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Table of Contents

You asked for it! What follows is the table of contents for my book. As huge as this page is, it isn't complete. Not included here are entries for the hundreds of Quick Tips, Step-by-Step, Backgrounder, and PowerBook Angle sidebars located throughout the Macworld New Complete Mac Handbook.

Chapter 1: Buying a Mac and Getting Acquainted

First Things First: Buying a Mac
Hardware Decisions
Do you need AV features?
What kind of monitor should you buy?
Of course you want a CD-ROM drive
What's All This Stuff on the Back of the Mac?
PowerPC: What's All the Fuss About?
Growing pains
The first-generation Power Macs
The second-generation Power Macs
And Now, Macintosh Clones
Meet the Mac OS
Harder hardware steps
Power Computing
Comparing the first Power Computing machines
Radius and DayStar clones
Future directions for Mac clones
Running DOS/Windows on a Mac
Macs to Go - the PowerBook Family
Family similarities
PowerBook 500-series details
Duo details
Is a Duo for you?
Finding the Best Route
Understanding the Mac's Interface
The Mac's way of doing things
Finder basics
Getting help
Clipboard 101
Dragging and dropping
What's Your Version Number?
Determining version numbers
Decoding version numbering schemes
Basic Navigation Techniques
The role of the rodent
Advanced mouse maneuvers
Natural selection
Scrolling along
Navigating with the keyboard
Navigation nooks and keyboard crannies
Consider a copilot
Jargon 102 - Mac Acronyms
ADB - The Apple Desktop Bus
SCSI - Small Computer Systems Interface
RAM and ROM - the Mac's memory
CPU - the Central Processing Unit
The PowerPC family: What's the RISC?
Coprocessors - CPU sidekicks
Letter Rip
What to Read Next?

Chapter 2: Word Processing: The Basics

The Basics
Know Thy Rulers
Secrets of the Lowly Paragraph Indent
First-line indents: the good news
First-line indents: the bad news
Hanging indents
Nested indents
Tables and Tabs
Table basics
Table tools
Tips for tables: improving legibility
Column headings
Search-and-Replace Strategies
Finding formatting in Word
Finding formatting in other programs
Citizen Mac
Some Final Words

Chapter 3: Word Processing Power Tips

Finding Your Center
Vertical centering in Word
Vertical centering in WordPerfect
Making and Tracking Revisions
Revision tracking in Word 6
Reviewing and incorporating revisions
Revision tracking in WordPerfect
DocuComp II: advanced revision tracking
Electronic Annotations
How to Make Watermarks
Making watermarks in Word
Making watermarks in WordPerfect
See You in Court
Numbering lines in Word
Numbering lines in WordPerfect
Other features for legal eagles
Creating a Personal Dictionary
Other ways to fine-tune spelling
Shopping for customized dictionaries
Working with Stationery and Templates
Creating your own stationery
Word templates: stationery on steroids
Cut Down on Typing with AutoText
Automate Formatting with Styles
Fast formatting - and reformatting
Linking styles
Tailoring Keyboard Shortcuts and Menus
More Word customizing tips
Customizing WordPerfect
Macros: Word Processing on Autopilot
Two paths to macro mania
Recording a macro in Microsoft Word 6
Record a macro in WordPerfect
Spend Time Now to Save Time Later

Chapter 4: Fast Formatting with Style Sheets

The Elements of Styles
Advanced Style Techniques
Next styles: linking one style to another
Basing one style on another
Redefining a Style
Making a Style Available in All Documents
Other ways to sling styles around
Moving styles in WriteNow
Overriding a Style
The benefits of character-level styles
Easy Ways to Become Style Conscious

Chapter 5: Spreadsheet Basics

Everything in Its Cell
Navigating in a Spreadsheet
Manipulating Data with Functions
Sprucing Up Data with Formats
Making Things Manageable
Linking documents together
Saving time with macros
Creating customized dialog boxes
Using on-screen tool palettes
Creating Charts and Graphs
Tips for Spreadsheet Shoppers
The Power of Numbers

Chapter 6: Excel Power Tips

Tips for Creating Formulas
Name That Cell
Commuter lanes for spreadsheet cells
Other benefits to cell naming
Formatting Cells Appropriately
Tips for font formatting
Outlining Your Spreadsheet
Automatic outlining
Manual outlining
Experimenting with outlining
Strength in Numbers: Linking Worksheets
The benefits of linking
How to make a link in Excel
Workbooks: Digital Binders
Workbooks in Excel 5
From Fonts to Forms: Formatting Tips
Adding borders and shading
Accuracy is Everything
Zoom out for the big picture
Finding the cells referenced in a formula
Power auditing with the Select Special command
Optimizing Performance and Memory
Don't format gratuitously
Strip formatting from macros
Work down rather than across
Get faster recalc speeds
Automatic Updating with Publish and Subscribe
Bridging the Mac-PC Gap
Use TrueType fonts
Use DOS filenames - even on the Mac
Have your macros find out where they are
Use OLE instead of publish and subscribe

