Switching to the Mac, Leopard edition

Is Windows giving you pause? Ready to make the leap to the Mac instead? There has never been a better time to switch from Windows to Mac, and this incomparable guide will help you make a smooth transition. New York Times columnist and Missing Manuals creator David Pogue gets you past three challeng...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pogue, David, 1963- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : Pogue Press, O'Reilly [2008]
Edition:Leopard ed
Series:Missing manual
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009626907306719
Table of Contents:
  • Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition; About the Creative Team; Acknowledgments; The Missing Manual Series; Introduction; What Mac OS X Takes Away; About This Book; About MissingManuals.com; The Very Basics; I. Welcome to Macintosh; That One-Button Mouse; On, Off, and Sleep; Restart; Shut Down; Log Out; The Menu Bar; Finder = Windows Explorer; Dock = Taskbar; Menulets = Tray; Keyboard Differences; What the Special Mac Keys Do; Disk Differences; Where Your Stuff Is; Home Folder; System Folder; Window Controls; The Folder Proxy Icon; Close Button; Minimize Button
  • Zoom ButtonThe Finder Sidebar; Window Management; Scroll Bars; Resize Box; Path Bar; Status Bar; Terminology Differences; 2. Folders, Dock, & Windows; The Elements of the Mac OS X Desktop; The Dock; The menu; The menu bar; The Four Window Views; Icon View; Icon size; Grid spacing; Text size; Label position; Show item info; Show icon preview; Arrange by; Background; Use as Defaults; Keeping Icons Neat and Sorted; Sorted alignment; List View; Flippy Triangles; Your Choice of Columns; Other View Options; Rearranging Columns; Adjusting Column Widths; Column View; View Options; Cover Flow View
  • Quick LookFun with Quick Look; The Quick Look Slideshow; The Dock; Organizing and Removing Dock Icons; Stacks; Ready-made stacks; Creating and removing stacks; Three Ways to Get the Dock Out of Your Hair; Shrinking and enlarging the Dock; Moving the Dock to the sides of the screen; Using the Dock; Secret menus; Drag and Drop; Do Your Filing; The Finder Toolbar; Rearranging or Removing Toolbar Icons; Getting Help in Mac OS X; 3. Files, Icons, & Spotlight; Selecting Icons; Selecting Icons from the Keyboard; Moving and Copying Icons; Copying by Using Copy and Paste
  • Spring-Loaded Folders: Dragging Icons into Closed FoldersMaking Spring-Loaded Folders Work; Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once; Broken Aliases; Color Labels; Changing Labels; The Trash; Emptying the Trash I: Quick and Easy; Emptying the Trash II: Secure and Forever; Locked Files: The Next Generation; Get Info; The Spotlight Menu; Advanced Menu Searches; Limit by kind; Limit by recent date; Limit by metadata; Boolean searches; The Spotlight Window; Opening the Spotlight Window Directly; The Basic Search; Power Searches; Where to Look; Search by Name/Search by Contents; Complex Searches
  • Last opened date/Last modified date/Created dateName; Contents; Other; What to Do with Search Results; Customizing Spotlight; Smart Folders; 4. Documents, Programs, & Spaces; Quitting Programs; Force Quitting Programs; The New, Improved ""Alt-Tab""; Exposé: Death to Window Clutter; Return to the desktop; Another way to Exposé; Three Triggers for Exposé; Keystrokes; Multiple-button mouse clicks; Spaces: Your Free Quad-Display Mac; Using Spaces; Moving windows among screens; Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way; Hiding (Minimizing) Individual Windows; How Documents Know Their Parents
  • Reassigning a certain document-permanently