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Where things are 26 - 33 Cool new things 34 - 43 Getting started 44 - 53 Basic system management 54 - 67 Mac OS 68 - 113 026_033_Where_It_Was.qxd 23/4/04 11:45 AM Page 26

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OS 9 OS X

In OS 9 if you need to find menu and select ‘About You will still find ‘About system as well as provide out how much memory this Mac’ to see available this Mac’ in the Apple you with processor your Mac has and how memory and how it is menu in OS X, but it has a information, a much it is using, you utilized. different function – it will comprehensive system simply go to the Apple display the amount of profile, update, About this Mac memory available on your serial and build numbers.

Aliases Make an by Make an alias by pressing Command+ pressing Option and drag or Command+Option and Command+M (shortcut drag or Command+L File Menu > Make Alias.) (shortcut File Menu > Make Alias.)

AppleScript AppleScript can be AppleScript has been found in System enhanced and dwells in Folder > Extensions. the Applications folder in OS X as well as in AppleScript Studio on the Developer Tools CD.

Application information To view basic information To view basic information on a current OS 9 on a current OS X application, go to the application, go to the . ’About this Finder menu. ’About this Mac’ changes to ’About Mac’ changes to ’About [Application Name]’. [Application Name]’.

Application menu In Mac OS 9 this menu This menu no longer applications and/or is located in the right exists in OS X, but you items. Alternatively, bring hand corner of the can select the new Finder up the Application screen. menu to hide/show Switcher by holding applications, or go to the down Command and Dock to monitor running pressing Tab.

Applications running All applications currently running in OS 9, will You can view running towards your application be listed in the Applications menu. applications, preferences icon. A quick alternative and/or minimized is to hold Command and documents on the Dock, press Tab to activate the indicated by a small Application Switcher. black triangle pointing

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Chooser Go to the to The Chooser is no longer • Connect to Server select a printer or activate a feature of Mac OS X, (Go>Connect to Server) AppleShare in OS 9. the alternatives are: to connect to a server • Print Center to select or shared folder. network printers; and

Contextual menus Contextual menus are Contextual menus are to the Dock – select any available in OS 9 (while still available in OS X, icon in it while holding holding down the accessed by holding Control and a contextual Control key, point to down the Control key. menu will also appear! an item and click). These capabilities extend

Control Panels Control Panels are Many Control Panels in • Startup Disk: this is found in your System OS 9 have undergone a where you will select folder in OS 9. facelift and been moved whether to start up in to the Classic or OS X. in OS X. These include Control Panels no longer • Appearance: some of in OS X include: • Apple these can be found in Menu Options; • Control Personal; Strip; • Launcher; • Date & Time; • Memory; • Text; and • Energy Saver; • General Controls. • ; Control Panels absorbed • Keyboard – keyboard into Internet and Network layouts Script moved System Preferences to ’International’; include: • AppleTalk; • Monitors: renamed • Configuration Manager; ’Displays’ in Mac OS X; • DialAssist; • Extensions • Keyboard & Mouse; Manager; • File Exchange; • Multiple Users: renamed • File Sharing; • Location ’Setup’ in Accounts in Manager; • Modem; Mac OS X; • Remote Access; • TCP/IP; • Numbers: absorbed into • USB Printer Sharing; ’International’ in OS X; and • Web Sharing. • QuickTime Settings: Access and renamed ’QuickTime’; ColorSync Control • Software Update; panels are now located • Sound; • Speech; and in Utilities in OS X.

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OS 9 OS X

Desk Accessories , Key Caps and In OS X, Calculator and via the ‘International’ are convenient Stickies have moved to System Preference (Go desk accessories that live Applications. Key Caps to the Input Menu button in the > can be accessed in the and Check ‘keyboard Apple Menu Items in OS 9. Edit menu (now called viewer’ box in the list Special Characters) or of input names).

