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1. t know how to turn on your Mac don t feel bad just look in the manual or booklet that came with your Mac Some Macs including most older PowerBooks even hide the power button behind a little plastic door Because of the vast number of different configura tions I can t tell you where the switch is without devoting a whole chapter just to that topic Can you say b o o r r ring These days some Macs have a power on button on the keyboard if so it usu ally looks like the little circle thingie you see in the margin Don t bother choosing Help Mac Help which opens the Help Viewer pro gram because it can t tell you where the switch is either Although the Help program is good for learning a lot of things the location of the power switch isn t among them Of course if you haven t found the switch and turned on the Mac you can t access Help anyway D oh Figure 1 1 No more smiley Mac or multicolored beach ball cursors at startup These are their OS X replace ments PC air Chapter 1 Mac OS X Tiger 101 Prerequisites None 15 What you should see on startup When you finally do turn on your Macintosh you set in motion a sophisticated and complex series of events that culminates in the loading of Mac OS X and the appearance of the Mac OS X Desktop After a small bit of whirring buzzing and flashing meaning that the operating system is loading OS X first tests all your hardware slots
2. Dummies a not so big not very complicated book that shows you what Tiger 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 Mac OS X Tiger Without Discomfort but the publishers wouldn t let me Apparently we For Dummies authors have to follow some rules and using Dummies and Mac OS X Tiger in this book s title are among them And speaking of dummies remember that it s just a word I don t think you re dumb quite the opposite My second choice for this book s title was Mac OS X Tiger For People Smart Enough to Know They Need Help with It 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 this way 2 Mac OS X Tiger For Dummies Anyway the book is chock full of information and advice explaining every thing you need to know about Mac OS X in language you can understand along with timesaving tips tricks techniques and step by step instructions allserved up in generous quantities What Vou Won t Find in this Book Another rule we For Dummies authors must follow is that our book cannot exceed a certain number of pages Brevity is the soul of wit and all that So there are some things I wish I could have included but they didn t fit Although I feel confident you ll find
3. RAM Sn SSR Aire et ects eh ens ce ee Ate ST 371 Backup Software iii 372 A Better Monitor or a Second One cceesessesseeseeseeseeseeseeseeseeneeeeenneeaes 372 A Fast Internet Connection ueessessessessersersenneenennnnnnsnnnennenneneenensennnne 372 Additional Hard Removable Optical Drive S unneeenen 373 Games riesen bei A A 373 Multimedia Title dl ida aliado 374 Some Big Honking Speakers with a Subwoofer 374 A New Mouse and or Keyboard ooonoccocccnoconocooncconononononononononononononcnnncnnannos 374 A PowerBook or an iBook usesessesseessnssnnsennennennennnensnnnnnsnnennennnnnnsenennn 375 ANEW Mae nennen erstere russ dees 375 Chapter 18 Ten Or So Great Web Sites for Mac Freaks 377 Chapter 19 Ten Or So Mac OS X Apps That You Might Need Someday a nase 381 Web SHILING A A elek 381 EVP ACCESS iaa iio siii 382 ColorSync Utility senesni arrini aan eE ET O 383 Image Capture ccccccccsscssscesscssscesscsseeseeeseesseesseessecesecesecessceeecssesseeeseessees 384 TEXTO PESCA Gi O AA Aia 385 MOI Vii A A il ds 385 Speech Recognition sse isese eeds ieta adini aiae ratas 386 Netinfo Manager ui nani did 386 UNIX Tools Terminal Console and Activity Monitor cooocccnncncnoncnnno 387 NT 387 CONSOLE ii re ns ae lat 388 Activity MODO carve A a 388 xviii Mac OS X Tiger For Dummies Appendix Installing or Reinstalling Mac OS X 10 4 Tiger Only If Vou Have To cccsccccsccsscccecccc
4. Wiley 1 Information about Microsoft Office AppleWorks Photoshop Quicken and most other third party applications Okay if all the gory details of all the bundled read free Mac OS X Tiger applications don t fit here I think you ll understand why digging into third party applications that cost extra was out of the question Introduction 3 Information about programming for the Mac This book is about using Mac OS X Tiger not writing code for it There are dozens of books about programming on the Mac most of which are two or three times the size of this book 1 My world famous Mojito recipe I make perhaps the finest Mojito you ll ever find outside of Cuba but my editor insists it would be inappropriate to include it in this book food stains would make the text hard to read So if you like a good Mojito send me an e mail at MojitoExpert doctormacdirect comandTll send you a Mojito recipe that will knock your socks off If you don t know what a Mojito is here s a chance to find out 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 used 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 Sometimes an entire a
5. X Tiger essential to using Mac OS X Tiger If you need more info on the programs I don t cover may I again recommend Mac OS X Tiger All in One Desk Reference For Dummies written by Mark L Chambers or iLife 04 All in One Desk Reference For Dummies written by my old friends Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes both from Wiley A Safety Net for the Absolute Beginner Or Any User In this section I deal with the stuff that the manual that came with your Mac doesn t cover or doesn t cover in nearly enough detail If you re a first time Macintosh user please please read this section of the book carefully it could save your life Okay okay perhaps I m being overly dramatic What I mean to say is that reading this section could save your Mac Even if you re an experienced Mac user you may want to read this section anyway Chances are you ll see at least a few things you may have forgotten and that may come in handy Turning the dang thing on Okay This is the big moment turning on your Mac Gaze at it longingly first and say something cheesy such as You re the most awesome computer I ve ever known If that doesn t turn on your Mac and it probably won t keep reading Apple in its infinite wisdom has manufactured Macs with power switches and buttons on every conceivable surface on the front side and back of the computer itself and even on the keyboard or monitor So if you don
6. You Get In a Stock Dock uneseessersessensennennnneennnnennennennennennnnnnnn 27 A quick introduction to using the Dock oooccnoccocccocanononononanonononnos 28 The default icons of the Dock o oooonoccncocccnocccoooncnonnnnoncnconncnonnnconnnnn 30 Don t want it Trash it eseesessseseessersensennennennennensnnnnnnennennennennnnnnen 31 Delving Deeper into the Dock oonoocnnococincccnocanonanononccnnnncnonnnnonnnnonnononnncnnnnno 32 More about Dock icons vineae aa n ia 33 Resizing the Dock cid dis 33 Adding and removing Dock icons oococnnoccoonconcnonononononanononononononononnnos 34 What should you put in your Dock eeeeseseeseneneneesenenenenenennnnennnn 36 Setting your Dock preferences ocooocccoccoonooncoononononononononn nono ncnnccnncnnnonos 38 xl Mac OS X Tiger For Dummies Other Tecos MM OSX Tigel nenn deine 39 Aliases Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread u22s020002000sse essen 42 Creating aliases u arena einatmen 43 Deleting allases cin iali nia ii edit indeed 44 Hunting down an alias parent oooooonoccnoccocoononononononononnnonnnconccnonononos 45 Doing More with Your Icons oooconncccoonconononccononononononononononn nono ronconncno nono nonoss 45 Open sez me Opening icons oooooccnoccnoncnnnonnnnononononononnnonnnonnnconncnnonononos 45 Getting rid of icons Wa AA ad i 46 Playing the icon name game renaming ICONS occccccccoccnocnnnncnoncnnnonns 46 Selecting multi
7. everything you need to know about Mac OS X Tiger in this book some things bear further looking into including these Information about many of the applications programs that come with Mac OS X Tiger An installation of Mac OS X Tiger includes more than 50 separate appli cations mostly found 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 This book is first and foremost about using Mac OS X so I brief you on the small handful of bundled applications essential to using Mac OS X Tiger and keep the focus there Reserved for independent study else where are the iLife application suite iTunes iMovie iPhoto iDVD and GarageBand as well as other programs that aren t essential to OS X such as Stickies TextEdit Chess DigitalColorMeter and the like Programs you need to know about to configure or use Mac OS X Tiger for example System Preferences Printer Setup Utility Activity Monitor and such are covered in full and loving detail For what it s worth there are many books about the applications included with Mac OS X Tiger the two my publisher suggested I recom mend are Mac OS X Tiger All in One Desk Reference written by Mark L Chambers and iLife 04 All in One Desk Reference written by Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes which are both sheer coincidence published by
8. get your Mac well again If your computer is under warranty dial 1 800 SOS APPL and a customer service person can tell you what to do Before you do anything though skip ahead to Chapter 15 It s entirely possible that one of the sugges tions there can get you back on track without you having to spend even a moment on hold Y 1 Prohibitory sign formerly known as the flashing question mark disk Although it s unlikely that you ll ever see the sad Mac most users even tually encounter the prohibitory sign shown in the left margin which replaced the flashing question mark on a disk icon and flashing folder Chapter 1 Mac OS X Tiger 101 Prerequisites None 7 icon back in OS X 10 2 Jaguar This icon means your Mac can t find a startup disk hard drive network server or CD ROM containing a valid Macintosh operating system See Chapter 15 for ways you can try to ease your Mac s ills How do you know which version of the Mac OS your computer has Simple Just choose About This Mac from the menu that s the menu with the amp symbol in the upper left corner of the Finder menu bar The About This Mac window pops up on your screen as shown in Figure 1 3 The version you re running appears just below Mac OS X in the center of the window Click the More Info button to launch the System Profiler application which has much more information including processor speed bus speed number of proces sors ca
9. ie E E ENR 108 Making It Your Very Own Finder Introducing Finder Preferences 112 Using the General pane uueseeeseeesesssensnensnennnensnensnnnsnennennnnenennn anne 113 Using the Labels pane ususeessssessnsessneennennnnennnennnnennennnennennnnnn 114 Using the Sidebar pane ccccsccssccsscsssecsscessesssessecesessacessesseeenseeees 114 Using the Advanced pane uueesesesesssensnensnensnensnensnnnnnnnennnennn anne 115 Customizing the Finder with Folder Actions ceneeeee 115 Chapter 5 Mastering the Save Sheet and the Open Dialog 117 Saving Your Document Before It s Too Late ooooocccocccocccoconononononononononnnos 118 Checking out the Save sheet eesenssesssessnensnensnnennenneennenennennnen 119 Looks like Save acts like Save why s it called Save As 128 OPE SCZ MC Earl ri Mensen a 129 Knowing the differences between Open dialogs and Sav sheets cit A E E E 130 Knowing what the Open dialog doesn t show you een 131 Chapter 6 File Management without Tearing Your Hair Out 133 Working with Files and Folders oooonoccnnoconincnnnocnconnnconnnnnonncnonnnnanncnnnnnnnns 134 Elles versUsdolderS ii aan A 134 Creating new folders cueeceeeseseseeeseesnensnensennnennnensnnnnnnnnnnnenenenenennnnn 135 Navigating Nested Folders oooooconocociooncnonncoooncoonncoonnnnonnnnononcononconnnnonnncnoos 136 Moving files and folders ooonooconoco
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11. sentence is in bold as you ll see when I present a numbered list of steps In those cases I debold what you re supposed to type like this 1 Web addresses programming code not much in this book and things that appear onscreen are shown in a special monofont typeface like this 14 When I refer to the menu I m referring to the menu in the upper left corner of the Finder menu bar that looks like a blue or graphite Apple called the Apple menu For example I may say From the amp menu choose Filer gt Open I do not use the amp symbol to refer to the key on your Mac keyboard that may or may not have both the 3 and sym bols on it I refer to that key called the Command key with the equally funky 38 symbol and write something like Press the 38 key So when you see think Apple menu 1 For keyboard shortcuts I write something like A which means to hold down the 8 key the one with the little pretzel and or symbol on it and then press the letter A on the keyboard If you see something like 38 Shift A that means to hold down the 38 and Shift keys while pressing the A key Again for absolute clarity I never refer to the 3 key with the symbol I reserve that symbol for the amp menu Apple menu For the Command key I use only the 38 symbol Got it Very cool 4 Mac OS X Tiger For Dummies What Vou re Not to Read The first few chapters of this book are where I describe the basic everyd
12. 2 Unlocking a preference uuesessessssessnnensnennnnennnnennnnennnnennennnenennnnnn 274 Locking a Preferente 2 2 2 02220 276 Setting Prefer endesa cie 276 Personal preferences icon dias 276 Hardware preferences cccccssccessscssscesssesseeessseeeseesseeesseeesseeeneees 286 Internet Network preferences occocooccooocoonononconnonononnnonnncnnnonnccnnonnos 292 System System preferences kind of redundant 296 Part IV Networking amp Troubleshooting iccccccccccseeeeeee OS Chapter 14 Mine Miiiiine Sharing Your Mac and Liking It 307 Introducing File Sharing oooonocnonnnocononanononononononononnnonnncnnono nono nncn nono nono nonnnos 308 Portrait of home office networking 310 Three ways to build a network ooooonocccnnoccnocccconncnonnnnonnnonnnnnonnnconoos 310 Setting Up File Sharing coooconcocnononocanonanononononononononononnncononononn cnc nono nonononnnos 312 Turning on file Sharing iea raie ien a 312 Starting AppleTalk oooooncniccnooncoonconcconononononononono nono ncnn noo nconncnnncnnonnss 314 Sharing with TCP IP ueeeeseseessesseesenseennnennnnsensennennennnnenennensenn 314 Access and Privileges Who Can Do What 316 Users and groups and guests cocooccccnoccnoonnconnnnoncnconnnnonnnnnnnncnnnnnnnnnno 316 Creating USETS saeia or a A oee es e E ioes 317 Mac OS X knows best Folders shared by default 323 Sharing a folder or dis
13. Mac OS X Tiger FOR DUMMIES by Bob LeVitus Wiley Publishing Inc Mac OS X Tiger DUMMIES Mac OS X Tiger FOR DUMMIES by Bob LeVitus Wiley Publishing Inc Mac OS X Tiger For Dummies Published by Wiley Publishing Inc 111 River Street Hoboken NJ 07030 5774 www wiley com Copyright 2005 by Wiley Publishing Inc Indianapolis Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing Inc Indianapolis Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording scanning or otherwise except as permit ted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act without either the prior written permission of the Publisher or authorization through payment of the appropriate per copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center 222 Rosewood Drive Danvers MA 01923 978 750 8400 fax 978 646 8600 Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Legal Department Wiley Publishing Inc 10475 Crosspoint Blvd Indianapolis IN 46256 317 572 3447 fax 317 572 4355 or online at http www wiley com go permissions Trademarks Wiley the Wiley Publishing logo For Dummies the Dummies Man logo A Reference for the Rest of Us The Dummies Way Dummies Daily The Fun and Easy Way Dummies com and related trade dress are trademarks
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15. Printing with the Print Sheet ooooocncccccccnoccnononnnonnncononanonnnononononononononos 211 Printing a doc ment a 222222202 mann 211 Choosing from among different printers ceseeeeeeeenennennn 213 Choosing custom settings eeeseeeseeesensnensnennnennnensnennnennnennennnnnnennennen 213 Table of Contents Previewing Your Documents ueesssessssesseseenennnnnnennnnnnnnnnnnneennnenneennnnnn 217 Just the Fak 4 2 ascites nase ee ees 218 FontM nian e 2 een tds 219 Installing new fonts esisin eni n eaii 221 TYDES OP fONtS iii iii e a aE 221 Chapter 11 Application Overload ooooooo 223 Folder Full Of Apps nannten 224 Address BOOK 4 seele indice 224 Apple Graphing Calculator oooooonocnnoccnonnonanonononononononono nono nonnccnnonnss 224 O ig i ii oe 225 Automator oo ceceeecccsscesseessesscessecsseceseeseeeseceseeesecsseeeseseseseessseseseeeseeeseees 226 Calculator italian 229 A NON 230 Dashboard isis o 231 Dicta ai 236 DVD Pl yer curiosa poi tidad 236 FontBoO0k ruiniert nel 237 Mi ii Mad ieee aed ales 239 ICH ER ee dia a eas 240 Image Captar Vii 241 Internet C nnect aussah AA ame 241 TEA A N COE EENS A SEES EEE oe pe 241 O TTA 242 Maillard dial ode e o Sees 242 Preview nianna iniciando ais 242 QuickTime Player oooooncnnccnnonoooncnononnnooncnonononono nono nono nono nco ocn n non nnonnonnss 242 A AET ee area rel en 242 Sherl ck u is di 243 O em cond yeas oudieua
