Introduction
How This Book Works
Some Experience Required.
About-"These-"Arrows
Gaffes and Goofs
Some Groundwork
Chapter 1: Designing Your World.
Startup and Shutdown
1-1Keyboard Login
1 -2Automatic Login
1-3The Listless Login Screen
14The Silence of the Startup Items
1 -5The Login Screen "Billboard"
1 -6Quick Restart, Shut Down, and Log Out
1 -7Restart, Shut Down, or Sleep Keystrokes
1 -8Restart/Sleep/Shut Down Dialog Box
Display and Sound
1 -9 Opening Sound and Displays Panels 1-10 Changing the Alert Volume 1-11 The Volume-Changing Click 1-12 Resolutions You Never Knew You Had
Window Tricks
1-13Maximizing Windows
1 -14Insta-Closmg Multiple Windows
1-15Moving Background Windows
1 -16Bringing Program Windows Forward
1-17Three Scroll Bar Stunts
1 -18Double Arrows on Both Ends
Menulets
1-19 Menulet Basics
1-20 The Secret E|ect Icon
1 -21 Changing the Time and Date Menulet
Setting Up
1-22 Saving Memory 1-23 Printer Sharing 1-24 System Maintenance 1-25 Apple Help
Chapter 2:
The Finder and Desktop,
Finder Basics
2-1The Status Bar
2-2The Status Bar in Narrow Windows
2-3Insta-Sort
2-4Search Results
2-5Erasing Disks
2-6Window Size and Location
2-7List View
2-8Column View
2-9Resizing the Columns
2-10Viewing Full File Names
2-11More Icons in a Column
2-12A Second Line of File Info
2-13Window Backgrounds
2-14Making Column View Speedier
2-15Previewing Multimedia Files
2-16Get Info vs the Inspector
2-17Temporarily Overriding "Snap to grid"
2-18Custom Icons
2-19Nixing Zoom Effects
2-20A Quit Menu in the Finder
2-21Showing Hidden Files
2-22Printing Finder Windows I
2-23Printing Finder Windows II
2-24Printing Finder Windows III
2-25Undo
2-26Open Files from the Trash
Navigating the Finder
2-27Keyboard Shortcuts
2-28The Multibutton Mouse
2-29Secrets of the Scrolling Mouse
2-30Scrolling Diagonally
2-31Canceling a Drag-and-Drop
2-32Opening the Home Folder
2-33Jumping Directly to Folders
Aliases
2-34Aliases by Dragging
2-35Finding the Original
2-36An Alias of Your Home Folder
The Finder Toolbar
2-37Removing or Shrinking the Toolbar
2-38Customizing the Toolbar
2-39 Folders on the Toolbar 2-40 Heavily Used Toolbar Icons 2-41 The Permanence of Server Icons
Working with Files and Folders
2-42Copying by Dragging
2-43Copying by Pasting
2-44Copying System Folders
2-45Spring-Loaded Folders
2-46Return of the Pop-up Windows
2-47A System-wide,
Spring-Loaded Toolbar Icon
2-48Renaming Files Without Delay
249Weird Sorts
2-50Editing Multiple File Names
2-51Folder Action Scnpts
2-52Renaming System Folders
2-53The Return of Labels
2-54Unused Languages Your Free Megabytes
Desktop Interior Design
2-55 Changing the Screen Behind the
Login Window
2-56 Screen Saver as a Desktop Background 2-57 Extra-Large Desktop Icons 2-58 Screen Saver as the Finder Background
Chapter 3:
The Dock
The Dock Makeover
3-1Adding Icons
3-2Removing Icons
3-3Resizing the Dock
3-4Hiding the Dock
3-5Moving the Dock to the Side
3-6The Top-Mounted Dock
3-7Changing the Minimize Animation
3-8Pinning the Dock to a Comer
3-9Differentiating Hidden Programs
3-10Adding Quit to the Dock\'s Finder Icon
3-11Hide Commands on the Dock
Working with the Dock
3-12 Keyboard Combos
3-13 Switching Applications while
Dragging Icons
3-14 Single-Window Minimization 3-15 Minimizing All Windows 3-16 The System-Navigation Folder 3-17 Activating the Screen Saver 3-18 Recovering from a MicroDock 3-19 An AppleScript to Restart the Dock
Random Acts of Coolness
3-20 The Colored Poof
3-21 The Customized Trash Can
3-22 Supersizing Magnified Dock Icons 3 23 Minimizing and Maximizing in
Slow Motion 3-24 Killing the Dock
Chapter 4: Programs..
