Macworld Mac SECRETS 4th edition

David Pogue & Joseph Schorr

Macworld Mac SECRETS 4th edition

David Pogue & Joseph Schorr

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Acknowledgments

There is no nicer, more articulate, better-versed group of people than the Mac experts who helped with this book. Foremost among these friends is Macworld guru Gene Steinberg, who wrote the first drafts of chapters on sev- eral of the most technically daunting topics: NuBus, SCSI, printing, and CD- ROM. He also did a great job on the glossary. Macromedia networking god John Stroud wrote the first-edition version of Chapter 32. The tricks and tips in this book come from hundreds of sources — the most important of which is our army of loyal and articulate readers. You’ll find their names wherever their contributions appear in the text of this edi- tion. Our gratitude to them, and to many others who wrote us with praise, critiques, or new secrets. Special, brow-mopping gratitude to those readers who sacrificed weekends on end to catalogue, compile, and send us typos and other gaffes from the previous edition — especially Ronald A. Leroux, Amitai Schlair, and David Henry Sholkoff.

Unsung Heroes We were thrilled to learn that Dennis Cohen would be rejoining us for this fourth edition as technical editor. Once again, his encyclopedic knowledge saved us repeatedly from the brink of humiliating inaccuracy. Through it all, we thank our indefatigable editors: Marta Partington (first edition), Andy Cummings (second), Jim Grey and Joe Curran (third), and Kevin Shafer (this edition). Thanks, too, to IDG Books’ Phyllis Beaty, Nancy Dunn, Amy Thomas, and John Kilcullen. More special thanks to the authors of the shareware programs who gave us permission to include their work with this book. Finally, our gratitude gushes to those we wanted to spend more time with, but couldn’t, while we were immersed in this project. They include Allison, for her constant support; Alexandria and Zachary, who sacrificed hours of Kid Pix for the sake of this book; the lovely Dr. Pogue, who joined her hus- band on the emotional book-creation roller coaster; the Malloy dynasty; Uncle Freddie and MTI; Tracy and Michael; our parents; our editors at Macworld; and Bullwinkle the Wonder Dog.

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A word about the commercial software Suppose you ran a software company. Would you have enough security and faith to give away your company’s crown jewels with a book like this? But that’s exactly what happened. The companies listed below have given us non-demo, non-time-limited software to include on the CD with this book! You get something great without having to pay for it. They hope that you’ll like the stuff so much you’ll buy more of their software, or that you’ll upgrade to the new versions, or that (if we’ve included one component) you’ll order the full collection. (Discount coupons to further entice you are at the back of the book.) Here are the names of the product managers and other personnel at the participating software companies who were forward-thinking enough to let us include their software:

Abbott Systems: Ken Abbott Adobe: Kellie Bowman Affinity: Rick Barron Aladdin: Jon Katz Binary Software: Gary Gonzalez Bitstream: Jim Welch Casady & Greene: Terry Kunysz : David Christopher Dantz Development: Craig Isaacs, David Kuosh JEM Software: Randy Brandt MicroFrontier: Wayne Davis Nova Development: Roger Bloxberg Now Software: Henry Carstens Olduvai Software: Gabriel Foux Contents at a Glance

Acknowledgments vii Introduction xxxi PART I: SYSTEM SOFTWARE REVEALED 1 Chapter 1: Your First Software: The 3 Chapter 2: Finder Command Secrets 45 Chapter 3: Desk-Accessory World 65 Chapter 4: Control Panels and Extensions 99 Chapter 5: Enablers, Installers, and Apple Extras 181 Chapter 6: The System Software Museum 215 PART II: SECRETS OF THE MACHINE 251 Chapter 7: On, Off, and Everything in Between 253 Chapter 8: The Disk Chapter 275 Chapter 9: The Memory Chapter 309 Chapter 10: Keyboards and Mice 343 Chapter 11: Monitors 359 Chapter 12: From 128K to Quadra: Model by Model 375 Chapter 13: The PowerPC Macs: Model by Model 429 Chapter 14: Exposed 469 Chapter 15: A Puny Performa Chapter 511 PART III: APPLICATION SECRETS 521 Chapter 16: Multitasking, Multiplatforms 523 Chapter 17: Word Processing 551 Chapter 18: Page Design 601 Chapter 19: Number and Data Crunching 625 Chapter 20: Graphics and 3-D 653 Chapter 21: The ResEdit Chapter 683 Chapter 22: Public Utilities 723 Chapter 23: Speech, Movies, and Sound 757

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PART IV: ATTACHMENTS 797 Chapter 24: Inside Fonts 799 Chapter 25: Printing Secrets 843 Chapter 26: Scanning Secrets 895 Chapter 27: Mysteries of the Modem 907 Chapter 28: The Web, the Net, and Everything Online 933 Chapter 29: CD-ROM, DVD, and Other Such Words 979 Chapter 30: The SCSI Chain — and IDE 989 Chapter 31: NuBus, PCI, and Other Slots 1003 Chapter 32: The Networking Chapter 1011 Chapter 33: Troubleshooting 1047 PART V: THE SECRETS SOFTWARE VAULT 1077 Chapter 34: The SECRETS Software 1079 The Final Dialogue 1139 Glossary 1141 Index 1159 License Agreements 1197 Installing the SECRETS Software 1201 Secrets at a Glance

