Brad Miser - Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS X Lion in 10 Minutes

Brad Miser

Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS X Lion in 10 Minutes
Copyright 2012 by Pearson Education, Inc.

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Editor In Chief
Greg Wiegand

Aquisitions Editor
Laura Norman

Development Editor
Charlotte Kughen, The Wordsmithery LLC

Technical Editor
Paul Sihvonen-Binder

Managing Editor
Sandra
Schroeder

Project Editor
Mandie Frank

Copy Editor
Megan Wade

Indexer
Heather McNeill

Proofreader
Debbie Williams

Production
Mark Shirar

Designer
Gary Adair

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Brad Miser has written extensively about technology, with his favorite topics being Apples amazing Macintosh computers, iPods, and iPhones. Books Brad has written include: Sams Teach Yourself iTunes 10 in 10 Minutes; My iPod touch, Second Edition; My iPhone, Fourth Edition; Easy iLife 09; Special Edition Using Mac OS X Leopard; Absolute Beginners Guide to Homeschooling; Teach Yourself Visually MacBook, Third Edition; and MacBook Pro Portable Genius, Third Edition. He has also been an author, development editor, or technical editor on more than 50 other titles.

Brad is or has been a sales support specialist, the director of product and customer services, and the manager of education and support services for several software development companies. Previously, he was the lead proposal specialist for an aircraft engine manufacturer, a development editor for a computer book publisher, and a civilian aviation test officer/engineer for the U.S. Army. Brad holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo and has received advanced education in maintainability engineering, business, and other topics.

Originally from California, Brad now lives in Brownsburg, Indiana, with his wife Amy; their three daughters, Jill, Emily, and Grace; a rabbit; and a sometimes-inside cat.

Brad would love to hear about your experiences with this book (the good, the bad, and the ugly). You can write to him at .

To those who have given the last full measure of devotion so the rest of us can be free.

A special thanks to Laura Norman, Acquisitions Editor extraordinaire, for involving me in this project. I appreciate the efforts of Charlotte Kughen, Development Editor, for ensuring the content of this book is meaningful and does allow you to learn Mac OS X Lion in 10 minutes. Thanks to Paul Sihvonen-Binder, the Technical Editor who made sure this book is accurate and tells it like it is. Megan Wade deservers special mention for transforming my gibberish into readable text. And Sandra Schroeder and Mandie Frank deserve kudos for the difficult task of coordinating all the many pieces, people, and processes that are required to make a book happen. Last, but certainly not least, to the rest of the important folks on the team, including Heather McNeill, Cindy Teeters, Gary Adair, Mark Shirar, and the rest of the top-notch Sams staff, I offer a sincere thank you for all of your excellent work on this project.

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Mac OS X, now in the Lion release (version 10.7 for those of you who arent crazy about big cats), is the software that runs all Macintosh computers from the top-of-the-line Power Mac to the extremely popular MacBook laptops. This software provides the desktop from which all your activities start, enables you to configure and personalize your Mac, and controls all the applications and the many processes that are required to make your Mac do all the great things it can do. Along with the operating system itself, Mac OS X Lion includes many applications that you can use to surf the Web, email, chat (text, audio, and video), keep track of your time and contacts, and much more. Learning how to use Mac OS X Lion enables you to get the most fun and productivity from your Mac; this book helps you tame this lion (sorry, I had to make a bad pun with this at some point so I figured Id get it out of the way early).

Similar to the other books in the Sams Teach Yourself in 10 Minutes series, the purpose of this book is to enable you to learn how to use Mac OS X Lion quickly and easily; hopefully, youll even enjoy yourself along the way! This book is composed of a series of lessons. Each lesson covers a specific aspect of using Mac OS X Lion. For example, , Working with Mice, Trackpads, and Keyboards, shows you how to use all sorts of input devices.

The lessons generally build on each other starting with the more fundamental topics covered in the earlier lessons and moving toward more advanced topics in the later lessons. In general, if you work from the front of the book toward the back, your Mac OS X Lion education will progress smoothly (of course, if a specific topic is of interest to you, you can jump ahead to get there first).