Chapter 4
Making the Mac Your Own
In This Chapter
Creating and ranking user accounts
Implementing parental controls
Logging on and off
Personalizing your Mac’s appearance
Exposing Exposé
Becoming a Spaces cadet
Setting priorities
You adore your family and friends to death but have to admit that they get under your skin from time to time. They know how to push your buttons, and you sure know how to push theirs. People are fussy about certain things, and that includes you (and me).
So it goes with your Macintosh. The presumption is that you and your Mac are going to cohabit well into the future. Still, it can’t hurt to get off on the right foot and set up the machine so that it matches your personal preferences and expectations, and not some programmer’s at Apple. The software you load ...