Chapter 1 Chapter 4 Icon Secrets 6 Options Secrets 102 Icon Renaming Secrets 11 Color Control Panel Secrets 107 Window Secrets 15 Control Strip Secrets 109 List View Secrets 18 Date & Time Secrets 111 File Copying Secrets 22 Desktop Patterns Secrets 113 Desktop File Secrets 26 Launcher Control Panel Secrets 127 Trash Secrets 30 Map Secrets 132 Alias Secrets 36 Memory Control Panel Secrets 136 Drag-and-Drop Secrets 39 Monitor Secrets 137 Macintosh Drag-and-Drop Secrets 41 PC Exchange Secrets 142 PowerBook Control Panel Secrets 145 Chapter 2 Sound Control Panel Secrets 150 Apple Menu Secrets 46 .0-7.1 Find Command Secrets 51 Chapter 5 Clean Up Secrets 58 Installer Secrets 206 Hidden System Software Command Secrets 62 System-Switching Secrets 210

Chapter 3 Chapter 7 Alarm Clock Secrets 67 Powering-Up Secrets 255 AppleCD Audio Player Secrets 68 Startup Secrets 262 Secrets 72 Shut Down Secrets 269 Chooser Secrets 75 Find File (7.5) Secrets 77 Chapter 8 Jigsaw Puzzle Secrets 86 Hard Drive Secrets 283 Key Caps Secrets 87 Defragmenting Secrets 286 Note Pad Secrets 89 Secrets 296 Scrapbook Secrets 91 SyQuest/Zip/Jaz Secrets 305 Secrets 95 Shut Down Secrets 98 Chapter 9 Save File and Open File Dialog Box Secrets 314 Stationery Secrets 317 RAM Doubler Secrets 331 Disk Cache Secrets 335 RAM Disk Secrets 338 Virtual Memory Secrets 341

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Chapter 10 Chapter 16 Keyboard Secrets 351 Multitasking Secrets 527 Type and Secrets 538 Chapter 11 PC-to-Mac Secrets 549 Monitor Secrets 371 Chapter 17 Chapter 12 Universal Word Processing Secrets 552 Mac Plus Secrets 382 Microsoft Word Secrets 572 A Mac SE Secret 383 Word 5.1 (or earlier) Secrets 587 SE/30 Secrets 384 WordPerfect Secrets 591 A Mac Classic Secret 385 ClarisWorks Secrets 594 A Classic II Secret 386 SimpleText Secrets 598 A Mac II Secret 389 A IIfx Secret 391 Chapter 18 IIci Secrets 393 PageMaker Secrets 609 IIsi Secrets 394 QuarkXPress Secrets 617 An LC Secret 397 An LC III (Performa 450) Secret 398 Chapter 19 A Quadra 700 Secret 406 Excel Secrets (and Sometimes ClarisWorks) 627 Quadra 900 Secrets 409 Quicken Secrets 638 Quadra AV Secrets 411 FileMaker/ClarisWorks Secrets 642 PowerBook 100 Secrets 413 A PowerBook 150 Secret 416 Chapter 20 A Duo 270c (and 280c) Secret 424 General Painting Secrets 656 Photoshop Secrets 657 Chapter 13 Universal Drawing Program Secrets 665 PowerPC-Mac Secrets 459 Universal PostScript Drawing Secrets 670 FreeHand Secrets 672 Chapter 14 Illustrator Secrets 673 PowerBook Screen Secrets 473 Power-outlet Secrets 476 Chapter 21 Trackpad Secrets 478 ResEdit Secrets 694 Battery Secrets 483 PowerBook RAM-Disk Secrets 492 Chapter 22 Sleep Secrets 495 Disk Utility Secrets 725 PowerBook Printing Secrets 503 Macro Software Secrets 729 QuicKeys Secrets 735 Chapter 15 Tempo II Secrets 737 Performa Secrets 518 Screen Saver/Screen Grabber Secrets 742 Now Utilities Secrets 748 Extension Manager Secrets 752 Secrets at a Glance xiii

Chapter 23 Chapter 27 Microphone Secrets 759 Telecom Secrets 924 Sound Secrets 764 Fax Modem Secrets 928 MIDI Secrets 769 QuickTime Digitizing Secrets 774 Chapter 28 QuickTime Secrets 777 Netscape and Web Secrets 955 QuickTime VR Secrets 784 HTML Secrets 965 Speech Secrets 794 AOL Secrets 967 Cyberdog Secrets 977 Chapter 24 ATM Secrets 804 Chapter 29 System 7 Font Secrets 816 CD-ROM Secrets 985 Secrets 835 Chapter 31 Chapter 25 NuBus and PCI Secrets 1008 General Printing Secrets 847 StyleWriter Secrets 851 Chapter 32 PostScript (LaserWriter 8) Printing Secrets 865 Sharing Command Secrets 1031 Desktop Printing 2.0 Secrets 871 File-sharing Secrets 1035 A QuickDraw GX Secret 878 Remote Access Secrets 1038 Service Bureau Secrets 887 General Networking Secrets 1040

