How to use a Mac - Quick and Easy. The Ultimate Guide for PC Switchers (OSX Mavericks Edition)

Contenuto dell'eBook:

How to use a Mac – Quick and Easy is your guided tour to your first Mac. Designed to be a must-have for anyone switching from a PC to a Mac, it will make your transition so much easier. Working through this book, you'll quickly become a competent Mac user and find yourself getting so much more from your Mac.
Designed to help PC switchers, or those thinking about switching to their first Mac, this book will also help new users trying to understand their first Mac. Cuts through all of the jargon by explaining what all of those features really do, using plain English and color illustrations throughout. This book will help you to get going quickly.

Quick and Easy guides are designed to help you learn as quickly and easily as possible. Lavishly illustrated throughout with as little text as possible, this guide shows you quickly and clearly. This isn't a 900-page manual covering every tiny detail that leaves you more confused than when you started, and it doesn't have a 15-page guide to using the trackpad, because there's already a trackpad tutorial built into every Mac. What it does do is as quickly as possible show you how your Mac works, what features are there to help you, and shows you things that are less obvious, while at the same time giving you a thorough grounding in how to use every aspect of your Mac so you can start your new Mac life with confidence.


Contents

• The Desktop – beginning to find your way around the Mac.
• The Apple menu, system preferences and setting up your Mac.
• Customizing your interface, mouse and trackpad.
• Bluetooth and Sharing.
• Working with printers.
• Mission control and the desktop – learn how to work smoothly and use the hidden functionality of your desktop.
• iCloud, internet accounts and setting up a network – what is a minefield of confusion for so many is explained quickly and clearly, using simple English to clear through all of the jargon.
• Parental controls.
• Dictation and speech – dictate instead of type, or have your Mac read to you.
• The filing system on your Mac – working with files and folders. What seems so confusing to PC switchers is explained clearly, with plenty of illustrations and includes a lot of non-obvious features you'll come to use every day, but would have taken you a year to find out about.
• Software Update.
• All about external drives – This source of worry for PC switchers is explained and illustrated in a friendly way that will tell you everything you need to know.
• Tags, smart folders and other useful OSX Mavericks features, explained clearly with full-color illustrations.
• Applications – Downloading, installing and launching. Illustrated guides to the launchpad and how to install and run applications, covering the App Store and third-party offerings.
• The Dock – what it is, what it does, and how to customize it to make your Mac easier and more enjoyable to use.
• Keyboard shortcuts – Learn some of the most useful shortcuts you'll use every day, up to date for OSX Mavericks.
• What all those icons are – a quick guide to what all those icons on the dock are for will help you explore new features that you think may be useful to you in the future.
• The Menu Bar icons – what they are and how to use them to make life on your Mac easier, including a few less obvious features.
• Run Windows on your Mac using Boot Camp and third-party offerings, and the differences between them.
• How to create a recovery disk for peace of mind, and how to use Time Machine to back up and recover your data.
• And more!

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