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Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition

by David Pogue

Publisher: O'Reilly Pub Date: February 15, 2008 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-59-651412-9 Pages: 608

Table of Contents | Index

Overview

Is Windows giving you pause? Ready to make the leap to theMac instead? There has never been a better time to switch fromWindows to Mac, and this incomparable guide will help you

make a smooth transition New York Times columnist and

Missing Manuals creator David Pogue gets you past three

challenges: transferring your stuff, assembling Mac programs soyou can do what you did with Windows, and learning your wayaround Mac OS X Why is this such a good time to switch?

Upgrading from one version of Windows to another used to besimple But now there's Windows Vista, a veritable resource hogthat forces you to relearn everything Learning a Mac is not apiece of cake, but once you do, the rewards are oh-so-muchbetter No viruses, worms or spyware No questionable firewalls,inefficient permissions, or other strange features Just a

beautiful machine with a thoroughly reliable system And if

you're still using Windows XP, we've got you covered, too Ifyou're ready to take on Mac OS X Leopard, the latest edition ofthis bestselling guide tells you everything you need to know:

Transferring your stuff Moving photos, MP3s, and

Microsoft Office documents is the easy part This book getsyou through the tricky things: extracting your email,

address book, calendar, Web bookmarks, buddy list,

desktop pictures, and MP3 files

(Word, Photoshop, Firefox, Dreamweaver, and so on) areavailable in both Mac and Windows versions, but hundreds

of other programs are available only for Windows This

guide identifies the Mac equivalents and explains how tomove your data to them

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition

by David Pogue

Publisher: O'Reilly

Pub Date: February 15, 2008

Print ISBN-13: 978-0-59-651412-9 Pages: 608

Section 4.8 The Save and Open Dialog Boxes

Section 4.9 Two Kinds of Programs: Cocoa and CarbonSection 4.10 The Cocoa Difference

Section 4.11 Universal Apps (Intel Macs)

Section 4.12 Installing Mac OS X Programs

Section 4.13 Dashboard

Section 4.14 Web Clips: Make Your Own Widgets

Section 6.6 Transferring Your Eudora Mail

Section 6.7 Transferring Your Eudora Address BookSection 6.8 Email Settings

Section 7.7 AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)

Section 7.8 Children's Software

Section 7.9 Earthlink Total Access

Section 7.10 Easy CD Creator

Section 9.12 Mouse

Section 9.13 Monitors

Section 9.14 Time Machine

Part 3: The Mac Online

Chapter 10 Internet Setup

Section 10.1 Network Central—and MultihomingSection 10.2 Broadband Connections

Section 15.24 Spotlight

Section 15.25 Startup DiskSection 15.26 Time MachineSection 15.27 Universal AccessChapter 16 The Free ProgramsSection 16.1 Address BookSection 16.2 AppleScript

Section 16.14 iChat

Section 16.15 iDVD

Section 16.16 iMovie, iPhotoSection 16.17 iTunes

Section 16.18 Mail

Section 16.19 Photo BoothSection 16.20 Preview

Index

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P2.1.3 Acknowledgments

The Missing Manual series is a joint venture between the dreamteam introduced on these pages and O'Reilly Media I'm grateful

to all of them, and also to a few people who did massive favors

copyediting of new material; and Lesa Snider King put in a

gruelling yet somehow satisfying day helping me create theindex Thanks to David Rogelberg for believing in the idea, andabove all, to Jennifer, Kelly, Tia, and Jeffrey, who make thesebooks—and everything else—possible

—David Pogue

P2.1.4 The Missing Manual Series

Missing Manuals are witty, superbly written guides to computerproducts that don't come with printed manuals (which is justabout all of them) Each book features a handcrafted index;cross-references to specific page numbers (not just "see

Chapter 14"); and RepKover, a binding that lies flat without theassistance of cinder blocks

Here's a sampling of current titles

Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual by David Pogue iMovie '08 & iDVD: The Missing Manual by David Pogue iPhoto '08: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and Derrick

Story

iPhone: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

AppleScript: The Missing Manual by Adam Goldstein

iPod: The Missing Manual, 6th Edition by J.D Biersdorfer Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual by Jim

Elferdink et al

FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual by Geoff Coffey and

Susan Prosser

Word 2007: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover

Excel 2007: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald PowerPoint 2007: The Missing Manual by Emily A Vander

Veer

Access 2007: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual by Bonnie

Biafore

PCs: The Missing Manual by Andy Rathbone

Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual by Barbara

Brundage

QuickBooks 2008: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore

What's going on with the Mac these days?

