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1. 2 4 OL OJ 8 O10 1213114 15116 17 You are about to embark on the world s most advanced operating system experience courtesy of Apple Inc In this chapter show you how to get Mac OS X Leopard up and running as well as how to navigate Leopard using the Finder application which helps you find just about anything on your Mac System Requirements for Installing Leopard ssesssssessssesss 4 Choose an Installation Method sssssesssssesesosssssossesse 4 Upgradeto Leopard s s sssssssces soree fore sicloieie e s cinve sisiole s els sisies overs 5 Custom Installations i502 56 0 osese 0c aiate evare rss res tses e eson osoro ee 6 Advanced Installation Options ccccccccccccccccccccecees 8 Explore the Finder sss csscsccssesesssssessesessetsoss eses sieisis 6 075 10 Moving Around in the Finder cccscccccccscccveccsccens 16 Wtilizingithe Dock eee eee ee oee a Eo 22 EXPOS oo ieee eeose Eo clove EEEE EEEE EEEE E e neS 23 Spaces eee e A E A E e 25 Spotlighten ea e a e a e e e ae a e e e a T ee 27 Searching with the Finder s s essssssssessoosssessssssssssse 30 System Requirements for Installing Leopard As anxious as you probably are to get started make sure that your Mac meets all the necessary hardware requirements for properly installing and running Leopard Table 1 1 lists the require ments which are straight from Apple Table 1 1 Requirements for Installing Leopard Processo2. Documents L KINGSTON TA ncomplete a Leopard Library gt SHARED l Movies Music Pictures Desktop l Public A dwight Sites A Applications Stuff g Movies Sa Music Gig Pictures E MOxtpc gt untitled co a PLACES TT VU FP FO FOES 1 14 A CD and a flash drive as they appear on the Desktop and in the Sidebar of the Finder window Perform one of the following steps to disconnect or eject removable media Click the Eject icon to the right of the media icon in the Sidebar of the Finder window Drag the media icon from the Desktop and drop it on the Trash icon in the Dock Right click or Ctrl click the media icon on the Desktop or in the Sidebar and then select Eject from the contextual menu Click the icon for the media once to highlight it and press 8 E 21 Utilizing the Dock Ah the Dock loved by most tolerated by some and loathed by a few Regardless of how you feel about the Dock personally can t imagine working without it it is an integral part of your Leopard experience The Dock is where you keep aliases or shortcuts to applications utilities and folders that you use or access more frequently than others It also displays icons for all your currently run ning applications and even some processes like print jobs Currently running applications have a bright dot underneath their icons The Dock is divided into two sections by a divider line Applications
3. 4 Your new filtered search results are displayed almost instantly after you add an attribute 5 Continue to add as many attributes as necessary or remove attributes by clicking the buttons to their far right 31 Vere O Ph Genius X Leopard Portable Genius Use Boolean operators such as AND OR and NOT to logically narrow your search You may also use quotes around text to specify that the words in the quotes must be found in exactly the order you typed them Spotlight is already amazingly fast but you can still give it a further speed boost by using keyboard shortcuts The keyboard shortcuts in Table 1 7 will make searching for items even easier than using Spotlight with your mouse Table 1 7 Spotlight Keyboard Shortcuts Function Open the Spotlight menu Keys 8 space bar Open the Spotlight Finder window 38 Option space bar Open the top search result 38 Return Jump to the first item in the next heading 3 Down arrow Jump to the first item in the prior heading 36 Up arrow Jump to the first item in the menu Ctrl Up arrow Jump to the last item in the menu Ctrl Down arrow Show an item in the Finder 32 Click the item while holding down 38 33
4. all the of the workd and their glory und he said to him AE these will give you fall down and worship me Ther Jesus said to him Be gone Satan For fou shall worship the Loed your God d him only shall you serve Then the devil left him and behold angels came and were ministering to him Jenos Begins Mis Ministry Now when he head that John had been amested he withdrew into Galilee And leaving Nazareth be went and ihved in Caperrssurn by the sea in the territory of Zebulun and Naphitald so that what was spoken by the peophet Isaiah might be folfiliedt 2 The land of Zetrallun and the land of Napbtali the way of the sea beyond the Joecan Galliee of the Gentiles the people dwelling in catkmess awe seen a great light arxi foe thone dweliing m the ngice and shader c death e them sligin han dawned From that time Jesus began to preach saying Repent for the kingdon is at hand Jesus Cais the First Disciples w While walling ty the Sea af Galilee be saw two brothers Simon w ier and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea for they wese fis And he said to them Follow me and will make you fishers af men immediately they left their nets and followed him And going or brothers James the son of Zebedee and Join his bi their father mending their nets and he called them acd thear father and follcewed him Jesus Ministers to Great Crswas And h