Chapter 7: The Delights of Databases

Data Basics
Phase 1: Set up the structure
Phase 2: Create forms and reports
Different Fields for Different Yields
Tips for improving accuracy
Choosing and changing field types
Sorting Out Your Data
Sorting on multiple levels
More Tips for Improving Accuracy
Use entry checking to avoid typos
Use input patterns to simplify data entry
Use range checking to keep entries in the ballpark
Use auto-entry to cut down typing
Golden Retrievers
Just browsing
Specifying your search criteria
Simplifying complex searches
Reporting the results of a search
The Mail Merge Angle
Understanding Relational Databases
Comparing single-file and relational databases
Choosing the right database for the job
Generating custom database applications
Database Shopping Tips
Spreadsheets as databases
A Database Variation: Time-Billing Software
How Time-Billing Software Works
The inevitable setup chores
Timing Is Everything
A stopwatch in your Mac
Customer relations tip: hide the stopwatch
The search-and-sort angle
Reporting Results
Bill me
Check up on me
Time Billing through Window Watching
Time-billing for QuarkXPress
How Not to Use Time-Billing Software
Data Processing: Massaging Your Data
How Data Processing Utilities Work
Just the text, ma'am
The data-processing process
Case Workers: Converting All-Caps Entries
Converting case in DataMate
Converting Fixed-Record Files
Removing Duplicates
Stripping and Changing Fields
Merging Ahead
Plan Ahead for Best Results
Parting Thoughts about Data Management

Chapter 8: Managing Mail Merge

Exporting the Database
Getting your delimiters right
Preparing the header record
Merging with Microsoft Word
Tips for creating the template document
Deciphering the main document's window
Preview your merge as you edit the main document
You can't type field codes manually anymore
Reviewing the results
Merging with WriteNow
Preparing the template document
Performing the merge
Merging with WordPerfect
Making a WordPerfect data document
Use Find/Change to create the codes
After the Merge: A Primer on Bulk Mailing
Know Your Mailing Options
What determines your rate?
More bulk-mailing requirements
How the Mac Can Help
A closer look at mailing software
Less initial work
Better features for eliminating duplicates
Better printing features
CASS: Postal Proofreading
Other benefits to CASS certification
Small-time mailers need not apply
CASS alternatives
Printing Time
For More Mailing Information
Bulk Mailing for the Rest of Us

Chapter 9: Desktop Publishing Basics

The Desktop Difference
Outfitting a Publishing System
The cheap route: Mac and rubber cement
The more direct route: a publishing program
The upscale route: all the trimmings
The Software Side
What publishing programs do
Two different layout philosophies
Color on the leading edge
Power Publishing with FrameMaker
All-in-one publishing
Scaling the command-driven mountain
Publishing Alternatives
Putting the Issue to Bed

Chapter 10: Publishing Techniques and Power Tips

Page Size Decisions
Two sides are better than one
Print on offbeat paper for a hot look
Use tiling for oversized publications
Are You Typographically Correct?
Use search-and-replace to convert dashes
Using auto ligatures in QuarkXPress
Improving Character Spacing
The truth about tracking
Improving spacing through kerning
Better Spacing with Justified Type
Adjusting justified spacing
Hyphenating with discretion
A Spot of Color
Expanding Your Page-Layout Program
Why extensibility?
Understanding software add-ons
Quark's XTension technology
Adobe PageMaker plug-ins
Drawbacks to the PageMaker approach
Where to get add-ons
Who's more expandable?
Taking the Next Step

