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Pocket Guide
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Pocket Guide
Chris Seibold
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard Pocket Guide
by Chris Seibold
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Contents
Preface vii
Chapter 1: What’s New in Snow Leopard? 1
Grand Central Dispatch 2
True 64-bit Operating System 3
Microsoft Exchange Support 4
OpenCL 4
Smoking JavaScript 5
Smaller Footprint 5
Application and Finder Enhancements 6
System Improvements 11
Snow Leopard Offers Even More 12
Chapter 2: Installing Snow Leopard and Migrating Data 13
Which Macs Are Compatible? 13
Preparing to Install Snow Leopard 15
Chapter 3: The Quick Guide to Snow Leopard 31
What You Need To Know About Mac OS X 31
Using Snow Leopard 38
Snow Leopard Basics 42
Standard Window Controls 79
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Files and Folders 81
Nonessential But Useful Mac OS X Features 84
Chapter 4: Quick Guide to Troubleshooting Mac OS X 99
Common Problems 99
Chapter 5: System Preferences 115
Preferences and Your Mac 115
Preference Pane Rundown 117
Non-Apple Preference Panes 154
Chapter 6: Built-in Applications and Utilities 157
Applications Installed with Snow Leopard 158
Utilities Included with Snow Leopard 174
Chapter 7: MobileMe 183
Back to My Mac 185
Adding or Removing a Computer to/from MobileMe 187
iDisk 187
Clearing the MobileMe Sync Slate 187
Chapter 8: Security 189
Password Management 190
Chapter 9: Keyboard Commands and Special Characters 195
Key Commands 195
Typing Special Characters in Mac OS X 202
Index 207
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Preface
OS X was first released to the public a decade ago as Mac OS
X Beta (code name Kodiak). The decade after the introduction
saw Mac OS X go from interesting oddity unsuited to daily
work to a usable operating system (OS) with little third-party
support to everything most people want out of an operating
system and a little more.
Apple will tell you that Leopard, the version of Mac OS X that
preceded Snow Leopard, is a great OS. The point of Snow
Leopard, Apple argues, isn’t to improve on Leopard as much
as it is to give developers a chance to take advantage of emerg-
ing technologies and to streamline Mac OS X. Snow Leopard
features a lot of improvements for developers to love. Access
to Grand Central promises to allow better use of the multicore
CPUs that are now standard on all Macs, Open CL offers de-
velopers a way to harness the ever-growing power of video
cards, and the omission of support for the PowerPC architec-
ture allows Apple to deliver a leaner installation.
There is a lot more to Snow Leopard than goodies for the de-
velopers and an internal polishing by Apple. Snow Leopard
doesn’t feature any eye-popping, must-have new features, but
there are enough enhancements scattered throughout Snow
Leopard that any Mac user with an Intel machine will appre-
ciate the upgrade.
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What kind of enhancements can you expect? Everything is
faster. Sometimes you’ll notice the speedup (such as the speed
with which it starts up, shuts down, and sleeps), and some-
times you won’t. You can also expect some very nice applica-
tion upgrades. iChat uses less bandwidth and features a bigger
window when you are in a video chat. Preview offers new op-
tions for editing images. The Dock gets an upgrade, incorpo-
rating Exposé into each application’s icon. QuickTime has
become Quicktime X and offers you a new way to add videos
to your MobileMe or YouTube account.
That is just a sampling of the upgrades in Snow Leopard. Taken
individually, they aren’t that big of a deal; when you look at all
the small improvements, they add up to a substantial update
to Mac OS X.
Conventions Used in This Book
The following typographical conventions are used in this book:
Italic
Indicates new terms, URLs, email addresses, filenames,
and file extensions.
Constant width bold
Shows commands or other text that should be typed lit-
erally by the user.
Constant width italic
Shows text that should be replaced with user-supplied
values or by values determined by context.
Menu Symbols
If you use Mac OS Snow Leopard Pocket Guide exclusively,
you’ll always know which button to press. The key that reads
“option” is called Option throughout the book. The key with
the clover symbol (officially called the “Places of Interest” sym-
bol) is represented by ⌘, which looks precisely like the symbol
on the keyboard (older Apple keyboards also feature the Apple
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