Desktop The OS 9 desktop In OS X, disk icons may At the far left, the consists of disk icons or may not be visible, Apple menu is and a trash can. The depending on what you represented as typically current date, have selected in Finder by a translucent international settings preferences. The Date & blue Apple icon. The new and Applications menu Time, Monitor and Sound Dock may or may not are located to the top settings are located on be visible, and if so, it right of the screen. the top right of the may be located to the The Apple menu to screen. Although the left, bottom or right the far left of the menus are to the left, of the screen – again, screen is represented the Special menu is depending on the Finder by a colored Apple icon. gone and there’s a preferences you new menu – Finder. have selected.

Dock Mac ’oldies’ used the running applications, The Dock combines be uniquely controlled, Application menu, Apple open recent documents the functions of OS 9’s and easy-to-see triangles menu, Launcher, Chooser and gain fast access to Application menu, below or beside the icons and to share items such as Remote Launcher, Chooser (depending on Dock files, quickly launch Access, Finder, printer/s, and Control strip. placement) show you applications, identify and general settings and It contains a unique what applications are toggle between currently utilities. strip of icons that can running at a glance.

Finder is located in the In Mac OS X the have selected Finder Finder Applications menu in term Finder refers to on the Dock; OS 9. (When toggling quite a variety of • Mac OS X’s new-look between applications it different items. windows; and navigates from desktop • the finder window • the all-new Finder to other windows.) that appears when you menu.

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Finder windows Windows are not known Finder Windows refer to - a Back and Forward as finder windows in the new-look windows button for ease of Mac OS 9. Typically, in OS X. Attractive, navigation. they contain: customizable and easy- - Show/hide button at •two gray buttons (to the to-use, they consist of: the top right to display top right) – to adjust •Toolbar, with: or hide the toolbar. the height or width of -3 colored buttons to - Search facility the window; and the left of the window. •Places sidebar which •one gray button (to These close (red), lets you instantly check the left) used for minimize, move to and link to available closing the window. (yellow) and adjust hard drives, media and Clicking on a window’s (green) the window. servers. title bar minimizes it -View panel: choose •Embossed effect so that only the title from Icon view, List triangle on bottom bar can be seen. view, and the all-new right of window for To see a window in Column view, which resizing. list, icon or view, go displays folders in to Finder > View menu. multiple levels, OS 9 windows are not providing thumbnails equipped with a toolbar. of icons and photos;

Folders To make a new folder, Making a new folder still in Jaguar, available in select Command+N or available from the File Icon, List and Column go to File > New. menu but the shortcut is view. (This feature was The concept of spring- now Apple+Option+N. omitted in early versions loaded folders was Note: spring-loaded of OS X.) introduced in OS 9. folders were re-introduced

Fonts Fonts can be found in Mac OS X’s all-new advanced typographic the Fonts folder, in the lets you features and a Character System Folder on your enable and disable fonts, Palette for quick and hard disk in OS 9. The individually or in groups. easy character previews. Fonts folder consists of It allows you to shorten A handy feature is the individual fonts, stored the list of fonts to the ability to search for in folders and font ones you use regularly. fonts by family and suitcases, which may The Font Panel, available typeface name within contain sets of related in any application that Font Book. fonts or font families. uses fonts, provides

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Force Quit Command+Option+Esc You can still press memory space for each causes you to Force Quit Command+Option+Esc to application. This means an application when it’s Force Quit an application. that if something goes giving you trouble. This However, you can also go wrong, your computer does not always isolate to the Apple Menu > won’t need to be the problem and often Force Quit, or hold down restarted. When Force you have to restart your the and press Quit is selected, OS X computer anyway. the application icon in the simply shuts down the Dock. troublesome application Force Quit also works without harming other differently in Mac OS X. applications or the Darwin allocates a unique system itself.

Getting information For details on your Get Info was changed to unchanged, but you can selected icon, go to File > Show Info in OS X, and no longer adjust memory Get Info (Command+I). reverted to Get Info in in OS X using this option An application’s memory OS X 10.2. The File Menu – it is no longer necessary can be adjusted using and shortcut key (see also pre-emptive Get Info. command remain multi-tasking).

Labels View > Labels is a nifty The Labels feature was feature in OS 9 that omitted in earlier versions allows you to assign text of Mac OS X, but labels and colors to files reintroduced in Panther. for easy identification.

