Macs For Dummies E-Book

Edward C. Baig

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 609

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Take a bite out of all your Mac has to offer with this bestselling guide So, you joined the cool kids club and bought a Mac. Kudos! Now, do you dare admit to your sophisticated Mac mates that you still need some help figuring out how it works? No worries, Macs For Dummies is here to help! In full color for the first time ever, the latest edition of this long-running bestseller takes the guesswork out of working with your new Mac, providing easy-to-follow, plain-English answers to every possible question in the book! Whether you're trying to figure out the basics of getting around the OS X interface, learning the ins and outs of turning your Mac into a sleek productivity tool, or anything in between, Mac For Dummies makes it fast and easy to navigate your way around your new Apple computer. You'll get the know-how to rocket into cyberspace, browse the Web, send messages, back up files to the Cloud, deal with security issues, get productive with leading Mac apps, and have fun with one-stop shopping for music, movies, and media. * Navigate OS X El Capitan with confidence and ease * Use your Mac to power your audio and video systems * Add your Mac to your home network * Troubleshoot common problems when your Mac starts misbehaving Fully updated to cover the latest hardware and software releases, Macs For Dummies offers everything you need to get your geek on--and make your Mac your minion.

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Table of Contents

Cover

Introduction

About This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Beyond the Book

Where to Go from Here

Part 1: Getting Started with Macs

Chapter 1: Adventuring into the Mac World

Mac-Spectacular Computing

Communicating with Your Mac

Living the Essentials Life

Working with Work Stuff

Reaching Outside the Box

Staying Safe and Trouble-Free

Chapter 2: The Nuts and Bolts of Your Mac

Turning On and Tuning In Your Mac

Mousing Around the Interface

Knowing What’s Handy about the Keyboard

Storing Stuff on the Hard Drive or SSD

Memory Essentials, or RAM On

Locating the Common Ports and Connectors

Chapter 3: Getting to the Core of the Apple

Navigating the Mac Desktop

What’s Up, Dock?

A Gaggle of Freebie Programs

Chapter 4: Here a Mac, There a Mac, Everywhere a Mac Mac

Big Mac or Little Mac?

