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by Mark L. Chambers
OS X Yosemite All-in-One For Dummies
Introduction
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Book I: Getting Started with OS X
Chapter 1: Shaking Hands with OS X
Convince Me: Why OS X?
Pretty to behold
Stable, stable, stable
Multitasking and multithreading for normal human beings
The definition of Internet savvy
Lots of free goodies
What Do I Really Need to Run the Big X?
Upgrading from Mavericks
Back up! — Please, back up!
Snuff out disk errors
Plug it, road warrior
Personalizing the Big X
Chapter 2: Navigating and Running Programs
Restarting, Sleeping, and Shutting Down
A Window Is Much More Than a Frame: Navigating Windows
Opening and closing windows
Scrolling windows
Minimizing and restoring windows
Zooming windows
Those hard-working toolbars
Moving windows
Resizing windows
Switching windows
Menu Mysteries Explained
Icons ’R Us
Hardware
Programs and applications
Files
Folders
Aliases
Selecting Icons for Fun and Profit
Selecting a single icon
Selecting multiple icons
Keyboard Shortcuts for the True Power User
Houston, We’re Go to Launch Programs
Starting applications from your drives
Running applications from a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM
Switching ’Twixt Programs with Aplomb
Opening and Saving Your Stuff in an Application
Opening a document
Saving a document
Quitting Applications
Chapter 3: Basic OS X Housekeeping
Finder: The Wind beneath Your Wings
Copying and Moving Files and Folders
Cloning Your Items — It’s Happening Now!
Deleting That Which Should Not Be
Dragging unruly files against their will
Deleting with the menus and the keyboard
Emptying That Wastepaper Basket
Wait! I Need That after All!
Renaming Your Items
Adding a Dash of Color with Tags
Displaying the Facts on Files and Folders
Adding Spotlight comments
Displaying file extensions
Choosing the application to launch a file
Locking files against evildoers
Creating an Alias
Using the Apple Menu
Using Recent Items
Playing with the Dock
Bad program! Quit!
Tracking down your version
Visiting the App Store
Specifying a location
Availing Yourself of OS X Services
Get Thee Hence: Using the Go Menu
Monkeying with the Menu Bar
Using menu bar icons
Doing timely things with the clock
Eject, Tex, Eject!
Common Tasks Aplenty
Opening and editing text files
Listening to an audio CD
Recording — nay, burning — a data CD
All You Really Need to Know about Printing
Chapter 4: Searching Everything with Spotlight
Doing a Basic Search
How Cool Is That!? Discovering What Spotlight Can Do
Expanding Your Search Horizons
Customizing Spotlight to Your Taste
Chapter 5: Fun with Photo Booth
Capturing the Moment with FaceTime HD and Photo Booth
Producing Video on the Spot with iMovie
Chapter 6: Using Reminders, Notes, and Notifications
Remind Me to Use Reminders
Taking Notes the Yosemite Way
Staying Current with Notification Center
Chapter 7: Keeping Track with Contacts and Maps
Hey, Isn’t Contacts Just a Part of Mail?
Entering Contact Information
Using Contact Information
Arranging Your Contact Cards
Using Network Directories
Printing Contacts with Flair
Swapping Bytes with vCards
Introducing the Maps Application
Switching Views in Maps
Getting Directions over Yonder
Chapter 8: Marking Time with Calendar
Shaking Hands with the Calendar Window
Entering That Special Event
Editing Existing Events
Keeping Track of Multiple Calendars
Sharing Your Attractive Calendar
Putting Your Calendar on Paper
Chapter 9: The Joys of Maintenance
Deleting Applications the Commonsense Way
Popping the Hood: Using the System Information Utility
Tracking Performance with Activity Monitor
Fixing Things with Disk Utility
Displaying the goods on your disks
Playing doctor with First Aid
Erasing without seriously screwing up
Partitioning the right way
RAID has nothing to do with insects
Updating OS X
I Demand That You Back Up Your Hard Drive
Hitching a ride on Time Machine
Using other backup solutions
I Further Demand That You Defragment
Special Start-Up Keys for Those Special Times
Crave the Newest Drivers
Chapter 10: Getting Help for the Big X
Displaying the Help Center Window
Searching for Specific Stuff
Prodding Apple for the Latest Gossip
Calling for Help Deep in the Heart of X
Other Resources to Chew On
Voice support
Mac publications and resource sites
Local Mac outlets and user groups
Chapter 11: Troubleshooting the X
Don’t Panic!
