Introduction 1 Foolish Assumptions 1 About This Book 2 Icons Used in This Book 3 Beyond the Book 4 Where to Go from Here 4 Part 1: Tie Myself Down with a Desktop? Preposterous! 5 Chapter 1: Hey, It Really Does Have Everything I Need 7 An Overview of Your Mac Laptop 8 Meet the MacBooks 15 Location, Location, Location! 20 Unpacking and Connecting Your Laptop 21 Great, a Lecture about Handling My Laptop 23 An Overview of Mac Software Goodness 23 Other Stuff That Nearly Everyone Wants 26 Chapter 2: Turning On Your Portable Powerhouse 29 Tales of the On Button 30 Mark''s Favorite Signs of a Healthy Laptop 31 You Won''t Lecture Me about Batteries, Will You? 32 Setting Up and Registering Your Laptop 34 Importing Stuff from Another Mac 37 Importing Stuff from Windows (If You Must) 39 Chapter 3: The MacBook Owner''s Introduction to macOS High Sierra 41 Your Own Personal Operating System 42 Wait a Second: Where the Heck Are the Mouse Buttons? 47 Launching and Quitting Applications with Aplomb 50 Performing Tricks with Finder Windows 54 Juggling Folders and Icons 58 Keys and Keyboard Shortcuts to Fame and Fortune 65 Home, Sweet Home Folder 67 Working with Mission Control, Spaces, and Dashboard 69 Personalizing Your Desktop 72 Customizing the Dock 74 What''s with the Trash? 77 All You Really Need to Know about Printing 78 And Just in Case You Need Help 80 Part 2: Shaking Hands with macOS High Sierra 83 Chapter 4: What''s New in macOS High Sierra? 85 Under the Hood: The New Apple File System 86 Under the Hood: Better Video 87 Under the Hood: Improved Graphics and Virtual Reality 87 Adding Functionality to Photos 87 Improved Siri to the Rescue 88 Banish Scams and Advertisements! 89 Sharing the Joy of iCloud Drive 89 Away with Autoplay Videos! 90 Chapter 5: A Nerd''s Guide to System Preferences 91 An Explanation -- without Jargon, No Less 92 Locating That Certain Special Setting 94 Popular Preferences Panes Explained 95 Chapter 6: Sifting Through Your Stuff 111 Doing a Basic Search 112 How Cool Is That? Discovering What Spotlight Can Do 114 Expanding Your Search Horizons 116 Customizing Spotlight to Your Taste 118 Chapter 7: Using Reminders, Notes, Notifications, and Maps 121 Remind Me to Use Reminders 122 Taking Notes the High Sierra Way 125 Staying Current with Notification Center 126 Introducing the Maps Application 129 Switching Views in Maps 131 Getting Directions Over Yonder 132 Part 3: Connecting and Communicating 135 Chapter 8: Let''s Go on Safari! 137 Pretend You''ve Never Used This Thing 138 Visiting Websites 139 Navigating the Web 141 Setting Up Your Home Page 144 Adding and Using Bookmarks 145 Working with the Reading List 147 Downloading Files 148 Using History 149 Tabs Are Your Browsing Friends 150 Printing Web Pages 152 Protecting Your Privacy 153 Chapter 9: iCloud Is Made for MacBooks 157 So How Does iCloud Work, Anyway? 158 Moving, Saving, and Opening iCloud Documents 159 Putting Handoff to Work 160 Configuring iCloud 161 Managing Your iCloud Storage 163 Chapter 10: Your Laptop Goes Multiuser 165 Once Upon a Time (An Access Fairy Tale) 166 Big-Shot Administrator Stuff 167 Mundane Chores for the Multiuser Laptop 180 Chapter 11: Working Well with Networks 187 What Exactly Is the Network Advantage? 188 Should You Go Wired or Wireless? 189 Be a Pal: Share Your Internet! 191 What Do I Need to Connect? 192 Connecting to the Network 201 USE YOUR FIREWALL! 205 Part 4: Living the iLife 209 Chapter 12: The Multimedia Joy of iTunes 211 What Can I Play on iTunes? 