Mark L. Chambers 8 IN 1 BOOKS BOOKS • Introducing Mac OS X • Customizing and Sharing • The Digital Hub • Using iWork ® • The Typical Internet Stuff • Networking in Mac OS X • Expanding Your System • Advanced Mac OS X Mac OS ® X Snow Leopard ™ ALL-IN-ONE Making Everything Easier! ™ Open the book and find: • How to navigate around the desktop and get to know the Dock • Steps for building the Finder of your dreams • Tips for protecting your privacy on the Web • How to use iPhoto ® , iMovie ® , iDVD ® , GarageBand, iTunes ® , and iWeb ™ • How to work with iWork ® • Steps for setting up a wireless network • Troubleshooting solutions and techniques • An introduction to UNIX ® Mark L. Chambers is an author, tech editor, and unabashed Mac fan. He is the author of more than 30 computer books including MacBook For Dummies and Macs For Seniors For Dummies. $34.99 US / $41.99 CN / £24.99 UK ISBN 978-0-470-43541-0 Operating Systems/Macintosh Go to Dummies.com ® for videos, step-by-step examples, how-to articles, or to shop the store! Get started with Snow Leopard, enjoy the digital lifestyle, and learn what Mac OS X can do Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the newest Mac operating system, and this cat has it all. Make your Snow Leopard purr with the step-by-step guidance in these eight minibooks! From the basics for first-time Mac users to setting up file sharing, living the iLife, getting busy with iWork, catching up with MobileMe, and networking wirelessly, here’s the scoop. • Hi, Mac — learn your way around Mac OS X, find things with Spotlight ™ , control your Mac with Front Row, and back up your system with Time Machine • Get personal — customize your desktop and system preferences • Let’s digitize — explore the digital hub where photos, music, movies, and your very own Web site all hang out • Beyond word processing — create cool-looking documents with Pages that include photos, tables, and text boxes • Presenting Keynote — use this iWork ’09 application for building awesome slide presentations • Online action — get your Internet connection and e-mail set up, connect with iChat ® , and sync up with MobileMe • Network with me — set up a network, go wireless, and use Airport Extreme • Fun expansion projects — adding RAM to increase performance, hardware additions that will make you giddy, software applications you gotta have, and more Introducing Mac OS X Customizing and Sharing The Digital Hub Using iWork The Typical Internet Stuff Networking in Mac OS X Expanding Your System Advanced Mac OS X Mac OS ® X Snow Leopard ™ ALL-IN-ONE Chambers spine=1.54” Start with FREE Cheat Sheets Cheat Sheets include • Checklists • Charts • Common Instructions • And Other Good Stuff! 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Library of Congress Control Number: 2009929465 ISBN: 978-0-470-43541-0 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 01_435410-ffirs.indd iv01_435410-ffirs.indd iv 8/5/09 11:51:28 PM8/5/09 11:51:28 PM About the Author Mark L. Chambers has been an author, computer consultant, BBS sysop, programmer, and hardware technician for more than 25 years — pushing computers and their uses far beyond “normal” performance limits for decades now. His  rst love affair with a computer peripheral blossomed in 1984 when he bought his lightning-fast 300 BPS modem for his Atari 400. Now he spends entirely too much time on the Internet and drinks far too much caffeine-laden soda. With a degree in journalism and creative writing from Louisiana State University, Mark took the logical career choice: programming computers. However, after  ve years as a COBOL programmer for a hospital system, he decided there must be a better way to earn a living, and he became the Documentation Manager for Datastorm Technologies, a well-known communications software developer. Somewhere in between writing software manuals, Mark began writing computer how-to books. His  rst book, Running a Perfect BBS, was published in 1994 — and after a short  fteen years of fun (disguised as hard work), Mark is one of the most productive and best-selling technology authors on the planet. Along with writing several books a year and editing whatever his publishers throw at him, Mark has also branched out into Web-based education, designing and teaching a number of online classes — called WebClinics — for Hewlett-Packard. His favorite pastimes include collecting gargoyles, watching St. Louis Cardinals baseball, playing his three pinball machines and the latest computer games, supercharging computers, and rendering 3D  ights of fancy with TrueSpace — and during all that, he listens to just about every type of music imaginable. Mark’s worldwide Internet radio station, MLC Radio (at www.mlcbooks.com), plays only CD-quality classics from 1970 to 1979, including everything from Rush to Billy Joel to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Mark’s rapidly expanding list of books includes MacBook For Dummies, 2nd Edition; Macs for Seniors For Dummies; iMac For Dummies, 5th Edition; Build Your Own PC Do-It-Yourself For Dummies; Building a PC For Dummies, 5th Edition; Scanners For Dummies, 2nd Edition; CD & DVD Recording For Dummies, 2nd Edition; PCs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 4th Edition; Mac OS X Tiger: Top 100 Simplifi ed Tips & Tricks; Microsoft Offi ce v. X Power User’s Guide; BURN IT! Creating Your Own Great DVDs and CDs; The Hewlett- Packard Offi cial Printer