| Introduction |
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| Part I: Tie Myself Down with a Desktop? Preposterous! |
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Chapter 1 Hey, It Really Does Have Everything I Need |
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An Overview of Your Mac Laptop |
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The parts you probably recognize |
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Don't forget the parts you can't see |
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Look, Ma, no moving parts! |
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What if I need that pesky optical drive? |
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Location, Location, Location! |
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Unpacking and Connecting Your Laptop |
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Unpacking for the road warrior |
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Great, a Lecture about Handling My Laptop |
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An Overview of Mac Software Goodness |
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What comes with my laptop? |
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Connecting to the Internet from your lap |
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Other Stuff That Nearly Everyone Wants |
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Chapter 2 Turning On Your Portable Powerhouse |
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Mark's Favorite Signs of a Healthy Laptop |
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You Won't Lecture Me about Batteries, Will You? |
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Setting Up and Registering Your Laptop |
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Your Apple ID is your friend |
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Setting up OS X Mavericks |
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Importing Stuff from Another Mac |
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Importing Stuff from Windows (If You Must) |
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Chapter 3 The Laptop Owner's Introduction to OS X |
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Your Own Personal Operating System |
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Why get so excited by Mavericks? |
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And Just in Case You Need Help |
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The Mavericks built-in Help system |
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The Apple web-based support center |
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| Part II: Shaking Hands with OS X |
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Chapter 4 Opening and Closing and Tapping and Such |
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Using the All-Powerful Finder |
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Wait a Second: Where the Heck Are the Mouse Buttons? |
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Launching and Quitting Applications with Aplomb |
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Juggling Folders and Icons |
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A field observer's guide to icons |
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Moving things from place to place |
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Keys and Keyboard Shortcuts to Fame and Fortune |
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Special keys on the keyboard |
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Using the Finder and application keyboard shortcuts |
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Performing Tricks with Finder Windows |
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Scrolling in and resizing windows |
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Minimizing and restoring windows |
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Moving and zooming windows |
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Chapter 5 Getting to the Heart of Mavericks |
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Personalizing Your Desktop |
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Customizing the Dock Just So |
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Working Magic with Mission Control and the Dashboard |
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Multitasking with Mission Control |
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Chapter 6 A Nerd's Guide to System Preferences |
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An Explanation in English, No Less |
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Locating That Certain Special Setting |
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Popular Preferences Panes Explained |
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The Desktop & Screen Saver pane |
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Mission Control preferences |
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Notifications preferences |
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Chapter 7 Sifting Through Your Stuff |
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A Not-So-Confusing Introduction to Spotlight |
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Working with matching stuff |
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Tweaking Spotlight in System Preferences |
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Other Search Tools Are Available, Too |
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With Widgets, the Internet Is Your Resource |
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Chapter 8 Using Reminders, Notes, Notifications, and Maps |
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Remind Me to Use Reminders |
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Taking Notes the Mavericks Way |
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Staying Current with the Notification Center |
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Introducing the Maps Window |
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Getting Directions over Yonder |
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| Part III: Connecting and Communicating |
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Chapter 9 Let's Go on Safari! |
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Pretend You've Never Used This Thing |
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Setting Up Your Home Page |
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Adding and Using Bookmarks |
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Working with the Reading List and Shared Links |
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Saving pages for later with the Reading List |
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Visiting pages recommended by friends |
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Using History and Top Sites |
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Tabs Are Your Browsing Friends |
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Yes, there are such things as bad cookies |
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Banishing pesky iCloud Keychain passwords |
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Avoiding those @*!^%$ pop-up ads |
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Chapter 10 iCloud Is Made for MacBooks |
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So How Does iCloud Work, Anyway? |
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Managing Your iCloud Storage |
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Chapter 11 Your Laptop Goes Multiuser |
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Once Upon a Time (An Access Fairy Tale) |
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Big-Shot Administrator Stuff |
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Deciding who needs what access |
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I banish thee, mischievous user1 |
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Setting up login items and parental controls |
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Mundane Chores for the Multiuser Laptop |
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Logging in and out in Mavericks For Dummies |
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Interesting stuff about sharing stuff |
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Encrypting your Home folder can be fun |
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Chapter 12 Working Well with Networks |
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What Exactly Is the Network Advantage? |
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Should You Go Wired or Wireless? |
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Be a Pal: Share Your Internet! |
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Using your MacBook as a sharing device |
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Using a dedicated Internet-sharing device |
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What Do I Need to Connect? |
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Connecting to the Network |
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Verifying that the contraption works |
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Sharing stuff nicely with others |
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| Part IV: Living the iLife |
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Chapter 13 The Multimedia Joy of iTunes |
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What Can I Play on iTunes? |
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Exploring the Music Library |
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Navigating the Library in Browse mode |
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Finding songs in your Music Library |
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Removing old music from the Library |
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Keeping Apart Slim Whitman and Slim Shady: Organizing with Playlists |
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Setting the song information automatically |
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Setting or changing song information manually |
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Tweaking the Audio for Your Ears |
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A New Kind of Radio Station |
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Tuning in your own stations |
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Radio stations in your playlists |
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Creating a custom iTunes Radio station |
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iTunes and iCloud Together |
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iSending iStuff to iPod, iPhone, and iPad |