16. an still do it that way but you can also click once on the menu name to open it release the mouse button and then drag down to the item you want to select and then click again In other words OS X menus stay open for a few seconds after you click them even if you re not holding down the mouse button Go ahead and give ita try I ll wait Touring the Desktop MBER et Y Just about everything you do on your Mac begins and ends with the Desktop This is where you manage files store documents launch programs adjust the way your Mac works and much more If you ever expect to master your Mac the first step is to master the Desktop Some folks use the terms Desktop and Finder interchangeably to refer to the total Macintosh environment you see icons windows menus and all that other cool stuff Just to make things confusing the background you see on your screen the backdrop behind your hard drive icon and open windows is also called the Desktop In this book I refer to the Finder as the Finder which I discuss in Chapters 4 and 5 When I say Desktop I m talking about the back ground behind your windows and Dock Got it The Desktop is convenient and fast Put stuff there Check out the default Mac Desktop for OS X in Figure 1 4 The Desktop is the center of your Mac OS experience so before I go any far ther here s a quick description of its most prominent features 1 Desktop The Desktop is the area behind th
17. ay things that you need to understand in order to operate your Mac effectively Even though Mac OS X Tiger is way different from previous Mac operating systems this first part is so basic that if you ve been using a Mac for long you may think you know it all and you may know most of it But hey not so old timers need a solid foundation So here s my advice Skip through the stuff you know you ll get to the better stuff faster Other stuff that you can skip over if you re so inclined is any sidebar or sec tion marked with a Technical Stuff icon which I talk about in a moment Foolish Assumptions Although I know what happens when you make assumptions I ve made a few anyway First l assume that you gentle reader know nothing about using Mac OS X beyond knowing what a Mac is that you want to use OS X that you want to understand OS X without digesting an incomprehensible techni cal 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 oh well Oh and I also assume that you can read If you can t ignore this paragraph How This Book Is Organized Mac OS X Tiger For Dummies is divided into five logical parts numbered sur prisingly enough 1 through 5 By no fault of mine they re numbered using those stuffy old Roman numerals so you ll see I V where you in my humble op
18. ches installed memory networking storage devices and much more avr You can find more about this useful program in Chapter 11 o About This Mac Y Mac OS X a Version 10 4 Figure 1 3 Software Update See which Processor 800 MHz PowerPC G4 1 MB L3 cache version of Mac OS X you re C More Info running Memory 1 GB SDRAM Bootthis Bootthat booted my Mac and or Did it boot and so on Talking about com puters for long without hearing the bootword is nearly impossible But why boot Why not shoe or shirt or even shazam Back in the very olden days maybe the 1960s or a little earlier starting up a computer required you to toggle little manual switches on the front panel which began an internal process that loaded the operating system The process became known as bootstrapping because if you toggled the right switches the The legend of the boot computer would pull itself up by its boot straps This phrase didn t take long to trans mogrify into booting and finally to boot Over the years booting has come to mean turn ing on almost any computer or even a periph eral device such as a printer Some people also use it to refer to launching an application l booted Excel So the next time one of your gearhead friends says the b word ask whether he knows where the term comes from Then dazzle him with the depth and breadth of your not quite useful
19. d That s not your modem we re hearing It s Buddy He s out of his cage and in the iMac In this part M ac OS X Tiger sports tons of new goodies and fea tures ll get to the hot new goodies soon enough but the standard approach is crawl first we walk later In this part you discover the most basic of basics such as how to turn on your Mac Next I acquaint you with the Mac OS X Desktop windows icons menus and the Dock you know the whole shmear To finish things up I describe each and every OS X menu in full and loving detail Yum So get comfortable roll up your sleeves fire up your Mac if you like and settle down with Part I a delightful little section I like to think of as The Hassle Free Way to Get Started with Mac OS X Tiger Chapter 1 Mac OS X Tiger 101 Prerequisites None In This Chapter Defining Mac OS X Tiger Finding help if you re a beginner Turning on your Mac Shutting down your Mac without getting chewed out by it Knowing what you should see when you turn on your Mac Taking a refresher course on using a mouse Touring the Desktop Sniffing out the default Desktop icons Beautifying your Desktop C ongratulate yourself on choosing Mac OS X which stands for Macintosh Operating System X 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 upgrade Mac OS X version 10 4 Tiger incl
20. e such as Panther or Jaguar should read the Appendix right about now It con tains important information about installing Tiger that can make upgrading a more pleasant experience If you are about to upgrade to Tiger I feel obliged to mention a major pitfall to avoid One very specific misplaced click in the wrong place done while installing your new OS could erase every file on your hard drive The Appendix describes it So if you aren t running Tiger yet I urge you to read the Appendix before you install it could save your bacon To sum things up This chapter contains some important information that you need to know in order to use Mac OS X Tiger successfully If you re a total beginner to the Mac experience you should probably read every word in this chapter Even if you re past the beginner stage you may want to skim these sections anyway to refresh your memory Tantalized Let s rock Gnawing to the Core of OSX Along with the code in its read only memory ROM the operating system that is the OS in Mac OS X is what makes a Mac a Mac Without it your Mac is a pile of silicon and circuits no smarter than a toaster So what does an operating system do you ask Good question The short answer is that an operating system controls the basic and most important functions of your computer In the case of Mac OS X and your Mac the oper ating system Manages memory 1 Controls how windows icons and men
21. e windows and the Dock where your hard drive icon ordinarily lives The Desktop isn t a window yet it acts like one Like a folder window or drive window the Desktop can contain icons But unlike most windows which require a bit of navigation to get to the Desktop is a great place for things you use a lot such as fold ers applications or particular documents The next section discusses the default icons you see on the Desktop when you first load up OSX 1 Dock The Dock is the Finder s main navigation shortcut tool It makes getting to frequently used icons easy even when you have a screen full of windows Like the Desktop the Dock is a great place for things you use a lot such as folders applications or particular documents Besides putting your frequently used icons at your fingertips it s almost infi nitely customizable t00 read more about it in Chapter 2 21 22 Part I Introducing Mac OS X Tiger Finder menus Finder window Menu Bar clock Apple menu Menu bar Volume Status menu Hard Disk icon Finder File Edit View Go Window Help I 4 Tue 1 31 PM VirginAccoun kw eVITCIMICO STIL Ly e0e Macintosh HD gt m Network Onw an a E A Applications Library 5 virgin A Applications DB Documents l E Movies 2 F amp Music System Users Figure 1 4 BER festes o The default 4 items 16 7 GB available 7 Mac 0SX Finder and D
22. ecees 389 How to Install or Reinstall Mac OS X Getting Set Up with Setup Assistant Introduction ou made the right choice twice Mac OS X Tiger and this book Take a deep breath and get ready to have a rollicking good time That s right This is acomputer book but this is going to be fun What a concept Whether you re brand spanking new to the Mac or a grizzled old Mac vet I guarantee that discovering the ins and outs of Mac OS X Tiger will be fun and easy Wiley Inc the publisher of this book couldn t say it on the cover if it weren t true About This Book This book s roots lie with my international bestseller Macintosh System 7 5 For Dummies an award winning book so good that now deceased Mac cloner Power Computing gave away a copy with every Mac clone they sold Mac OS X Tiger For Dummies is the latest revision and has been once again com pletely updated to include all the cool new features found in Mac OS X Tiger In other words this edition combines all the old familiar features of the pre vious books Mac OS 7 6 For Dummies Mac OS 8 For Dummies Mac OS 8 5 For Dummies and Mac OS 9 For Dummies plus the three previous editions of Mac OS X For Dummies with cat names but once again expanded and updated to reflect the latest and greatest offering from Apple Why write a For Dummies book about Tiger Well Tiger is a big somewhat complicated personal computer operating system So I made Mac OS X Tiger For
