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Chapter 4: Get to Know the Finder

Figure 4-1: The Finder, showing the menu bar, the Dock, the Desktop, and a Finder window

Figure 4-2: The Finder, showing the menu bar, the Dock, the Desktop, and a Finder window

Figure 4-3: The View Options window shows Desktop display options.

Figure 4-4: You can choose from two label positions: either below or to the right of icons. This choice is global for each window.

Figure 4-5: The Desktop preference pane is where you can change your Desktop picture.

Figure 4-6: Dragging a picture to the Desktop Picture zone changes the picture immediately.

Figure 4-7: The Finder preferences window lets you customize some aspects of the Finder’s display and operations.

Figure 4-8: You can't see it well here, but these three files have different colored labels: from left to right, the labels are red, yellow, and blue.

Figure 4-9: The Dock. From left to right: the Finder, Safari, Mail, iChat, Address Book, iTunes iPhoto, iMovie, iCal, QuickTime Player, System Preferences, and, in the right-hand section of the Dock, the Trash.

Figure 4-10: The iCal icon bouncing in the Dock as the application opens

Figure 4-11: You can use an application’s Dock menu to quit the application, switch windows, and, in some applications, such as iTunes, to control the application’s functions.

Figure 4-12: Three miniaturized windows in the Dock, with icons showing their applications

Figure 4-13: An application’s window menu in the Dock lets you switch to any of the program’s windows.

Figure 4-14: To keep an application icon in the Dock, select Keep In Dock from its Dock menu.

Figure 4-15: Opening a file in the Documents folder from the Dock

Figure 4-16: The contents of the Applications folder display in the Dock menu.

Figure 4-17: As you press z-Tab to switch applications, huge icons display in the middle of your screen.

Figure 4-18: The Apple menu is always accessible, no matter which application is active.

Figure 4-19: Menu Extras in the menu bar

Figure 4-20: Here’s what the Trash icon looks like when it’s empty, on the left, and when it contains files, on the right.

Chapter 5: Everything About Files, Folders, and Icons

Figure 5-1: Some common file icons, with names describing their file types. Most of these icons tell you visually which application created them or which type of file they are.

Figure 5-2: Some alias icons. The top three icons are file aliases; the next three application aliases; and at the bottom are folder aliases.

Figure 5-3: This contextual menu displays when you click the mouse while holding down the Control key on your keyboard.

Figure 5-4: The Name & Extension and Open With sections of this window give you additional information about the file.

Figure 5-5: You can select icons by clicking and dragging. Here, I started at the bottom right and then dragged up to the top left.

Figure 5-6: After selecting a group of icons, you can deselect any of them by holding down the Command key and clicking them.

Figure 5-7: These icons were selected by holding down the Shift key and clicking each one.

Figure 5-8: Some aliases on the Desktop: the first two are folders, then two applications, and then a file.

Figure 5-9: Dragging a file onto an application icon opens the file, if the application can read the file’s data.

Figure 5-10: Drag files and folders to another window to move them.

Figure 5-11: When moving files to a folder, the folder “opens” to show you that your files can be placed there.

Figure 5-12: The Finder shows you that you are copying files by changing the cursor to a plus symbol (+) on a green background.

Figure 5-13: The contextual menu is another way to copy items in the Finder.

Figure 5-14: If you hold down the Option key and drag a file, a duplicate is made in the same window.

Figure 5-15: The text of a filename is highlighted and ready to be changed.

Figure 5-16: Using spring-loaded folders. Top: Dragging a file on the Texts folder opens this folder in the same window. Bottom: When this new window opens, you can either drop the file in that window, or drag it onto another folder that will spring open as well.

Figure 5-17: Different types of volumes mounted on the Desktop: From left to right: an internal hard disk, an external FireWire hard disk, a network volume, a Zip cartridge, and an audio CD.

Figure 5-18: The Search Bar is at the right of the standard Finder toolbar.

