Macbook for dummies
| Format: | eBook |
|---|---|
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Hoboken, N.J.:
John Wiley & Sons
c2021.
Indianapolis, Indiana : [2021] |
| Edition: | Ninth edition |
| Series: | --For dummies
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| Subjects: | |
| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009631744706719 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Foolish Assumptions
- About This Book
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1 Tie Myself Down with a Desktop? Preposterous!
- Chapter 1 Hey, It Really Does Have Everything I Need
- An Overview of Your Mac Laptop
- The parts you probably recognize
- The holes called ports
- Don't forget the parts you can't see
- Meet the MacBooks
- Comparing the MacBooks
- Look, Ma, no moving parts!
- Whoa! Where's my familiar USB port?
- Sharing a CD or DVD drive
- Location, Location, Location!
- Unpacking and Connecting Your Laptop
- Unpacking for the road warrior
- Connecting Cables 101
- Great - a Lecture about Handling My Laptop
- An Overview of Mac Software Goodness
- What comes with my laptop?
- Connecting to the Internet from your lap
- Applications that rock
- Boot Camp For Dummies
- Other Stuff That Nearly Everyone Wants
- Chapter 2 Turning On Your Portable Powerhouse
- Tales of the On Button
- Mark's Favorite Signs of a Healthy Laptop
- You Won't Lecture Me about Batteries, Will You?
- Setting Up and Registering Your Laptop
- Your iCloud account is your friend
- Setting up macOS Big Sur
- Registering your MacBook
- Importing Stuff from Another Mac
- Importing Stuff from Windows (If You Must)
- Chapter 3 The MacBook Owner's Introduction to macOS Big Sur
- Your Own Personal Operating System
- The Big Sur Desktop
- Meet me at the Dock
- Check out that Control Center
- Dig those crazy icons
- There's no food on this menu
- The Finder menu bar is your friend
- There's always room for one more window
- Wait a Second: Where the Heck Are the Mouse Buttons?
- Launching and Quitting Applications with Aplomb
- Performing Tricks with Finder Windows
- Scrolling in and resizing windows.
- Minimizing and restoring windows
- Moving and zooming windows
- Closing windows
- Juggling Folders and Icons
- A field observer's guide to icons
- Selecting items
- Copying items
- Moving things from place to place
- Duplicating in a jiffy
- Using Finder Tabs
- Keys and Keyboard Shortcuts to Fame and Fortune
- Special keys on the keyboard
- Using the Finder and application keyboard shortcuts
- Home, Sweet Home Folder
- Working with Mission Control
- Switching Desktops with Spaces
- Personalizing Your Desktop
- Taking Control of Your MacBook
- Customizing the Dock
- Adding applications and extras to the Dock
- Keeping track with Stacks
- Resizing the Dock
- What's with the Trash?
- All You Really Need to Know about Printing
- And Just in Case You Need Help . . .
- The Big Sur built-in Help system
- The Apple web-based support center
- Magazines
- Local Mac user groups
- Part 2 Shaking Hands with macOS Big Sur
- Chapter 4 What's New in macOS Big Sur?
- Introducing the Control Center
- The Return of the Widgets
- Your Guide to the Perfect Trip
- Safari Covers New Ground
- Messages Adds Effects, Images, and . . . Pins?
- Becoming One with Your Battery
- Chapter 5 A Nerd's Guide to System Preferences
- An Explanation - without Jargon, No Less
- Locating That Certain Special Setting
- Popular Preferences Panes Explained
- The Displays pane
- The Desktop &
- Screen Saver pane
- Mission Control preferences
- The General pane
- The Battery pane
- The Dock &
- Menu Bar pane
- The Sharing pane
- The Time Machine pane
- Apple ID preferences
- Notifications preferences
- Chapter 6 Sifting Through Your Stuff
- Doing a Basic Search
- How Cool Is That? Discovering What Spotlight Can Do
- Expanding Your Search Horizons
- Customizing Spotlight to Your Taste.
- Chapter 7 Using Reminders, Notes, Notifications, and Maps
- Remind Me to Use Reminders
- Taking Notes the Big Sur Way
- Staying Current with Notification Center
- Introducing the Maps Application
- Switching Views in Maps
- Getting Directions Over Yonder
- Creating and Using Guides
- Part 3 Connecting and Communicating
- Chapter 8 Let's Go on Safari!
- Pretend You've Never Used This Thing
- Visiting Websites
- Navigating the Web
- Configuring Your Home Page and Start Page
- Adding and Using Bookmarks
- Working with the Reading List
- Downloading Files
- Using History
- Tabs Are Your Browsing Friends
- Printing Web Pages
- Protecting Your Privacy
- Yes, there are such things as bad cookies
- Banishing pesky iCloud Keychain passwords
- Handling ancient history
- Setting notifications
- Avoiding those @*!^% pop-up ads
- Chapter 9 iCloud Is Made for MacBooks
- So How Does iCloud Work, Anyway?
