| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Who Needs an iMac Book? | p. 1 |
| How to Use This Book (Other Than as a Mouse Pad) | p. 2 |
| Macintosh conventions | p. 2 |
| Conventions in this book | p. 2 |
| Apple and obsolescence | p. 3 |
| For the Absolute iMac Virgin | p. 5 |
| How to Turn On Your iMac (and What to Do Next) | p. 7 |
| Box Open. Now What? | p. 7 |
| Switching on the iMac | p. 7 |
| The startup slide show | p. 8 |
| Your First Moments Alone Together | p. 9 |
| The Setup Assistant--and your iMac edition | p. 9 |
| Moving the mouse | p. 11 |
| What's on the menu? | p. 11 |
| The big turn-off | p. 12 |
| Moving things around on the desktop | p. 13 |
| Icons, windows, and Macintosh syntax | p. 14 |
| The complete list of window doodads | p. 16 |
| All systems are go | p. 17 |
| Double-clicking in theory and practice | p. 19 |
| Multiple windows | p. 20 |
| Using a list view | p. 20 |
| The easiest homework you've ever had | p. 21 |
| Where to get help | p. 21 |
| Pit stop | p. 23 |
| Top Ten Similarities between You and Your iMac | p. 23 |
| High-Tech Made Easy | p. 25 |
| How an iMac Works | p. 25 |
| Storing things with disks | p. 25 |
| Conceptualizing the hard disk | p. 26 |
| Understanding memory | p. 26 |
| Who's Meg? | p. 27 |
| Understanding RAM | p. 28 |
| Putting it all together | p. 29 |
| "I lost all my work!" | p. 30 |
| Top Ten Differences between Memory and a Hard Disk | p. 31 |
| Windows, Icons, and Trashes | p. 33 |
| Becoming Manipulative | p. 33 |
| Foldermania | p. 33 |
| Keyboard shortcuts | p. 34 |
| How to trash something | p. 38 |
| Top Ten Window, Icon, and Trash Tips | p. 40 |
| Actually Accomplishing Something | p. 45 |
| Obsolescence Therapy | p. 45 |
| Credit Card Workout #2: Buying Software | p. 46 |
| Where to get it | p. 47 |
| Your very first software | p. 48 |
| Desk Accessories | p. 48 |
| The Calculator | p. 48 |
| The Note Pad | p. 48 |
| Selecting text | p. 49 |
| The cornerstone of human endeavor: Copy and Paste | p. 50 |
| The Application menu | p. 51 |
| Control Panels | p. 54 |
| Top Ten Control Panel Explanations | p. 55 |
| Typing, Saving, and Finding Again | p. 57 |
| Your Very First Bestseller | p. 57 |
| Top three rules of word processing | p. 58 |
| The excitement begins | p. 59 |
| Editing for the linguistically blessed | p. 61 |
| Puff, the Magic Drag-N-Drop | p. 63 |
| Form and Format | p. 66 |
| The return of Return | p. 67 |
| Appealing characters | p. 68 |
| Formatting paragraphs | p. 69 |
| Working with Documents | p. 70 |
| Navigating the Save File (and Open File) box | p. 71 |
| Closing a file, with a sigh | p. 75 |
| How to find out what's going on | p. 76 |
| Getting It All Back Again | p. 77 |
| Crazy relationships: Parents and kids | p. 77 |
| Fetch: How to retrieve a document | p. 78 |
| Save Me Again! | p. 79 |
| How to Back Up iMac Files | p. 80 |
| The importance of being backed up | p. 81 |
| Where's the floppy drive? | p. 81 |
| How to insert a disk | p. 82 |
| How to copy stuff onto a disk | p. 83 |
| How to get a disk or CD out again | p. 83 |
| When What Was Found Is Now Lost | p. 84 |
| Seeking wisdom in your own words--and on the Net | p. 86 |
| Sherlock goes silver | p. 86 |
| Top Ten Word-Processing Tips | p. 87 |
| A Quiet Talk about Printers, Printing, and Fonts | p. 91 |
| Inkjet Printers | p. 91 |
| How to hook up a USB inkjet printer | p. 92 |
| How to hook up an older inkjet printer | p. 93 |
| Laser Printers | p. 94 |
| How to hook up a modern laser printer | p. 95 |
| After All That: How You Actually Print | p. 96 |
| Using the Tab key in dialog boxes | p. 97 |
| Background printing | p. 98 |
| Canceling printing | p. 98 |
| Top Ten Free Fun Font Factoids | p. 99 |
| The Internet Defanged | p. 105 |
| Faking Your Way onto America Online and the Internet | p. 107 |
