Introduction |
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Part 1: macOS Basics |
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Chapter 1 macOS High Sierra 101 (Prerequisites: None) |
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Gnawing to the Core of macOS |
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A Safety Net for the Absolute Beginner (or Any User) |
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Turning the dang thing on What you should see on startup |
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A few things you should definitely not do with your Mac |
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Point-and-click boot camp |
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Not Just a Beatles Movie: Help and the Help Menu |
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Chapter 2 Desktop and Windows and Menus (Oh My!) |
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Touring Finder and Its Desktop |
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Opening and closing windows |
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Resizing windows and window panes |
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The ever-changing menu bar |
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Contextual menus: They're so contextual! |
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Recognizing disabled options |
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Under the Apple menu tree |
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Using keyboard shortcut commands |
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Chapter 3 What's Up, Dock? |
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A Quick Introduction to Your Dock |
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The default icons of the dock |
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Opening application menus on the dock |
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Reading dock icon body language |
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Opening files from the dock |
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Removing an icon from the dock |
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What should you put on your dock? |
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Setting your dock preferences |
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Part 2: How Stuff Works |
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Chapter 4 Delving Deeper into Finder and Its Desktop |
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Introducing Finder and Its Minions: The Desktop and Icons |
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Bellying up to the toolbar |
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Figuring out what an icon is |
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Identifying your Finder icons in the wild |
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Hunting down an alias's parent |
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The View(s) from a Window |
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Moving through folders fast in Column view |
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Listless? Try touring folders in List view |
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You gotta go with the flow |
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What's next on the (View) menu? |
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Like a road map: The current folder's pop-up menu |
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Going places with the Go menu |
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Customizing Finder Windows |
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Adding folders to the sidebar |
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Setting Finder preferences |
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Digging for Icon Data in the Info Window |
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Chapter 5 Having It Your Way |
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Introducing System Preferences |
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Putting a Picture on the Desktop |
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Setting Up a Screen Saver |
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Putting Widgets on the Dashboard |
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Giving Buttons, Menus, and Windows a Makeover |
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Adjusting the Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad, and Other Hardware |
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Trackpad (notebooks and desktops with a Magic Trackpad) |
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Choosing output and input options |
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Chapter 6 The Care and Feeding of Files and Folders |
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A Quick Primer on Finding Files |
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Understanding the macOS Folder Structure |
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Understanding nested folders |
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From the top: The Computer folder |
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Peeking into the Applications folder |
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Visiting the Library folders |
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Let it be: The System folder |
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There's no place like Home |
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Your personal library card |
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Saving Your Document Before It's Too Late |
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Stepping through a basic save |
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Save As versus Duplicate: Different names for the same result |
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When your Mac can't open a file |
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With the application of your choice |
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Organizing Your Stuff in Folders |
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Organizing your stuff with subfolders |
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Navigating with spring-loaded folders |
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Shuffling Files and Folders |
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Playing the icon name game: Renaming icons |
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The Incredible iCloud Drive |
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Chapter 7 Comprehending the macOS Clipboard |
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Introducing the Clipboard |
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Copying Files and Folders |
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Pasting from the Clipboard |
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High Sierra's Universal Clipboard |
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Part 3: Getting Things Done |
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Chapter 8 Four Terrific Timesaving Tools |
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Share and share alike with the Share menu |
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Slide into Slideshow (full-screen) mode |
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Spotlight on Finding Files and Folders Faster |
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Using the search box in Finder windows |
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Using the Spotlight menu and window |
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Blast Off with Mission Control |
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The Mission Control pane: It's painless |
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Mission Control's Spaces from 30,000 feet (an overview) |
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Getting around in space(s) |
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Launchpad: The Place for Applications |
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Chapter 9 Organizing Your Life |
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Keeping Track with Calendar |
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Navigating Calendar views |
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Creating and managing events |
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Reminders: Protection Against Forgetting |
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Getting started with Reminders |
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To do or not to do: Setting reminders |
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Everything You Need to Know about Notification Center |
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Use Notes for Making Notes |
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Chapter 11 Maps Are Where It's At |
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Finding your current location with Maps |
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Finding a person, place, or thing |
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Timesaving map tools: Favorites, Recents, and Contacts |
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Part 4: Getting Along With Others |
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Chapter 12 (Inter)Networking |
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Getting Connected to the Internet |
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Your Internet service provider and you |
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Plugging in your Internet-connection settings |
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Browsing the Web with Safari |
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Using the terrific Top Sites page |
