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Take Control of Exploring & Customizing Snow Leopard Take Control of Exploring & Customizing Snow Leopard $27.99 Matt Neuburg Book
Take Control of Exploring & Customizing Snow Leopard Take Control of Exploring & Customizing Snow Leopard $27.99 Matt Neuburg Book Read along as Mac expert Matt Neuburg takes you on a Snow Leopard safari. With dry wit and infectious enthusiasm, Matt shines a light on the major and minor changes in Snow Leopard, with an emphasis on how to customize your Mac's interface, navigate quickly among apps and around your disk, and use special features like a pro. Along the way, you'll learn useful Mac OS X skills, such as how to:
  • Make your default Finder window look the way you want.
  • Set up your Dock for your needs and screen.
  • Get around using the keyboard.
  • Use any special features built into your laptop's trackpad.
  • Zoom your screen and use tricks to help tired or weak eyes.
  • Type special characters, and type in multiple languages.
  • Find windows with Exposé and organize them with Spaces.
  • Set up Time Machine backups the smart way.
  • Set up Software Update to match your personal style.
  • Search for stuff on your Mac.
You'll also gain confidence to explore Snow Leopard's features further. These include new capabilities like automatic fixing of misspelled words and text substitution as you type, totally revamped Services, better control over Time Machine backups, whizzy new Exposé options, and the new keyboard switcher for multi-lingual Mac users. Matt also reminds you about how best to to customize the sidebar in your Finder windows, configure Open and Save dialogs, and arrange items on your toolbar for quick access, and he covers the Path Bar, Dashboard, status menus, login items, zooming controls, sleep vs. hibernation for laptops, and double-headed scroll arrows. Matt even explains how Leopard's contextual menu plug-ins and QuickTime Pro disappear in Snow Leopard. He also covers a handful of important third-party utilities, and he provides easy-as-can-be steps for a script that even beginners can run to place a new Finder window in exactly the right spot. Specific questions answered in this ebook include: Making things look right:
  • Where is the elusive checkbox for making my menu bar look solid?
  • Where'd the flag icon on my menu bar come from?
  • How do I best position and configure my Dock?
  • How do I add an item to "Search For" in my Finder window sidebar?
  • What folders should I put in "Places" in the Finder window sidebar?
  • How do I change which categories appear on my search results menu?
  • How do I customize my Desktop with a special color or photo?
Using a keyboard, trackpad, or mouse:
  • How do I turn off or reassign the Caps Lock key?
  • How do I start Exposé with my mouse?
  • How can I move the mouse very precisely?
  • How do I change the size of my mouse pointer icon?
  • What's the purpose of the "Ignore accidental trackpad input" checkbox?
  • What is the keyboard shortcut for choosing a menu item without the mouse?
  • What if I don't want my function keys to do hardware-related things like muting and screen dimming?
Getting things done:
  • How do I stop all the disk activity when I first boot Snow Leopard?
  • Where's the interface for "tagging" files?
  • How do I limit who my child can exchange email with?
  • How can I set up my fonts so they are easier to work with?
  • How can I keep certain windows in specific Spaces?
  • How do I identify—and delete—huge files in my Time Machine backup?
  • How can I easily make my laptop sleep more quickly?
Take Control of Safari 4 Take Control of Safari 4 $19.99 Sharon Zardetto Book
Take Control of Safari 4 Take Control of Safari 4 $19.99 Sharon Zardetto Book Go beyond basic Web browsing in Safari 4 with this definitive guide from long-time Mac expert Sharon Zardetto! You'll find detailed coverage of new Safari 4 features like Top Sites and searching the page content of your bookmarks and history, along with essential advice on smart ways to keep track of where you've been, load multiple Web pages at once, search both the Web and the content of pages you're reading, fill out forms automatically, keep track of passwords, download files, use RSS to keep up with your favorite Web sites, and manage your Web-browsing history. This ebook will boost you up the learning curve on tasks including:
  • Maximizing the fun and utility of the new Top Sites feature
  • Loading multiple Web pages at once in tabs
  • Easily using keyboard shortcuts to control tab loading
  • Re-arranging and closing tabs at will
  • Finding what you're looking for on the Web, on Web pages you've once visited, and on the current Web page
  • Getting inspired to organize your bookmarks
  • Setting up a handy bookmarks bar
  • Populating your bookmarks bar with menus
  • Accessing your bookmarks bar via the keyboard
  • Syncing bookmarks among multiple Macs or to an iPhone or iPod touch
  • Importing Firefox bookmarks
  • Setting up downloads so you can find downloaded files on they're on your Mac
  • Using RSS to conveniently track what's new with your favorite Web sites
  • "Snipping" a Web page so that it appears as a Dashboard widget
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