Figure 5-19: Searching for “section” in my home folder returns four items.

Figure 5-20: A plain text file and a Stuffit archive. The Stuffit archive is less than one-third the size of the original file.

Chapter 6: All About Mac OS X Windows

Figure 6-1: A Finder window showing the contents of a user’s home folder

Figure 6-2: A Finder window in Icon View shows the contents of the window as icons spread out across the window.

Figure 6-3: A Finder window in List View shows the contents of the window in a list, sorted by one of the window’s headers.

Figure 6-4: Clicking a window header changes the sort order.

Figure 6-5: A Finder window in Column View shows the contents of the folder in columns, sorted by name.

Figure 6-6: The View Options window for a window in Icon View

Figure 6-7: Icons with label position at the bottom and at the right. Labels at the bottom take up more space vertically, and labels at the right spread icons out more horizontally.

Figure 6-8: Icons with item info displayed beneath them. For folders, this shows the number of items they contain. For volumes and disks, this shows the amount of space they contain and/or the free space. Some other files show additional information, such as the size of graphics files, the length of MP3 and movie files, and so on.

Figure 6-9: This window uses a picture as the background. This is Apple’s “Abstract 4” desktop picture.

Figure 6-10: The View Options window for a window in List View

Figure 6-11: The View Options window for a window in Column View

Figure 6-12: The Customize Toolbar window gives you a wide range of icons to place in the Finder toolbar.

Figure 6-13: The Finder toolbar showing the three icon display options: at the top, Icon & Text; in the middle, Icon Only; at the bottom, Text Only

Chapter 7: All About Your Mac’s Folders

Figure 7-1: These four folders contain the guts of Mac OS X.

Figure 7-2: Some of the applications included with Mac OS X: you can see some of the iApps here, such as iCal, iChat, iMovie, iPhoto, and iTunes.

Figure 7-3: Most of the subfolders inside another user’s home folder are off-limits.

Figure 7-4: These eight subfolders, with distinctive custom icons so you can recognize them more easily, are inside each user’s home folder to help organize files.

Chapter 8: Create and Manage User Accounts

Figure 8-1: If you don’t reply to this alert within two minutes, the system logs out automatically.

Figure 8-2: The Login window shows all the users who have accounts on your Mac.

Figure 8-3: You create, edit, manage, and delete user accounts from the Accounts preference pane.

Figure 8-4: Here’s a new user’s account information filled in.

Figure 8-5: The Simple Finder: in the Dock, the three folders are My Applications, Documents, and Shared.

Figure 8-6: iCal will open automatically and then hide at each login.

Figure 8-7: You can add applications, folders, and files to the Startup Items list.

Chapter 9: Customize Your Mac

Figure 9-1: Two ways to open the System Preferences: from the Apple menu (left) or the Dock (right)

Figure 9-2: The System Preferences application is an interface for almost two dozen preference panes.

Figure 9-3: Drag an icon from the System Preferences window to the toolbar to get quick access to it.

Figure 9-4: To display any of the preference panes, select it from the View menu.

Figure 9-5: Third-party preference pane icons are added to the bottom of the window, in the Other category.

Figure 9-6: The Appearance preference pane allows you to change some display options.

Figure 9-7: The International preference pane is where you choose settings relative to your country.

Figure 9-8: The Hardware preferences category

Figure 9-9: The CDs & DVDs preference pane and its five options

Figure 9-10: The Displays preference pane, where you can adjust your monitor settings

Figure 9-11: The Energy Saver preference pane lets you choose when to put your Mac to sleep.

Figure 9-12: The Keyboard tab of the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane

Figure 9-13: The Printing tab of the Print & Fax preference pane lets you choose certain printing settings.

Figure 9-14: The Sound preference pane lets you set sound volume, alerts, and more.

Figure 9-15: The Internet & Network preferences category

Figure 9-16: The Connection tab of the QuickTime preference pane

Figure 9-17: The System preferences category

Figure 9-18: The Classic preference pane lets you manage the Classic environment.