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Sharing Media across a Network |
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Burning Music to Shiny Plastic Circles |
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Feasting on iTunes Visuals |
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Exercising Parental Authority |
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Buying Digital Media the Apple Way |
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Chapter 14 The Masterpiece That Is iPhoto |
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Working with Images in iPhoto |
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Organize mode: Organizing and sorting your images |
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Edit mode: Removing and fixing stuff the right way |
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Producing Your Own Coffee-Table Masterpiece |
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Putting Photo Stream to Work |
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E-Mailing Photos to Aunt Mildred |
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Chapter 15 Making Film History with iMovie |
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Shaking Hands with the iMovie Window |
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A Bird's-Eye View of Moviemaking |
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Importing the Building Blocks |
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Making use of still images |
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Importing and adding audio from all sorts of places |
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Building the Cinematic Basics |
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Adding clips to your movie |
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Removing clips from your movie |
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Reordering clips in your movie |
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Transitions for the masses |
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Even Gone with the Wind had titles |
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Adding maps and backgrounds |
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Creating an Honest-to-Goodness Movie Trailer |
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Sharing Your Finished Classic with Others |
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Chapter 16 Recording Your Hits with GarageBand |
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Shaking Hands with Your Band |
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Resizing, repeating, and moving loops |
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Using the Arrangement track |
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Tweaking the settings for a track |
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Creating song files and ringtones in iTunes |
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| Part V: Getting Productive and Maintaining Your MacBook |
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Chapter 17 Desktop Publishing with Pages |
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Creating a New Pages Document |
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Open an Existing Pages Document |
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Entering and Editing Text |
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Using Text and Graphics Boxes |
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The Three Amigos: Cut, Copy, and Paste |
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Pasting from the Clipboard |
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Formatting Text the Easy Way |
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Adding a Background Shape |
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Are You Sure about That Spelling? |
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Printing Your Pages Documents |
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Sharing That Poster with Others |
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Chapter 18 Creating Spreadsheets with Numbers |
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Before You Launch Numbers |
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Creating a New Numbers Document |
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Opening an Existing Spreadsheet File |
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Exploring the Numbers Window |
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Navigating and Selecting Cells in a Spreadsheet |
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Entering and Editing Data in a Spreadsheet |
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Selecting the Correct Number Format |
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Aligning Cell Text Just So |
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Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns |
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The Formula Is Your Friend |
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Adding Visual Punch with a Chart |
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Printing Your Spreadsheet |
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Chapter 19 Building Presentations with Keynote |
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Creating a New Keynote Project |
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Opening a Keynote Presentation |
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Working with Text and Graphics Boxes |
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Adding and Editing Slide Text |
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Formatting Slide Text for the Perfect Look |
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Using Presenter's Notes in Your Project |
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Every Good Presentation Needs Media |
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Adding a Background Shape |
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Creating Your Keynote Slideshow |
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Printing Your Slides and Notes |
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Chapter 20 When Good Mac Laptops Go Bad |
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Repeat after Me: Yes, I Am a Tech? |
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Step-by-Step Laptop Troubleshooting |
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The number one rule: Reboot! |
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Special keys that can come in handy |
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All hail Disk Utility, the troubleshooter's friend |
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341 | (4) |
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Mark's MacBook Troubleshooting Tree |
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Okay, I Kicked It, and It Still Won't Work |
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Local service, at your service |
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Chapter 21 Adding New Stuff to Your Laptop |
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351 | (12) |
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Figuring out how much memory you have |
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Installing memory modules |
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Considering a Hard Drive Upgrade? |
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357 | (3) |
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Ponder your external options |
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360 | (1) |
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A List of Dreamy Laptop Add-Ons |
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Chapter 22 Tackling the Housekeeping |
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Cleaning Unseemly Data Deposits |
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363 | (4) |
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Getting dirty (or, cleaning things the manual way) |
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364 | (2) |
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Using a commercial clean-up tool |
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367 | (4) |
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Putting things right with Time Machine |
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369 | (2) |
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Maintaining Hard Drive Health |
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371 | (1) |
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Automating Those Mundane Chores |
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Updating OS X Automatically |
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374 | (1) |
| Part VI: The Part of Tens |
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Chapter 23 Top Ten Laptop Rules to Follow |
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377 | (8) |
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Keep Your Laptop in a Bag |
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377 | (1) |
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Install a Tracker Application |
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379 | (1) |
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Keepeth Thy Drive Encrypted |
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380 | (1) |
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Take a Surge Protector with You |
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381 | (1) |
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Use Power-Saving Features |
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381 | (1) |
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Use an External Keyboard and Mouse |
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Not Again! What Is It with You and Backing Up? |
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Chapter 24 Ten Things to Avoid Like the Plague |
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385 | (8) |
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386 | (1) |
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Oddly Shaped Optical Discs |
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387 | (1) |
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388 | (1) |
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Antiquated Utility Software |
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388 | (1) |
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388 | (1) |
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389 | (1) |
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Unsecured Wireless Connections |
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