Macos Monterey for Dummies
Unlock the potential of macOS Monterey with this updated guide from "Dr. Mac" himself Macs are famously an absolute pleasure to use. But it's even more fun discovering all the cool things a new version of macOS can do. macOS Monterey, introduced in 2021, makes the latest macOS feature...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons Inc
[2022]
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| Edition: | 1st |
| Series: | --For dummies.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009645693506719 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1 macOS Basics
- Chapter 1 macOS Monterey 101 (Prerequisites: None)
- Gnawing to the Core of macOS
- A Safety Net for the Absolute Beginner (or Any User)
- Turning the dang thing on
- What you should see on startup
- Shutting down properly
- A few things you should definitely not do with your Mac
- Point-and-click 101
- Not Just a Beatles Movie: Help and the Help Menu
- Chapter 2 Desktop and Windows and Menus (Oh My!)
- Touring Finder and Its Desktop
- Anatomy of a Window
- Top o' the window to ya!
- A scroll new world
- (Hyper)active windows
- Dialog Dealie-Boppers
- Working with Windows
- Opening and closing windows
- Resizing windows and window panes
- Moving windows
- Shuffling windows
- Menu Basics
- The ever-changing menu bar
- Contextual (shortcut) menus: They're sooo contextual!
- Recognizing disabled options
- Navigating submenus
- Under the Apple menu tree
- Using keyboard shortcut commands
- Chapter 3 What's Up, Dock?
- A Quick Introduction to Your Dock
- The default icons of the dock
- Trash talkin'
- Opening application menus on the dock
- Reading dock icon body language
- Opening files from the dock
- Customizing Your Dock
- Adding dock icons
- Removing an icon from the dock
- Resizing the dock
- What should you put on your dock?
- Setting your dock preferences
- Chapter 4 Getting to Know Finder and Its Desktop
- Introducing Finder and Its Minions: The Desktop and Icons
- Introducing the desktop
- Bellying up to the toolbar
- Figuring out what an icon is
- Identifying your Finder icons in the wild
- Aliases Are Awesome!
- Creating aliases
- Deleting aliases
- Hunting down an alias's parent.
- The View(s) from a Window
- Moving through folders fast in Column view
- Perusing in Icon view
- Listless? Try viewing folders as a list
- Hangin' in the Gallery (view)
- What's next on the (View) menu?
- Finder on the Menu
- The actual Finder menu
- Like a road map: The current folder's pop-up menu
- Going places with the Go menu
- Customizing Finder Windows
- Adding folders to the sidebar
- Setting Finder preferences
- Digging for Icon Data in the Info Window
- Chapter 5 Delving Even Deeper into Monterey's Desktop and Finder
- Cleaning Up Your Desktop Automatically with Stacks
- Managing your Stacks
- Quick Actions: Now Playing All Over Monterey
- Getting the most out of Markup
- Trimming video without launching an app
- Do It Quicker with Finder Quick Actions
- Creating PDFs without launching an app
- Creating custom Finder Quick Actions
- Four More Cool Monterey Tricks
- Shooting screens
- Dynamic desktop images
- Part 2 How Stuff Works
- Chapter 6 Having It Your Way
- Introducing System Preferences
- The Desktop &
- Screen Saver System Preferences Pane
- The Desktop tab
- The Screen Saver tab
- The General System Preferences Pane
- Adjusting the Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad, and Other Hardware
- The Keyboard System Preferences pane
- The Mouse System Preferences pane
- The Bluetooth System Preferences pane
- The Trackpad System Preferences pane
- The Sound System Preferences Pane
- Changing sound effects
- Choosing output and input options
- Chapter 7 Opening and Saving Files
- A Quick Primer on Finding Files
- Understanding the macOS Folder Structure
- Understanding nested folders
- From the top: The Computer folder
- Peeking into the Applications folder
- Visiting the Library folders
- Let it be: The System folder
- There's no place like Home
- Your personal library card.
- Saving Your Document Before It's Too Late
- Stepping through a basic save
- Save As versus Duplicate: Different names for the same result
- Open, Sez Me
- With drag-and-drop
- With a Quick Look
- When your Mac can't open a file
- With the application of your choice
- Chapter 8 File and Folder Management Made Easy
- Organizing Your Stuff in Folders
- Files versus folders
- Organizing your stuff with subfolders
- Creating new folders
- Navigating with spring-loaded folders
- Smart folders
- Shuffling Files and Folders
- Moving files and folders
- Selecting multiple icons
- Playing the icon name game: Renaming icons
- Renaming multiple icons at once
- Compressing files
- Getting rid of icons
- The Incredible iCloud+ (and iCloud Drive)
- Chapter 9 Comprehending the macOS Clipboard
- Introducing the Clipboard
- Copying Files and Folders
- Pasting from the Clipboard
- Monterey's Universal Clipboard
- Part 3 Getting Things Done
- Chapter 10 Five Terrific Time-Saving Tools
- With a Quick Look
- Share and share alike with the Share menu
- Slide into Slideshow (full-screen) mode
- Spotlight on Finding Files and Folders Faster
- Using the Find command
- Using the Spotlight menu and its keyboard shortcut
- Blast Off with Mission Control
- The Mission Control pane: It's painless
- Hot corners are hot stuff!
