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Because Apple frequently releases new versions and updates to its software, images shown in this book may be slightly different from what you see on your screen. 1 Welcome to Tiger Mac OS X puts power at your fingertips with Spotlight searching, Dashboard widgets, custom web news, and four-way video conferencing. Spotlight Dashboard iChat AV Safari RSS Automator Find anything, anywhere, anytime. Instantly. Instant access to a new kind of application called widgets. Video conference with up to three other people. Scan the latest news, information, and articles from the Internet. Automate tasks with point-and-click simplicity. 3 Spotlight Find anything, anytime on your computer as quickly as you can type. Search your entire system from anywhere to find documents, email, contacts, calendars, music, movies, photos, bookmarks, and applications. To find something, click the Spotlight icon, then type a few letters or words. Click to view a slideshow of your images. The Spotlight window shows all the search results in groups. Click to show or hide a group of items. The Spotlight menu shows the top 20 items you have opened recently. Click an item to open it. 4 Organized results To view all the results of your search, choose Show All in the Spotlight menu to open the Spotlight window. You can group items, sort them, and limit the results. You can preview images and see additional information about items. Click to select the way you want to group the results. Click to view additional information about an item. This is the metadata that Spotlight uses to search for this image. Click to group, sort, or limit search results. Customize Spotlight Use Spotlight preferences to select and prioritize the types of items you want to search for. If you don't want to search certain folders or disks, click Privacy and then select them. Drag items to prioritize search results. Click to deselect items you don't want displayed. Choose a shortcut to show the Spotlight search field. 5 Spotlight... Everywhere You'll find Spotlight throughout Mac OS X Tiger, including the Finder, System Preferences, Mail, Address Book, and elsewhere. You can also save search criteria to create a Smart Folder that updates its contents automatically each time you open it. After you specify a search, click Save to create a Smart Folder. Type a few letters or words to search your files. Click a Smart Folder to see the current contents or edit its search criteria. Click the Add (+) button to search using additional criteria. 6 Finding preferences To find and change a preferences setting, open System Preferences and type a few letters or words in the search field. Spotlight even understands Windows terms. Type a few letters or words to find the preference you want to set. Choose a term in this menu to see where the setting is located. When the preferences pane you want is highlighted, press Return to open it. Finding documents You can use Spotlight to find items when you're using any application. You can also use the search field in the Open and Save dialogs to find files and folders on your computer. Type a few letters or words to search for items on your computer. Click to select where you want to search. 7 Dashboard Dashboard zooms onto your desktop with the click of a mouse and, like Exposé, disappears just as quickly. You can use widgets to get up-to-date information, quickly look up contacts, check your stock portfolio, see what's playing on iTunes, and more. Some widgets get information from the Internet. Click anywhere on the desktop to close Dashboard. Click to open the Dashboard widget bar to add more widgets. You can open more than one copy of a widget. Click the Dashboard icon to open it. 8 Expanding Dashboard It's a snap to get more widgets. When you open Dashboard, click the Open (+) button to show the widget bar. To add a widget to Dashboard, just click it. Click to close the widget bar. Click to close the widget. If this icon appears, click it to see other widgets. Customizing widgets Most widgets are simple and customizable to fit your needs. To see the settings you can change, click the Info button in the bottom right corner. For example, in the Stock widget, you can specify the stocks you want to see. When you're finished, click Done. Click the Info button to select options for a widget. To add a stock, type a company's name or symbol, then press Return. Select a name in the menu, then click the Add (+) button. 9 iChat AV Use multiway video and audio conferencing to chat live with friends and colleagues. Video conference with up to three other people with stunning, true-to-life pictures and crystal-clear conversation. Change your availability with the iChat status icon. Chat with family, friends, and colleagues. All you need is their .Mac member name, AIM screen name, or Jabber ID. The 3D view practically puts your guests in the room with you, right down to the reflection on the table. Click to view your video conference full screen. 10 Audio chats You can hold audio chats with up to nine other people. Just select their names and click the telephone icon at the bottom of the Buddy List. This person is available for a multiperson audio chat. The bar indicates who is talking. Participants can leave the chat at any time. If you need to remove someone, select the icon and press Delete. Click to mute the chat if you need to answer the phone or talk to someone in your office. Instant messaging You can use iChat instant messaging to chat with one person or many. While you're chatting, you can send web links, files, and photos by simply dragging them into the chat. Web links open with a click. Choose View > Show Chat Participants to see everyone in the chat. This person is available for a multiperson video chat. Click to add buddies to your chat. Type your message here. Click the Smiley menu icon to add a Smiley to your message. 