Chapter 11: Fonts and Typography

Fonts 101: The Basics
Typefaces versus fonts
A field guide to character components
Units of measurement in the type world
Monospaced versus proportional fonts
Pi fonts: what a bunch of characters
Improving Your Desktop Typography
Tips for Choosing Fonts
Better serif than sorry
Mix and match within families
Condensing copy when space is tight
Line Length and Type Size Decisions
Tips for determining the ideal line length
Deciding on a type size
Leading Guidelines
Use more leading for long line lengths
Use less leading for headlines
Understanding Alignment Issues
Ragged-right margins
Ragged left and centered
Display Type: Details Count
Kerning for better spacing
Letterspacing for that elegant look
For best results, use the Return key
Shrink those symbols
Designing Forms and Faxes
Choosing fonts for forms
Choosing fonts for the screen
Choosing fonts for faxes
Sweating the Details
Styles to avoid
Where to use small caps
One more thing about fractions
Italics versus Obliques
How to see oblique text for yourself
Choosing between oblique and italics
Closing Thoughts on Typography
Under the Hood: How Fonts Work
Bitmap versus outline fonts
Bitmaps: one recipe for each size
Outlines: one recipe fits all
The downside of outlines
Outline font advantages
Understanding Outline Font Formats
TrueType fonts
Comparing TrueType and PostScript fonts
PostScript Font Details
Type 1 Fonts
Type 3 Fonts
Serving Multiple Masters
How Multiple Master fonts work
More memory required
Ares Software's Chameleon Technology
QuickDraw GX: Fine Type for the Rest of Us
An overview of QuickDraw GX benefits
The down side: You need new fonts and programs
More on Smart Fonts
Lots of characters
Contextual substitution tables
Built-in bitmaps
Unlimited style variations
More on GX Line-Layout Features
Automatic kerning and tracking
Automatic optical alignment
Automatic hanging punctuation
International advantages
Font Customizing and Special Effects
Expand and Condense
Expanding and condensing within a program
Expanding and condensing with a font utility
Don't scale too much
Some effects lengthen printing times
Let's Get Fractional
Turning Text into Pictures
Turning Pictures into Text
Creating Stylish Display Type
How type-effects programs work
PostCraft's Effects Specialist
Bigger, better banners

Chapter 12: Painting, Drawing, and Graphing

Image-processing programs
Drawing Distinctions
Grouping objects
Selecting elements
Hard Copy Differences
Choosing Between Paint and Pen
When to use a paint program
When to use a draw program
Illustration programs
Text as a design element
Mixed Media
Focus on Charts and Graphs
Graph basics
The elements of a graph
Tips for titling graphs
Choosing colors and patterns
Legendary advice
Adding precision and legibility
More type tips for graphs
Improving legibility with gridlines
Dealing with problem data
The role of decoration in graphs
Computer-Aided Design - Drafting on the Mac
A brief history of CAD
Categories of CAD
Life with a CAD program
Other labor-saving features
Exchanging and printing CAD images
The cost of CAD

Chapter 13: Digital Imaging

Turning Pictures into Pixels
Gray-scale scanners
Color scanners
Slide scanners
Drum scanners
Hand scanners
The software side
Digitizing hardware
Filmless cameras
Kodak's PhotoCD System
How PhotoCD works
PhotoCD players
PhotoCD and older CD-ROM drives
Imaging software
Image-acquisition programs
Image-processing programs
Gray-scale or color?
How Image-Processing Programs Work
More tool options, too
A plethora of palettes
Antialiasing: text without jaggies
Selecting and Masking
Layering and floating selections
Gamma and Color Correction
Techniques for adjusting brightness and contrast
Linear versus nonlinear correction
Reading a histogram display
Adjusting images with the Equalize command
Color-Correction Features
Adjusting color with the Variations display
Filtering
Producing special effects
Plug-in filter modules
Variations on the plug-in theme
Batch-processing images in Photoshop
The Problems with Printing
The heartbreak of halftoning
Using high-resolution printers
Printer calibration curves
Focus on Filmless Photography
Behind the Lens
How still-video cameras work
How digital cameras work
How filmless cameras store images
Floppies instead of film
From camera to Mac: transferring images
The camera angle
Should you consider a filmless camera?

Chapter 14: Graphics in the Third Dimension

Three Steps to 3-D
Phase 1: modeling
Phase 2: scene description
Phase 3: rendering
Model Shops
Drawing some primitives
Lathing and extruding
The positioning challenge
Assembling the Pieces
3-D text features
Changing your view
One Step Closer to Realism
How texture mapping works
Adding roughness with bump mapping
Specifying surface properties
How Rendering Works
Rendering techniques compared
After the rendering: saving and printing
The Adobe Dimension
The object-oriented approach
Mapping 2-D to 3-D
It's no Walt Disney
Choosing a 3-D Program
Apple's QuickDraw 3D
File exchange formats

Chapter 15: Presentation Tools and Tips

Present or Perish
How Presentation Software Works
The Components of a Presentation
Text elements
Graphic elements
Background elements
Drawing and Layout Features
Consistency is everything
Descriptive titles
Sorting and Showing
Slide show features
Swapping Mac and Windows presentations
Output Alternatives
Large-screen monitors
A Mac with video-out and a TV set or VCR
LCD projection panels
Video projection
Overheads and Slides
Printing overheads
Overhead drawbacks
Slide advantages
Making slides with film recorders
The service bureau alternative
Tips for Planning Your Presentation
Choosing a medium
Creating visuals
Creating builds in PowerPoint and Persuasion
Designing visuals
Getting Glitzy with Graphics and Movies
Importing
Animate sparingly
Adding interactivity to presentations
Don't forget HyperCard
Everyone's Looking for a Handout
Creating handouts
Printing and binding handouts
Showtime!