Managing Programs
4-1 Hide Others I
4 2 Hide Others II
4-3 Leave Your Programs Open
4-4 Switching Programs
4-5 Bouncing between Two Programs
General Productivity
4-6Open and Save Dialog Boxes
4-7Shortcuts m Open and Save Dialog Boxes
4-8Keystrokes for Save Sheets
4-9Is That Document Saved\'\'
4-10Creating PDF Files
4-11Creating a Software Library
4-12Dragging and Dropping Text
4-13The Script Menu
4-14Capturing Screenshots
4-15Reassigning Documents to New Parents
4-16Text-Box Selection Tricks
Printing, Fonts, and Text
4-17 Custom Print Settings
4-18 Previewing Fonts
4-19 Install Windows Fonts Without
Conversion
4-20 Unicode Characters 4-21 The Character Palette 4-22 New Spelling Words 4-23 Changing the Spell Check Language
Classic
4-24 Printing on Unsupported
Mac OS X Printers 4-25 Opening Mac OS 9\'s a Menu and
Control Panels
4-26 Web Sites That Work Better in Classic 4-27 Sharing Settings between Classic and
Mac OS X Programs 4-28 Speeding the Opening of Classic 4 29 Speeding Your System with Two
Mac OS 9 Folders 4-30 Running Classic from a Disk Image
Troubleshooting
4-31 Memory Leaks 4-32 Trashing Preferences 4-33 A Separate Accou nt for
Troubleshooting 4-34 The System Build and Serial Numbers
Chapter 5:
System Preferences
System Preferences
5-1 Alphabetizing Preference Panels
5-2 System Preferences from the Dock I
5-3 System Preferences from the Dock II
5-4 Customizing the Toolbar
5-5 Resizing Toolbar Icons
5-6 Adding Separators and Spaces to the
Toolbar
5-7 Eliminating the Toolbar 5-8 Removing Preference Panels 5-9 Renaming Long Preference
Pane Names 5-10 Renaming the System Preference
Categories
Accounts
5-11 Limiting Account Privileges
Date & Time
5-12 Setting the Time 5-13 Exiting Military Time 5-14 The Menu bar Calendar
Desktop
5-15 The Desktop Picture
5-16 Adding New Picture Folders
Keyboard
5-17 Keyboard Navigation of Your Mac 5-18 KeyboardPower in Windows and Dialog Boxes
Screen Effects
5-19 The Instant iPhoto Screen Saver 5-20 Your Own Screen Saver Folders 5-21 From Screen Saver to Desktop Picture
Software Update
5-22 Stifling Irrelevant Software Updates 5-23 Storing Apple Software Updates 5-24 Checking for Software Updates
Speech
5-25 Minimizing the Speech
Feedback Window 5-26 Prefix-free Spoken Alerts
Universal Access
5-27 Zooming in on the Screen
5-28 Tappy type Sounds
5-29 Modifier-Key Ghost Reminders
Chapter 6:
Networking
Making Connections
6-1 Deleting Orphaned Servers 6-2 Adding New Neighborhoods 6-3 Location Files fov Quick Remote Connections
The iDisk
6-4 Quick Finder iDisk Access
6-5 Quicker iDisk Access
6-6 Connecting to the iDisk from Windows
6-7 Connecting to the iDisk from Terminal
Remote Connections
6-8 Long-Distance File Sharing 6-9 Secure Shell for Remote Connections 6-10 Password-Free Secure Remote Connections
File Sharing
6-11 Monitoring File-Sharing Activity 6-12 Sharing Folders with Other Mac Users 6-13 Unshanng Your Public Folder
614 Finding Your Ethernet Address
Chapter 7:
Mail.
