Figure 24-4: Using the -i switch with rm.

Figure 24-5: df tells you how much space each file system has and how much is being used.

Figure 24-6: To get an itemized breakdown of disk space used, use df without options — the –s option gives a summary. The output shows 40 512-byte blocks in use by the iTunes directory, or 20k of disk space used.

Figure 24-7: Output from the list directory (ls) command is redirected into a text file docdir.txt. The concatenate (cat) command is used to view the file.

Figure 24-8: The env and set commands display environment and shell variables, respectively.

Chapter 25: Making Use of Unix

Figure 25-1: Using the Install Xcode Tools package to install Developer Tools Software.

Figure 25-2: Run the Fink installer from the binary installer disk image.

Figure 25-3: When the Fink install is completed the pathsetup.command script is launched in a Terminal window. Enter Y to continue.

Figure 25-4: Browsing available packages with dselect.

Figure 25-5: Browsing available packages with FinkCommander.

Figure 25-6: Text-based Web browsing with Lynx.

Figure 25-7: Installing Lynx with Fink.

Figure 25-8: NcFTP — the better FTP client.

Figure 25-9: Installing Ncftp with Fink.

Figure 25-10: Installing GNU Wget with Fink.

Figure 25-11: The GIMP in action.

Figure 25-12: Fink needs to have a few questions answered before installing the GIMP.

Figure 25-13: Launching the GIMP from an xterm.

Figure 25-14: The GIMP user installation splash screen.

Figure 25-15: Creating your personal GIMP directory.

Figure 25-16: Setting GIMP performance tuning options. Leave these at default values.

Figure 25-17: Setting monitor resolution information for the GIMP.

Figure 25-18: Choosing the Quit command from the GIMP’s main menu.

Chapter 26: Unix Security

Figure 26-1: Setting an Open Firmware password.

Figure 26-2: Check require password and log out time.

Figure 26-3: Setting Filevault Master Password.

Figure 26-4: Turn on FileVault Protection.

Figure 26-5: Secure Empty Trash.

Figure 26-6: The Apple Network Utility Port Scan.

Figure 26-7: Gibson Research Corporation Online Port Scan.

Figure 26-8: Nmap portscan of localhost.

Figure 26-9: nmapfe — the nmap front end.

Figure 26-10: Firewall panel of the Sharing preferences pane.

Figure 26-11: Setting firewall rules using BrickHouse.

Figure 26-12: Using Apple System Profiler to view system logfiles.

Figure 26-13: Using the Console application to view system logfiles.

Appendix: Installing Applications

Figure A-1: The Installer (left) and a typical Installer package (right).

Figure A-2: The Installer needs to run software to determine if the installation procedure can continue.

Figure A-3: Greetings from the Installer. Click Continue to proceed.

Figure A-4: Release notes provided by the software provider in the Read Me file.

Figure A-5: Agree to the license and proceed with the installation, or disagree and exit the Installer after it takes you back a step.

Figure A-6: Select the destination of your software installation.

Figure A-7: The point of no return — time to install.