Granneman Mac OS X Snow Leopard for Power Users

Advanced Capabilities and Techniques
1. ed
ISBN: 978-1-4302-3031-1
Verlag: Apress
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 480 Seiten

Mac OS X Snow Leopard for Power Users: Advanced Capabilities and Techniques is for Mac OS X users who want to go beyond the obvious, the standard, and the easy. If want to dig deeper into Mac OS X and maximize your skills and productivity using the world's slickest and most elegant operating system, then this is the book for you. Written by Scott Granneman, an experienced teacher, developer, and consultant, Mac OS X for Power Users helps you push Mac OS X to the max, unveiling advanced techniques and options that you may have not known even existed. Create custom workflows and apps with Automator, run Windows programs and even Windows itself without dual-booting, and sync data on your hard drive, on your phone, and in the cloud-learn all of these techniques and more. This is not a book that talks down to you; Mac OS X for Power Users is an essential book for experienced Mac users who are smart enough to know there is more to be known, and are ready to become power users.

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Granneman, Scott

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;1
2;Copyright Page ;2
3;Contents at a Glance;4
4;Table of Contents;5
5;About the Author;10
6;About the Technical Reviewer;11
7;Acknowledgments;12
8;Chapter 1 Introduction: Advanced Secrets of Mac OS X;13
8.1;Power Users and Mac OS X;13
8.2;What You’ll Learn;15
8.3;What You Need to Already Know;17
9;Chapter 2 Maintaining Your Mac;20
9.1;Managing & Upgrading Your Apps;20
9.1.1;VersionTracker Pro;21
9.1.2;MacUpdate Desktop;24
9.1.2.1;Settings;26
9.1.2.2;Updates;27
9.1.3;Bodega;27
9.1.4;Which One Should You Use?;30
9.1.4.1;Missed Software;34
9.1.4.2;Finding the Wrong Software;35
9.1.4.3;Finding Outdated Software;36
9.1.4.4;Cost;36
9.1.4.5;Who’s It For?;37
9.1.5;Further Resources;37
9.2;Deleting Apps;37
9.2.1;AppZapper;38
9.2.2;AppTrap;41
9.2.3;AppCleaner;43
9.2.4;Further Resources;44
9.3;Keeping Your Mac Running Well;45
9.3.1;OnyX;45
9.3.1.1;Verify;46
9.3.1.2;Maintenance;46
9.3.1.3;Cleaning;47
9.3.1.4;Automation;47
9.3.1.5;Parameters;47
9.3.1.6;Info;48
9.3.2;Repair Permissions Weekly With Automator;48
9.3.3;Further Reading;53
9.4;Upgrading Mac OS X Point Releases;54
9.4.1;What to Do Before Your Upgrade;54
9.4.1.1;Search;54
9.4.1.2;Check Login Items;56
9.4.1.3;Perform Maintenance Tasks;56
9.4.1.4;Verify Permissions and Your Hard Drive;56
9.4.1.5;Create a Clone;57
9.4.2;What to Do During Your Upgrade;57
9.4.2.1;Downloading Manually;57
9.4.2.2;Downloading with Software Update;58
9.4.2.3;Which Option to Choose?;59
9.4.3;What to Do After Your Upgrade;60
9.5;Summary;60
10;Chapter 3 Expanding Upon the Basic Tools;61
10.1;Improving the Dock;61
10.1.1;Navigating the Dock;61
10.1.2;A 2D Dock;62
