Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, El Capitan Edition: The book that should have been in the box

Those who have made the switch from a Windows PC to a Mac have made Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual a runaway bestseller. The latest edition of this guide delivers what Apple doesn't - everything you need to know to successfully and painlessly move your files and adapt to Mac's way of doing things. Written with wit and objectivity by Missing Manual series creator and bestselling author David Pogue, this book will have you up and running on your new Mac in no time. Table of Contents 7 The Missing Credits 15 Introduction 17 What OS X Gives You 19 What OS X Takes Away 22 About This Book 22 The Very Basics 24 Part One: Welcome to Macintosh 27 How the Mac Is Different 29 Power On, Dude 29 Right-Clicking and Shortcut Menus 30 Logging Out, Shutting Down 32 The Menu Bar 34 Finder = Windows Explorer 34 Dock = Taskbar 34 Menulets = Tray 35 Keyboard Differences 39 Disk Differences 44 Where Your Stuff Is 45 Window Controls 48 Getting Help in OS X 57 Terminology Differences 60 Folders, Dock & Windows 61 Getting into OS X 61 The Four Window Views 65 Icon View 66 List View 76 Column View 82 Cover Flow View 86 The Preview Pane 87 Quick Look 88 Finder Tabs 93 The Dock 95 Setting Up the Dock 96 Using the Dock 104 The Finder Toolbar 109 Icons & Spotlight 111 Renaming Icons 111 Selecting Icons 114 Moving and Copying Icons 117 Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once 123 Finder Tags 125 The Trash 130 Get Info 132 Shortcut Menus, Action Menus 135 Spotlight 138 The Searching Window 149 Customizing Your Searches 156 Smart Folders 158 Documents, Programs & Mission Control 161 The Mac App Store 161 Other Ways to Get Mac Software 163 Cocoa and Carbon 165 Opening OS X Programs 167 Launchpad 168 Windows That Auto-Reopen 172 The Application Menu 174 The “Heads-Up” Program Switcher 175 Full Screen Mode 176 Split Screen Mode 177 Mission Control: Death to Window Clutter 181 Spaces (Virtual Desktops) 184 Dashboard 189 Exposé 193 Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way 198 How Documents Know Their Parents 200 Keyboard Control 204 Graphics in OS X 209 PDF Files 211 Screen-Capture Keystrokes 214 The Save and Open Dialog Boxes 216 Auto Save and Versions 221 Data: Typing, Dictating, Sharing & Backing Up 225 Power Typing 225 Dictation 230 The Many Languages of OS X Text 237 Data Detectors 243 Moving Data Between Documents 244 Exchanging Data with Other Macs 248 Exchanging Data with Windows PCs 252 The Share Button 254 Time Machine 256 Part Two: Making the Move 267 Transferring Your Files to the Mac 269 The Windows Migration Assistant 270 Manual Network Transfers 273 Transfers by Dropbox, iCloud Drive, or OneDrive 273 Transfers by Disk 274 Transfers by File-Sending Website 275 Transfers by Email 275 Where to Put Your Copied Files 275 Document Conversion Issues 279 Special Software, Special Problems 281 ACDSee 281 Acrobat Reader 282 Act 282 Ad Subtract (Pop-Up Stopper) 283 Adobe [your favorite program here] 283 AOL 284 AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) 284 Children’s Software 284 Chrome 284 Easy CD Creator 284 Encarta 285 Eudora 285 Excel 285 Firefox 285 Games 285 Google Earth 286 Google Chrome 286 ICQ 286 Internet Explorer (or Edge) 286 iTunes 286 McAfee VirusScan 287 Microsoft Access 287 Microsoft Money 288 Microsoft Office 289 Microsoft Publisher 290 Microsoft Visio 290 Minesweeper 291 NaturallySpeaking 291 Netscape 291 Newsgroup Readers 291 Norton AntiVirus 291 Norton Utilities 291 Notepad 292 Outlook/Windows Mail 292 PaintShop Pro 292 Picasa 293 PowerPoint 293 QuickBooks 293 Quicken 293 RealPlayer 294 RssReader 294 Skype 294 Snagit (Screenshots) 295 Solitaire 295 Street Atlas USA 296 TaxCut, TurboTax 296 Winamp, MusicMatch 296 Windows Media Player 296 WinZip 297 Word 297 WordPerfect 297 Yahoo Messenger 297 Windows on the Mac 299 Installing Boot Camp 300 Using Boot Camp 302 Windows in a Window 305 Life with Microsoft Exchange 308 Hardware on the Mac 311 Mac Meets Printer 311 Making the Printout 314 Managing Printouts 317 Printer Sharing 318 Faxing 320 Digital Cameras 320 AirPlay 320 Mouse 322 Keyboards 322 Monitors 323 Scanners 326 ColorSync 328 Utilities: Your OS X Toolbox 