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Wherever you like to Mac--at home in front of your trusty iMac or over a coffee with your portable MacBook Air--macOS provides you with the seamless, efficient, and reliable user experience that makes these devices so famously a pleasure to use. macOS Big Sur For Dummies is here to heighten the experience for new users and upgraders alike by providing the very latest on the ways macOS Big Sur can enhance how you work and play.
Written in a no-jargon style by Bob LeVitus--the Houston Chronicle's much-loved "Dr. Mac" since 1996--this guide starts with the basics, like getting set up, and explains more advanced uses, like making music and movies, exploring the expanding universe of apps and giving tips on how to save time and enhance productivity along the way. With this book, you'll learn to
* Set up and connect your Mac
* Get friendly with Siri
* Enhance your world with apps
* Work better and faster
Use the comprehensive capabilities of macOS Big Sur to do anything and everything you would like to do--and do it even better. For beginners and experts alike, macOS Big Sur For Dummies is the best way to step into the magical world of getting things done with Mac.
Wherever you like to Mac--at home in front of your trusty iMac or over a coffee with your portable MacBook Air--macOS provides you with the seamless, efficient, and reliable user experience that makes these devices so famously a pleasure to use. macOS Big Sur For Dummies is here to heighten the experience for new users and upgraders alike by providing the very latest on the ways macOS Big Sur can enhance how you work and play.
Written in a no-jargon style by Bob LeVitus--the Houston Chronicle's much-loved "Dr. Mac" since 1996--this guide starts with the basics, like getting set up, and explains more advanced uses, like making music and movies, exploring the expanding universe of apps and giving tips on how to save time and enhance productivity along the way. With this book, you'll learn to
* Set up and connect your Mac
* Get friendly with Siri
* Enhance your world with apps
* Work better and faster
Use the comprehensive capabilities of macOS Big Sur to do anything and everything you would like to do--and do it even better. For beginners and experts alike, macOS Big Sur For Dummies is the best way to step into the magical world of getting things done with Mac.
Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus has written the "Dr. Mac" column for the Houston Chronicle since 1996. A devoted Mac enthusiast, he has written or cowritten a long list of how-to books about macOS, iPhone, iPad, Office for the Mac, and GarageBand. He's also a regular contributor to various tech publications.
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 3
Icons Used in This Book 3
Beyond the Book 4
Where to Go from Here 4
Part 1: macOS Basics 5
Chapter 1: macOS Big Sur 101 (Prerequisites: None) 7
Gnawing to the Core of macOS 8
A Safety Net for the Absolute Beginner (or Any User) 10
Turning the dang thing on 10
What you should see on startup 11
Shutting down properly 15
A few things you should definitely not do with your Mac 16
Point-and-click 101 17
Not Just a Beatles Movie: Help and the Help Menu 19
Chapter 2: Desktop and Windows and Menus (Oh My!) 23
Touring Finder and Its Desktop 24
Anatomy of a Window 25
Top o' the window to ya! 27
A scroll new world 29
(Hyper)active windows 30
Dialog Dealie-Boppers 32
Working with Windows 34
Opening and closing windows 34
Resizing windows and window panes 35
Moving windows 35
Shuffling windows 36
Menu Basics 38
The ever-changing menu bar 38
Contextual (shortcut) menus: They're sooo contextual! 39
Recognizing disabled options 41
Navigating submenus 41
Under the Apple menu tree 42
Using keyboard shortcut commands 44
Chapter 3: What's Up, Dock? 45
A Quick Introduction to Your Dock 46