The Mail Window
7-1Moving the Mailbox Drawer
7-2Customizing the Columns
7-3The Drawer\'s Contextual Menu
7-4Mousing to the Activity Viewer
7-5Intelligent Searches
7-6Apple\'s Mail Development Team
7-7Rewriting Mail, the Program
Reading Mail
7-8Leaving Messages Marked as U nread
7-9A Little Privacy, Please I
7-10A Little Privacy, Please II
7-11Messages in Other Formats
7-12Pop-Open Folders
7-13Mail from Multiple Mailboxes
7-14Preserving Your Junk Mail Brains
7-15"You\'ve Got Mail, 0 Wise One"
Sending Mail
7-16 Quoting Portions of Emails in Replies 7-17 Toggling Between Reply and
Reply to All
7-18 Resendmg a Message 7-19 Blind Carbon Copy and
Reply To Fields
720 Sending Messages Later
7-21 Sending a File from the Finder 7 22 Copying Entire Folders
roubleshooting
7 23 Preventing Mac com Mailbox Overflow
7-24 Incomplete Message Error
7-25 Diagnosing Opening-Sequence Crashes
Chapter 8:
iTunes
8-1Mini Modes
8-2Quicker Resizing
8-3The Column Contextual Menu
8-4Changing the Displayed Play Time
8-5Renaming the Library
8-6Splitting a Song
Navigating iTunes
8-7 Controlling iTunes Through the Dock
8-8 Marking or Unmarking All Songs
8-9 Keyboard Navigation
8-10 Hover Focus
8-11 Cranking It Up (or Down)
8-12 Controlling Dialog Boxes with a
Keystroke
8-13 Clearing Searches 8-14 Keyboard Control 8-15 Extended Help Labels 8- !6 One Library for Mac OS X and
Mac OS 9 8-17 One Library for Multiple
Family Members 8-18 Computer, Play This Song1
The Visualizer
8-19 Add Your Own Visuahzers
8-20 Keyboard Controls for the Visualizer
8-21 Capture a Visual
Songs and Playlists
8-22The Song List Contextual Menu
8-23Playing a Song Without Adding It to
the Library
8-24Seeing into the Future
8-25Reshuffling a Playlist
8-26Skipping Albums During Random Play
8-27Radio Stations
8-28Moving Songs to the Top of a Playlist
8-29Burning MP3 CDs
8-30The Browser
8-31Creating a Playlist from the Browser
8-32Printing a Playlist
Smart Playlists
8-33 Playlists That Play All Songs Once 8-34 Modifying Random Playlists
Chapter 9:
iPhoto2
The Basics
9-1 Speeding Up iPhoto
9-2Rotating Clockwise
9-3Zooming In
9-4Sideways Zooming
9-5Long Comments
9-6Commenting Rolls, Albums, or
the Library
9-7Editing Windows I
9-8Editing Windows II
9-9Before and After Pictures
9-10Crop Photos with the Keyboard
9-11Backing Up the Preferences File
Libraries
9-12 The Library Location
9-13 Multiple Libraries
9-14 Libraries on Removable Hard Drives
Film Rolls
9-15 Faster Scrolling Through Creative
Collapsing 9 16 Changing a Film Roll\'s Title, Date,
and Comments 9-17 Selecting a Whole Film Roll
Albums
9-18 Drag Photos to Create a
New Album 9-19 Selecting Multiple Photo
Albums at Once 9-20 Merged Albums
Books
9-21 Exporting Book Pages as Image Files 9-22 Many Book Pages, One Layout Style 9-23 Edit the Album as You Go 9-24 Intro Pages Anywhere 9-25 Printing Books as PDF Files 9-26 Switching Between Organize and Book Modes
Working with Other Programs
9-27 The Email Program
9-28 Shorter URLs for Exported Slide Shows
Chapter 10:
The Other iApps
iCal
10 1 Multiline Entries
10-2 Moving Events from One Calendar to
Another
10-3 Simulating a "Go to Date" Function 10-4 Useful Calendars from Apple 10-5 Merging Calendars 10-6 Opening Public Calendars from any
Browser
10 7 Replacing iCal\'s Dock Icon 10-8 Setting Identical Window Sizes
iChat
10-9Creating Your Own Image Icon
10-10Spell Checking
10-11Chat Rooms for Croup Discussions
10-12Changing the Chat Background
10-13Opening Transferred Images
10-14Transferring Large Files
iMovie
10-15 FreeAdd-Ons 10-16 Importing MP3 Files into iMovie 10-17 Stopping Ken Burns I 10-18 Stopping Ken Burns II 10-19 Synchronizing Still Images 10-20 Hiding iMovie while It Renders 10-21 iMovie 2 Sound Effects in iMovie 3 10-22 Removing Extraneous iMovie 3 Help Files
iDVD
10-23 Making iDVD Fonts Available in
Other Programs 10-24 Using Apple\'s Theme Movies in
Custom Themes
10-25 Burning Projects to DVD-RW Discs 10-26 Hiding iDVD while Burning a Disc
Chapter 11:
Other Apple Goodies:
Address Book
11-1 Quick Entries from Mail 11-2 Sharing Palm Contacts with
Address Book 11 -3 Viewing Group Members while
Creating a Group 11-4 Maps and Other Nifty Tricks 11-5 Phonetic Name Fields
Apple System Profiler
11 -6 Quick Access to Apple System Profiler 11-7 Viewing System Logs
Calculator
11-8 The Talking Calculator
11 -9 Large-Type Calculations
11-10 Unit Conversion, Currency Conversion
11-11 The Tale of the Tape
Disk Copy
11-12 Dragging Your Way to Disk Images 11-13 Erasing Rewritable Disks 11-14 Speed-Mounting Disk Images 11-15 CD-Free Laptop Gaming 11-16 Password-Protect a Folder 11-17 Burning a Multisession CD
Keynote
11-18 Borrowing Images from Apple\'s Themes
Preview
11-19 Browsing Multiple Images at Once 11-20 Navigating PDF Documents 11 -21 The Image Format Factory 11 22 Clipboard Graphics 11-23 Extracting One Page from a Multipage PDF Document
Print Center
11-24 Dragging Print Jobs Between Printers
Stickies
11-25 Sticky Notes Within Other Programs
11-26 Calling All Stickles"
11-27 The Floating Sticky
11-28 Collapsing Notes to Conserve
Screen Space
11 -29 Back Up Your Stickies Database 11-30 QuickTime Movies in Stickies
TextEdit
11 -31 Editing HTML Documents 11 -32 The Secret Zoom Command 11-33 Navigation Shortcuts 11-34 The Quickest Kind of Search
Chapter 12:
Web Browsers
Hints for all Browsers
12-1Dragging and Dropping URLs
12-2Dock-Launched Web Pages
12-3Address Bar as Launcher
124Open Multiple Web Sites at Once
12-5PDF Files in Your Browser
12-6Keyboard Control of Links
12-7Favorites on Your Personal Toolbar
12 8Google Searching in Your Browser
Internet Explorer Hints
12-9 Refresh Options
12-10 A Good Scrolling Trick
12-11 A Warning about Web-Page Printouts
12-12 Tricks for Opening New Windows
12 13 Starting Downloads
12-14 Downloading Files with Long Names
12-15 Icons on the Button Bar
12-16 PNG Files in New Windows
12-17 Page Holder I
12-18 Page Holder II Google
Safari Hints
12-19 The Master Keyboard Shortcut List 12-20 Default Window Size and Position
12-21 Quick Address Selection I 12-22 Quick Address Selection II 12-23 Browsing Recent History 12-24 Navigating a Site via the Title Bar 12-25 Google Search Features I 12-26 Google Search Features II 12-27 Bookmark Folders 12-28 A Keyboard Shortcut for the
Bookmarks Bar
12-29 Searching History and Bookmark Folders 12-30 Bookmarkmg Folders for Fast Access 12-31 Status Bar for Full Link Information 12-32 Deleting Entries from Safari\'s History 12-33 Clearing Favicon ico Files 12-34 Emailmg URLs from Safari I 12-35 Emailmg URLs from Safari II 12-36 Minimum Font Size 12-37 Jump Between Tabs With The Keyboard 12-38 The Debugging Menu 12-39 Open All Bookmarks Within A Folder 12-40 An End to Brushed Metal
OmniWeb Hints
12-41 Web Pages as PDF Files
12-42 Opening a New Window Containing
the Current Page
12-43 Scrolling One Page at a Time 12-44 Shortcuts
12-45 Death to the Pop-Up Ads 12-46 Death to On-Page Advertisements 1247 Just Saying No to Cascading Window 12-48 Learning HTML Techniques
Mozilla, Netscape, and Camino
Hints for Gecko-Based Browsers
12-49 Tabbed Browsing
12-50 Tab Groups
12-51 Internet Shortcuts
12-52 Killing Pop-Ups and Pop-Unders
12-53 Tabbing Around a Page
Mozilla and Netscape Hints
12-54 Jumping to Your Home Page
12-55 Filling Out Forms
12-56 Browser Interior Decoration
12-57 Mouse Magic
12-58 Using an External Mail Program
Mozilla Hints
12-59 Killing On-Page Ads
12-60 Installing a True Aqua Theme
12-61 MultiZilla
12-62 MultiZilla and Google
A Camino-Only Hint
12-63 Copying Tabs
Chapter 13:
Other Applications
BBEdit
13-1Editing System Files
13-2Browsing Mac OS X Package Files
13-3Listing Files I
13-4Listing Files II
13 5Keyboard Scrolling
13-6Scroll Bar Acceleration
DragThing
13-7 Nix the Fades 13-8 Nix the Zoom Rectangle 13-9 Keeping the Dock Translucent 13-10 Active-Program Hack 13-11 Font Sizes for Dock Labels 13-12 The DragThing Easter Egg
Microsoft Office X
13-13 Long File Names
13-14 The Treachery of Damaged Fonts
13-15 Zooming Word Documents
13 16 Listing Word\'s Keyboard Shortcuts
13-17 Speeding Up Scrolling
13-18 The Live Word Count Problem
13-19 PowerPoint 40 Files m PowerPoint X
13-20 Importing Entourage 2001
Data into Entourage X 13-21 Entourage Notes to Stickles 13-22 Easy Email Attachments
Photoshop/Photoshop Elements
13-23 Zooming with a Scroll-Wheel Mouse 13-24 Speeding Up Batch Conversions
Snapz Pro X
13-25 Saving Screenshots to any Location 13-26 DVD Screenshots 13-27 Going Pro 13-28 Smoother "Follow Cursor" Movie Captures
Chapter 14:
ftdd-Ons Worth Adding
Make Mac OS X Feel Like Mac OS 9
14-1 The Mac OS 9 a Menu
14-2 Folder Labels
14-3 Sound Sets
14-4 Window Shades
14-5 The Application Menu
14-6 The Print-Window Command
14-7 "Share Any Folder" File Sharing
14-8 Putting that Old Scanner Back to Work
14-9 Professional Charts
14-10 Mighty Morphmg
Program Launchers and Switchers
14-11 Replacing the Dock\'s
Program Launcher 14-12 Keyboard Launchers 14-13 Storing Stuff in Drawers 14-14 LiteSwitchX The Power of Switching 14-15 Keyboard Maestro
Expanding Your Mac OS X Experience...
14-16 Hidden System Preferences 14-17 Searching Google from the Menu Bar 14-18 The Silence of the Dock 14-19 Improving Open and Save
Dialog Boxes
14-20 Power to the File Renaming Process 14-21 Customized Pop-Up Menus 14-22 Program Priorities 14-23 Replacing the Finder 14-24 More Than One Clipboard
Other Programs
14-25 Creating a Bootable Backup 14-26 DVD Screen Grabs on ATI-Video
Card Macs 14-27 Installing Individual Programs from
the Mac OS X Discs
14-28 Installing a Full-Featured FTP Server 14-29 Mouse Gestures
Explore the Possibilities
Chapter 15: Useful Unix Hints.