10.1.3;Faster Force Quit;62
10.1.4;Adding Spacers to Your Dock;63
10.1.5;Lock the Dock;64
10.1.6;Hiding Instead of Minimizing Apps on Your Dock;65
10.1.7;Calling Out Hidden Dock Items;65
10.1.8;Making an App Dockless;66
10.1.9;Hovering and Highlighting Stacks;66
10.1.10;A Nicer List View for Stacks;68
10.1.11;Creating New & Useful Stacks;69
10.1.11.1;Recent Applications;69
10.1.11.2;Templates;70
10.1.12;Further Resources;72
10.2;Fixing the Finder by Improving Open and Save;72
10.3;Replacing the Finder;75
10.3.1;ForkLift;75
10.3.1.1;ForkLift’s Cool Features;76
10.3.1.2;ForkLift’s Annoyances;84
10.3.1.3;Path Finder;86
10.3.1.4;Comparison and Contrast of ForkLift and Path Finder;87
10.3.2;Path Finder’s Cool Features;91
10.3.3;Xfile;92
10.4;Spotlight;95
10.4.1;Spotlight via the Command Line;96
10.4.2;Search for Files;97
10.4.3;Search for Files by Name;97
10.4.4;Search for Files in Specific Folders;98
10.4.5;Search for Files in the Current Folder;99
10.4.6;Search for Files by the Kind of File;100
10.4.7;Search for Files by Date;102
10.4.8;Learn About the Metadata Spotlight Knows About Files;103
10.4.9;Learn About Search Operators;108
10.4.10;Search for Files by Type (Kind);109
10.4.11;Search for Images Taken with a Particular Camera;110
10.4.12;Search for Images of a Particular Size;111
10.4.13;Search for MP3s of a Particular Length and Bitrate;111
10.4.14;Construct Complex Queries Using Smart Folders;113
10.4.15;Use Complex Queries in Smart Folders;117
10.4.16;Further Resources;119
10.5;Summary;119
11;Chapter 4 Using Safari to Its Fullest;120
11.1;Speeding Up Safari;121
11.1.1;WebpageIcons.db;121
11.1.2;Top Sites;123
11.2;Enabling the Develop Menu;125
11.3;Picking the Best Add-ons;126
11.3.1;The Safari Add-On Dead Pool;129
11.3.2;Glims;129
11.3.2.1;General;130
11.3.2.2;Tab Misc.;130
11.3.2.3;Search Engines;131
11.3.2.4;Bookmarks;132
11.3.2.5;Glims Annoyances;132
11.3.3;Xmarks;133
11.3.3.1;General;135
11.3.3.2;Profiles;135
11.3.3.3;Advanced;136
11.3.3.4;About;136
11.3.4;GlimmerBlocker;136
11.3.4.1;Setup;138
11.3.4.2;Filters;138
11.3.4.3;Creating and Modifying Filters;139
11.3.4.4;Working with Read-Only Filters;141
11.3.4.5;Keyword Expansion Caveats;142
11.3.4.6;History;143
11.3.4.7;Suspects;143
11.3.4.8;Network;143
11.3.4.9;Developer;144
11.3.5;1Password;144
11.3.6;ClickToFlash;145
11.4;Working with the Bookmarks Bar;148
11.5;Adding the Best Bookmarklets;149
11.5.1;ToRead;149
11.5.2;Readability/Readable;151
11.5.3;PrintWhatYouLike;153
11.5.4;Bit.ly;155
11.5.5;Add to Amazon Wish List;156
11.6;Further Resources;157
11.7;Summary;158
12;Chapter 5 Stepping Beyond Safari;159
12.1;Exploring Web Browser Alternatives;159
12.1.1;WebKit;160
12.1.1.1;What’s Unique?;161
12.1.1.2;What’s Good?;161
12.1.1.3;What’s Bad?;161
12.1.1.4;Who Should Use WebKit?;161
12.1.1.5;Further Resources;161
12.1.2;Firefox;162
12.1.2.1;What’s Unique?;162
12.1.2.2;What’s Good?;163
12.1.2.3;What’s Bad?;164