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6. and utilities reside on the left side of the divider line while folders reside on the right with the Trash icon Right click or Ctrl click the divider line to see display options for Dock Adding and removing items You can add and remove items to and from the Dock as you please and it s really easy to do To add an item to the Dock simply drag its icon to the Dock and drop it in where you want it to go You can reposition an item in the Dock by simply dragging and drop ping it to its new location If you have an application open that you d like to keep in the F Par a gs Keep in Dock Dock click and hold its icon as shown in figure 1 15 and oat ation x select Keep in Dock from the contextual menu that appears Show in Finder Hide To remove an item drag its icon from the Dock and let go of Quit the mouse button The icon disappears in a puff of smoke Don t worry the original item is still in its location you ve only removed the alias for the item Set the Dock s preferences ene Keep anicomin the Dock if you need to You can tame the Dock by setting its preferences to meet your needs use it often Open the Dock s preferences by right clicking or Ctrl clicking the divider line and select Dock Preferences 22 The Dock preferences window lets you make several changes Increase or decrease the size of the Dock by moving the Size slider If your icons are too small to see clearly check the Magnif
7. sound hold down the C key to boot from the installation disc Continue to hold the C key until you see the gray Apple logo on the screen Choose the language you want to use for the installation process and click the forward arrow Click Continue at the Welcome screen Agree to the software license agreement Choose the hard drive you want to install Leopard on and then click the Options but ton in the lower left corner Select Erase and Install Select Mac OS Extended Journaled for the Format disk as option Click OK and then click Continue on the Select a Destination screen Click the Install button in the Install Summary window Advanced Installation Options There are a couple of other things want to show you that can help customize your Leopard instal lation Partition your hard drive If you have a large hard drive you can partition it meaning that you can divide the physical drive with software to make the drive appear and even operate as if it were multiple disks This is advan tageous if you plan to install Windows on your Mac using Boot Camp see Chapter 16 using part of your drive for the OS and other parts for storing your documents and information or if you want to install multiple versions of Mac OS X on one computer Of course there are many more reasons you would partition your drive but you get the idea To partition your drive 1 Insert the installation disc into your Mac and resta
8. the item you are specifically looking for and then click to open it in its default application Spotlight only shows the top matches in each category in order to see all the matches click Show All at the top of the list folders that contain your search words Spotlight literally searches every file on your Genius lac for your search criteria including e mails Web pages you ve visited contacts music movies images and PDF files Spotlight can even search other Macs on your network that you have connected to if they have file sharing enabled 28 Setting Spotlight preferences You can easily modify Spotlight to search where and how you want it to using its preferences Choose Apple menu System Preferences and then click the Spotlight icon in the Personal sec tion to access the Spotlight preferences pane as shown in figure 1 21 Figure 1 21 shows the Search Results section of the preferences pane This section lists the cate gories of files that will appear in the search results window Check the check box next to those cat egories you want Spotlight to search in and uncheck those you want to leave alone For example if you don t want Spotlight to check your e mail when performing a search simply uncheck the check box next to the Mail Messages category You can also click and drag the categories into the order you prefer the results to be displayed in Click the Privacy tab at the top of the preferences pane t
9. ac OS X Leopard retail box and when the installation is finished you will be fully Leopardized 1 If the process doesn t finish you may not be able to start up from your hard drive If Caution you are installing on a laptop make sure the power supply is connected before beginning the installation so that the process isn t stopped due to low battery power Custom Installations Should you decide to completely start over with your Mac you ve come to the right section of this chapter To start over means to completely install a fresh operating system and not upgrade over an existing one There are two ways to start over with your Mac archive installations and erase installations Archive and install When you perform an archive installation the Mac OS X Installer creates an archive of your existing system software and then installs an entirely new system This prevents you from completely eras ing the previous system which will allow you to retrieve items from the archived system later if you need to For example you may want to find an old Safari bookmarks file and import it into Safari or some other Web browser that you use with Leopard The best thing about the archive installation is that you can have the Mac OS X Installer preserve all of your user accounts and their home folders along with your network settings and import them into Leopard This alone can save you massive amounts of time To perform an ar
10. also displays search results Vertical Horizontal Drag the bars or click the arrows to navigate to areas of a window that scroll bar and arrows are hidden from view Sidebar Folders Hide Toolbar button Results window Search field Toolbar E iDisk E Leopard gt SHARED Desktop Documents Library Movies Pictures Public YV PLACES f dwight Y SEARCH FOR Today Yesterday Past Week All Images All Movies All Documents hs Statistics bar Scroll bars Scroll arrows 1 7 Finder windows are used for browsing your disks files and folders Set the Finder preferences As you ll notice throughout this book you can modify most things in Leopard to match your per sonal preferences and tastes to one degree or another and that s the way like it The Finder is no 13 exception to this rule see Chapter 10 for a lot of Finder customization tips giving you access to its preferences by choosing Finder Preferences or by pressing 36 Let s take a look at the prefer ences that the Finder allows us to control General Figure 1 8 shows the General tab of the Finder Preferences window The General tab options are fairly self explanatory with the exception of Spring loaded folders and windows which are so cool that they get their own sidebar The other three options allow you to Show certain types of items on the Desktop Choose which folder to