If a Desktop Is Your Poison

Going Mobile

Taming the Trackpad

Keeping Your Notebook Juiced

Part 2: Mac Daily Dealings

Chapter 5: Making the Mac Your Own

Establishing User Accounts

Entering the Photo Booth

Using Parental Controls: When Father (or Mother) Knows Best

The Lowdown on Logging In

Letting Someone Go

Changing Appearances

Tidying Up with Mission Control

Splitting Windows

Launching Launchpad

System Preferences: Choosing Priorities

Chapter 6: El Capitan: No More Feline Fetish

Upgrading to El Capitan

Searching with Spotlight

Fiddling with Dashboard Widgets

Chapter 7: Handling All That Busy Work

Form and Function: The Essentials of Word Processing

Tagging a File

Making Revisions

Taking Out the Trash

Never Mind: Retrieving What You’ve Tossed

Making an Alias

Chapter 8: Printing and Scanning

Choosing a Printer

Connecting and Activating a Printer

Ready, Set, Print

When Printers Stop Printing

Hooking Up a Scanner

Part 3: Rocketing into Cyberspace

Chapter 9: Stairway to the Internet

Dialing In

Taking the Broadband Express

Let Me In

Going on a Safari

Chapter 10: Delivering the Goods on Email

Understanding Email

Setting Up a New Email Account

Before You Click Send

Managing the Flood of Incoming Mail

Making the Most of Your Mail

Chapter 11: Schmoozing, Shopping, and Moving in Cyberspace

Messaging with the Messages App

Face Time for FaceTime

Social Networking

Buying Stuff Online: The Mac App Store

Read All About It: iBooks

Mapping Your Way Around

Showing Your Game Face

Chapter 12: Mounting a Defense Strategy

The Truth about Internet Security

Firewalls

FileVault

Password Management: The Key to Keychains

Logging In and Logging Out

Restricting App Downloads

Hiding Your Mac’s Whereabouts

Securing Your Privacy

Find My Mac

Entering a Time Machine

Part 4: Getting an iLife

Chapter 13: Living in an iTunes Nation

iTunes: The Great Mac Jukebox

Managing Your Music

Tuning In to Internet Radio

Apple Music

Finding Music (and More) Online

iTunes: More Than Just Music

Chapter 14: Taking a Photos Close-Up

Getting Pictures into the Computer

Finding and Organizing Images

Touching Up Your Photos

Admiring and Sharing Pictures

iCloud Photo Sharing

Chapter 15: iMovie and GarageBand: The Show Must Go On

Touring the iMovie Interface

Shooting Your Oscar Winner

From Here to Eternity: Camcorder to iMovie

Mastering Postproduction

Turning Your Clips into a Movie

Sharing Your Blockbuster

QuickTime Marks the Spot

Forming a GarageBand

Learning to Play

Sharing Music Projects

Part 5: The Creepy Geeky Section

Chapter 16: Networking Madness

Networking Done Right

Let’s Share

AirDrop

Handoff

Brushing Up on Bluetooth

Back to My Mac

Chapter 17: Handling Trouble in Paradise

A Cranky Computer

A Frozen Computer or Program

Startup Problems

Reinstalling OS X

Common Fixes for Other Problems

Useful Routine Maintenance

Summoning Outside Help

Chapter 18: Surviving in a Windows World

What the Mac and Windows Have in Common

Making the Switch

Enlisting in Boot Camp

A Parallels (and Fusion) Universe

Part 6: The Part of Tens

Chapter 19: Ten Indispensable Mac Websites

AppleInsider

Cult of Mac

MacFixIt (CNET)

MacRumors

MacSurfer’s Headline News

Macworld

9to5Mac

Other World Computing

VersionTracker

Last but Not Least, Apple.com

Chapter 20: Ten Things to Leave You With

Remote Software Installation

If Math Moves You

Make or Receive a Call

Zip It in the Bud

Family Sharing

Screen Capture (Stills and Video)

Get Transit Directions

Would You Like to Play a Game of Chess?

Using the Mac for Work

Speech Recognition

About the Author

Connect with Dummies

End User License Agreement

Guide

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Introduction

What an amazing time to get to know the Mac. For years, these elegantly designed computers have been models of simplicity and virus-free stability. But that’s never stopped Apple from making these machines even harder to resist by applying stunning changes.

You can benefit from what remains the best marriage in personal computing — the blessed union between Mac hardware and Mac software. You also don’t have to ditch the Microsoft Windows–based software you currently use out of habit, due to business obligations, or because you don’t know any better.

Indeed, this book partially targets Windows vets who are at least thinking about defecting to the Mac. It’s also squarely aimed at people who are new to computers — and the Internet — period. And though this book is primarily for beginners, I trust that people who have already dabbled in computers in general and Macs in particular will find it useful.

About This Book

A word about the For Dummies franchise, of which I’m proud to be a part: These books are built around the idea that all of us feel like dopes whenever we tackle something new, especially when the subject at hand (technology) reeks with a jargon-y stench.

I happen to know that you don’t have a dummy bone in your body, and the publishers at Wiley know it too. Au contraire. (How dumb can you be if you speak French?) If anything, you’ve already demonstrated smarts by purchasing this book. You’re ready to plunge into the best computing environment I know.

Because you’re so intelligent, you’re probably wondering, “Who is this guy asking me for 400 pages or so of my time?” Go ahead and read my bio, which appears in the back of the book.

What you won’t find in the bio is this: I’m a relative latecomer to the Mac. I grew up on MS-DOS computing and then migrated to Windows, like most of the rest of the world. I still use Windows machines every day.

But I’ve long since become a devoted Mac convert, and I use my various Apples every day, too. (No snide remarks, please; I find time for other pursuits.)

Foolish Assumptions

The most foolish assumption that I can make as a writer of a book like this is to assume I should reach out to one specific type of reader. Not the way to go, friends. My assumption — not foolish at all, actually — is that all of you are coming at this from different levels of computing knowledge, from tyro to more seasoned user, if not quite a full-fledged computer engineer or programmer. Maybe this entire computing world is foreign to you. Maybe you’re the only one on your block who hasn’t spent any time on the Internet, or at least it seems that way. Or maybe you’re just new to Apple’s way of doing things. Heck, you can just rely on this book as a reference when you need an assist at troubleshooting.