Chapter 16: The Mac Meets the Telephone

Private Lines and Party Lines
Communicating directly
Communicating via an on-line service
What's On-Line?
Electronic mail
News
Research
Travel information
Shopping
Special-interest forums and chats
Tips for Choosing a Service
Comparing on-line service interfaces
Matching services to your needs
Doing Business and Research On-Line
eWorld's Offerings
An American Online
Sleepless in CompuServe
The Big Guns: Dialog and NewsNet
What About the Internet?
Accessing the Internet
Evolution ahead
Tips for Modem Shoppers
Modem options
Modems to go
How fast a modem do you need?
Features and price
Using an AV or Power Mac for communications
Modem and Communications Technicalities
Start and stop bits
Parity bits
Asynchronous versus synchronous
Full duplex versus half duplex
Handshaking
Choosing Communications Software
Front-end or terminal emulation software
Using script languages
Deciding which program is for you
When the Mac Meets the Fax
Choosing fax software
Choosing the fax without using the Chooser
Tips for better fax quality
Tips for setting up a fax address book
Dealing with incoming faxes
The lowdown on PostScript faxing
Industrial-strength faxing options
Telephony: Making and Taking Calls
Number, please
Reliable dialing with an autodialing box
Dialing and calling
Using an AV or Power Mac as a telephone
Desktop voice mail
Programming a voice-mail system
The trouble with telephony
Paving the Information Highway

Chapter 17: How to Download Software

What's Available?
How Shareware Works
Other Downloading Opportunities
Bulletin boards
Where to begin?
Choosing a Transfer Protocol
Tips for CompuServe Downloading
Searching with keywords
Searching with the file finder
Deciphering file descriptions
Doing the download
Tips for America Online Downloading
Browsing AOL's software libraries
Finding the most popular downloads
Deferring downloads: the Download Manager
Tips for eWorld Downloading
Decompressing Files after Downloading
Self-extracting archives
Decompressing by hand
AOL and eWorld can unstuff for you
Final Tips for Downloading

Chapter 18: Optical Character Recognition

Who Needs to Read?
Printers and typesetters
Lawyers
Brokers
Office librarians
Personnel specialists
Common denominators
Six Steps to OCR
Setting up for the scan
Scanning the original
Selecting text to be recognized
Recognizing
Proofreading and polishing
Saving the file
How OCR Programs Work
Teaching your OCR program to read
The omnifont advantage
Scanning the Field
Adjusting Your Expectations
Advice for accuracy

Chapter 19: HyperCard

The Three Keys to HyperCard
Painting and graphics tools
HyperCard's color and multimedia features
Tying it together with HyperTalk
From the Obvious to the Subtle
Making hot spots with transparent buttons
Realizing the hidden power of fields
So You Want to Be an Author
Extending HyperTalk's Vocabulary
Using Other Scripting Systems
Using AppleScript with HyperCard
Why bother with AppleScript?
Turning Stacks into Applications
Creating an application
Testing an application-to-be
Don't delete your original stack
Specifying Finder information
Where Does HyperCard Fit In?

Chapter 20: Making Multimedia with QuickTime

QuickTime animation
Capturing video
Videodiscs
Sound recording
Passive Versus Interactive
Tools for interacting
A Closer Look at the Pieces
Focus on authoring software
Macromedia's authoring offerings
Video hardware
Audio equipment
QuickTime Close-Up
Using QuickTime
Required Equipment
Memory a must
The QuickTime extension
A CD-ROM drive
Making Your Own Movies
Digitizing with an AV Mac
Digitizing with a Power Mac 8500 and 7500
The audio angle
Editing Your Video
Premiere or VideoShop?
Other editing alternatives
Creating special effects
QuickTime Technicalities
The frame rate
The size of the movie window
Frame rate x movie size = hard work
Factors that influence playback performance
Squeeze Play: QuickTime Compression
How QuickTime compression works
Temporal and spatial compression
Understanding key frames
Peg your hopes on MPEG?
Apple's MPEG card - finally
A Field Guide to QuickTime Trade-Offs
Frame size
Frame rate
The color depth
The audio track
Recording Your Efforts on Videotape
Technical differences between the Mac and TV
Interlaced versus noninterlaced video
Color differences
Size differences
Video Output Hardware
Recording video from an AV Mac
Recording video from a Power Mac 8500
Recording video from a converter box
Performas and Multimedia:
QuickTime Made Easier
The Apple Video System card
Using the Apple Video Player application
They don't sound as good
Watching TV
Using the Apple Video/TV System software
Tips for Choosing a Video Recorder
The Sony Vbox system
Camcorders with consumer timecodes
The controlled capture alternative
Abbate's VideoToolkit
The service bureau option
QuickTime VR: Virtual Reality for the Rest of Us
The QuickTime VR experience
Creating VR movies
Photographing for QuickTime VR
The bigger picture
Sound and QuickTime VR

