Introduction

The subject of this book is the newest operating system for the Mac, OS X Snow Leopard, including the applications in the iLife ‘09 suite. The book’s divided into three parts:

Part I, “Introducing Mac OS X Snow Leopard,” covers installing the software and getting comfortable with Snow Leopard’s many features, installing printers and setting preferences for your hardware, customizing your desktop, getting help, and managing your applications and files.

Part II, “Getting Busy,” covers the applications that you use most often to get things done: the web browser Safari, iCal, Address Book, Mail, iChat, TextEdit, iPhoto, Widgets, and several applets. It also covers security settings, updating applications, and backing up and restoring ...

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