macOS Mojave For Dummies

Name: macOS Mojave For Dummies
Brand: Wiley
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Wiley (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 25. Oktober 2018

528 Seiten

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Intro
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Part 1 macOS Basics
Chapter 1 macOS Mojave 101 (Prerequisites: None)
Gnawing to the Core of macOS
A Safety Net for the Absolute Beginner (or Any User)
Turning the dang thing on
What you should see on startup
Shutting down properly
A few things you should definitely not do with your Mac
Point-and-click Boot Camp
Not Just a Beatles Movie: Help and the Help Menu
Chapter 2 Desktop and Windows and Menus (Oh My!)
Touring Finder and Its Desktop
Anatomy of a Window
Top o' the window to ya!
A scroll new world
(Hyper)active windows
Dialog Dealie-Boppers
Working with Windows
Opening and closing windows
Resizing windows and window panes
Moving windows
Shuffling windows
Menu Basics
The ever-changing menu bar
Contextual menus: They're sooo contextual!
Recognizing disabled options
Navigating submenus
Under the Apple menu tree
Using keyboard shortcut commands
Chapter 3 What's Up, Dock?
A Quick Introduction to Your Dock
The default icons of the dock
Trash talkin'
Opening application menus on the dock
Reading dock icon body language
Opening files from the dock
Customizing Your Dock
Adding dock icons
Removing an icon from the dock
Resizing the dock
What should you put on your dock?
Setting your dock preferences
Chapter 4 Delving Deeper into Finder and Its Desktop
Introducing Finder and Its Minions: The Desktop and Icons
Introducing the desktop
Bellying up to the toolbar
Figuring out what an icon is
Identifying your Finder icons in the wild
Aliases Are Awesome!
Creating aliases
Deleting aliases
Hunting down an alias's parent
The View(s) from a Window
Moving through folders fast in Column view
Perusing in Icon view
Listless? Try touring folders in List view
Hangin' in the Gallery (view)
What's next on the (View) menu?
Finder on the Menu
The actual Finder menu
Like a road map: The current folder's pop-up menu
Going places with the Go menu
Customizing Finder Windows
Adding folders to the sidebar
Setting Finder preferences
Digging for Icon Data in the Info Window
Chapter 5 What's New in Mojave's Finder?
Cleaning Up Your Desktop Automatically with Stacks
Managing your Stacks
Quick Actions: Now Playing All Over Mojave
Getting the most out of Markup
Trimming video without launching an app
Do It Quicker with Finder Quick Actions
Creating PDFs without launching an app
Creating custom Finder Quick Actions
Four More Cool Mojave Tricks
Shooting screens
Dynamic desktop images
Recently used apps in the dock
Mentions of Gallery view
Part 2 How Stuff Works
Chapter 6 Having It Your Way
Introducing System Preferences
Putting a Picture on the Desktop
Setting Up a Screen Saver
Putting Widgets on the Dashboard
Giving Buttons, Menus, and Windows a Makeover
Adjusting the Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad, and Other Hardware
Styling Your Sound
Chapter 7 Opening and Saving Files
A Quick Primer on Finding Files
Understanding the macOS Folder Structure
Understanding nested folders
From the top: The Computer folder
Peeking into the Applications folder
Visiting the Library folders
Let it be: The System folder
There's no place like Home
Your personal library card
Saving Your Document Before It's Too Late
Stepping through a basic save
Save As versus Duplicate: Different names for the same result
Open, Sez Me
With drag-and-drop
With a Quick Look
When your Mac can't open a file
With the application of your choice
Chapter 8 File and Folder Management Made Easy
Organizing Your Stuff in Folders
Files versus folders
Organizing your stuff with subfolders
Creating new folders
Navigating with spring-loaded folders
Smart folders
Shuffling Files and Folders
Moving files and folders
Selecting multiple icons
Playing the icon name game: Renaming icons
Renaming multiple icons at once
Compressing files
Getting rid of icons
The Incredible iCloud Drive
Chapter 9 Comprehending the macOS Clipboard
Introducing the Clipboard
Copying Files and Folders
Pasting from the Clipboard
Mojave's Universal Clipboard
Part 3 Getting Things Done
Chapter 10 Four Terrific Timesaving Tools
With a Quick Look
Share and share alike with the Share menu
Slide into Slideshow (full-screen) mode
Spotlight on Finding Files and Folders Faster
Using the Find command
Using the Spotlight menu and its keyboard shortcut
Blast Off with Mission Control
The Mission Control pane: It's painless
Hot corners are hot stuff!
