OS X El Capitan For Dummies E-Book

Bob LeVitus

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

Seitenzahl: 667

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Get up to speed on the latest Mac OS Getting a new Mac and not knowing how to use it is like getting a remote controlled car for Christmas with no batteries. OS X For Dummies powers your understanding of the latest Mac operating system through straightforward, fun content that covers the basic features and functions you need to know. An essential text if you're not already familiar with Apple technology, this resource walks you through the fundamentals of Apple's Mac OS, shows you how to customize your workspace, work with the Dock, leverage the Finder and Finder Tabs, understand files, folders, and tags, find things with Spotlight, use Mission Control and Launchpad, organize your life through Calendar, Reminders, Notes, and Notifications, and much more. Apple is one of the most popular technology companies in the world, known for its ability to combine power and stability with style. Since all of Apple's products function according to its proprietary operating system, it's essential that you understand how to use the OS to make the most of your tech toys. * Take your communication to the next level with email and messaging capabilities * Enjoy multi-media entertainment by surfing the web and accessing movies, music, ebooks, and digital photos * Let your creative side run free with Text Edit * Create a seamless digital experience by connecting a printer, running multiple displays, networking, file sharing, backing up and restoring your system, and keeping your machine safe with Gatekeeper OS X For Dummies breaks down Apple's Mac operating system into bite-sized pieces, allowing you to digest small morsels of information that guide you in navigating your new Apple gadget.

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OS X El Capitan™ For Dummies®

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OS X El Capitan™ For Dummies®

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Table of Contents

Cover

Introduction

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Beyond the Book

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Introducing OS X El Capitan: The Basics

Chapter 1: OS X El Capitan 101 (Prerequisites: None)

Gnawing to the Core of OS X

A Safety Net for the Absolute Beginner (or Any User)

Not Just a Beatles Movie: Help and the Help Menu

Chapter 2: Desktop and Windows and Menus (Oh My!)

Touring the Finder and Its Desktop

Anatomy of a Window

Dialog Dealie-Boppers

Working with Windows

Menu Basics

Chapter 3: What’s Up, Dock?

A Quick Introduction to Your Dock

Customizing Your Dock

Chapter 4: Delving Deeper into the Finder and Its Desktop

Introducing the Finder and Its Minions: The Desktop and Icons

Aliases Are Awesome!

The View(s) from a Window

Finder on the Menu

Customizing Finder Windows

Digging for Icon Data in the Info Window

Part II: Inside El Capitan (or How Stuff Works)

Chapter 5: Have It Your Way

Introducing System Preferences

Putting a Picture on the Desktop

Setting Up a Screen Saver

Putting Widgets on the Dashboard

Giving Buttons, Menus, and Windows a Makeover

Adjusting the Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad, and Other Hardware

Styling Your Sound

Chapter 6: The Care and Feeding of Files and Folders

A Quick Primer on Finding Files

Understanding the OS X Folder Structure

Saving Your Document Before It’s Too Late

Open, Sez Me

Organizing Your Stuff in Folders

Shuffling Files and Folders

The Incredible New iCloud Drive

Chapter 7: Four Terrific Timesaving Tools

With a Quick Look

Spotlight on Finding Files and Folders Faster

Blast Off with Mission Control

Launchpad: The Place for Applications

Customizing Your Launchpad

Part III: Getting Things Done in El Capitan

Chapter 8: Organizing Your Life

Keeping Track with Calendar

Reminders: Protection Against Forgetting

Everything You Need to Know about the Notification Center

Use Notes for Making Notes

Chapter 9: (Inter)Networking

Getting Connected to the Internet

Browsing the Web with Safari

Audio and Video Calls with FaceTime

Chapter 10: Finding People and Places

Collecting Your Contacts

Maps Are Where It’s At

Chapter 11: Communicating with Mail and Messages

Sending and Receiving Email with Mail

Communicating with Messages

Chapter 12: Sharing Your Mac and Liking It

Introducing Networks and File Sharing

Setting Up File Sharing

Access and Permissions: Who Can Do What

Connecting to a Shared Disk or Folder on a Remote Mac

Changing Your Password

More Types of Sharing

Part IV: Getting Creative in El Capitan

Chapter 13: The Musical Mac

Apple Music and iTunes Match Rock!

