Mac OS X Leopard Bible

2008·32.3 MB·English

by  Litt, Samuel A

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Mac OS X Leopard
® ™
Bible
Samuel A. Litt,
Thomas Clancy, Jr.,
Warren Gottlieb,
Douglas Heyman,
Elizabeth Costa-Woods,
Seth B. Zuckerman
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Mac OS® X Leopard™
Bible
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Updates
For updates to this book, please visit www.wiley.com/go/leopard.
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Mac OS X Leopard
® ™
Bible
Samuel A. Litt,
Thomas Clancy, Jr.,
Warren Gottlieb,
Douglas Heyman,
Elizabeth Costa-Woods,
Seth B. Zuckerman
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Mac OS®X Leopard™Bible
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About the Authors
Samuel A. Littis an Apple Certified Technical Coordinator as well as a certified member of the
Apple Consultants Network. He is a certified SonicWall security administrator, a Qlogic certified
systems administrator, and is certified in Xsan and Avid Unity Storage Area Networks as well. He
currently serves as the manager of Macintosh support for the Department of Information
Technology and Telecommunications for the City of New York. His works published to date
include the Mac OS X Administration Basics Exam Cram Study Guide, the Mac OS X BiblePanther and
Leopard Editions, as well as several articles for Element K’s Mac Administrator Journaland Quark’s
X-RAYmagazine.
Elizabeth Costa-Woods has been working with Macs for over 10 years and is an Apple certified
technical coordinator. She is currently a Macintosh systems administrator for the City of New York.
Before working for the City, she worked for the City Volunteer Corp., Cause Effective, and the
Nathan Cummings Foundation. Elizabeth currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and two
children.
Thomas Clancy, Jr.is one of the four co-owners of Valiant Technology Inc., a consulting and sup-
port company in New York City, along with Douglas Heyman, Gene McMurray, and Georg J.
Dauterman. Tom attended Queens College (CUNY) and received his bachelor’s degree in European
history and secondary education. Tom currently lives in Putnam County, New York (aka Ice Station
Zebra) with his wife, Alice, and their two sons, Jack and Theodore. Tom would like to point out
that he is not related to “the” Tom Clancy, although he is proud to be related to another Tom
Clancy: his dad, a retired veteran of the FDNY (which is a more important job than “World
Famous Author” no matter how you slice it, although the pay isn’t as good, sadly).
Douglas Heymanis a longtime Mac user, having cut his teeth on the venerable System 6 on an SE
with two 800K floppies and 1MB of memory. Early in his career, he worked as a writer and manag-
ing editor of numerous literary projects. Shifting his professional focus to one of his main loves,
technology, he spent the next few years as in-house IT staff for a major New York advertising
agency. He currently works as a founding partner and vice president of Valiant Technology, a New
York-based technology solutions provider. Born and raised in New Jersey, he resides in Hoboken
with his loving wife, Suzanne, and his wondrous son, Marcus.
Warren Gottliebis a professional Mac IT consultant who has transformed a deeply rooted passion
and hobby into his profession. He has worked with a number of the top Macintosh tech firms in
New York City, and currently works with DeepTech, Inc., home to Manhattan’s finest Mac special-
ists. Warren is pursuing his studies at the City University of New York’s Hunter College. Despite
many solitary Mac-hours, Warren most enjoys interacting with people, and loves to aid in their
comfort and enjoyment of technology. Warren resides in Queens, New York, in a home where the
ratio of Macs to humans is 3:1, and where AirTunes plays well into the early hours of the morning.
Seth B. Zuckermanis founder and president of Expert CC, LLC, a premier full-service Macintosh
consulting firm based in sunny Long Beach, NY, servicing the Tri-State area. Expert CC’s focus is
the support and service of industries tasked with multimedia and digital arts content creation. Seth
is an Apple certified technical coordinator as well as a certified SonicWall security administrator,
holding Apple XSAN, Apple Desktop repair, and Apple Portable repair certifications.
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For Mom & Dad
Sam
For Lewis, Vivi, and Java for bringing me to life.
Thanks very much!
To Jack and Ted Clancy.
You are my inspiration.
—Tom “Papa” Clancy Jr.
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Samuel A. Litt: First and foremost, I would like to thank my wife Jodi, and my daughters, Peri
and Shana, for their love and devotion. I would like to thank Mom and Dad for their unwavering