Chapter 26 Scanning Secrets 900 OCR Secrets 905

Contents

Acknowledgments vii Chapter 2: Finder Command Introduction xxxi Secrets 45 The Apple Menu 45 Apple Menu Secrets 46 PART I: SYSTEM SOFTWARE The File Menu 48 REVEALED 1 Print 49 Chapter 1: Your First Software: Get Info 49 Sharing 49 The Finder 3 Make Alias 50 Finder: The Unknown Program 3 Put Away 50 A Few Words about Icons 4 The Find Command 50 Selecting icons 4 System 7.0-7.1 Find Command Icon Secrets 6 Secrets 51 Renaming icons 10 The Edit Menu 52 Icon Renaming Secrets 11 Undo 52 The Truth about Finder Windows 14 Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear 53 Window Secrets 15 Show Clipboard 53 List View Secrets 18 The Label Menu 54 Copying Files 21 Finding and sorting by 54 File Copying Secrets 22 More on labels 55 Your First Database: The Desktop File 24 Are labels useless? 55 What’s in the Desktop file 24 The Special Menu 57 Curing a troubled Desktop file 25 Eject Disk 57 Desktop File Secrets 26 Erase Disk 58 Secrets of the Trash 29 Clean Up 58 Trash Secrets 30 Clean Up Secrets 58 All about Aliases 32 The Guide Menu 59 Making an 33 60 Finding the original file 35 Apple Guide 60 More alias notes 36 The Keyboard/International Menu 61 Alias Secrets 36 Hidden System Commands 62 Drag-and-Dropping Icons 37 Hidden System Software Command Drag-and-Drop Secrets 39 Secrets 62 Macintosh Drag and Drop 40 Macintosh Drag-and-Drop Secrets 41

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Chapter 3: Desk-Accessory World 65 Color Control Panel Secrets 107 Control Strip Secrets 109 Desk Accessories 66 Date & Time Secrets 111 Alarm Clock 66 Desktop Patterns Secrets 113 Alarm Clock Secrets 67 Launcher Control Panel Secrets 127 AppleCD Audio Player 67 Map Secrets 132 AppleCD Audio Player Secrets 68 Memory Control Panel Secrets 136 Apple System Profiler 70 Monitor Secrets 137 Automated Tasks 70 PC Exchange Secrets 142 Battery 71 PowerBook Control Panel Secrets 145 Calculator 72 Sound Control Panel Secrets 150 Calculator Secrets 72 Extensions One by One 156 Chooser 73 The Ultimate Extension-Linking Chooser Secrets 75 Guide 177 Control Panels 75 Find File 76 Chapter 5: Enablers, Installers, and Find File (7.5) Secrets 77 Apple Extras 181 Jigsaw Puzzle 85 Jigsaw Puzzle Secrets 86 The Folders 182 Key Caps 86 Apple Menu Items folder 183 Key Caps Secrets 87 Control Panels folder 183 Network Software Selector 88 Control Panels (Disabled) 183 Note Pad (old and new) 88 Control Strip Modules folder 183 Note Pad Secrets 89 Desktop PrintMonitor documents 184 Puzzle 90 Extensions folder 184 Recent Applications, Documents, Extensions (Disabled) folder 184 Servers 91 Fonts folder 185 Scrapbook 91 Launcher Items folder 186 Scrapbook Secrets 91 Preferences folder 186 SimpleSound 93 PrintMonitor Documents folder 188 Stickies 94 Shutdown Items folder 188 Stickies Secrets 95 Speakable Items folder 189 • Shut Down 97 Startup Items folder 189 Shut Down Secrets 98 Loose in your System folder 190 All about Enablers 190 Chapter 4: Control Panels and Why Enablers exist 190 Extensions 99 System 7.5 resets the counter 191 System 7.5.3 resets the counter The Control Panels 100 again 192 What’s a control panel, anyway? 100 32-bit enabler and Mode32 192 Apple Menu Options Secrets 102 Contents xvii