Chapter 21: Music, MIDI, and Sound

What Can You Do with Sounds?
Sequencing
Scoring
Composition
Sound editing
Patch management
Soundtrack production
Surveying Entry-Level Music Options
ConcertWare Pro
Jamming with the Mac
The Scoop on MIDI
MIDI Basics
How MIDI interfaces work
Understanding MIDI data
Understanding MIDI channels
Surveying MIDI Software
How MIDI sequencers work
Sequencers versus audio recording software
MIDI Vanilli?
Sequencer Editing Features
Editing features
Quantizing: keeping time
Conductor tracks and tempo maps
Synchronizing with external equipment
Combining MIDI with digital audio
Freestyle sequencing with FreeStyle
Introducing standard MIDI files
Music Processors
Fonts for music scoring
Surveying Editor/Librarian Software
Tweaking sounds with editor/librarians
Summoning patches by name
Software for Samplers
A Salute to General MIDI
The General MIDI solution
General MIDI and QuickTime 2.0
Every Band Needs a Manager
Performance Software
Jam Factory
Music Miscellany
Surveying Digital Sound Applications
Education
Entertainment
Music
Business
Science
How Sound Sampling Works
Sampling rates and resolution
What You Need to Play and Record Audio
Connecting the Mac to an audio system
Recording your own audio
Tips for better recordings
The Formats of Sound
SND resources
AIFF files
System 7 sound files
WAV files
MOD files
Sound at the High End
A closer look at Audiomedia II
Audiomedia and hard drives
Editing with Sound Designer II
Tape Decks on a Disk
They even look like tape recorders
Recording a track
Adding digital EQ
Adding MIDI sequences to Deck II recordings
Automating the final mix
Digidesign's Session Software
Tips for Sound in Multimedia Productions
Sound in Persuasion and PowerPoint
Sound and Macromedia Director
Tips for Working with Sound in QuickTime
Working with sound in Adobe Premiere
Tools for editing QuickTime soundtracks
SoundEdit 16's advantages

Chapter 22: Everything You Need to Know About System 7, 7.5,
and Beyond

What's in the System Folder?
The Finder and System Files
Introducing FKEYs
A Closer Look at Extensions
Chooser extensions
The complete guide to Mac OS extensions
A complete guide to Mac OS control panels
Control Panels
When does a control panel act like an extension?
Adding Control Panels and Extensions
Tips for System Software Customizing
Customize directory windows with Views
Getting rid of the Empty Trash warning dialog box
Assigning text labels and colors to icons
Customizing the Apple menu
Creating stationery documents
Customizing disk, file, and folder icons
Installing and Removing Fonts
Adding a font to System 7.0
Removing fonts in System 7.0
Adding a PostScript outline font in System 7.0
Removing a PostScript font from System 7.0
Adding and Removing Fonts in System 7.1 and 7.5
Adding a font in System 7.1 or 7.5
Removing a font in System 7.1 or 7.5
Font-Management Strategies
Font management: The big picture
Third parties to the rescue
Phase 1: Packing suitcases
Phase 2: Filing the fonts
Phase 3: Using the utility
The Amazing Alias
Other ways to make aliases
Styling and trashing aliases
The Power to Find Your Best
Exploring the System 7.0/7.1 Find dialog box
Using Find to open a program with the keyboard
Using Find to create a program launching pad (not for System 7.5)
Using Find to do a quick backup
More Find Options in System 7.5
How Find File works
Searching for multiple criteria at once
Using drag-and-drop with Find File
What Apple didn't tell you about Find File
Unleashing the power of the Results window
Bringing back the old Find dialog box
Tips for the Startup Items Folder
Sounds as startup items
Copying a sound from the System file to Startup Items
Create a things-to-do-tomorrow folder
The alternate startup sound
The keys to altering the Mac's startup routine
Bypassing the internal hard drive
System extension loading order
Starting up with System 7.5 extensions only
Tips for the Shutdown Items Folder
Using File Sharing
First steps
File-sharing tips
Access has its privileges
How to streamline file sharing
Inside the Installer
Using the Installer
How Installer works
The Installer and third-party products
It's a Setup - from Microsoft
Focus on System 7.5
The System 7.5 difference
Little tweaks and improvements
The Various Flavors of System 7 and 7.5
The System 7 Tune-Up
System Update 3.0
Understanding Multitasking
Multitasking basics
Looking under the hood
What multitasking isn't
How multitasking works
Copland: one step closer to "real" multitasking
The downside of multitasking
Software in the Power Mac Era
The Power Mac system software
Installation complications
Understanding the Mac's Memory
Memory basics
The many roles of RAM
Making room for programs
How programs store documents
Memory-Maximizing Tips
Get Info and memory
The disk cache
A better disk cache in System 7.5
Virtual memory
When virtual memory is useful
Virtual memory on Power Macs
Using a RAM disk
Extensions, control panels, and memory
QuickTime and memory
Running on empty
System software and memory
More RAM for your Mac

