OS X Yosemite for dummies / by Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LeVitus, Bob, author.

Series:

--For dummies.

For Dummies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

iMac (Computer).

Apple computers.

Mac OS.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (516 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Get the most out of the latest version of OS X Updated and revised for the latest OS X release from Apple, OS X Yosemite For Dummies gives you fun, easy-to-understand coverage of the key features and tools needed to get the most out OS X. Inside, you'll get up and running on OS X basics; customizing your workspace; working with the Dock; finding files with Spotlight; working with Mission Control and Launchpad; organizing your life with Calendar, Reminders, Notes, and Notifications; browsing the web with Safari; setting up, sending, and receiving e-mail; communicating through Messages; enjoying

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Foolish Assumptions; Beyond the Book; Icons Used in This Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Introducing OS X Yosemite: The Basics; Chapter 1: OS X Yosemite 101 (Prerequisites: None); Gnawing to the Core of OS X; 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 boot camp

Not Just a Beatles Movie: Help and the Help MenuChapter 2: The Desktop and Windows and Menus (Oh My!); Touring the 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 menus: They're sooo contextual!; Recognizing disabled options; Navigating submenus; Underneath 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: Delving Deeper into the Finder and Its Desktop; Introducing the 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 wildAliases 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 touring folders in List view; You gotta go with the flow; What's 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

Part II: Inside Yosemite (Or How Stuff Works)Chapter 5: Have It Your Way; Introducing System Preferences; Putting a Picture on the Desktop; Setting Up a Screen Saver; Putting Widgets on the Dashboard; Translation; Flight Tracker; Giving Buttons, Menus, and Windows a Makeover; Adjusting the Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad, and Other Hardware; Keyboard; Mouse; Bluetooth; Trackpad (notebooks and desktops with a Magic Trackpad); Styling Your Sound; Changing sound effects; Choosing output and input options; Chapter 6: The Care and Feeding of Files and Folders; A Quick Primer on Finding Files

Understanding the OS X Folder Structure

Notes:

Includes index.

"Making Everything Easier!"--Cover.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118991220

1118991222

9781118991213

1118991214