Networking In Mac OS 9, use: In Mac OS X use: (AppleTalk, Modem, • the Internet Control • the Remote Access, and Panel to enter settings application to connect TCP/IP settings have such as your email to the Internet, dial been consolidated address, preferred your ISP establish a here.) email application and PPP connection over Web browser; Ethernet, connect to an • the AppleTalk, Modem, Airport network, etc.. Remote Access, and •the Network pane in TCP/IP Control Panels System Preferences for to set up network network settings. connections;

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Pre-emptive In Mac OS 9, it’s often it’s common to have to In OS X there’s no more how to give priority to multi-tasking necessary for a user to set quit the application and quitting an application so your primary application, preferred memory increase the amount of that others can run. but still crunch away at requirements for each memory assigned to it. Thanks to Darwin, other jobs in the application (See also Not only this but complex memory for each background. With Mac ’Getting information’) tasks fully consume the application is OS X pre-emptive Because applications are processor until complete, automatically adjusted multitasking, the system actually sharing the forcing other tasks to be and whenever more remains responsive, so system’s processing time, put on hold. memory is needed, it you can do a whole allocates exactly the bunch of other things amount required. while processing the Darwin also knows task in the background. Image courtesy of Apple

Printing Windows File > Print Window is File > Print Window is a handy feature in OS 9 not featured in OS X. that lets you print out information on the content of your Finder windows.

Recent In OS 9 you can go To select recent Recent Folders from the Applications, to the most recent applications, documents available from the Go Documents applications, documents or servers in OS X, go to menu to choose those and Servers and servers by selecting Recent Items in OS X’s folders you worked on Apple Menu Items > Apple menu. Choose most recently. Recent Applications.

Sherlock is located in the This personal search by Command+F. (Instead, Applications folder on detective had a radical this shortcut command OS 9. (Command+F) makeover in OS X 10.2. now launches Mac OS X provides a quick Located in the 10.2’s Find command alternative to launching it. Applications folder, it (Finder menu). can no longer be accessed

Special menu This well-used menu burning a CD. This is no longer has moved to the File carries out regulars The Sleep, Restart and a feature of OS X. menu, Empty Trash has tasks such as emptying Shut Down commands Instead, Sleep, Restart moved to the Finder trash, ejecting and can also be found in and Shut Down are menu and Eject has erasing a disk and the Special menu . located in the Apple moved to the File menu. menu. Burn disc

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OS 9 OS X

System Folder In OS 9, the System Folder is OS X does not have has more files than it easily located on your hard disk. the kind of System Folder did in OS 9 and is not Many items in the System Folder you got used to in its accessible unless you are can be modified to keep the previous systems. The logged on as root user. running folder named ’System’ smoothly.

Trash The OS 9 trash can warned before In OS X a few things • To be warned of the serves many purposes: emptying the trash by have changed: Mac’s intentions to • trash items in OS 9 by clicking on the trash • the trash can is located empty the trash, go to dragging them to the can and selecting the in the Dock; Finder preferences > trash can or selecting File > Get Info menu • the Put Away Advanced and not the Move to Trash or option. command (and its Get Info; and Put Away options. •The trash can is also shortcut keyboard • although media can (Found in the File menu used as a medium combination) no still be dragged to the or on a contextual from which to eject longer exist; trash can for ejecting, menu when Control discs, CDs etc. • you now empty the the trash can icon is pressed); • Empty the trash by trash via the new changes its appearance • choose whether or not going to the Special Finder menu; when this occurs. you would like to be menu.

Undo In OS 9, the Undo In OS X, the Undo These include dragging command (Edit menu) command’s editing action an icon into a different undoes your last abilities extend to a folder or to the Trash, occurring editing action. variety of desktop actions. renaming a folder, etc.

Users User accounts are Mac OS X makes some optional in OS 9 and aspects of using a Mac a the login screen is quite bit more complicated due sophisticated – a user to improved security name can be selected measures. Each user has from an existing list and to set up at least one user your voice can be used account. In short, a name instead of a password. and password must be recorded for at least one user of the computer.