The System Update Series 192 Chapter 6: The System Software System Update 3.0 193 Museum 215 System 7.5 Update 1.0 193 System 7.5 Updates 194 The System Software Museum 215 The System File Itself 194 .0 216 Apple Extras and Apple Leftovers 194 System 1.1 218 Adobe Acrobat Reader 195 System 2.0 218 Apple HD SC Setup (or Drive System 3.0 219 Setup) 195 System 3.1 220 Apple Video Player/FusionRecorder 195 System 3.2 220 AppleScript 195 System 3.3 222 Disk First Aid 196 System 4.0 222 For PowerBooks Only 196 System 4.1 222 Games 197 System 4.2 222 LaserWriter Utility (Apple Printer .0.2 223 Utility) 198 System 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.0.5, 6.0.7 223 Network Software Selector 198 System 6.0.8 223 Text-to-Speech, English Speech System 7.0 224 Recognition 198 System 7.0.1 224 QuickDraw GX 199 System 7.1 225 QuickTime Extras 199 System 7 Pro (System 7.1.1) 225 Universal Access 199 System 7.1.2 225 WorldScript Install 199 System 7.1.2P 226 The Installer (“Install Mac OS” System 7.1.3 226 Program) 199 System 7.5 226 How to use the Installer 200 System 7.5.1 (System 7.5 What to install (System 7 and 7.1) 202 Update 1.0) 229 What to install (System 7.5 family) 204 System 7.5.2 230 What to install (System 7.6 family) 205 System 7.5.3 (System 7.5 Installer Secrets 206 Update 2.0) 232 Switching between System Versions 209 System 7.5.3L 233 Two different disks 209 System 7.5.3 Revision 2 234 Two different disks (occasional System 7.5.3 Revision 2.1 235 method) 209 System 7.5.4 235 One disk 210 System 7.5.5 235 System-Switching Secrets 210 The Road to Copland — and The Great Invisible Files of System 7 212 System 7.6 236 System 7.6 (Harmony) 237 Code name: Tempo 238 xviii Macworld Mac SECRETS, 4th Edition

The System Formerly Known as Copland Chapter 8:The Disk Chapter 275 (Mac OS 8) 238 Disk Basics 276 Beyond the Mac OS 245 Sectors, tracks, and blocks 276 Performa System-Software Annex 246 What’s a volume? 278 The Mac Secrets Guide to AppleSpeak 246 Hard Disks 278 Two things you don’t want to think PART II: SECRETS OF THE about — but should 278 MACHINE 251 The device driver 279 Chapter 7: On, Off, and Everything in All about IDE 280 How to update your hard-disk Between 253 driver 280 Power On 253 Interleave 281 The ADB 253 The Secrets hard-drive maintenance The Startup Sequence 254 schedule 281 Powering-Up Secrets 255 Hard Drive Secrets 283 ROM: the hidden software 256 File fragmentation 285 Why the Mac needs a System file 256 Defragmenting Secrets 286 The startup continues 257 Partitions 287 The search for a good system 258 How to partition a hard drive 288 The first programs to run: enablers 258 The truth about partitioning and More startup software: extensions and speed 290 control panels 259 Partitioning for smaller block sizes 290 Extensions and control panels: how Your hard drive’s secret partitions 292 they load 259 Reformatting 292 Your personalized loading order 260 Floppy Disks 293 Drivers: sometimes invisible, always How they work 293 vital 260 The obligatory “floppies-are-fragile” Icon row 261 discussion? 294 Startup Keys 262 Floppy Disk Secrets 296 Startup Secrets 262 Other Kinds of Disks 302 Beyond the Startup Sequence 266 SyQuest/Zip/Jaz Secrets 305 Startup Items 267 Shutting Down 267 Chapter 9: The Memory Chapter 309 The cycle of last chances 268 Save,Save As,Revert 310 Shut Down Secrets 269 Save and Revert 310 The Restart (Reset) Switch 270 Save As 311 Where is it? 270 A visual tour of the Save box 312 What is it? 270 Save File and Open File Dialog Box Sleep Modes 271 Secrets 314 Contents xix

Stationery 316 How to turn on virtual memory 340 Stationery Secrets 317 Virtual Memory Secrets 341 RAM: the Chips 318 Where your memory goes 319 Chapter 10: Keyboards and Mice 343 What to do about the RAM About the ADB Chain 343 shortage 320 What to plug in 344 How to buy /DIMMs 320 About the ADB power 344 Types of SIMMs 321 The Keyboard 345 Installing memory 321 A Few Odd Keys and What They 32-Bit Addressing and All That 322 Mean 346 32-bit addressing 322 The Option key 347 Why it’s called 32-bit addressing 323 The Power key 348 Problems with 32-bit addressing 324 A word or two about Caps Lock 348 Mode32, the 32-Bit Enabler, and A guide to the strange keyboard dirty Macs 324 symbols 349 RAM: for Programs 325 Keyboard Secrets 351 The two out-of-memory messages 325 The Mouse, Trackball, and Trackpad 354 Three different memory sizes per Journey to the interior 355 program 326 Cleaning the mouse or trackball 355 The Finder’s memory partition 326 Mouse alternatives 356 See where your memory ’s going 328 Ergonomics Basics 357 RAM Doubler to the rescue 330 RAM Doubler Secrets 331 Chapter 11: Monitors 359 A calm discussion of memory Monitor Basics 359 fragmentation 332 How a CRT works 359 The Disk Cache 333 Flicker 360 Setting the Disk Cache 333 About VRAM 360 The correct Disk Cache size (before Deeper colors, bigger screen: more System 7.5) 334 VRAM needed 361 The correct Disk Cache size How much VRAM do I need? 362 (System 7.5) 335 Color Versus Black-and-White 363 Disk Cache Secrets 335 Switching modes 364 RAM Disks: High-Speed Imaginary Grayscale 364 Drives 336 A Word About DPI 364 What’s wrong with RAM disks 336 How big is your monitor — really? 365 Where a RAM disk comes from 337 Some standard monitors and their dots RAM Disk Secrets 338 per inch 366 Virtual Memory: Instant, Free RAM 338 Multisync (multiple-scan) How it works 339 monitors 367 xx Macworld Mac SECRETS, 4th Edition