Its market share has tripled since 2005 At the 2008 MacworldExpo, there were 475 booths and 50,000 attendees—both up 25percent over the previous year And Mac book sales are up

about 35 percent over a year ago (woo-hoo!)

And then there's you, possibly the most significant statistic ofall, sitting there reading this book—because, obviously, you

intend to switch to (or add on) a Mac

What's going on?

Maybe the coolness of all those iPods and iPhones is rubbing offonto the rest of Apple's product line Maybe people have grownweary of boring beige and black boxes Maybe it was the "I'm aMac/ I'm a PC" ads on TV, or the convenience of the Apple

stores Maybe potential switchers feel more confident to takethe plunge now that Macs (because they contain Intel chips)can run Windows programs

connections If you're talking laptops, the story is even better:Apple's laptops generally cost less than similarly outfitted

Windows laptops, yet weigh less Plus, they look a lot cooler.And then there's that Intel processor that sizzles away inside

Microsoft have about as much in common as a melon and a

shoehorn

In any case, you have three challenges before you First, you'llprobably want to copy your Windows stuff over to the new Mac.Some of that is easy to transfer (photos, music, Microsoft Officedocuments), and some is trickier to extract (email messages,address books, buddy lists)

Second, you have to assemble a suite of Macintosh programsthat do what you're used to doing in Windows Most programsfrom Microsoft, Adobe, and other major players are available innearly identical Mac and Windows formats But occasionally, it'smore difficult: Many second-tier programs are available only forWindows, and it takes some research (or Chapter 7 of this

book) to help you find Macintosh replacements

Finally, you have to learn Mac OS X itself In some respects, itresembles the latest versions of Windows: There's a taskbar-like thing, a Control Panel-like thing, and, of course, a Trashcan At the same time, hundreds of features you thought youknew have been removed, replaced, or relocated (If you everfind yourself groping for an old favorite feature, see Appendix B,

Appendix B.)

Note: In Mac OS X, the X is meant to be a Roman numeral,

pronounced "ten." Unfortunately, many people see "Mac OS X"and say "Mac Oh Ess Sex." That's a sure way to get funny looks

in public

"Leopard"

What's this business about Leopard?

Like Microsoft, Apple develops its wares in secret, giving new products code names to throw

marketing department provides the real names.

In Mac OS X's case, though, Apple thinks that its cat names are cool enough to retain for the

shabby, as targets go) But there's another reason, too: Mac OS

X is a very young operating system It was created only a fewyears ago, and with security in mind (Contrast with Windows,whose original versions were written before the Internet evenexisted.) Mac OS X is simply designed better Its built-in firewallmakes it virtually impossible for hackers to break into your Mac,and the system insists on getting your permission before

anything gets installed on your Mac Nothing can get installed

behind your back, as it can in Windows

But freedom from gunkware and viruses is only one big-ticketitem Here are a few other joys of becoming a Mac fan:

Stability Underneath the shimmering, translucent desktop

of Mac OS X is Unix, the industrial strength, rock-solid OSthat drives many a Web site and university It's not new byany means; in fact, it's decades old, and has been polished

by generations of programmers That's precisely why AppleCEO Steve Jobs and his team chose it as the basis for theNeXT operating system, which Jobs worked on during his 12years away from Apple and which Apple bought in 1997 toturn into Mac OS X

No nagging Unlike Windows, Mac OS X isn't copy-protected You can install the same copy on your desktop

up for ".NET Passport," or endure any other friendly

suggestions unrelated to your work And you won't find anycheesy software demos from other companies clogging upyour desktop when you buy a new Mac, either In short, Mac

OS X leaves you alone

Sensational software Mac OS X comes with several

dozen useful programs, from Mail (for email) to a 3-D,

voice-activated Chess program The most famous programs,though, are the famous Apple "iApps": iTunes for workingwith audio files, iMovie for editing video, iPhoto for

managing your digital photos, GarageBand for creating andediting digital music, and so on You also get iChat (an AOL-, Jabber-, and Google Talk-compatible instant messagingprogram that also offers videoconferencing) and iCal, a

calendar program

Simpler everything Most applications in Mac OS X show

up as a single icon All of the support files are hidden awayinside, where you don't have to look at them There's noAdd/Remove Programs program on the Macintosh; in

general, you can remove a program from your Mac simply

by dragging that one application icon to the Trash, withouthaving to worry that you're leaving scraps behind

