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| Introduction | |
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| The Mac Becomes an iPad | |
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| About This Book | |
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| The Very Basics | |
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| The OS X Desktop | |
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| The Mountain Lion Landscape | |
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| Launchpad | |
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| Full-Screen Mode, Safari | |
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| Full-Screen Apps, Mission Control | |
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| Folders & Windows | |
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| Getting into OS X | |
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| Windows and How to Work Them | |
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| The Four Window Views | |
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| Icon View | |
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| List View | |
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| Column View | |
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| Cover Flow View | |
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| Quick Look | |
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| Logging Out, Shutting Down | |
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| Getting Help in OS X | |
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| Organizing Your Stuff | |
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| The OS X Folder Structure | |
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| Icon Names | |
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| Selecting Icons | |
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| Moving and Copying Icons | |
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| Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once | |
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| Color Labels | |
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| The Trash | |
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| Get Info | |
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| Shortcut Menus, Action Menus | |
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| Spotlight | |
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| The Spotlight Menu | |
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| The Spotlight Window | |
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| Customizing Spotlight | |
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| Smart Folders | |
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| Dock, Desktop & Toolbars | |
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| The Dock | |
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| Setting Up the Dock | |
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| Using the Dock | |
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| The Finder Toolbar | |
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| Designing Your Desktop | |
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| Menulets: The Missing Manual | |
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| Programs in OS X | |
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| Documents, Programs & Spaces | |
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| The Mac App Store | |
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| Other Ways to Get Mac Software | |
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| Opening OS X Programs | |
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| Launchpad | |
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| Windows that Auto-Reopen | |
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| The "Heads-UP" Program Switcher | |
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| Mission Control: Death to Window Clutter | |
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| Dashboard | |
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| Expos� | |
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| Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way | |
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| How Documents Know Their Parents | |
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| Keyboard Control | |
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| The Save and Open Dialog Boxes | |
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| Auto Save and Versions | |
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| Documents in the Cloud | |
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| Cocoa and Carbon | |
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| Data: Typing Dictating, Sharing & Backing Up | |
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| The Macintosh Keyboard | |
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| Motes on Right-Clicking | |
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| Power Typing | |
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| Dictation | |
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| The Many Languages of OS X Text | |
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| Data Detectors | |
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| Moving Data Between Documents | |
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| Exchanging Data with other Mac | |
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| Exchanging Data with Windows PCs | |
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| The Mountain Lion Share Burton | |
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| Time Machine | |
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| Automaton, AppleScript & Services | |
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| Services | |
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| Automator | |
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| Building Your Own Workflow | |
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| Doing More with Automator | |
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| AppleScript | |
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| Windows on Macintosh | |
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| Boot Camp | |
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| Windows in a Window | |
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| Life with Microsoft Exchange | |
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| The Components of OS X | |
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| System Preferences | |
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| The System Preferences Window | |
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| Accessibility | |
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| Bluetooth | |
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| CDs & DVDs | |
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| Date & Time | |
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| Desktop & Screen Saver | |
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| Dictation & Speech | |
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| Energy Saver | |
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| General | |
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| iCloud | |
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| Language & Text | |
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| Mail, Contacts & Calendars | |
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| Mission Control | |
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| Network | |
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| Notifications | |
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| Parental Controls | |
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| Print & Scan | |
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| Security & Privacy | |
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| Software Update | |
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| Spotlight | |
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| Startup Disk | |
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| Time Machine | |
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| Users & Groups | |
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| Reminders, Notes & Notification Center | |
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| Notification Center | |
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| Reminders | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Other Free Programs | |
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| Your Free OS X Programs | |
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| Address Book | |
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| App Store | |
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| Automator | |
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| Calculator | |
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| Calendar | |
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| Chess | |
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| Contacts | |
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| Dashboard | |
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| Dictionary | |
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| DVD Player | |
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| Face Time | |
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| Font Book | |
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| Game Center | |