Multiple Monitors 368 Macintosh LC II (Performa Arranging the monitors in space 369 400-430) 397 Specifying the startup monitor 370 Macintosh LC III (Performa 450, 460, Selecting the main monitor 371 466, 467) 398 Monitor Secrets 371 An LC III (Performa 450) Secret 398 Macintosh LC 475 (Performa 475 Chapter 12: From 128K to Quadra: and 476) 398 Model by Model 375 Macintosh LC 520 399 Coming to Terms 376 Macintosh LC 550 and 575 (Performa Compact Macs 379 550 – 578) 399 379 Macintosh LC 580 (Performa 379 580, 588) 400 380 LC 630 401 Mac Plus Secrets 382 LC 630 DOS Compatible Macintosh SE 382 (Performa 640) 401 A Mac SE Secret 383 Macintosh TV 401 Macintosh SE/30 383 The Centris/Quadra Line 402 SE/30 Secrets 384 605 (LC 475, 385 Performa 475 – 476) 402 A Mac Classic Secret 385 Macintosh Classic II (Centris 610) 403 (Performa 200) 386 Macintosh Quadra 610 DOS A Classic II Secret 386 Compatible 403 (Performa 250) (LC 630, and Color Classic II 387 Performa 630 – 638) 404 The Mac II Series 388 Macintosh Quadra 650 Macintosh II 388 (Centris 650) 405 A Mac II Secret 389 406 Macintosh IIx 389 A Quadra 700 Secret 406 Macintosh IIfx 390 407 A IIfx Secret 391 408 Macintosh IIcx 391 Quadra 900 Secrets 409 Macintosh IIci 392 409 IIci Secrets 393 Macintosh Quadra (Centris) Macintosh IIsi 393 660av, 840av 410 IIsi Secrets 394 Quadra AV Secrets 411 Macintosh IIvx (Performa 600), IIvi 395 Portable Macs 412 The LC Series 396 412 Macintosh LC 396 PowerBook 100 412 An LC Secret 397 PowerBook 100 Secrets 413 Contents xxi

PowerBook 140 414 Active-matrix screens 472 PowerBook 145 415 Dual-scan displays 472 PowerBook 145b 415 PowerBook Screen Secrets 473 PowerBook 150 415 Working from a Wall Outlet 474 A PowerBook 150 Secret 416 The problems with battery gauges 475 PowerBook 160 417 Power-outlet Secrets 476 PowerBook 165 417 Tales of the Trackpad 478 PowerBook 165c 417 Trackpad Secrets 478 PowerBook 170 418 Working from a Battery 479 PowerBook 180 419 Meet your battery 480 PowerBook 180c 419 Charging batteries 480 PowerBook 190, PowerBook 190cs 420 The memory effect 481 PowerBook Duo 210 and 230 421 Battery-swapping notes 481 PowerBook Duo 250 422 Conserving battery power 481 PowerBook Duo 270c 423 Battery Secrets 483 A Duo 270c (and 280c) Secret 424 The Five-Hour Charge (RAM-Disk) PowerBook Duo 280 and 280c 424 Trick 488 PowerBook 520, 520c, 540, Choosing the right size for the RAM and 540c 424 disk 488 The Only Upgrade Guide You’ll Ever Creating the RAM disk 490 Need 426 Loading up the RAM disk 490 Putting the RAM disk in charge 491 Chapter 13: The PowerPC Macs: Trashing your hard drive 491 Model by Model 429 PowerBook RAM-Disk Secrets 492 The PowerPC Chip 430 Sleep Mode 493 All about emulation 431 Sleep versus restart 494 Look and feel 432 How much time you have 494 What PowerPC really means 434 Sleep Secrets 495 Get your chips straight 434 Getting Info In and Out 496 Power Macs, Model by Model 436 Transferring files from a PowerBook to Portable Power Macs 453 another Mac 496 PowerPC-Mac Secrets 459 Keeping track of which files are Macintosh Clones 463 current 499 The Future: The PowerPC (CHRP) Making presentations 499 Platform 465 Using the fax/modem 502 A word or two about printing 503 Chapter 14: PowerBooks Exposed 469 PowerBook Printing Secrets 503 A Little History 469 Traveling with the PowerBook 504 The Screen 470 In the Airport 504 Passive-matrix screens 471 Security on the road 505 xxii Macworld Mac SECRETS, 4th Edition

