Macs for Dummies (ISBN - 0470048492)

410 Pages·2021·11.64 MB·English

by Edward C.Baig

USA TODAY’s Personal Technology columnist

Macs

FOR

DUMmIES

‰

9TH EDITION

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by Edward C.Baig

USA TODAY’s Personal Technology columnist

Macs

FOR

DUMmIES

‰

9TH EDITION

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Macs For Dummies®, 9th Edition
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About the Author

Edward C. Baig writes the weekly Personal Technology column in USA
TODAY and is co-host of the weekly USA TODAY’s Talking Tech with Ed Baig &
Jefferson Graham podcast.

Before joining the paper as a columnist and reporter in 1999, Ed spent six
years at Business Week, where he wrote and edited stories about consumer
tech, personal finance, collectibles, travel, and wine tasting. He received the
Medill School of Journalism 1999 Financial Writers and Editors Award for his
contributions to the “Business Week Investor Guide to Online Investing.” That
came after a three-year stint at U.S. News & World Report, where Ed was the
lead tech writer for the News You Can Use section but also dabbled in numer-
ous other topics. Ed fondly remembers putting together features on baseball
card investing, karaoke machines, and the odd things people collect, includ-
ing Pez dispensers, vintage radios, and “magic” memorabilia.

Ed began his journalistic career at Fortune, gaining the best basic training
imaginable during his early years as a fact checker and contributor to the
Fortune 500. Through the dozen years he worked at the magazine, Ed cov-
ered leisure-time industries, penned features on the lucrative “dating” market
and the effect of religion on corporate managers, and was heavily involved in
the magazine’s Most Admired Companies project. Ed also started up
Fortune’s Products to Watch column, a venue for low- and high-tech items.

Ed has been passionate about gadgets and technology since buying his first
reel-to-reel tape recorder and shortwave radio as a boy. He has also pur-
chased 8-track cartridge players (still in the attic somewhere) and the
Magnavox Odyssey video game console, a forerunner to PONG.

These days, when he’s not spending time with his family or at the keyboard
of his myriad computers, Ed can be found rooting for the New York Giants
and New York Mets, listening to music of all types, and watching movies.

He has a BA in Political Science from York College and an MBA from Adelphi
University.

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Dedication

I dedicate this book with love to the ladies in my life, my beautiful wife,
Janie, for putting up with my messy office and inspiring me daily to do better
things, and my adorable daughter, Sydney, for recognizing (I think) the
phrase “daddy is working” and for lighting up any room she walks into. This
book is also dedicated to my canine “son,” Eddie, for reminding me through
his barks that it is I who live and work in his house.

Author’s Acknowledgments

No book is written in a vacuum; a lot of people are responsible for making it
happen. Let me start by thanking my agent, Matt Wagner, for bringing this
project to me in the first place.

I’d like to thank Project Editor Susan Pink, Acquisitions Manager Bob
Woerner, and Technical Editor Clint McCarty for watching my back and guid-
ing this first-time For Dummies author through the process.

A special word of thanks and respect for the terrific For Dummies writers who
have come before me and set such a high bar for excellence, including David
Pogue and Dan Gookin.

I’d like to thank Jim Henderson and the rest of my USA TODAY colleagues
for being supportive and putting the newspaper’s stamp of approval on this
project.

Last but not least, I’m appreciative of friends and family members who not
only encouraged me to take on this book but forgave me for not being exactly
swift in initiating or returning phone calls and e-mails. Now I have no more
excuses.

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Contents at a Glance

Introduction .................................................................1

Part I: Freshman Year at Drag-and-Drop Tech.................5

Chapter 1: Adventuring into the Mac World...................................................................7
Chapter 2: The Nuts and Bolts of Your Mac..................................................................15
Chapter 3: Getting to the Core of the Apple..................................................................31
Chapter 4: Here a Mac, There a Mac, Everywhere a Mac Mac ...................................49
Part II: Mac Daily Dealings.........................................61

Chapter 5: Making the Mac Your Own ...........................................................................63
Chapter 6: Apple’s Feline Fetish .....................................................................................81
Chapter 7: Handling All That Busy Work.......................................................................99
Chapter 8: Printing and Faxing .....................................................................................119
Part III: Rocketing into Cyberspace ...........................133

Chapter 9: Stairway to the Internet..............................................................................135
Chapter 10: Going Postal over E-Mail ..........................................................................151
Chapter 11: Caught Up in the Web ...............................................................................171
Chapter 12: Joining .Mac, the Club That Will Have You for a Member....................191
Chapter 13: Mounting a Defense Strategy...................................................................201
Part IV: Getting an iLife............................................209

Chapter 14: Living in an iTunes Nation........................................................................211
Chapter 15: Taking an iPhoto Close-Up .......................................................................237
Chapter 16: Shooting an iMovie Screen Test ..............................................................261
Chapter 17: The Show Must Go On ..............................................................................289
Part V: The Creepy Geeky Section ..............................301

Chapter 18: Networking Madness ................................................................................303
Chapter 19: Surviving in a Windows World.................................................................315
Chapter 20: Handling Trouble in Paradise ..................................................................325

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Part VI: The Part of Tens ...........................................345

Chapter 21: Ten Clever Dashboard Widgets ...............................................................347
Chapter 22: Ten Indispensable Mac Web Sites ...........................................................353
Chapter 23: Ten Things to Leave You With ................................................................357
Index .......................................................................367

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