11. andard installation of Destination Select this software on the volume Leopard Installation Type _ Installation Summary Change Install Location Go back install 1 5 Click Install to begin the Xcode developer tools installer process Explore the Finder Once your Mac has booted or when you first log in take a look at that smiley face guy grinning at you near the bottom left corner of your screen That s the Finder and it s one of the most important items in all of Mac OS X Leopard The Finder is an application that always runs in Leopard and it has been a part of the Mac OS since its inception The Finder is what Mac fans have used for decades to browse their computers drives and discs and it has evolved into a great tool that can t imagine not having especially as you can t view the contents of your hard drive without it For the Windows converts in the audience think of the Finder as the Mac OS X equivalent to Explorer Windows Explorer that is not Internet Explorer In this section show you how to use the Finder s basic features and also give you tips that I ve learned to make the Finder even easier and more productive to use 10 The Desktop is what you see when you first start up or log in to your Mac this area is where all the action in your applications takes place The Desktop is a major part and is actually the starting point of the Finde
12. ature can be pretty boring so give it a try on your own so that you can master this nifty little trick 14 the time To do so place the item you want to permanently delete in the Trash and then choose Finder Secure Empty Trash from the menu Labels and Sidebar The Labels tab allows you to assign colored labels to categories that you determine You Open can then assign these labels to files and fold Move to Trash ers by right clicking them or Ctrl clicking if Get Info you don t have a two button mouse and Compress Red Hot Stuff then selecting a label from the list as shown Duplicate in figure 1 9 Make Alias Copy Red Hot Stuff The Sidebar tab of the Finder Preferences win dow simply lets you choose which types of Clean Up Selection ae to display in the Sidebar of every Finder Ahal window r x Rsossas Big Time Important Advanced More Table 1 4 explains the options that are available 1 9 Assigning a label to a folder in the Advanced tab of the Finder Preferences Table 1 4 Advanced Tab Options Show all file Each file has an extension on the end of its name that is hidden by extensions default This extension helps Leopard know what type of document the file is and what application it is associated with Unless you understand these extensions it is best to leave this option unchecked Show warning Leopard warns you that you are about to change the extension of a file bef
13. automatically enter when you open a new Finder window Decide whether to always open fold ers in new separate windows do not recommend that you use this fea ture unless you are someone who just 600 Show these items on the Desktop New Finder windows open Always open folders in a new window M Spring loaded folders and windows Finder Preferences M Hard disks M External disks M CDs DVDs and iPods M Connected servers Home cs Delay Short Medium Long Press Space Bar to open immediately 1 8 Options available in the General tab can t get enough open windows on their Desktop Spring loaded folders and windows are a neat feature of the Finder but are foreign to many Mac users especially the new recruits so l ll take a minute fo mention them sepa rately Enabling spring loaded folders and windows lets you move items between folders and disks with minimal effort With this feature enabled you can drag an item over any folder hold it there for just a split second and the folder automatically opens Continue to hold the mouse button down while you position the item over each subfolder and they will all behave accordingly automatically opening and allowing you to drill down into the subfolders as far as you need to Finally drop the item into the folder you want to move it to by letting go of the mouse button Reading a description of this fe
14. chive and install 1 Insert the installation disc into your Mac and restart the computer 2 Immediately after you hear the startup sound hold down the C key to boot from the installation disc Continue to hold the C key until you see the gray Apple logo on the screen 3 Choose the language you want to use for the installation process and click the forward arrow apter 1 Wnat Are the Basics Need to Know about Leopard Click Continue at the Welcome screen Agree to the software license agreement Choose the hard drive you want to install Leopard on and then click the Options but ton in the lower left corner Select Archive and Install whole heartedly recommend that you check the Preserve Users and Network Settings check box Click OK and then click Continue on the Select a Destination screen Click the Install button in the Install Summary window Erase and install The erase and install option does exactly what it states It completely erases your entire hard disk and installs a completely new copy of Leopard fi on your drive when you choose an erase and install It is almost inevitable that after Caution the process is complete you will slap your forehead in disgust realizing you just erased Grandma s recipes that have been passed down for generations To perform an erase and install Insert the installation disc into your Mac and restart the computer Immediately after you hear the startup
