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Foreword | |
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Introduction | |
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About This Book | |
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Conventions Used in This Book | |
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What You're Not to Read | |
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Foolish Assumptions | |
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How This Book Is Organized | |
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Icons Used in This Book | |
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Where to Go from Here | |
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Basic Training | |
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Mac OS 9 101 (Prerequisites: None) | |
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What Is System Software? | |
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What Does System Software Do? | |
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A Safety Net for the Absolute Beginner -- or Any User | |
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What You Should See after Turning On the Power | |
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What's Happening Here? (The Startup Process Revealed) | |
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You're not a failure | |
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Question Mark and the Mysterians | |
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The ultimate startup disks | |
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Now what? | |
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One Last Thing Before We Move On | |
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Meet the Desktop | |
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I Think I-con, I Think I-con | |
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The look you want to know better | |
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Open sesame | |
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The name game | |
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Other various and sundry icons | |
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Windows (Not the Microsoft Kind) | |
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Doin' windows | |
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Zooming right along | |
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That shady window feeling | |
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Cutting windows down to size | |
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A scroll new world | |
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Transportable windows | |
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Ladies and gentlemen, activate your windows | |
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Shutting yo' windows | |
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Congrats: You now do windows | |
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Disk Could Be the Start of Something Big | |
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Initialization and Erasure | |
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Suprise! PC Disks Work as Well! | |
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Getting Disks Out of Your Mac | |
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Know When to Hold'er, Know When to Folder | |
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Making folders | |
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Using'em | |
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Moving and copying folders | |
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Moving and copying disks | |
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Meet the Desktop | |
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Delectable Menus, Volume I | |
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Menu Basics | |
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Command performance | |
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It's elliptical | |
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Dialog box featurettes | |
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File Management and More: Meet the File Menu | |
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New Folder | |
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Open | |
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Print | |
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Move to Trash | |
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Close Window | |
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Get Info | |
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Label | |
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Duplicate | |
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Make Alias | |
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Add to Favorites | |
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Put Away | |
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Encrypt | |
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Find | |
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Search Internet | |
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Show Original | |
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Page Setup | |
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Print Desktop/Print Window | |
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The Edit Menu (Which Shoulda Been Called the Clipboard Menu) | |
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Undo | |
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Cut | |
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Show Clipboard | |
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Copy | |
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Paste | |
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Clear | |
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Select All | |
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Preferences | |
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Delectable Menus, Volume II | |
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A View from a Window: The View Menu | |
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The first part: As icons, as buttons, or as a list | |
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The second part: As window or as pop-up window | |
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The third part: Keeping things orderly | |
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Something Special in the Menu Bar | |
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Empty Trash | |
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Eject Disk and Erase Disk | |
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Sleep | |
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Restart | |
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Shut Down | |
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Not Just a Beatles Movie: Help and the Help Menu | |
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Help Center | |
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Show Balloons | |
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Mac OS Help | |
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Apply Yourself: The Application Menu | |
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They're Sooo Sensitive: Contextual Menus | |
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Polishing the Apple (Menu) | |
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About This Computer (Yours) | |
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From the Desk (Accessories) Of | |
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Profile THIS: Apple System Profiler | |
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A calculated risk: Calculator | |
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Be a Chooser user | |
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The key to all your fonts: It's Key Caps | |
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Browse yer local area net with Network Browser | |
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Remote Access Status | |
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The not-so-scrappy Scrapbook | |
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Finder of lost files: Sherlock 2 (again) | |
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Don't be stuck up: Use Stickies | |
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Those Interestingly Named Folders in the Apple Menu | |
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The Control Panels folder | |
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Recent Applications, Recent Documents, and Recent Servers folders | |
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Favorites folder | |
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Roll Your Own: Customizing Your Apple Menu | |
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Doing the right thing with your desk accessories | |
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Putting your stuff into the Apple menu | |
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Some Other Neat Stuff You Might Want in Your Apple Menu | |
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Sounds good to me: AppleCD Audio Player | |
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Fakin' it with Graphing Calculator (Power Macs only) | |
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Take note of the Note Pad | |
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Sounds like... SimpleSound | |
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My Deep, Dark Secret | |
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Understanding the Save and Open Dialog Boxes | |
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Nested Folders and Paths | |
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Save Your Document Before It's Too Late | |
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The rest of what you should know about Save dialog boxes | |
