Mac OS X Leopard All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Your new Mac with OS X Leopard is so cool! You have digital media, including iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, and iMovie, at your fingertips, as well as everything the Internet has to offer. Where do you start to make the most of it? With Mac OS X Leopard All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies, of course! Here are seven handy minibooks, each devoted to one aspect of your Mac OS X Leopard. One section is devoted to the digital media you love, another to the Internet, others to networking, customizing, sharing, and expanding your Mac. There’s even a minibook for you geeky types who want to tweak the system with AppleScript. You’ll find information on: Locating anything with Spotlight and Sherlock Personalizing your desktop Creating movies and burning DVDs Jamming with iTunes and your iPod Making your own music with GarageBand Collecting, editing, and sharing photos with iPhoto Browsing the Web with Safari and staying safe online Setting up a wireless network Adding RAM, hard drive space, and cool extra applications Using AppleScript to program even more customizations With Mac OS X Leopard All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies, you can find what you need in a hurry and get on with the fun your Mac makes possible. It just may be the best friend a Leopard can have!

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Title of ebook: Mac OS X Leopard All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies
ISBN: 9780470190296
parent-ISBN: 9780470054345
Publisher: For Dummies
Internet download file size: 18565 kb
Pages: 768
Published: 04-2009
Released online for download: 04-29-2009
Author of eBook: Chambers, Mark L.

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Mac OS X Leopard All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Chapter One

... And UNIX Lurks Beneath

In This Chapter

Why use UNIX?

Doing things with the keyboard

Introducing UNIX commands

Creating text files

Exploring deep inside Mac OS X

As I mention in the first chapter of the book - at the beginning of our Leopard odyssey - UNIX lurks deep beneath the shiny Aqua exterior of Mac OS X. UNIX is a tried-and-true operating system that's been around for decades, since the days when mainframe computers were king. If you don't believe that it's a powerful (and popular) operating system, consider that over half of all Web servers on the Internet use some variety of UNIX as their operating system of choice.

Besides being battle-tested and having a long history, UNIX also offers some fantastic features. Unlike the graphical world of Mac OS X, the keyboard plays an integral role while you're using a UNIX-based operating system. Because UNIX is text-based, you'll find that it's e ... read full excerpt from Mac OS X Leopard All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies ebook

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