Chapter 23: Hardware Tips for Every Mac and PowerBook

Cleaning Up Your Mac
What to do if you spill the Jolt cola
Cleaning the mouse
Dusty Drives and Screens
Beating the Heat
Keeping Yourself Healthy
Apple's wrist-friendly keyboard
The Dvorak alternative - and I don't mean John
Tilt-and-swivel stands
Mouse pads
Antiglare screens
Typing desk
Power Protection
How the Mac uses power
A field guide to power problems
No power at all
Not enough power
Too much power
Noisy power
The First Line of Defense
How Surge Suppressors Work
Surge suppressor considerations
The easy way to buy a suppressor
Complete Power Protectors
Matching the supply to the demand
Printers need not apply
Tips for Power Supply Shoppers
Supplies for servers
Avoid square-wave supplies
How long will you stand by me?
Squeezing More Juice from a PowerBook
Turn down backlighting
Tips for the PowerBook control panel
Controlling processor cycling and speed
on older PowerBooks
More ways to save power
Saving Energy with Desktop Macs
Not watching the monitor? Turn it off!
Tips for the Auto Power On/Off control panel
Third-party energy savers
Desktop Macs that go to sleep
Tips for the Energy Saver control panel

Chapter 24: The World of Utilities and ResEdit

How Utilities Work
Extensions and DAs
Installation techniques
Utilities that work alone
Navigation Copilots
Macro utilities
Iconic launching pads
Program and document launchers
Lost in Disk Space
Phrase finders
Disk utilities
Utilities for PowerBooks
Better battery-saving options
Basic security
Navigation aids
File synchronization
PowerBook specialists
Miscellaneous Utilities
Screen savers
Connectix's memory utilities
Clipboard enhancers
Font utilities
Screen capture utilities
Workgroup utilities
Printer utilities
File transfer and translation utilities
File-compression utilities
Disk cataloging utilities
Security utilities
Diagnostic and virus-detection utilities
Network utilities
Extension managers
Focus on Macros and Scripting
Macro basics
Comparing QuicKeys and Tempo II Plus
Advanced Macro Options
The AppleScript Difference
Three flavors of AppleScript support
Forging scripts into applets and droplets
Recording a script
Hard-Core Customizing
What are resources?
Additional resource advantages
Resource Editing Software
Giving your Mac an interface lift
Custom ImageWriter paper sizes
The World of ResEdit
A ResEdit primer
A cookbook of ResEdit projects
Customizing Caveats
Non-standard applications
Understanding resource overriding
Replacing your Finder or System files
Be tasteful - or at least try

Chapter 25: Storage: From Floppies to CD-ROMs

A Magnetic Voyage
Spinning disks
Making tracks and sectors
A Short History of Mac Floppy Drives
The drive that ate my data
SuperDrive to the rescue
Life in the Hard Drive Era
How a hard drive works
The specter of the head crash
External versus internal drives
How to Manage Your Megabytes
Use folders for better performance
Working with folders
Don't forget about Find
Whatever you do, back up
Driving to the High End
Spindle speeding
Making your Mac keep up
More Tech Talk
Average access time
Data transfer rate
Interleave ratio
How important are these specifications?
Tips for Faster Driving
Formatting: basic setup
Performance tuning: reckless driving?
Performance tuning tips
Partitioning: Divide and Conquer
Good reasons to partition a drive
Optimizing: Squelch Those Seeks
Good reasons to defragment your drives
Defragmenting tools
Strength in Numbers - Disk Arrays
Why is RAID fast?
Why is RAID reliable?
Hot pluggability
Installing a disk array
Megabytes to Go: Removable Drives
Portability and security
Mobility and utility
Media on the Move
The ubiquitous SyQuest
The Bernoulli Effect
How a Bernoulli drive works
Safe, flexible, and reliable
Loud for the life of the cartridge
Iomega ZIP Drives
Fast, versatile, and economical
Tape Drives
CD-ROMs and Compact Discs
CD-ROM technology
Multimedia and CD-ROM
CDs are not speedy
Making your own CDs
Optical Storage Meets Magnetic Storage
WORMing your way into data
Just say MO