15. cuser hand yer ower to the judge and the judge to the guard and you be put in prison gt Truly say 30 yous you will never get out went you have paid the las Bec je a a tere 2 aaefa t taha sone 1 13 A document previewed using Quick Look You can use the Inspector which is a floating version of the Get Info window to quickly get information on multiple items without having to open separate Get Info windows for each one To do this 1 Open a folder that contains the items you want to see informa tion about 2 Press 3 Option l to open the Inspector window it looks just like a standard Get Info window 3 Click each file in the folder to see its information in the Inspector window The Inspector changes information for each file you select You can move between files by using the arrow keys on the keyboard 20 Working with removable media When you insert or connect removable media such as CDs DVDs external hard disks and USB flash drives Leopard automatically mounts them making them immediately available for use The media s icon appears on your Desktop in a Finder window or both as shown in figure 1 14 depending on how you have configured your Finder preferences Double click the icon to see the media s contents just as you would any other hard disk or folder CS HH S i 100 Tue 3 11 54PM Dwight Spivey Leopard Untitled CD KINGSTON Y DEVICES Desktop E iDisk
16. e went throughout all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and pro daming the ponpe of the kerasdoes ane healing every people Se his tame speead throu thone afflicted with various d demons eptleptic and paralytics and he healed them And great cromis Sok lowed him feces Gallice and the Decapolls and trom Jerusaiees and Jadea and feom beyond the Jordan The Seeman on the Moxnt Seeing the crowds be went up on the mountain amd when be sat Gown his disciples came to him Tre Beatitudes Ad Ibe opened his mouth and taught them saying Riese ane the poor in spirit Sor theirs amp the kingsiom of heaven Riessed are those who mourn foe they shali d eted Riewsed are the meck for they shall inherit the Biesed are those who hunger and thing Soe righteousness foe they shall be satisfied Hiewed are the merciful fe they shall receive mercy iressed are the zune in beart for they shall see God ised are the peacemakers for they shall be called sans of God Blenet are thone who ase persecuted for righteousness sake for thein i the tingian af heaven UY Riesued are you when other pevile yors and persecute you and utter all kind of againat you falsely i 7 Rejodice and be glad foe your sewand is great in heaven for so they persecuted the prophets who were belooe you th but If salt has k jor anything exces 2 Its taste how shall its saltiness be thrown out
17. ed and when it was created and or modified The additional information shown here will vary depending on the type of item this is For example for the folder in figure 1 12 you can see when the folder was last opened If the file were an image you might see its dimensions and color space Allows you to change the name and extension of the file and to hide the extension Select the default application that you want to open this type of file with This option only displays when getting info about a file Shows a small thumbnail version of the file Allows you to change access permissions for the item Click the lock icon in the bottom right corner to change the permissions Click the or buttons to add or remove users from the permissions list Using Quick Look Quick Look is one of the best new features in Leopard It allows you to see the contents of a file without actually opening it in its native application For example you can see every page of a Word document without having to open Word itself This makes it really easy to find a document if you ve forgotten its name but know the content that you re looking for or when you re looking for just the right image but don t want to have to wait for Photoshop to load To use Quick Look 1 Find the file you want to view and click it once to highlight it 2 Click the Quick Look button or press the space bar to open the file as shown in figure 1 13 3 To see the
18. ers for your search results These attributes allow you to specify the type of file you want when it was last modified whether the file is visible or not and many many other attribute types 000 Searching This Mac haje 3 Ba m Q leopard Y DEVICES Search CELEB Leopard File Name E i0isk Kind is Other Volume I Leopard Name matches Leopard gt SHARED z EF Visible tems Y PLACES Last opened date is within last fr days E desktop Kind Q dwight Created cate Volume Today 12 41 AM A Applications Name Contents H Movies Description J Music File visibility i Pictures anna Other E Moxurc r Y SEARCH FOR Today Yesterday Past Week All Images By All Movies E All Documents 1 22 Attributes narrow a search in a big way To add attributes to a search 1 Click the button next to the Save button in the upper right area of the Finder window 2 Choose the type of attribute to use by clicking the pop up menu on the left side of the search window as shown in figure 1 22 There are many more attributes preconfigured by Apple that you can access by choosing Other from the attribute list You can also add other conditions specifically the All Any or None of the following are true criteria to the search by holding down the Option button while clicking the button 3 Make any setting changes to the attribute to narrow your search
19. ey and the number key that corresponds to the space want to navigate to Jumping to another space Genius Assigning applications to spaces One feature love in Spaces is the ability to assign applications to always open in a specific space To assign applications to spaces 1 Click the button under the Application Assignments window in the Spaces tab of the Expos amp Spaces preferences 2 Browse your hard drive for the applications or utilities you want to assign select them and click the Add button 3 You can change the space that an application opens in by clicking the space selection column for that application as shown in figure 1 19 Space lt amp Chess Space 1 a Dictionary Sraca1 FileZilla Every Space Firefox Space 1 Space 3 Space 4 1 19 Choose the space that your applications are assigned to open in e Spotlight Apple introduced Spotlight in Mac OS X Tiger and instantly changed the way Mac users look for items on their computers Spotlight finds things on your Mac much faster than you or could if we were poking around every file and folder and it s the quickest way to find things that I ve ever seen on a computer When you first log in to your Mac OS X creates an index of every file and folder it contains Leopard knows everything there is to know about every single thing that occupies your Mac s space whether the item is visible or invisible Leopard stores thi