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Utilities Utilities for fonts, printers, The utilities in OS X have • The Print Center utility preparing, fixing and undergone changes: has taken over the compressing discs are • Drive Setup, Disk First Chooser in OS 9. all available in OS 9. Aid, Disc Burner It manages anything (Utilities in OS 9) have and everything to been merged into do with printing. ;

All options in OS 9 are choice to make global View menu > OS 9 provides numerous options to view windows available in OS X. view changes to your View Options and columns, such as It is now easier to window and to adjust date, folder sizes, origins, manipulate icon size and your window’s labels, icon size and arrangement, and you background color. arrangement. have you the

Window ... or multi Windows? The Mac pioneered a Mac OS X extends the access to any open graphic user interface with usefulness of the window with one folders and windows: graphical environment: keystroke. The choices • double-clicking a folder • it is not necessary to are endless–display in OS 9 causes another open another window your open windows as window to open when you double click thumbnails, view only automatically; on a folder OS X. windows of the current • if a file is brought You can either set a application you are forward in OS 9, any preference to disallow working in or hide other files relating to this or work in Column them all when need the source application view; and to locate a file on your follow, hiding all other • with new Exposé, you desktop quickly. applications; can have immediate

Word processing SimpleText, the free and TextEdit creates created with other simple word processing standard Rich Text applications, find, application in Classic, is Format files which you replaces and formats now called TextEdit in can open in other text, checks spelling Mac OS X and is very programs. It opens text, and can have pictures much more sophisticated. RTF and documents added to it.

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About this Mac To see the amount utilized, but gives (Note: if you hold on your system, as information on your down the Control you have always done, processor, system profile, key and click on the select ‘About this Mac’. software updates and version number, the OS X no longer displays current version of OS X build number the way memory is system software. appears.)

AppleScript enhanced AppleScript in Mac OS X delivers more power, more features and more speed while retaining its ease of use and flexibility.

CD burning In OS X, everything Finder menu to burn you need to burn a CD it. It’s that simple. is built-in to the system. (Note: you can also use You can prepare a disc applications such as for burning via Disk iPhoto or iTunes to Utility and go to the burn your CDs.)

Desktop The desktop is quite on the top right of the The new Dock may or different in OS X. Disk screen. The Finder menu may not be visible, and icons may or may not be on the left replaces the if so, could be located to visible, date and time, Special menu and the the left, bottom or right monitor and sound Apple menu icon is now of the screen – depending settings are located translucent aqua. on your preferences.

Digital Hub With Mac OS X and stability of Mac OS X edit movies, adding applications like iMovie, to make DVD creation professional-quality iDVD, iTunes and iPhoto, faster and easier; effects; Apple has pioneered the •iTunes software • GarageBand helps ‘iLife’ concept, making converts music from mix your voice or the digital lifestyle audio CDs, lets you instrument with possible. In short: search and browse backing loops, mix, • iPhoto helps you save, your entire music and exporting the organize, share and collection, and result to iMovie, enjoy digital images; download songs iDVD or iTunes. • iDVD takes advantage to MP3 players; of the power and • iMovie 2 lets you

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Dock The Dock contains a from it, set preferences, unique strip of icons resize it, reposition it, of frequently used make it disappear and applications, files, reappear, and utilities and preferences. immediately notice You can magnify items existing items that on it, add to/remove are active.

Eject icon The Trash icon selected, or removable transforms to an Eject media is dragged icon when File > Eject towards the trash. (Command+E) is

Fast user switching Fast user switching is you switch between no compromise on background. While activated from System users on a single Mac security either – when an account is ‘switched Preferences>Accounts. without quitting a user accesses an out’, all data and Exclusive to Mac OS applications and account, other accounts applications remain X10.3 Panther. It lets logging out. There is remain active in the absolutely secure.

Finder In OS X the term Finder OS X’s new-look redesign, resulting refers to a few things: windows; and the all in a composite of the Desktop; the Finder new Finder menu, technologies from the window that appears complete with original Finder and when you have selected preferences. It has from the NeXTSTEP Finder on the Dock; Mac undergone a complete file viewer.