Desktop features Microsoft is a neat freak Windows XP,

for example, is so opposed to your using the desktop as aparking lot for icons, it actually interrupts you every 60

days to sweep all your infrequently used icons into an

"Unused" folder

The Mac approach is different Mac people often leave theirdesktops absolutely littered with icons As a result, Mac OS

X offers a long list of useful desktop features that will benew to you, the Windows refugee

a folder within a folder within a folder with a single drag,without leaving a wake of open windows An optional

second line under an icon's name tells you how many itemsare in a folder, what the dimensions of a graphic are, and so

on And there's a useful column view, which lets you viewthe contents of many nested folders at a glance (You canthink of it as a horizontal version of Windows Explorer.)

When your screen gets cluttered with windows, you cantemporarily hide all of them with a single keystroke If you

want to see all the windows on your screen without any of

them overlapping, Mac OS X's Exposé feature is your bestfriend (page 116)

A speedy, system-wide Find command called Spotlight isaccessible from any program It searches not only the

names of your files and folders, but also the words inside

your documents, and can even search your email, calendar,address book, Web bookmarks, and about 100 other kinds

of data, all at once

Finally, Mac OS X offers the Dashboard (which inspired theSidebar in Windows Vista) It lets you summon dozens ofminiprograms—a calculator, weather forecaster, dictionary,and so on—with a single keystroke, and dismiss them just

called widgets from the Internet, making it even easier tofind TV listings, Google search results, local movie

as easily You can download thousands more of these so-showtimes, and more, no matter what program you're using

at the moment

Advanced graphics Mac programmers get excited about

the set of advanced graphics technologies called Quartz (for two-dimensional graphics) and OpenGL (for three-

dimensional graphics) For the rest of us, these technologiestranslate into a beautiful, translucent look for the desktop,

smooth-looking (antialiased) onscreen lettering, and the

ability to turn any document on the screen into an Adobe

another, the "genie" effect when you minimize a window tothe Dock, and so on

Advanced networking When it comes to hooking up your

computer to others, including those on the Internet, fewoperating systems can touch Mac OS X It offers advanced

network automatically, too As a result, you can open, copy,and work on files on both types of machines as though thereligious war between Macs and PCs had never even

A command-line interface In general, Apple has

completely hidden from you every trace of the Unix

operating system that lurks beneath Mac OS X's beautifulskin For the benefit of programmers and other technicallyoriented fans, however, Apple left uncovered a tiny

passageway into that far more complex realm: Terminal, aprogram in your Applications Utilities folder

This isn't a Unix book, so you'll find only the basics of usingTerminal here Still, if the idea of an all-text operating

Programs As mentioned above, there are certain

programs that are stubbornly Windows-only You can alwayssearch for replacements—using Chapter 7 of this book as aguide, for example—but you may end up having to pay for

them And, of course, there are certain programs—like

some proprietary accounting and laboratory software, andlots of games—where the Windows versions are simply

irreplaceable For those, you have to keep a PC around orrun Windows on your Mac (Chapter 8)

Peripherals Most add-on devices nowadays work equally

well on both Windows PCs and Macs That includes printers,scanners, digital cameras (still- and video- varieties), and

"multifunction" devices that incorporate several of those

Unfortunately, not every company is that enlightened Ifyou have a device made by an obscure manufacturer—

especially if the device is more than a few years old—it maynot work with your Mac at all

Still, all hope is not lost Chapter 9 can get you out of anyhardware ruts you may find yourself in while making the BigSwitch

P3.3 About This Book

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual is divided into five

parts, each containing several chapters:

Part 1, covers the essentials of the Macintosh It's a crashcourse in everything you see onscreen when you turn onthe machine: the Dock, Sidebar, icons, windows, menus,scroll bars, Trash, aliases, menu, and so on

Part 2, is dedicated to the actual process of hauling yoursoftware, settings, and even peripherals (like printers andmonitors) across the chasm from the PC to the Mac It

covers both the easy parts (copying over your documents,pictures, and music files) and the harder ones (transferringyour email, address books, buddy lists, and so on) It alsocovers the steps for running Windows on your Mac, which is

up private accounts for people who share a Mac, create anetwork for file sharing and screen sharing, navigate the

is Appendix B—an essential reference for anyone who

occasionally (or frequently) flounders to find some familiarcontrol in the new, alien Macintosh environment The last is

sequence, like this: "On your hard drive, you'll find a folder

called System Open that Inside the System folder window is a

folder called Libraries; double-click it to open it Inside that

folder is yet another one called Fonts Double-click to open it,too."

