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Tracking down your version...............................................................65
Specifying a location............................................................................66
Availing Yourself of Mac OS X Services.......................................................66
Get Thee Hence: Using the Go Menu ...........................................................67
Monkeying with the Menu Bar......................................................................69
Using menu bar icons ..........................................................................69
Doing timely things with the Clock ....................................................71
Eject, Tex, Eject! .............................................................................................71
Common Tasks Aplenty.................................................................................72
Opening and editing text files.............................................................72
Listening to an audio CD .....................................................................73
Recording — nay, burning — a data CD ............................................74
All You Really Need to Know about Printing ..............................................75
Chapter 4: Searching Everything with Spotlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
Basic Searching 101 .......................................................................................79
Is Spotlight Really That Cool?.......................................................................81
Expanding Your Search Horizons.................................................................84
Customizing Spotlight to Your Taste ...........................................................85
Chapter 5: Fun with Photo Booth and Front Row . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Capturing the Moment with iSight and Photo Booth ................................89
Producing Video on the Spot with iMovie ..................................................92
Controlling Your Mac Remotely with Front Row........................................93
Chapter 6: Keeping Track with the Address Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
Hey, Isn’t the Address Book Just a Part of Mail?........................................97
Entering Contact Information.......................................................................99
Using Contact Information..........................................................................101
Arranging Your Contact Cards....................................................................103
Using Network Directories..........................................................................104
Printing Contacts with Flair........................................................................105
Swapping Bytes with vCards ......................................................................106
Chapter 7: The Joys of Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Deleting Applications the Common Sense Way........................................109
Popping the Hood: Using the System Profiler ..........................................111
Tracking Performance with Activity Monitor...........................................112
Fixing Things with the Disk Utility.............................................................114
Displaying the goods on your disks.................................................115
Playing doctor with First Aid ............................................................116
Erasing without seriously screwing up ...........................................118
Partitioning the right way .................................................................120
RAID has nothing to do with insects................................................122
Updating Mac OS X ......................................................................................123
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