20. hown in figure 1 6 is that of my hard drive but if you have more than one disk on your Mac you will also see them listed here Houses links to applications and other items that you use most fre quently You can modify the Dock as you ll see later on in this chapter Contains files and folders that you want to remove from your Mac Former Windows users will find it similar to the Recycle Bin Provides fast access to items in your Home folder s Downloads folder Provides fast access to items in your Home folder s Documents folder Now that you are more familiar with the features of the Desktop let s examine a Finder window which is the mechanism you will need to view files and folders on your disks Figure 1 7 shows a default Finder window and Table 1 3 gives a brief breakdown of each noteworthy item Table 1 3 Finder window components Folders Toolbar Sidebar Statistics bar Hide Toolbar button Search field 12 Used to store files and other subfolders Contains tools for accessing files and folders Provides quick links to disks favorite folders shared folders and precon figured searches Displays information about the current folder Click to hide the toolbar and sidebar from view click again to bring the toolbar and sidebar back Enter a search term to look for the item in the current folder Component Description Results window Shows the files and subfolders that reside in a folder and
21. ication check box and adjust the slider to increase or decrease the amount of magnification The Dock can be positioned on the left or right side of the window or at the bot tom which is its default setting The Minimize using option lets you choose the special effect that occurs when you minimize a window into the Dock To minimize a window click the yellow button in its upper left corner Check the Animate opening applications check box to cause the icon of an item you are opening to bounce up and down in the Dock leave this option unchecked the bouncing annoys the heck out of me If you don t like the Dock cramping your style or your Desktop space for that matter you can hide it from view by checking the box next to Automatically hide and show the Dock When you inevitably have to use the Dock again hold your mouse pointer at the very bottom of your window for just a second and the Dock will temporar ily pop back up into view only to go back into hiding when you re finished Expose Expos is a great feature for helping to clear up the jumbled mess of windows that can grind your productivity to a halt Expos arranges your windows in one of three ways using three of the func tion keys at the top of your keyboard F9 F10 and F11 Manipulating open windows Press F9 to arrange the open windows so that they can all be seen as shown in figure 1 16 Move the mouse pointer over the windows to see what applicat
22. ion at your disposal Figure 1 11 shows that the files and folders are displayed as they really appear when opened in an application which can be a great help when searching for a particular document or picture e000 J Microsoft User Data s m Q Back View Quick Look Action Search DEVICES E iDisk 4 Leopard gt SHARED Y PLACES E Desktop A dwight A Applications Word Work File A 290525954 Movies Microsoft Word 97 2004 document Jd Music Gigi Pictures C MOXLPG me Date Modified Size gt iJ Office 2008 AutoRecovery Nov 12 2007 10 41 AM Sal Fei gt Gi Office 2008 Identities Oct 24 2007 5 51 PM 4 OMe gt Gl Office x Identities Sep 3 2007 8 22 PM 0 Yesterday gt J PowerPoint Script Menu Items Oct 24 2007 5 11 PM Past Week gt Saved Attachments Today 11 10 AM m All Images gt Gi Word Script Menu Items Oct 24 2007 5 11 PM A All Movies Word Work File A_92695948 Mar 6 2008 11 02 AM 36 KEa Gay All Documents B Word Work File A_290525954 Today 9 09 PM 60 KER E lt gt 1 of 38 selected 3 5 GB available A 1 11 Cover Flow is really neat to use Drag the slider back and forth to see how effortlessly the Finder zooms through the files in the folder Get information on files and folders You can never have too much information and Mac OS X is more than happy to provide you with what you need to know about your computer s files and folders To find out what there is to
23. ions they belong to Click the window you want to bring to the forefront or press F9 to return to the Finder s previous state 23 1 16 Pressing F9 performs this little miracle The F10 key brings all the open windows for the current application to the forefront A push of the F11 key causes all open windows to scram out of the way so that you can see the Desktop Press F10 or F11 respectively to return the Finder to its previous state Set Expos preferences Open the Expos preferences by choosing Apple menu System Preferences and then selecting the Expos amp Spaces icon Table 1 6 explains the options available in the Expos tab of the Expos amp Spaces preferences window Table 1 6 Expos Preferences Explained Active Screen Corners Click any of the four pop up menus to choose what actions Leopard takes when you move your mouse pointer to a corner of your screen Expos Customize the keys or key combinations that perform Expos actions Dashboard Choose which function key will cause Dashboard to open and close 24 Spaces Spaces is a new addition to Mac OS X It is an organizational tool that lets you create multiple spaces for certain tasks Spaces are essentially additional desktops You could have a space for surf ing the Web and checking e mail another space to watch your stocks a third space to work on a spreadsheet and so forth Set Spaces preferences Choose the Apple menu select S