| First, the Modem | p. 108 |
| America Online or Direct to the Internet? | p. 109 |
| America Online (AOL), the Cyber-Grocery | p. 110 |
| Exploring by icon | p. 112 |
| Navigating by keyword | p. 112 |
| How to find your way back to the good stuff | p. 113 |
| The e-mail connection | p. 114 |
| The party line | p. 114 |
| Talking behind their backs | p. 115 |
| How to find--and get--free software | p. 116 |
| Signing Up for an Internet Account (ISP) | p. 117 |
| What's on the Internet | p. 118 |
| E-mail | p. 118 |
| Newsgroups | p. 118 |
| The World Wide Web | p. 120 |
| How to Hang Up | p. 120 |
| When You Can't Open Your Downloaded Goodies | p. 122 |
| StuffIt Expander: Free and easy | p. 123 |
| Files you still can't open | p. 124 |
| Top Ten Best/Worst Aspects of the Net | p. 126 |
| The Weird Wide Web | p. 127 |
| Internet Made Idiotproof: Link-Clicking | p. 127 |
| Getting to the Web via America Online | p. 128 |
| Getting to the Web via an ISP | p. 129 |
| Where to Go, What to Do on the Web | p. 129 |
| Ways to search for a particular topic | p. 131 |
| Searching using Sherlock | p. 133 |
| Not just Sherlock--new, improved Sherlock! | p. 135 |
| Useful Web pages: The tip of the iceberg | p. 136 |
| Navigator vs. Explorer: The Tip-O-Rama | p. 137 |
| Choose your weapon | p. 138 |
| Type almost nothing | p. 138 |
| Go get the plug-in | p. 138 |
| Where's home for you? | p. 139 |
| Faster--please, make it faster! | p. 139 |
| Bookmark it | p. 141 |
| Stop the blinking! | p. 141 |
| Keeping the Net safe for kidlets | p. 142 |
| E-mail for He-males and Females | p. 143 |
| Getting into E-Mail | p. 143 |
| Sending e-mail | p. 144 |
| Getting your mail | p. 145 |
| Processing a message you've read | p. 146 |
| Attaching Files to E-Mail | p. 147 |
| Sending a file | p. 148 |
| Sending files to Windows people | p. 149 |
| Getting a file | p. 150 |
| The Anti-Spam Handbook | p. 151 |
| Software Competence | p. 153 |
| Faking Your Way Through the Free Software | p. 155 |
| Your Personal Software Store | p. 155 |
| Software on all iMacs | p. 155 |
| Software only on new (CD slot-loading) iMacs | p. 156 |
| Software only on older (CD tray-loading) iMacs | p. 156 |
| AppleWorks | p. 156 |
| Your first database | p. 158 |
| Data entry time | p. 161 |
| Forming the form letter | p. 163 |
| The graphics zone: Designing a letterhead | p. 166 |
| The return of Copy and Paste | p. 169 |
| AppleWorks: The Other Spreadsheet | p. 170 |
| Other Cool Stuff AppleWorks Does | p. 175 |
| Bugdom | p. 177 |
| EdView Internet Safety Kit, Family Edition | p. 178 |
| Installing the Safety Kit | p. 178 |
| Using the Safety Kit | p. 179 |
| Bypassing the Safety Kit | p. 180 |
| E-mail, America Online, and other blockades | p. 180 |
| Kid Pix Deluxe | p. 181 |
| Nanosaur | p. 182 |
| PageMill | p. 183 |
| The blank canvas | p. 183 |
| Creating a new, blank page | p. 184 |
| Meet your toolbar | p. 184 |
| Add the text | p. 185 |
| Hanging pictures | p. 185 |
| A little separation | p. 186 |
| Linking up | p. 186 |
| Getting published | p. 187 |
| Palm Desktop | p. 188 |
| Installing Palm Desktop | p. 188 |
| The Calendar | p. 189 |
| The Contact List (Address Book) | p. 194 |
| The Task List | p. 195 |
| The Note List | p. 197 |
| The Magic of Instant Palm Desktop | p. 197 |
| Quicken | p. 199 |
| The category concept | p. 199 |
| The Register | p. 200 |
| Just another $10,000 day | p. 201 |
| Creating a new category | p. 203 |
| More typical examples | p. 204 |
| The category payoff | p. 205 |
| Reconciling for the nonaccountant | p. 205 |
| If the statement has extra items | p. 207 |
| World Book Encyclopedia | p. 208 |
| Installing the World Book program | p. 208 |
| Looking up a topic | p. 209 |
| Getting more help | p. 210 |
