MacBook
Book - 2024
"For years, MacBook For Dummies has been making it easy to learn new technology. This new edition keeps the easy-to-follow instructions coming. Learn the basics of customizing your Dock and using desktop widgets. Then, figure out how to go on the Internet, stream music, send instant messages, and more. Expert author Mark Chambers will show you how to navigate the macOS operating system and personalize your MacBook to your liking. And you'll learn your way around features like Stage Manager, Continuity Camera, SharePlay, and Handoff. Is this your first new computer in a while? MacBook For Dummies gives you the rundown on how to exist without an internal DVD drive. Whether you're a newbie or a Mac veteran looking for insider ti...ps, this is the quick start guide for you"--
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- 10th edition
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781394252749
- Introduction
- Foolish Assumptions
- About This Book
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1. Tie Myself Down with a Desktop? Preposterous!
- Chapter 1. Hey, It Really Does Have Everything I Need
- An Overview of Your Mac Laptop
- The parts you probably recognize
- The holes called ports
- Don't forget the parts you can't see
- Meet the MacBooks
- Comparing the MacBooks
- Look, Ma, no moving parts!
- Whoa! Where's my familiar USB port?
- Adding a DVD drive
- Location, Location, Location!
- Unpacking and Connecting Your MacBook
- Unpacking for the road warrior
- Connecting Cables 101
- Great - a Lecture about Handling My Laptop
- An Overview of Mac Software Goodness
- What comes with my laptop?
- Connecting to the internet from your lap
- Applications that rock
- Other Stuff That Nearly Everyone Wants
- Chapter 2. Turning On Your Portable Powerhouse
- Throwing the Big Leaf Switch
- Mark's Favorite Signs of a Healthy Laptop
- You Won't Lecture Me about Batteries, Will You?
- Harriet, It's Already Asking Me Questions!
- Setting up macOS Sonoma
- Registering your MacBook
- Importing Documents and Data from Your Old Mac
- Manually Importing Documents and Data from Windows
- Chapter 3. The MacBook Owner's Introduction to macOS Sonoma
- Your Own Personal Operating System
- The Sonoma Desktop
- Meet me at the Dock
- Check out that Control Center
- Dig those crazy icons
- There's no food on this menu
- The Finder menu bar is your friend
- There's always room for one more window
- Widgets on parade
- Wait a Second: Where the Heck Are the Mouse Buttons?
- Launching and Quitting Applications with Aplomb
- Performing Tricks with Finder Windows
- Scrolling in and resizing windows
- Minimizing and restoring windows
- Moving and zooming windows
- Closing windows
- Juggling Folders and Icons
- A field observer's guide to icons
- Selecting items
- Copying items
- Moving things from place to place
- Duplicating in a jiffy
- Using Finder Tabs
- Keys and Keyboard Shortcuts to Fame and Fortune
- Special keys on the keyboard
- Using the Finder and application keyboard shortcuts
- Home, Sweet Home Folder
- Working with Mission Control
- Hiring a Stage Manager
- Switching Desktops with Spaces
- Personalizing Your Desktop
- Taking Control of Your MacBook
- Customizing the Dock
- Adding applications and extras to the Dock
- Using Desktop widgets
- Keeping track with Stacks
- Resizing the Dock
- What's with the Trash?
- All You Really Need to Know about Printing
- And Just in Case You Need Help
- The Sonoma built-in Help system
- The Apple web-based support center
- Online resources
- Local Mac user groups
- Part 2. Shaking Hands with Macos Sonoma
- Chapter 4. What's New in Sonoma?
- Widgets Invade Your Desktop
- Safari Profiles Keep You Organized
- Ramp Up Your Gaming
- Put Your MacBook on Lockdown
- Screen Savers Go Hollywood
- Chapter 5. A Nerd's Guide to System Settings
- An Explanation -without Jargon, No Less
- Locating That Certain Special Setting
- Popular System Settings Panes Explained
- The Displays pane
- The Desktop & Dock pane
- The Screen Saver pane
- The General pane
- The Battery pane
- The Control Center pane
- The Wallpaper pane
- iCloud settings
- Appearance pane
- Notifications settings
- Chapter 6. Searching Amidst MacBook Chaos
- Doing a Basic Search
- How Cool Is That? Discovering What Spotlight Can Do
- Expanding Your Search Horizons
- Customizing Spotlight to Your Taste
- Chapter 7. Using Reminders, Notes, Notifications, Maps, and News
- Remind Me to Use Reminders
- Taking Notes the Sonoma Way
- Staying Current with Notification Center
- Introducing the Maps Application
- Switching Views in Maps
- Getting Directions Over Yonder
- Creating and Using Guides
- Catching Up on News
- Using Favorites and Channels
- Part 3. Connecting and Communicating
- Chapter 8. Let's Go on Safari!