The default icons of the dock 47
Trash talkin' 48
Opening application menus on the dock 51
Reading dock icon body language 53
Opening files from the dock 54
Customizing Your Dock 54
Adding dock icons 54
Removing an icon from the dock 57
Resizing the dock 58
What should you put on your dock? 58
Setting your dock preferences 60
Chapter 4: Getting to Know Finder and Its Desktop 65
Introducing Finder and Its Minions: The Desktop and Icons 66
Introducing the desktop 66
Bellying up to the toolbar 68
Figuring out what an icon is 71
Identifying your Finder icons in the wild 72
Aliases Are Awesome! 73
Creating aliases 74
Deleting aliases 75
Hunting down an alias's parent 75
The View(s) from a Window 76
Moving through folders fast in Column view 76
Perusing in Icon view 78
Listless? Try touring folders in List view 78
Hangin' in the Gallery (view) 80
What's next on the (View) menu? 81
Finder on the Menu 83
The actual Finder menu 83
Like a road map: The current folder's pop-up menu 86
Going places with the Go menu 86
Customizing Finder Windows 89
Adding folders to the sidebar 89
Setting Finder preferences 90
Digging for Icon Data in the Info Window 93
Chapter 5: Delving Even Deeper into Big Sur's Desktop and Finder 97
Cleaning Up Your Desktop Automatically with Stacks 97
Managing your Stacks 100
Quick Actions: Now Playing All Over Big Sur 101
Getting the most out of Markup 101
Trimming video without launching an app 104
Do It Quicker with Finder Quick Actions 105
Creating PDFs without launching an app 105
Creating custom Finder Quick Actions 106
Four More Cool Big Sur Tricks 107
Shooting screens 107
Dynamic desktop images 109
Recently used apps in the dock 109
Mentions of Gallery view 110
Part 2: How Stuff Works 111
Chapter 6: Having It Your Way 113
Introducing System Preferences 113
The Desktop & Screen Saver System Preferences Pane 116
The Desktop tab 117
The Screen Saver tab 118
The General System Preferences Pane 119
Adjusting the Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad, and Other Hardware 122
The Keyboard System Preferences pane 122
The Mouse System Preferences pane 128
The Bluetooth System Preferences pane 129
The Trackpad System Preferences pane 129
The Sound System Preferences Pane 131
Changing sound effects 132
Choosing output and input options 132
Chapter 7: Opening and Saving Files 133
A Quick Primer on Finding Files 134
Understanding the macOS Folder Structure 134
Understanding nested folders 136
From the top: The Computer folder 137
Peeking into the Applications folder 138
Visiting the Library folders 138
Let it be: The System folder 139
There's no place like Home 140
Your personal library card 141
Saving Your Document Before It's Too Late 143
Stepping through a basic save 145
Save As versus Duplicate: Different names for the same result 151
Open, Sez Me 153
With drag-and-drop 154
With a Quick Look 155
When your Mac can't open a file 155
With the application of your choice 156
Chapter 8: File and Folder Management Made Easy 159
Organizing Your Stuff in Folders 159
Files versus folders 160
Organizing your stuff with subfolders 160
Creating new folders 163
Navigating with spring-loaded folders 163
Smart folders 164
Shuffling Files and Folders 167
Moving files and folders 167
Selecting multiple icons 169
Playing the icon name game: Renaming icons 170
Renaming multiple icons at once 171
Compressing files 171
Getting rid of icons 172
The Incredible iCloud Drive 172
Chapter 9: Comprehending the macOS Clipboard 175
Introducing the Clipboard 175
Copying Files and Folders 177
Pasting from the Clipboard 179
Big Sur's Universal Clipboard 179
Part 3: Getting Things Done 181
Chapter 10: Five Terrific Time-Saving Tools 183
With a Quick Look 184
Share and share alike with the Share menu 185
Slide into Slideshow (full-screen) mode 186
Spotlight on Finding Files and Folders Faster 187
Using the Find command 187