| Photo Soap, Good Cooking, and MDK | p. 210 |
| Williams - Sonoma Guide to Good Cooking | p. 210 |
| MDK | p. 211 |
| Kai's Photo Soap | p. 211 |
| iSpielberg: Digital Movies with iMovie | p. 215 |
| Got What It Takes? | p. 216 |
| Filming Your Life | p. 217 |
| Dump the Footage into iMovie | p. 218 |
| Capturing clips | p. 219 |
| How much footage can your iMac hold? | p. 219 |
| Naming, playing, and trimming clips | p. 220 |
| Build the Movie | p. 222 |
| Adding a cross-fade | p. 222 |
| Adding titles | p. 223 |
| Grabbing music from a CD | p. 224 |
| Find an Audience | p. 226 |
| Sending your movie back to the camcorder | p. 226 |
| Saving your movie as a QuickTime file | p. 226 |
| Your Free Built-In DVD Player | p. 228 |
| Pix Tricks: Graphic Nonviolence | p. 231 |
| Where Graphics Come From | p. 231 |
| The Web | p. 231 |
| Scanners | p. 233 |
| Digital cameras | p. 234 |
| Kodak PhotoCDs | p. 235 |
| What to Do with Graphics | p. 235 |
| Mail them to someone | p. 235 |
| Put 'em on a Web page | p. 237 |
| Print it out | p. 237 |
| Plaster your iMac desktop | p. 237 |
| System Folder: Trash Barge of the iMac | p. 239 |
| The System Folder Trashfest | p. 240 |
| Appearance, Application Support | p. 240 |
| The Apple Menu Items folder | p. 240 |
| The Contextual Menu Items folder | p. 243 |
| The Control Strip Modules folder | p. 243 |
| The Control Panels folder | p. 243 |
| The Extensions folder | p. 253 |
| The Preferences folder | p. 260 |
| More special folders | p. 260 |
| Other files in the System Folder | p. 262 |
| Toward a New, Nerdier You | p. 265 |
| Great Material that Didn't Quite Fit the Outline | p. 267 |
| The Efficiency Nut's Guide to the Option Key | p. 267 |
| Closing all windows at once | p. 268 |
| The silence of the Trash | p. 268 |
| Multitasking methods | p. 268 |
| Buried Treasures | p. 270 |
| Make an alias of a file | p. 270 |
| The iMac's Program Switcher | p. 273 |
| Zooming into your screen | p. 274 |
| Making It Unmistakably Yours | p. 274 |
| Have it your way--at Icon King | p. 275 |
| Hanging your own background wallpaper | p. 276 |
| Color-coding your icons | p. 277 |
| Window-Mania | p. 278 |
| Views and window preferences | p. 278 |
| Meet Mr. Window | p. 279 |
| Poppin' fresh windows | p. 281 |
| The iMac Keyboard: Not Your Father's Typewriter | p. 282 |
| Fun with Function keys | p. 284 |
| Multiple Personalities (Mac OS 9) | p. 286 |
| The big idea | p. 286 |
| Setting up Multiple Users | p. 287 |
| Using the Multiple Users feature | p. 290 |
| USB, Ethernet, AirPort, and Other Impressive Connections | p. 291 |
| USB Nimble, USB Quick | p. 291 |
| Where's the USB? | p. 292 |
| Installing a new USB doodad | p. 292 |
| Attaching more USB doodads | p. 293 |
| Ethernet Made Eathy | p. 293 |
| Connecting to one other Mac | p. 294 |
| Creating a real, live, full-office Ethernet network | p. 296 |
| Wireless Networking: Your Ride to the AirPort | p. 298 |
| Installing an AirPort Card | p. 299 |
| Going Online with a base station | p. 299 |
| Using your iMac as a base station | p. 301 |
| Communicating Mac-to-Mac | p. 302 |
| Troubleshooting Made Tolerable | p. 305 |
| When Bad Things Happen to Good iMacs | p. 307 |
| Introduction to Computer Hell | p. 307 |
| The iMac Freezes or Crashes | p. 308 |
| Escaping a System freeze right now | p. 308 |
| Escaping repeated System freezes | p. 309 |
| Problems in One Program | p. 310 |
| Error Messages | p. 311 |
| "Application not found" | p. 311 |
| "You do not have enough access privileges" | p. 313 |
| "DNS Entry not found" or "Error 404" | p. 313 |
| "You are running low on memory" | p. 314 |
| "Application has unexpectedly quit" | p. 314 |
| Numbered error messages | p. 314 |
| Out of Memory | p. 315 |
| First resort: Quit programs | p. 315 |
| Second resort: Defragment your RAM | p. 316 |
