MacBook for Dummies
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
2024.
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| Edition: | 10th ed |
| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009828031306719 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- 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
- That magnificent screen
- The keyboard and trackpad
- Food for your ears
- The power cable
- The power button
- The FaceTime HD camera
- The battery
- The holes called ports
- Don't forget the parts you can't see
- Meet the MacBooks
- Comparing the MacBooks
- What are the similarities?
- So what's so flippin' radical?
- Look, Ma, no moving parts!
- Whoa! Where's my familiar USB port?
- Adding a DVD drive
- Location, Location, Location!
- Unpacking and Connecting Your MacBook
- Unpacking for the road warrior
- Connecting Cables 101
- The absolutely essential connection
- Adding the internet to the mix
- 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
- Other Stuff That Nearly Everyone Wants
- Chapter 2 Turning On Your Portable Powerhouse
- Throwing the Big Leaf Switch
- Mark's Favorite Signs of a Healthy Laptop
- You Won't Lecture Me about Batteries, Will You?
- Harriet, It's Already Asking Me Questions!
- Setting up macOS Sonoma
- Registering your MacBook
- Importing Documents and Data from Your Old Mac
- Manually Importing Documents and Data from Windows
- Chapter 3 The MacBook Owner's Introduction to macOS Sonoma
- Your Own Personal Operating System
- The Sonoma 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
- Widgets on parade
- 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
- Selecting one thing
- Selecting a whole bunch of things
- 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
- Hiring a Stage Manager
- Switching Desktops with Spaces
- Personalizing Your Desktop
- Taking Control of Your MacBook
- Customizing the Dock
- Adding applications and extras to the Dock
- Using Desktop widgets
- 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 Sonoma built-in Help system
- The Apple web-based support center
- Online resources
- Local Mac user groups
- Part 2 Shaking Hands with macOS Sonoma
- Chapter 4 What's New in Sonoma?
- Widgets Invade Your Desktop
- Safari Profiles Keep You Organized
- Ramp Up Your Gaming
- Put Your MacBook on Lockdown
- Screen Savers Go Hollywood
- Chapter 5 A Nerd's Guide to System Settings
- An Explanation - without Jargon, No Less
- Locating That Certain Special Setting
- Popular System Settings Panes Explained
- The Displays pane
- The Desktop &
- Dock pane
- Dock settings
- Desktop &
- Stage Manager settings
- Widgets settings
- Windows settings
- Mission Control settings.
- The Screen Saver pane
- The General pane
- The Battery pane
- The Control Center pane
- The Wallpaper pane
- iCloud settings
- Appearance pane
- Notifications settings
- Chapter 6 Searching Amidst MacBook Chaos
- 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, Maps, and News
- Remind Me to Use Reminders
- Taking Notes the Sonoma Way
- Staying Current with Notification Center
- Introducing the Maps Application
- Switching Views in Maps
- Getting Directions Over Yonder
- Creating and Using Guides
- Catching Up on News
- Using Favorites and Channels
- Part 3 Connecting and Communicating
- Chapter 8 Let's Go on Safari!
- Pretend You've Never Used This Thing
- Visiting Websites
- Navigating the Web
- Organizing with Profiles
- 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 Expanding Your Horizons with iCloud
- 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 Creating a Multiuser MacBook
- 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
- Automating with login items.
- Managing an account's access settings
- Tackling Mundane Chores for the Multiuser MacBook
- Logging in and out of Sonoma For Dummies
- Exploring your login options
- Logging out
- 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
- Connecting a MacBook to an existing wireless network
- Using a base station to go wireless
- Joining a wireless network
- Wired connections
- Making a connection to a wired network
- Wired network hardware
- Joining a wired Ethernet network
- Connecting to the Network
- Sharing stuff nicely with others
- Network internet connections
- Network file sharing
- Sharing a network printer
- Use Your Firewall!
- Chapter 12 Hooking Up with Your World
- Using Photo Booth
- Conversing with FaceTime
- Sending and Receiving Instant Messages
- Sharing Your Screen
- Using Continuity Camera
- Part 4 Living the iLife
- Chapter 13 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
- Feasting on Music Visuals
- Exercising Parental Authority.
- Watching Video with TV
- Buying Digital Media the Apple Way
- Chapter 14 Focusing on Photos
- Delving into Photos
- Working with Images in Photos
- Import images 101
- Organize mode: Organizing and sorting your images
- A new kind of photo album
- Working with People &
- Pets
- Organizing with keywords
- Digging through your library with keywords
- Searching by locations where photos were taken
- Edit mode: Removing and fixing stuff the right way
- Rotating tipped-over shots
- Crop 'til you drop (and a whole lot more)
- Enhancing images to add pizzazz
- Removing rampant red-eye
- Retouching like the pros
- Using filters and adjustments to add a mood
- Exploring iCloud Photos
- Putting iCloud Shared Albums to Work
- Creating an iCloud Link on the Web
- Chapter 15 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
- Importing iOS iMovie projects
- 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 16 Recording Your Hits with GarageBand
- Shaking Hands with Your Band
- Composing Made Easy
- Adding tracks
- Choosing loops
- Looking for just the right loop
- Second verse, same as the first
- 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.