Using the Spotlight menu and its keyboard shortcut 190
Blast Off with Mission Control 191
The Mission Control pane: It's painless 191
Hot corners are hot stuff! 194
Mission Control's Spaces from 30,000 feet (an overview) 194
Getting around in space(s) 197
Taking Control of Essential Settings 198
Launchpad: The Place for Applications 200
Chapter 11: Organizing Your Life 203
Keeping Track with Calendar 204
Navigating Calendar views 204
Creating calendars 205
Deleting a calendar 206
Creating and managing events 207
Reminders: Protection Against Forgetting 210
Getting started with Reminders 210
To do or not to do: Setting reminders 211
Sharing lists and assigning reminders 213
Everything You Need to Know about Notification Center 213
Tweaking Notification settings 214
Widget management 101 216
Using Notification Center 217
Use Notes for Making Notes 218
Tracking Productivity with Screen Time 221
Chapter 12: Are You Siri-ous? 223
What Siri Can Do for You 224
Working with Siri 226
Making Siri Your Own 226
Chapter 13: Maps Are Where It's At 229
Finding Your Current Location with Maps 229
Finding a Person, Place, or Thing 230
Views, Zooms, and Pans 231
Maps and Contacts 233
Time-saving Map Tools: Favorites, Guides, and Recents 234
Favorites 234
Guides 235
Recents 235
Smart Map Tricks 236
Get route maps and driving directions 236
Get walking directions 237
Get directions for public transportation 237
Get traffic info in real time 238
Flyovers and look arounds 238
Do more on the Info sheet 240
Chapter 14: Apps Born in iOS 241
Taking Stock of the Market with Stocks 241
Adding and deleting stocks, funds, and indexes 243
Details, details, details 244
Charting a course 244
Read All about It in News 245
What are your interests? 246
How News works 247
Managing your news 247
Recording Memos with Voice Memos 248
Recording a voice memo 248
Listening to a voice memo 249
Naming a voice memo 249
Trimming a voice memo 250
Controlling Lights, Locks, and More with Home 251
Part 4: Getting Along with Others 253
Chapter 15: (Inter)Networking 255
Getting Connected to the Internet 256
Your Internet service provider and you 257
Plugging in your Internet-connection settings 258
Browsing the Web with Safari 259
Owning your toolbar 261
Using the Safari sidebar 263
Searching with Google 267
Protect yourself from malice (and ads) 269
Checking out Help Center 270
Audio and Video Calls with FaceTime 270
Chapter 16: Dealing with People 273
Collecting Your Contacts 273
Adding contacts 274
Importing contacts from other programs 276
Creating a basic group 276
Setting up a smart group (based on contact criteria) 277
Deleting a group or smart group 279
Sync + Contacts = your contacts everywhere 279
Chapter 17: Communicating with Mail and Messages 281
Sending and Receiving Email with Mail 281
Setting up Mail 282
A quick overview of the toolbar 283
Composing a new message 284
Sending email from the Contacts app 286
Checking your mail 288
Dealing with spam 289
Mailboxes smart and plain 289
Changing your preferences 292
Sign here, please 293
Mail rules...
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Hardware |
| Genre: | Importe, Informatik |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 528 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9781119730101 |
| ISBN-10: | 1119730104 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Levitus, Bob |
| Hersteller: | Wiley |
| Maße: | 233 x 189 x 40 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Bob Levitus |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 10.11.2020 |
| Gewicht: | 0,994 kg |
Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus has written the "Dr. Mac" column for the Houston Chronicle since 1996. A devoted Mac enthusiast, he has written or cowritten a long list of how-to books about macOS, iPhone, iPad, Office for the Mac, and GarageBand. He's also a regular contributor to various tech publications.
