Table of Contents
The Missing Credits; About the Author; About the Creative Team; Acknowledgments; The Missing Manual Series; Introduction; The Mac Becomes an iPad; About This Book; The Very Basics; Part One: The OS X Desktop; Chapter 0: The Mountain Lion Landscape; 1.1 Launchpad; 1.2 Full-Screen Mode, Safari; 1.3 Full-Screen Apps, Mission Control; Chapter 1: Folders & Windows; 2.1 Getting into OS X; 2.2 Windows and How to Work Them; 2.3 The Four Window Views; 2.4 Icon View; 2.5 List View; 2.6 Column View; 2.7 Cover Flow View; 2.8 Quick Look; 2.9 Logging Out, Shutting Down; 2.10 Getting Help in OS X; Chapter 2: Organizing Your Stuff; 3.1 The OS X Folder Structure; 3.2 Icon Names; 3.3 Selecting Icons; 3.4 Moving and Copying Icons; 3.5 Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once; 3.6 Color Labels; 3.7 The Trash; 3.8 Get Info; 3.9 Shortcut Menus, Action Menus; Chapter 3: Spotlight; 4.1 The Spotlight Menu; 4.2 The Spotlight Window; 4.3 Customizing Spotlight; 4.4 Smart Folders; Chapter 4: Dock, Desktop & Toolbars; 5.1 The Dock; 5.2 Setting Up the Dock; 5.3 Using the Dock; 5.4 The Finder Toolbar; 5.5 Designing Your Desktop; 5.6 Menulets: The Missing Manual; Part Two: Programs in OS X; Chapter 5: Documents, Programs & Mission Control; 6.1 The Mac App Store; 6.2 Other Ways to Get Mac Software; 6.3 Opening OS X Programs; 6.4 Launchpad; 6.5 Windows that Auto-Reopen; 6.6 The “Heads-Up” Program Switcher; 6.7 Mission Control: Death to Window Clutter; 6.8 Dashboard; 6.9 Exposé; 6.10 Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way; 6.11 How Documents Know Their Parents; 6.12 Keyboard Control; 6.13 The Save and Open Dialog Boxes; 6.14 Auto Save and Versions; 6.15 Documents in the Cloud; 6.16 Cocoa and Carbon; Chapter 6: Data: Typing, Dictating, Sharing & Backing Up; 7.1 The Macintosh Keyboard; 7.2 Notes on Right-Clicking; 7.3 Power Typing; 7.4 Dictation; 7.5 The Many Languages of OS X Text; 7.6 Data Detectors; 7.7 Moving Data Between Documents; 7.8 Exchanging Data with Other Macs; 7.9 Exchanging Data with Windows PCs; 7.10 The Mountain Lion Share Button; 7.11 Time Machine; Chapter 7: Automator, AppleScript & Services; 8.1 Services; 8.2 Automator; 8.3 Building Your Own Workflow; 8.4 Doing More with Automator; 8.5 AppleScript; Chapter 8: Windows on Macintosh; 9.1 Boot Camp; 9.2 Windows in a Window; 9.3 Life with Microsoft Exchange; Part Three: The Components of OS X; Chapter 9: System Preferences; 10.1 The System Preferences Window; 10.2 Accessibility; 10.3 Bluetooth; 10.4 CDs & DVDs; 10.5 Date & Time; 10.6 Desktop & Screen Saver; 10.7 Dictation & Speech; 10.8 Displays; 10.9 Dock; 10.10 Energy Saver; 10.11 General; 10.12 iCloud; 10.13 Keyboard; 10.14 Language & Text; 10.15 Mail, Contacts & Calendars; 10.16 Mission Control; 10.17 Mouse; 10.18 Network; 10.19 Notifications; 10.20 Parental Controls; 10.21 Print & Scan; 10.22 Security & Privacy; 10.23 Sharing; 10.24 Software Update; 10.25 Sound; 10.26 Spotlight; 10.27 Startup Disk; 10.28 Time Machine; 10.29 Trackpad; 10.30 Users & Groups; Chapter 10: Reminders, Notes & Notification Center; 11.1 Notification Center; 11.2 Reminders; 11.3 Notes; Chapter 11: The Other Free Programs; 12.1 Your Free OS X Programs; 12.2 Address Book; 12.3 App Store; 12.4 Automator; 12.5 