iMac For Dummies, 7th Edition -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Author's Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- What's Really (Not) Required -- About This Book -- Conventions Used in This Book -- How This Book Is Organized -- Icons Used in This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- A Final Word -- Part I: Know Your iMac -- Chapter 1: Okay, This Machine Looks Really, Really Weird -- An Introduction to the Beast -- Choosing a Home for Your New Pet -- Unpacking and Connecting -- Discovering All the Cool Things You Can Do -- Stuff You Oughta Buy Right Now -- Chapter 2: Life! Give My iMac Life! -- Throwing the Big Leaf Switch -- Mark's Favorite Signs of a Healthy iMac -- Harriet, It's Already Asking Me Questions! -- Importing Documents and Data from Your Old Mac -- Manually Importing Documents and Data from Windows -- Chapter 3: Introducing the Apple of Your iMac -- A Quick Tour of the Premises -- Calling for Help -- Part II: Shaking Hands with Mac OS X -- Chapter 4: Opening and Closing and Clicking and Such -- Working within the Finder -- Pointing in a Mac World -- Launching and Quitting for the Lazy iMac Owner -- Juggling Folders and Icons -- Keys and Keyboard Shortcuts to Fame and Fortune -- Performing Tricks with Finder Windows -- Chapter 5: A Plethora of Powerful Fun -- Home, Sweet Home Folder -- Arranging Your Desktop -- Putting the Dock to the Test -- What's with the Trash? -- Working Magic with Dashboard, Mission Control, and Spaces -- Printing within Mac OS X -- Chapter 6: A Nerd's Guide to System Preferences -- A Not-So-Confusing Introduction -- Searching for Settings -- Popular Preference Panes Explained -- Chapter 7: Searching amidst iMac Chaos -- Basic Searching 101 -- Is Spotlight Really That Cool? -- Expanding Your Search Horizons -- Customizing Spotlight to Your Taste -- Part III: Connecting and Communicating.

Chapter 8: Let's Go on Safari! -- Pretend You've Never Used This Thing -- Visiting Websites -- Navigating the Web -- Setting Up Your Home Page -- Adding and Using Bookmarks -- Downloading Files -- Using Subscriptions and History -- Tabs Are Your Browsing Friends -- Saving Web Pages -- Protecting Your Privacy -- Chapter 9: Expanding Your Horizons with iCloud -- So How Does iCloud Work, Anyway? -- Configuring iCloud -- Managing Your iCloud Storage -- Chapter 10: Hooking Up with Handy Helpers -- Connecting Printers -- Connecting Scanners -- Using Photo Booth -- Conversing with FaceTime -- Turning Your iMac into a TV - And More -- Part IV: Living the iLife -- Chapter 11: The Multimedia Joy of iTunes -- What Can I Play on iTunes? -- Playing an Audio CD -- Playing Digital Audio and Video -- Keeping Slim Whitman and Slim Shady Apart: Organizing with Playlists -- Know Your Songs -- Ripping Audio Files -- Tweaking the Audio for Your Ears -- A New Kind of Radio Station -- iSending iStuff to iPod -- Sharing Media across a Network -- Joining the Ping People -- Burning Music to Shiny Plastic Circles -- Feasting on iTunes Visuals -- Exercising Parental Authority -- Buying Digital Media the Apple Way -- Chapter 12: The Masterpiece That Is iPhoto -- Delving into iPhoto -- Working with Images in iPhoto -- Producing Your Own Coffee-Table Masterpiece -- Putting Photo Stream to Work -- E-Mailing Photos to Aunt Mildred -- Chapter 13: Making Film History with iMovie -- Shaking Hands with the iMovie Window -- A Bird's-Eye View of Moviemaking -- Importing the Building Blocks -- Building the Cinematic Basics -- Creating an Honest-to-Goodness Movie Trailer -- Sharing Your Finished Classic with Others -- Chapter 14: iDVD - Your DVD Movie Factory -- Hey, Where's the Complex Window? -- Starting a New DVD Project -- Creating a DVD from Scratch.