Figure 9-19: The Date & Time preference pane lets you adjust your Mac’s date and time, and manage other date and time settings.

Figure 9-20: The Speech preference pane lets you control how your Mac talks to you or listens to you.

Figure 9-21: The Startup Disk preference pane is where you choose which disk or folder your Mac uses to start up.

Figure 9-22: The Universal Access preference pane lets you turn on special functions to help disabled people use a Mac.

Figure 9-23: Set options for using Bluetooth devices in this preference pane.

Figure 9-24: The Ink preference pane lets you configure handwriting recognition using a graphic tablet.

Chapter 10: Surf the Internet

Figure 10-1: The Network preference pane is where you enter information needed by your Mac to connect to the Internet or other networks.

Figure 10-2: The Internet Connect application icon

Figure 10-3: This shows a computer connected to the Internet via AirPort.

Figure 10-4: The Accounts pane in Mail’s preferences

Figure 10-5: Mail’s interface is clear and easy to understand.

Figure 10-6: The Junk Mail preference pane when you first start up Mail

Figure 10-7: The Google search bar; empty (top), and with search words entered (bottom)

Figure 10-8: Sherlock’s basic interface showing its list of available channels.

Figure 10-9: The Flight channel lets you search for airline flights, and returns a list matching your criteria.

Figure 10-10: Want to go to the movies? Let Sherlock tell you what’s playing.

Figure 10-11: Click the left button to start a text chat, the middle button to start an audio chat, and the right button to start a video chat. If your buddy doesn’t have audio or video capabilities, these buttons will be dimmed.

Chapter 12: Work with Other Computers on a Network

Figure 12-1: The Network preference pane is shown here displaying Network Status. This shows which network interfaces your Mac has and whether they are configured and/or active.

Figure 12-2: Using DHCP tells your Mac to request an IP address from its network. You don’t need to do anything.

Figure 12-3: Configuring a Mac with a manual IP address

Figure 12-4: Click Connect to connect to the selected server.

Figure 12-5: In this example, KIRKS_PC is an icon for a shared folder on a PC on the network.

Figure 12-6: The Sharing preference pane lets you control what you share on your Mac.

Figure 12-7: When you want to set up a wireless network, the AirPort Setup Assistant handles everything for you.

Figure 12-8: To turn on Internet Sharing, select the network interface in the list by clicking its check box, and then click the Start button on the Internet tab.

Chapter 13: Work with Applications

Figure 13-1: Opening an application from the Recent Items menu is just like double-clicking its icon.

Figure 13-2: When using iCal, the application’s name is on the application menu. Select Quit iCal to quit the program.

Figure 13-3: You can quit any application from the Dock by selecting Quit from its menu.

Figure 13-4: Four applications are open and all their windows are visible.

Figure 13-5: Hiding iCal by selecting the Hide iCal menu item. The application’s window disappears, but the application stays open.

Figure 13-6: Four applications are open, shown by the triangles beneath their Dock icons, but only Microsoft Word is visible.

Figure 13-7: The standard Open dialog, shown here from Apple’s TextEdit

Figure 13-8: The pop-up menu at the top of the Open dialog shows the parent folders of the current folder, and all its parents up to the highest level of your Mac. Note the keyboard shortcut to your home folder (z-Shift-H).

Figure 13-9: A Save dialog. Under AppleWorks, this is a window.

Figure 13-10: A Save sheet under TextEdit is attached to the window it affects.

Figure 13-11: If you need to force quit an application that’s stuck or not responding, press z-Option-Escape to bring up the Force Quit Applications window.

Figure 13-12: A disk image file and a mounted disk image at the top, with the contents of the disk image in a window at the bottom

Figure 13-13: The Classic preference pane lets you manage the Classic environment.

