iMac for Dummies (ISBN - 0470607378)

435 Pages·2021·11.05 MB·English

Mark L. Chambers
Author of Mac OS® X Snow Leopard™
All-in-One For Dummies

Learn to:
• Set up, customize, and navigate
your iMac

• Surf the Web with Safari® and keep in
touch via e-mail

• Get the most out of your photos,
movies, and music with iLife®

• Set up a wireless network and keep
your iMac safe

iMac

®

6th Edition

Making Everything Easier!™

Open the book and find:

• How to set up user accounts and
configure your iMac

• Advice for getting around on the
iMac desktop

• How to use iPhoto®, iMovie®,
iDVD®, GarageBand®, iTunes®,
and iWeb™

• Steps for hooking up printers,
scanners, and other tools

• How to work with iWork®

• Tips for speeding up your iMac

• Important security advice

• Simple steps for troubleshooting
and fixing common problems

Mark L. Chambers is an author, tech editor, and unabashed Mac fan. He is
the author of more than 30 computer books, including MacBook All-in-One
For Dummies and Macs For Seniors For Dummies.

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Meet the amazing iMac!
Here’s how to make the most
of all its features

You have this amazing, power-packed, shiny object on
your desk — open this book and learn about its cool
features! This handy reference shows you how to use your
iMac for work and play, turning you from novice to iMac
pro in no time. Use the Safari Web browser, take advantage
of MobileMe, enjoy the iLife and iWork suites, and keep
your iMac happy!

• Get started — set up your iMac, customize your preferences,
organize files and folders, and hook up a printer

• Tame OS X — learn your way around Mac OS® X, get to know the
Dock, find things with Spotlight™, and back up your system with
Time Machine®

• Your stuff’s always available — take advantage of iDisk storage
and access your files from anywhere via the Internet

• iLove this stuff — explore iLife where photos, movies, music, and
your very own Web site all hang out

• Online action — get your Internet connection and e-mail set up,
browse the Web, and sync up with MobileMe

• Want to share? — personalize your iMac for multiple users, set
up a network, go wireless, and use Airport Extreme®

• When you’ve gotta work — do it the iMac way with Pages,
Numbers, and Keynote, the iWork productivity applications

• Keep it happy — troubleshoot problems and maintain your iMac

iMac

®

Chambers

6th Edition

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iMac® For Dummies®, 6th Edition
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About the Author

Mark L. Chambers has been an author, computer consultant, BBS sysop, pro-
grammer, and hardware technician for more than 25 years — pushing comput-
ers and their uses far beyond “normal” performance limits for decades now. His
fi rst love affair with a computer peripheral blossomed in 1984 when he bought
his lightning-fast 300 BPS modem for his Atari 400. Now he spends entirely too
much time on the Internet and drinks far too much caffeine-laden soda.

With a degree in journalism and creative writing from Louisiana State University,
Mark took the logical career choice: programming computers. However, after
fi ve years as a COBOL programmer for a hospital system, he decided there must
be a better way to earn a living, and he became the Documentation Manager for
Datastorm Technologies, a well-known communications software developer.
Somewhere in between writing software manuals, Mark began writing computer
how-to books. His fi rst book, Running a Perfect BBS, was published in 1994 —and
after a short fi fteen years of fun (disguised as hard work), Mark is one of the
most productive and best-selling technology authors on the planet.

His favorite pastimes include collecting gargoyles, watching St. Louis
Cardinals baseball, playing his three pinball machines and the latest com-
puter games, supercharging computers, and rendering 3D fl ights of fancy —
and during all that, he listens to just about every type of music imaginable.
Mark’s worldwide Internet radio station, MLC Radio (at www.mlcbooks.com),
plays only CD-quality classics from 1970 to 1979, including everything from
Rush to Billy Joel to the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Mark’s rapidly expanding list of books includes MacBook All-in-One For Dummies;
MacBook For Dummies, 2nd Edition; Mac OS X Snow Leopard All-in-One For
Dummies; Macs for Seniors For Dummies; Build Your Own PC Do-It-Yourself For
Dummies; Building a PC For Dummies, 5th Edition; Scanners For Dummies, 2nd
Edition; CD & DVD Recording For Dummies, 2nd Edition; PCs All-in-One Desk
Reference For Dummies, 4th Edition; Mac OS X Tiger: Top 100 Simplifi ed Tips
& Tricks; Microsoft Offi ce v. X Power User’s Guide; BURN IT! Creating Your Own
Great DVDs and CDs; The Hewlett-Packard Offi cial Printer Handbook; The Hewlett-
Packard Offi cial Recordable CD Handbook; The Hewlett-Packard Offi cial Digital
Photography Handbook; Computer Gamer’s Bible; Recordable CD Bible; Teach
Yourself the iMac Visually; Running a Perfect BBS; Offi cial Netscape Guide to Web
Animation; and Windows 98 Troubleshooting and Optimizing Little Black Book.

His books have been translated into 15 different languages so far — his favor-
ites are German, Polish, Dutch, and French. Although he can’t read them, he
enjoys the pictures a great deal.

Mark welcomes all comments about his books. You can reach him at