23. esktop A fA E px 17 AS The Desktop Dock e If you used an earlier version of Mac OS think of the Dock as the OS X version of the Apple menu in Mac OS versions of the past Yes the OS X Finder does have an Apple menu but it doesn t work at all like the Apple menu in earlier versions of Mac OS See Chapter 3 for more info on the Apple menu 14 Icons Icons are the little pictures you see in your windows and even on your Desktop Most icons are containers that hold things you work with on your Mac such as programs and documents which are also repre sented by you guessed it icons In Chapter 2 I cover icons in detail and the next section discusses the icons you see on the OS X Desktop when you first boot up your Mac Aliases Use aliases of things that you use often so you can keep the originals tucked away in one of your perfectly organized folders Check out aliases in Chapter 2 1 Windows Opening most icons by double clicking them makes a window appear Windows in the Finder show you the contents of hard drive and folder icons and windows in applications usually show you Chapter 1 Mac OS X Tiger 101 Prerequisites None 23 the contents of your documents For the full scoop on Tiger windows which are very different from Mac windows in previous OS releases check out Chapter 3 1 Menus Menus let you choose to do things such as create new folders duplicate files cut copy or paste text and so
24. h Your Mac ooonocccoccnoconononononnnonnnonononnccnnononononos 5 Part IV Networking and Troubleshooting eeeeene 5 Part V The Part of Tens cconoooccnnnncnnnononcnnnnonannnonanannconannnnconnnnncononanoconnos 6 ThE APPEAR ia diste 6 Icons Used in This BOOK oonooocccnnocaccnnnnnnnononannononannnonnnanncconnnnncononnnnconnnnnncnnnos 6 Wher to Go from Here en annahm 7 Part I Introducing Mac OS K Tiger iscccscccsscccscccccecsceeeeeeY Chapter 1 Mac OS X Tiger 101 Prerequisites None 11 Gnawing to the Core of OS X wo cccccecsscssscessesseesseessesseceseeesecsseessecseeesseeeesaes 12 A Safety Net for the Absolute Beginner Or Any User seses 14 Turning the dang thing on ucsssssessensessseesenennennennnneennnenneneennnennnn 14 What you should see on Startup ooooococcoonconnnonononcnononononononononnncnncnnnos 15 Shutting down properly ccccesccsscessceseceecscecesessecesecesecsseeeseeseeeseeees 18 A few things you should definitely NOT do with your Mac 19 Point and click boot camp ooooconocccnooncnonncnoncnonnnnnonnnconnnconnncnonncnoncncnnnnns 20 Touring the Deskt p u u 2 2 2ae0nan een aaa 21 Sniffing Out the Default Desktop Icons coconoccnoconononononnnonnnonnccononononnnonoss 23 Picture This A Picture on Your Desktop ccoonccccononoconononononnnoonccononononononoos 24 Chapter 2 1 Think Icon I Think Icon 27 What
25. hapter 14 Mine Miiiiine Sharing Your Mac and Liking It 307 Chapter 15 Troubleshooting Mac OSX wiv cecceccessssseesseesseeseesseceeeeesessesesseeseeeseesseens 347 Part V The Part of Tens cccccccsccccccccccccceccccecccceccaceeeee 399 Chapter 16 Ten Or So Ways to Speed Up Your Mac Experience eee 361 Chapter 17 Ten Or So Ways to Make Your Mac Better by Throwing Money Alli ci endeten asia 371 Chapter 18 Ten Or So Great Web Sites for Mac Freaks eccesceseseeseeseeseeeeens 377 Chapter 19 Ten Or So Mac OS X Apps That You Might Need Someday 381 Appendix Installing or Reinstalling Mac OS X 10 4 Tiger Only If Vou Have To wccccccccccscsccceeeeeeeee 389 Inder A E EESE EE AA 74 Table of Contents Introduction a Abo t THIS BOOK iii 220 reisen 1 What You Won t Find in this Book oooooccnnoconcnnonnnnononananonanannnonananoconnnnnoon 2 Conventions Used in This BOOK ooonnoccinucononacinannnonancnnnaconnnonnnanonanorancnrnnnnrons 3 What You re Not to Read oooocccconoccconoccnoncconnnononcnonnncnoncnroncnronnnronnnronnncrnnaronnnoo 4 Foolish ASSUMPEONS ci alleine Go deel ean ale 4 How This Book Is Organized oooooonoccooccocononccononononononononononnnnononnconncnnncnnnonnnons 4 Part I Introducing Mac OS X occocccnoconononnnconcnonononononconncnn nono noon noo ncnnncnnnos 5 Part II Rounding Out Your Basic Training o oooncncccnoonnonnnoncnononononnnos 5 Part III Doing Stuff wit
26. him juggling a keyboard in USA Today a few years back Bob is known for his expertise trademark humorous style and ability to trans late techie jargon into usable and fun advice for regular folks Bob is also a pro lific public speaker presenting more than 100 Macworld Expo training sessions in the U S and abroad keynote addresses in three countries and Macintosh training seminars in many U S cities He also won the Macworld Expo MacJeopardy World Championship three times before retiring his crown Bob is considered one of the world s leading authorities on Mac OS From 1989 to 1997 he was a contributing editor columnist for MacUser magazine writing the Help Folder Beating the System Personal Best and Game Room columns at various times In 2004 LeVitus founded his most ambitious undertaking yet Doctor Mac Direct LLC www doctormacdirect com acompany that provides expert techni cal help and training to Mac users in real time and at reasonable prices via telephone e mail and or its own unique Internet enabled remote control soft ware If you re having problems with your Mac you ought to give them a try Prior to giving his life over to computers LeVitus spent years at Kresser Craig D I K a Los Angeles advertising agency and marketing consultancy and its subsidiary L amp J Research He holds a B S in Marketing from California State University Dedication This book is dedicated to my wife Lisa who taught
27. inion ought to see Arabic numbers 1 5 Another rule I think Anyway it s better if you read the parts in order but if you already know a lot or think you know a lot feel free to skip around and read the parts that interest you most Introduction Part I Introducing Mac OS X This first part is very very basic training From the mouse to the Desktop from menus windows and icons to the snazzy but helpful Dock it s all here A lot of what you need to know to navigate the depths of Mac OS X safely and sanely will be found in this section And although old timers may just want to skim through it you newcomers should probably read every word Twice Part Il Rounding Out Vour Basic Training In this part I build on the basics of Part I and really get you revving with your Mac Here I cover additional topics that every Mac user needs to know cou pled with some hands on step by step instruction It starts with a closer look at the program you ll be using most the OS X Finder followed by a chapter about how to open and save files a skill you re sure to find handy Next comes a chapter about managing your files for maximum efficiency followed by a quick look at using removable media which means ejectable disks CDs DVDs and even oldies but goodies such as Zip drives Last but cer tainly not least is a chapter about the importance of backing up your data and how to do it painlessly Part III Doing Stuff
28. k by setting privileges oooocoonconcnononos 324 Useful settings for access privileges ooonocconococionncooccnoonncnonnnnonnno 329 Consummating the Act of Sharing ooococnnoconononononnnonnncnncnononnonanononononononos 332 Connecting to a shared disk or folder on a remote nnn 333 Unsharing a folder meieni entene eea enei RNE E 335 Disconnecting from a shared volume cooooccccoccnoocncoonnnonnncnonncnnnnnnnnnnos 337 Changing your password ueseeeseeeseessensnensnennnensnensnensnnnnennnnnneen anne 337 Setting up shortcuts to remote volumes and folders 339 Connecting to your own computer from a remote computer 340 Chapter 15 Troubleshooting Mac OSX 347 Dem Ol Sad Mac Chimes of Doom Blues uneeeessssseeseenensnenennennenn 347 The ultimate startup disk The OS X installation CD 348 Booting from CD ROM ucneessessesenensnensnenenensnensnensnnnnnensennnnenenen anne 349 Question Mark and the Mysterians oooccccnococononononnnonnnonncnncnnnononononononononos 351 Step Run First Aldi use ans ek 352 Step 2 Safe Boot into Safe Mode cocooonocccocccocononcnononononnnonnnonnnonncnnnonoos 354 Step 3 Zapping the PRAM nnenensesnensnensnnsnennennnnneenennnen 356 Step 4 Reinstalling OS X ccoocccnnccncocconcconoonnononononconnonn nono nonn non nono nonnonnos 356 Step 5 Take your Mac in for repair ooooncoccoccnoccoononononnnonnnonnnc