support. I would also like to thank my colleagues at the City of New York; Paul Cosgrave, Ronald
Bergaman, Michael Lebow, Michael Bimonte, Christopher Ianniello, Marcos Merced, Arick
Wierson, Jonathon Werbell and Kevin Sheekey as well as countless others for thinking differentand
providing a fertile and stimulating work environment and enabling me to do the job. I would like
to thank Kevin Boland, Tommy Milanak, Gary Slobin, Ken Klein, Matt Rosencrans, and Jon
Rubinstein for their friendship! Many, many thanks to my super smart and talented coauthors —
Lisa, Warren, Tom, Doug, and Seth — without whose participation this project would be naught.
A special thanks to the folks at Wiley; the Super Kim Spilker and the Mighty Marty Minner.
Elizabeth Costa-Woods:I’d like to thank my husband, Lewis Woods, for caring for our children
while I chased my Mac dreams. It takes a BIG man to do what you’ve done and I will never forget
it. I adore you. Vivianne and Tristan Woods, I am so proud to be your mother. The two of you will
always be the biggest accomplishment of my life. To my parental units, you’ve taught me perfection
and hard work and it’s gotten me farther than I ever dreamed. I love you both very much. To my
siblings, nephews, niece and godchildren, thank you for keeping me laughing. I love you all. To
my girls, Rosie and Chantel, thank you for keeping it real and having my back.
Ed Abrahams, thank you for taking a chance on a girl perched atop a pile of coats; in one way or
another, you have been the source of every job that I have ever had. Lauren Goldstein, you are an
inspiration. I’ll never forget you. To my sister, my friend, my advocate, Zanetta Addams-Pilgrim,
thank you for your contributions to my career and my life. What would I do without you? To the
board and staff of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, thank you for giving me the support and
resources to discover my inner-tech. To Sam Litt, I’m your biggest fan. You will always be my men-
tor and friend.
Thomas Clancy, Jr.: I would like to thank my amazing wife Alice for all the support and the regu-
lar brownie donations to my writing sessions. I’d also like to thank my sons Jack and Ted for mak-
ing my bad days disappear. I’d also like to acknowledge the daily contributions of every one of my
team at Valiant: (in order of seniority) Doug Heyman, Gene McMurray, Georg Dauterman, Nick
Nightingale, Stephen Zielinski, Andrew Yu, Eric deRuiter, and Andy Rodriguez. You all make going
to work every day a joy, and your passion for technology keeps me going!
Douglas Heyman:I would like to thank my beautiful wife for putting up with me while I wrote
this book, all of my family for being so supportive, the software developers who granted permis-
sion to reproduce their works, and the folks at Valiant Technology not directly represented here:
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Acknowledgments
Gene McMurray, Georg Dauterman, Nick Nightingale, Andrew Yu, Nicole Carpino, Stephen
Zielinski, and many more I’ve surely forgotten. A special thanks to Sam for continuously getting
this book together.
Warren Gottlieb:To my twin sister Shari, who has been an unwavering force of support, kind-
ness, and patience, as I tread old ground that is at times frustratingly familiar, yet new and differ-
ent. From one published author to another, thank you for your immense help! Thank you Mom
and Dad, for your unconditional love and attentiveness: Mom, for always making sure that I know,
and for your emotional intelligence; Dad, for teaching me the fundamentals that lead to a new
world of discovery — “Remember, no matter what happens, you can never break it.” And to all
those with whom I have had the pleasure of sharing that mantra. Thank you, also, to my friends —
your level of support is both awesome and essential. I so very much appreciate those who in my
absence pursue me, which is when I need them the most.
Seth B. Zuckerman:I would like to thank Jackie, Manny, Maddy, Maggie, and Minnie for their
support throughout the growth of myself and my business. I would like to thank David Salav,
Vincent DiSpigno, Ronald Ebner, Scott Schaeffer, Matthew Tannenbaum, and Sam Litt for their
technical and industry guidance. I would like to thank Roy Morris for his insistence on my pur-
chasing my first Macintosh computer. I would like to thank my friends, Kenneth Gerber, Michael
Damelio, Andrew Sitzer, the Burton’s, Anthony Chou, Mindie Schwartz, Sandra Zic, Kim Scharoff,
Adam Lilling, Aly Davis, Randy Lerner, The Money Shots, and The Baby Batters. Other random
thanks to Nick Manello, Birthright Israel, Irv Gordon, the Bubbamobile, Point Blank, Volvo, and
anyone I have forgotten.
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