Finder menu This new menu has taken up into the Finder menu. calculation methods a few items such as It has a cool option between Cocoa ’About the Finder’, ’Hide called Services that lets applications, as well as others’ and ’Move to you mix and match the ability to set up your Trash’ from other menus spelling checkers, Finder using the Finder in OS 9 and tidied them drawing tools and preferences menu.

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Finder views Finder view was added Finder preferences let to Mac OS X 10.2. The you view discs, media innovative Column view and servers on your makes file navigation desktop, Home or a breeze and previews Computer details and pictures and movies. file extensions.

Finder windows Windows in OS X are • contain the assembly • can be brought dissimilar to anything of ’drawer and parent’ forward without all that have ever been which can be added windows relating to seen before. They: to applications that application • don’t flicker and flash using Cocoa; following suit; when dragged/resized; • have believable • contain Sheets; • have alpha channel shadows (which • have spring-loaded support and smooth individual programs folders in Finder views; edges thanks to written for OS X • include customizable ; now have too); tool bars; and • have curved interface • feature transparency • come equipped with elements, courtesy on windows and both a back and of Aqua; pull-down menus; forward button.

Font Book The Quartz rendering controls. family, typeface name; engine in OS X displays With FontBook you can: • enable and disable and prints beautifully • different fonts, individually or rendered and anti- typefaces and in groups; aliased fonts with auto characters; • create and select ligatures and kerning • search for fonts by Collections.

Free Applications Mac OS X comes with a status details, stock your computer; • Internet program; • : built bunch of free software to prices, addresses, maps Explorer (IE): Microsoft’s on Apple’s Recognition use immediately. Some and driving directions; Web browser for the Mac; Engine, Inkwell’s of these include: • the • TextEdit: OS X’s word • : is built for OSX handwriting recognition system wide Address processing application; to display webpages turns text written on a Book; • Clock: an • iChat: the instant quickly and easily; graphics tablet into alternative to the time messenger for chatting • Internet Connect: dials typed text; • Preview: display in your ; with your AOL and your ISP or connects to for viewing/converting • Sherlock: locates hard- Mac.com buddies; AirPort or Ethernet; several types of image to-find information, • : • Chess: computerized files (including PDF) and delivers the latest news, transfers images from chess; • Mail: Mac OS X’s previewing files before up-to-the-minute flight your digital camera to standards-based e-mail printing.

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Go menu It’s all systems go, with Home, Favorites, Back, • helps users to the new Go menu, which: Forward, Enclosing access shared files • provides an alternative Folder) instead of across the network; to the Window toolbar physically finding the and – go to various icon in a window, or • provides a list of locations (such as toggling; recently used folders.

Internet developers to publish more than 50 percent Assistant; Mail; UNIX-style network of the Web sites on Microsoft Internet programs on the Internet. BSD also Explorer for Mac OS X . It provides enables the Perl, Telnet with Java 2; iChat; and built-in support for and FTP command-line Address Book; various ways of utilities. • Sherlock can be used connecting to the • Use the Internet in place of a Web Internet, including Connect application browser, providing dial-up modem (PPP), to connect to the information such as cable modem, DSL Internet, dial your ISP flight details, access (including PPPoE), establish a PPP to Web search engines, built-in Ethernet connection over stock art libraries, and and AirPort. Ethernet, connect Apple’s technical It allows for the use to an Airport support library. • Mac OS X’s BSD of standard Internet network, etc. • Go to System (Berkley Standard services as well as • Additional applications Preferences>Network Distribution) Apache, the open in OS X that relate to to change configuration networking stack source web server the internet include: settings. makes it easier for technology that runs Safari; AirPort

iTools online collection This tightly integrated personal storage space postcards that can internet service on Apple’s Internet be customized; collection is exclusively servers as well as an FTP • Email; and accessible to .Mac users. site for file sharing with • Homepage: a It consists of: • iDisk: other users; customizable Web site comprises 20MB of • iCards: electronic for Macintosh users only.