Chapter 14: Print, Fax, and Work with Fonts

Figure 14-1: Your first encounter with Printer Setup Utility, which asks you if you want to add a printer

Figure 14-2: The Printer List shows which printers are available.

Figure 14-3: With a printer added to the Printer List, you are ready to print.

Figure 14-4: The Print dialog lets you choose print settings.

Figure 14-5: The printer icon in the Dock shows that a print job is in process.

Figure 14-6: The Jobs window for the selected printer shows the progress of all current print jobs.

Figure 14-7: The Printing tab lets you set some preferences for printing.

Figure 14-8: The Shared Printers submenu shows you all the shared printers available on your network.

Figure 14-9: To create a PDF file from any document, just click Save As PDF... in the Print sheet or dialog.

Figure 14-10: Many companies, including Apple, use PDF files to distribute product information.

Figure 14-11: The Fax dialog, which lets you choose the recipient for your fax and adjust settings

Figure 14-12: The Faxing tab of the Print & Fax preferences lets you set fax reception settings.

Figure 14-13: Looking at the Hoefler Text font in Font Book

Figure 14-14: The Font dialog, which many Mac OS X applications use

Chapter 15: Manage Personal Information

Figure 15-1: You can create multiple calendars with iCal: here you can see a personal calendar, one for work, two showing holidays, and one for a favorite sports team.

Figure 15-2: All-Day events display at the top of Day or Week view calendars or as solid bands in Month view.

Figure 15-3: Address Book organizes your contacts.

Chapter 16: Work with Digital Music Files

Figure 16-1: When you insert a music CD in your Mac, iTunes opens and displays the name of the CD and its tracks, if possible.

Figure 16-2: Click the Play button (left) to start playing music. Click the Pause button (right) to pause, or the Fast-forward or Rewind buttons to move through the track.

Figure 16-3: iTunes in miniature mode. You can pause and play, fast-forward and rewind, and see what’s playing. You can also enlarge this window by dragging its bottom-right corner.

Figure 16-4: A Library of digital music files in iTunes

Chapter 19: Keep Your Mac Secure

Figure 19-1: The Security preference pane is where you turn on settings that can protect your Mac.

Figure 19-2: A disk image file, at the left, and its disk image mounted on the Desktop

Figure 19-3: The Firewall tab of the Sharing preference pane lets you access the Mac OS X built-in firewall.

Chapter 20: Use Peripherals to Extend Your Mac

Figure 20-1: These are the ports and connectors available on an iBook as of late 2003.

Figure 20-2: Apple’s G5 tower models include a wide array of input and output ports and connectors.

Figure 20-3: The Kensington Expert Mouse Pro is a trackball with a scroll wheel and ten programmable buttons.

Figure 20-4: The ShuttleXpress, with its jog and shuttle wheels, and programmable buttons

Chapter 21: Keep Your Mac in Tip-Top Shape

Figure 21-1: The Software Update preference pane controls automatic or manual updates to Mac OS X.

Figure 21-2: Software Update shows which updates are available. Click one of them to display information about the update at the bottom of the window.

Figure 21-3: The Software Update window shows you the progress as downloading and installation occur.

Figure 21-4: The About AppleWorks window shows its version number. Here, it is version 6.2.7.

Figure 21-5: TechTool Deluxe checking a hard disk for problems

Figure 21-6: Disk Utility’s First Aid tab, where you can perform some verifications and repairs

Figure 21-7: Selecting a Mac OS X startup volume in Disk Utility lets you verify or repair disk permissions.

Figure 21-8: Apple’s Backup application lets you choose specific types of files to back up.

Figure 21-9: Making a simple backup with Intego Personal Backup

Chapter 22: Get More Help for Mac OS X

Figure 22-1: The Help Viewer application showing the main page for Mac OS X help

Figure 22-2: Help Viewer provides answers to questions you enter in its text field.

Figure 22-3: Help Viewer’s Library menu shows the help files available for other applications.

Figure 22-4: The TidBITS web site showing the November 10, 2003, issue