The Little Mac Book: Snow Leopard Edition

217 Pages·2009·11.211 MB·English

by  Williams, Robin P

The
Little Mac Book
Snow Leopard Edition
Robin Williams
Peachpit Press
Berkeley • California
The Little Mac Book, Snow Leopard Edition
©2010 Robin Williams
Cover design and production: John Tollett
Interior design and production: Robin Williams
Back cover photo: John Tollett
Illustrations of Url Ratz: John Tollett
Index: Robin Williams
Editor: Nikki McDonald
Prepress: David Van Ness
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Keychain, LaserWriter, Mac, Macintosh, PowerBook, QuickTime, Rendezvous,
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ISBN-13: 978-0-321-64691-0
ISBN-10: 0-321-64691-6
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Printed and bound in the United States of America
To my mother, P atricia Williams,
who made it possible,
and to my father, G erald Williams,
who would have been proud.
CONTENTS
Thank you!
Many, many thanks to
Nikki McDonald, John Tollett,
and D avid Van Ness!
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Contents
CONTENTS
1
A map of your Mac
1
The Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
The menu bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Finder windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Th e folders in your Home window . . . . . . . . . 5
Keys on your keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Also Try This . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2 Remember . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Mouse
9
Never used a mouse before? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Moving the mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
The tip of the pointer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Clicking the mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Single-click . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Double-click . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Press-and-drag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Moving the mouse
when you’ve run out of space . . . . . . . . . . 21
Hover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Trackpads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Also Try This . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Shift-click . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Command-click . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Option-click . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Control-click . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Shift-drag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Option-drag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Command-Option-drag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Remember . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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The Dock
25
All those icons in the Dock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Display item names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Th e tiny blue bubble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Resize the Dock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Remove an item from the Dock . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Rearrange items in the Dock . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Put an item in the Dock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Magnify the icons in the Dock . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Reposition the Dock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
When a Dock item jumps up and down . . . . . 32
Also Try This . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
4 Remember . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Finder Windows
35
The basic window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Four window views of the same contents . . . 37
Icon View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
List View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Resize the columns in List View . . . . . . . . 39
Rearrange the columns in List View . . . . . 39
Column View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Resize the columns in Column View . . . . 41
Resize any window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Scroll through any window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Cover Flow View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Quick Look/Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
The Sidebar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Add items to the Sidebar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Remove items from the Sidebar . . . . . . . . . . 43
Window buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Close a window (red button) . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Zoom a window (green button) . . . . . . . . . . 44
Minimize a window (yellow button) . . . . . . 45
Minimize Minimize windows
into application icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Make your own folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Also Try This . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Remember . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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Menus Shortcuts
&
49
Choosing a menu command . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Single-click, slide, single-click . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Press, hold, let go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Gray vs. black commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Hierarchical menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Ellipses in the menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Contextual menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Two-button mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Modifi er keys and their symbols. . . . . . . . . . 56
How to use a keyboard shortcut . . . . . . . . . . 57
Also Try This . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
6 Remember . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Use an Application
61
Open an application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Open a blank document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
New vs. Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
I-beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Insertion point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Delete (or Backspace) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
One space after periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Select (highlight) text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Replace highlighted text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Extra tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Change fonts (typefaces) and type size . . . . . 70
Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Cut, Copy, and the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Paste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Undo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Delete or Clear and the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . 78
Access special characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Use real accent marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Document windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Also Try This . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Remember . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
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Save Print
&
83
Save your document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Make several versions
of the same document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Print your document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Add a printer to the list, if necessary . . . . . . . 88
Page setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Print specifi cations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Application-specifi c options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
See a preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Copies & Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Print Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Using the print queue window . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Control your print jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Keep your printer icon in the Dock . . . . . . . 99
Also Try This . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
8 Remember . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Close, Quit Trash
&
103
Close vs. Quit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Unsaved changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Close a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Quit an application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Force Quit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Quit applications upon Log Out,
Restart, and Shut Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Trash a fi le. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
More ways to trash fi les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Also Try This . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Remember . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
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Get Connected
115
You need an Internet Service Provider . . . . . 116
You need a modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Step by Step: What to do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Information you need before you start . . . . 119
Getting ready to set up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
What’s a MobileMe account? . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Use Network preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Set up your broadband connection . . . . . . . 122
Connect to the Internet
with your broadband account . . . . . . . . 124
Set the service order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Set up your dial-up connection . . . . . . . . . . 125
Extra options for
phone modem connections . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Connect to the Internet
with a dial-up account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Disconnect your dial-up account . . . . . . . . 129
10 Remember . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Surf the Web
131
What are web pages? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
What is a web address? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
If you want to c onnect right now . . . . . . . . 132
What are links? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Make the text on a page larger or smaller . . 134
Go back and forth from page to page . . . . . 135
Open a new browser window . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Check the Dock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Enter a web address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Shortcut to enter address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Choose your Home page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
View Bookmarks in Cover Flow . . . . . . . . . 141
Put a web page link in your Dock . . . . . . . . 141
Check out the Top Sites page. . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Search Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Important Point Number One . . . . . . . . . . 142
Important Point Number Two . . . . . . . . . . 142
Search using Google . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
URLs for you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Remember . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
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