- Mission Control's Spaces from 30,000 feet (an overview)
- Getting around in space(s)
- Taking Control of Essential Settings
- Launchpad: The Place for Applications
- Chapter 11 Organizing Your Life
- Keeping Track with Calendar
- Navigating Calendar views
- Creating calendars
- Deleting a calendar
- Creating and managing events
- Reminders: Protection Against Forgetting
- Getting started with Reminders
- To do or not to do: Setting reminders
- Sharing lists and assigning reminders.
- Everything You Need to Know about Notification Center
- Tweaking Notification settings
- Widget management 101
- Using Notification Center
- Getting focused
- Use Notes for Making Notes
- Take a Quick Note with Quick Note
- Tracking Productivity with Screen Time
- Chapter 12 Are You Siri-ous?
- What Siri Can Do for You
- Working with Siri
- Making Siri Your Own
- Chapter 13 Maps Are Where It's At
- Finding Your Current Location with Maps
- Finding a Person, Place, or Thing
- Views, Zooms, and Pans
- Maps and Contacts
- Time-saving Map Tools: Favorites, Guides, and Recents
- Favorites
- Guides
- Recents
- Smart Map Tricks
- Get route maps and driving directions
- Get walking directions
- Get directions for public transportation
- Get traffic info in real time
- Flyovers and look arounds
- Do more on the Info sheet
- Chapter 14 Apps Born in iOS
- Taking Stock of the Market with Stocks
- Adding and deleting stocks, funds, and indexes
- Details, details, details
- Charting a course
- Read All about It in News
- What are your interests?
- How News works
- Managing your news
- Recording Memos with Voice Memos
- Recording a voice memo
- Listening to a voice memo
- Naming a voice memo
- Trimming a voice memo
- Automating Repetitive Tasks with Shortcuts
- Controlling Lights, Locks, and More with Home
- Part 4 Getting Along with Others
- Chapter 15 (Inter)Networking
- Getting Connected to the Internet
- Your internet service provider and you
- Plugging in your internet-connection settings
- Browsing the Web with Safari
- Owning your toolbar
- Using the Safari sidebar
- Checking out Help Center
- Chapter 16 Dealing with People
- Collecting Your Contacts
- Adding contacts
- Importing contacts from other programs
- Creating a basic group
- Setting up a smart group (based on contact criteria).
- Deleting a group or smart group
- Sync + Contacts = your contacts everywhere
- Audio and Video Calls with FaceTime
- About SharePlay
- Chapter 17 Communicating with Mail and Messages
- Sending and Receiving Email with Mail
- Setting Up Mail
- A quick overview of the toolbar
- Composing a new message
- Sending email from the Contacts app
- Checking your mail
- Dealing with spam
- Mailboxes smart and plain
- Changing your preferences
- Sign here, please
- Mail rules rule
- Take a (Quick) look and (Slide) show me some photos
- Markup and Mail Drop
- Communicating with Messages
- What the heck is an iMessage?
- Chit-chatting with Messages
- Chapter 18 Sharing Your Mac and Liking It
- Introducing Networks and File Sharing
- Portrait of home office networking
- Three ways to build a network
- Setting Up File Sharing
- Access and Permissions: Who Can Do What
- Users and groups and guests
- Creating users
- macOS knows best: Folders shared by default
- Sharing a folder or disk by setting permissions
- Useful settings for permissions
- Unsharing a folder
- Connecting to a Shared Disk or Folder on a Remote Mac
- Changing Your Password
- Changing your account password on your Mac
- Changing the password of any account but your own on your Mac
- More Types of Sharing
- Sharing a screen
- Sharing the internet
- And yet more ways to share
- Part 5 Getting Creative
- Chapter 19 The Musical Mac
- Apple Music and iTunes Match Rock!
- Introducing Music (the App Formerly Known as iTunes)
- Working with Media
- Adding songs
- Listening to Radio
- All about Playlists
- Creating a regular playlist
- Working with smart playlists
- Working with the Genius playlist
- Burning a playlist to CD
- Chapter 20 The Multimedia Mac
- Playing Movies and Music in QuickTime Player
- Watching TV
- Using the Books App.
- Buying an e-book or audiobook.