Library Mac OS X Library folders: Favorites, Internet Search individually. There are • hold information the Sites, Web browser three of them on the Mac needs to run each plug- ins, cached Web system and not all user’s environment, fonts pages, keyboard layouts, can be accessed by and applications; and sound files etc; and everyone. • contain folders for • are personalized

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Networking & Mac OS X offers a System Preferences. devices over Communications solid foundation for It is here that you Ethernet, AirPort, networking and can connect your Bluetooth, USB or communications Mac to the Internet, FireWire – without including: your corporate manually configuring • BSD (Berkeley network, or even the drivers or settings; Standard old PC Network. •a number of Distribution) makes it (This panel also helps technologies that easier for developers your Mac to make it simple to to publish UNIX-style automatically use integrate the Mac network programs whichever into cross-platform on Macintosh. It connection methods networks; and supports DHCP, are available at any • automatic switch BootP and manual time: Ethernet, over to the Ethernet network modem, Airport, or network if you configurations, Bluetooth modem.); connect to Ethernet making it easy for • Rendezvous, the using AirPort. users to integrate networking Mac OS X computers technology that uses into existing local the industry-standard area networks; IP networking • consolidation of: protocol. It allows for AppleTalk, Modem, automatic creation of Remote Access, and a network of TCP/IP settings into computers, printers the Network pane in and other peripheral

New Applications Mac OS X has inspired support and numerous the application developer native products are community to embrace currently available, or its new graphic interface. in the process of being technology. Leading made available, to run developers have on Apple’s new UNIX- demonstrated their based operating system.

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New Folder shortcut All Mac users take note: Instead, it is now discover that this remains making a new folder is Command+Option+N. File > New Folder. (Note: slightly different in OS X. Although it takes a bit of Apple N is now the The shortcut keyboard getting used to at first, shortcut for File > New command is no longer users who use the File Finder Window.) Command+N. menu will be relieved to

Online software Mac OS X has the ability through the Software updates to download software Update mechanism) via updates automatically, System Preferences > including the latest Software Update, or via security updates ‘About this Mac’. (automatically installed

PDF: a common file format for Mac OS X Thanks to Quartz, printed using PDF- Note: Preview is a PDF is a common file compatible tools superb application for format for Mac OS X. including Adobe viewing and Any PDF file saved in Acrobat Reader 6.5 searching PDF Mac OS X can be – on all supported files. opened, viewed, and platforms.

Preemptive multi-tasking Thanks to Darwin, adjusted and the system the task in the preemptive multitasking: remains responsive, so background. memory for each you can turn your (No more quitting an application is attention to other application so that automatically things while processing others can run.)

Printing Printing from Mac OS X Mac OS X. This can be determine errors etc., is a simple process. Any turned on in Utilities > go to the Print & Fax printer purchased from Print Center and hey System Preference. It a major manufacturer presto! your printer is will provide you with will probably have ready to begin its tasks. all the information software built into To monitor progress, you need.

Public and Shared Folders Public Folder: other Shared folder: ’free users can view your files for all’. Other users can here; Drop Box folder: copy to it, but only the other users can leave originator can move, files for you here. trash or change it.

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Stability (crash-resistant computing) If an application shuts it down. This has Force Quit the attempts an illegal no affect on the rest of application without operation in OS X (for the system. harming other example, taking up too If the application you are applications, so there much memory), the working on in OS X stops is no need to restart operating system simply responding, you can your computer.

Symmetric multi- Much of Mac OS X is benefits of dual- processor support multi-threaded, so processors. applications that use Symmetric system services such as multiprocessing takes sound, graphics, and advantage of dual- Image courtesy of Apple networking accrue the processor systems.

