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My New Mac—52 Simple Projects to Get You Started

 

 

My New Mac: 52 Simple Projects to Get You Started

by Wallace Wang 

2008 (484 pages)

ISBN:9781593271640

You finally took the plunge and bought a Mac. Let this step-by-step book show you how to use tools like iPhoto to organize your photos, track birthdays with iCal, and clip and save information from the Internet so you can find it again.

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My New Mac—52 Simple Projects to Get You Started

 

Introduction

 

Part 1 - Basic Training

Project 1

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Turning a Macintosh On and Off Manually or Automatically

Project 2

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Learning to Use the Mouse

Project 3

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Choosing Commands on the Menu Bar

Project 4

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Controlling Programs with the Dock

Project 5

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Manipulating Windows

Project 6

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Navigating Through Folders with the Finder

Project 7

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Creating, Copying, Moving, and Renaming Files and Folders

Project 8

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Conserving Energy While Using Your Macintosh

Part 2 - Making Life Easier with Shortcuts

Project 9

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Working Faster with Shortcut Commands

Project 10

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Learning to Drag and Drop

Project 11

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Controlling Your Macintosh with Hot Corners

Project 12

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Finding Files Fast

Project 13

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Organizing Files and Folders by Color and Weird Words

Project 14

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Putting Information at Your Fingertips with Dashboard

Project 15

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Giving a Macintosh Multiple Personalities with User Accounts

Project 16

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Slapping Parental Controls on Your Kids

Project 17

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Making Your Mac Easier to See, Hear, and Control

Part 3 - Putting Your Macintosh to Work

Project 18

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Jotting Down Notes

Project 19

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Turning Your Mac into an Electronic Reminder

Project 20

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Never Forget a Birthday Again

Project 21

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Playing Audio CDs and Audio Files on Your Macintosh

Project 22

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Ripping and Burning an Audio CD

Project 23

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Playing Your Favorite Parts of a DVD

Project 24

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Storing Files on a CD or DVD

Project 25

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Transferring Images to a Macintosh

Project 26

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Organizing Digital Photographs in iPhoto

Project 27

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Tagging and Sorting Digital Photographs in iPhoto

Project 28

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Editing Digital Photographs in iPhoto

Project 29

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Turning Your Macintosh into an Electronic Picture Frame

Project 30

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Sharing Files Without Connecting Cables

Project 31

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Retrieving Files Back in Time

Project 32

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Typing Foreign Languages

Part 4 - Touching the World Through the Internet

Project 33

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Remembering Your Favorite Websites

Project 34

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Reading the Latest Updates on Your Favorite Websites

Project 35

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Keeping Your Internet Activities Private

Project 36

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Saving Research Information From a Web Page

Project 37

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Creating an Electronic Clipping Service for Web Pages

Project 38

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Watching Video on Any Website

Project 39

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Expanding Your Mind by Listening to Free College Lectures

Project 40

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Listening to News, Music, and Talk Shows Over the Internet

Project 41

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Setting Up an Email Account

Project 42

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Reading and Writing Email

Project 43

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Making Email Look Pretty

Project 44

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Organizing Your Email

Project 45

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Dealing with Junk Email

Part 5 - Maintaining Your Macintosh

Project 46

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Learning About Your Macintosh

Project 47

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Installing, Updating, and Uninstalling Software on Your Macintosh

Project 48

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Performing Preventative Maintenance on Your Macintosh

Project 49

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Ejecting Stuck CDs or DVDs

Project 50

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Password Protecting Your Macintosh

Project 51

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Encrypting Your Data

Project 52

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Troubleshooting Your Printers

The Next Step

Paper Monitor Model