12.1.2.4;Who Should Use Firefox?;164
12.1.2.5;Further Resources;165
12.1.3;Camino;165
12.1.3.1;What’s Unique?;166
12.1.3.2;What’s Good?;166
12.1.3.3;What’s Bad?;167
12.1.3.4;Who Should Use Camino?;167
12.1.3.5;Further Resources;167
12.1.4;Chrome/Chromium;168
12.1.4.1;What’s Unique?;169
12.1.4.2;What’s Good?;170
12.1.4.3;What’s Bad?;173
12.1.4.4;Who Should Use Chrome/Chromium?;174
12.1.4.5;Further Resources;174
12.1.5;Opera;175
12.1.5.1;What’s Unique?;176
12.1.5.2;What’s Good?;178
12.1.5.3;What’s Bad?;179
12.1.5.4;Who Should Use Opera?;179
12.1.5.5;Further Resources;180
12.1.6;Stainless;180
12.1.6.1;What’s Unique?;181
12.1.6.2;What’s Good?;182
12.1.6.3;What’s Bad?;183
12.1.6.4;Who Should Use Stainless?;183
12.1.6.5;Further Resources;183
12.1.7;Others;183
12.1.8;Choosing Between Browsers;189
12.1.8.1;General;191
12.1.8.2;Browsers;191
12.1.8.3;Behaviour;191
12.1.8.4;Appearance;192
12.1.8.5;Advanced;193
12.1.9;Further Resources;193
12.2;SSBs: Site Specific Browsers;194
12.2.1;Prism;195
12.2.2;Fluid;198
12.2.2.1;General;199
12.2.2.2;Appearance;199
12.2.2.3;Advanced;199
12.2.3;SSB Icons;200
12.2.4;Further Resources;201
12.3;Summary;201
13;Chapter 6 Using the Internet to Its Fullest;202
13.1;Building a Better Mail and Address Book;202
13.1.1;Making Mail Faster;204
13.1.2;Syncing Your Address Book with Facebook;205
13.2;Keeping Up with Twitter, Facebook, and Other Social Services;209
13.2.1;TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop;209
13.2.2;Twitterrific;210
13.2.3;Tweetie;212
13.2.4;Socialite;215
13.2.4.1;Common to All Services;217
13.2.4.2;Twitter;218
13.2.4.3;Facebook;219
13.2.4.4;Flickr;220
13.2.4.5;Google Reader;220
13.2.5;Further Resources;221
13.3;Transferring Files;221
13.3.1;Cyberduck;221
13.3.2;Transmit;225
13.3.3;Speed Download;228
13.3.4;Further Resources;229
13.4;Torrenting Files;230
13.4.1;Transmission;231
13.4.2;TED;236
13.4.2.1;General;236
13.4.2.2;Look And Feel;237
13.4.2.3;Advanced;237
13.4.3;Miro;239
13.4.4;Further Resources;243
13.5;Summary;243
14;Chapter 7 Securing Your Mac & Networks;244
14.1;Managing Passwords;245
14.1.1;1Password;246
14.1.2;Further Resources;258
14.1.2.1;KeePassX;258
14.1.2.2;LastPass;258
14.1.2.3;Clipperz;259
14.2;Encrypting Your Data;259
14.2.1;Encrypting Your Hard Drive;259
14.2.2;Knox;260
14.2.3;Encrypting Your Data;264
14.2.4;Further Resources;267
14.3;SSH;267
14.3.1;Changing the Default SSH Port;268
14.3.1.1;Edit ssh.plist;268
14.3.1.2;Edit /etc/services;269
14.3.1.3;Restart and Test;270
14.3.2;SSH Into Multiple Sites Simultaneously;271
14.3.2.1;Set Up Terminal Settings;271
14.3.2.2;Create a Window Group;272
14.4;Summary;273
15;Chapter 8 Backing Up Your Mac;274
15.1;Backing Up Your Files Offline;274
15.1.1;Time Machine;274
15.1.2;Carbon Copy Cloner;276
15.1.3;Synchronize! X;280
15.1.4;Further Resources;284
15.2;Backing Up Your Files Online;284
15.2.1;Dropbox;285
15.2.2;CrashPlan;290
15.2.3;Amazon S3;293
15.2.3.1;Transmit;296
