Introduction
From its distinctive metallic finish to its backlit keyboard, dazzling display, and inviting design, the MacBook Pro is amazing technology that looks as great as it works. Running OS X and including lots of amazing software, a MacBook Pro allows you to do more right out of the box more easily than any other computer. In fact, a MacBook Pro does so much that it’s easy to overlook even more of the great things it can do. That’s where this book comes in.
Although you probably already know how to turn on your MacBook Pro, you might not know how to create virtual working spaces on the desktop, so you can keep many applications and windows open at the same time and move among them easily. Although you likely know how to use the trackpad to point to objects on the screen and select them, you might not know how to create your own keyboard shortcuts for just about any command in any application you use. Although you have probably thought about how you need to back up your important data, you might not have actually done it. Also, although you’ve probably surfed the web, you may not have taken advantage of all the options that being connected can give you, from sharing files locally to communicating with people around the world, easily and inexpensively.
The purpose of this book is to provide a resource for you when you are wondering how to do something better, how to do it more easily, or even how to do it at all. Each chapter is organized around a question. In each chapter ...