24. item in Full Screen mode click the arrows at the bottom of the window To exit Full Screen mode click the arrows again 4 Close the Quick Look window by clicking the X in the upper left corner Red Hot Stuff Modified Today at 9 48 AM 5 1 MB Spotlight Comments Caution Don t Touch Vv General Kind Folder Size 5 1 MB on disk 5 287 634 bytes for 8 items Where Users dwight Desktop Created Yesterday at 9 43 PM Modified Today at 9 48 AM label x BSUS C Shared Folder C Locked More Info Last opened Today at 9 48 AM VY Name amp Extension Red Hot Stuff Hide extension gt Preview Sharing amp Permissions You can read and write Name Privilege A dwight Me Read amp Write LY staff Read only fel everyone Read only amp A 1 12 A Get Info window with most of the categories expanded 19 esv personal size reference sample pdf MATTHEW 4 5 Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth af God Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to bie u are the Son of Go throw yourself Gown for it is written He willc v hisange s concerning you On thetr hanes they will bear you up Jest you strike your foot against a stone en You shall not prot the Lard your God te the Again the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him
25. know about an item 17 can t speak for other Mac users but the Finder menu that most wish had discovered years ago is the Go menu The Go menu gives you instant access to the most commonly used folders in Leopard but for some reason overlooked it for most of the eight plus years I ve used Mac OS X Click the Go menu to quickly go to the Applications folder the Utilities folder your Network and more Better yet familiarize yourself with the keyboard shortcuts that are used to access those items the keyboard shortcuts are listed to the right of each command in the Go menu If an item you want to jump to isn t in the Go menu press 38 Shift G to open the Go to Folder window then type the path of the folder you want and click the Go button to jump over to it 1 Click once the file or folder you want information about 2 Press 36 I or choose File gt Get Info from the menu Figure 1 12 shows you a typical Info window and Table 1 5 explains the categories that are avail able in the window Table 1 5 Information Categories Spotlight Comments General More Info Name amp Extension Open with Preview Sharing amp Permissions 18 Enter information about the file that will help you find it using a Spotlight search see this chapter s section Spotlight for more informa tion Tells you information such as what kind of item you re viewing its size where it s locat
26. o reveal the Privacy list This section allows you to specify directories folders on your Mac that you want to exclude from any searches To modify the Privacy list 1 Click the button under the bottom left corner of the list 2 Browse your Mac for the folder you want to exclude from searches highlight the folder and then click Choose The folder is now shown in the Privacy list 3 You can remove a folder from the list by highlighting it and then clicking the button under the bottom left corner of the list The two check boxes at the bottom of the preferences pane allow you to enable Spotlight keyboard shortcuts for opening a Spotlight menu or window more on Spotlight windows in the next section of this chapter at the stroke of a couple of keys You can also select which keys perform these func tions See the sidebar at the end of this chapter for more on Spotlight keyboard shortcuts Searching with the Spotlight menu is certainly fast and easy but it doesn t always yield the best results as it may give you so many results that you could never realistically search them all in a rea sonable amount of time To remedy this situation Spotlight brings in our trusty friend the Finder 29 00 Spotlight Lale Show All Qj Spotlight helps you quickly find things on your computer Spotlight is located at the top right corner of the screen Search Results _ Privacy Drag categories to change the order in which resul
27. ore changing an This warning is beneficial so that you won t accidentally change an extension extension which could cause your document to open in a different application than intended if at all Show warning before Leopard prompts you to confirm that you mean to empty the Trash emptying the Trash before allowing you to do so Empty Trash securely Select this option to make certain that all traces of a file are removed from the hard drive when you empty the Trash This is a feature security nuts will love but it prevents you from ever recovering any files you may have accidentally deleted Use this option with caution 15 Viac OS X Leopard Portable Genius Moving Around in the Finder Mac OS X employs the same basic navigation techniques as any other graphical operating system such as double clicking to open files and folders right clicking or Ctrl clicking items to see contex tual menus that can alter or perform an action on an item like the Labels example you saw earlier in this chapter and clicking and dragging items to move them to and fro I m sure you re all experi enced at the basics of mouse operations so l Il move on to more Finder centric tasks and options Finder viewing options You can change the way files and folders are displayed in Finder windows by choosing one of the four View options in the toolbar Let s look at how each option displays the contents of the same folder so that you can see the clear diffe