My takeaway: You need not apologize for what you do or don’t know. As I laid out the groundwork for your Mac education, I’ve tried explaining the stuff that needs explaining without talking down to those of you who’ve already mastered this or that topic. Back when I started as a journalist, one of my editors occasionally added the acronym “DARK” to my raw copy. It stood for “Don’t Assume Reader Knows.” It’s a piece of advice that has served me well through the years.

Icons Used in This Book

Sprinkled in the margins of these pages are little pictures, or icons. I use the following four throughout this book.

A Remember icon means that a point of emphasis is here. So along with remembering your spouse’s birthday and where you put the house keys, you may want to retain some of this stuff.

I present the Tip icon when a shortcut or recommendation may make the task at hand faster or simpler.

Some percentage of For Dummies readers get so hooked on computing that they become the geeks of tomorrow. These people will welcome the presence of these pointy-faced little icons. Others among you would rather swallow turpentine than read an overly technical passage. You can safely ignore this material. (Still, won’t you be the least bit curious about what you may be missing?)

This icon is my way of saying, “Pay heed to this passage and proceed gingerly, lest you wreak the kind of havoc that can cause real and possibly permanent damage to your computer and (by extension) your wallet.”

Beyond the Book

At the time I wrote this book, I covered every Mac model available and the latest versions of Mac OS X and other Mac software. Apple occasionally slips in a new Mac model or a new version of OS X between book editions. For details about significant updates or changes that occur between editions of this book, go to www.dummies.com, search for Macs For Dummies, and open the Download tab on this book’s dedicated page.

In addition, the cheat sheet for this book has handy Mac shortcuts, comparisons to Windows terminology, and tips on other cool features worth checking out. To get to the cheat sheet, go to www.dummies.com, and type Macs For Dummies in the Search box.

Where to Go from Here

I’ve made every effort to get things right and present them in a coherent manner. But if I’ve erred in any way, confused you, made you mad, whatever, drop me an email at [email protected]. I truly welcome your comments and suggestions, and I’ll do my best to respond to reasonable queries in a timely fashion. I encourage you to follow me on Twitter, too; @edbaig is my Twitter handle. (If you’re unfamiliar with how Twitter works, you can find out more about it in this book, too.)

One thing is for sure: Mac people aren’t shy about voicing their opinions. Oh, and because all writers have fragile egos, feel free to send complimentary comments my way too.

Above all, I hope you have fun reading the book, and more important, I hope you have a grand old time with your Mac. Thanks for buying the book.

Part 1

Getting Started with Macs

IN THIS PART …

Get to know the lay of the Mac landscape by familiarizing yourself with the tools of the Mac trade.

Find out how to do Mac basics — such as turning on your Mac, working with the mouse and keyboard, and running applications

See how to get around the Mac desktop and how to navigate the folder structure on your storage drive.

Check out the many Macs to choose from when looking to fulfill your computing needs.

Chapter 1

Adventuring into the Mac World

IN THIS CHAPTER

Discovering why your computer is special

Conversing with your computer

Introducing the essentials life

Getting work done

Going outside the box

Computing safely

Forgive me for getting too personal right off the bat, but next to your spouse or significant other, is there anyone or anything you touch more often than a computer keyboard? Or gaze at more intensely than a monitor?

If this is your initial dalliance with a Macintosh, you’re probably already smitten — and quite possibly at the start of a lifelong affair.

Despite its good looks, the Mac (whichever model you choose) is much more than a trophy computer. You can admire the machine for flaunting intelligent design, versatility, and toughness. A Mac can take care of itself. As of this writing, the Mac has avoided the scourge of viruses that from time to time have plagued PCs based on Microsoft Windows. Apple’s darlings are a lot more stable, too, so they crash and burn less often.

Mac-Spectacular Computing

You shouldn’t be alarmed that far fewer people own Macs compared with PCs. That’s like saying fewer people drive Ferraris than drive Chevys. Strength in numbers is overrated — and even at that, the trend toward Apple’s computers is in plus territory. Besides, as a new member of the Mac community, consider the company you are about to keep. Mac owners tend to belong to the cool crowd: artists, designers, performers, and (can’t resist this one) writers.