Mac OS X Snow Leopard Just the Steps For Dummies

This down-to-basics guide features numbered steps and easy-to-follow screen shots that show you exactly how to accomplish more than 150 tasks with Snow Leopard. You’ll learn to:

• Modify the look of the desktop and customize keyboard shortcuts
• Create and manage user accounts
• Save energy by adjusting power settings
• Install and use the iWork productivity suite
• Browse the Internet with Safari or Firefox
• Design and publish a blog or a Web page with iWeb
• Configure iChat for use with GoogleTalk
• Set up iTunes and export songs to your iPod
• Make movies with iMovie and burn them to DVDs
• Download photos from your camera and organize them in iPhoto
• Connect your Mac to a Windows network
• Encrypt your files, safeguard against viruses, and install a firewall

Each task is clearly presented, with step-by-step instructions and corresponding views of what you’ll see on the screen at each step. Mac OS X Snow Leopard Just The Steps For Dummies makes it easy to find what you want to do, and even easier to do it!

Easy steps for setting up and using Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Simple steps... ...great results

Open Dashboard

1. To open Dashboard, simply click the Dashboard icon on the Dock. The screen dims slightly, and Dashboard widgets zoom into view, as shown in Figure 7-1.

2. To change the way Dashboard opens, open System Preferences and then click the Exposé & Spaces icon.

3. To create a hot corner for Dashboard, click the Exposé tab and then select Dashboard from one of the Active Screen Corner menus.

If you want to use a modifier key, such as ( ) or Control, simply hold down that key (or keys) while making a selection in the Hide and Show menu.

Open the book and find:

• How to customize Mac OS X to look and behave the way you want

• Tips for using the iWork® applications

• Instructions for setting up e-mail and browsing the Internet

• Steps for creating a blog or Web page with iWeb

• How to edit digital photos and make movies

• Details about configuring and connecting to a wireless network

The Dummies Way

• Concise, step-by-step instructions

• "Get in, get out" information

• Easy-to-recognize tasks and topics

• Quick solutions to get it done

• A dash of humor and fun