David Pogue

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Mountain Lion Edition (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Ready to move to the Mac? This incomparable guide helps you make a smooth transition. New York Times columnist and Missing Manuals creator David Pogue gets you past three challenges: transferring your stuff, assembling Mac programs so you can do what you did with Windows, and learning your way around OS X.Learning to use a Mac is not a piece of cake, but once you do, the rewards are oh-so-much better. You won't find questionable firewalls or inefficient permissions. Just a beautiful machine with a thoroughly reliable system. Whether youre using Windows XP or Windows 7, weve got you covered.Transfer your stuff. Moving files from a PC to a Mac is the easy part. This guide gets you through the tricky things: extracting your email, address book, calendar, Web bookmarks, buddy list, desktop pictures, and MP3 files.Re-create your software suite. Big-name programs from Microsoft, Adobe, and others are available in both Mac and Windows versions, but hundreds of other programs are Windows-only. Learn the Macintosh equivalents and how to move data to them.Learn OS X Mountain Lion. Once youve moved into the Macintosh mansion, its time to learn your way around. Youre in good hands with the author of Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, the #1 bestselling guide to OS X.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 762
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781449338992
• Artikelnr.: 37902287

Autorenporträt

David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how- to authors. In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles.

Inhaltsangabe

The Missing Credits
About the Author
About the Creative Team
Acknowledgments
The Missing Manual Series
Introduction
What OS X Gives You
What OS X Takes Away
About This Book
The Very Basics
The Mountain Lion Difference
Part One: Welcome to Macintosh
Chapter 1: How the Mac Is Different
1.1 Power On, Dude
1.2 Right-Clicking and Shortcut Menus
1.3 Logging Out, Shutting Down
1.4 The Menu Bar
1.5 Finder = Windows Explorer
1.6 Dock = Taskbar
1.7 Menulets = Tray
1.8 Keyboard Differences
1.9 Disk Differences
1.10 Where Your Stuff Is
1.11 Window Controls
1.12 Terminology Differences
Chapter 2: Folders, Dock & Windows
2.1 Getting into OS X
2.2 The Four Window Views
2.3 Icon View
2.4 List View
2.5 Column View
2.6 Cover Flow View
2.7 Quick Look
2.8 The Dock
2.9 Setting Up the Dock
2.10 Using the Dock
2.11 The Finder Toolbar
2.12 Getting Help in OS X
Chapter 3: Files, Icons & Spotlight
3.1 Renaming Icons
3.2 Selecting Icons
3.3 Moving and Copying Icons
3.4 Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once
3.5 Color Labels
3.6 The Trash
3.7 Get Info
3.8 Shortcut Menus, Action Menus
3.9 The Spotlight Menu
3.10 The Spotlight Window
3.11 Customizing Spotlight
3.12 Smart Folders
Chapter 4: Documents, Programs & Mission Control
4.1 A Word About Apps
4.2 The Mac App Store
4.3 Other Ways to Get Mac Software
4.4 Opening OS X Programs
4.5 Launchpad
4.6 Windows that Auto-Reopen
4.7 The Application Menu
4.8 The "Heads-Up" Program Switcher
4.9 Mission Control: Death to Window Clutter
4.10 Dashboard
4.11 Exposé
4.12 Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way
4.13 How Documents Know Their Parents
4.14 Keyboard Control
4.15 The Save and Open Dialog Boxes
4.16 Auto Save and Versions
4.17 Documents in the Cloud
Chapter 5: Entering, Moving & Backing up Data
5.1 Power Typing
5.2 Dictation
5.3 The Many Languages of OS X Text
5.4 Data Detectors
5.5 Moving Data Between Documents
5.6 Exchanging Data with Other Macs
5.7 Exchanging Data with Windows PCs
5.8 The Mountain Lion Share Button
5.9 Time Machine
Part Two: Making the Move
Chapter 6: Transferring Your Files to the Mac
6.1 Transfers by Apple Genius
6.2 The Windows Migration Assistant
6.3 Manual Network Transfers
6.4 Transfers by Disk
6.5 Transfers by File-Sending Web Site
6.6 Transfers by Email
6.7 Where to Put Your Copied Files
6.8 Document Conversion Issues
Chapter 7: Special Software, Special Problems
7.1 ACDSee
7.2 Acrobat Reader
7.3 ACT
7.4 Ad Subtract (Pop-Up Stopper)
7.5 Adobe [your favorite program here]
7.6 AOL
7.7 AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)
7.8 Children's Software
7.9 Chrome
7.10 Easy CD Creator
7.11 Encarta
7.12 Eudora
