Book description
With El Capitan, Apple brings never-before-seen features to OS X—like a split-screen desktop, improved window controls, and amazing graphics. The new edition of David Pogue's #1 bestselling Mac book shows you how to use key new features such as swiping gestures, Notes, a new Spotlight search system, the Safari pinning feature, and Split View.
Missing Manuals creator David Pogue is one of the most widely recognized technology authors in the world. A former New York Times technology columnist, he founded and now produces videos for Yahoo Tech.
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Table of contents
- OS X El Capitan: The Missing Manual
- The Missing Credits
- Introduction
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One. The OS X Desktop
- 1. Folders, Windows & Finder Tabs
- 2. Organizing Your Stuff
- 3. Spotlight
- 4. Dock, Desktop & Toolbars
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Two. Programs in OS X
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5. Documents, Programs & Mission Control
- The Mac App Store
- Other Ways to Get Mac Software
- Opening OS X Programs
- Launchpad
- Windows That Auto-Reopen
- The Application Menu
- The “Heads-Up” Program Switcher
- Full Screen Mode
- Split Screen Mode
- Mission Control: Death to Window Clutter
- Spaces (Virtual Desktops)
- Dashboard
- Exposé
- Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way
- How Documents Know Their Parents
- Keyboard Control
- The Save and Open Dialog Boxes
- Auto Save and Versions
- iCloud Drive
- Cocoa and Carbon
- 6. Data: Typing, Dictating, Sharing & Backing Up
- 7. Mac+iPhone: Handoff, AirDrop & Continuity
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5. Documents, Programs & Mission Control
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Three. The Components of OS X
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8. System Preferences
- The System Preferences Window
- Accessibility
- App Store
- Bluetooth
- CDs & DVDs
- Date & Time
- Desktop & Screen Saver
- Dictation & Speech
- Displays
- Dock
- Energy Saver
- Extensions
- General
- iCloud
- Internet Accounts
- Keyboard
- Language & Region
- Mission Control
- Mouse
- Network
- Notifications
- Parental Controls
- Printers & Scanners
- Security & Privacy
- Sharing
- Sound
- Spotlight
- Startup Disk
- Time Machine
- Trackpad
- Users & Groups
- 9. Notifications
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10. The Free Programs of OS X
- Your Free OS X Programs
- App Store
- Automator and AppleScript
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Chess
- Contacts
- Dashboard
- Dictionary
- DVD Player
- FaceTime
- Font Book
- Game Center
- GarageBand
- iBooks
- iChat
- Image Capture
- iMovie
- iPhoto
- iTunes
- Launchpad
- Maps
- Messages
- Mission Control
- Notes
- Numbers, Pages
- Photo Booth
- Photos
- Preview
- Reminders
- QuickTime Player
- Safari
- Stickies
- System Preferences
- TextEdit
- Time Machine
- Utilities: Your OS X Toolbox
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8. System Preferences
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Four. The Technologies of OS X
- 11. Accounts, Security & Gatekeeper
- 12. Networking, File Sharing & AirDrop
- 13. Graphics, Fonts & Printing
- 14. Sound, Movies & Speech
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Five. OS X Online
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15. Internet Setup & iCloud
- The Best News You’ve Heard All Day
- Network Central and Multihoming
- Broadband Connections
- Cellular Modems
- Tethering (Personal Hotspot)
- Dial-Up Modem Connections
- Switching Locations
- Internet Sharing
- Meet iCloud
- iCloud Drive
- Photos
- Email Address
- Data Synchronization
- Find My Mac, Find My iPhone
- Family Sharing
- Back to My Mac
- More iCloud Features
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16. Mail & Contacts
- Setting Up Mail
- Checking Your Mail
- Tailoring the Look of Mail
- Writing Messages
- Stationery
- Reading Email
- VIPs
- The Anti-Spam Toolkit
- Contacts (Address Book)
- 17. Safari
- 18. Messages
- 19. FTP, SSH, VPN & Web Sharing
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15. Internet Setup & iCloud
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Six. Appendixes
- A. Installing OS X El Capitan
- B. Troubleshooting
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C. The Windows-to-Mac Dictionary
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About [this program]
- About [this program]
- Accessibility Options control panel
- Active Desktop
- Add Hardware control panel
- Add or Remove Programs control panel
- All Programs
- Alt key
- Automatic Update
- Backspace key
- BIOS
- Calculator
- Camera and Scanner Wizard
- CDs and DVDs
- Character Map
- Clean Install
- Clipboard
- Command line
- Control Panel
- Copy, Cut, Paste
- Ctrl key
- Date and Time
- Delete Key (Forward Delete)
- Desktop
- Directories
- Disk Defragmenter
- Disks
- Display control panel
- DLL files
- DOS prompt
- Drivers
- End Task dialog box
- Exiting programs
- Explorer
- Favorites
- File Sharing
- Folder Options
- Fonts
- Help and Support
- Hibernation
- Internet Explorer
- Internet Options
- Java
- Keyboard control panel
- Logging in
- Mail control panel
- Maximize button
- Menus
- Minimize button
- Mouse control panel
- (My) Computer
- (My) Documents, (My) Pictures, (My) Music
- (My) Network Places
- Notepad
- Personal Web Server
- Phone and Modem Options control panel
- Power Options
- Printer Sharing
- Printers and Faxes
- PrntScrn key
- Program Files folder
- Properties dialog box
- Recycle Bin
- Regional and Language Options control panel
- Registry
- Run command
- Safe Mode
- ScanDisk
- Scheduled Tasks
- Scrap files
- Screensaver
- Search
- Shortcut menus
- Shortcuts
- Start menu
- StartUp folder
- System control panel
- System tray
- Taskbar
- “Three-fingered salute”
- Tooltips
- User Accounts control panel
- Windows (or WINNT) folder
- Windows logo key
- Windows Media Player
- Windows Messenger
- WordPad
- Zip files
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About [this program]
- D. The Master OS X Secret Keystroke List
- E. Colophon
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: OS X El Capitan: The Missing Manual
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2015
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781491917954
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