Introducing iTunes

Working with Media

All About Playlists

Chapter 14: The Multimedia Mac

Playing Movies and Music in QuickTime Player

iBooks on the Mac

You’re the Star with Photo Booth

Viewing and Converting Images and PDFs in Preview

Importing Media

Chapter 15: Words and Letters

Processing Words with TextEdit

Font Mania

Chapter 16: Publish or Perish: The Fail-Safe Guide to Printing

Before Diving In …

Ready: Connecting and Adding Your Printer

Set: Setting Up Your Document with Page Setup

Print: Printing with the Print Sheet

Preview and PDF Options

Part V: The Care and Feeding of El Capitan

Chapter 17: Features for the Way You Work

Talking and Listening to Your Mac

Automatic Automation

A Few More Useful Goodies

Chapter 18: Safety First: Backups and Other Security Issues

Backing Up Is (Not) Hard to Do

Why You Need Two Sets of Backups

Non-Backup Security Concerns

Protecting Your Data from Prying Eyes

Chapter 19: Utility Chest

Calculator

Activity Monitor

Disk Utility

Grab

Grapher

Keychain Access

Migration Assistant

System Information

Terminal

Chapter 20: Troubleshooting OS X

About Startup Disks and Booting

Recovering with Recovery HD

If Your Mac Crashes at Startup

Part VI: The Part of Tens

Chapter 21: Almost Ten Ways to Speed Up Your Mac Experience

Use Those Keyboard Shortcuts

Improve Your Typing Skills

Resolution: It’s Not Just for New Year’s Day Anymore

A Mac with a View — and Preferences, Too

Get a New, Faster Model

You Can Never Have Too Much RAM!

Get an Accelerated Graphics Card

Get a Solid-State Drive (SSD)

Get a New Hard Drive

Chapter 22: Ten Great Websites for Mac Freaks

The Mac Observer

Macworld

AppleWorld.Today

TidBITS

Download.com

Alltop

Apple Support

Other World Computing

EveryMac.com

dealmac

About the Author

Cheat Sheet

Connect with Dummies

End User License Agreement

Guide

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Introduction

You made the right choice twice: OS X El Capitan (OS X 10.11) and this book. Take a deep breath and get ready to have a rollicking good time. That’s right. This is a computer book, but it’s fun. What a concept! Whether you’re brand spanking new to the Mac or a grizzled Mac vet, I guarantee that reading this book to discover the ins and outs of OS X El Capitan will make everything easier. The publisher couldn’t say as much on the cover if it weren’t true!

About This Book

This book’s roots lie with my international best seller Macintosh System 7.5 For Dummies, an award-winning book so good that long-deceased Mac clone-maker Power Computing gave away a copy with every Mac clone it sold. OS X El Capitan For Dummies is the latest revision and has been, once again, completely updated to include all the tasty OS X goodness in El Capitan. In other words, this edition combines all the old, familiar features of previous editions — but is once again updated to reflect the latest and greatest offering from Apple as well as feedback from readers.

Why write a For Dummies book about El Capitan? Well, El Capitan is a big, somewhat complicated personal-computer operating system. So I made OS X El Capitan For Dummies a not-so-big, not-too-complicated book that shows you what El Capitan is all about without boring you to tears, confusing you, or poking you with sharp objects.

In fact, I think you’ll be so darned comfortable that I wanted the title to be OS X El Capitan Made Easy, but the publishers wouldn’t let me. Apparently, we For Dummies authors have to follow some rules, and using For Dummies in this book’s title is one of them.

And speaking of dummies — remember, that’s just a word. I don’t think you’re a dummy at all — quite the opposite! My second choice for this book’s title was OS X El Capitan For People Smart Enough to Know They Need This Book, but you can just imagine what Wiley thought of that. (“C’mon, that’s the whole point of the name!” they insisted. “Besides, it’s shorter our way.”)

The book is chock-full of information and advice, explaining everything you need to know about OS X in language you can understand — along with timesaving tips, tricks, techniques, and step-by-step instructions, all served up in generous quantities.

Another rule we For Dummies authors must follow is that our books cannot exceed a certain number of pages. (Brevity is the soul of wit, and all that.) So I wish I could have included some things that didn’t fit. Although I feel confident you’ll find what you need to know about OS X El Capitan in this book, some things bear further looking into, including these:

Information about many of the applications (programs) that come with OS X El Capitan: An installation of OS X El Capitan includes roughly 55 applications, mostly located in the Applications folder and the Utilities folder within it. I’d love to walk you through each one of them, but that would have required a book a whole lot bigger, heavier, and more expensive than this one.

I brief you on the handful of bundled applications essential to using OS X El Capitan and keep the focus there — namely, Calendar, Contacts, Messages, Mail, Safari, TextEdit, and the like — as well as several important utilities you may need to know how to use someday.

Information about Microsoft Office, Apple lifestyle and productivity apps (iMovie, Numbers, Pages, and so on), Adobe Photoshop, Quicken, and other third-party applications:

Okay, if all the gory details of all the bundled (read:

free)

OS X El Capitan applications don’t fit here, I think you’ll understand why digging into third-party applications that cost extra was out of the question.

Information about programming for the Mac:

This book is about

using

OS X El Capitan, not writing code for it. Dozens of books — most of which are two or three times the size of this book — cover programming on the Mac; this one doesn’t.

Conventions Used in This Book

To get the most out of this book, you need to know how I do things and why. Here are a few conventions I use in this book to make your life easier:

When I want you to open an item in a menu, I write something like Choose File ⇒ Open, which means, “Pull down the File menu and choose the Open command.”

Stuff you’re supposed to type appears in bold type,

like this

.

Web addresses and things that appear onscreen are shown in a special monofont typeface,

like this.

(If you’re reading an e-book version of this book, web addresses are clickable links.)

