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Mac OS X Lion For Dummies
By: Bob LeVituseBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: For Dummies
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The bestselling Mac guide, updated for the latest Mac OS X and now in full color!
Mac OS X Lion represents a new era in the Mac operating system. This friendly guide is fully updated for the latest Mac OS X and provides everything new Mac users and users upgrading to Mac OS X Lion need to know. A bestseller in previous editions, Mac OS X Lion For Dummies covers all the cool stuff and prepares you for the quirks. So whether it's your first Mac or just an OS upgrade, you'll learn to tame your Lion with the expert advice of Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus and Dummies. Covers using the Finder, customizing Lion, adding widgets to the Dashboard, organizing and managing files and folders, searching with Spotlight, and working with Spaces Explores browsing the web with Safari, using Apple Mail and iCal, connecting a printer, performing backups with Time Machine, troubleshooting, and setting up a network Walks readers through the new features of Mac OS X Lion, including FaceTime, Photo Booth, Launchpad, Mission Control, Full-screen apps, and more Gets you up and running with iTunes, downloading fun apps from the Mac App Store, and staying entertained with videos, photos, and other multimedia
You'll make your Lion roar with the friendly advice in Mac OS X Lion For Dummies .
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| Release Date: 08-10-2011 | |
| Publisher: For Dummies |
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Mac OS X Lion For Dummies
Chapter One
Mac OS X Lion 101 (Prerequisites: None)
In This Chapter
* Understanding what an operating system is and is not
* Turning on your Mac
* Getting to know the startup process
* Turning off your Mac
* Avoiding major Mac mistakes
* Pointing, clicking, dragging, and other uses for your mouse
* Getting help from your Mac
Congratulate yourself on choosing Mac OS X, which stands for Macintosh Operating System X—that's the Roman numeral ten, not the letter X (pronounced ten, not ex). You made a smart move because you scored more than just an operating-system upgrade. Mac OS X Lion includes several new features that make using your Mac easier and dozens of improvements that help you do more work in less time.
In this chapter, I start at the very beginning and talk about Mac OS X in mostly abstract terms; then I move on to explain what you need to know to use Mac OS X Lion successfully.
If you've been using Mac OS X for a while, some of the information in this chapter might seem hauntingly familiar; some features that I describe haven't changed from earlier versions of Mac OS X. But if you decide to skip this chapter because you think you have all the new stuff figured out, I assure you that you'll miss at least a couple of things that Apple didn't bother to tell you (as if you read every word in Mac OS X Help—the only user manual Apple provides—anyway!).
Tantalized? Let's rock.
WARNING!
If you're about to upgrade to Lion from an earlier version of Mac OS X, I feel o
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