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The buttons | |
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It Looks Like Save and It Acts Like Save, So Why Is It Called Save As? | |
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Open (Sesame) | |
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Using the Open dialog box | |
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A really big show -- Show Preview | |
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Weird folder or file names | |
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The last thing you need to know | |
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New-Style Open and Save Dialog Boxes? | |
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Making It Purr | |
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File Management Made Simple | |
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Launcher or Not | |
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Getting Yourself Organized | |
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And it's root, root, root for the root level | |
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Documentary evidence: The Documents folder | |
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Other folders at the root level | |
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Apply here: The Applications folder | |
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The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread: Aliases | |
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Icons on the desktop | |
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Smart Apple menu tricks | |
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Publish or Perish: The Fail-Safe Guide to Printing | |
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Ready: Choosing a Printer in (What Else?) the Chooser DA | |
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If you have an AppleTalk printer | |
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If you have a serial printer | |
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If you have a USB printer | |
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If you have a SCSI, an Ethernet, a USB, or a server-based printer | |
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The AppleTalk Active/Inactive options | |
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Before you close the Chooser | |
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Set: Setting UP Your Page with Page Setup | |
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Paper type | |
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Page orientation | |
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Scale | |
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PostScript options | |
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Go: Printing to Most Printers | |
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The Print General dialog box | |
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The Print Background Printing dialog box | |
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The Print Color Matching dialog box | |
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The Print Cover Page dialog box | |
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The Print Font Settings dialog box | |
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The Print Job Logging dialog box | |
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The Print Layout dialog box | |
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The Print Save As File dialog box | |
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One last thing ... | |
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Desktop Printers | |
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What is a desktop printer, anyway? | |
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Using desktop printers | |
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Font Mania | |
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Installing fonts | |
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Types of fonts | |
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Font advice in brief | |
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File Sharing for the Rest of Us | |
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What It Is | |
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Portrait of a LocalTalk Network | |
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Getting Turned On | |
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Setting Up File Sharing | |
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Turn file sharing and program linking on | |
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Sharing and linking with TCP/IP | |
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Users and Groups and Guests (Oh My!) | |
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Users | |
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Groups | |
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Be our guest | |
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Removing users or groups | |
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Access and Privileges (Who Can Do What) | |
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Sharing a folder or disk | |
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Setting access privileges | |
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Useful settings for access privileges | |
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The Actual Act of Sharing | |
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Connecting to a shared disk or folder | |
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Connecting to your own computer from a remote computer | |
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Disconnecting from a shared folder or disk | |
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A Few Other Things You Ought to Know | |
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Monitoring file sharing | |
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Changing your password | |
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Unsharing a folder or disk | |
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Logging on remotely via modem | |
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Memory and Other Seemingly Complicated Arcana | |
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Baby, Baby, Where Did Our RAM Go? | |
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System software memory | |
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Application memory | |
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In summation | |
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Memories Are Made of This: The Memory Control Panel | |
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Cashing in with the disk cache | |
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How to set your disk cache | |
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It's not real, it's virtual (memory) | |
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Faster than a speeding bullet: It's a RAM disk | |
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U 2 Can B A Guru | |
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Sure-Fire, Easy-to-Use, No (or Low)-Cost Timesaving Tips | |
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Let Your Fingers Do the Flying | |
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Use those keyboard shortcuts | |
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Learn to type better | |
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Why Living Color May Not Be So Great | |
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Monitor settings | |
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Resolution? It's not just for New Year's anymore | |
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Contextual menus: They're great in context | |
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A Mac with a view -- and preferences, too | |
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If you don't need it, turn it off or toss it out | |
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What Else Can I Do? | |
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Advanced Techniques for Beginners | |
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Apple Menu | |
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Space cowboy | |
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Divide and conquer | |
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Start Up Your Mornings Right | |
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Control Strip Poker | |
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Control Tweaks | |
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Appearance | |
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Themes | |
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Appearance | |
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Fonts | |
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Desktop | |
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Sound | |
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Options | |
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Apple Menu Options | |
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AppleTalk | |
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ColorSync | |
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Control Strip | |
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Date and Time | |
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To set the date or time | |
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Time and date formats | |
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The rest of it | |
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Dial Assist | |
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Energy Saver | |
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Extensions Manager | |
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File Exchange | |