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 3
Icons Used in This Book 3
Beyond the Book 4
Where to Go from Here 4
Part 1: macOS Basics 5
Chapter 1: macOS Big Sur 101 (Prerequisites: None) 7
Gnawing to the Core of macOS 8
A Safety Net for the Absolute Beginner (or Any User) 10
Turning the dang thing on 10
What you should see on startup 11
Shutting down properly 15
A few things you should definitely not do with your Mac 16
Point-and-click 101 17
Not Just a Beatles Movie: Help and the Help Menu 19
Chapter 2: Desktop and Windows and Menus (Oh My!) 23
Touring Finder and Its Desktop 24
Anatomy of a Window 25
Top o' the window to ya! 27
A scroll new world 29
(Hyper)active windows 30
Dialog Dealie-Boppers 32
Working with Windows 34
Opening and closing windows 34
Resizing windows and window panes 35
Moving windows 35
Shuffling windows 36
Menu Basics 38
The ever-changing menu bar 38
Contextual (shortcut) menus: They're sooo contextual! 39
Recognizing disabled options 41
Navigating submenus 41
Under the Apple menu tree 42
Using keyboard shortcut commands 44
Chapter 3: What's Up, Dock? 45
A Quick Introduction to Your Dock 46
The default icons of the dock 47
Trash talkin' 48
Opening application menus on the dock 51
Reading dock icon body language 53
Opening files from the dock 54
Customizing Your Dock 54
Adding dock icons 54
Removing an icon from the dock 57
Resizing the dock 58
What should you put on your dock? 58
Setting your dock preferences 60
Chapter 4: Getting to Know Finder and Its Desktop 65
Introducing Finder and Its Minions: The Desktop and Icons 66
Introducing the desktop 66
Bellying up to the toolbar 68
Figuring out what an icon is 71
Identifying your Finder icons in the wild 72
Aliases Are Awesome! 73
Creating aliases 74
Deleting aliases 75
Hunting down an alias's parent 75
The View(s) from a Window 76
Moving through folders fast in Column view 76
Perusing in Icon view 78
Listless? Try touring folders in List view 78
Hangin' in the Gallery (view) 80
What's next on the (View) menu? 81
Finder on the Menu 83
The actual Finder menu 83
Like a road map: The current folder's pop-up menu 86
Going places with the Go menu 86
Customizing Finder Windows 89
Adding folders to the sidebar 89
Setting Finder preferences 90
Digging for Icon Data in the Info Window 93
Chapter 5: Delving Even Deeper into Big Sur's Desktop and Finder 97
Cleaning Up Your Desktop Automatically with Stacks 97
Managing your Stacks 100
Quick Actions: Now Playing All Over Big Sur 101
Getting the most out of Markup 101
Trimming video without launching an app 104
Do It Quicker with Finder Quick Actions 105
Creating PDFs without launching an app 105
Creating custom Finder Quick Actions 106
Four More Cool Big Sur Tricks 107
Shooting screens 107
Dynamic desktop images 109
Recently used apps in the dock 109
Mentions of Gallery view 110
Part 2: How Stuff Works 111
Chapter 6: Having It Your Way 113
Introducing System Preferences 113
The Desktop & Screen Saver System Preferences Pane 116
The Desktop tab 117
The Screen Saver tab 118
The General System Preferences Pane 119
Adjusting the Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad, and Other Hardware 122
The Keyboard System Preferences pane 122
The Mouse System Preferences pane 128
The Bluetooth System Preferences pane 129
The Trackpad System Preferences pane 129
The Sound System Preferences Pane 131
Changing sound effects 132
Choosing output and input options 132
Chapter 7: Opening and Saving Files 133
A Quick Primer on Finding Files 134
Understanding the macOS Folder Structure 134
Understanding nested folders 136
From the top: The Computer folder 137
Peeking into the Applications folder 138
Visiting the Library folders 138
Let it be: The System folder 139
There's no place like Home 140
Your personal library card 141
Saving Your Document Before It's Too Late 143
Stepping through a basic save 145
Save As versus Duplicate: Different names for the same result 151
Open, Sez Me 153
With drag-and-drop 154
With a Quick Look 155
When your Mac can't open a file 155
With the application of your choice 156
Chapter 8: File and Folder Management Made Easy 159
Organizing Your Stuff in Folders 159
Files versus folders 160
Organizing your stuff with subfolders 160
Creating new folders 163
Navigating with spring-loaded folders 163
Smart folders 164
