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Your "get-started" guide to the world of macOS Big Sur
Wherever you like to Mac--at home in front of your trusty iMac or over a coffee with your portable MacBook Air--macOS provides you with the seamless, efficient, and reliable user experience that makes these devices so famously a pleasure to use. macOS Big Sur For Dummies is here to heighten the experience for new users and upgraders alike by providing the very latest on the ways macOS Big Sur can enhance how you work and play.
Written in a no-jargon style by Bob LeVitus--the Houston Chronicle's much-loved "Dr. Mac" since 1996--this guide starts with the basics, like getting set up, and explains more advanced uses, like making music and movies, exploring the expanding universe of apps and giving tips on how to save time and enhance productivity along the way. With this book, you'll learn to
Set up and connect your Mac
Get friendly with Siri
Enhance your world with apps
Work better and faster
Use the comprehensive capabilities of macOS Big Sur to do anything and everything you would like to do--and do it even better. For beginners and experts alike, macOS Big Sur For Dummies is the best way to step into the magical world of getting things done with Mac.
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Bob Dr. Mac LeVitus has written the Dr. Mac column for the Houston Chronicle since 1996. A devoted Mac enthusiast, he has written or cowritten a long list of how-to books about macOS, iPhone, iPad, Office for the Mac, and GarageBand. He's also a regular contributor to various tech publications.
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Discover the magic in the new macOS
Mac-nificent. That's the newest incarnation of the macOS. Known as Big Sur, it offers new ways to help you work more productively, play more creatively, and make using your Mac feel like a day at the beach. Whether you own your first Mac or your fifteenth, an iMac desktop or a sleek MacBook Air, you'll find this book gets you up and running quickly and helps you take advantage of what macOS Big Sur has to offer. Dive into Dr. Mac's no-nonsense explanations and friendly guidance to help you navigate the magic of it all. Inside
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Your "get-started" guide to the world of macOS Big Sur
Wherever you like to Macat home in front of your trusty iMac or over a coffee with your portable MacBook AirmacOS provides you with the seamless, efficient, and reliable user experience that makes these devices so famously a pleasure to use. macOS Big Sur For Dummies is here to heighten the experience for new users and upgraders alike by providing the very latest on the ways macOS Big Sur can enhance how you work and play.
Written in a no-jargon style by Bob LeVitusthe Houston Chronicle's much-loved "Dr. Mac" since 1996this guide starts with the basics, like getting set up, and explains more advanced uses, like making music and movies, exploring the expanding universe of apps and giving tips on how to save time and enhance productivity along the way. With this book, you'll learn to
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Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 3
Icons Used in This Book 3
Beyond the Book 4
Where to Go from Here 4
Part 1: macOS Basics 5
Chapter 1: macOS Big Sur 101 (Prerequisites: None) 7
Gnawing to the Core of macOS 8
A Safety Net for the Absolute Beginner (or Any User) 10
Turning the dang thing on 10
What you should see on startup 11
Shutting down properly 15
A few things you should definitely not do with your Mac 16
Point-and-click 101 17
Not Just a Beatles Movie: Help and the Help Menu 19
Chapter 2: Desktop and Windows and Menus (Oh My!) 23
Touring Finder and Its Desktop 24
Anatomy of a Window 25
Top o' the window to ya! 27
A scroll new world 29
(Hyper)active windows 30
Dialog Dealie-Boppers 32
Working with Windows 34
Opening and closing windows 34
Resizing windows and window panes 35
Moving windows 35
Shuffling windows 36
Menu Basics 38
The ever-changing menu bar 38
Contextual (shortcut) menus: They're sooo contextual! 39
Recognizing disabled options 41
Navigating submenus 41
Under the Apple menu tree 42
Using keyboard shortcut commands 44
Chapter 3: What's Up, Dock? 45
A Quick Introduction to Your Dock 46
The default icons of the dock 47
Trash talkin' 48
Opening application menus on the dock 51
Reading dock icon body language 53
Opening files from the dock 54
Customizing Your Dock 54
Adding dock icons 54
Removing an icon from the dock 57
Resizing the dock 58
What should you put on your dock? 58
Setting your dock preferences 60
Chapter 4: Getting to Know Finder and Its Desktop 65
Introducing Finder and Its Minions: The Desktop and Icons 66
Introducing the desktop 66
Bellying up to the toolbar 68
Figuring out what an icon is 71
Identifying your Finder icons in the wild 72
Aliases Are Awesome! 73
Creating aliases 74
Deleting aliases 75
Hunting down an alias's parent 75
The View(s) from a Window 76
Moving through folders fast in Column view 76
Perusing in Icon view 78
Listless? Try touring folders in List view 78
Hangin' in the Gallery (view) 80
What's next on the (View) menu? 81
Finder on the Menu 83
The actual Finder menu 83
Like a road map: The current folder's pop-up menu 86
Going places with the Go menu 86
Customizing Finder Windows 89
Adding folders to the sidebar 89
Setting Finder preferences 90
Digging for Icon Data in the Info Window 93
Chapter 5: Delving Even Deeper into Big Sur's Desktop and Finder 97
Cleaning Up Your Desktop Automatically with Stacks 97
Managing your Stacks 100
Quick Actions: Now Playing All Over Big Sur 101
Getting the most out of Markup 101
Trimming video without launching an app 104
Do It Quicker with Finder Quick Actions 105
Creating PDFs without launching an app 105
Creating custom Finder Quick Actions 106
Four More Cool Big Sur Tricks 107
Shooting screens 107
Dynamic desktop images 109
Recently used apps in the dock 109
Mentions of Gallery view 110
Part 2: How Stuff Works 111
Chapter 6: Having It Your Way 113
Introducing System Preferences 113 The Desktop & Screen Saver System Preferences...