The Troubleshooting Process
Step 1: Always try a simple shutdown
Step 2: Check all cable connections
Step 3: Retrace your steps
Step 4: Run Disk Utility
Step 5: Run antivirus software
Step 6: Check the Trash
Step 7: Check online connections
Step 8: Disable troublesome Login Items
Step 9: Turn off your screen saver
Step 10: Check for write protection
Step 11: Check your System Information
Step 12: Reboot with the OS X Recovery HD volume
Do I Need to Reinstall OS X?
It’s Still Not Moving: Troubleshooting Resources
OS X Help Center
The Apple OS X Support site
Your local Apple dealer
Book II: Customizing and Sharing
Chapter 1: Building the Finder of Your Dreams
Will That Be Icons or Lists or Columns . . . or Even a Cover Flow?
Doing the Toolbar Dance
Hiding and showing the toolbar
Hiding and showing the status bar
Giving your toolbar big tires and a loud exhaust
Searching for Files from the Toolbar
Searching for Files with the Find Controls
Configuring the View Options
Setting Icon view options
Setting List view options
Setting Column view options
Setting Cover Flow view options
Setting Finder Preferences
Chapter 2: Giving Your Desktop the Personal Touch
Changing the Background
Picking something Apple
I just gotta have lavender
Selecting your own photo
Changing the Screen Saver
Changing Colors in OS X
Adding Stickies
Customizing the Dock
Adding applications and extras to the Dock
Keeping track with Stacks
Resizing the Dock
Stick It on Dashboard
Getting Social with Game Center
Arranging Your Precious Desktop
Chapter 3: Delving under the Hood with System Preferences
The Preferred Way to Display the Preferences
Saving Your Preferences
Searching for Specific Settings
Getting Personal
General preferences
Desktop and screen saver preferences
Dock preferences
Mission Control preferences
Language & Region preferences
Security & Privacy preferences
Spotlight preferences
Notifications preferences
It’s All about the Hardware
CDs and DVDs preferences
Displays preferences
Energy Saver preferences
Keyboard preferences
Mouse preferences
Trackpad preferences
Printers & Scanners preferences
Sound preferences
Sharing the Joy: Internet and Wireless
iCloud preferences
Internet Accounts preferences
Extensions preferences
Network preferences
Bluetooth preferences
Sharing preferences
Tweaking the System
Users & Groups preferences
Parental Controls preferences
App Store preferences
Dictation and speech preferences
Date and time preferences
Startup Disk preferences
Time Machine preferences
Accessibility preferences
Chapter 4: You Mean Others Can Use My Mac, Too?
How Multiuser Works on OS X
Configuring Your Login Screen
Locking Down Your Mac
Starting Applications Automatically after Login
Chapter 5: Setting Up Multiuser Accounts
Adding, Editing, and Deleting Users
Adding a new user account
Editing an existing account
Deleting an existing account
Tightening Your Security Belt
Setting Parental Controls
Assigning the Simple Finder
Using Keychains — Not!
Chapter 6: Sharing Documents for Fun and Profit
Sharing over a Network versus Sharing on a Single Mac
No network is required
Relying on a guaranteed lock
Most places are off-limits
Permissions: Law Enforcement for Your Files
Permission and Sharing Do’s and Don’ts
Sharing Stuff in Office 2011
Document-sharing features
File-level sharing features
Book III: The Digital Hub
Chapter 1: The World According to Apple
First, Sliced Bread . . . and Now, the Digital Hub
What Can I Digitize?
Photographs
Music
Video
DVD
The Software That Drives the Hub
iPhoto
iTunes
iMovie
GarageBand
Can I Use All This Stuff at One Time?
Chapter 2: Browsing Your Library with iTunes and iBooks
What Can I Play on iTunes?
Playing an Audio CD
Playing Digital Audio
Browsing the Library
Finding songs in your Music Library
Removing old music from the Library
Watching Video
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
Internet Radio
Tuning in your own stations
Radio stations in your playlists
Creating a custom iTunes Radio station
iTunes and iCloud Together
iSending iStuff to iPod, iPhone, and iPad
Sharing Your Media across Your Network
Burning Music to Shiny Plastic Circles
Feasting on iTunes Visuals
Exercising Parental Authority
Buying Digital Media the Apple Way
Reading the Electronic Way
Navigating through your e-books
Tweaking the appearance of your e-book
Turning any book into an audiobook
Buying new titles
Chapter 3: Focusing on iPhoto
Delving into iPhoto
Working with Images in iPhoto
Import images 101
Organize mode: Organizing and sorting your images
Edit mode: Removing and fixing stuff the right way
Producing Your Own Coffee-Table Masterpiece
Putting Photo Stream to Work
Emailing Photos to Aunt Mildred
Chapter 4: Making Magic 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
Sharing Your Finished Classic with Others
Chapter 5: Becoming a Superstar 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 and ringtones in iTunes
Exporting a project
Burning an audio CD
Chapter 6: No, It’s Not Called iQuickTime
QuickTime Can Do That?