System Preferences Mac OS X has a whole Speech; Startup Disk; • Exposé: provides range of new System . immediate access to Preferences (formerly Many of these have been any open window with known as Control Panels, greatly improved in the one keystroke. and found in the System transition from OS 9’s • Universal Access: Folder in OS 9). These Control Panels. These greatly modified since are divided into the are: International; the first version of OS X. following categories Displays; Date & Time; Provides more user for ease of reference: Energy Saver; Keyboard friendly speech, sight, • Personal: Appearance; & Mouse; Sound; hearing, keyboard and Desktop & Screen Saver; Network and Sharing. mouse facilities. Dock; Exposé; The following preferences • Security (incorporating International; Security; are new to OS X: FileVault): this Hardware: CDs & DVDs; • Desktop & Screen preference gives you Displays; Energy Saver; Saver: to creatively the choice of keeping Keyboard & Mouse; customize your your documents safe Print & Fax; Sound desktop and screen with powerful AES-128 • Internet & Network: saver encryption. .Mac; Network; • Dock: to set size, • .Mac: to gain .Mac QuickTime; Sharing; and position and visibility membership and • System: Accounts (with of your Dock; subsequent. access to new Fast user switching); • Classic: helps users run iDisk (up to 1GB of Classic; Date & Time; both Mac OS 9 and personal storage space Software Update; Mac OS X. on Apple’s internet servers.)

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Toggling between • Choose whether to start when you need to adjust Classic and OS X up from OS X, Classic or settings for Classic, such another CD via System as getting Classic to start Preferences > Startup automatically when a Disk; • Choose System Classic application is Preferences > Classic launched.

Undo Edit > Undo can undo your last desktop action such as dragging an icon into a different folder or to the Trash, renaming a folder, etc.

UNIX Mac OS X is made up of • Quartz: this unique jobs in the background a unique combination of system in Mac OS X uses (preemptive multitasking). technical elements, these PDF as the basis of its • Open GL: specifically include: imaging model. It delivers designed for any • Aqua: thanks to Aqua, crisp graphics, anti- application that requires the Mac user interface aliased fonts, and blends a sturdy framework for has had a facelift. 2D, 3D and QuickTime visualizing shapes in Transparent, shiny and content with 2D and 3D; droplet-shaped elements, transparency and • Java: the Java drop shadows and sheets drop shadows; application environment all contribute towards • Darwin: the exists to develop and OS X’s new look; industrial-strength, UNIX- carry out Java programs • Classic: most Mac OS based foundation lies on Mac OS X, including 9 compatible applications beneath Mac OS X’s Pure Java applications will run side-by-side with interface. It features a and applets; and Mac OS X applications protected memory • Cocoa: this application, thanks to Classic; architecture and gives descended from UNIX • Carbon: system priority to a primary NeXTSTEP, is designed elements that work in application, but still lets specifically for Mac OS X- both Classic and OS X; the user work on other only native applications.

Users concept Mac OS X has secure file Home directory for computer, they can access with built-in storing personal files, access the Macintosh, support for multiple preferences, and system with their customized users. Every user on the settings. When users log desktop, Finder, Dock, system has a secure into their personal and applications, as well login account and a accounts on a Mac OS X as all their personal files.

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Utilities

There is an entirely Bluetooth: (File new range of utilities Exchange, Serial available in OS X. Those Utility, Setup most commonly used Assistant) include: All of these help setup Disk Utility and use Bluetooth for file Combines the functions transfer between one or of Drive Setup, Disk First more Bluetooth-enabled Aid, Disc Burner (utilities devices. in OS 9). ColorSync Utility: Works together with A handy little application ColorSync preferences to for taking screen specify color profiles for snapshots that you will devices. use again and again. Print Center: An alternative to OS 9’s Chooser, the manages everything and anything to do with printing.

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1 Getting Started

Windows compatibility Compatibility: Filename suffixes: and Windows-style Point-and-click Windows Mac OS X uses Windows- filename suffixes file sharing simplifies style (three-letter) connection to Windows filename suffixes to servers and PCs. OS X identify the application comes with a PPTP- needed to launch a based virtual private document. (A preference network (VPN) client is available to hide these that allows Mac users suffixes if so desired.) to connect remotely to Windows corporate networks.

Window control Exposé provides instant access to any open window with just one keystroke, snapping ‘window chaos’ into instant order: • Press F9 and see all open windows in various application. (Clicking on a window makes it become active and places it at the top of the stack.) • Press F10 and all open windows of your working application will be tiled, while others fade to gray. • Press F11 and all open windows disappear, giving you access to your desktop Press F11 and all open windows disappear, giving in no time at all. you access to your desktop in no time at all.

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