7.13 Excel
7.14 Firefox
7.15 Games
7.16 Google Desktop Search
7.17 Google Earth
7.18 Google Chrome
7.19 ICQ
7.20 Internet Explorer
7.21 iTunes
7.22 McAfee VirusScan
7.23 Microsoft Access
7.24 Microsoft Money
7.25 Microsoft Office
7.26 Microsoft Publisher
7.27 Microsoft Visio
7.28 Minesweeper
7.29 MSN Messenger
7.30 NaturallySpeaking
7.31 Netscape
7.32 Newsgroup Readers
7.33 Norton AntiVirus
7.34 Norton Utilities
7.35 Notepad
7.36 Outlook/Outlook Express/Windows Mail
7.37 Paint Shop Pro
7.38 Palm Desktop
7.39 Picasa
7.40 PowerPoint
7.41 QuickBooks
7.42 Quicken
7.43 RealPlayer
7.44 RssReader
7.45 Skype
7.46 SnagIt (Screenshots)
7.47 Solitaire
7.48 Street Atlas USA
7.49 TaxCut, TurboTax
7.50 WinAmp, MusicMatch
7.51 Windows Media Player
7.52 WinZip
7.53 Word
7.54 WordPerfect
7.55 Yahoo Messenger
Chapter 8: Windows on Macintosh
8.1 Boot Camp
8.2 Windows in a Window
8.3 Life with Microsoft Exchange
Chapter 9: Hardware on the Mac
9.1 Mac Meets Printer
9.2 Making the Printout
9.3 Managing Printouts
9.4 Printer Sharing
9.5 Faxing
9.6 PDF Files
9.7 Fonts-and Font Book
9.8 Digital Cameras
9.9 Disks
9.10 Startup Disks
9.11 Erasing a Disk
9.12 Burning CDs and DVDs
9.13 iTunes: The Digital Jukebox
9.14 DVD Movies
9.15 AirPlay
9.16 Keyboards
9.17 Mouse
9.18 Monitors
9.19 Scanners
Part Three: Making Connections
Chapter 10: Internet Setup & iCloud
10.1 Network Central and Multihoming
10.2 Broadband Connections
10.3 Cellular Modems
10.4 Tethering
10.5 Dial-Up Modem Connections
10.6 Switching Locations
10.7 Internet Sharing
10.8 iCloud
10.9 Internet Location Files
Chapter 11: Mail & Contacts
11.1 Checking Your Mail
11.2 Writing Messages
11.3 Stationery
11.4 Reading Email
11.5 VIPs
11.6 The Anti-Spam Toolkit
11.7 Contacts
Chapter 12: Safari & Messages
12.1 Browsing Basics
12.2 The Unified Address/Search Bar
12.3 Bookmarks
12.4 14 Tips for Better Surfing
12.5 Tabbed Browsing
12.6 Privacy and Security Features
12.7 Messages
12.8 iMessages
12.9 The Traditional Chat Networks
12.10 Let the Chat Begin
12.11 Text Chatting
12.12 Audio Chats
12.13 Video Chats
12.14 Juggling Chats and Windows
12.15 Sharing Your Screen
12.16 Messages Theater
Part Four: Putting Down Roots
Chapter 13: Accounts, Parental Controls & Security
13.1 Introducing Accounts
13.2 Creating an Account
13.3 Parental Controls
13.4 Editing Accounts
13.5 Setting Up the Login Process
13.6 Signing In, Logging Out
13.7 Sharing Across Accounts
13.8 Fast User Switching
13.9 Six OS X Security Shields
13.10 And Four Privacy Shields
Chapter 14: Networking, File Sharing & Screen Sharing
14.1 Wiring the Network
14.2 File Sharing: Three Ways
14.3 Accessing Shared Files
14.4 Networking with Windows
14.5 Screen Sharing
Chapter 15: System Preferences
15.1 The System Preferences Window
15.2 Accessibility
15.3 Bluetooth
15.4 CDs & DVDs
15.5 Date & Time
15.6 Desktop & Screen Saver
15.7 Dictation & Speech
15.8 Displays
15.9 Dock
15.10 Energy Saver
15.11 General
15.12 iCloud
15.13 Keyboard
15.14 Language & Text
15.15 Mail, Contacts & Calendars
15.16 Mission Control
15.17 Mouse
15.18 Network
15.19 Notifications
15.20 Parental Controls
15.21 Print & Scan
15.22 Security & Privacy
15.23 Sharing
15.24 Software Update
15.25 Sound
15.26 Spotlight
15.27 Startup Disk
15.28 Time Machine
15.29 Trackpad
15.30 Users & Groups
Chapter 16: The Freebie Programs
16.1 Your Free OS X Programs
16.2 App Store
16.3 Automator
16.4 Calculator
16.5 Calendar
16.6 Chess
16.7 Contacts
16.8 Dashboard
16.9 Dictionary
16.10 DVD Player
16.11 FaceTime
16.12 Font Book
16.13 Game Center
16.14 GarageBand
16.15 Image Capture
16.16 iMovie, iPhoto
16.17 iTunes
16.18 Launchpad
16.19 Mail
16.20 Messages
16.21 Mission Control
16.22 Notes
16.23 Notification Center
16.24 Photo Booth
16.25 Preview
16.26 QuickTime Player
16.27 Reminders
16.28 Safari
16.29 Stickies
16.30 System Preferences
16.31 TextEdit
16.32 Time Machine
16.33 Utilities: Your OS X Toolbox
Part Five: Appendixes
Installing OS X Mountain Lion
Hardware Requirements
Psychological Requirements
The Standard Installation
The Setup Assistant
The Homemade Installer Disk
Troubleshooting
Minor Eccentric Behavior
Frozen Programs (Force Quitting)
Recovery Mode: Three Emergency Disks
Application Won't Open
Startup Problems
Fixing the Disk
Where to Get Troubleshooting Help
The Windows-to-Mac Dictionary
About [this program]
The Master OS X Secret Keystroke List
Startup Keystrokes
Colophon