For keyboard shortcuts, I write something like +A, which means to hold down the (Command) key and then press the A key on the keyboard.

Foolish Assumptions

Although I know what happens when you make assumptions, I’ve made a few anyway. First, I assume that you, gentle reader, know nothing about using OS X — beyond knowing what a Mac is, that you want to use OS X, that you want to understand OS X without having to digest an incomprehensible technical manual, and that you made the right choice by selecting this particular book. And so I do my best to explain each new concept in full and loving detail. Maybe that’s foolish, but … that’s how I roll.

Oh, and I also assume that you can read. If you can’t, ignore this paragraph.

Beyond the Book

I have written a lot of extra content that you won’t find in this book. Go online to find the following:

Cheat Sheet:

www.dummies.com/cheatsheet/osxelcapitan

Additional articles:

www.dummies.com/extras/osxelcapitan

Updates to this book, if any:

www.dummies.com/extras/osxelcapitan

Icons Used in This Book

Little round pictures (icons) appear off to the left side of the text throughout this book. Consider these icons miniature road signs, telling you a little something extra about the topic at hand. Here’s what the different icons look like and what they all mean.

Look for Tip icons to find the juiciest morsels: shortcuts, tips, and undocumented secrets about El Capitan. Try them all; impress your friends!

When you see this icon, it means that this particular morsel is something that I think you should memorize (or at least write on your shirt cuff).

Put on your propeller-beanie hat and pocket protector; these parts include the truly geeky stuff. It’s certainly not required reading, but it must be interesting or informative, or I wouldn’t have wasted your time with it.

Read these notes very, very, very carefully. (Did I say very?) Warning icons flag important cautionary information. The author and publisher won’t be responsible if your Mac explodes or spews flaming parts because you ignored a Warning icon. Just kidding. Macs don’t explode or spew (with the exception of a few choice PowerBook 5300s, which won’t run El Capitan anyway). But I got your attention, didn’t I?

These icons represent my ranting or raving about something that either bugs me or makes me smile. When I’m ranting, imagine foam coming from my mouth. Rants and raves are required to be irreverent, irrelevant, or both. I try to keep them short, for your sake.

Well, now, what could this icon possibly be about? Named by famous editorial consultant Mr. Obvious, this icon highlights all things new and different in OS X El Capitan.

Where to Go from Here

The first few chapters of this book are where I describe the basic things that you need to understand to operate your Mac effectively. If you’re new to Macs and OS X El Capitan, start there.

OS X El Capitan is only slightly different from previous Mac operating systems, and the first part of the book presents concepts so basic that if you’ve been using a Mac for long, you might think you know it all — and okay, you might know most of it. But remember that not-so-old-timers need a solid foundation, too. So here’s my advice: Skim through stuff you already know and you’ll get to the better stuff sooner.

I would love to hear how this book worked for you. So please send me your thoughts, platitudes, likes and dislikes, and any other comments. Did this book work for you? What did you like? What didn’t you like? What questions were unanswered? Did you want to know more (or less) about something? Tell me! I have received more than 100 suggestions about previous editions, many of which are incorporated here. So please (please!) keep up the good work! Email me at [email protected]. I appreciate your feedback, and I try to respond to all reasonably polite email within a few days.

So what are you waiting for? Go! Enjoy the book!

Part I

Introducing OS X El Capitan: The Basics

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In this part …

In the beginning: The most basic of basics including how to turn on your Mac

A gentle introduction to the El Capitan Finder and its Desktop

Your Dock: Making it work harder for you

Everything you need to know about El Capitan’s windows, icons, and menus (oh my)!

All the bad puns and wisecracks you’ve come to expect

A plethora of Finder tips and tricks to make life with El Capitan even easier (and more fulfilling)

Chapter 1

OS X El Capitan 101 (Prerequisites: None)

In This Chapter

Understanding what an operating system is and is not

Turning on your Mac

Getting to know the startup process

Turning off your Mac

Avoiding major Mac mistakes

Pointing, clicking, dragging, and other uses for your mouse

Getting help from your Mac

Congratulate yourself on choosing OS X, which stands for (Mac) Operating System X — and that’s the Roman numeral ten, not the letter X (pronounced ten, not ex). You made a smart move because you scored more than just an operating system (OS) upgrade. OS X El Capitan includes several new features that make using your Mac easier and dozens of improvements under the hood that help you do more work in less time.

In this chapter, I start at the very beginning and talk about OS X in mostly abstract terms; then I move on to explain what you need to know to use OS X El Capitan successfully.

If you’ve been using OS X for a while, most of the information in this chapter may seem hauntingly familiar; a number of features that I describe haven’t changed from previous versions of OS X. But if you decide to skip this chapter because you think you have all the new stuff figured out, I assure you that you’ll miss at least a couple of things that Apple didn’t bother to tell you (as if you read every word in OS X Help — the only user manual Apple provides — anyway!).

Tantalized? Let’s rock.

One last thing: If you’re about to upgrade to El Capitan from an earlier version of OS X, you might want to peruse the article on installing and reinstalling El Capitan in full and loving detail, found at .