- Pretend You've Never Used This Thing
- Visiting Websites
- Navigating the Web
- Organizing with Profiles
- Configuring Your Home Page and Start Page
- Adding and Using Bookmarks.
- Working with the Reading List
- Downloading Files
- Using History
- Tabs Are Your Browsing Friends
- Printing Web Pages
- Protecting Your Privacy
- Yes, there are such things as bad cookies
- Banishing pesky iCloud Keychain passwords
- Handling ancient history
- Setting notifications
- Avoiding those @*!^%$ pop-up ads^^167^4^1
- Chapter 9. Expanding Your Horizons with iCloud
- So How Does iCloud Work, Anyway?
- Moving, Saving, and Opening iCloud Documents
- Putting Handoff to Work
- Expanding Your Horizons with Sidecar
- Configuring iCloud
- Managing Your iCloud Storage
- Chapter 10. Creating a Multiuser MacBook
- Once Upon a Time (an Access Fairy Tale)
- Big-Shot Administrator Stuff
- Deciding who needs what access
- Adding users
- Modifying user accounts
- I banish thee, mischievous user!
- Setting up login items and managing access
- Tackling Mundane Chores for the Multiuser MacBook
- Logging in and out of Sonoma For Dummies
- Interesting stuff about sharing stuff
- Encrypting your Home folder can be fun
- Chapter 11. Working Well with Networks
- What Exactly Is the Network Advantage?
- Should You Go Wired or Wireless?
- Be a Pal: Share Your Internet!
- Using your MacBook as a sharing device
- Using a dedicated internet-sharing device
- What Do I Need to Connect?
- Wireless connections
- Wired connections
- Connecting to the Network
- Sharing stuff nicely with others
- Use Your Firewall!
- Chapter 12. Hooking Up with Your World
- Using Photo Booth
- Conversing with FaceTime
- Sending and Receiving Instant Messages
- Sharing Your Screen
- Using Continuity Camera
- Part 4. Living the iLife
- Chapter 13. The Multimedia Joys of Music and TV
- What Can I Play in Music?
- Playing Digital Audio Files
- Finding songs in your Music library
- Removing old music from the library
- Keeping Slim Whitman and Slim Shady Apart: Organizing with Playlists
- Know Your Songs
- Setting the song information automatically
- Setting or changing the song information manually
- Ripping Audio Files
- Tweaking the Audio for Your Ears
- A New Kind of Radio Station
- Tuning in your own stations
- Radio stations in your playlists
- Creating a custom Music Radio station
- iSending iStuff to iPhone and iPad
- Feasting on Music Visuals
- Exercising Parental Authority
- Watching Video with TV
- Buying Digital Media the Apple Way
- Chapter 14. Focusing on Photos
- Delving into Photos
- Working with Images in Photos
- Import images 101
- Organize mode: Organizing and sorting your images
- Edit mode: Removing and fixing stuff the right way
- Exploring iCloud Photos
- Putting iCloud Shared Albums to Work
- Creating an iCloud Link on the Web
- Chapter 15. Making Film History with iMovie
- Shaking Hands with the iMovie Window
- A Bird's-Eye View of Moviemaking
- Importing the Building Blocks
- Pulling in video clips
- Making use of still images
- Importing and adding audio from all sorts of places
- Importing iOS iMovie projects
- Building the Cinematic Basics
- Adding clips to your movie
- Marking clips
- Removing clips from your movie
- Reordering clips in your movie
- Editing clips in iMovie
- Transitions for the masses
- Even Gone with the Wind had titles
- Adding maps and backgrounds
- Creating an Honest-to-Goodness Movie Trailer
- Browsing Your Video Library
- Sharing Your Finished Classic
- Chapter 16. Recording Your Hits with GarageBand
- Shaking Hands with Your Band
- Composing Made Easy
- Adding tracks
- Choosing loops
- Resizing, repeating, and moving loops
- Using the Arrangement track
- Tweaking the settings for a track
- Sharing Your Songs
- Creating song files in Music
- Exporting a project
- Burning an audio CD
- Part 5. Getting Productive and Maintaining Your MacBook
- Chapter 17. Desktop Publishing with Pages
- Creating a New Pages Document
- Opening an Existing Pages Document
- Saving Your Work
- Touring the Pages Window
- Entering and Editing Text
- Using Text, Shapes, and Graphics Boxes
- The Three Amigos: Cut, Copy, and Paste
- Cutting stuff
- Copying text and images
- Pasting from the Clipboard
- Formatting Text the Easy Way
- Adding a Spiffy Table
- Adding Alluring Photos
- Adding a Background Shape
- Adding 3D Objects
- Are You Sure about That Spelling?
