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    Essential Macs Mojave Edition: The Illustrated Guide to Using your Mac
    Essential Macs Mojave Edition: The Illustrated Guide to Using your Mac
    Essential Macs Mojave Edition: The Illustrated Guide to Using your Mac
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    Essential Macs Mojave Edition: The Illustrated Guide to Using your Mac

    By Kevin Wilson

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    The twenty-first century offers more technology than we have ever seen before, but with new updates and apps coming out all the time, it’s hard to keep up. 


    Essential Macs: Mojave Edition is here to help. Along with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and photographs, this guide offers specifics in... 


    Setting up your Mac and exploring Mojave’s new features


    Navigating your Mac using the Dock, Finder, Dashboard, Spotlight, Spaces, Mission Control, and LaunchPad  


    Using touch gestures on the trackpad, magic mouse, as well as some useful keyboard shortcuts 


    Using Handoff, MailDrop, iMessage, Universal Clipboard, Auto Unlock, and Apple Pay  


    The new AppStore, Pages, Keynote, Apple Books, Continuity Camera and Maps  


    Using new apps such as News and Voice Memos Security considerations, malware, and backing with Time Machine  


    Maintaining your Mac with updates and keeping your machine running smoothly


    Setting up WiFi, using the internet, email, emojis, iMessage, and FaceTime  


    Using calendar and reminders to keep track of appointments & events, taking notes, and using Siri


    Downloading and upgrading to Mojave Organising and listening to your favourite music with iTunes and Apple Music 


    Storing, organising, enhancing your photos, as well as sharing them on social media  


    Creating photo albums, slideshows, photo books, greetings cards, calendars, and printing photos  


    Watching Films and TV Programmes, and much more...   


    Unlike other books and manuals that assume a computing background not possessed by beginners, Essential Macs: Mojave Edition tackles the fundamentals of the Mac, so that everyone from students, to senior citizens, to home users pressed for time, can understand. 


    So, if you’re looking for a Mac manual, Essential Macs: Mojave Edition will help you maximize the potential of your Mac to increase your productivity, and help you take advantage of the digital revolution. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElluminet Press
    Release dateNov 10, 2018
    ISBN9781911174745
    Essential Macs Mojave Edition: The Illustrated Guide to Using your Mac
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    Kevin Wilson

    Kevin Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Nothing to See Here, which was a Read with Jenna book club selection; The Family Fang, which was adapted into an acclaimed film starring Nicole Kidman and Jason Bateman; and Perfect Little World; as well as the story collections Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award; and Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Southern Review, One Story, A Public Space, and Best American Short Stories. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife and two sons.

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      Essential Macs Mojave Edition - Kevin Wilson

      About the Author

      Kevin Wilson has made a career out of technology and showing others how to use it. After earning a master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, and multimedia systems, Kevin worked as a tutor and college instructor, helping students master such subjects as multimedia, computer literacy and information technology. He currently serves as Elluminet Press Publishing’s senior writer and director, he periodically teaches computing at college in South Africa and serves as an IT trainer in England.

      Kevin’s motto is clear: If you can’t explain something simply, you haven’t understood it well enough. To that end, he has created the Computer Essentials series, in which he breaks down complex technological subjects into smaller, easy-to-follow steps that students and ordinary computer users can put into practice.