- Moving, Saving, and Opening iCloud Documents
- Putting Handoff to Work
- Expanding Your Horizons with Sidecar
- Configuring iCloud
- Managing Your iCloud Storage
- Chapter 10 Your Laptop Goes Multiuser
- Once Upon a Time (an Access Fairy Tale)
- Big-Shot Administrator Stuff
- Deciding who needs what access
- Adding users
- Modifying user accounts
- I banish thee, mischievous user!
- Setting up login items and managing access
- Tackling Mundane Chores for the Multiuser Laptop
- Logging in and out of Big Sur For Dummies
- Interesting stuff about sharing stuff
- Encrypting your Home folder can be fun
- Chapter 11 Working Well with Networks
- What Exactly Is the Network Advantage?
- Should You Go Wired or Wireless?
- Be a Pal: Share Your Internet!
- Using your MacBook as a sharing device
- Using a dedicated Internet-sharing device
- What Do I Need to Connect?
- Wireless connections
- Wired connections.
- Connecting to the Network
- Sharing stuff nicely with others
- USE YOUR FIREWALL!
- Playing Buck Rogers with FaceTime
- Sending Instant Messages Across the Network
- Part 4 Living the iLife
- Chapter 12 The Multimedia Joys of Music and TV
- What Can I Play in Music?
- Playing Digital Audio Files
- Finding songs in your Music library
- Removing old music from the library
- Keeping Slim Whitman and Slim Shady Apart: Organizing with Playlists
- Know Your Songs
- Setting the song information automatically
- Setting or changing the song information manually
- Ripping Audio Files
- Tweaking the Audio for Your Ears
- A New Kind of Radio Station
- Tuning in your own stations
- Radio stations in your playlists
- Creating a custom Music Radio station
- iSending iStuff to iPhone and iPad
- Burning Music to Shiny Plastic Circles
- Feasting on Music Visuals
- Exercising Parental Authority
- Watching Video with TV
- Buying Digital Media the Apple Way
- Chapter 13 Focusing on Photos
- Delving into Photos
- Working with Images in Photos
- Import images 101
- Organize mode: Organizing and sorting your images
- Edit mode: Removing and fixing stuff the right way
- Exploring iCloud Photos
- Putting My Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Sharing to Work
- Chapter 14 Making Film History with iMovie
- Shaking Hands with the iMovie Window
- A Bird's-Eye View of Moviemaking
- Importing the Building Blocks
- Pulling in video clips
- Making use of still images
- Importing and adding audio from all sorts of places
- Building the Cinematic Basics
- Adding clips to your movie
- Marking clips
- Removing clips from your movie
- Reordering clips in your movie
- Editing clips in iMovie
- Transitions for the masses
- Even Gone with the Wind had titles
- Adding maps and backgrounds
- Creating an Honest-to-Goodness Movie Trailer.
- Browsing Your Video Library
- Sharing Your Finished Classic
- Chapter 15 Recording Your Hits with GarageBand
- Shaking Hands with Your Band
- Composing Made Easy
- Adding tracks
- Choosing loops
- Resizing, repeating, and moving loops
- Using the Arrangement track
- Tweaking the settings for a track
- Sharing Your Songs
- Creating song files in Music
- Exporting a project
- Burning an audio CD
- Part 5 Getting Productive and Maintaining Your MacBook
- Chapter 16 Desktop Publishing with Pages
- Creating a New Pages Document
- Opening an Existing Pages Document
- Saving Your Work
- Touring the Pages Window
- Entering and Editing Text
- Using Text, Shapes, and Graphics Boxes
- The Three Amigos: Cut, Copy, and Paste
- Cutting stuff
- Copying text and images
- Pasting from the Clipboard
- Formatting Text the Easy Way
- Adding a Spiffy Table
- Adding Alluring Photos
- Adding a Background Shape
- Are You Sure about That Spelling?
- Set Your Font Defaults and Speed Things Up
- Printing Your Pages Documents
- Sharing That Poster with Others
- Chapter 17 Creating Spreadsheets with Numbers
- Before You Launch Numbers . . .
- Creating a New Numbers Document
- Opening an Existing Spreadsheet File
- Save Those Spreadsheets!
- Exploring the Numbers Window
- Navigating and Selecting Cells in a Spreadsheet
- Entering and Editing Data in a Spreadsheet
- Selecting the Correct Number Format
- Aligning Cell Text Just So
- Formatting with Shading
- Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns
- The Formula Is Your Friend
- Adding Visual Punch with a Chart
- Printing Your Spreadsheet
- Chapter 18 Building Presentations with Keynote
- Creating a New Keynote Project
- Opening a Keynote Presentation
- Saving Your Presentation
- Putting Keynote to Work
- Adding Slides
- Working with Text, Shapes, and Graphics Boxes.
- Adding and Editing Slide Text.
