Mac OS X Leopard Just the Steps For Dummies

Product Description

*Eliminates lengthy introductions, detailed explanations, and sidebars, focusing on what new Mac OS X users want most-clear instructions on how to accomplish specific tasks

*An easy-to-navigate landscape layout featuring a two-column design and illustrated step-by-step instructions make it easy to find a specific task fast and get it done in a flash

*Tasks covered include adjusting system preferences, creating and managing user accounts, managing files and folders, using the Dashboard, networking wirelessly with AirPort, using iTunes and iPods, connecting to a Windows network, watching videos and DVDs, viewing and organizing pictures with iPhoto, making movies with iMovie, blogging and Web designing with iWeb, and using a .Mac account

*Published to coincide with Apple's release of Leopard
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #235453 in Books
* Published on: 2007-11-12
* Format: Illustrated
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 240 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover
Easy steps for setting up e-mail, downloading music, and more

Create a Slideshow

1.Open iPhoto and select a picture roll or album from which you want to base your slideshow.

2.Click Slideshow near the bottom of the iPhoto window. A new slideshow is created, as shown in Figure 15-9, and it contains all the images in the roll or album you selected in Step 1.

3.To remove an image from the slideshow, click and drag it to the Trash icon in the Source panel.

4.To add photos from other albums or rolls, simply click and drag the photos to the desired slideshow in the Source panel.

To change the order of images, click and drag their thumbnails left or right at the top of the Slideshow window.

Get Ready To:

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Manage system preferences

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Customize Dashboard widgets

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Chat online or create a blog

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Edit digital photos and make movies

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Network wirelessly with AirPort

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Connect to Bluetooth devices

The Dummies Way

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Concise, step-by-step instructions

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"Get in, get out" information

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Easy-to-recognize tasks and topics

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Quick solutions to get it done

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A dash of humor and fun

About the Author
Keith Underdahl is a graphic designer, electronic publishing specialist, and freelance writer from Oregon. He has written numerous books, including Digital Video For Dummies 4th Edition, Adobe Premiere Elements For Dummies, Wi-Fi Home Networking Just the Steps For Dummies, and more.
Customer Reviews

Wish I had it on Day One!5
After about 20 years on a PC, I switched to an iMac and bought with it "Switching to the Mac - Leopard edition." Nice book, but not for dummies.

I quickly found I needed a really, really basic intro to using the Mac's operating system and applications, and bought this Dummies book. Thank you, Mr. Underdahl! You must have had me in mind when you wrote it. All the basics are here in step-by-step form and written in direct, simple English. In one afternoon I learned all I needed to know to start feeling comfortable using the system. I went through the book with my computer turned on and began with customizing, then to creating and managing user accounts, managing files and folders, and so on. Then I went through the applications, going online, using multimedia, and networking. I have a feeling it will be my desk companion for quite a while.

It says it all on the cover: Pick the task, Find it fast, Get it done!

OK until the Leopard misbehaves.3
This book caters to the user who's completely bought into the notion that a Mac is the computer for the computer-illiterate--a simple, dependable, ideal "dream machine" made for manual typists and vinyl collectors like me. It's as much a promotional book as a genuinely useful guide and resource, and I purchased it because of a promotion (five bucks off) that I failed to submit before the deadline. At the undiscounted asking price, this book is too deficient in essential vitamins to be worth the investment (the much thinner manual supplied by Apple has more useful info). Instead, take a look at the first of MacWorld's "Super Guides to OS X Leopard."

Shortly after purchasing this Dummies book, I tried a simple restart of my iMac that caused it to go into a sudden, complete cardiac arrest (i.e. "kernel panic"). The Dummies book doesn't have any troubleshooting steps whatsoever let alone anything in the index about crashes, freezes and kernel panics (which you're sure to experience if you use many of the features the book discusses). The MacWorld publication, Super Guide: Basic Steps (downloadable for ten bucks), not only covers the same ground as this Dummies book but provides a fairly comprehensive and specific account of common Mac-attack problems in a mere 5-6 pages. While it didn't solve my problem, it enabled me to discover safe mode, reboot my machine and have a fairly good understanding of the (quite logical) causes. Better than wondering if your machine has been assaulted by terrorists and not knowing what or whom to blame (probably that Sadamm guy)

New to MAC's4
I have a fairly high level of I.T. proficiency in mainframe, midrange and P.C. systems. I was not interested in acquiring a detailed bible on operating systems I am not already familiar with. I found the MC OS X Leopard and Switching to a MAC for Dummies a quick and easy reference guide to start me on my new platform.

Well done!