OS X Mountain Lion Bible

Part I: Getting Started with OS X 108 Mountain Lion 1Chapter 1: Getting Your Mac Up and Running 3Chapter 2: Discovering the Finder 15Chapter 3: Using the Finder 57Chapter 4: Working with Windows, Folders, and Files 87Chapter 5: Searching with Spotlight 115Chapter 6: Getting Help within OS X 127Part II: Using Applications 137Chapter 7: Working with Applications 139Chapter 8: Working with Documents 163Chapter 9: Working with OS X's Own Applications 187Chapter 10: Working with OS X's Own Utilities 205Chapter 11: Working with the Dashboard Widgets 217Chapter 12: Working with Notifications and Other Services 225Chapter 13: Enhancing OS X with Utilities 239Chapter 14: Using AppleScript and Automator 249Part III: Working with Music and Videos 279Chapter 15: Playing Music and Videos 281Chapter 16: Using QuickTime Player 301Part IV: Using the Internet and Collaboration Services 307Chapter 17: Using Safari to Surf the Web 309Chapter 18: Using Apple Mail 333Chapter 19: Messaging and Videocalling 373Chapter 20: Managing Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, and Notes 387Chapter 21: Working with Microsoft Exchange 411Chapter 22: Syncing Macs and iOS Devices 421Chapter 23: Sharing with Others 435Part V: Securing Your Mac and Your Users 453Chapter 24: Securing Your Mac455Chapter 25: Managing User Accounts 481Chapter 26: Using Parental Controls 493

Galen Gruman is principal at The Zango Group, an editorial and marketing consulting firm, and senior editorial associate at BayCreative, a creative consultancy, as well as editorial director at EmergeMedia, publisher of IT Wireless. He has also been editor of Macworld and M-Business, executive editor of Upside, West Coast bureau chief of Computerworld, and vice president of content for ThirdAge.com. He is coauthor of 13 other books on desktop publishing. Gruman led one of the first successful conversions of a national magazine to desktop publishing in 1986 and has covered publishing technology since then for several publications, including the trade weekly InfoWorld, for which he began writing in 1986, and Macworld, whose staff he joined in 1991. Originally a newspaper reporter in Los Angeles, Gruman got bit by the production-technology bug in 1979 and hasn't recovered.