29. knowledge 18 Part I Introducing Mac OS X Tiger NING RS Shutting down properly Turning off the power without shutting down your Mac properly is one of the worst things you can do to your poor Mac Shutting down your Mac improp erly can really screw up your hard drive scramble the contents of your most important files or both If a thunderstorm is rumbling nearby or if you re unfortunate enough to have rolling blackouts where you live you may really want to shut down your Mac See the next section where I briefly discuss lightning and your Mac To turn off your Mac always use the Shut Down command on the amp menu which I discuss in Chapter 3 or you can shut down in one of these kind and gentle ways 1 Press the Power key once and then click the Shut Down button 1 On Apple Pro keyboards which don t have a Power key press Control Eject instead and then click the Shut Down button that appears or press the Return key which does the same thing Of course most of us have broken this rule several times without anything horrible happening but don t be lulled into a false sense of security Break the rules one time too many or under the wrong circumstances and your most important file will be toast The only times you should turn off your Mac without shutting down properly is if your screen is frozen or if you crash and you ve already tried everything else See Chapter 15 for what those e
30. lease send us your comments through our online registration form located at www dummies com register Some of the people who helped bring this book to market include the following Acquisitions Editorial Composition Services and Media Development Project Coordinator Maridee Ennis Project Editor Nicole Sholly Layout and Graphics Carl Byers Andrea Dahl Senior Acquisitions Editor Bob Woerner Lauren Goddard Denny Hager Senior Copy Editor Barry Childs Helton Joyce Haughey Melanee Prendergast Heather Ryan Techinical Editor Dennis R Conen Proofreaders Jessica Kramer Linda Morris Editorial Manager Kevin Kirschner Joe Niesen Carl William Pierce Media Development Manager Indexer TECHBOOKS Production Services Laura VanWinkle Media Development Supervisor Richard Graves Editorial Assistant Amanda Foxworth Cartoons Rich Tennant www the5thwave com Publishing and Editorial for Technology Dummies Richard Swadley Vice President and Executive Group Publisher Andy Cummings Vice President and Publisher Mary Bednarek Executive Acquisitions Director Mary C Corder Editorial Director Publishing for Consumer Dummies Diane Graves Steele Vice President and Publisher Joyce Pepple Acquisitions Director Composition Services Gerry Fahey Vice President of Production Services Debbie Stailey Director of Composition Services Contents at a Glance Introduction 2 anne Part I Introducing Mac OS K Tiger ccscccssccc
31. me almost everything I know about almost everything except computers Author s Acknowledgments Special thanks to everyone at Apple who helped me turn this book around in record time Keri Walker Pam Bennett Nathalie Welch Greg Joz Joswiak and all the rest I couldn t have done it without you Thanks also to super agent Carole Swifty for life McClendon for deal making beyond the call of duty again You ve been my agent nearly 20 years and I want you to know that you re a treasure Big time thanks to the gang at Wiley Bob Is the damn thing done yet Woerner Nicole Whipcrcker VI Sholly Andy Big Boss Man Cummings Barry Still no humorous nickname Pruett technical editor Dennis R Cohen who did a rocking job and all the others And additional extra special thanks to Dennis R Cohen for technical support and for updating several chapters for me when time got short It s been an honor and a privilege to work with the only guy I know who s been using OS X longer than me You rock dude Thanks also to my family and friends for putting up with me during my all too lengthy absences during this book s gestation And thanks to Saccone s Pizza Lucky Dog Chicago style hot dogs John Muller Texas BBQ Taco Cabana Bass Ale Sam Adams and ShortStop for sustenance And finally thanks to you gentle reader for buying this book Publisher s Acknowledgments We re proud of this book p
32. more than 50 applications And although I d love to tell you all about each and every one I can only tell you about the small handful of bundled applications The Mac advantage Most of the world s PCs use Windows You re We may be a minority but we have the best among the lucky few to have a computer with an operating system that s intuitive easy to use and dare say fun If you don t believe me try using Windows for a day or two Go ahead You probably won t suffer any permanent damage In fact you ll really begin to appreciate how good you have it Feel free to hug your Mac Or give it a peck on the CD ROM drive slot just try not to get your tongue caught As someone once told me Claiming that the Macintosh is inferior to Windows because most people use Windows Is like saying that all other restaurants serve food that s inferior to McDonald s most stable most modern all purpose operating system in the world and here s why UNIX on which Mac OS X is based is widely regarded as the best industrial strength operating system For now just know that being based on UNIX means that a Mac running OS X will crash less often than an older Mac or a Windows machine which means less downtime But perhaps the biggest advantage OS X has is that when an application crashes it doesn t crash your entire computer and you don t have to restart the thing to continue working 14 Part I Introducing Mac OS
33. mouth Rants are required to be irreverent irrelevant or both Itry to keep them short more for your sake than mine Well now what could this icon possibly be about Named by famous editor ial consultant Mr Obvious this icon highlights all things new and different in Mac OS X Tiger Where to Go from Here Y Go to a comfortable spot preferably not far from a Mac and read the book I didn t write this book for myself I wrote it for you and would love to hear how it worked for you So please drop me a line or register your comments through the Wiley Online Registration Form located at www dummies com You can send snail mail care of Wiley Inc the mailroom there will see that I receive it or if you want me to see it sometime in this century you might want to send e mail to me directly at Tigerfordummies doctormacdirect com 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 about something Did you want to find out less about something Tell me I have received more than 100 suggestions about previous editions most of which are incorpo rated here So keep up the good work I appreciate your feedback and I try to respond to all reasonably polite e mail within a few days So what are you waiting for Go enjoy the book 8 Mac OS X Tiger For Dummies Part Introducing Mac OS X Tiger is 740 SOY 3 Bra
34. ng on the Mac Spend a few minutes read ing this section and soon you ll be clicking double clicking pressing and pointing all over the place If you think you ve got the whole mousing thing pretty much figured out feel free to skip this section I ll catch you on the other side Still with me Good Now for some basic terminology Point Before you can click or press anything you have to point to it Place your hand on your mouse and move it so that the cursor arrow is over the object you want like on top of an icon or a button Then click the mouse to select the object or double click it to run it if it s an appli cation or an icon that starts up an application You point and then you click point and click in computer lingo Click Also called single click Use your index finger to push the mouse button all the way down and then let go so it produces a satisfying click ing sound If you have one of the new optical Apple Pro mice you push down the whole thing to click Use a single click to highlight an icon press a button or activate a check box or window 1 Double click Click twice in rapid succession With a little practice you can perfect this technique in no time Use a double click to open a folder or to launch a file or application Control click Hold down the Control key while single clicking Control clicking is the same as right clicking on a Windows system and dis plays a menu called a context
35. nncnononoos 357 If You Crash at Startup eeeeeeesecesesenensnessnensnennnnnnnnnnensonnnennnnnensnensnensnennnen 357 Table of Contents XVI Part V The Part of Tens ccccccccccsscccccscccecscccccccsececaseee 399 Chapter 16 Ten Or So Ways to Speed Up Your Mac Experience 20eseeeeeee eee eeeeeeeeeneee 361 Use Those Keyboard Shortcuts oooococncoccnononononononnnonnncononononnnonononononononnnos 361 L arnito Type Better se ereen east 363 Resolution It s Not Just for New Year s Anymore ocoocccocconcconononocononononnnos 364 A Mac with a View and Preferences TOO occccnnnccccnononncninnnnncnonannnnnannn 365 When bigger isn t better ooocooonoccnoconoconononnnconcnnnnonnonn nono nonononononnccnnonnos 366 Calculated MOVES cceccecssesscsseeeeesceseeseeseeseeeeeeseeseeseeseceeeseeeeseenees 366 Getting ahead er and other stuff ooooooonccccoccnoconononononnnonnnonnnonnnonnonons 367 Get a New Faster Model or Upgrade Yours cooocnooccoocconcconocononononnnononononos 367 Get an Accelerator oo ceceeccesceseeseessessceseeseesceseesecseeseceeeseeseeseeseceeeeeeneeneesees 368 Get an Accelerated Graphics Card uussusseessesseesneensensneennennnenenenenennnen 368 Geta New Hard Drive it ti 368 Add Storage with FireWire or USB 2 Drives o oonnccnnocinonconnnonoconocononononnnos 369 Chapter 17 Ten Or So Ways to Make Your Mac Better by Throwing Moneyatlt cece cece eee 371
