Taking Your OS X Lion to the Max [electronic resource] /
Sande, Steve.author.
Grothaus, Michael.author.
Caolo, Dave.author.
The Mac has come a long way, and OS X Lion is the best version yet of Apple's desktop and laptop operating system. Stable, powerful, and versatile, the Mac allows you to do everyday tasks with ease. Taking Your OS X Lion to the Max walks you through the awesome features and apps standard on the Mac and the new OS X 10.7 Lion to help you become a true power user. You'll discover keyboard shortcuts and gestures to help save time—whether you're on a iMac, Mac mini, Macbook Pro, Air, or other Mac computer. In terms of apps, you'll learn about iLife, iCal, Mail, Mac App Store, Safari, Address Book and more. You'll see how to use amazing built-in applications like Time Machine, Photo Booth, and Front Row. Also, you'll learn how connect to your other Apple devices like iPhone or iPad, Apple TV and more. You'll sync, work and play remotely, file and screen share, make your Mac secure, or even make your Mac a Windows PC. After reading this book, you will be able to fully leverage your Mac and the new OS X. And, have some fun, too!
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; About the Authors; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Finder Basics; Buying Lion; System Requirements; A Compatible Mac; Snow Leopard; The Up-to-Date Program; What's New in Lion's Finder; The Login Screen; The Mac OS XLion Desktop; The Apple Menu; New Finder Preferences; General Preferences; Sidebar Preferences; Finder Windows; The Sidebar; The Toolbar; Quick Look; Appearance; Function; Useful New Features of Quick Look; Adding a Photo to iPhoto; Audio Files; PDFs; Movies
Window Resizing and the Scroll Bar OverlayMulti-Touch Support; The Trackpad and Multi-Touch Gestures; Point & Click; Scroll & Zoom; More Gestures; The Magic Mouse and Multi-Touch Gestures; Point & Click; More Gestures; Summary; Chapter 2: File Management and Sharing; The Finder Sidebar; The Favorites Category; The Shared Category; The Devices Category; Hiding Sidebar Categories; File and Folder Icon Views in the Finder; AirDrop; FileVault 2 and File Encryption; Find MyMac; Screen Sharing; Time Machine; Summary; Chapter 3: The Mac App Store; What Isthe Mac App Store?
Launching the Mac App StoreSetting Up and Signing intoa Mac App Store Account; Managing Your Account; Exploring the Mac App Store; Featured; Top Charts; Categories; Purchased; Updates; Anatomy of anApp Listing; Buying and Downloading Apps; Redeeming a Code; Using the Mac App Store to Open a File You Don't Have anApp For; Summary; Chapter 4: Managing Your Data: Auto Save, Resume, and Versions; Resume; Resume with Applications; Systemwide Resume; Auto Save; Auto Save and the Menu Bar; Working with Autosaved Versions; Lock; Duplicate; Revert to Last Opened vs. Revert to Last Saved Version
Browse All VersionsVersions; Summary; Chapter 5: Controlling Your Mac: Launchpad; Opening Launchpad; Navigating Launchpad; Launching anApplication; Organizing Launchpad; Rearrange Your Icons; Folders in Launchpad; Adding New Applications; The Mac App Store; Without the Mac App Store; Deleting Applications; What Launchpad Doesn't Do; Summary; Chapter 6: Using Mission Control, Spaces, Expose, and Dashboard; Launching Mission Control; Gesture; The Application; Dashboard Key; Hot Corner; Mission Control and Spaces; How It Looks; Navigating Between Desktops; Adding a New Desktop
Adding and Subtracting ApplicationsClosing Desktops; Mission Control and Expose; How It Looks; Navigating Between Applications; The Dashboard; A Few Things to Remember; Mission Control Preferences; Mission Control and Desktop Images; Mission Control Preferences; Summary; Chapter 7: Mail; Mail Setup and Conversion; Mail User Interface; The MailToolbar; Customizing theToolbar; The Message Toolbar; The Format Toolbar; Reading MailMessages; Redesigned Message Headers; Conversations; Hidden auoted Text; Searching Mailboxes; Search Suggestions; Search Tokens; Search Attachments
Additional Lion Mail Features
Includes index.
Includes index.
The Mac has come a long way, and OS X Lion is the best version yet of Apple's desktop and laptop operating system. Stable, powerful, and versatile, the Mac allows you to do everyday tasks with ease. Taking Your OS X Lion to the Max walks you through the awesome features and apps standard on the Mac and the new OS X 10.7 Lion to help you become a true power user. You'll discover keyboard shortcuts and gestures to help save time—whether you're on a iMac, Mac mini, Macbook Pro, Air, or other Mac computer. In terms of apps, you'll learn about iLife, iCal, Mail, Mac App Store, Safari, Address Book and more. You'll see how to use amazing built-in applications like Time Machine, Photo Booth, and Front Row. Also, you'll learn how connect to your other Apple devices like iPhone or iPad, Apple TV and more. You'll sync, work and play remotely, file and screen share, make your Mac secure, or even make your Mac a Windows PC. After reading this book, you will be able to fully leverage your Mac and the new OS X. And, have some fun, too!
Mac OS.
Apple computer.
Application software.
Apple and iOS.
Computer Applications.