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PC Exchange tab | |
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File Translation tab | |
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File Sharing | |
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General Controls | |
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Desktop options | |
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Shut Down Warning | |
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Folder Protection | |
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Insertion Point Blinking | |
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Menu Blinking | |
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Documents | |
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Internet | |
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Keyboard | |
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Keychain Access | |
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Launcher | |
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Memory | |
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Modem | |
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Monitors | |
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Mouse | |
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Multiple Users | |
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The Options button | |
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Numbers | |
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QuickTime Settings | |
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Remote Access | |
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Software Update | |
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Sound | |
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Alert Sounds (beep sounds) | |
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Input | |
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Output | |
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Speech | |
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Startup Disk | |
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TCP/IP | |
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Text | |
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Web Sharing | |
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How to Write an AppleScript in 21 Minutes | |
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What the Heck Is an AppleScript, Anyway? | |
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What the Mac OS Installer Installs and Where It Installs It | |
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The AppleScriptLib and AppleScript extensions | |
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The Scripting Additions folder | |
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The AppleScript folder | |
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But wait, there's more | |
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What it all means | |
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Writing a Simple Script | |
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If a Script Is Any Good, It Should Be Saved | |
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What Can Stay and What Can Go | |
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Reclamation Theory | |
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Life after Death: The Truth about Restoring Deleted Files | |
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Back up first | |
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Install Mac OS 9: Restorer of lost items | |
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What, Exactly, Are Extensions and Control Panels? | |
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Disabling 'em all with the Shift key | |
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Discriminating disabling with Extensions Manager | |
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Control Panels | |
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Extensions | |
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System extensions | |
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Chooser extensions | |
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Other items in the Extensions folder | |
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Folders in the Extensions folder | |
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The Rest of the Stuff in Your System Folder | |
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Internet-Working | |
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A Brief Internet Overview | |
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Getting Set Up for Surfing | |
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It starts with the modem | |
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Your Internet service provider and you | |
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Using Internet Setup Assistant to sign up with Earthlink | |
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Using Internet Setup Assistant if you already have an ISP | |
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Surfing with Internet Explorer | |
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Searching the Net with Sherlock 2 | |
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Getting Your Mail with Outlook Express | |
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Four Internet-Related Control Panels | |
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Internet control panel | |
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TCP/IP control panel | |
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Remote Access control panel | |
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Modem control panel | |
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What to Do When Good System Software Goes Bad | |
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Dem Ol' Sad Mac Chimes of Doom Blues | |
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Flashing Question Mark/Flashing Folder Problems | |
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Start with something easy: Rebuild the desktop | |
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Send for the ambulance: Run Disk First Aid | |
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Installing new hard disk drivers | |
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The latest dance craze: Zapping the PRAM | |
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SCSI voodoo | |
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Reinstalling the System software | |
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If nothing has worked so far | |
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If You Crash at Startup | |
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Restart without extensions and control panels | |
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Resolving extension and control panel conflicts | |
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Dealing with recalcitrant extensions and control panels | |
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How to perform a clean System reinstallation | |
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The Part of Tens | |
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At Least Ten Pieces of Mac OS 9 That You Might Someday Need | |
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Internet Access | |
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Apple Remote Access | |
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Personal Web Sharing | |
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Text-to-Speech | |
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Mac OS Runtime for Java | |
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ColorSync | |
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English Speech Recognition | |
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Language Kits | |
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Network Assistant Client | |
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Two More Things You Should Know About | |
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Easy Access | |
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CloseView | |
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Ten Ways to Make Your Mac Better by Throwing Money at It | |
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Ten Great Web Sites for Mac Enthusiasts | |
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MacFixit | |
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MacinTouch | |
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Info-Mac HyperArchives | |
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Apple Tech Info Library | |
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RAMSeeker | |
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MacCentral | |
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Outpost.com | |
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EveryMac | |
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Inside Mac games | |
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DealMac | |
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Appendixes | |
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Anyone Can Install Mac OS 9 | |
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Installing Mac OS 9 | |
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Custom Installs | |
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Optional Mac OS Items | |
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Back Up Now or Regret It Later | |
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Backing Up Is (Not) Hard to Do | |
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The manual, "brute force" method | |
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Commercial backup software | |
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Why You Need Two Sets of Backup Disks | |
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Index | |
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Book Registration Information | |