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Macs for dummies /

The bestselling Mac book of all time, updated for the OS X Mountain Lion and the latest hardware More and more people are joining the ranks of Mac owners each year. This popular guidebook, as user-friendly as the Mac itself, has sold more than 1.3 million copies in previous editions. In this most re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baig, Edward C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2013.
Edición:12th ed.
Colección:Making Everything Easier!
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Macs For Dummies; About the Author; Dedication; Author's Acknowledgments; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Icons Used in This Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Getting Started with Macs; Chapter 1: Adventuring into the Mac World; Mac-Spectacular Computing; Communicating with Your Mac; Living the iLife; Reaching Outside the Box; Staying Safe and Trouble-Free; Chapter 2: The Nuts and Bolts of Your Mac; Turning On and Tuning In Your Mac; Mousing around the Interface.
  • Knowing What's Handy about the KeyboardStoring Stuff on the Hard Drive or SSD; Memory Essentials, or RAM On; Locating the Common Ports and Connectors; Chapter 3: Getting to the Core of the Apple; Navigating the Mac Desktop; Clicking the Menu Bar; Understanding Icons, Folders, and Windows; What's Up, Dock?; A Gaggle of Freebie Programs; Chapter 4: Here a Mac, There a Mac, Everywhere a Mac Mac; Intel's Inside?; Big Mac or Little Mac? The Laptop-versus-Desktop Decision; If a Desktop Is Your Poison; Going Mobile; Taming the Trackpad; Keeping Your Notebook Juiced; Part II: Mac Daily Dealings.
  • Chapter 5: Making the Mac Your OwnEstablishing User Accounts; Entering the Photo Booth; Using Parental Controls: When Father (or Mother) Knows Best; The Lowdown on Logging In; Letting Someone Go; Changing Appearances; Tidying Up with Mission Control; Sitting Dockside; Launching Launchpad; System Preferences: Choosing Priorities; Chapter 6: Apple's Feline Fetish; How Many Features? Let Me Count the Ways; Searching with Spotlight; Fiddling with Dashboard Widgets; Chapter 7: Handling All That Busy Work; Form and Function: The Essentials of Word Processing; Creating a Document.
  • Selecting Text in a DocumentDragging and Dropping; Cutting and Pasting; Changing the Font; Formatting Your Document; Saying What's on Your Mind; Saving Your Work; Making Revisions; Taking Out the Trash; Never Mind: Retrieving What You've Tossed; Making an Alias; Chapter 8: Printing and Faxing; Choosing a Printer; Connecting and Activating a Printer; Ready, Set, Print; When Printers Stop Printing; Hooking Up a Scanner; Part III: Rocketing into Cyberspace; Chapter 9: Stairway to the Internet; Dialing In; Taking the Broadband Express; Let Me In; Going on a Safari; Using an Alternative Browser.
  • The Skinny on Search EnginesChapter 10: Delivering the Goods on E-Mail; Understanding E-Mail; The Worldwide E-Mail Exchange; Setting Up a New E-Mail Account; Before You Click Send; Managing the Flood of Incoming Mail; Making the Most of Your Mail; Take Note (and To-Dos); Chapter 11: Caught Up in the Web; Chat Rooms; Communicating One on One: Instant Messaging; Face Time for FaceTime; Having an Online Voice; Social Networking; The Virtual Meet Market; Buying Stuff Online: The Mac App Store; Showing Your Game Face; Chapter 12: Joining iCloud, the Club That Will Have You for a Member.