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Macs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies
By: Wallace WangeBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Welcome to the wonderful world of the Mac! Whether you’ve just decided to switch from Windows or you’ve been using a Mac for awhile and want to take advantage of all its bells and whistles, Macs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies is the perfect guidebook to Mac land.
You probably already know that Macs were made for media. There’s iPhoto for organizing, editing, and sharing your digital photos; iMovie to let you become a moviemaker; iDVD for preserving that movie and playing your favorites; and of course, iTunes for managing your music. But your Mac is just as happy creating documents, browsing the Internet, putting together cool presentations, or even crunching numbers. This guide shows you how to use all those applications and more. Seven minibooks cover Mac basics; working with photos, movies, and music; using the Internet; working with iLife and iWork applications; various other Mac programs; time-saving tips; and networking. You’ll discover how to Set up and customize a new Mac Get online, choose a browser, configure an e-mail account, and instant-message with iChat Handle Mac security and troubleshoot problems Create a Web site with iWeb and get it online Back up your files, sync your stuff, and manage your life with your Mac Network your Mac with other computers, even PCs, and share files, printers, and more
Even if you’re a seasoned Mac veteran, we bet you’ll find some things here you didn’t know! And you’ll refer to this book again and again.
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Macs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies
Chapter One
Networking Your Macs
In This Chapter
Creating a wired network
Creating a wireless network
Setting up an Airport Extreme base station
Connecting to a mobile phone or PDA
If you have multiple computers in the same place, you may find it convenient to connect your Mac to a network. A network allows multiple computers to share files. Although you could copy a file on a USB flash drive, plug it into another computer, and copy the files on to that second computer, such an approach (dubbed sneaker net) is slow and clumsy. However, when multiple computers connect to a network, they can share files almost as quickly and easily as copying a file from one folder to another.
Creating a Wired Network
The simplest wired network just connects two computers together using either a FireWire cable or a cable that conforms to a networking cable standard called Ethernet. Every Mac has a FireWire port and an Ethernet port, so if you plug a FireWire cable or Ethernet cable into the FireWire or Ethernet ports of two Macs, you'll have a simple network, as shown in Figure 1-1.
TECHNICAL STUFF
Ethernet cables are often identified by the speeds that they can send data. The earliest Ethernet cables were called Category 3 (or Cat 3) cables and could transfer data at 10 megabits per second (Mbps). The next generation of Ethernet cables was called Category 5 (Cat 5) cables, which could transfer data at 100 Mbps. (A slightly improved version of the Cat 5 cable is called Cat5e cable.) The current Ethernet cable standard is now Category 6 (C
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