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Discover all the new features that make your Mac better than ever – for free!
577 Expert tips for all Mac owners
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Our expert tips and easy step-by-step guides will help you get the best from OS X 10.10 ith a fresh new look and exciting new features, OS X 10.10 Yosemite is a major upgrade for your Mac which ties together OS X and iOS more than ever before. It will transform the way your Mac looks and the way you work with it – and it won’t cost you a penny to upgrade! Whether you’re new to the Mac, upgrading from an older version of OS X or migrating from Windows, we’ll help you get to grips with what’s changed and how everything works. We’ll take you step-by-step through the essentials of using OS X, finding your way around the desktop and setting everything up the way you want. We’ll introduce all the key apps that come with OS X and take a look at the amazing new features in the
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Safari web browser, Mail, Notification Center, Spotlight search and iTunes 12. If you’re using an iPhone or iPad as well as a Mac, you’ll be delighted by the new ‘Continuity’ features in Yosemite, which bring the two even closer together: you can receive and initiate phone calls and messages on any of your devices, for example, and with the new Handoff feature, you can start composing an email on your phone and then seamlessly continue it on your Mac from exactly where you left off. We’ll show you how to master all this and much more, including 53 hidden features in the new OS. Whether you’re a complete novice or a power user, we’ll help you get more from Yosemite!
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Contents Meet Yosemite 08 12 23
Discover OS X 10.10 Yosemite The evolutions of OS X 53 hidden features of the new OS!
The Basics
Mac Apps
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Setting up your new Mac Upgrading to Yosemite Migrate from Windows The Yosemite desktop Using iCloud with a Mac Set up an iCloud Keychain Master the Finder Discover OS X’s gestures Master Mission Control Launch apps quickly Get to know Gatekeeper Using Notification Center Discover the Today view Facebook integration Back up with Time Machine Never lose your work again Dictate to your Mac Search with Spotlight View files with Quick Look Discover the Dashboard
Browse the web with Safari Advanced features of Safari Master Mail’s new tricks Become an expert with Mail Make a date with Calendar Get from A to B with Maps Call and text forwarding Move tasks between devices Download great books Using iWork for iCloud Using iCloud Drive Master the Notes app Master OS X Reminders Make the most of Preview Handy OS X utilities More apps for your Mac Using the App Store Get to know iTunes 12 Take control of iTunes 12
Setup & Advanced Preferences Users 76 78 80 82 84 87 88 90 92 94 96 98 100 102 103 104 106
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Setting up your desktop Setting OS X preferences Manage user accounts Manage your login items Alter the look of your Mac Add an extra screen Manage multiple displays Define your audio sources Using Bluetooth devices Master your mouse Set up a printer Networking and sharing Sharing your Mac Share files wirelessly Make a Recovery Disk Recover from major problems Secure your Mac
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Automate repetitive tasks Get started with Disk Utility Discover Terminal More Terminal commands Using the Console Understand Activity Monitor Dual boot with Boot Camp
With a redesigned interface, updated apps, even greater iOS integration and tons of new features, OS X Yosemite doesn’t only look fresh, it will transform the way you use your Mac‌
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Meet Yosemite Take a quick tour of all the latest and greatest elements in Apple’s clean and powerful new OS
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Discover OS X 10.10 Yosemite The evolution of OS X 53 hidden features of the new OS X
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meet yosemite | Welcome to Yosemite
Welcome to Yosemite The latest OS offers the perfect combination of simplicity and power he all-new, all-singing, all-dancing, OS X 10.10 Yosemite is here – and you’ll love it! Like its predecessor, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, it continues the theme of Californian place names: Yosemite is named after one of America’s most impressive National Parks. Also like Mavericks, Yosemite will cost you nothing: you can download it for free using Software Update on your Mac or from www.apple.com/uk/osx. (Find out more about upgrading from an older Mac or migrating from a Windows PC on page 36 onwards.) If you have an iPad or an iPhone, you’ll be right at home with Yosemite’s fresh-looking interface, which takes many a cue from iOS. The new system font is clean and simple, and the transparency of drop-down menus and parts of windows allows for easy navigation and, quite simply, a more pleasant experience. Probably our favourite improvement is the family of ‘Continuity’ features. Take Handoff, for example: start an email on your Mac, then if you’ve moved away from your desk, finish it off on your iPhone. Or how about call forwarding – if you can hear your iPhone ringing downstairs but you’re working at your Mac upstairs, you can take the call on the desktop! And, of course, just about every app has been enhanced, so you’ll find improved search, a new Favourites view and easier ways to share in Safari, a new PDF markup feature within Mail itself, and the ability to send large attachments of up to 5GB. And with iCloud Drive at your disposal, you’ll be able to access your stuff anytime, anywhere you go…
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Like Mavericks, Yosemite is available as free upgrade.