Chapter 26: Protecting Your Data and Surviving SCSI

Preparing for a Rainy Day
Backup Basics
Copying floppies
Hard disks are harder
Backup Helpers
Comparing backup approaches
Incremental differences
Choosing Your Backup Weapon
Tips for Using a Backup Program
Make two backups
Test your restore procedures
Have an emergency startup disk or CD
Don't forget customized files
Verify your backups
When to Restore
Disk Doctors
Rescuing trashed files
Good health habits for disks
The Virus Threat
It came from Ohio
How viruses spread
Names and strains
Is your Mac at risk?
Protecting Your Mac from Viruses
Lock floppy disks whenever possible
Back up religiously
Watch out for freeware and shareware
Protect your networks
Consider using more than one
Mac Medicine
Scanning for viruses
Protection for the paranoid
No Sure Cures
What Are My Chances, Doc?
Coming to Terms with SCSI
A Brief History of SCSI
Public Data Transportation
SCSI strength 1: speed
SCSI strength 2: expandability
SCSI addressing
SCSI meets the terminator
All This and SCSI-2
Special SCSI-2 cabling considerations
Dual SCSI buses on high-end Macs
Special termination issues for the 8100
SCSI Manager 4.3: what's the difference?

Chapter 27: Exchanging Data
Creating portable documents
Import/export restrictions
Filters for files
The XTND conversion technology
Converting Foreign Files
Drag-and-drop
Use the program's Open command
After the import
Importing and exporting in publishing programs
Interchange Formats
Word processor formats
Nothing but the text
Making a text-only file
Opening a text-only file
Spreadsheet and database exchange formats
Delimiters - boundaries for bytes
Graphics exchange formats
Using a native format as an interchange format
Always save before exporting
The Clipboard and Beyond
How the Clipboard works
Flavors of formats
Clipboard formats in action
Determining formats
Exchanging Data with Drag-and-Drop
Drag-and-drop in System 7.5
How drag-and-drop works
Creating a clippings file
Using Publish and Subscribe
OLE - Data Exchange, Microsoft Style
Exchanging data by linking
Exchanging Files with PCs
Transferring with a disk drive
Exchanging data by embedding objects
Comparing OLE and publish and subscribe
Swapping files on high-capacity media
Transferring with a file-transfer package
Easier opening with Macintosh Easy Open
Transferring with a network
Transferring with communications software
Life in the Portable Document Age
How Acrobat works
Reading PDF files
Searching for information
Common Ground, Envoy, and Replica
Choosing a portable document package
Frame Technology's FrameViewer
QuickDraw GX and portable documents
Creating a portable digital document

Chapter 28: Troubleshooting

Setting Up Your System
Step 1: Install expansion boards
Step 2: Tame the SCSI bus
Step 3: Finish wiring
Step 4: Install system software
Startup Problems and System Crashes
Disk and Finder Problems
Printing and Network Problems
GeoPort and Express Modem Problems
Power Mac Problems
AV and Speech Recognition Problems
For More Help

Chapter 29: Upgrading Strategies

Assessing Your Hardware Options
Memory
Hard disks
Accelerator boards
Logic board
Video
Multiple monitors
Ethernet interfaces
Coprocessors
Sound-recording hardware
Cache memory boards
Assessing Your Slot Options
How to get more NuBus slots
Easing the Transition from NuBus to PCI
Upgrade Strategies: Compact Macs
Upgrade Strategies: LC and Performa Families
Upgrade Strategies: Mac II Family
Upgrade Strategies: Centris/Quadra Families
Upgrade Strategies: First-Generation Power Macs
The AV Technologies card
A Level 2 cache
Video memory upgrades
The Power Mac 8100-to-8500 Upgrade
Upgrade Strategies: Second-Generation
Power Macs
Processor upgrades
Cache memory
Video memory upgrades
Upgrade Strategies: PowerBooks
PowerBook 500 expansion
Memory Upgrade Details
Memory background
Prerecorded memory
RAM - memory that forgets
The scoop on SIMMs
Installing a Memory Upgrade
A Closer Look at Video Upgrades
Reviewing video basics
The color and gray-scale difference
How many bits do you need?
Expanding Video RAM
Upgrade or New Machine?