36. nooccnoocaconnnnonnnnonnncnnnnnonrncnoncnnonnnos 137 Copying files or folders ooooocnocnnoccnononononononononononn nono nonnnonnccnnonnos 138 Opening files with drag and drop oooococccocccononononononononononnnonononncnnnonoos 140 Assigning an application to a document or document type 142 Organizing your stuff with subfolders neene 143 Spring loaded folders cccescessessscesssssscsecesecesecesecsssceseeeseesseeseeeees 144 Getting Up to Speed with the Mac OS X Folder Structure 00 146 The Mac OS X folder structure in depth eeeeeee 147 There s no place like HOME ooococnnoccnoconncnoncnnnnconononono nono nono nononcnnonoss 150 Your Library card ooooocncoccooncocccononononononnnonnncnonnnno nono nono nono noo nono ncnnannss 152 Finding Your Stuff Fast ccccsccscsscescssscessessseesecesecsseceseceseesseeseeeseeesees 153 The Search box in Finder windows oocooccoccconccononnonnnonononnncnnonnnonnos 154 Spot tia 156 Smart Folders isidro ti sio isso 158 Chapter 7 Haggling with Removable Media 161 Comprehending Disks ooooonoccnocanocanononononononononnnonnncnnncnnono nono nono nono nonononnnos 162 Some Disks Need to be Formatted First uuesesserseeneeneennenneenennennenn 162 Moving and Copying Disk Icons ocooncoccnocononanononnonnncnncnononononononononononnnos 163 Kiii XIV Mac OS X Tiger For Dummies Sur
37. nu Tree cuuusssesesssenseesenseenseennennnnenenenensnennnn 71 Your Constant Companion The Application Menu ueeeeeene 74 File Management and More Meet the File Menu 78 The Edit Menu Which Shoulda Been Called the Clipboard Menu 82 Comprehending the Clipboard oooonnoccooccocccononononononnonnnonnnonnncnnonononos 83 Checking out the main Edit menu items oooonnoconoccnonconnconnnoncconanononos 84 A View from a Window The View Menu c ooooccccccocnnonccononononononnnonononnncononanoos 85 Going Places Checking Out Go Menu Items neeeeneenennnn 87 Window Dressing aaar aE E E N e e e aS 89 Not Just a Beatles Movie Help and the Help Menu 91 Part 11 Rounding Out Vour Basic Training cccccccceeeeee 95 Chapter 4 Newfangled Finder oooooocooocooocoo 97 Getting to Know the Finder 0 ccccecccssscesscseesseessessceeseeesecsseessseseeeseeeseenses 97 Belly Up to the Bar s The Toolbar and Sidebar nee 99 Table of Contents Navigating the Finder Up Down and Backwards eeeen 101 Like a roadmap The current folder drop down menu 101 Hither and yon The Forward and Back buttons eee eee 103 Customize Your Finder Windows ccccescessessesseesceseeseeseeseeseessensenseenees 103 Coluimnview a sesaineenuganahigaigehieaingeISBRRa beten 103 Icon view NT 105 List vieWie er td tii 105 On Using View Options ueso
38. nvaniessea stain Sees 243 System Preferences cccscssscsscessccsscessecsscesscsssesssesssesseesseesseensesees 244 TextEdit dt Miss ceded ts epi ain nae 244 Utiles ui es aha lau est 244 Chapter 12 The Classic Environment Like Mac OS 9 Only Better sn Hi 257 You Gan Call It El Sssie u ersehen 258 What s so great about Classic ooooocoocccccnoconocccononononononononnnonnccnnonons 259 Doin the Classic dance o ccccscssscssscsssecsscssscsseesseesseesacessessneesseeees 259 Working with Classic ccccccssssssessscssscescceseeseecseesseeeseceseceseceseceseeseeeseeesees 260 Launching Classic or letting it launch itself e 260 Opening a Classic appartieni ani ERE EE E E E 262 Getting oriented Toto we re not in OS X anymore 263 Getting back to OS X eeeesseeseeeneeenensnensneneennnensnensnnnnnnnnnennnn anne 265 Setting Classic preferences ooocococcoonoononononononononononnnonn nono ncnncnnnnnnonnos 265 Getting more info on Classic ooonoccnncniononononononononononnncnnnconncnncnnnonnos 267 Booting from Mac OS 9 2 2 onccocccccccconcconooonononononconnnnn nono non occ nnnnnnnnnonnos 267 KV XVI Mac OS X Tiger For Dummies Chapter 13 What Your Mac Prefers 0ooooooo 271 Introducing System Preferences unseesesssessessensnenneennennnennnennnensnenenennnen 271 Using System Preferences cccccsscessesssesseessessseesceeseesseceseeeescesseseeeseeenees 27
39. on Find out all about ES them in Chapter 3 A If all these new terms such as alias Dock and so on seem strange to you don t worry I explain them all in detail in the rest of Part I Sniffing Out the Default Desktop Icons Icons on the Desktop behave the same as icons in a window You move them and copy them just like you would an icon in a window The only difference is that Desktop items aren t in a window They re on the Desktop which makes them more convenient to use Actually if you look at your Home directory click the Home button on any Finder window toolbar or use the shortcut 38 Shift H to open a window dis playing Home you see a folder named Desktop which contains the same icons you place on the Desktop but not the hard drive icons The reason for this folder is that each user has an individual Desktop But I m getting ahead of myself You find out much more about Home users and all that jazz in upcoming chapters To move an item to the Desktop simply click its icon in any window and then without releasing the mouse button drag it out of the window and onto the Desktop then release the mouse button If you don t see a disk icon on your Desktop skip ahead to Chapter 3 where I discuss Finder Preferences That s where you can choose whether to see disks on your Desktop ar Hard drive icons The first icon you should get to know is the icon for your hard drive refer to Figure 1 4 You can us
40. ple icons oooonocnnoconononononnonnnonnocononononn nono ncnn non nc ncnnnonos 47 E zen 49 Chapter 3 About Windows Not the Microsoft Kind and Menus 53 Anatomy of a Window ocoocooccnocconccononononononnnonononnnco nono nnonnnnn nono nono nono E A 54 Top 0 the window to yal ccooccocccococononononnnonnncnnnnonononononono nono nono nono nnnnnos 56 A scroll new world ceseessesserseeneesnnensennensennennennennnnsensennennennennsnen 56 Hyper Active windows sessesssssensensensenneennenensnnsnnsennennennennennnnen 58 Dialog Dealie Boppers ueeeesssesssenssesseessensnennnensensnennnensnnnsonnnenssnnnnenenensnnnnnn 59 Working with Windows cccessccsssccessecesseesseeesssscssseessseeesseeesseeseeeesseeessaes 61 Resizing windowS ueeesssesssseensnensenennennennnnennnnennenennneenenennennnnsennsnenenn 62 Resizing window PANES cccssccessecsssecesecesseeeeesessneeseeeeeseeesseeenseeens 62 Moving windoWwS cceessceesseseseeeesecesscecssceesseecssneeseeecsseeesseeessesensaeens 62 Shutting yo windows 0 ccccesccssesssessseeseeesecseeceseeseceseesseesseenseesseeseeees 62 Menu Basics dust lisis 63 Contextual menus They re SOOO sensitive ooonooonoccnoncocnconcnononononos 65 Disabled Options iia deta ii alta bed 67 SUDMENUS a A A E R 68 Keyboard shortcut commands ocoococonoccnoncnononnnonnnconnnnnnnncnonncnononcannnnno 68 Its elliptical 2 ea a aa E sing MOOR 71 Underneath the Apple Me
41. ports disks random access memory RAM and so on If everything passes you hear a pleasing musical tone and see the tasteful gray Apple logo in the middle of your screen along with a small spinning pinwheel cursor somewhere on the screen Both are shown in Figure 1 1 AZ A 1 Everything is fine and dandy Next you see the soothing graphite Apple logo the words Mac OS X and a status indicator with messages that tell you the Mac is going through its normal startup motions Makes you feel kind of warm and fuzzy doesn t it If all this fanfare shows up on screen Mac OS X is loading properly In the unlikely event that you don t see the gray Apple logo the soothing messages and or the familiar Desktop see Chapter 15 where I show you how to troubleshoot your system Next you may or may not see the Mac OS X login screen where you enter your name and password If you do press the Enter or Return key after you type your name and password of course and away you go If you don t want to have to type your name and password every time you start or restart your Mac or even if you do check out Chapter 13 for the scoop on how to turn the login screen on or off Either way the Desktop soon materializes before your eyes If you haven t customized configured or tinkered with your Desktop it should look something like Figure 1 2 Now is a good time to take a moment for positive thoughts about the per