Playing Media with QuickTime
Opening QuickTime movies
Operating QuickTime Player
Chapter 7: Turning Your Mac into a DVD Theater
Getting the Right DVD Hardware
Watching Movies with DVD Player
Using the Controller
Keeping your eyes on the Viewer
Taking Advantage of Additional DVD Features
Controller extras
DVD Player preferences
Book IV: Using iWork
Chapter 1: Desktop Publishing with Pages
Creating a New Pages Document
Open an Existing Pages Document
Saving Your Work
Touring the Pages Window
Entering and Editing Text
Using Text 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?
Printing Your Pages Documents
Sharing That Poster with Others
Chapter 2: 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 3: 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 and Graphics Boxes
Adding and Editing Slide Text
Formatting Slide Text for the Perfect Look
Using Presenter’s Notes in Your Project
Every Good Presentation Needs Media
Adding a Background Shape
Creating Your Keynote Slideshow
Printing Your Slides and Notes
Book V: Typical Internet Stuff
Chapter 1: Getting on the Internet
Shopping for an ISP
Investigating Various Types of Connections
Setting Up Your Internet Connection
Using an external dial-up modem
Using broadband or network hardware
Using Your Cellular Personal Hotspot
Chapter 2: Using Apple Mail
Know Thy Mail Window
Setting Up Your Account
Add an account
Edit an existing account
Delete an account
Receiving and Reading Email Wisdom
Reading and deleting messages
Replying
Raise the Little Flag: Sending Email
What? You Get Junk Mail, Too?
Attachments on Parade
Fine-Tuning Your Post Office
Add an alert sound
Check Mail automatically
Automate junk mail and message deletion
Add a signature
Changing the status of an account
Automating Your Mail with Rules
Chapter 3: Staying in Touch with Messages and FaceTime
Configuring Messages
Working with Messages
Changing Modes in Messages
Will You Be My Buddy?
Chat! Chat, I Say!
Conversing with iMessages
Sending and Receiving SMS and MMS Texts
Sharing Screens with Aplomb
Sending Files with Messages
Eliminating the Riffraff
Adding Visual Effects
Conversing with FaceTime
Using Your Mac as, Well, a Telephone
Chapter 4: Expanding Your Horizons with iCloud
So How Does iCloud Work, Anyway?
Moving, Saving, and Opening iCloud Documents
Putting Handoff to Work
Configuring iCloud
Managing Your iCloud Storage
Chapter 5: Going Places with Safari
Pretend You’ve Never Used This Thing
Visiting Websites
Navigating the Web
Setting Up Your Home Page
Adding and Using Bookmarks
Working with the Reading List and Shared Links
Saving pages for later with the Reading List
Visiting pages recommended by friends
Downloading Files
Using Subscriptions and 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 6: Staying Secure Online
What Can Happen if I Don’t Take Security Seriously?
“Shields Up, Chekov!”
Firewall basics
Antivirus basics
A Dose of Common Sense: Things Not to Do Online
Book VI: Networking in OS X
Chapter 1: Setting Up a Small Network
What Do I Need to Set Up My Network?