Inflight silliness 505 Changing type and creator codes 538 Duo Notes 506 Type and Creator Code Secrets 538 Duo advantages 506 Which Copy Will Launch? 541 What you can attach when 508 Which copy on your system 542 Which version of the program 542 Chapter 15: A Puny Performa Multitasking Pro: OpenDoc 543 Chapter 511 What it’s good for 543 What’s a Performa? 511 Proofofconcept:Cyberdog 544 The three original Performa Mac to PC and Back 545 features 514 PC disks 545 Historical Performa principles 514 PC documents 546 516 PC programs and CD-ROMs 547 Performa Secrets 518 PC-to-Mac Secrets 549 Chapter 17: Word Processing 551 PART III: APPLICATION SECRETS 521 A Few Words about Word Processing 551 Chapter 16: Multitasking, Universal Word Processing Secrets 552 Multiplatforms 523 Microsoft Word 556 Customizing menus 556 How the Mac Multitasks 524 Adding keyboard shortcuts (Word 5 MultiFinder 524 and 6) 561 Multitasking in System 7 525 Customizing Word 6 Toolbars 562 Hazards of Multitasking 525 Styles and style sheets (Word 5 Memory management 525 and 6) 564 Not knowing which program is AutoCorrect, AutoText, and the open 526 Glossary 568 Multitasking Secrets 527 Templates and Settings files 570 Publish and Subscribe 530 Microsoft Word Secrets 572 Why hasn’t it caught on? 530 Word 5.1 (or earlier) Secrets 587 The basics of Publish and The Mac Secrets Word 6 Menu-Changer’s Subscribe 531 Workaround 589 Publish and Subscribe step-by-step 532 WordPerfect 590 Editing the subscriber 534 WordPerfect Secrets 591 Controlling when editions are Nisus, WriteNow, MacWrite Pro 593 updated 535 ClarisWorks 594 Subscriber options 535 ClarisWorks Word Processor Types, Creators, and Double-Clicking 536 Secrets 594 Creator codes 536 SimpleText: America’s ReadMe Type codes 537 Machine 597 How type and creator codes SimpleText Secrets 598 affect you 537 Contents xxiii

Chapter 18: Page Design 601 Adobe Photoshop (and Color It) 657 Photoshop Secrets 657 Page-Layout Principles 602 Drawing 664 Two font families, three at most 602 Drawing program advantages 664 Page grid 603 Selecting and grouping multiple In defense of the ragged-right objects 665 margin 603 Universal Drawing Program Break up the text 604 Secrets 665 Use rules 605 PostScript Drawing Programs 667 Reverse type 605 Paths and wireframes 667 Widows and orphans 605 Faster, more reliable printing 669 Indents 606 Universal PostScript Drawing How to start a paragraph 606 Secrets 670 Watch those line lengths 607 FreeHand Secrets 672 Keep your eyes open 607 Illustrator Secrets 673 PageMaker 608 File Formats 674 PageMaker Secrets 609 PICT files 674 QuarkXPress 615 TIFF files 675 Measurements palette 615 What’s JPEG? 676 Document palette 616 EPS files 677 QuarkXPress Secrets 617 GIF files 678 Page Design and the World Wide Web 623 SCRN (Startup screens) 679 Chapter 19: Number and Data 3-D Graphics 679 Crunching 625 QuickDraw 3D 679 Spreadsheet Basics 625 Chapter 21: The ResEdit Chapter 683 Excel Secrets (and Sometimes What Is ResEdit? 684 ClarisWorks) 627 How to Use ResEdit 685 Quicken 638 The Peril Factor 686 Quicken Secrets 638 A primer in customizing menus 687 FileMaker and ClarisWorks 640 Adding a keyboard equivalent in FileMaker/ClarisWorks Secrets 642 Finder 7 691 Chapter 20: Graphics and 3-D 653 Customizing dialog boxes 692 Editing individual dialog-box Types of Graphics Programs 653 elements 694 Painting 654 ResEdit Secrets 694 Painting pointers 654 Top Ten ResEdit Pranks 721 Editing high-resolution bitmaps 655 General Painting Secrets 656 xxiv Macworld Mac SECRETS, 4th Edition