212 Playing an Audio CD 213 Playing Digital Audio Files 214 Watching Video 219 Keeping Slim Whitman and Slim Shady Apart: Organizing with Playlists 220 Know Your Songs 222 Ripping Audio Files 224 Tweaking the Audio for Your Ears 225 A New Kind of Radio Station 226 iTunes and iCloud Together 228 iSending iStuff to iPod, iPhone, and iPad 229 Sharing Your Media Across Your Network 230 Burning Music to Shiny Plastic Circles 231 Feasting on iTunes Visuals 233 Exercising Parental Authority 233 Buying Digital Media the Apple Way 235 Chapter 13: Focusing on Photos 237 Delving into Photos 237 Working with Images in Photos 240 Producing Your Own Coffee-Table Masterpiece 253 Exploring iCloud Photo Library 257 Putting My Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Sharing to Work 258 Chapter 14: Making Film History with iMovie 261 Shaking Hands with the iMovie Window 262 A Bird''s-Eye View of Moviemaking 265 Importing the Building Blocks 265 Building the Cinematic Basics 271 Creating an Honest-to-Goodness Movie Trailer 277 Sharing Your Finished Classic with Others 279 Chapter 15: Recording Your Hits with GarageBand 281 Shaking Hands with Your Band 282 Composing Made Easy 284 Sharing Your Songs 295 Part 5: Getting Productive and Maintaining Your Macbook 299 Chapter 16: Desktop Publishing with Pages 301 Creating a New Pages Document 302 Open an Existing Pages Document 303 Saving Your Work 303 Touring the Pages Window 304 Entering and Editing Text 305 Using Text, Shapes, and Graphics Boxes 305 The Three Amigos: Cut, Copy, and Paste 306 Formatting Text the Easy Way 307 Adding a Spiffy Table 308 Adding Alluring Photos 309 Adding a Background Shape 310 Are You Sure about That Spelling? 311 Printing Your Pages Documents 311 Sharing That Poster with Others 312 Chapter 17: Creating Spreadsheets with Numbers 313 Before You Launch Numbers 314 Creating a New Numbers Document 314 Opening an Existing Spreadsheet File 315 Save Those Spreadsheets! 316 Exploring the Numbers Window 317 Navigating and Selecting Cells in a Spreadsheet 318 Entering and Editing Data in a Spreadsheet 319 Selecting the Correct Number Format 320 Aligning Cell Text Just So 321 Formatting with Shading 322 Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns 323 The Formula Is Your Friend 323 Adding Visual Punch with a Chart 325 Printing Your Spreadsheet 326 Chapter 18: Building Presentations with Keynote 329 Creating a New Keynote Project 330 Opening a Keynote Presentation 331 Saving Your Presentation 332 Putting Keynote to Work 332 Adding Slides 334 Working with Text, Shapes and Graphics Boxes 334 Adding and Editing Slide Text 335 Formatting Slide Text for the Perfect Look 336 Using Presenter''s Notes in Your Project 336 Every Good Presentation Needs Media 337 Adding a Background Shape 338 Creating Your Keynote Slideshow 338 Printing Your Slides and Notes 339 Chapter 19: When Good Mac Laptops Go Bad 343 Repeat after Me: Yes, I Am a Tech! 344 Step-by-Step Laptop Troubleshooting 345 Okay, I Kicked It, and It Still Won''t Work 356 And Now. Windows? 357 Chapter 20: Adding New Stuff to Your Laptop 361 More Memory Will Help 362 Considering a Hard Drive Upgrade? 367 A List of Dreamy Laptop Add-Ons 370 Chapter 21: Tackling the Housekeeping 373 Cleaning Unseemly Data Deposits 374 Backing Up Your Treasure 378 Maintaining Hard Drive Health 382 Automating Those Mundane Chores 382 Updating macOS Automatically 385 Part 6: The Part of Tens 387 Chapter 22: Ten Laptop Rules to Follow 389 Keep Your Laptop in a Bag 390 Maximize Your RAM 390 Install a Tracker Application 391 Keepeth Thy Drive Encrypted 391 Brand Your MacBook 392 Disable Your Wireless 392 Take a Surge Protector with You 393 Use Power-Saving Features 394 Use an External Keyboard and Mouse 394 Not Again! What Is It with You and Backing Up? 395 Chapter 23: Ten Things to Avoid Like the Plague 397 USB 1.1 Storage Devices 398 Phishing Operations 398 Oddly Shaped Optical Discs 399 Submerged Keyboards 400 Antiquated Utility Software 400 Software Piracy 401 The Forbidden Account 401 Unsecured Wireless Connections 402 Refurbished Hardware 403 Dirty Laptops 403 Index 405.