Mission Control's Spaces from 30,000 feet (an overview)
Getting around in space(s)
Launchpad: The Place for Applications
Chapter 11 Organizing Your Life
Keeping Track with Calendar
Navigating Calendar views
Creating calendars
Deleting a calendar
Creating and managing events
Reminders: Protection Against Forgetting
Getting started with Reminders
To do or not to do: Setting reminders
Everything You Need to Know about Notification Center
Use Notes for Making Notes
Chapter 12 Are You Siri-ous?
What Siri Can Do for You
Working with Siri
Making Siri Your Own
Chapter 13 Maps Are Where It's At
Finding your current location with Maps
Finding a person, place, or thing
Views, zooms, and pans
Maps and Contacts
Timesaving map tools: Favorites, Recents, and Contacts
Smart map tricks
Chapter 14 Four New (iOS) Apps in Mojave
Taking Stock of the Market with Stocks
Adding and deleting stocks, funds, and indexes
Details, details, details
Charting a course
Read All About It in News
What are your interests?
How News works
Managing your news
Recording Memos with Voice Memos
Recording a voice memo
Listening to a voice memo
Naming a voice memo
Trimming a voice memo
Controlling Lights, Locks, and More with Home
Part 4 Getting Along with Others
Chapter 15 (Inter)Networking
Getting Connected to the Internet
Your Internet service provider and you
Plugging in your Internet-connection settings
Browsing the Web with Safari
Owning your toolbar
Using the Safari sidebar
Searching with Google
Protect Yourself from Malice (and Ads)
Checking out Help Center
Audio and Video Calls with FaceTime
Chapter 16 Dealing with People
Collecting Your Contacts
Adding contacts
Importing contacts from other programs
Creating a basic group
Setting up a smart group (based on contact criteria)
Deleting a group or smart group
The view is lovely
Sync + Contacts = your contacts everywhere
Chapter 17 Communicating with Mail and Messages
Sending and Receiving Email with Mail
Setting up Mail
A quick overview of the toolbar
Composing a new message
Sending email from the Contacts app
Checking your mail
Dealing with spam
Mailboxes smart and plain
Changing your preferences
Sign here, please
Mail rules rule
Take a (Quick) look and (Slide) show me some photos
Markup and Mail Drop
Communicating with Messages
Chit-chatting with Messages
Chapter 18 Sharing Your Mac and Liking It
Introducing Networks and File Sharing
Portrait of home office networking
Three ways to build a network
Setting Up File Sharing
Access and Permissions: Who Can Do What
Users and groups and guests
Creating users
macOS knows best: Folders shared by default
Sharing a folder or disk by setting permissions
Useful settings for permissions
Unsharing a folder
Connecting to a Shared Disk or Folder on a Remote Mac
Changing Your Password
Changing your account password on your Mac
Changing the password of any account but your own on your Mac
Changing the password for your account on someone else's Mac
More Types of Sharing
Sharing a screen
Sharing the Internet
And yet more ways to share
Part 5 Getting Creative
Chapter 19 The Musical Mac
Apple Music and iTunes Match Rock!
