MacBook For Dummies, 5th Edition

Chapter 5

Getting to the Heart of Mavericks

In This Chapter

Making the most of your Home folder

Arranging your Desktop for greater efficiency

Adding timesavers to the Dock

Using the Trash (and rescuing precious stuff from it)

Using Mission Control and the Dashboard to perform Desktop magic

Printing documents

When you’re no longer a novice to Mavericks and the basics of the Finder, direct your attention to a number of more advanced topics ’n’ tricks. These will turn you into a MacBook power user — which, after all, is the goal of every civilized being on Planet Earth.

Consider this chapter a grab bag of Mavericks knowledge. Sure, I jump around a little, but these topics are connected by a common thread: All are surefire problem solvers and speeder-uppers. (I can’t believe the latter is really a word, but evidently it is. My editors told me so.)

Home, Sweet Home Folder

Each user account ...