| Third resort: Get RAM Doubler | p. 316 |
| Fourth resort: Use virtual memory | p. 317 |
| Last resort: Buy more | p. 318 |
| Startup Problems | p. 319 |
| No chime, no picture | p. 319 |
| Picture, no ding | p. 319 |
| A question mark blinks on the screen | p. 319 |
| The power button on the keyboard doesn't work | p. 320 |
| Some crazy program launches itself every time you start up | p. 321 |
| General printing problems | p. 321 |
| Inkjet printers: Blank pages come out | p. 321 |
| Finder Foul-Ups | p. 321 |
| You can't rename a file | p. 322 |
| You can't rename or eject a disk | p. 322 |
| All your icons show up blank | p. 322 |
| It's January 1, 1904 | p. 322 |
| Disk Disasters (Floppies, CDs, and Co.) | p. 323 |
| Your CD vibrates scarily | p. 323 |
| You can't install a new program from your SuperDisk | p. 324 |
| The CD Drawer Won't Open | p. 324 |
| Everything's Slow | p. 324 |
| Hardware Headaches | p. 325 |
| Your mouse is jerky or sticky | p. 325 |
| Double-clicking doesn't work | p. 325 |
| Your monitor's too small | p. 325 |
| Your monitor shimmers | p. 326 |
| The Problem-Solving Cookbook | p. 327 |
| Rebuilding the Desktop File | p. 327 |
| Zapping the PRAM | p. 328 |
| The Amazing "Force Quit" Keystroke | p. 328 |
| The Restart Button | p. 329 |
| Solving an Extension Conflict | p. 329 |
| Giving More Memory to a Program | p. 331 |
| Performing a Clean System Reinstall | p. 333 |
| Install the fresh software | p. 334 |
| Restore your personal belongings | p. 334 |
| Other ways to restore your iMac | p. 336 |
| Defragmenting Your Hard Drive | p. 337 |
| Beyond the iMac: Where to Go from Here | p. 339 |
| Where to Turn in Times of Trouble | p. 339 |
| Your 15 minutes of free help | p. 339 |
| $150 for three years | p. 340 |
| Free help sources | p. 340 |
| Upgrading to Mac OS 9--and Beyond | p. 341 |
| Save Changes Before Closing? | p. 342 |
| The Part of Tens | p. 343 |
| Ten More Gadgets to Buy and Plug In | p. 345 |
| A Scanner | p. 345 |
| A Digital Camera | p. 346 |
| A Mouse | p. 346 |
| A Joystick | p. 347 |
| Speakers or Headphones | p. 347 |
| The Harmon/Kardon Subwoofer | p. 348 |
| Music and MIDI | p. 349 |
| A Projector | p. 349 |
| Zip, SuperDisk, and Co. | p. 350 |
| A Movie Camera | p. 351 |
| Ten Cool Things You Didn't Know Your iMac Could Do | p. 353 |
| Play Music CDs | p. 353 |
| Talk | p. 354 |
| Sing | p. 355 |
| Play Movies | p. 355 |
| Send Faxes | p. 356 |
| Receive Faxes | p. 358 |
| Fit in Your Pocket | p. 359 |
| Record Sounds | p. 360 |
| How to record a sound | p. 360 |
| How to adjust your iMac's speaker volume | p. 360 |
| Run Windows Programs | p. 361 |
| Print Photos | p. 361 |
| Appendixes | p. 363 |
| How to Set Up an iMac | p. 365 |
| I Took Off the Shrink Wrap! Now What? | p. 365 |
| Switching the iMac on | p. 367 |
| What You've Got Here | p. 367 |
| Mastering Your Monitor | p. 368 |
| Attaching a second monitor | p. 369 |
| A bit about color bits | p. 370 |
| The Resource Resource | p. 371 |
| Magazines | p. 371 |
| User Groups | p. 372 |
| Deep-Discount Mail-Order Joints | p. 372 |
| Great iMac Web Pages | p. 373 |
| The Ultimate iMac Buyer's Guide | p. 373 |
| Printers and Printer Adapters | p. 374 |
| Multifunction Printers | p. 375 |
| Adapters for Older Mac Gadgets | p. 375 |
| Serial adapters | p. 376 |
| USB Serial adapters | p. 376 |
| ADB (mouse and keyboard) adapter | p. 376 |
| Microphone adapters | p. 376 |
| SCSI adapters | p. 376 |
| Digital Cameras | p. 377 |
| Disk Drives | p. 378 |
| Joysticks and Game Pads | p. 380 |
| Keyboard and Mouse Replacements | p. 380 |
| Mice | p. 380 |
| Trackballs | p. 381 |
| Keyboards | p. 381 |
| Scanners | p. 381 |
| Speakers | p. 382 |
| USB Hubs | p. 382 |
| Index | p. 383 |
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