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| Preface | |
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| Choosing a Mac | |
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| Processors | |
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| RAM | |
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| Hard disk size | |
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| Getting started: the Mac Mini | |
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| Family workhorse: the iMac | |
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| Creative professionals: Mac Pro | |
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| The portable MacBook | |
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| Professional portability: the MacBook Pro | |
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| Graphics cards, and DVD-writers | |
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| Mac vs PC: time to stop arguing! | |
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| How Macs work | |
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| Starting up | |
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| The Desktop | |
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| Basic mouse skills | |
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| Menus, dialogs and windows | |
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| Using the Dock | |
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| Starting applications | |
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| Using the Finder | |
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| Your Home folder | |
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| Managing folders and files | |
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| Finding files | |
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| What if your Mac crashes? | |
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| Shutdown and sleep | |
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| Plug-in devices | |
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| What devices work with a Mac? | |
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| Types of connection | |
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| Choosing a printer | |
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| Scanning your old photos | |
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| Connecting a digital camera | |
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| Using a memory card reader | |
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| Movies from your camcorder | |
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| Why external hard drives are useful | |
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| Portable stick drives | |
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| Keyboards and mice | |
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| What's new in Leopard | |
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| Do you need to upgrade? | |
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| Stacks | |
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| Cover Flow | |
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| Finder Sidebar | |
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| Smart Folders | |
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| Quick Look | |
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| Spaces | |
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| Time Machine | |
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| Boot Camp | |
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| Application enhancements | |
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| Internet and email | |
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| Getting online | |
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| Getting started with Safari | |
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| Using bookmarks | |
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| Searching online | |
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| Buying online | |
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| Working with tabs | |
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| Getting starting with Mail | |
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| Organizing your mail | |
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| Sending and receiving mail | |
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| Dealing with junk mail | |
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| iWork '08 | |
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| What is iWork '08? | |
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| Writing a letter in Pages | |
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| Designing a leaflet in Pages | |
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| Creating a Keynote presentation | |
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| Adding a chart | |
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| Introducing spreadsheets | |
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| What's different about Numbers | |
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| Swapping documents with others | |
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| Mac Office 2004 | |
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| No Mac is an island! | |
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| Mac Office vs Windows Office | |
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| Mac Office vs iWork '08 | |
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| Microsoft Word basics | |
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| Outlining in Word | |
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| Inserting graphics in Word | |
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| Excel basics | |
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| PowerPoint basics | |
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| Entourage - unique to the Mac | |
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| Managing your projects | |
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| Office 2008 is coming | |
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| Working with PCs | |
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| Swapping files | |
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| Joining a network | |
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| Common file types | |
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| iPhoto | |
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| What is iPhoto? | |
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| How iPhoto works | |
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| Importing photos | |
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| Viewing and browsing photos | |
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| Creating albums | |
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| Using keywords and comments | |
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| Using ratings | |
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| Smart albums | |
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| Editing photos | |
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| Printing photos | |
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| Creating slideshows | |
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| Cards, books and calendars | |
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| Creating web albums | |
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| Using iTunes | |
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| What is iTunes? | |
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| Copying CDs to your Library | |
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| Organizing your music | |
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| Creating playlists | |
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| Enjoying your music | |
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| Creating audio CDs | |
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| Synchronizing with iPods | |
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| The iTunes store | |
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| What's DRM? | |
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| What are podcasts? | |
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| What's Internet radio? | |
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| iMovie and iDVD | |
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| What iMovie does | |
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| What iDVD does | |
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| Getting clips into iMovie | |
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| Organizing and browsing clips | |
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| Creating a project | |
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| Adding transitions | |
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| Adding titles | |
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| Adding a voiceover | |
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| Exporting the movie | |
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| Creating a new iDVD project | |
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| Importing video | |
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| Simple modifications | |
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| Burning a DVD | |
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| Organize your life with iCal | |
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| What does iCal do? | |
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| Creating an appointment | |
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| Setting a reminder | |
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| Using multiple calendars | |
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| Adding a To Do | |
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| Viewing your To Dos in Mail | |
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| What does Address Book do? | |
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| Organizing contacts into groups | |
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| New: Smart Groups | |
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| Get online with iWeb | |
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| Getting started | |
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| Adding your own text | |
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| Adding your own photos | |
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| Adding other objects | |
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| Building a website | |
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| Websites versus blogs | |
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| Going live | |
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| Subscribing to .Mac | |
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| What is .Mac? | |
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| iPhoto web galleries | |
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| Email | |
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| Website publishing | |
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| iDisk | |
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| Synchronization | |
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| Is it worth it? | |
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| Dashboard widgets | |
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| What are Dashboard widgets? | |
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| Configuring widgets | |
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| Where to get more | |
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| Favourite widgets | |
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| Games and utilities | |
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| Game types and top sellers | |
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| Where to get Mac games | |
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| Games online | |
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| Mac utilities | |
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| Multiple users | |
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| Your user account | |
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| Adding a user | |
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| Switching between users | |
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| System Preferences | |
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| Personal Perferences | |
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| Hardware Preferences | |
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| Internet & Network Preferences | |
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| System Preferences | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |