More Macs for dummies / David Pogue.
Publication details: Foster City : IDG Books, c1996.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxii, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 1568848501
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CONTENTS
Introduction
A warning about this book
A description of this book
Part I : Productive and proud of it.
Chapter 1: Tactical tricks for window wonks
Six pointers for a happier life
Pointer 1 : Leave your hard-drive window open
Pointer 1.5 : Organize your main window
pointer 2 : Taking great panes
Pointer 3: Set up your window positions
Pointer 4 : The launcher
Chapter 2: Save and open box boot camp
Saving time with ''Save As''
The open box
Top ten impressive keyboard shortcuts for the save and open boxes
Chapter 3: What to remember about memory
How much you have of it
Where it goes
What you can do with it
How to get more of it
How to extend it
Using memory as a disk (a RAM Disk)
Chapter 4 : Hi - Tech stunts for showoffs
Control panel stunts
Desk accessory daredevilry
Three really Hilarious cruel jokes
Chapter 5 : How to stay out of chapter 11 ( A guide to everything they sell)
Key to the blurbs
Software
Hardware
Chapter 6 : Word processing, your inner child, and you
Selected suggestions for selecting
A fractional suggestion
Tabmania
Indent-athon
Curlifying your quotes
Top ten tricks for TiP-Top Typography
Part II : Faking your way through eight more programs
Chapter 7: Surfing Microsoft word versions 5 and 6
Why word 5 Beeps
Why word 6 doesn't beep
Miles O'styles
Make word the program it wants
Go back back to where you once belonged
etc
Chapter 8 : Faking your way through QuarkXPress
Page layout and you
Alfalfa sprout weekly: The making of a newsletter
Giving it the random-house look
Other stuff worth knowing
Top ten important quark features you don't need to know
etc
Chapter 9 : Faking it in PageMaker
A whirlawind tour
Down to beewax
Chapter 10 : Faking your way through photoshop
The tao of photoshop
Where the picture come from
Photoshop at a very long glance
The photoshop tutorial
Photoshop Philters
etc
Chapter 11: Faking your calender with now up-to date
Getting a date
Revising your life
Top ten other things up-to-date can do
Chapter 12 : illustrator in an hour ...and freehand,too
Making a first-class amoeba
Different strokes
More practice for punishment glutton
Getting a word in Edgewise
Go ahead ..mess my day
What else to do
Chapter 14 : Quick time and premier
Quicktime, the digital studio
Make your own movie,cheap
The cutting-room floor
Enter the sound stage
Part III: How to enjoy the big wide world out there
Chapter 15: It is a modem,Madam
How to buy a modem
Netiquette : In cyberspace, nobody can here you smile
Chapter 16: CompuServe, BBSs and other freaks of nature
CompuServe
Other stops in cyberspace
Billions and Billions of BBSs
Chapter 17 : Internet is from Mars, Web is from Venus
A long and winding road
ISPs for Dummies
Chapter 18: Dialing Up your pals
Get the software
How to dial up
What to do if you can't connect
How to send files
When all else fails
Part IV : Networks for Nitwits
Chapter 18: Siamese macs
You already own the wires
You already own the software
Setting up the other Mac
After you're connected
Never do it again
Chapter 20: Mac to PC and Back
Converting files from same -name programs
Converting files from alien word processors
Word processor files with no match
Converting Non-word processing, Non-same-Name Files
etc
Part V: great Material that didn't quite fit the outline
Chapter 21: More screamingly important things nobody tells you
Experience without the pain
Chapter 22: How to upgrade software without going stark raving mad
Double-decimal-point upgrades
Major upgrades
System software Upgrades
Chapter 23: The Graphics crash course
Part VI: When more bad things happen to good machines
Chapter 24: Hard-Core printing
Explaining printMonitor
PrintMonitor figures into all of this
PrintMonitor in times of peace
Chapter 25 : Hard drive care and feeding
How to have a happy, health hard drive
When you have outgrown your drive
When bad things happen to hard drives
Chapter 26: Don't let this happen to you.
Night of 1,000 Snafus
The haunted system
III At Ease
Printer in Absentia
Phone help
Top ten troubleshooting tips for today's most maddening Mac Mysteries
Includes index
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