OS X Yosemite All-in-One For Dummies E-Book

Mark L. Chambers

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

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Beschreibung

Get the most out of the latest version of OS X This reference combines eight content-rich minibooks in one complete package to give you all-access, easy-to-understand coverage of the key features and tools needed to get the most out of the latest OS X release from Apple. In OS X Yosemite All-in-One For Dummies, you'll learn the ins and outs of OS X basics, navigating and running programs, searching with Spotlight, having fun with Photo Booth, keeping in touch with Contacts, using Reminders, writing in Notes, setting up the Notification Center, customizing the OS X desktop, jamming with iTunes, organizing and tweaking photos with iPhoto, making movie magic with iMovie, turning your Mac into a DVD theater, publishing documents with Pages, chatting with Messages and FaceTime, letting your imagination run wild with iBooks, expanding your horizons with iCloud, and so much more. Combining the power and stability of UNIX with Apple's legendary elegance and style, OS X is the default operating system installed on every desktop and laptop computer sold by Apple. In OS X Yosemite All-in-One For Dummies, you'll get the best-of-the-best content from indispensable For Dummies books: Introducing OS X; Customizing and Sharing; The Digital hub; Using iWork; The Typical Internet Stuff; Networking in OS X; Expanding Your System; and Advanced OS X. * Goes well beyond the basics of how to use OS X * Covers the key features and tools essential for all users of OS X * Shows you how to use OS X to make your work and personal life more organized and fun If you're a first-time Apple consumer just switching over from a PC, or a beginner-to-intermediate Mac user upgrading to the newest version of OS X, this comprehensive and all-encompassing guide will have you whizzing around OS X like a pro in no time.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Beyond the Book

Where to Go from Here

Book I: Getting Started with OS X

Chapter 1: Shaking Hands with OS X

Convince Me: Why OS X?

Pretty to behold

Stable, stable, stable

Multitasking and multithreading for normal human beings

The definition of Internet savvy

Lots of free goodies

What Do I Really Need to Run the Big X?

Upgrading from Mavericks

Back up! — Please, back up!

Snuff out disk errors

Plug it, road warrior

Personalizing the Big X

Chapter 2: Navigating and Running Programs

Restarting, Sleeping, and Shutting Down

A Window Is Much More Than a Frame: Navigating Windows

Opening and closing windows

Scrolling windows

Minimizing and restoring windows

Zooming windows

Those hard-working toolbars

Moving windows

Resizing windows

Switching windows

Menu Mysteries Explained

Icons ’R Us

Hardware

Programs and applications

Files

Folders

Aliases

Selecting Icons for Fun and Profit

Selecting a single icon

Selecting multiple icons

Keyboard Shortcuts for the True Power User

Houston, We’re Go to Launch Programs

Starting applications from your drives

Running applications from a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM

Switching ’Twixt Programs with Aplomb

Opening and Saving Your Stuff in an Application

Opening a document

Saving a document

Quitting Applications

Chapter 3: Basic OS X Housekeeping

Finder: The Wind beneath Your Wings

Copying and Moving Files and Folders

Cloning Your Items — It’s Happening Now!

Deleting That Which Should Not Be

Dragging unruly files against their will

Deleting with the menus and the keyboard

Emptying That Wastepaper Basket

Wait! I Need That after All!

Renaming Your Items

Adding a Dash of Color with Tags

Displaying the Facts on Files and Folders

Adding Spotlight comments

Displaying file extensions

Choosing the application to launch a file

Locking files against evildoers

Creating an Alias

Using the Apple Menu

Using Recent Items

Playing with the Dock

Bad program! Quit!

Tracking down your version

Visiting the App Store

Specifying a location

Availing Yourself of OS X Services

Get Thee Hence: Using the Go Menu

Monkeying with the Menu Bar

Using menu bar icons

Doing timely things with the clock

Eject, Tex, Eject!

Common Tasks Aplenty

Opening and editing text files

Listening to an audio CD

Recording — nay, burning — a data CD

All You Really Need to Know about Printing

Chapter 4: Searching Everything with Spotlight

Doing a Basic Search

How Cool Is That!? Discovering What Spotlight Can Do

Expanding Your Search Horizons

Customizing Spotlight to Your Taste

Chapter 5: Fun with Photo Booth

Capturing the Moment with FaceTime HD and Photo Booth

Producing Video on the Spot with iMovie

Chapter 6: Using Reminders, Notes, and Notifications

Remind Me to Use Reminders

Taking Notes the Yosemite Way

Staying Current with Notification Center

Chapter 7: Keeping Track with Contacts and Maps

Hey, Isn’t Contacts Just a Part of Mail?