Introducing iTunes
Working with Media
Adding songs
Adding movies and TV shows
Adding podcasts
Listening to iTunes Radio
All about Playlists
Creating a regular playlist
Filtering your Library with Column Browser
Working with smart playlists
Burning a playlist to CD
Looking at the Genius playlist
Chapter 20 The Multimedia Mac
Playing Movies and Music in QuickTime Player
Books App on the Mac
Buying an e-book
Shopping for e-books without Apple
Reading an e-book
You're the Star with Photo Booth
Viewing and Converting Images and PDFs in Preview
Importing Media
Downloading photos from a camera
Downloading DV video from a camcorder
Chapter 21 Words and Letters
Processing Words with TextEdit
Creating and composing a document
Working with text
Adding graphics to documents
Font Mania
Types of fonts
Managing your fonts with Font Book
Installing fonts manually
Chapter 22 Publish or Perish: The Fail-Safe Guide to Printing
Before Diving In . . .
Ready: Connecting and Adding Your Printer
Connecting your printer
Setting up a printer for the first time
One last thing: Printer sharing
Set: Setting Up Your Document with Page Setup
Print: Printing with the Print Sheet
Printing a document
Choosing among different printers
Choosing custom settings
Saving custom settings
Preview and PDF Options
Part 6 Care and Feeding
Chapter 23 Features for the Way You Work
Finally, a Dark Mode
App Shopping, Improved
Using Your iPhone as Your Mac's Camera or Scanner
Talking and Listening to Your Mac
Keyboard System Preferences pane: You talk and your Mac types
Commanding your Mac by voice
Listening to your Mac read for you
Automatic Automation
Script Editor app: Write and edit AppleScripts
Automator app: Automate almost anything
A Few More Useful Goodies
Accessibility System Preferences pane: Make your Mac more accessible
Energy Saver System Preferences pane: For energy conservation and sleep
Bluetooth System Preferences pane: Where Bluetooth lives
Ink System Preferences pane: Visible to pen-input tablet users only
Automatic Login in the Users & Groups System Preferences pane: Don't bother with the login screen
Allow your Apple Watch to unlock your Mac
Boot Camp Assistant app: Run Windows on your Mac . . . really
AirPlay Mirroring
Handoff
Chapter 24 Safety First: Backups and Other Security Issues
Backing Up Is (Not) Hard to Do
Backing up with Mojave's excellent Time Machine
Backing up by using the manual, brute-force method
Backing up by using commercial backup software
Why You Need Two Sets of Backups
Non-Backup Security Concerns
About viruses and other malware
Firewall: Yea or nay?
Install recommended software updates
Protecting Your Data from Prying Eyes
Blocking or limiting connections
Locking down files with FileVault
Setting other options for security
Chapter 25 Utility Chest
In the Applications and Utilities Folders
Calculator
Activity Monitor
Disk Utility
Grapher
Keychain Access
Migration Assistant
System Information
Terminal
Capturing Your Screen
Mojave screen-shooting 101
Mojave screen-shooting options
Mojave screen recording
Chapter 26 Troubleshooting macOS
About Startup Disks and Booting
Finding or creating a startup disk
They call it a prohibitory sign for a reason
Recovering with Recovery HD
Step 1: Run First Aid
Step 2: Safe boot into Safe mode
Step 3: Zapping the PRAM/NVRAM
Step 4: Reinstalling macOS
Step 5: Things to try before taking your Mac in for repair
If Your Mac Crashes at Startup
Optimizing Storage
Part 7 The Part of Tens
Chapter 27 Ten Ways to Speed Up Your Mac Experience
Use Those Keyboard Shortcuts
Improve Your Typing Skills
Change Your Resolution
Get a Mac with a View - and Preferences, Too
Purchase a Faster Mac
Add a Second Display
Add RAM
Upgrade to a Solid-State Drive (SSD)
Upgrade to a New Hybrid Drive
Subscribe to My Free Newsletter
Chapter 28 Ten Great Websites for Mac Freaks
The Mac Observer
Macworld
TidBITS
iMore
AppleWorld.Today
The Wirecutter
Apple Support
Other World Computing
dealmac/dealnews
Working Smarter for Mac Users
Index
EULA

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