- Eliminates lengthy introductions, detailed explanations, and sidebars, focusing on what new Mac OS X users want most-clear instructions on how to accomplish specific tasks
- An easy-to-navigate landscape layout featuring a two-column design and illustrated step-by-step instructions make it easy to find a specific task fast and get it done in a flash
- Tasks covered include adjusting system preferences, creating and managing user accounts, managing files and folders, using the Dashboard, networking wirelessly with AirPort, using iTunes and iPods, connecting to a Windows network, watching videos and DVDs, viewing and organizing pictures with iPhoto, making movies with iMovie, blogging and Web designing with iWeb, and using a .Mac account
- Published to coincide with Apple's release of Leopard
Easy steps for setting up e-mail, downloading music, and more Create a Slideshow
1.Open iPhoto and select a picture roll or album from which you want to base your slideshow.
2.Click Slideshow near the bottom of the iPhoto window. A new slideshow is created, as shown in Figure 15-9, and it contains all the images in the roll or album you selected in Step 1.
3.To remove an image from the slideshow, click and drag it to the Trash icon in the Source panel.
4.To add photos from other albums or rolls, simply click and drag the photos to the desired slideshow in the Source panel.
To change the order of images, click and drag their thumbnails left or right at the top of the Slideshow window.
Get Ready To:
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Manage system preferences
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Customize Dashboard widgets
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Chat online or create a blog
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Edit digital photos and make movies
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Network wirelessly with AirPort
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Connect to Bluetooth devices
The Dummies Way
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Concise, step-by-step instructions
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"Get in, get out" information
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Easy-to-recognize tasks and topics
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Quick solutions to get it done
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A dash of humor and fun