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Audio and Video Calls with FaceTime |
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Chapter 13 Dealing with People |
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Importing contacts from other programs |
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Setting up a smart group (based on contact criteria) |
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Deleting a group or smart group |
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Sync + Contacts = your contacts everywhere |
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Chapter 14 Communicating with Mail and Messages |
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Sending and Receiving Email with Mail |
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A quick overview of the toolbar |
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Sending email from the Contacts app |
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Mailboxes smart and plain |
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Changing your preferences |
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Communicating with Messages |
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What the heck is an iMessage? |
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Chit-chatting with Messages |
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Chapter 15 Sharing Your Mac and Liking It |
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Introducing Networks and File Sharing |
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Portrait of home office networking |
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Three ways to build a network |
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Access and Permissions: Who Can Do What |
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Users and groups and guests |
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macOS knows best: Folders shared by default |
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Sharing a folder or disk by setting permissions |
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Useful settings for permissions |
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Connecting to a Shared Disk or Folder on a Remote Mac |
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Changing your account password on your Mac |
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Changing the password of any account but your own on your Mac |
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Changing the password for your account on someone else's Mac |
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And yet more ways to share |
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Part 5: Getting Creative |
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Chapter 16 The Musical Mac |
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Apple Music and iTunes Match Rock! |
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Adding movies and TV shows |
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Listening to iTunes Radio |
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Creating a regular playlist |
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Working with smart playlists |
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Looking at the Genius playlist |
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Chapter 17 The Multimedia Mac |
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Playing Movies and Music in QuickTime Player |
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Shopping for books without Apple |
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You're the Star with Photo Booth |
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Viewing and Converting Images and PDFs in Preview |
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Downloading photos from a camera |
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Downloading DV video from a camcorder |
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Chapter 18 Words and Letters |
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Processing Words with TextEdit |
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Creating and composing a document |
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Adding graphics to documents |
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Managing your fonts with Font Book |
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Installing fonts manually |
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Chapter 19 Publish or Perish: The Fail-Safe Guide to Printing |
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Ready: Connecting and Adding Your Printer |
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Setting up a printer for the first time |
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One last thing: Printer sharing |
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Set: Setting Up Your Document with Page Setup |
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Print: Printing with the Print Sheet |
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Choosing among different printers |
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Part 6: Care And Feeding |
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Chapter 20 Features for the Way You Work |
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Talking and Listening to Your Mac |
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Keyboard System Preferences pane: You talk and your Mac types |
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Commanding your Mac by voice |
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Listening to your Mac read for you |
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Script Editor app: Write and edit AppleScripts |
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Automator app: Automate almost anything |
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A Few More Useful Goodies |
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App Store app: The place to buy Mac apps |
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Accessibility System Preferences pane: Make your Mac more accessible |
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Energy Saver System Preferences pane: For energy conservation and sleep |
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Bluetooth System Preferences pane: Where Bluetooth lives |
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Ink System Preferences pane: Visible to pen-input tablet users only |
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Automatic Login in the Users & Groups System Preferences pane: Don't bother with the login screen |
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Allow your Apple Watch to unlock your Mac |
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Boot Camp Assistant app: Run Windows on your Mac...really |
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Chapter 21 Safety First: Backups and Other Security Issues |
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Backing Up Is (Not) Hard to Do |
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Backing up with High Sierra's excellent Time Machine |
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Backing up by using the manual, brute-force method |
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Backing up by using commercial backup software |
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Why You Need Two Sets of Backups |
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Non-Backup Security Concerns |
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About viruses and other malware |
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Install recommended software updates |
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Protecting Your Data from Prying Eyes |
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Blocking or limiting connections |
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Locking down files with FileVault |
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Setting other options for security |
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Chapter 23 Troubleshooting macOS |
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About Startup Disks and Booting |
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Finding or creating a startup disk |
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They call it a prohibitory sign for a reason |
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Recovering with Recovery HD |
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Step 2: Safe boot into Safe mode |
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Step 3: Zapping the PRAM/NVRAM |
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Step 4: Reinstalling macOS |
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Step 5: Things to try before taking your Mac in for repair |
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If Your Mac Crashes at Startup |
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Part 7: The Part Of Tens |
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Chapter 24 Ten (or So) Ways to Speed Up Your Mac Experience |
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Use Those Keyboard Shortcuts |
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Improve Your Typing Skills |
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Resolution: It's Not Just for New Year's Day Anymore |
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A Mac with a View - and Preferences, Too |
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You Can Never Have Too Much RAM! |
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Get an Accelerated Graphics Card |
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Get a Solid-State Drive (SSD) |
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Chapter 25 Ten Great Websites for Mac Freaks |
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