Mac OS X Leopard edition : the missing manual / David Pogue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pogue, David.

Series:

Missing manual.

Missing manual

Missing manual series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mac OS.

Macintosh (Computer)--Programming.

Macintosh (Computer).

Operating systems (Computers).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (912 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Beijing : Pogue Press/O'rReilly, 2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

With Leopard, Apple has unleashed the greatest version of Mac OS X yet, and David Pogue is back with another meticulous Missing Manual to cover the operating system with a wealth of detail. The new Mac OS X 10.5, better known as Leopard, is faster than its predecessors, but nothing's too fast for Pogue and this Missing Manual. It's just one of reasons this is the most popular computer book of all time. Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition is the authoritative book for Mac users of all technical levels and experience. If you're new to the Mac, this book gives

Contents:

Resize HandlePath Bar; Status 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; Manipulating the Columns; View Options; Cover Flow View; Quick Look; Fun with Quick Look; The Quick Look Slideshow; Logging Out, Shutting Down; Restart; Shut Down; Log Out; Getting Help in Mac OS X

2. Organizing Your StuffWhat&s On Your Hard Drive; What&s in Your Home Folder; Icon Names; Selecting Icons; Selecting Icons from the Keyboard; Moving and Copying Icons; Copying by Using Copy and Paste; Dragging from the Title Bar; Spring-Loaded Folders: Dragging Icons into Closed Folders; Making Spring-Loaded Folders Work; Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once; What&s Good about Aliases; 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 Get Info Panels

3. SpotlightAdvanced 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 date; Name; Contents; Other; What to Do with Search Results; Customizing Spotlight; Smart Folders; 4. Dock, Desktop, and Toolbars; Setting Up the Dock; Stacks; Ready-made stacks; Creating and removing stacks; Type-selecting in stacks; Bypassing stacks

Three Ways to Get the Dock Out of Your HairShrinking and enlarging the Dock; Moving the Dock to the sides of the screen; Using the Dock; Operate the Dock by Keyboard Control; Secret Menus; Conduct Speed Tests; Drag and Drop; Do Your Filing; Great Things to Put in Your Dock; The Finder Toolbar; Adding Your Own Icons to the Toolbar; Adding your own stuff; Rearranging or Removing Toolbar Icons; Designing Your Desktop; Graphic Designers& Corner: The Gray Look; Desktop Sounds; Menulets: The Missing Manual; II. Programs in Mac OS X; Quitting Programs; Force Quitting Programs

The ""Heads-Up"" Program Switcher

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 30, 2013).

ISBN:

9781306815024

1306815029

9780596521813

0596521812

9780596554569

0596554567

OCLC:

609841374