Entering Contact Information

Using Contact Information

Arranging Your Contact Cards

Using Network Directories

Printing Contacts with Flair

Swapping Bytes with vCards

Introducing the Maps Application

Switching Views in Maps

Getting Directions over Yonder

Chapter 8: Marking Time with Calendar

Shaking Hands with the Calendar Window

Entering That Special Event

Editing Existing Events

Keeping Track of Multiple Calendars

Sharing Your Attractive Calendar

Putting Your Calendar on Paper

Chapter 9: The Joys of Maintenance

Deleting Applications the Commonsense Way

Popping the Hood: Using the System Information Utility

Tracking Performance with Activity Monitor

Fixing Things with Disk Utility

Displaying the goods on your disks

Playing doctor with First Aid

Erasing without seriously screwing up

Partitioning the right way

RAID has nothing to do with insects

Updating OS X

I Demand That You Back Up Your Hard Drive

Hitching a ride on Time Machine

Using other backup solutions

I Further Demand That You Defragment

Special Start-Up Keys for Those Special Times

Crave the Newest Drivers

Chapter 10: Getting Help for the Big X

Displaying the Help Center Window

Searching for Specific Stuff

Prodding Apple for the Latest Gossip

Calling for Help Deep in the Heart of X

Other Resources to Chew On

Voice support

Mac publications and resource sites

Local Mac outlets and user groups

Chapter 11: Troubleshooting the X

Don’t Panic!

The Troubleshooting Process

Step 1: Always try a simple shutdown

Step 2: Check all cable connections

Step 3: Retrace your steps

Step 4: Run Disk Utility

Step 5: Run antivirus software

Step 6: Check the Trash

Step 7: Check online connections

Step 8: Disable troublesome Login Items

Step 9: Turn off your screen saver

Step 10: Check for write protection

Step 11: Check your System Information

Step 12: Reboot with the OS X Recovery HD volume

Do I Need to Reinstall OS X?

It’s Still Not Moving: Troubleshooting Resources

OS X Help Center

The Apple OS X Support site

Your local Apple dealer

Book II: Customizing and Sharing

Chapter 1: Building the Finder of Your Dreams

Will That Be Icons or Lists or Columns . . . or Even a Cover Flow?

Doing the Toolbar Dance

Hiding and showing the toolbar

Hiding and showing the status bar

Giving your toolbar big tires and a loud exhaust

Searching for Files from the Toolbar

Searching for Files with the Find Controls

Configuring the View Options

Setting Icon view options

Setting List view options

Setting Column view options

Setting Cover Flow view options

Setting Finder Preferences

Chapter 2: Giving Your Desktop the Personal Touch

Changing the Background

Picking something Apple

I just gotta have lavender

Selecting your own photo

Changing the Screen Saver

Changing Colors in OS X

Adding Stickies

Customizing the Dock

Adding applications and extras to the Dock

Keeping track with Stacks

Resizing the Dock

Stick It on Dashboard

Getting Social with Game Center

Arranging Your Precious Desktop

Chapter 3: Delving under the Hood with System Preferences

The Preferred Way to Display the Preferences

Saving Your Preferences

Searching for Specific Settings

Getting Personal

General preferences

Desktop and screen saver preferences

Dock preferences

Mission Control preferences

Language & Region preferences

Security & Privacy preferences

Spotlight preferences

Notifications preferences

It’s All about the Hardware

CDs and DVDs preferences

Displays preferences

Energy Saver preferences

Keyboard preferences

Mouse preferences

Trackpad preferences

Printers & Scanners preferences

Sound preferences

Sharing the Joy: Internet and Wireless

iCloud preferences

Internet Accounts preferences

Extensions preferences

Network preferences

Bluetooth preferences

Sharing preferences

Tweaking the System

Users & Groups preferences

Parental Controls preferences

App Store preferences

Dictation and speech preferences

Date and time preferences

Startup Disk preferences

Time Machine preferences

Accessibility preferences

Chapter 4: You Mean Others Can Use My Mac, Too?

How Multiuser Works on OS X

Configuring Your Login Screen

Locking Down Your Mac

Starting Applications Automatically after Login

Chapter 5: Setting Up Multiuser Accounts

Adding, Editing, and Deleting Users

Adding a new user account

Editing an existing account

Deleting an existing account

Tightening Your Security Belt

Setting Parental Controls

Assigning the Simple Finder

Using Keychains — Not!

Chapter 6: Sharing Documents for Fun and Profit

Sharing over a Network versus Sharing on a Single Mac

No network is required

Relying on a guaranteed lock

Most places are off-limits

Permissions: Law Enforcement for Your Files

Permission and Sharing Do’s and Don’ts

Sharing Stuff in Office 2011

Document-sharing features

File-level sharing features

Book III: The Digital Hub

Chapter 1: The World According to Apple