28. r Figure 1 6 should mirror your own Mac s screen very closely after you ve logged in it lists the major parts that you see when the Finder first comes up Apple menu Desktop Volume control Disk icon Menu bar Clock Spotlight Finder File Edit View Go Window Help s iAd aom Dwight Spi AO RO ISEO7OU mm Dock Documents stack Trash Downloads stack The Finder s Desktop in all its default glory Now that you know the names of the items you see in the Finder let s use Table 1 2 to decipher what functionality they provide Table 1 2 Finder items Apple menu Menu bar Desktop Volume control Clock Spotlight Disk icon Dock Trash Downloads stack Documents stack Finder windows Provides quick access to functions such as Sleep Restart Shut Down Recent Items and System Preferences Windows users will find that it functions similarly to the Start menu that they are used to Use the menu bar in the Finder and in other applications to print copy and paste and change application preferences Functions like the desktop on your desk it s where everything else such as documents and applications sits while you are working on it You can easily change the Desktop picture see Chapter 10 for more details Adjusts your Mac s volume Displays the current date and time Searches your Mac for files and folders See this chapter s section Spotlight for more information The particular icon s
29. r Intel processor or a PowerPC G4 867 MHz or faster or G5 processor Memory 512MB of RAM just to get Leopard up and going 2GB is needed to run all the bells and whistles at a decent speed Media DVD drive Hard disk space At least 9GB of free space Choose an Installation Method Only you can decide how to install Leopard Should you upgrade or wipe everything clean on your hard drive and start all over with a fresh OS install Let s look at the options Upgrading from a previous version of the Mac OS has its advantages to be sure There is no need to create new user accounts for every user You don t have to reload all of your applications and documents O The Leopard installer does all the difficult work migrating user account informa tion such as passwords e mail accounts and Safari bookmarks These are compelling reasons to simply upgrade and be done with it However there are also a couple of good reasons not to upgrade Ifyou have Mac OS X 10 2 or earlier you can t upgrade to Leopard You must have 10 3 or 10 4 If your Mac has been exhibiting some weird behavior lately it is most likely system related It s best to start over if this is the case You may want to simply start over especially if your Mac has become bloated with extraneous application and documents that you ve forgotten about or neglected to maintain Weigh the six points I ve just listed and decide for yourself whether to
30. rences between each view Icons Icons view shows each file and folder as large icons in the window as shown in figure 1 10 Y DEVICES x a met E ioisk DB Leopard l AutoRecovery save of AutoRecovery save of AutoRecovery save of ERED 27204t doc 290507 ch23l doc 290507 ch2l doc Y PLACES AN T i G dmight Eae A Applications AutoRecovery save of Entourage Script Menu Entourage Sound Sets El Movies MOSXLPG_sample doc Items J Music Pictures p _ Gore Entourage Temp Excel Script Menu Items Microsoft Messenger Data Y SEARCH FOR Today mm Yesterday s4 lt _ D Past Week eae on aie Normal Office 2004 Identities Office 2008 AutoRecovery BAI Movies BAI Documents 5 1 10 A folder as seen in Icons view DEPRE SS AE E a e BE el ite Are the default icons too large or small for your liking Change them by pressing 38 J to open the viewing options window Drag the Icon size slider to enlarge or Genius WEERA EAE ATEO OA 16 List List view does just what it says It displays the files and folders in a list You can arrange the list by filenames the date the files were modified the size of the file or folder and the kind of item it is Columns My personal favorite is Columns view This view arranges the contents of a folder into columns with each column displaying the contents of the subsequent folder Cover Flow Cover Flow is hands down the coolest viewing opt
31. rt the computer 2 Immediately after you hear the startup sound hold down the C key to boot from the installation disc Continue to hold the C key until you see the gray Apple logo on the screen 3 Select the language you want to use for the installation process and click the forward arrow 4 Choose Utilities gt Disk Utility from the menu 5 Select the disk in the volume list on the left side of the Disk Utility window as shown in figure 1 3 6 Click the Partition tab in the window and then click the button in the lower left cor ner to begin adding partitions to the Volume Scheme 7 Select a format for each partition using the Format menu 8 You can resize each partition by typing a size into the Size box 9 Click Apply when you are ready to partition the drive Install the Xcode Developer Tools The Leopard installation disc comes with all the tools that application developers need to get started with programming for Mac OS X These tools called Xcode developer tools can easily be installed from the Mac OS X Install DVD They are found in the Optional Installs folder on the disc the path to the installer is shown in figure 1 4 ee E Leopard MATSHITA CD RW CW 2 Partiti 7 Mac OS X Install DVD _2Partitions ame Leopard_2 Volume Scheme Volume Information Format Mac OS Extended Journaled E Size 2 62 GB To erase and partition the selected disk choose a volume scheme set option
32. s for each volume and click Apply To resize the volumes on the selected disk drag the dividers between them and click Apply A new volume will be created Size 2 6 GB Cren Car l Disk Description ST96812AS Media Total Capacity 55 9 GB 60 011 642 880 Bytes Connection Bus Serial ATA 2 Write Status Read Write Connection Type Internal S M A R T Status Verified Partition Map Scheme GUID Partition Table 1 3 Partitioning a drive with Disk Utility is a breeze x a Lof 5 selected 3 4 MB available i fE Leopard Install Mac OSX Optional Instalis mpkg About Xcode Tools paf Y Preview g Instructions gt Q Xcode Tools Dashcode pkg E mac osx mstar ovo C Optional installs il Packages i WebObjects mpkg XcodeTools mpkg nevon f Name XcodeTools mpk d Kind Installer package Size 504 KB on disk Created 10 12 07 1 35 AM Modified 10 12 07 1 35 AM Last opened _ Mare info To install the Xcode developer tools 1 Double click the XcodeTools mpkg file to launch the installer and click Continue 2 Click Continue again in the Software License Agreement window and then agree to the license agreement 3 Click the Install button in the Standard Install on Leopard window to begin the installation see figure 1 5 86 0 0 Xcode Standard Install on Leopard e Introduction License Click Install to perform a st
