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The bestselling Mac book of all time, updated for OS X Mountain Lion and the latest hardware More and more people are joining the ranks of Mac owners each year. This popular guidebook, as user-friendly as the Mac itself, has sold more than 1.3 million copies in previous editions. In this most recent version, popular author Edward C. Baig, Personal Tech columnist for USA TODAY , covers OS X Mountain Lion, the newest MacBooks, updates to the iLife suite, and much more. All the basics are here, including setting up and navigating your Mac, using the Safari browser, making video calls with FaceTime, managing photos and videos, syncing with iCloud, and more. Mac sales are booming, and this guide helps new users or those upgrading from an earlier version take full advantage of all the newest features Covers the newest operating system, OS X Mountain Lion, as well as the latest Mac mini, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, and Mac Pro hardware Shows how to set up your Mac, navigate the desktop, use the Dock, print or fax documents, surf the web with Safari, set up e-mail, use FaceTime and iMessage, sync devices with iCloud, run Windows on a Mac, and back up your files with Time Machine Explores the newest version of the iLife suite; how to work with photos, videos, and music files; blogging and social networking; organizing your life with Reminders; setting up a network, and more Macs For Dummies, 12th Edition will help you get the most from your new Mac, quickly and easily.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 Part I: Getting Started with Macs 5 Chapter 1: Adventuring into the Mac World 7 Chapter 2: The Nuts and Bolts of Your Mac 13 Chapter 3: Getting to the Core of the Apple 31 Chapter 4: Here a Mac, There a Mac, Everywhere a Mac Mac 59 Part II: Mac Daily Dealings 71 Chapter 5: Making the Mac Your Own 73 Chapter 6: Apple's Feline Fetish 99 Chapter 7: Handling All That Busy Work 111 Chapter 8: Printing and Faxing 135 Part III: Rocketing into Cyberspace 147 Chapter 9: Stairway to the Internet 149 Chapter 10: Delivering the Goods on E-Mail 175 Chapter 11: Caught Up in the Web 199 Chapter 12: Joining iCloud, the Club That Will Have You for a Member 231 Chapter 13: Mounting a Defense Strategy 243 Part IV: Getting an iLife 257 Chapter 14: Living in an iTunes Nation 259 Chapter 15: Taking an iPhoto Close-Up 287 Chapter 16: Shooting an iMovie Screen Test 323 Chapter 17: The Show Must Go On 347 Part V: The Creepy Geeky Section 365 Chapter 18: Networking Madness 367 Chapter 19: Surviving in a Windows World 379 Chapter 20: Handling Trouble in Paradise 387 Part VI: The Part of Tens 403 Chapter 21: Ten Clever Dashboard Widgets 405 Chapter 22: Ten Indispensable Mac Websites 411 Index 415

About the Author :
Edward C. Baig is the Personal Tech columnist for USA TODAY and makes regular appearances in USA TODAY videos. Ed is also the coauthor of several books including iPad mini For Dummies, iPhone For Dummies, and iPad For Dummies.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781118517192
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Width: 184 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1118517199
  • Publisher Date: 25 Mar 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 231 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 666 gr


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