15.2.3.2;s3sync;298
15.2.4;Further Resources;300
15.3;Summary;301
16;Chapter 9 Manipulating and Sharing Pictures;302
16.1;Taking Screenshots;302
16.2;A Note on Screencasts;308
16.3;iPhoto;309
16.3.1;Speeding up iPhoto;309
16.3.2;Integrating iPhoto with Flickr;310
16.3.2.1;Photonic;310
16.3.2.2;FlickrExport;312
16.3.3;Integrating iPhoto with Facebook;314
16.3.4;Further Resources;316
16.4;Manipulating & Converting Images Quickly;316
16.4.1;Automator;316
16.4.2;Shrink O’Matic;319
16.5;Summary;320
17;Chapter 10 Having More Fun With Audio & Video;321
17.1;Codecs and Containers;322
17.2;Codecs You Need;325
17.3;Exploring Alternatives to QuickTime and iTunes;326
17.3.1;VLC;327
17.3.1.1;32 or 64?;327
17.3.1.2;Basic Features;328
17.3.1.3;Advanced Features;331
17.3.2;MPlayer OSX Extended;333
17.3.3;Cog;335
17.3.4;Further Resources;336
17.4;Converting & Manipulating Movies;339
17.4.1;FFmpeg & its Many Descendents;340
17.4.1.1;VisualHub & Its Children;341
17.4.1.2;Evom;344
17.4.2;MPEG Streamclip;346
17.5;Ripping DVDs;351
17.5.1;RipIt;352
17.5.2;HandBrake;355
17.5.3;Further Resources;359
17.6;Editing, Converting, & Fixing Music & Audio;359
17.6.1;Max;360
17.6.2;Media Rage;362
17.6.2.1;Track Numberer;365
17.6.2.2;Media Scrubber;368
17.6.2.3;Artwork Search;369
17.6.2.4;File Renamer;372
17.6.3;Further Resources;373
17.7;Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!;374
17.8;Summary;376
18;Chapter 11 Key Utility Tools for Text & Archives;377
18.1;Automatically Inserting Text System-Wide;377
18.1.1;TypeIt4Me;382
18.1.2;Typinator;387
18.1.3;TextExpander;394
18.1.4;Other Programs;399
18.1.5;Which One Should You Get?;400
18.2;Archiving & Compressing Files & Folders;401
18.2.1;The Unarchiver;402
18.2.1.1;Archive Formats;405
18.2.1.2;Extraction;405
18.2.1.3;Advanced;405
18.2.2;UnRarX;406
18.2.3;Further Resources;407
18.3;Summary;408
19;Chapter 12 Digging Deep as an Admin;409
19.1;Monitoring & Notifying;409
19.1.1;iStat Menus;410
19.1.2;Little Snitch;417
19.2;Automating;421
19.2.1;Automator;421
19.2.1.1;Application;423
19.2.1.1.1;Update Times Reader;423
19.2.1.1.2;Login Apps;424
19.2.1.2;Service;427
19.2.1.2.1;Convert Images to PNG;427
19.2.1.2.2;Attach Files to Messages in Mail;428
19.2.1.2.3;Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?;429
19.2.1.3;Folder Action;429
19.2.1.4;Print Plugin;430
19.2.1.5;iCal Alarm;432
19.2.1.6;Image Capture Plugin;432
19.2.2;Scheduling Programs, Scripts, and Jobs;433
19.2.3;Further Resources;439
19.3;Switching Your DNS;440
19.3.1;Why & How to Switch DNS;441
19.3.2;OpenDNS vs. Google Public DNS vs. DynDNS;442
19.3.2.1;OpenDNS;442
19.3.2.2;Google Public DNS;445
19.3.2.3;DynDNS;446
19.3.3;Testing Your DNS;451
19.4;Hardware;453
19.4.1;Acquiring Better Mouse Drivers;453
19.4.2;Controlling Which Apps Open When You Plug In Your Camera/iPhone;456
19.4.3;Keeping Your Monitor from Dimming;457
19.4.4;Further Resources;458
19.5;Summary;458
20;Index;459