33. s information or metadata and Spotlight uses the information along with filenames and content to find what you are looking for Every time you add or remove an item or add or remove something within that item like text within a document Leopard updates its index files thereby keeping all your searches up to the minute accurate 27 Viac OS X Leoparda Portable Gentius You might think that with all this information to look through a search could take forever but that s not the case at all Spotlight can find items containing your search words almost as quickly as you can type them Searching with Spotlight Chances are good that no matter how long it s been since you ve seen the file you re looking for Spotlight can dig it up for you again Let s see how to use this amazing feature 1 Click the Spotlight icon the magnifying glass in the upper right corner of your Mac s window to reveal the Search text field as shown in figure 1 20 Leopard 1 20 Enter your search words into Spotlight 2 Type your search criteria in the text field Some applications have Spotlight Search fields in their toolbars which you can use to enter search words when specifically searching for items within that application for example when searching for an e mail within Mail 3 Spotlight immediately begins searching your Mac and displays the information it finds that matches the criteria you entered in step 2 4 Scan the list to find
34. ts appear Only selected categories will appear in Spotlight search results 1 M A Applications F E System Preferences M Documents M Folders m Mail Messages m W Contacts M sh Events amp To Do Items M Gai Images 9 MH POF Documents 10 M Webpages 11 Mi Music 12 MH Movies 13 M A Fonts 14 M F Presentations On ouasawn m Spotlight menu keyboard shortcut Space vl A F Spotlight window keyboard shortcut X3 Space lt A 1 21 The Spotlight preferences let you search the way you like Searching with the Finder The Finder gives you much more leverage to enhance your search beyond the Spotlight menu s capabilities To perform a basic Spotlight search within a Finder window 1 Open a Finder window by pressing 98 N while the Finder is activated click the Finder icon on the left side of the Dock if you aren t sure the Finder is the activated or fore most application 2 Browse your Mac for the folder that you know includes the files you are looking for or through and click the folder to highlight it 3 Type the search criteria into the Search text field in the upper right corner of the Finder window and you see your results displayed in the Finder 30 Any search utility worth using will allow a lot of flexibility to narrow searches and Spotlight is as flexible as they come Figure 1 22 shows a Finder search window that has been assigned several search attributes which act as filt
35. upgrade or not If you choose to upgrade simply continue on to the next section Should you decide to wipe the drive clean and start fresh skip to the Custom Installations section to get going quickly Upgrade to Leopard Let s get started with your upgrade to the newest feline from Apple 1 Insert the Leopard installation disc into your Mac 2 When the disc mounts the Mac OS X Install DVD automatically opens as shown in figure 1 1 3 Double click the Install Mac OS X icon 4 Click the Restart button in the Install Mac OS X window shown in figure 1 2 5 Once your Mac reboots select the language you want to use for the installation process and click the for ward arrow 6 Click Continue at the Welcome screen 7 Agree to the software license agree ment 8 Choose the hard drive on which you want to install Leopard and click Continue 9 Click the Install button in the Install Summary window 00o CJ Mac OS X Install DVD Ta z 3 items 3 4 MB available Install Mac OS X m Optional Installs _ Instructions 1 1 The Leopard DVD window Install Mac OS Click the button beiow to restart Your computer and begin the installation process C Resan 1 2 Press the Restart button to begin the installation process eee Viac OS X Leopard Portable Genius 10 Sit back get a cup of your favorite beverage read the Welcome to Leopard manual that came in the M
36. ystem Preferences and then click the Expos amp Spaces icon Click the Spaces tab to see the Spaces preferences as shown in figure 1 17 To use the Spaces feature you must enable it by checking the Enable Spaces check box in the pref erences window Adding and removing spaces You can have as many as 16 spaces at any one time There s nothing magical about adding or removing spaces Just click the or buttons next to the Rows and Columns options Xle Expos amp Spaces kale Q Expos Spaces Spaces lets you organize your windows into groups to reduce desktop clutter M Enable Spaces Show Spaces in menu bar Rows Columns Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts for more shortcut choices press Shift Control Option or command To activate Spaces F8 H To switch between spaces Arrow Keys E To switch directly to a space Number Keys E 1 17 Spaces preferences allow you to alter how the Spaces feature functions 25 There are a few ways to jump from space to space Press F8 and click the space you want to move to as shown in figure 1 18 Check the Show Spaces in menu bar check box in the Spaces preferences then click the Spaces icon in the menu bar and choose the number of the space you want to jump to To scroll through the spaces hold down the control key and press one of the arrow keys I find that the easiest method is to simultaneously press the control k
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