329 Part Three: OS X Online 347 Internet Setup & iCloud 349 Network Central and Multihoming 350 Broadband Connections 352 Cellular Modems 356 Tethering (Personal Hotspot) 357 Dial-Up Modem Connections 358 Switching Locations 358 Internet Sharing 359 Meet iCloud 361 iCloud Drive 362 Photos 365 Email Address 368 Data Synchronization 369 Find My Mac, Find My iPhone 370 Family Sharing 372 Back to My Mac 377 More iCloud Features 377 Mail & Contacts 379 Setting Up Mail 379 Checking Your Mail 380 Tailoring the Look of Mail 382 Writing Messages 387 Reading Email 396 VIPs 413 The Anti-Spam Toolkit 414 Contacts 416 Safari 427 The Unified Address/Search Bar 427 Bookmarks, Favorites, and Top Sites 430 Full Screen and Gestures 436 Scrolling 437 Customizing the Toolbar 438 Saved Passwords: The iCloud Keychain 438 Tabbed Browsing 444 Tips for Better Surfing 448 Privacy and Security Features 458 Messages 461 Welcome to Messages 461 Setting Up Messages 463 Let the Chat Begin 467 Text Chatting 470 Audio Chats 474 Video Chats 474 Sharing Your Screen 478 Part Four: Putting Down Roots 481 Mac+iPhone 483 Mac as Speakerphone 484 Texting from the Mac 486 Instant Hotspot 487 Handoff 488 AirDrop 490 Accounts & Security 493 Introducing Accounts 493 Creating an Account 495 Parental Controls 504 Editing Accounts 511 Setting Up the Login Process 513 Signing In, Logging Out 516 Sharing Across Accounts 518 Fast User Switching 520 OS X and Security 522 Five Privacy Shields 536 Networking, File Sharing & AirDrop 537 Wiring the Network 537 File Sharing: Three Ways 540 AirDrop 541 Sharing Your Public Folder 545 Sharing Any Folder 546 Accessing Shared Files 551 Networking with Windows 559 Screen Sharing 564 System Preferences 573 The System Preferences Window 573 Accessibility 576 App Store 585 Bluetooth 586 CDs & DVDs 588 Date & Time 588 Desktop & Screen Saver 590 Dictation & Speech 595 Displays 595 Dock 595 Energy Saver 595 Extensions 599 General 600 iCloud 602 Internet Accounts 602 Keyboard 603 Language & Region 604 Mission Control 604 Mouse 604 Network 606 Notifications 606 Parental Controls 606 Printers & Scanners 606 Security & Privacy 606 Sharing 606 Sound 607 Spotlight 609 Startup Disk 609 Time Machine 609 Trackpad 609 Users & Groups 614 Notifications 615 Insta-Respond to Bubbles 616 Shutting Up the Bubbles 616 The Notification Center 618 The Free Programs 625 Your Free OS X Programs 625 App Store 626 Automator and AppleScript 626 Calculator 626 Calendar 628 Chess 643 Contacts 645 Dashboard 645 Dictionary 645 DVD Player 647 FaceTime 647 Font Book 650 Game Center 658 GarageBand 661 iBooks 661 Image Capture 667 iMovie 672 iTunes 672 Launchpad 683 Mail 684 Maps 684 Messages 690 Mission Control 690 Notes 691 Numbers, Pages 694 Photo Booth 695 Photos 698 Preview 702 Reminders 713 QuickTime Player 717 Safari 717 Stickies 717 System Preferences 719 TextEdit 720 Time Machine 724 Part Five: Appendixes 725 Installing OS X El Capitan 727 Hardware Requirements 727 The Standard Installation 729 The Setup Assistant 731 The Homemade Installer Disk 735 Troubleshooting 737 Minor Eccentric Behavior 737 Frozen Programs (Force Quitting) 739 Application Won’t Open 740 Startup Problems 740 Recovery Mode: Three Emergency Disks 743 Fixing the Disk 746 Where to Get Troubleshooting Help 749 The “Where’d It Go?” Dictionary 751 The Master Secret Keystroke List 763 Index 773 Welcome to Macintosh. How the Mac is different ; Folders, Dock & windows ; Icons & Spotlight ; Documents, programs & Mission Control ; Data : typing, dictating, sharing & backing up Making the move. Transferring your files to the Mac ; Special software, special problems ; Windows on the Mac ; Hardware on the Mac OS X online. Internet setup & iCloud ; Mail & contacts ; Safari ; Messages Putting down roots. Mac+iPhone ; Accounts & security ; Networking, file sharing & AirDrop ; System preferences ; Notifications ; The free programs Appendixes. Appendix A, Installing OS X El Capitan ; Appendix B, Troubleshooting ; Appendix C, The "where'd it go?" dictionary ; Appendix D, The master secret keystroke list. Demonstrates how to become adjusted to the Macintosh operating system and how to transfer data from a Windows system to a Macintosh, discussing topics such as moving files and Macintosh equivalents to Windows-only programs.