Mark L. Chambers - MacBook For Dummies

MacBook® For Dummies®, 9th Edition

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2021934622

ISBN: 978-1-119-77566-9

ISBN 978-1-119-77568-3 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-119-77567-6 (ebk)

1 Cover

2 Title Page

3 Copyright

4 Introduction Foolish Assumptions About This Book Icons Used in This Book Beyond the Book Where to Go from Here

5 Part 1: Tie Myself Down with a Desktop? Preposterous! Chapter 1: Hey, It Really Does Have Everything I Need An Overview of Your Mac Laptop Meet the MacBooks Location, Location, Location! Unpacking and Connecting Your Laptop Great — a Lecture about Handling My Laptop An Overview of Mac Software Goodness Other Stuff That Nearly Everyone Wants Chapter 2: Turning On Your Portable Powerhouse Tales of the On Button Mark’s Favorite Signs of a Healthy Laptop You Won’t Lecture Me about Batteries, Will You? Setting Up and Registering Your Laptop Importing Stuff from Another Mac Importing Stuff from Windows (If You Must) Chapter 3: The MacBook Owner’s Introduction to macOS Big Sur Your Own Personal Operating System The Big Sur Desktop Wait a Second: Where the Heck Are the Mouse Buttons? Launching and Quitting Applications with Aplomb Performing Tricks with Finder Windows Juggling Folders and Icons Keys and Keyboard Shortcuts to Fame and Fortune Home, Sweet Home Folder Working with Mission Control Switching Desktops with Spaces Personalizing Your Desktop Taking Control of Your MacBook Customizing the Dock What’s with the Trash? All You Really Need to Know about Printing And Just in Case You Need Help …

6 Part 2: Shaking Hands with macOS Big Sur Chapter 4: What’s New in macOS Big Sur? Introducing the Control Center The Return of the Widgets Your Guide to the Perfect Trip Safari Covers New Ground Messages Adds Effects, Images, and … Pins? Becoming One with Your Battery Chapter 5: A Nerd’s Guide to System Preferences An Explanation — without Jargon, No Less Locating That Certain Special Setting Popular Preferences Panes Explained Chapter 6: Sifting Through Your Stuff Doing a Basic Search How Cool Is That? Discovering What Spotlight Can Do Expanding Your Search Horizons Customizing Spotlight to Your Taste Chapter 7: Using Reminders, Notes, Notifications, and Maps Remind Me to Use Reminders Taking Notes the Big Sur Way Staying Current with Notification Center Introducing the Maps Application Switching Views in Maps Getting Directions Over Yonder Creating and Using Guides

7 Part 3: Connecting and Communicating Chapter 8: Let’s Go on Safari! Pretend You’ve Never Used This Thing Visiting Websites Navigating the Web Configuring Your Home Page and Start Page Adding and Using Bookmarks Working with the Reading List Downloading Files Using History Tabs Are Your Browsing Friends Printing Web Pages Protecting Your Privacy Chapter 9: iCloud Is Made for MacBooks So How Does iCloud Work, Anyway? Moving, Saving, and Opening iCloud Documents Putting Handoff to Work Expanding Your Horizons with Sidecar Configuring iCloud Managing Your iCloud Storage Chapter 10: Your Laptop Goes Multiuser Once Upon a Time (an Access Fairy Tale) Big-Shot Administrator Stuff Tackling Mundane Chores for the Multiuser Laptop Chapter 11: Working Well with Networks What Exactly Is the Network Advantage? Should You Go Wired or Wireless? Be a Pal: Share Your Internet! What Do I Need to Connect? Connecting to the Network USE YOUR FIREWALL! Playing Buck Rogers with FaceTime Sending Instant Messages Across the Network

8 Part 4: Living the iLife Chapter 12: The Multimedia Joys of Music and TV What Can I Play in Music? Playing Digital Audio Files Keeping Slim Whitman and Slim Shady Apart: Organizing with Playlists Know Your Songs Ripping Audio Files Tweaking the Audio for Your Ears A New Kind of Radio Station iSending iStuff to iPhone and iPad Burning Music to Shiny Plastic Circles Feasting on Music Visuals Exercising Parental Authority Watching Video with TV Buying Digital Media the Apple Way Chapter 13: Focusing on Photos Delving into Photos Working with Images in Photos Exploring iCloud Photos Putting My Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Sharing to Work Chapter 14: Making Film History with iMovie Shaking Hands with the iMovie Window A Bird’s-Eye View of Moviemaking Importing the Building Blocks Building the Cinematic Basics Creating an Honest-to-Goodness Movie Trailer Browsing Your Video Library Sharing Your Finished Classic Chapter 15: Recording Your Hits with GarageBand Shaking Hands with Your Band Composing Made Easy Sharing Your Songs