User manual APPLE LEOPARD

Welcome to Leopard Leopard Welcome to 1 How to get started www.apple.com/support Apple Inc. © 2007 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Boot Camp, Exposé, FireWire, iCal, iPhoto, Keynote, Mac, and Mac OS are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Aperture, Cover Flow, Finder, iPhone, Leopard, Safari, and Spotlight are trademarks of Apple Inc. AppleCare is a service mark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. .Mac is a service mark of Apple Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Microsoft product screen shot(s) reprinted with permission from Microsoft Corporation. Because Apple frequently releases new versions and updates to its software, images shown in this book may be different from what you see on your screen. Install Leopard To upgrade to Mac OS X Leopard, insert your installation disc and double-click Install Mac OS X. Then click Restart. Your computer restarts, and the Mac OS X Installer opens. Install Leopard Select a destination Select your startup disk or the volume that has the version of Mac OS X you want to upgrade. Select a volume. You may not be able to install Leopard on some volumes. Look here for important information about the installation. Click Options if you want to select a different type of installation. For additional information, see the Instructions folder on your installation disc. Install Leopard Begin installation When you're ready, click Install to begin installing Mac OS X Leopard. When the installation is finished, your computer will restart. Click Customize if you want to change what's installed. Install Leopard 2 Meet Leopard www.apple.com/macosx Desktop From the menu to the Dock, Leopard introduces a great new look and Stacks--a brand-new way to stay organized. Desktop Stacks Stacks provide a convenient way to get to your documents. Folders already in the Dock become stacks automatically. To create a stack, drag a folder of documents to the Dock. When you click a stack, the items appear in a grid or a fan above the icon. Desktop The Downloads stack The Dock includes a Documents stack and a Downloads stack. Items you download in Safari, Mail, or iChat always go to the Downloads stack so that you can find them quickly. The latest download appears here. Click the Downloads stack to see items you've downloaded. 10 Desktop Customization Stacks appear as a fan or a grid automatically based on the number of items in the stack. You can specify which style you want to use and change the stack's sort order. To customize a stack, position the pointer over the stack icon and then hold down the mouse button until a menu appears. Desktop 11 Finder See your files in Cover Flow and browse through them quickly. 12 Finder Cover Flow Cover Flow lets you see your movies, presentations, PDF files, and more in large-size previews as you flip through them. Click this button for Cover Flow. Move the pointer over an item to play a movie or see the pages of a document, for example. Drag the slider to thumb through your documents. Finder 1 Sidebar The Finder sidebar makes it easy to get to folders on your computer, shared computers on your network, and your saved searches. Shared computers available on your network automatically appear here. Commonly used searches are included in the sidebar, and you can add your own searches. 1 Finder Spotlight In a Finder window or the menu bar, use Spotlight to search for items on your computer. If you use the same search often, save it in the Search For section of the sidebar. Type your search in the search field. Click Save to add a Smart Folder to the sidebar. See your search results in Cover Flow. Finder 1 Shared computers Shared computers on your network automatically appear in the sidebar so that you can quickly find the documents they contain. Search for documents on shared computers. Get immediate access to the Public folder on any shared computer. 16 Finder Screen sharing Use screen sharing to get to the desktop of shared computers on your network. You can monitor use, change settings, and much more from your computer. Select the computer and then click Share Screen. To see the toolbar, choose View > Show Toolbar. You'll see the desktop of the other computer in a window. To use all of your screen, click the Full-screen button. Finder 17 Sharing You can share your files, your website, your screen, and much more with other computers on your network. To start, open System Preferences and then click Sharing. Click the Add (+) button to select users and groups who can share your files. Click the Add (+) button to select any folder you want to share. 1 Finder Back to My Mac With your .Mac membership, an Internet connection, and Back to My Mac and sharing services turned on, you can access any of your computers from anywhere on the Internet. Back to My Mac is on automatically. Back to My Mac computers appear in the sidebar. Finder 1 Quick Look See stunning previews of movies, PDF files, presentations, spreadsheets, and more without opening an application. 20 Quick Look View documents You can use Quick Look in the Finder, Time Machine, and Mail. To view an item in Quick Look, select it and then press the Space bar. Click the Quick Look button in the Finder window toolbar. Click here for a full-screen preview. Quick Look 21 Browse contents When you view the documents in Quick Look, you can flip through each page of your document or view each slide of a Keynote presentation. Each slide of a Keynote presentation appears here. 22 Quick Look Show collections You can use Quick Look to view several items at once. To automatically scan through the items, click the Play button. Click a picture in the index sheet to view it. Click the Index Sheet button to view all the items. Click the Camera button to add a photo to iPhoto. Quick Look 2 Time Machine Automatically back up your Mac. If you're missing a document, travel back in time to recover it. 2 Time Machine Turn on Time Machine To start using Time Machine, just connect a FireWire or USB disk to your computer, and then click "Use as Backup Disk" in the dialog that appears. When you turn on Time Machine, it backs up your computer to the disk you've selected. Time Machine 2 Recover files Easily find a missing document by seeing how your desktop looked in the past. Time Machine does a backup each hour of the current day, and then saves daily backups. Type in the search field to look for the document. Click the back arrow to go back in time. Use Quick Look to check a document before you restore it. Browse items in your backup using Cover Flow. When you find the document, select it and then click Restore. 