42. prise Your PC Disks Work Too ooonoconoconoconononononononncnonocononononononononnnos 163 Burning CDs and DVDS un sense 164 Getting Disks Out of Your Mac eeesesesesssessenseennnennennennnnnnennensnenenennnen 167 Chapter 8 Back Up Now or Regret It Later 169 Backing Up Is Not Hard to Do ou ee eeesceeseeeseeeceeseeeeeeeaeceeeeeaceeeeneeeaees 170 Backing up by using the manual brute force method 170 Backing up by using the manual brute force method With Burn Folders u een iio 170 Backing up by using commercial backup software cnc 171 Why You Need Two Sets of Backups oooococccoconononononononnnconccnonanononononononos 174 Part Ill Doing Stuff with Vour Mac i ccsccsscccscccceceseccee 177 Chapter 9 Internet Working 0 eeeeee ee eee eee 179 A Brief Internet Overview ssunsesiseetisrsior tistone eia notata 179 Setting Up for Surfing enini oreinen en E OAN i 180 It starts with the modem siistiin G E 181 High speed connections ocooooccoocnnoncnnonnnnonnnconnnnononcnnnnconnn non nncnnnnnonnno 182 Your Internet service provider and you o oocooccccnoccnoonnnonnnconnnnnnnnconoss 182 Browsing the Web with Safari ooooonoccnoccnoconononononnnonnncnncnanonnonnnonononononnnos 183 Getting up and running with Safari 183 Searching with Sherlock oooonooccocccococononononononononononnnconnconononconnnon nono nonononnnos 187 A quick look at Sherlock s feat
43. re 1 4 Here s how you can change your Desktop picture if you care to 1 From the Desktop choose System Preferences or click the System Preferences icon in the Dock The System Preferences window appears 2 Click the Desktop amp Screen Saver icon The Desktop amp Screen Saver Preferences pane appears as shown in Figure 1 7 3 Click on any picture in your Home Pictures folder I m clicking a picture called drmacandbandtxt in Figure 1 7 You can see it s one of the items in my Home Pictures folder which is also shown in Figure 1 7
44. sccccccceseeeeeeY Chapter 1 Mac OS X Tiger 101 Prerequisites None reeseesessesensesenneeennn nen 11 Chapter 2 I Think Icon I Think Icon ooooonnocconnnonanonononononanononononnnonnnonnnonnono nono nono nonoss 27 Chapter 3 About Windows Not the Microsoft Kind and Menus nee 53 Part II Rounding Out Vour Basic Training ccccccceeeee IH Chapter 4 Newfangled Finder ooooonccnnoccnoccoonconnconcnononononononononononnnnon nono non non ncnn nono nono nono 97 Chapter 5 Mastering the Save Sheet and the Open Dialog ccocnconnocnooncnoncnnncononos 117 Chapter 6 File Management without Tearing Your Hair Out 133 Chapter 7 Haggling with Removable Media cccesccssscsseeseeseeesesseeeseeeseeeseeeseens 161 Chapter 8 Back Up Now or Regret It Later o ooonoconncnnocinoncnononnncononononononononononnncnnnono 169 Part 111 Doing Stuff with Your Mac ccccccscccsccccseeccee 177 Chapter 9 Internet Working ossessi nes et a ea edsa a e 179 Chapter 10 Publish or Perish The Fail Safe Guide to Printing 0 0 0 0 cece 203 Chapter 11 Application Overload oooooccoccconononanononononononnnonononnncncnonononono nono nonnncnnnons 223 Chapter 12 The Classic Environment Like Mac OS 9 Only Better eon 257 Chapter 13 What Your Mac Prefers uueeseessesssessnessnensnensnnnnnnnnonnnennonnnensnensnensnensnnnn 271 Part IV Networking amp Troubleshooting i ccccccsseeceeee 305 C
45. son who convinced you that you wanted a Mac That person was right 1 6 Part I Introducing Mac OS X Tiger Finder File Edit View Go Window Help 4 Tue 1 28PM VirginAccount P D 606 Q virgin lt gt amp y 5 Network l E Macintosh HD HE f gi s Ei Desktop Desktop Documents Library Movies E A Applications a _ B Documents N 6 jel Y i Bl Pr b Figure 1 2 p moves The Mac OS amp Music Music Pictures Public Sites X Desktop EY Pictures after a sn 8 items 16 7 GB available A brand spanking new installation of OS X 2 we amp ES 17 1G 2 1 Sad Mac If any of your hardware fails when it s tested you could see a black or gray screen that may or may not display the dreaded Sad Mac icon shown in the left margin and or hear a far less pleasing musical chord in the key of F minor I believe known by Mac aficionados as the Chimes of Doom Some older Macs played the sound of a horrible car wreck instead of the chimes complete with crying tires and busting glass It was exception ally unnerving which may be why Apple doesn t use it anymore BER The fact that something went wrong is no reflection on your prowess as Y a Macintosh user Something inside your Mac is broken and it probably needs to go in for repairs usually to an Apple dealer If any of that s already happened to you check out Chapter 16 to try to
46. that doesn t work and you may have to unplug the computer from the power outlet wait a moment or two and then plug it back in to get it to reboot A few things you should definitely NOT do with your Mac In this section I deal with the bad stuff that can happen to your computer if you do the wrong things with it If something bad has already happened to you I know Pm beginning to sound like a broken record see Chapter 15 Don t unplug your Mac when it s turned on Very bad things can happen such as having your operating system break See the preceding section where I discuss shutting your system down properly Don t use your Mac when lightning is near Here s a simple life equa tion for you Mac lightning dead Mac Nuff said Oh and don t place much faith in inexpensive surge protectors A good jolt of lightning will fry the surge protector right along with your computer as well as pos sibly frying your modem printer and anything else plugged into it Some surge protectors can withstand most lightning strikes but these war riors aren t the cheapies that you buy at your local computer emporium Unplugging your Mac from the wall during electrical storms is safer and less expensive Don t forget to unplug your external modem network hubs printers or other hardware that plugs into the wall as well light ning can fry them too Don t jostle bump shake kick throw dribble or punt yo
47. to read this helpful Appendix first Icons Used in This Book Y You ll see little round pictures icons off to the left side of the text through out this book Consider these icons as 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 undocu mented secrets about Tiger 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 inter esting 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 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 Tiger anyway But I got your attention didn t I I ll tell you once again It is a good idea to read the Warning notes very carefully Introduction These icons represent my ranting or raving about something that just bugs me Imagine foam coming from my
48. ual menu where you Control clicked In fact if you are blessed with a two or more button mouse I personally use the four button Kensington Expert Mouse Pro Trackball and rec ommend it highly you can right click and avoid having to hold down the Control key Drag Dragging something usually means you have to click it first and hold the mouse button down Then you move the mouse on your desk or mouse pad so the cursor and whatever you select moves across the screen The combination of holding down the button and dragging the mouse it is usually referred to as click and drag U Press A press is half a click Instead of letting go of the mouse button to finish the click keep holding it down In most cases your next step is to drag the mouse somewhere say down a menu to choose a command or across the screen to move an object 1 Choosing an item from a menu To get to Mac OS menu commands you must first open a menu and then pick the option you want Point at the name of the menu you want with your mouse cursor press your mouse ar Chapter 1 Mac OS X Tiger 101 Prerequisites None button down and then drag your mouse downward until you select the command you want When the command is highlighted finish selecting by letting go of the mouse button If you re a long time Mac user you probably hold down the mouse button the whole time between clicking the name of the menu and selecting the com mand you want You c
49. ually find it on the upper right side of the desktop when you first start the Mac Look for the name Macintosh HD iMac HD or something like that unless you ve already renamed it I renamed my hard drive TigerDisk in Figure 1 5 There are two ways to rename your hard drive e Single click the icon s name When the name highlights as shown in the middle icon in Figure 1 5 type its new name If you click directly on the icon instead of its name the icon will be selected but the name won t become highlighted for editing as shown in the icon on the right in Figure 1 5 or e Single click the icon itself press Return or Enter and then type in a new name for the drive 25 Part I Introducing Mac OS X Tiger U Figure 1 5 An unselected icon left an icon with its name Macintosh HD selected eii il TigerDiskp middle an icon that is selected right 1 Disk icons These appear on the Desktop by default When you insert a CD or DVD its icon appears on the Desktop just below your hard drive icon space permitting Picture This A Picture on Vour Desktop Pd be remiss if I didn t mention that you can change the background picture of your Desktop In Figure 1 6 you can see my Desktop with a background picture I made to celebrate the release of the book before this one GarageBand For Dummies Wiley If you want a reminder of what the default Desktop background looks like refer to Figu