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| GarageBand | |
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| iChat | |
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| Image Capture | |
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| iMovie, iPhoto | |
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| iTunes | |
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| Launchpad | |
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| Mail | |
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| Messages | |
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| Mission Control | |
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| Notes | |
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| Photo Booth | |
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| Preview | |
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| Reminders | |
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| QuickTime Player | |
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| Safari | |
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| Stickies | |
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| System Preferences | |
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| TextEdit | |
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| Time Machine | |
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| Utilities: Your OS X Toolbox | |
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| CDs, DVDs, iTunes & AirPlay | |
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| Disks Today | |
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| Disks In, Disks Out | |
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| Startup Disks | |
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| Erasing a Disk | |
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| Burning CDs and DVDs | |
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| iTunes: The Digital Jukebox | |
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| DVD Movies | |
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| AirPlay | |
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| The Technologies of OS X | |
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| Accounts, Security & Gatekeeper | |
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| Introducing Accounts | |
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| Creating an Account | |
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| Parental Controls | |
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| Editing Accounts | |
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| Setting Up the Login Process | |
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| Signing In, Logging Out | |
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| Sharing Across Accounts | |
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| Fast User Switching | |
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| Six OS X Security Shields | |
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| And Four Privacy Shields | |
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| Networking, File Sharing & AirDrop | |
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| Wiring the Network | |
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| File Sharing: Three Ways | |
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| Accessing Shared Files | |
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| Networking with Windows | |
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| Screen Sharing | |
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| More Dialing In from the Road | |
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| Graphics, Fonts & Printing | |
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| Mac Meets Printer | |
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| Making the Printout | |
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| Managing Printouts | |
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| Printer Sharing | |
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| Faxing | |
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| PDF Files | |
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| Fonts-and Font Book | |
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| ColorSync | |
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| Graphics in OS X | |
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| Screen-Capture Keystrokes | |
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| Sound, Movies & Speech | |
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| Playing Sounds | |
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| Recording Sounds | |
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| QuickTime Player | |
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| The Mac Reads to You | |
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| VoiceOver | |
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| Ink: Handwriting Recognition | |
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| OS X Online | |
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| Internet Setup & iCloud | |
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| The Best News You've Heard All Day | |
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| Network Central and Multihoming | |
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| Broadband Connections | |
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| Cellular Modems | |
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| Tethering | |
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| Dial-Up Modem Connections | |
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| Switching Locations | |
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| Internet Sharing | |
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| iCloud | |
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| Internet Location Files | |
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| Mail & Contacts | |
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| Setting Up Mail | |
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| Checking Your Mail | |
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| Writing Messages | |
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| Stationery | |
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| Reading Email | |
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| VIPS | |
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| The Anti-Spam Toolkit | |
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| Contacts (Address Book) | |
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| Safari | |
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| Browsing Basics | |
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| The New, Unified Address/Search Bar | |
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| Bookmarks | |
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| 15 Tips for Better Surfing | |
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| Tabbed Browsing | |
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| Messages | |
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| Welcome to Messages | |
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| iMessages | |
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| The Traditional Chat Networks | |
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| Let the Chat Begin | |
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| Text Chatting | |
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| Audio Chats | |
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| Video Chats | |
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| Juggling Chats and Windows | |
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| Sharing Your Screen | |
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| Messages Theater | |
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| SSH, FTP, VPN & Web Sharing | |
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| FTP | |
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| Connecting from the Road | |
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| Remote Access with SSH | |
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| Virtual Private Networking | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Installing OS X Mountain Lion | |
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| Hardware Requirements | |
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| Psychological Requirements | |
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| The Standard Installation | |
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| The Setup Assistant | |
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| The Homemade Installer Disk | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| Minor Eccentric Behavior | |
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| Frozen Programs (Force Quitting) | |
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| Recovery Mode: Three Emergency Disks | |
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| Application Won't Open | |
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| Startup Problems | |
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| Fixing the Disk | |
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| Where to Get Troubleshooting Help | |
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| The Windows-to-Mac Dictionary | |
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| The Master OS X Secret Keystroke List | |
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| Index | |