11 Safari RSS Now Safari brings you up-to-the-minute RSS news, headlines, and summaries from the web. Scan thousands of articles in one easy-to-read, searchable list. Then bookmark your search to quickly find similar articles in the future. Click to view the webpage. Click again to see the RSS feeds. The number of unread RSS articles appears next to the bookmark. View RSS articles in the Safari browser window, then click "Read more" to read the full article. Bookmark article searches to use the search again and again. 12 Display PDFs You can view PDFs right in the webpage so that you don't have to download the file to use it. The contextual menu lets you choose how you want to view the PDF. Hold down the Control key and click the PDF to select viewing options. Choose Auto Size to scale the PDF to fit in the window as you resize it. Private browsing When you browse the Internet using a public computer, turn on Private Browsing to protect your information. When it's on, the websites you visit aren't added to the history, your information isn't saved for AutoFill, and searches aren't added to the Google search box. Choose Private Browsing from the Safari menu to protect your personal information. You can also reset Safari or empty the cache. 13 Mail Take control of your inbox. With Spotlight searching, find messages instantly and organize them using Smart Mailboxes. Slideshows make it easy to view images you receive in messages and then save them directly to your iPhoto library. Type a few letters or words to search your mailboxes. Create a Smart Mailbox to automatically organize email messages. Click Slideshow to view the images attached to a message. 14 Instant searching When you type a few letters or words in the search field, Mail immediately starts finding messages. You can then change where Mail is searching and save your search as a Smart Mailbox. Select to search all mailboxes or the current mailbox and the field to search in. Slideshow viewing When you view images in an email message as a slideshow, you can view them as thumbnails on an index sheet or as individual pictures. As you view individual pictures, click to add them to your iPhoto library. Click Save to create a Smart Mailbox with this search. Click an image in index view to see it full size. Click to see images on an index sheet. Click to add the current image to your iPhoto library. 15 Address Book and iCal Address Book and iCal make it easy to organize and share information so that you can collaborate with others. iCal lets you invite guests to events, while calendar groups help you organize your meetings and events. This icon indicates that everyone invited to the meeting has accepted. Create calendar groups to organize your calendars. Double-click an event to see it in your calendar. Click to check the status of events you are invited to or have invited other people to. Type a word or two to find events in your calendars. 16 Event invitations You can invite Address Book contacts to events you create in iCal. When you do, iCal sends them an email invitation. When they reply, you receive an email from them and iCal is updated. To invite people to an event, type their names the same way you address messages in Mail. If your guests use iCal, they can choose their status and send you a reply. Finding contacts Address Book provides several ways to organize and find your contacts. Use Spotlight searching to quickly locate any person in your address book. Create a Smart Group to quickly find contacts based on information in Address Book. Type a few letters or words to search your contacts. Click a Smart Group to see the contacts in the group. 17 .Mac Sync .Mac sync* makes it simple to keep your information synchronized on several Mac computers. You can synchronize bookmarks, calendars, contacts, and more so that you always have current information available. Sync your iDisk automatically so that you can access your files from several computers. iSync lets you synchronize contacts and calendars on your iPod, phone, or PDA. Use .Mac preferences to select the information you want to synchronize. * To use iDisk and .Mac syncing, you need a .Mac membership. 18 .Mac syncing You can select the information you want to synchronize and how you want to do it. Choose to sync automatically; every hour, day, or week; or manually. To sync your information immediately, click Sync Now. Choose whether you want to sync your information automatically or do it yourself. Select the information you want to synchronize. Syncing your iPod iSync lets you select how you want to synchronize your contacts and calendars on your iPod. You can sync all your contacts and calendars, or you can select a specific group or calendar. Select to sync your iPod automatically when you connect it to your Mac. Choose the group of contacts you want to sync. Select the iCal calendars you want to sync on your iPod. 19 QuickTime 7 The new H.264 codec in QuickTime 7 delivers crystal-clear video and smooth playback even when you change the size of the player window. Upgrade to QuickTime 7 Pro to capture movies and share them with your friends. Get up to four times the frame size of MPEG-4 video. Select the part of the movie you want to review. Using QuickTime 7 Pro, capture video live using your iSight or other FireWire camera. 20 Sharing Share your QuickTime movies effortlessly. Choose Share from the File menu to send your movie in an email or put it on your .Mac website. Send your movie in an email or save it on your .Mac HomePage. Choose a size that works best with your Internet connection. Easy controls QuickTime 7 Pro gives you great control of your movies. When you're viewing a movie in fullscreen mode, move your mouse to see the control panel. Control playback using familiar video controls. Click to return to normal viewing. 21 Works With Windows Your Mac fits seamlessly into Windows networks so you can share documents and printers with everyone. You can establish a secure connection to a Windows network over the Internet and access Mi ...