In keeping with iOS, many windows and menus sport a translucent background, which helps to provide context.
The interface has a fresh, clean look with a new system font and simplified icons to provide a real ‘easy on the eye’ experience.
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In addition to simpler tickboxes and pop-up menus, even the window traffic light buttons are simpler and cleaner.
Welcome to Yosemite | meet yosemite
SAFARI
Among the nice little touches added to Safari, you’ll discover that you can now use trackpad controls to zoom out of pages for an overview of all open pages or tabs. And your favourite and recently visited sites are displayed when you create a new window or tab, putting them only a click away.
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Continuity features This we really like! Linking iOS and OS X are new ‘Continuity’ features that enable seamless cross-device working. Handoff, for example, allows you to start an email on your Mac, then transfer it to your iPhone to complete. You can do the same with a Safari page, if you’re partway through reading something and want to continue on your iPad. Very clever. Very handy.
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meet yosemite | Welcome to Yosemite
Notification Center The truly exciting thing about Yosemite is how it has incorporated so much from iOS 8 for a consistent experience, making it especially familiar and useful if you’re also using an iPhone or an iPad. An invaluable example is Notification Center’s Today view, which gives you at-a-glance access to information, and you can tailor it with the things that really matter to you.
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Spotlight
Spotlight now opens not in a little pop‑down menu at the right but in the centre of the screen, so your search results are clear to see. As well as searching for content on your Mac, it includes search results from Wikipedia and elsewhere on the web. Spotlight’s pane in System Preferences enables you to choose the order in which search results are listed, ensuring that the things most useful to you are put first.
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icloud drive With iCloud Drive, your Mac is now able to sync data with all your iOS devices, so you can make all your documents available on your Mac, your iPad and your iPhone, and be sure that your files are up-to-date on all of them. You get 5GB of storage space for free, and you can even access documents stored in iCloud Drive when you’re offline!
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Welcome to Yosemite | meet yosemite
AirDrop
When AirDrop was introduced, it enabled two nearby Macs to exchange files without formal networking, but now you can use AirDrop to connect to nearby iOS devices as well as Macs – so it’s easy to share a photo, a location on a map, a document of almost any kind, and much more.
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Forward calls And yet more iOS co-operation! So, picture the scene… You’ve left your iPhone in your jacket pocket in the hallway. You’re upstairs working in your study, and the phone rings. There’s no need to rush downstairs – now you can pick up the call on your Mac. It works the other way round too: you can receive and make calls, SMS and MMS messages on all your devices.
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Now there’s no need to upload your large videos or photo collections to the web and send links so that friends and family can see them: with Mail Drop you can send attachments up to 5GB in size. Plus, the new Markup feature enables you to add notes and annotations to attachments within Mail, rather than having to take a round trip to other apps like Preview You can even fill in forms and sign and return documents.
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meet mavericks | History of OS X
The evolution of OS X We celebrate the beauty of OS X, now in its eleventh major version pple calls OS X “the most advanced operating system in the world”, but it could have called it the most beautiful and few would have objected. OS X is full of little design touches that have redefined what people expect from a personal computer and perfectly complement the gorgeous Macs that it runs on. In fact, you can’t (legally) install OS X on anything but a Mac, so the two are forever entwined – and that gives Apple advantages that other computer manufacturers simply don’t have. It’s not a case of style over substance, either. OS X – Apple subtly dropped “Mac” from its name in 2011, indicating that it’s destined for more than just computers – is all about functionality. “We wanted to make this the dream user interface for somebody who has never touched a computer before, and that’s really hard to do,” said the late Steve Jobs, at the time Apple’s “interim” CEO, when he introduced Mac OS X 10.0 to the adoring Apple faithful for the very first time in January 2000.
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With its boldest redesign yet in Yosemite, OS X has come a long way in the last 13 years… From the outset Apple had one goal in designing OS X, and that was to create the next great personal computer operating system. The company wanted it to be the kind of operating system that a beginner could feel at home
with but would take a pro user to places they’d never thought they’d be. OS X 10 was launched with a new interface called Aqua. It was named after water because one of the original designers said it looked so good that
13 years of OS X | The development of the operating system
1 10.0 Cheetah
Released: 24 March 2001 Retailing at US $129, this was the first version of OS X that the public got their hands on. It was strikingly different from the previous “classic” Macintosh operating system and, as you might expect, it was far from perfect.
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2 10.1 Puma
Released: 25 September 2001 Puma was offered as a free update to Cheetah users, and went a long way towards fixing the glitches in that initial release. It was faster, enabled DVD playback and supported 200 printers by default, but even more was in store.
3 10.2 Jaguar
Released: 24 August 2002 Things started to look up for OS X with Jaguar, which many people considered to be the first fully-polished release, thanks to marked improvements in speed and stability across the board and many new features.