Similarly, this kind of arrow shorthand helps to simplify the

business of choosing commands in menus, as shown in FigureP3-1

Figure P3-1 In this book, arrow notations help to simplify folder and menu instructions For example,

"Choose Dock Position on Left" is a more compact way of saying, "From the menu, choose Dock; from the submenu that then appears, choose Position on Left," as

The Web site also offers corrections and updates to the book (tosee them, click the book's title, and then click Errata) In fact,you're encouraged to submit such corrections and updates

yourself In an effort to keep the book as up-to-date and

accurate as possible, each time we print more copies of this

P3.4 The Very Basics

To use this book, and indeed to use a Macintosh, you need toknow a few basics This book assumes that you're familiar with

Keyboard shortcuts If you're typing along in a burst of

creative energy, it's disruptive to have to grab the mouse to

-B to produce a boldface word When you read an

instruction like "press -B," start by pressing the key,then, while it's down, type the letter B, and finally releaseboth keys

Tip: You know what's really nice? The keystroke to open the

Preferences dialog box in every Apple program—Mail,

Safari, iMovie, iPhoto, TextEdit, Preview, and on and on—isalways the same: -comma Better yet, that standard iscatching on with other software companies, too; Word,

Excel, Entourage, and PowerPoint use the same keystroke,for example

In other words, Mac OS X offers roughly the same features asrecent versions of Windows That's the good news

The bad news is that these features are called different thingsand parked in different spots As you could have predicted, thisrearrangement of features can mean a good deal of confusionfor you, the Macintosh foreigner For the first few days or

weeks, you may instinctively reach for certain familiar featuresthat simply aren't where you expect to find them, the way yourtongue keeps sticking itself into the socket of the newly

extracted tooth

To minimize the frustration, therefore, read this chapter first Itmakes plain the most important and dramatic differences

in your life.)

In every case, though, the power button looks the same (Figure1-1): it bears the logo

Figure 1-1 Every Mac's power button looks like this, although it might be hard to find The good news: Once you find it, it'll pretty much stay in the same place.

In other words, Mac OS X offers roughly the same features asrecent versions of Windows That's the good news

The bad news is that these features are called different thingsand parked in different spots As you could have predicted, thisrearrangement of features can mean a good deal of confusionfor you, the Macintosh foreigner For the first few days or

weeks, you may instinctively reach for certain familiar featuresthat simply aren't where you expect to find them, the way yourtongue keeps sticking itself into the socket of the newly

extracted tooth

To minimize the frustration, therefore, read this chapter first Itmakes plain the most important and dramatic differences

in your life.)

In every case, though, the power button looks the same (Figure1-1): it bears the logo

Figure 1-1 Every Mac's power button looks like this, although it might be hard to find The good news: Once you find it, it'll pretty much stay in the same place.

In other words, Mac OS X offers roughly the same features asrecent versions of Windows That's the good news

The bad news is that these features are called different thingsand parked in different spots As you could have predicted, thisrearrangement of features can mean a good deal of confusionfor you, the Macintosh foreigner For the first few days or

weeks, you may instinctively reach for certain familiar featuresthat simply aren't where you expect to find them, the way yourtongue keeps sticking itself into the socket of the newly

extracted tooth

To minimize the frustration, therefore, read this chapter first Itmakes plain the most important and dramatic differences

in your life.)

In every case, though, the power button looks the same (Figure1-1): it bears the logo

Figure 1-1 Every Mac's power button looks like this, although it might be hard to find The good news: Once you find it, it'll pretty much stay in the same place.

(although the right button is invisible) You can right-to have only a single button It's worth learning how to right-click, though, because shortcut menus, shown here

in Windows (left) and on the Mac (right), are so handy.

But for years, it took two hands to open a Mac shortcut menu

You did it by Control-clicking something on the screen—and you

can still do that But Windows veterans have always preferredthe one-handed method: right-clicking That is, clicking

something by pressing the right mouse button on a two-button

mouse

"Ah, but that' s what's always driven me nuts about Apple,"

goes the common refrain "Their refusal to get rid of their stupidone-button mouse!"

Well, not so fast