Contents at a Glance -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Beyond the Book -- Icons Used in This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part I: Getting Started with OS X Mavericks -- Chapter 1: OS X Mavericks 101 (Prerequisites: None) -- Gnawing to the Core of OS X -- A Safety Net for the Absolute Beginner (Or Any User) -- Not Just a Beatles Movie: Help and the Help Menu -- Chapter 2: The Desktop and Windows and Menus (Oh My!) -- Touring the Finder and Its Desktop -- Anatomy of a Window -- Dialog Dealie-Boppers -- Working with Windows -- Menu Basics -- Chapter 3: Have It Your Way -- Introducing System Preferences -- Putting a Picture on the Desktop -- Setting Up a Screen Saver -- Putting Widgets on the Dashboard -- Giving Buttons, Menus, and Windows a Makeover -- Adjusting the Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad, and Other Hardware -- Styling Your Sound -- Chapter 4: What's Up, Dock? -- A Quick Introduction to Your Dock -- Customizing Your Dock -- Chapter 5: The Finder and Its Desktop -- Introducing the Finder and Its Minions: The Desktop and Icons -- Aliases: Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread -- The View(s) from a Window -- Finder on the Menu -- Customizing Finder Windows -- Digging for Icon Data in the Info Window -- Part II: Mavericks Taming (Or "Organization for Smart People") -- Chapter 6: The Care and Feeding of Files and Folders -- Understanding the OS X Folder Structure -- Saving Your Document Before It's Too Late -- Open Sez Me -- Organizing Your Stuff in Folders -- Shuffling Around Files and Folders -- Chapter 7: Four Terrific Timesaving Tools -- With a Quick Look -- Spotlight on Finding Files and Folders Faster -- Exposé Yourself to Mission Control -- Launchpad: The Place for Applications -- Customizing Your Launchpad -- Chapter 8: Dealing with Disks -- Comprehending Disks.

Surprise: Your PC Disks Work, Too! -- Chapter 9: Organizing Your Life -- Keeping Track with Calendar -- Reminders: Protection Against Forgetting -- Use Notes for Making Notes -- Part III: Do Unto Mavericks: Getting Things Done -- Chapter 10: (Inter)Networking -- Getting Connected to the Internet -- Browsing the web with Safari -- Video Calls with FaceTime -- Chapter 11: Communications Made Easy -- Collecting Your Contacts -- Sending and Receiving E-Mail with Mail -- Communicating with Messages -- Maps Are Where It's At -- Chapter 12: The Musical Mac -- Introducing iTunes -- Working with Media -- All About Playlists -- Chapter 13: The Multimedia Mac -- Playing Movies and Music in QuickTime Player -- iBooks: Finally on the Mac -- You're the Star with Photo Booth -- Viewing and Converting Images and PDFs in Preview -- Importing Media -- Chapter 14: Words and Letters -- Processing Words with TextEdit -- Font Mania -- Part IV: Mastering Your Mavericks -- Chapter 15: Publish or Perish: The Fail-Safe Guide to Printing -- Before Diving In . . . -- Ready: Connecting and Adding Your Printer -- Set: Setting Up Your Document with Page Setup -- Print: Printing with the Print Sheet -- Preview and PDF Options -- Chapter 16: Sharing Your Mac and Liking It -- Introducing Networks and File Sharing -- Setting Up File Sharing -- Access and Permissions: Who Can Do What -- Connecting to a Shared Disk or Folder on a Remote Mac -- Changing Your Password -- More Types of Sharing -- Chapter 17: Features for the Way You Work -- Talking and Listening to Your Mac -- Automatic Automation -- A Few More Useful Goodies -- AirPlay Mirroring -- Part V: The Care and Feeding of Your Mavericks -- Chapter 18: Safety First: Backups and Other Security Issues -- Backing Up Is (Not) Hard to Do -- Why You Need Two Sets of Backups -- Non-Backup Security Concerns.

Protecting Your Data from Prying Eyes -- Chapter 19: Utility Chest -- Calculator -- Activity Monitor -- AirPort Utility -- ColorSync Utility -- DigitalColor Meter -- Disk Utility -- Grab -- Grapher -- Keychain Access -- Migration Assistant -- System Information -- Terminal -- Chapter 20: Troubleshooting OS X -- About Startup Disks and Booting -- Recovering with Recovery HD -- If Your Mac Crashes at Startup -- Part VI: The Part of Tens -- Chapter 21: Almost Ten Ways to Speed Up Your Mac Experience -- Use Those Keyboard Shortcuts -- Improve Your Typing Skills -- Resolution: It's Not Just for New Year's Anymore -- A Mac with a View - and Preferences, Too -- Get a New, Faster Model -- You Can Never Have Too Much RAM! -- Get an Accelerated Graphics Card -- Get a New Hard Drive -- Get a Solid State Drive (SSD) -- Chapter 22: Ten (Or So) Great Websites for Mac Freaks -- MacFixIt -- Macworld -- The Mac Observer -- Download. com (Formerly VersionTracker) -- MacInTouch -- Alltop -- Apple Support -- Other World Computing -- EveryMac.com -- dealmac -- Dr. Mac Consulting -- Index -- About the Author.