Chapter 22: Public Utilities 723 Microphone Secrets 759 What to do with sounds 762 Hard Disk Repair and Recovery Sound Secrets 764 Software 724 Music with MIDI 767 Disk Utility Secrets 725 Sequencing 767 Virus Protection 726 What you need 767 Where viruses live 726 MIDI Secrets 769 Software protection 727 QuickTime Movies 770 QuicKeys, KeyQuencer, and Tempo II 728 How to record your own movies 771 Macro Software Secrets 729 QucikTime Digitizing Secrets 774 Intro to QuicKeys 731 How to play back and edit movies 776 QuicKeys Secrets 735 What good is it? 777 Tempo II 736 QuickTime Secrets 777 Tempo II Secrets 737 QuickTime VR 783 KeyQuencer: The Other White QuickTime VR Secrets 784 Meat 737 Mac Meets TV 785 AppleScript 738 Bringing TV to your Mac 785 Scripting and recording 738 Bringing your Mac to TV 786 Apple Events 739 Speech I: The Mac Talks 790 What to do with AppleScript 739 Speech II: The Mac Listens 791 What it’s good for now 740 The importance of Speech 791 Screen Savers and Screen Grabbers 740 What you can say to the Mac 793 Screen savers 741 Speech Secrets 794 Screen grabbers 741 Screen Saver/Screen Grabber Secrets 742 PART IV: ATTACHMENTS 797 Compression Software 744 Chapter 24: Inside Fonts 799 Kinds of compression programs 745 The Evolution of Mac Fonts 800 Segmenting files 747 Font format #1: bitmapped fonts 800 Now Utilities 748 Font format #2: PostScript fonts 801 Now Utilities Secrets 748 ATM 803 CanOpener: The Great Retriever 750 ATM Secrets 804 Extension Managers 750 Font format #3: TrueType 804 Extension Manager Secrets 752 Font format #4: GX fonts 806 A Few Utilities You Already Own 754 Working with multiple font Chapter 23: Speech, Movies, and formats 809 Which font version is that? 811 Sound 757 Hinting 813 A Mac Digitized-Sound Primer 757 Where Do They All Belong? 813 How to record sounds 758 Where to put fonts in System 6 814 Contents xxv

Where to put fonts in System 7.0 Chapter 25: Macintosh Printing and 7.0.1 814 Secrets 843 Where to put fonts in System 7.1 and later 815 How Printing Works 843 System 7 Font Secrets 816 Dot-matrix printers 844 Why Text Prints with Jaggies 817 Inkjet printers 844 Style Variations 818 Laser printers 844 Style variations for bitmapped Tales of dpi 845 fonts 818 General Printing Secrets 847 Style variations for PostScript fonts 819 QuickDraw Printing 849 How to apply bold and italic 821 QuickDraw versus PostScript 850 Other styles and Multiple Masters 822 The ImageWriter series 851 Other derived styles 822 The StyleWriter series 851 The Non-Typographer’s Guide StyleWriter Secrets 851 to Type 824 The Truth about PostScript 854 Proportional fonts 824 PostScript fundamentals 855 Spaces between sentences 826 PostScript fonts 856 Don’t use underline style 826 PostScript printing 856 Use tabs, not spaces 827 The PostScript Printer Driver 857 Em dashes 827 LaserWriter 8: Postscript Level 2 857 En dashes 828 PostScript (LaserWriter 8) Printing Special spaces 828 Secrets 865 Leading 828 Desktop Printing 2.0 870 Tracking 829 Desktop Printing 2.0 Secrets 871 Kerning 830 PostScript Level 3 873 Ligatures 830 QuickDraw GX 874 Hyphenation 831 Features you get instantly 874 Fractions 832 GX features you have to wait for 876 Ellipses 833 Why GX is mostly irrelevant 877 Curly quotes 833 A QuickDraw GX Secret 878 When to use dumb quotes 834 PostScript Printer Guidebook 878 The Option-key character set 835 Background printing 878 Option Key Secrets 835 The messages you see during Where to Get Fonts 836 printing 879 Font Futures 836 What a difference RAM makes 880 Common Font Problems 839 Apple Printer Utility (LaserWriter Font-menu problems 839 Utility) 880 Option-key character glitches 840 PrintMonitor 883 The classic damaged suitcase Notes on Color Printing 884 problem 841 Color printers 884 xxvi Macworld Mac SECRETS, 4th Edition

Color separations 885 The modem initialization string 919 Secrets of the Service Bureau 885 Dial Up Another Mac by Modem 920 Service bureau checklist 886 Transferring files 921 PostScript files: the pros and the File-transfer protocols 922 cons 887 Telecom Secrets 924 Service Bureau Secrets 887 Mac as Fax 927 Printing Troubleshooting 888 How to fax 927 When the printout doesn’t match the Fax Modem Secrets 928 screen 889 GeoPort 929 Font and graphics problems 890 GeoPort 2.0 and MegaPhone 930 General printer errors 891 Telecom 3.0 — GeoPort reborn 930 Complex printing errors 892 Poor printout quality 893 Chapter 28: The Web, the Net, and Everything Online 933 Chapter 26: Scanning Secrets 895 Getting Online 933 How it Works 896 Internet Service Providers 934 Hooking Up Your Scanner 896 The Internet via AOL 935 Color Scanning 896 The Secrets guide to online Which Scanner to Buy 897 etiquette 935 Other kinds of scanners 897 The Internet’s Secret Codes: BinHex, Choosing a Resolution 898 UUencode and Base64 937 Scanning Secrets 900 The Internet 940 All About OCR 903 What’s on it 940 How OCR software works 904 Getting around: Internet addresses Faxes and OCR 904 and URLs 942 The end of spell-checking? 904 Where to go on the Internet 945 OCR Secrets 905 The World Wide Web 951 Chapter 27: Mysteries of the A World Wide Web warning 953 Web browsers 953 Modem 907 Netscape and Web Secrets 955 Hardware 908 Where to go on the Web 960 Modem speeds 908 HTML: The language of the Web 963 Standards and protocols 909 HTML Secrets 965 Beyond the modem 912 America Online 3 966 Beyond ISDN 913 AOL Secrets 967 Handshaking: two modems get Drag-and-Drop the Internet with acquainted 913 Cyberdog 973 The Software 914 The Cyberdog concept 974 Modem settings demystified 914 Cyberdog Secrets 977 Hayes AT command set 916 Contents xxvii