Chapter 30: Picking a Printer

What Kind of Printer?
Dot-matrix printers
Ink-jet printers
Laser printers
Color printers
Ink-jet Details
Comparing StyleWriters and DeskWriters
The latest StyleWriters
Laser Printer Details
Mechanics and electronics
Watch your language - PostScript versus QuickDraw
Comparing font-handling capabilities
They don't share alike
Other PostScript Issues
Does it use an Adobe interpreter?
Is it a Level 1 or Level 2 interpreter?
How much memory is provided?
Does it have a RISC chip?
How does it handle TrueType fonts?
Can it accept a hard disk?
Can it imitate other printers?
What ports does it provide?
Does it accept a fax modem board?
Print Engine Considerations
Resolution
Engine speed
Engine life
Ease of feeding
Pushing Paper
Focus on Color Printers
Color printer basics
The challenge of photographs
Color halftoning
From Screen to Paper - Matching Woes
Converting between color models
Other color-matching snags
Color Printer Shopping Considerations
Media flexibility
Resolution
Cost per page
Speed
Time to Buy a Color Printer?

Chapter 31: Printer Power Tips

Today's Paper
Paper for dot-matrix printers
Printing with impact
Paper for laser printers
Specialty laser papers
Paper for the ink-jet set
Beyond Paper: Alternative Media
Transparency and overhead stock
Labels: output with a peel
Card Games
ImageWriter card options
Laser printer card options
Table tents and door hangers
Fruit of the Laser
Printing a transfer
Applying the transfer
Creating color transfers
Finishing Touches
Letraset's Color Tag foil
Paper Direct LaserColor foil
Binding options
Tips for StyleWriters
Thinking about ink
Refilling ink cartridges
Cleaning the ink cartridge
Tips for PostScript Printers
No startup page
Name that printer
Font Downloading Strategies
Tips for the LaserWriter 8 Driver
How LaserWriter 8 works
Pick your paper
The power of the Print dialog box
LaserWriter 8 and PostScript fax
Printing with QuickDraw GX
What's new?
The wonders of the desktop printer icon
A note about application compatibility
QuickDraw GX's new Print dialog boxes
The Printing menu
Bossing your print jobs around
Redirecting print jobs within the Print dialog box
Adding print features with printing extensions
The awesome Peirce Print Tools
The Future of QuickDraw GX

Chapter 32: Networking Basics

Phase 1 - Sharing a Printer
Apple's lines of communication
The PhoneNet alternative
LocalTalk wiring tips
Ethernet: networking in the fast lane
Ethernet and second-generation Power Macs
Installing printing software
Testing your setup
Phase 2 - Electronic Mail
E-mail details
Setting up the e-mail server
Choosing e-mail software
Transferring files from Timbuktu
Focus on PowerTalk
AppleMail: basic e-mail
The real power of PowerTalk
Information cards
The drag-and-drop angle
Streamlining collaboration with personal catalogs
Sign in, please
Is PowerTalk for you?
Phase 3 - Creating a File Server
Distributed and dedicated servers
Combining AppleShare and System 7 file sharing
Focus on AppleShare
Three steps to server setup
Installing AppleShare
Consider defragmenting your drive
Specifying security options
Preparing to serve
Application Software Considerations
The multiuser difference
Some real-world examples
Remote Control with Apple Remote Access
Required equipment
Setting up for incoming calls
Electronic mail and remote access
Mac, phone home
Don't quit your on-line service yet
Other remote access products
Other Networking Options
Conquer the Basics First

Chapter 33: Input Devices

Keyboard Considerations
A guide to Apple keyboards
Make mine extended
The key to power
Competing keyboards
Comparing keyboard alternatives
Don't buy until you try
Pointing Alternatives
Alternative mice
Cordless mice
Pointing without rolling
Comparing trackballs
The Apple Trackpad
A trackpad for your desktop Mac
Tips for the trackpad
Pens and Tablets
Absolute versus relative motion devices
Pressure-sensitive tablets
Cordless pens
Templates and macros
Talk To Me: Speech Recognition
Activating voice recognition
DSP limitations on the 660AV and 840AV
Is speech recognition ready for prime time?

Appendix A: Using the Macworld Power User Clinic CD

Navigating the CD
Using the Macworld Power User Clinic
Working with and searching for text
Navigating with the menu bar