Unix Basics
Terminal Shortcuts
15-1 Specify a Path by Dragging
15-2 When to Use the Mouse
15-3 Tab Completion
15-4 The History
15-5 Wildcards
15-6 Directory Switching
15-7 Special Keys
15-8 Turning off Autocorrection
15-9 File Names That Contain Spaces
15-10 Going Back Home
15-11 Change Directories in a Snap
15-12 Mouse-free Copying
15-13 Mouse-free Pasting
Window Administration
15-14 Changing Window and Font Colors 15-15 Insta-Double-Clickable
Terminal Commands 15-16 Opening Saved Terminal Windows in
the Dock
15-17 Dragging Text Between
Terminal Windows 15-18 A Library of Terminal Windows
Manipulating Commands
15-19 The Master List of Commands
and Programs 15-20 Scrolling Through Command
Completions
15-21 Saving Keystrokes with the History File 15-22 Finding Old Commands via History 15-23 Running the Previous Command
as the Superuser
15-24 Fixing Errors in the Previous Command 15-25 Merging History Files 15-26 New Commands Using Aliases
Administering the Mac:
15-27 Your Mac\'s True Unix Heritage
15-28 Log Files in Real Time
15-29 Pausing CPU-Hungry Background
Programs
15-30 Maintenance Scripts on Demand 15-31 Complete Backups 15-32 Identifying Generic Files 15-33 What Version of Mac OS X> 15-34 Managing Type and Creator Codes
Finder-Terminal: A Joint Venture
15-35 Opening the Current Directory in
the Finder 15-36 Opening URLs from the
Command Line
15-37 Opening Onscreen URLs in Terminal 15-38 Opening Files from the Command Line 15-39 locate I 15-40 locate II
15-41 grep Finding a Text String 15-42 Checking for Resource Forks 15-43 Screenshots from Terminal 15-44 Downloading Files from Terminal 15-45 Software Update in Terminal 15-46 Which Files Did Software
Update Modify? 15-47 System Preferences 15-48 A Quickie Batch File Renamer
Cool Commands
15-49 Checking Dates
15-50 The Command Line Calculator
15-51 How Long Has Your Machine
Been Running7
15-52 A Simple Benchmark Test 15-53 top and Other System Speed Indicators
Troubleshooting via Terminal
15-54 Helpi I Can\'t Empty My Trashi
15-55 Finder or Dock Problems 15-56 Help\' AM Characters in Text Files
Terminal Help
15-57 The Built-in Unix Manual 15-58 The less Pager 15-59 Printing Unix Manual Pages I 15-60 Printing Unix Manual Pages II 15-61 Help for Programs Without Man Pages 15-62 The Developer Tools 15-63 whatis I 15-64 whatis II
15-65 Compressing man Pages to Save Drive Space
Fun Stuff
15-66 Customizing Terminal\'s
Welcome Message
15-67 Removing Terminal\'s Welcome Message 15-68 Terminal as a Reference Resource 15-69 Converting from Meters to Feet 15-70 A Really Big Banner 15-71 Renaming the Trash Can 15-72 The Secret emacs Adventure Game
Chapter 16:
Intermediate Unix Hints
Terminal for Productivity
16-1 The Unix Task Scheduler
16-2 Comparing Two Text Files
16-3 Setting Permissions on Multiple Files
File-Sharing Hints
16-4 File Sharing from the Command Line 16-5 Sharing Additional Folders with
Windows 16-6 Protecting Your Windows\'
Shared Folders
Remote Access Hints
16-7 Wake a Sleeping Mac Remotely 16-8 Restarting Services
FTP Hints
16-9 Automating FTP Server Logins 16-10 Automated FTP Transfers
Shell Hints
16-11 Nixing Case Sensitivity in
Autocompletion 16-12 Finding Files in the Current
Directory Tree 16-13 Counting the Files in the
Current Directory 16-14 Authorizing Alternate Shells to
Use FTP Services 16-15 Shell Scripts in the Finder
16-16 Trace Program Execution in Real Time 16-17 Multiple Machine-Independent
Terminal Sessions 16-18 A Graphic Interface for Unix 16-19 A Command Line Dictionary
Using curl
16-20 Customizing Your Shell Prompt 16-21 Removing Spaces from File Names 16-22 Terminal Window Titles 16-23 Terminal Shell Games I 16-24 Terminal Shell Games II 16-25 Fast Switching to Favorite Directories 16-26 Automatic Aliases 16-27 Enhanced Unix File Utilities 16-28 A bin Directory for Personal Scripts
Apache and Web Hints
16-29 The Apache Web Server Manual 16-30 Port Scans from Terminal 16-31 Installing a Command Line
Web Browser 16-32 For Web Designers Only
An Advanced Development Trick 16-33 Jazzing Up Your Site Server Side
Includes 16-34 Parsing Regular HTML Pages for
CGI Scripts 16-35 Running Apache and SSH Servers
on Alternate Ports 16-36 A Windows-Sharing Management Tool
SWAT
16-37 Apache\'s Server Statistics 16-38 PHP Scripting on the Apache
Web Server
16-39 The MySQL Database Server Package 16-40 A phpBB Forum on Your Web Site