Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, El Capitan Edition
Language: English
Pages: 808
ISBN: 1491917970
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Those who have made the switch from a Windows PC to a Mac have made Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual a runaway bestseller. The latest edition of this guide delivers what Apple doesn't—everything you need to know to successfully and painlessly move your files and adapt to Mac's way of doing things. Written with wit and objectivity by Missing Manual series creator and bestselling author David Pogue, this book will have you up and running on your new Mac in no time.
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files grouped by type: Contacts, Events & To Dos, Images, PDF Documents, Music, Movies, Presentations, Spreadsheets, Developer (which lists HTML website files and Xcode programming files), and Documents (meaning “everything else”). In icon view—the factory setting—each class of icons appears in a single scrolling row. Use a two-finger scroll (trackpad) or one-finger slide (Magic Mouse) to move through the horizontal list. (If you’d rather not have to scroll, click the tiny Show All button
Picker, which you can use to choose a new background color for the window (Figure 2-7, top). Unless it’s April Fools’ Day, pick a light color. If you choose a dark one—like black—you won’t be able to make out the lettering of the icons’ names. •• Picture. If you choose this option, a “Drag image here” square appears. Now find a graphics file—one of Apple’s in the Desktop Pictures folder, or one of your own, whatever—and drag it into that “well.” When you click Select, you see that OS X has
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the Dock. Now they have quick access to every file in every folder they ever use. 92 switching to the mac: the missing manual •• The Applications folder. Here’s a no-brainer: Stash the Applications folder here so you’ll have quick pop-up menu access to any program on your machine. Using the Dock •• Your Applications folder. As an even more efficient corollary, create a new folder of your own. Fill it with the aliases of just the programs you use most often and park it in the Dock. Now
been using all along. If you’ve clicked the ƒ button in an app to make it full screen, it fills an additional desktop unto itself. To create another desktop, enter Mission Control. At the top edge of the screen, the gray strip—the Spaces bar—is the command center for creating, deleting, rearranging, and configuring your virtual desktops. Note: To save space, the Spaces bar starts out as a very thin strip bearing only the names of your desktops (Figure 4-14, top). Move your cursor into this strip