Something to network
Network interface card (NIC)
Switch
Cables
Setting Up Your Network
Understanding the Basics of Network Configuration
TCP/IP
Software applications
Configuring Network System Preferences
Using DHCP for automatic IP address assignment
Manually choosing an IP address range
Verifying Connectivity
Troubleshooting Your New Network
Physical problems with your network
Network configuration problems
Chapter 2: Using Your Network
It’s All about (File) Sharing
Creating an account
Enabling file sharing
Connecting to a shared resource
Sharing a Printer Connected to Your Mac
Sharing Files with Windows Computers
Accessing File Shares on Windows Computers
Using FTP to Access Files
Using the Built-in Firewall
Remote Control of Your Mac
Chapter 3: Going Wireless
Speaking the Wireless Lingo
Figuring Out the Different Flavors of Wireless Ethernet
Basic Wi-Fi: 802.11b
Let’s get Extreme: 802.11g
The current standard: 802.11n
Raising the bar to 802.11ac
The guy with the turquoise teeth
Keeping Your Wireless Network Secure
WPA and WPA2
WEP
The LEAP security standard
Setting Up Your Wireless Network
Setting up an Ad Hoc wireless network
Setting up wireless networks
Chapter 4: Sharing That Precious Internet Thing
Sharing the Internet
Using Network Address Translation
Ways to Share Your Internet Connection
Using hardware for sharing an Internet connection
Using software for sharing an Internet connection
Connecting Everything for Wired Sharing
Using the software method
Using the hardware method
Adding Wireless Support
If you already have a cable/DSL router or are using software Internet sharing
If you do not have a hardware-sharing device
Book VII: Expanding Your System
Chapter 1: Hardware That Will Make You Giddy
Parading Pixels: Digital Cameras, DV Camcorders, and Scanners
Digital cameras
DV camcorders
Scanners
Incredible Input: Keyboards, Trackballs, Joysticks, and Drawing Tablets
Keyboards
Trackballs
Joysticks and steering wheels
Drawing tablets
Sublime Storage Devices: DVD/Blu-ray and Flash Drives
Awesome Audio: Subwoofer Systems and MP3 Hardware
Subwoofer speaker systems
MP3 players (well, actually, just the iPod)
Chapter 2: Add RAM, Hard Drive Space, and Stir
Adding Memory: Reasons for More RAM
Shopping for a RAM Upgrade
Finding out the current memory in your Mac
Determining the exact model of your computer
The Tao of Adding Hard Drive Territory
Internal versus External Storage
External drives
Internal drives
Determining How Much Space You Need
Shopping for a Hard Drive
Installing Your New Stuff
The easy way
The hard way
Chapter 3: Port-o-Rama: Using Thunderbolt, USB, and FireWire
Appreciating the Advantage of a Smarter Connection
Traveling at Warp Speed with Thunderbolt
Understanding USB and the Tale of Three Point Oh
Hey, You Need a Hub!
Uh, My External Device Is Just Sitting There: Troubleshooting
Common FireWire and USB headaches
Check those drivers
Chapter 4: I’m Okay, You’re a Printer
Meet Printer Browser
Adding a Funky Printer
Managing Your Printing Jobs
Sharing a Printer across That There Network
Chapter 5: Applications That You’ve (Probably) Gotta Have
The Trundling Microsoft Mammoth
Your OS X Toolbox: Drive Genius 3
Image Editing for the Masses
The Morass of Digital Video
Yes, It’s Really Called “Toast”
If You Positively Have to Run Windows . . .
All Hail FileMaker Pro
Utilities That Rock
StuffIt
BBEdit
Xojo Desktop
At Least One Game
OS X Chess
World of WarCraft
Chapter 6: Putting Bluetooth to Work
Bluetooth: What a Silly Name for Such Cool Technology
Yosemite and Bluetooth, together forever
Adding Wireless Keyboards and Mice to Your Mac
The Magic of Bluetooth Printing
Book VIII: Advanced OS X
Chapter 1: Running Windows on Your Mac with Boot Camp
Figuring Out How Boot Camp Works
Comparing Boot Camp to Windows Emulators
Configuring Boot Camp
Switching to Windows
Checking for Apple Updates
Chapter 2: . . . And Unix Lurks Beneath
Why Use the Keyboard?
Unix keyboarding is fast
The Unix keyboard is a powerful beast
Go where no mouse has gone before
Automate to elevate
Remote control
Uncovering the Terminal
Consider yourself prompted
A few commands to get started
Using the mouse skills you already have
Unix Commands 101
Anatomy of a Unix command
Command line gotchas
Help is on the way!
Autocompletion
Working with Files
Paths
Copying, moving, renaming, and deleting files
Opening documents and launching applications
Useful Commands
Calendar
Processes
Unix Cadillac Commands
Finding files
Using pipes
Handy Unix Programs
Text editors
Creating a new document
Networking with the Terminal
WWW and FTP
Chapter 3: AppleScript Just Plain Rocks
What’s So Great about AppleScript?
Automate common tasks in Finder
Automate tasks in other applications
Running a Script
Identifying scripts in the field
The Script Editor application
Executing a script
Writing Your Own Simple Scripts
Create a script without touching a key
Building your own scripts
One Step Beyond: AppleScript Programming
Grab the Dictionary
Anatomy of a simple script
I Summon Automator — the Silicon Programmer!
Help Is at Your Fingertips
Built-in AppleScript Help
AppleScript on the web
Chapter 4: Talking with and Writing to Your Macintosh
Using Ink with a Tablet
Computer, Can You Hear Me?
The basics of Dictation
The Feedback window
The Dictation Command controls
The Dictation Commands window
Your Mac Talks Back!
Setting Text to Speech options
The Date & Time pane
Configuring VoiceOver in the Accessibility pane
Speaking text through applications
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