- Setting Your Font Defaults to Speed Things Up
- Printing Your Pages Documents
- Sharing That Poster with Others
- Chapter 18. Creating Spreadsheets with Numbers
- Before You Launch Numbers
- Creating a New Numbers Document
- Opening an Existing Spreadsheet File
- Save Those Spreadsheets!
- Exploring the Numbers Window
- Navigating and Selecting Cells in a Spreadsheet
- Entering and Editing Data in a Spreadsheet
- Selecting the Correct Number Format
- Aligning Cell Text Just So
- Formatting with Shading
- Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns
- The Formula Is Your Friend
- Adding Visual Punch with a Chart
- Adding Images and 3D Objects
- Printing Your Spreadsheet
- Chapter 19. Building Presentations with Keynote
- Creating a New Keynote Project
- Opening a Keynote Presentation
- Saving Your Presentation
- Putting Keynote to Work
- Adding Slides
- Working with Text, Shapes, and Graphics Boxes
- Adding and Editing Slide Text
- Formatting Slide Text for the Perfect Look
- Creating Your Own Themes
- Using Presenter's Notes in Your Project
- Every Good Presentation Needs Media
- Adding a Background Shape
- Adding 3D Objects
- Creating Your Keynote Slideshow
- Printing Your Slides and Notes
- Chapter 20. When Good Mac Laptops Go Bad
- Repeat after Me: Yes, I Am a Tech!
- Step-by-Step Laptop Troubleshooting
- The number-one rule: Reboot!
- Special keys that can come in handy
- All hall Disk Utility, the troubleshooter's friend
- Disk repair made easy
- Mark's MacBook Troubleshooting Tree
- Okay, I Kicked It, and It Still Won't Work
- Local service, at your service
- The macOS Help Center
- Apple Help Online
- Hardware manufacturers
- Chapter 21. Tackling the Housekeeping
- Cleaning Unseemly Data Deposits
- Managing your storage in macOS (or cleaning things the elegant way)
- Getting dirty (or cleaning things the manual way)
- Using a commercial cleanup tool
- Backing Up Your Treasure
- Saving Files
- Putting Things Right with Time Machine
- Maintaining Drive Health
- Automating Those Mundane Chores
- Creating an application in Automator
- Creating an Automator login item
- Updating macOS Automatically
- Part 6. The Part of Tens
- Chapter 22. Ten (Plus) Laptop Rules to Follow
- Keep Your Laptop in a Bag
- Maximize Your RAM
- Keep Tabs on Your MacBook
- Keepeth Thy Drive Encrypted
- Brand Your MacBook
- Disable Your Wireless
- Take a Surge Protector with You
- Use Power-Saving Features
- Use an External Keyboard and Mouse
- Consider Adding Memory
- Don't Consider an Internal Drive Upgrade!
- Add Storage Space Externally
- Putting a port to work
- Connecting an external drive
- Not Again! What Is It with You and Backing Up?
- Chapter 23. Ten Things to Avoid Like the Plague
- USB 2.0 Storage Devices
- Phishing Operations
- The Twin Terrors: Viruses and Malware
- Submerged Keyboards
- Antiquated Utility Software
- Software Piracy
- The Forbidden Account
- Unsecured Wireless Connections
- Refurbished Hardware
- Dirty Laptops
- Index