- Copyright
- Praise for Visual Books
- Credits
- About the Author
- Author's Acknowledgments
- How to use this book
- 1. Getting Started with Your iMac
- 1.1. Set Up Your iMac
- 1.2. Start Your iMac and Log In
- 1.3. Connect Your iMac to the Internet
- 1.4. Connect Your iMac to a Wired Network
- 1.5. Connect Your iMac to a Wireless Network
- 1.6. Connect a Printer to Your iMac
- 1.7. Connect an iPhone or iPod to Your iMac
- 1.8. Connect External Drives to Your iMac
- 1.9. Give Commands from the Menus and Toolbar
- 1.10. Open, Close, Minimize, and Hide Windows
- 1.11. Put Your iMac to Sleep and Wake It Up
- 1.12. Log Out and Shut Down Your iMac
- 2. Sharing Your iMac with Other People
- 2.1. Create a User Account for Another User
- 2.2. Configure Your iMac So Several People Can Use It
- 2.3. Share Your iMac with Fast User Switching
- 2.4. Turn On Parental Controls for an Account
- 2.5. Choose Which Applications a User Can Run
- 2.6. Prevent a User from Seeing Inappropriate Content
- 2.7. Control Whom a User Can E-mail and Chat With
- 2.8. Set Time Limits for Logging On
- 2.9. See What a Controlled User Has Done on the iMac
- 3. Running Applications and Creating Documents
- 4. Managing Your Files and Folders with the Finder
- 4.1. Understanding Where to Store Files on Your iMac
- 4.2. Using the Finder's Four Views Effectively
- 4.3. Look Through a File without Opening It
- 4.4. Search for a File or Folder
- 4.5. Save a Search in a Smart Folder
- 4.6. Create and Name a New Folder
- 4.7. Copy a File from One Folder to Another
- 4.8. Move a File from One Folder to Another
- 4.9. Rename a File
- 4.10. View the Information about a File or Folder
- 4.11. Compress Files for Easy Transfer
- 4.12. Burn Files to a CD or DVD
- 4.13. Erase a CD or DVD
- 4.14. Throw a File in the Trash
- 5. Surfing the Web with Safari
- 5.1. Open and Close Safari
- 5.2. Open a Web Page
- 5.3. Follow a Link to a Web Page
- 5.4. Open Several Web Pages at Once
- 5.5. Find Your Way from One Page to Another
- 5.6. Return to a Recently Visited Page
- 5.7. Change the Page Safari Opens at First
- 5.8. Keep Bookmarks for Web Pages You Like
- 5.9. Find Interesting Web Sites
- 5.10. Download a File from the Internet
- 5.11. Keep Up to Date with News Feeds
- 5.12. Choose Essential Security Settings
- 6. Sending and Receiving E-mail and Files
- 6.1. Open and Close Apple Mail
- 6.2. Set Up Your E-mail Account
- 6.3. Send an E-mail Message
- 6.4. Get Your Messages and Read Them
- 6.5. Reply to a Message
- 6.6. Send a Message on to Someone Else
- 6.7. Send a File via E-mail
- 6.8. Receive a File via E-mail
- 6.9. Get Your E-mail on Any Computer
- 6.10. Create Notes
- 6.11. Create To-Do Items
- 6.12. Reduce the Amount of Spam You Receive
- 7. Keeping Yourself Organized with iCal and Address Book
- 7.1. Open and Close iCal
- 7.2. Find Your Way around the Calendar
- 7.3. Create a New Calendar
- 7.4. Create a One-Shot Appointment
- 7.5. Create a Repeating Appointment
- 7.6. Create a To-Do Item
- 7.7. Share Your Calendar with Other People
- 7.8. Subscribe to a Calendar Someone Is Sharing
- 7.9. Open and Close Address Book
- 7.10. Add Someone to Your Address Book
- 7.11. Change the Information for a Contact
- 7.12. Organize Your Contacts into Groups
- 8. Chatting with Text, Audio, and Video
- 9. Enjoying Music, Video, and DVDs
- 9.1. Open and Close iTunes
- 9.2. Add Your CDs to the iTunes Library
- 9.3. Buy More Songs Online
- 9.4. Play Songs
- 9.5. Play Videos
- 9.6. Create Playlists of Songs You Like
- 9.7. Have iTunes Create Playlists for You
- 9.8. Create a Custom CD of Your Songs
- 9.9. Listen to Radio Stations over the Internet
- 9.10. Enjoy Podcasts
- 9.11. Watch a DVD on Your iMac
- 10. Making the Most of Your Photos
- 10.1. Open and Close iPhoto
- 10.2. Import Photos from Your Digital Camera
- 10.3. Browse through Your Photos
- 10.4. Crop a Photo to the Right Size
- 10.5. Rotate or Straighten a Photo
- 10.6. Remove Red-Eye from a Photo
- 10.7. Improve the Colors in a Photo
- 10.8. Add an Effect to a Photo
- 10.9. Sort Your Photos into Events
- 10.10. Create Albums of Your Photos
- 10.11. Create a Slideshow of Your Photos
- 10.12. Publish Photos to a MobileMe Gallery
- 10.13. Send a Photo via E-mail
- 10.14. Take Photos or Videos of Yourself
- 11. Creating Your Own Movies
- 11.1. Open and Close iMovie
- 11.2. Import Video from a Tape Camcorder
- 11.3. Import Video from a Digital Camcorder
- 11.4. Import Video from a Digital Camera
- 11.5. Import Video Files from Your iMac
- 11.6. Create a Movie Project
- 11.7. Select the Video Footage You Want to Use
- 11.8. Build the Movie Project from Clips
- 11.9. Add Transitions between Video Clips
- 11.10. Add a Still Photo to the Movie Project
- 11.11. Create a Soundtrack for the Movie
- 11.12. Add Titles and Credits
- 11.13. Share the Movie on YouTube
- 12. Customizing Your iMac to Suit You
- 12.1. Change Your Desktop Background
- 12.2. Set Up a Screen Saver
- 12.3. Make the Dock Show the Icons You Need
- 12.4. Create Hot Corners to Run Exposé Easily
- 12.5. Give Yourself More Desktop Space
- 12.6. Add a Second Monitor So You Can See More
- 12.7. Make the Keyboard and Mouse Easier to Use
- 12.8. Make the Screen Easier to See
- 12.9. Tell Spotlight Which Folders to Search
- 12.10. Control Your iMac with Your Voice
- 12.11. Save Time by Running Applications Each Time You Log In
- 12.12. Save Power by Putting Your iMac to Sleep
- 12.13. Choose When to Check for Software Updates
- 13. Using Your iMac on a Network
- 14. Keeping Your iMac and Your Data Safe
- 15. Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your iMac
- 15.1. Reclaim Space by Emptying the Trash
- 15.2. Keep Your iMac Current with the Latest Updates
- 15.3. Back Up Your Files with Time Machine
- 15.4. Recover Your Files from a Time Machine Backup
- 15.5. Remove Applications You No Longer Need
- 15.6. See Which Application Is Causing Your iMac Problems
- 15.7. Force a Crashed Application to Quit
- 15.8. Recover When Mac OS X Crashes
- 15.9. Solve Problems with Corrupt Preference Files
- 15.10. Troubleshoot Disk Permission Errors
- 15.11. Repair Your iMac's Hard Disk
- 15.12. Reinstall Mac OS X to Solve Severe Problems
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