Mac OS X

Unfortunately, learning Mac OS X is also whole new ballgame. As author David Pogue notes in his introduction, "Mac OS X" is a misnomer—it isn't really the Mac OS at all; there's scarcely a single line of code in common with the tangled, ancient code of the older Mac OS. Hundreds of features have been removed, added, or moved around.

Few in the world are more qualified to guide Mac users through the undocumented jungle of Mac OS X than David Pogue, triple-award-winning former Macworld columnist and author of the best-selling Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual. His new book shines light on both the broad strokes and the fine points of Mac OS X version 10.1, including understanding its UNIX-like folder structure, setting up an office network, capitalizing on its rich Internet features, and even hacking the real power of the UNIX underbelly by summoning the command-line interface. Mac OS X: The Missing Manual also covers each of the control panels and bonus programs that comes with Mac OS X, including iTunes, Mail, Sherlock, and Apache, the built-in Web-server.

For Mac users who have become accustomed to the older Mac OS, Appendix A, the "Where'd It Go?" dictionary, may be worth the price of the book all by itself. It's an alphabetical listing of every feature that was once in Mac OS 9, complete with an explanation of what became of it in Mac OS X.

Through it all, Pogue shows off the refreshinghumor, technical insight, and crystal-clear, plain-English prose that made number one best-sellers out of his other books in the Missing Manual series, including Mac OS 9, Windows Me, and iMovie 2.

Contents

Introduction

Part One : The Mac OS X Desktop

Chapter 1 : Folders and Windows
Chapter 2 : Organizing Your Stuff
Chapter 3 : Dock, Desktop, and Toolbar

Part Two : Applications in Mac OS X

Chapter 4 : Programs and Documents
Chapter 5 : Back to Mac OS 9
Chapter 6 : Exchanging Data
Chapter 7 : An Introduction to AppleScript

Part Three : The Components of Mac OS X

Chapter 8 : System Preferences
Chapter 9 : The Free Programs of Mac OS X
Chapter 10 : CDs, DVDs, and iTunes 2

Part Four : The Technologies of Mac OS X

Chapter 11 : One Mac, Many Users
Chapter 12 : Networking in Mac OS X
Chapter 13 : Graphics, Fonts, and Printing
Chapter 14 : Sound, Movies, and Speech
Chapter 15 : Terminal: The Unix Window
Chapter 16 : Fun with Terminal
Chapter 17 : Hacking Mac OS X

Part Five : Mac OS X Online

Chapter 18 : Internet Setup, iDisk, and iTools
Chapter 19 : Mail
Chapter 20 : Sherlock
Chapter 21 : Web Sharing, FTP, and Remote Access

Part Six : Appendixes

Appendix A : The "Where'd It Go?" Dictionary
Appendix B : Mac OS X, Menu by Menu
Appendix C : Installing Mac OS X
Appendix D : Troubleshooting Mac OS X
Appendix E : Where to Go From Here