Shuffling Files and Folders 167
Moving files and folders 167
Selecting multiple icons 169
Playing the icon name game: Renaming icons 170
Renaming multiple icons at once 171
Compressing files 171
Getting rid of icons 172
The Incredible iCloud Drive 172
Chapter 9: Comprehending the macOS Clipboard 175
Introducing the Clipboard 175
Copying Files and Folders 177
Pasting from the Clipboard 179
Big Sur's Universal Clipboard 179
Part 3: Getting Things Done 181
Chapter 10: Five Terrific Time-Saving Tools 183
With a Quick Look 184
Share and share alike with the Share menu 185
Slide into Slideshow (full-screen) mode 186
Spotlight on Finding Files and Folders Faster 187
Using the Find command 187
Using the Spotlight menu and its keyboard shortcut 190
Blast Off with Mission Control 191
The Mission Control pane: It's painless 191
Hot corners are hot stuff! 194
Mission Control's Spaces from 30,000 feet (an overview) 194
Getting around in space(s) 197
Taking Control of Essential Settings 198
Launchpad: The Place for Applications 200
Chapter 11: Organizing Your Life 203
Keeping Track with Calendar 204
Navigating Calendar views 204
Creating calendars 205
Deleting a calendar 206
Creating and managing events 207
Reminders: Protection Against Forgetting 210
Getting started with Reminders 210
To do or not to do: Setting reminders 211
Sharing lists and assigning reminders 213
Everything You Need to Know about Notification Center 213
Tweaking Notification settings 214
Widget management 101 216
Using Notification Center 217
Use Notes for Making Notes 218
Tracking Productivity with Screen Time 221
Chapter 12: Are You Siri-ous? 223
What Siri Can Do for You 224
Working with Siri 226
Making Siri Your Own 226
Chapter 13: Maps Are Where It's At 229
Finding Your Current Location with Maps 229
Finding a Person, Place, or Thing 230
Views, Zooms, and Pans 231
Maps and Contacts 233
Time-saving Map Tools: Favorites, Guides, and Recents 234
Favorites 234
Guides 235
Recents 235
Smart Map Tricks 236
Get route maps and driving directions 236
Get walking directions 237
Get directions for public transportation 237
Get traffic info in real time 238
Flyovers and look arounds 238
Do more on the Info sheet 240
Chapter 14: Apps Born in iOS 241
Taking Stock of the Market with Stocks 241
Adding and deleting stocks, funds, and indexes 243
Details, details, details 244
Charting a course 244
Read All about It in News 245
What are your interests? 246
How News works 247
Managing your news 247
Recording Memos with Voice Memos 248
Recording a voice memo 248
Listening to a voice memo 249
Naming a voice memo 249
Trimming a voice memo 250
Controlling Lights, Locks, and More with Home 251
Part 4: Getting Along with Others 253
Chapter 15: (Inter)Networking 255
Getting Connected to the Internet 256
Your Internet service provider and you 257
Plugging in your Internet-connection settings 258
Browsing the Web with Safari 259
Owning your toolbar 261
Using the Safari sidebar 263
Searching with Google 267
Protect yourself from malice (and ads) 269
Checking out Help Center 270
Audio and Video Calls with FaceTime 270
Chapter 16: Dealing with People 273
Collecting Your Contacts 273
Adding contacts 274
Importing contacts from other programs 276
Creating a basic group 276
Setting up a smart group (based on contact criteria) 277
Deleting a group or smart group 279
Sync + Contacts = your contacts everywhere 279
Chapter 17: Communicating with Mail and Messages 281
Sending and Receiving Email with Mail 281
Setting up Mail 282
A quick overview of the toolbar 283
Composing a new message 284
Sending email from the Contacts app 286
Checking your mail 288
Dealing with spam 289
Mailboxes smart and plain 289
Changing your preferences 292
Sign here, please 293
Mail rules...
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Hardware |
| Genre: | Importe, Informatik |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 528 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9781119730101 |
| ISBN-10: | 1119730104 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Levitus, Bob |
| Hersteller: | Wiley |
| Maße: | 233 x 189 x 40 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Bob Levitus |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 10.11.2020 |
| Gewicht: | 0,994 kg |
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