Calculator; 12.6 Calendar; 12.7 Chess; 12.8 Contacts; 12.9 Dashboard; 12.10 Dictionary; 12.11 DVD Player; 12.12 FaceTime; 12.13 Font Book; 12.14 Game Center; 12.15 GarageBand; 12.16 iChat; 12.17 Image Capture; 12.18 iMovie, iPhoto; 12.19 iTunes; 12.20 Launchpad; 12.21 Mail; 12.22 Messages; 12.23 Mission Control; 12.24 Notes; 12.25 Photo Booth; 12.26 Preview; 12.27 Reminders; 12.28 QuickTime Player; 12.29 Safari; 12.30 Stickies; 12.31 System Preferences; 12.32 TextEdit; 12.33 Time Machine; 12.34 Utilities: Your OS X Toolbox; Chapter 12: CDs, DVDs, iTunes & AirPlay; 13.1 Disks Today; 13.2 Disks In, Disks Out; 13.3 Startup Disks; 13.4 Erasing a Disk; 13.5 Burning CDs and DVDs; 13.6 iTunes: The Digital Jukebox; 13.7 DVD Movies; 13.8 AirPlay; Part Four: The Technologies of OS X; Chapter 13: Accounts, Security & Gatekeeper; 14.1 Introducing Accounts; 14.2 Creating an Account; 14.3 Parental Controls; 14.4 Editing Accounts; 14.5 Setting Up the Login Process; 14.6 Signing In, Logging Out; 14.7 Sharing Across Accounts; 14.8 Fast User Switching; 14.9 Six OS X Security Shields; 14.10 And Four Privacy Shields; Chapter 14: Networking, File Sharing & AirDrop; 15.1 Wiring the Network; 15.2 File Sharing: Three Ways; 15.3 Accessing Shared Files; 15.4 Networking with Windows; 15.5 Screen Sharing; 15.6 More Dialing In from the Road; Chapter 15: Graphics, Fonts & Printing; 16.1 Mac Meets Printer; 16.2 Making the Printout; 16.3 Managing Printouts; 16.4 Printer Sharing; 16.5 Faxing; 16.6 PDF Files; 16.7 Fonts—and Font Book; 16.8 ColorSync; 16.9 Graphics in OS X; 16.10 Screen-Capture Keystrokes; Chapter 16: Sound, Movies & Speech; 17.1 Playing Sounds; 17.2 Recording Sounds; 17.3 QuickTime Player; 17.4 The Mac Reads to You; 17.5 VoiceOver; 17.6 Ink: Handwriting Recognition; Part Five: OS X Online; Chapter 17: Internet Setup & iCloud; 18.1 The Best News You’ve Heard All Day; 18.2 Network Central and Multihoming; 18.3 Broadband Connections; 18.4 Cellular Modems; 18.5 Tethering; 18.6 Dial-Up Modem Connections; 18.7 Switching Locations; 18.8 Internet Sharing; 18.9 iCloud; 18.10 Internet Location Files; Chapter 18: Mail & Contacts; 19.1 Setting Up Mail; 19.2 Checking Your Mail; 19.3 Writing Messages; 19.4 Stationery; 19.5 Reading Email; 19.6 VIPs; 19.7 The Anti-Spam Toolkit; 19.8 Contacts (Address Book); Chapter 19: Safari; 20.1 Browsing Basics; 20.2 The New, Unified Address/Search Bar; 20.3 Bookmarks; 20.4 15 Tips for Better Surfing; 20.5 Tabbed Browsing; Chapter 20: Messages; 21.1 Welcome to Messages; 21.2 iMessages; 21.3 The Traditional Chat Networks; 21.4 Let the Chat Begin; 21.5 Text Chatting; 21.6 Audio Chats; 21.7 Video Chats; 21.8 Juggling Chats and Windows; 21.9 Sharing Your Screen; 21.10 Messages Theater; Chapter 21: SSH, FTP, VPN & Web Sharing; 22.1 FTP; 22.2 Connecting from the Road; 22.3 Remote Access with SSH; 22.4 Virtual Private Networking; Part Six: Appendixes; Appendix A: Installing OS X Mountain Lion; Hardware Requirements; Psychological Requirements; The Standard Installation; The Setup Assistant; The Homemade Installer Disk; Appendix B: 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; Appendix C: The Windows-to-Mac Dictionary; About [this program]; Appendix D: The Master OS X Secret Keystroke List; Startup Keystrokes; Colophon;