Giving Your DVD the Personal Touch -- Previewing Your Masterpiece -- A Word about Automation -- Recording a Finished Project to a Shiny Disc -- Chapter 15: Recording Your Hits with GarageBand -- Shaking Hands with Your Band -- Composing and Podcasting Made Easy -- Automatic Composition with Magic GarageBand -- Sharing Your Songs and Podcasts -- Chapter 16: Creating a Website with iWeb -- Looking around the iWeb Window -- Planning Your Pages -- Adding a New Site -- Adding a New Page -- Editing a Page -- Tweaking with the Inspector -- Publishing Your Website -- Part V: Getting Productive with iWork and Other Tools -- Chapter 17: Desktop Publishing with Pages -- Creating a New Pages Document -- Open an Existing Pages Document -- Saving Your Work -- Touring the Pages Window -- Entering and Editing Text -- Using Text and Graphics Boxes -- The Three Amigos: Cut, Copy, and Paste -- Formatting Text the Easy Way -- Adding a Spiffy Table -- Adding Alluring Photos -- Adding a Background Shape -- Are You Sure about That Spelling? -- Printing Your Pages Documents -- Sharing That Poster with Others -- Chapter 18: Creating Spreadsheets with Numbers -- Before You Launch Numbers . . . -- Creating a New Numbers Document -- Opening an Existing Spreadsheet File -- Save Those Spreadsheets! -- Exploring the Numbers Window -- Navigating and Selecting Cells in a Spreadsheet -- Entering and Editing Data in a Spreadsheet -- Selecting the Correct Number Format -- Aligning Cell Text Just So -- Formatting with Shading -- Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns -- The Formula Is Your Friend -- Adding Visual Punch with a Chart -- Chapter 19: Building Presentations with Keynote -- Creating a New Keynote Project -- Opening a Keynote Presentation -- Saving Your Presentation -- Putting Keynote to Work -- Adding Slides -- Working with Text and Graphics Boxes.

Adding and Editing Slide Text -- Formatting Slide Text for the Perfect Look -- Using Presenter's Notes in Your Project -- Every Good Presentation Needs Media -- Adding a Background Shape -- Creating Your Keynote Slideshow -- Printing Your Slides and Notes -- Chapter 20: Creating a Multiuser iMac -- Once Upon a Time (An Access Fairy Tale) -- Big-Shot Administrator Stuff -- Multiuser Rules for Everyone -- Chapter 21: Building (Or Joining) a Network -- What, Exactly, Is the Network Advantage? -- The Great Debate: Wired versus Wireless -- Sharing Internet Access -- What Do You Need to Connect? -- Connecting to the Network -- USE YOUR FIREWALL! -- Part VI: The Necessary Evils: Troubleshooting, Upgrading, Maintaining -- Chapter 22: It Just . . . Sits . . . There -- Can You Troubleshoot? Yes, You Can! -- Basic Troubleshooting 101 -- Okay, I Kicked It, and It Still Won't Work -- Chapter 23: I Want to Add Stuff -- More Memory Will Help -- Can I Upgrade My Hard Drive? -- Attractive Add-Ons -- Chapter 24: Tackling the Housekeeping -- Cleaning Unseemly Data Deposits -- Backing Up Your Treasure -- Saving Files -- Putting Things Right with Time Machine -- Maintaining Hard Drive Health -- Automating Those Mundane Chores -- Updating Mac OS X Automatically -- Chapter 25: Running Windows on Your iMac -- Figuring Out How Boot Camp Works -- Comparing Boot Camp to Windows Emulators -- Configuring Boot Camp -- Switching to Windows -- Checking for Apple Updates -- Part VII: The Part of Tens -- Chapter 26: Ten Ways to Speed Up Your iMac -- Nothing Works Like a Shot of Memory -- Hold a Conversation with Your iMac -- Vamoose, Unwanted Fragments! -- Keep Your Desktop Background Simple -- Column Mode Is for Power Users -- Make the Dock Do Your Bidding -- It All Started with Keyboard Shortcuts -- Hey, You Tweaked Your Finder! -- Keep in Touch with Your Recent Past.

Go Where the Going Is Good -- Chapter 27: Ten Things to Avoid Like the Plague -- Man, Dig That Crazy Disc -- Phishing Is No Phun -- Don't Rely on a Single Password -- Do You Really Want a Submerged Keyboard? -- Don't Use Antiquated Utility Software -- Don't Endorse Software Piracy -- Call It the Forbidden Account -- Don't Settle for a Surge Suppressor -- Refurbished Hardware Is No Deal at All -- iMacs Appreciate Cleanliness -- Index.