Handbook; The Hewlett-Packard Offi cial Recordable CD Handbook; The Hewlett-Packard Offi cial Digital Photography Handbook; Computer Gamer’s Bible; Recordable CD Bible; Teach Yourself the iMac Visually; Running a Perfect BBS; Offi cial Netscape Guide to Web Animation; and Windows 98 Troubleshooting and Optimizing Little Black Book. 01_435410-ffirs.indd v01_435410-ffirs.indd v 8/5/09 11:51:28 PM8/5/09 11:51:28 PM His books have been translated into 15 different languages so far — his favorites are German, Polish, Dutch, and French. Although he can’t read them, he enjoys the pictures a great deal. Mark welcomes all comments about his books. You can reach him at mark@mlcbooks.com, or visit MLC Books Online, his Web site, at www.mlcbooks.com. 01_435410-ffirs.indd vi01_435410-ffirs.indd vi 8/5/09 11:51:28 PM8/5/09 11:51:28 PM Dedication This book is dedicated with love to Frank and Vera Judycki. They might have started out as my in-laws, but now they’re MawMaw and PawPaw. 01_435410-ffirs.indd vii01_435410-ffirs.indd vii 8/5/09 11:51:28 PM8/5/09 11:51:28 PM 01_435410-ffirs.indd viii01_435410-ffirs.indd viii 8/5/09 11:51:28 PM8/5/09 11:51:28 PM [...]... 123 Hitching a ride on the Time Machine 123 Using other backup solutions 125 I Further Demand That You Defragment 126 Special Start-Up Keys for Those Special Times 126 Crave the Newest Drivers 127 02_435410-ftoc.indd xv 8/5/09 11:52:56 PM xvi Mac OS X Snow Leopard All-in-One For Dummies Chapter 8: Getting Help for the Big X 129 Displaying... Save Those Spreadsheets! 420 Exploring the Numbers Window 420 Navigate and Select Cells in a Spreadsheet 422 02_435410-ftoc.indd xxi 8/5/09 11:52:56 PM xxii Mac OS X Snow Leopard All-in-One For Dummies Entering and Editing Data in a Spreadsheet 423 Selecting the Right Number Format 423 Aligning Cell Text Just So 424 Format with Shading 425 Insert... (well, actually, just the iPod) 591 02_435410-ftoc.indd xxv 8/5/09 11:52:56 PM xxvi Mac OS X Snow Leopard All-in-One For Dummies Chapter 2: Add RAM, Hard Drive Space, and Stir .593 Adding Memory: Reasons for More RAM 593 Shopping for a RAM Upgrade 595 Finding out the current memory in your Mac 595 Determining the exact model of your computer 596 The Tao of Hard... Speech preferences 213 Startup Disk preferences 214 Time Machine preferences 215 Universal Access preferences 216 02_435410-ftoc.indd xvii 8/5/09 11:52:56 PM xviii Mac OS X Snow Leopard All-in-One For Dummies Chapter 4: You Mean Others Can Use My Mac, Too? 219 How Multiuser Works on Mac OS X 219 Configuring Your Login Screen 221 Locking Things... 511 Avoiding those @*!^%$ pop-up ads 511 Chapter 6: Staying Secure Online 513 What Can Really Happen? 513 “Shields Up, Chekov!” 516 Firewall basics 516 Antivirus basics 519 A Dose of Common Sense: Things Not to Do Online 520 02_435410-ftoc.indd xxiii 8/5/09 11:52:56 PM xxiv Mac OS X Snow Leopard All-in-One For Dummies Book... 322 Editing clips in iMovie 323 02_435410-ftoc.indd xix 8/5/09 11:52:56 PM xx Mac OS X Snow Leopard All-in-One For Dummies Transitions for the masses 324 Even Gone with the Wind had titles 325 Sharing Your Finished Classic with Others 326 Chapter 5: Burn Those DVDs! Using iDVD 329 Introducing Your Mac to iDVD 329 Starting a New DVD Project... designed Mac OS X for regular people, and I designed this book for people of every experience level Even if you’ve never used a Mac before, you’ll find no hostile waters here ✦ A fortune in software: I do describe additional software that you can buy to expand the functionality of your Mac; however, that section is only a few pages long Everything else covered in this book is included with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. .. (portentous pause here, please) Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard But who wants to spit out that mouthful every time? Throughout this book, I refer to the operating system as Mac OS X, and when I discuss something that’s particular to the latest version, I call it Snow Leopard What’s Really Required If you have a Mac that’s either running Mac OS X version 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or is ready to be upgraded... scripts in the field 661 The AppleScript Editor application 662 Executing a script 663 Writing Your Own Simple Scripts 664 Create a script without touching a key 664 Building your own scripts 665 02_435410-ftoc.indd xxvii 8/5/09 11:52:56 PM xxviii Mac OS X Snow Leopard All-in-One For Dummies One Step Beyond: AppleScript Programming 666 Grab the Dictionary... Personalizing the Big X 22 Chapter 2: Navigating and Running Programs 25 Restarting, Sleeping, and Shutting Down 25 A Window Is Much More Than a Frame 28 Opening and closing windows 28 Scrolling windows 29 Minimizing and restoring windows 30 02_435410-ftoc.indd xiii 8/5/09 11:52:55 PM xiv Mac OS X Snow Leopard All-in-One For Dummies Zooming . including MacBook For Dummies and Macs For Seniors For Dummies. $34.99 US / $41.99 CN / £24.99 UK ISBN 97 8-0 -4 7 0-4 354 1-0 Operating Systems/Macintosh Go to Dummies. com ® for videos, step-by-step examples,. for this book, go to www .dummies. com/cheatsheet/macosxsnowleopardaio spine=1.54” Mac OS ® X Snow Leopard ™ ALL-IN-ONE FOR DUMmIES ‰ 01_435410-ffirs.indd i01_435410-ffirs.indd i 8/5/09 11:51:27. Keys for Those Special Times 126 Crave the Newest Drivers 127 02_435410-ftoc.indd xv02_435410-ftoc.indd xv 8/5/09 11:52:56 PM8/5/09 11:52:56 PM Mac OS X Snow Leopard All-in-One For Dummies xvi Chapter