50. udes dozens of new or improved features to make using your Mac easier as well as dozens more that help you do more work in less time Now you can use these new features to be more productive have fewer headaches reduce your cho lesterol level and fall in love with your Mac all over again In this chapter I start at the very beginning and talk about Mac OS X in mostly abstract terms After the basics are out of the way I get right down to the real nitty gritty about the Mac OS X Desktop the place where you start doing stuff with your Mac Those of you who ve been using Mac OS X for a while may find some of the information in this chapter hauntingly familiar some features that I describe haven t changed from earlier versions of Mac OS X Besides if you decide to skip this chapter just because you think you have all the new stuff figured out I assure you that you ll miss out on sarcasm 12 Part I Introducing Mac OS X Tiger ANG N clever wordplay shortcuts awesome techniques a bad pun or two and some good advice on making the Desktop an easier place to be If that s not enough to convince you I also provide a bunch of stuff that Apple didn t bother to tell you as if you read every word in Mac OS X Help which is the only user manual Apple provides anyway Those of you who are about to upgrade to Mac OS X Tiger from an earlier ver sion of Mac OS in particular Mac OS 9 or a previous Mac OS X releas
51. ur Mac especially while it s running Your Mac contains a hard drive that spins at 4 200 revolutions per minute rpm or more A jolt to a hard drive while it s reading or writing a file can cause the head to crash into the disk which can render many or all files on it unrecoverable Ouch 1 Don t forget to back up your data I beg you Please read Chapter 8 now before something horrible happens to your valuable data If the stuff on your hard drive means anything to you you must back it up Not maybe You must Even if your most important file is your last saved game of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 you still need to realize how important it is to back up your files In Chapter 8 I discuss how to back up your files and I strongly recom mend that you read Chapter 8 sooner rather than later preferably before you do any significant work on your Mac Dr Macintosh sez There are only two kinds of Mac users Those who have never lost data and those who will Which kind will you be Don t kiss your monitor while wearing stuff on your lips For obvious reasons Use a soft cloth and or the Klear Screen polish and wipes that Apple recommends if you need to clean your display 20 Part I Introducing Mac OS X Tiger Point and click boot camp Are you new to the Mac Just learning how to move the mouse around Now is a good time to go over some fundamental stuff that you need to know for just about everything you ll be doi
52. ures ooocnooccocccononononononononononnccnnonoss 188 Searching with Sherlock ooooocnnoccooccoccnoncconononconncno nono ncon non ncnconnonnos 188 Checking out Help Center oooooocnocccoconocononocononnnonnnonononononnnononcnncnnnonnss 191 Getting Your E Mail with Mail ueessesesesseenesensenenensnnnenensenenenenenennnn 191 COMPOSING a NEW message eeeeeeseeenensnensnensnennnennensnnnenseenneenneennen 192 Checking your Mali tt 193 Dealing With spam cocoocccocccnonncnonnnnonnnnonennononconnnnonnnnononcon nano n rca nnnnnnnno 193 Changing your preferences ooocooocconccononononononnncnnnonn conocio ono nnonnnonnannos 194 But wait there s more cancri onen inei ie 195 And don t forget Address Book oooncconccnncccooncocconcoonononononononcnnncnnonos 195 A Quick Overview of Mac ccccccccccccccesccesssccessecessccessscessecessecesseeesseeesseees 197 Communicating via iChat AV ooococncccnocanoccnoncnononononnnnonncnnon nono nonn nooo nono nonnnos 199 Gimme an A Gimme a V neraic ei a 200 Chapter 10 Publish or Perish The Fail Safe Guide to Printing 203 Before Diving Mois dadas 203 Ready Connecting and Adding Your Printer neneeeeeee 204 Connecting your printer cueesseeseeeseesnensnensnennnensnensensenneennnnnnnn anne 204 Setting up a printer for the first time ooooooncnicccoonnonnnonnnononononononoss 206 Set Setting Up Your Document with Page Setup oocccoccocccononononnonononnnos 209 Go
53. us work U Keeps track of files 1 Manages networking 1 Does housekeeping No kidding Other forms of software such as word processors and Web browsers rely on the operating system to create and maintain the environment in which that Chapter 1 Mac OS X Tiger 101 Prerequisites None software works its magic When you create a memo for example the word processor provides the tools for you to type and format the information In the background the operating system is the muscle for the word processor performing crucial functions such as the following Providing the mechanism for drawing and moving the on screen window in which you write the memo Keeping track of a file when you save it Helping the word processor create drop down menus and dialogs for you to interact with Communicating with other programs And much much more stuff that only geeks could care about So armed with a little background in operating systems take a gander at the next section before you do anything else with your Mac ay Don t let that UNIX stuff scare you It s there if you want it but if you don t want it or don t care like most of us you ll rarely even know it s there All you ll know is that your Mac just runs and runs and runs without crashing and crashing and crashing One last thing As I mention in the Introduction I m only repeating it for those of you who don t read Introductions Mac OS X Tiger comes with
54. very thing elses are A really stubborn crash doesn t happen often and less often under OS X than ever before but when it does turning your Mac off Eternally yours now Mac OS X is designed so you never have to shut itdown You can configure itto sleep after a spec ified period of inactivity See Chapter 13 for more info on the Energy Saver features of OS X If you do so your Mac will consume very little electric ity when it s sleeping and will be ready to use just a few seconds after you awaken it by pressing any key or clicking the mouse On the other hand if you re not going to be using it for a few days you may want to shut it down anyway Note If you leave your Mac on constantly and you re gone when a lightning storm or rolling blackout hits your Mac may get wasted So be sure you have adequate protection say a decent surge protector designed specifically for com puters if you decide to leave your Mac on and unattended for long periods See the section A few things you should definitely NOT do with your Mac elsewhere in this chapter for more info on lightning and your Mac Frankly if plan to be away from mine for more than a day usually shut it down just in case But because OS X is designed to run 24 7 don t shut it down at night unless it s dark and stormy Chapter 1 Mac OS X Tiger 101 Prerequisites None 9 and then back on may be the only solution Sometimes even
55. with Vour Mac This part is chock full of ways to do cool stuff with your Mac In this section you ll discover the Internet first how to get it working on your Mac and what to do with it after you do Next I show you the ins and outs of printing under OS X You also read about some of the more important OS X related applications and features plus how to make your Tiger look and feel just the way you like it That s all followed by the lowdown on the Classic Environment and possibly the most useful chapter in the whole book Chapter 13 which details each and every gosh darned System Preference filled with useful obser vations and recommendations Part IV Networking and Troubleshooting Here I get into the nitty gritty underbelly of Mac OS X where I cover some what more advanced topics such as file sharing creating and using multiple users and why you might want to and the all important troubleshooting chapter Chapter 15 5 6 Mac OS X Tiger For Dummies Part V The Part of Tens Finally it s The Part of Tens which may have started life as a Letterman rip off although it does include heaping helpings of tips optional software great Mac Web sites and hardware ideas The Appendix Last but certainly not least I cover installing Mac OS X Tiger in the Appendix The whole process has become quite easy with this version of the system soft ware but if you have to install Tiger yourself it would behoove you

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