Chapter 29: CD-ROM, DVD, and Other Chapter 31: NuBus, PCI, and Other Such Words 979 Slots 1003 CD-ROM Basics 979 NuBus Cards 1003 The speed issue 979 The big idea 1004 The great ”4x, 6x, 8x” myth 980 NuBus ’90 1004 How a CD works 980 PDS Cards 1005 What to Do with 600MB 981 The PCI Revolution 1005 Shovelware 981 Why PCI? 1005 Commercial software on CD 982 PCI futures 1006 Interactive CDs 982 How to Install a Card 1006 The DVD (born 1997) 983 Losing charge 1007 Getting Your CD-ROM Up and The board meeting 1007 Running 983 NuBus and PCI Secrets 1008 Photo CD 984 After you have a Photo CD 984 Chapter 32: The Networking Make Your Own CDs 984 Chapter 1011 CD-ROM Secrets 985 Networking Basics 1011 Chapter 30: The SCSI Chain — Shared devices and servers 1011 AppleTalk messages and LANs 1012 and IDE 989 LocalTalk versus PhoneNet 1012 The Importance of Drivers 990 Ethernet 1014 The Three Basic Rules 990 Token Ring 1016 Rule #1: Termination 990 Connecting One Mac, One Printer 1016 Rule #2: SCSI addresses 992 Connecting Two Macs (+ Printer) 1017 Rule #3: Cabling 993 Two Macs, no printer 1017 The Great SCSI power-off myth 994 And printer makes three 1018 SCSI Troubleshooting 995 Beyond the mini-network 1018 Spotting the symptoms 995 Network Services 1019 Solving the problems 996 File servers 1019 SCSI-2: Fast, Wide, and Pricey 998 Print servers 1019 IDE: Cheaper, Sooner, and Less E-mail 1019 Flexible 999 Net modems 1020 The Future of SCSI 1000 Fax servers 1021 More SCSI 1000 Program linking 1021 FireWire 1000 File Sharing 1: Setting Up the Control Panels 1022 First stop: The AppleTalk (or Network) control panel 1022 xxviii Macworld Mac SECRETS, 4th Edition

Second stop: Sharing Setup control Step 2: A clean reinstall of the panel 1024 System 1049 Third stop: Users & Groups control Step 3: Unplug the SCSI chain 1052 panel 1024 Other things to try 1053 File Sharing 2: Sharing Specific Avoiding Troubles in the First Place 1057 Folders 1028 The Mac Secrets Error-Message The Sharing command 1029 Table 1059 The Sharing window 1029 DS Errors 1059 Different degrees of access 1030 Negative Error Codes 1062 Open for business 1031 Details on the most common error Sharing Command Secrets 1031 messages 1063 File Sharing 3: Logging on to Other Oddities on the Screen 1067 Macs 1033 Generic icons 1067 File-sharing Secrets 1035 Shimmering monitor 1068 Easier networking for one 1036 Flashing menu 1068 Setting up the PowerBook 1036 Black menu 1068 Setting up the desktop Mac 1037 Finder changes don’t stick 1068 File synchronization 1037 No Mac icon on the System When No One’s Home: Remote Folder 1069 Access 1038 Startup Troubles 1069 Remote Access Secrets 1038 The Sad Mac icon 1069 Expanding the Net 1039 The blinking question-mark icon at General Networking Secrets 1040 startup 1070 PowerTalk 1040 Crashing on startup 1071 Open Transport Arrives 1041 Twilight Zone theme, car crash, or four Network Troubleshooting 1043 notes 1071 AppleTalk troubles 1043 Disk Troubles 1071 Open Transport Troubles 1044 Hard disk troubleshooting 1072 Other common problems and All floppy disks show up locked 1072 solutions 1045 File, Desktop, and Icon Troubles 1073 For more information 1046 Strange crashes with 32-bit Enabler 1073 Chapter 33: Troubleshooting 1047 Can’t empty the Trash 1073 Principles of Troubleshooting 1047 Keyboard Ailments 1073 A word about troubleshooting 1048 Dead key 1074 More troubleshooting 1048 Crazy slow typing 1074 The Secrets Rule of Three 1049 When All Else Fails 1074 Step 1: Start up with the Shift key 1049 The Top 10 Software Suspects 1075 Contents xxix

PART V: THE SECRETS SOFTWARE VAULT 1077 Chapter 34: The SECRETS Software 1079 What You’ve Got Here 1079 Disclaimer 1080 How the CD-ROM Is Organized 1081 The Secrets Software Described 1082 The Final Dialogue 1139 Glossary 1141 Index 1159 Credits 1195 About The Author 1196 License Agreements 1197 Installing the SECRETS Software 1201