26 Time Machine Set Time Machine preferences To set Time Machine options, open Time Machine preferences. You can select a different backup disk or specify folders or disks you don't want to include in your backups. Click Options to select items you don't want to back up. Time Machine 27 Spaces Organize your work and play by grouping application windows into a "space." Then quickly switch between your spaces. 2 Spaces Arrange windows Turn on spaces in Exposé & Spaces preferences, and then press F8 to show your spaces. To organize your windows, drag them from the current space to a different space. Drag windows you want to use together into the same space. Spaces 2 Switch spaces To switch between spaces, type Control + [an arrow key]. To go directly to a space, type Control + [a number key]. Arrange the order of spaces to suit your needs. Drag spaces to rearrange their order. Use keyboard shortcuts to quickly switch between spaces. 0 Spaces Customize spaces After you turn on spaces, you can add other spaces. You can also assign applications to each space so that the application's windows always open in the same space. Add rows and columns to create the spaces you need. Choose keyboard shortcuts that work best for you. Click the Add (+) button to assign applications to spaces. Spaces 1 Mail Use Apple-designed stationery to send gorgeous email messages complete with photos. 2 Mail Stationery When you create a message, select stationery to give it the perfect style whether the occasion is fun or formal. Including photos is easy using the Photo Browser. Click to see the stationery you can use. Select a type of stationery, and then click the stationery you want to use. Select photos from iPhoto, Photo Booth, or Aperture. Locate photos here, and then drag them to your message. Mail Notes and to-do items Keep all your notes and to-do items in one place. Jot down reminders, shopping lists, and information you need. Include pictures, URLs, and attachments with your items. Click to create a note or to-do item. To create a to-do item, select text in the note and click To Do. Click to set options for the to-do item. Items automatically appear in iCal. See your notes and to-do items in the Reminders section of the sidebar. Mail Data detection You can turn dates in your email messages into iCal events. You can add names, phone numbers, and addresses to your contacts. You can even map addresses in Safari. Move the pointer over the date, name, or address, and then click the triangle to choose an action. Mail iChat Make your chats more fun using video effects such as backdrops. Show off your work with iChat theater. 6 iChat Video backdrops Use video backdrops with your chats to "be" anywhere in the world. iChat includes movies and still photos that you can use, or you can add your own. Select a video backdrop and then step out of the picture for a moment. Click Effects to select a video effect. Add your own movies or pictures to use as a video backdrop. iChat 7 Effects While you're in a video chat, you can select video effects to make your chats fun and interesting. Click the effect in the center for the original view. Click any effect to use it. iChat iChat theater To show photos, movies, or presentations in a video chat, start the chat and then drag the file or files you want to show to the chat window. See how your presentation looks to your buddy. Control your presentation using this window. iChat iChat screen sharing Screen sharing lets you take control of a buddy's computer to show how to do something, rather than just explain it. Click to switch screens. To copy a document to this computer, drag it here. Select a buddy with video chat capability, and then click the Screen Sharing button. 0 iChat Tabbed chats Use tabbed chats if you have a lot of chats. To do so, open the Messages pane of iChat preferences, and then select "Collect chats into a single window." Click a chat to return to it. See the latest reply from your buddy. iChat 1 Presence If you have more than one .Mac, AIM, Jabber, or Google Talk account, you can log into all of them at the same time in iChat. Use an animated GIF as your buddy picture. Choose Invisible if you want to see who's available, but not be seen yourself. 2 iChat SMS messaging Exchange SMS messages from iChat with a buddy using a mobile phone, such as iPhone. Choose File > Send SMS, and then enter your buddy's phone number. This buddy can receive SMS messages. Note: SMS messaging is available only with U.S. mobile phones. iChat Dashboard Create your own widget from any part of a webpage and see updates to it in Dashboard. Dashboard Web clip To create a widget, open a webpage in Safari and choose File > "Open in Dashboard." Safari automatically selects parts of the page as you move the pointer over the page. Go to the webpage in Safari and click this button. When you've selected the part you want, click Add. Drag the selection rectangle over the information and click. You can then resize the selection. Dashboard Safari The most elegant web browser is even easier to use with dynamic tabbed browsing and other new features. 6 Safari Tabbed browsing Now you can drag tabs to arrange them or pull them out into a new window. To merge open windows into a single tabbed window, choose Window > Merge All Windows. Drag a tab out of the window to put it in a separate window. Drag tabs to rearrange the order they're in. To switch between tabs, press Command-Shift-Right bracket ( ] ) or Command-Shift-Left bracket ( [ ). Safari 7 Find To search for text in a webpage, choose Edit > Find > Find, and then type your search. To make it easier to see what you're looking for, Safari highlights all the results. Click these arrows to highlight individual occurrences. Safari highlights the results in the webpage so that they're easy to locate. Safari PDF viewing You can view PDF files in the Safari window. You'll find new controls that make it easier to work with these files. Open the PDF file in Preview or save it in your Downloads stack. To see the controls, move the pointer to the bottom of the Safari window. Safari