List of Sidebars

Chapter 2: What’s New in Panther

Did you know? New and Changing

Chapter 3: Your First Steps with Mac OS X

Did You Know? What You Need to Run Panther

How to... Partition Your Hard Disk

Voices from the Community

Chapter 4: Get to Know the Finder

Did you know? Is the Desktop Really the Desktop?

How to... Work with Contextual Menus

Voices from the Community—Taming the Dock

Chapter 5: Everything About Files, Folders, and Icons

How to... Use Your Mac OS X Jaguar Favorites

How to... Erase a Rewritable CD or DVD

Chapter 6: All About Mac OS X Windows

How to... Get the Right Finder Window Settings

Chapter 7: All About Your Mac’s Folders

Did you know? Where Applications Belong

Your Desktop Belongs to You Alone

Chapter 8: Create and Manage User Accounts

Did you know? The Flip Side of Fast User Switching

Did you know? Use Administrator Accounts

Chapter 9: Customize Your Mac

Did you know? About Screen Savers

Chapter 10: Surf the Internet

How to... Change Your Default E-mail Program

How to... Set Up a .Mac E-mail Account

How to... Import E-mail from Another E-mail Program

Did you know? Composing E-mail Offline

Voices from the Community—Sorting Unwanted E-mail

How to... Change Your Home Page

Voices from the Community—Using iChat to Keep in Touch

How to... Set Your iChat Status

Chapter 11: Work with .Mac

How to... Log Into Your .Mac Account

How to... Allow Windows Users to Access Your iDisk

How to... Protect Your Public Folder with a Password

Chapter 12: Work with Other Computers on a Network

Did you konw? Sharing Files

How to... Use Another Way to Transfer Files Over a Network

Chapter 13: Work with Applications

How to... Use Microsoft Office

Did you know? Launch Bar

Voices from the Community—LaunchBar

Voices from the Community

How to... Work with AppleWorks

Chapter 14: Print, Fax, and Work with Fonts

Did you know? Gimp-Print Drivers

Chapter 15: Manage Personal Information

How to... Change Calendar Characteristics

Chapter 16: Work with Digital Music Files

How to... Choose the Right Music File Import Format

How to... Share Your Music on a Local Network

Voices from the Community—Macs and Music Software

Chapter 17: Work with Digital Photos

Voices from the Community—Digital Photography is Instant Gratification

How to... Import Photos from Your Camera with Image Capture

Did you know? Try Out Your Changes Before Making Them

How to... Work with Other Image-Editing Software

Chapter 18: Work with Movies and Video

Did you know? What You Need to Use iDVD

Did you Know? Prolonging Battery Life on an iBook or PowerBook

Chapter 19: Keep Your Mac Secure

Voices from the Community—Protecting Macs from Hackers and Vandals

Chapter 20: Use Peripherals to Extend Your Mac

Voices from the Community—Using a Better Mouse

Did you know? Get a USB Hub to Use More Peripherals

Chapter 21: Keep Your Mac in Tip-Top Shape

Did you know? About Disk Journaling

How to... Erase Optical Disks

How to... Back Up Your Digital Music Files

How To Do Everything—Writers and their Macs

The Versatile Outliner

The Screenwriter’s Word Processor

The Other Word Processor