      Table of Contents

      MacOS Mojave 8

      What’s New? 8

      Setting up Your Mac 12

      Power Up 12

      Power Down 13

      Starting your Mac for the First Time 14

      Setting up Internet & WiFi 20

      Connecting Peripherals 22

      Add a Printer 23

      Apple Keys 25

      The Command Key 25

      The Option Key 25

      The Control Key 25

      The Function Key 25

      The Cloud 26

      Creating an Apple ID 26

      Time Machine Backup 27

      Setting Up Backups 27

      Restoring Items 31

      System Preferences 31

      Adding Internet Accounts 33

      Setting up Mice & Trackpads 36

      Getting Around Your Mac 38

      The Desktop 38

      Stacks 40

      The Dock 41

      Launchpad 43

      Spaces & Mission Control 44

      The Menu Bar 45

      Application Menu 45

      Status Menu 45

      Finder 46

      Tabs & Tags 47

      Finder View Style 49

      Markup 51

      Smart Folders 53

      Quick Preview Files 54

      Compress Files 54

      Accessing External Drives 55

      Accessing CDs/DVDs 56

      Connect to a Shared Folder 57

      Sharing Files on a Network 58

      iCloud Drive 59

      iCloud Drive File Sharing 62

      Dashboard 65

      Spotlight Search 66

      Notification Centre 67

      Dynamic Desktop 71

      Handoff 72

      Universal Clipboard 73

      Instant HotSpot 74

      Using Siri 75

      Apple Pay 76

      Set up Apple Pay 77

      Auto Unlock 79

      The Mac Keyboard 81

      Useful Keyboard Shortcuts 82

      MacOS Startup Keys 83

      Making Gestures 84

      One Finger Point and Tap 84

      Two Finger Scroll 85

      Two Finger Rotate 85

      Two Finger Swipe 86

      Four Finger Open Launchpad 86

      Magic Mouse 87

      Left Click 87

      Right Click 87

      Scrolling 88

      Swipe 88

      Find your Mouse Pointer 89

      The Touch Bar 90

      Dark Mode 91

      Using Applications 92

      Launching Your Applications 92

      Killing Unresponsive Apps 95

      App Store 96

      Tabbed Apps 98

      Maps 99

      Apple Books 101

      Notes 105

      iCal Calendar 106

      Adding an Event 107

      Add an Event from Email 108

      Subscribing to Public Calendar 109

      Sharing Calendars & Creating Public Calendars 109

      Image Capture 111

      Photobooth 112

      DVD Player 113

      Voice Memos 116

      Recording Memos 116

      Renaming Memos 117

      Trim a Memo 118

      News 119

      Pages App 122

      Starting Pages 122

      Formatting Text 123

      Adding a Picture 125

      Instant Alpha 126

      Saving 127

      Keynote App 128

      Editing a Slide 129

      Adding a New Slide 129

      Adding Media 130

      Animations 131

      Formatting Text Boxes 132

      Formatting Text Inside Textboxes 133

      Adding Styles to Textboxes 134

      Saving 136

      Numbers App 137

      Building a Spreadsheet 139

      Entering Data 139

      Changing Data Types 139

      Adding Formulas 140

      Adding Functions 140

      Saving 141

      Internet, Email & Communications 142

      Using Safari to Browse the Web 142

      Launching Safari 142

      Using Safari 143

      Bookmarking Pages 144

      Using the Sidebar 145

      Downloads 146

      Apple Mail 147

      Writing an Email 148

      Mail Drop 150

      Mail Markup 152

      Dealing with Spam & Junk Mail 155

      Contacts 156

      Add a Contact from Scratch 157

      Creating Groups 158

      Add Email Contact from Apple Mail 159

      Facetime 160

      iMessage 163

      Air Drop 165

      Mac Phone 167

      Using Multimedia 168

      Photos App 168

      Importing your Photos 169

      Creating Folders and Albums 171

      Adding Photos to Albums 173

      Manipulating & Enhancing Photos 174

      Adding Filters 177

      Sharing Photos 178

      Creating Photobooks 180

      Creating Slide Shows 185

      Ordering Prints 188

      Printing Photos 190

      Greeting Cards 191

      A Gift Calendar 195

      Faces 197

      Places 197

      Memories 198

      Create your Own Memory 199

      Share a Memory 201

      Smart Search 202

      Continuity Camera 203

      iTunes 206

      Plugging in an iPhone or iPad 207

      Add Music to iPhone or iPad 208

      Burn a Playlist to a CD 208

      Import from a CD 209

      iTunes Store 210

      Searching the Store 211

      Films & TV Programmes 211

      Apple Music 213

      Search 215

      Browse 216

      Recommendations for You 217

      Follow Artists 218

      Creating Playlists 218

      Adding Songs 219

      Maintaining your Mac 220

      User Accounts 220

      Firewall 222

      Gatekeeper 223

      Do Apple Macs get Viruses? 224

      Downloading MacOS Mojave 227

      Installing MacOS Mojave 228

      Create a Boot Drive 229

      Booting from a USB Drive 231

      Recovery Mode 236

      App Updates 236

      System Updates 237

      MacOS Mojave

      MacOS Mojave 10.14 (pronounced Mo-hah-vee), is the fifteenth major release of Apple’s desktop operating system for Mac computers.

      Macs come in different shapes and sizes.

      Mac mini

      Macbook series

      iMac series

      iMac Pro series

      MacPro series

      According to Apple, the following Macs will be able to support MacOS Mojave

      iMac Pro (2017 onwards)

      Mac Pro (late 2013 onwards)

      MacBook Pro (mid 2012 onwards)

      MacBook Air (mid 2012 onwards)

      MacBook (early 2015 onwards)

      iMac (late 2012 onwards)

      Mac Mini (late 2012 onwards)

      Keep this in mind if you’re upgrading from a previous version of MacOS.

      What’s New?

      Mojave looks very much like its predecessors, El Capitan, Yosemite, and Sierra with a few minor interface refinements.

      Mojave brings over several iOS apps such Stocks, News and Voice Memos, as well as Emojis for email.

      Apple have enhanced the ‘Dark Mode’ feature, making it easier on the eyes especially when using your Mac for long periods of time.

      Finder has a new gallery view, and Quickview has a few more features such as markup

      Users can organise cluttered icons by automatically stacking files into groups based on file attribute. Just click on a stack to view the files.

      A new feature called Dynamic Desktop adjusts the desktop wallpaper according to the time of the day...

      The dock also now has a ‘recent apps’ section on the right hand side.

      Mac App Store has been rewritten from the ground-up and now features a new interface similar to the App Store on iPhone/iPad. A new ‘Discover’ tab highlights new and updated apps.

      Now you can use your iPhone or iPad to take a picture or scan a document, and have it automatically appear on your mac with a new feature called continuity camera.

      Setting up Your Mac

      Setting up Mojave is pretty straight forward. If you haven’t already got it installed, you can find a tutorial in Chapter 7 of this guide.

      Once it is installed and ready to go, you will need to connect your WiFi or internet connection.

      Create an Apple ID if you haven’t already got one. If you do but didn’t enter it during installation, you can sign in with your Apple ID in system preferences under iCloud.

      Also it’s a good idea to set up Time Machine using an external hard drive to do periodic automatic backups of your data.

      Power Up

      The power button on the mac is on the top right of the keyboard on a MacBook laptop.

      or

      On the Macbooks with the touch bar, you can unlock and power up your Mac using the touch sensor on the top right of the keyboard.

      On the iMac and Mac Mini, the power button is situated on the back panel.

      Press the button once to start up your mac.

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