User manual APPLE MAC OS X 10.4

[. . . ] Scan the latest news, information, and articles from the Internet. Automate tasks with point-and-click simplicity. 3 Spotlight Find anything, anytime on your computer as quickly as you can type. Search your entire system from anywhere to find documents, email, contacts, calendars, music, movies, photos, bookmarks, and applications. To find something, click the Spotlight icon, then type a few letters or words. Click to view a slideshow of your images. The Spotlight window shows all the search results in groups. Click to show or hide a group of items. The Spotlight menu shows the top 20 items you have opened recently. Click an item to open it. 4 Organized results To view all the results of your search, choose Show All in the Spotlight menu to open the Spotlight window. [. . . ] Click again to see the RSS feeds. The number of unread RSS articles appears next to the bookmark. View RSS articles in the Safari browser window, then click "Read more" to read the full article. Bookmark article searches to use the search again and again. 12 Display PDFs You can view PDFs right in the webpage so that you don't have to download the file to use it. The contextual menu lets you choose how you want to view the PDF. Hold down the Control key and click the PDF to select viewing options. Choose Auto Size to scale the PDF to fit in the window as you resize it. Private browsing When you browse the Internet using a public computer, turn on Private Browsing to protect your information. When it's on, the websites you visit aren't added to the history, your information isn't saved for AutoFill, and searches aren't added to the Google search box. Choose Private Browsing from the Safari menu to protect your personal information. You can also reset Safari or empty the cache. 13 Mail Take control of your inbox. With Spotlight searching, find messages instantly and organize them using Smart Mailboxes. Slideshows make it easy to view images you receive in messages and then save them directly to your iPhoto library. Type a few letters or words to search your mailboxes. Create a Smart Mailbox to automatically organize email messages. Click Slideshow to view the images attached to a message. 14 Instant searching When you type a few letters or words in the search field, Mail immediately starts finding messages. You can then change where Mail is searching and save your search as a Smart Mailbox. Select to search all mailboxes or the current mailbox and the field to search in. Slideshow viewing When you view images in an email message as a slideshow, you can view them as thumbnails on an index sheet or as individual pictures. As you view individual pictures, click to add them to your iPhoto library. Click Save to create a Smart Mailbox with this search. Click an image in index view to see it full size. Click to see images on an index sheet. Click to add the current image to your iPhoto library. 15 Address Book and iCal Address Book and iCal make it easy to organize and share information so that you can collaborate with others. iCal lets you invite guests to events, while calendar groups help you organize your meetings and events. This icon indicates that everyone invited to the meeting has accepted. Create calendar groups to organize your calendars. Double-click an event to see it in your calendar. Click to check the status of events you are invited to or have invited other people to. Type a word or two to find events in your calendars. 16 Event invitations You can invite Address Book contacts to events you create in iCal. When you do, iCal sends them an email invitation. When they reply, you receive an email from them and iCal is updated. To invite people to an event, type their names the same way you address messages in Mail. If your guests use iCal, they can choose their status and send you a reply. Finding contacts Address Book provides several ways to organize and find your contacts. Use Spotlight searching to quickly locate any person in your address book. Create a Smart Group to quickly find contacts based on information in Address Book. Type a few letters or words to search your contacts. Click a Smart Group to see the contacts in the group. 17 . Mac Sync . Mac sync* makes it simple to keep your information synchronized on several Mac computers. You can synchronize bookmarks, calendars, contacts, and more so that you always have current information available. Sync your iDisk automatically so that you can access your files from several computers. iSync lets you synchronize contacts and calendars on your iPod, phone, or PDA. Use . Mac preferences to select the information you want to synchronize. * To use iDisk and . Mac syncing, you need a . Mac membership. 18 . Mac syncing You can select the information you want to synchronize and how you want to do it. Choose to sync automatically; every hour, day, or week; or manually. [. . . ] Some iPhoto services may not be available in your country. To use some iPhoto services, you need a . Mac membership. To burn a DVD, your computer must have a SuperDrive. 30 iMovie HD iMovie HD brings you powerful, yet easy-to-use digital video editing. Choose Make a Magic iMovie from the File menu to create a movie from the clips on your camera instantly. [. . . ]