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- Part III: Application Secrets
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- Chapter 16: Multitasking, Multi-Platforms
- How the Mac Multitasks
- MultiFinder
- Hazards of Multitasking
- Multitasking in System 7
- Memory management
- Not knowing which program is open
- Multitasking Secrets
- Publish and Subscribe
- Why hasn’t it caught on?
- The basics of Publish and Subscribe
- Publish and Subscribe step-by-step
- Editing the subscriber
- Controlling when editions are updated
- Subscriber options
- Publish and Subscribe Secrets
- Types, Creators, and Double-clicking
- Creator codes
- Type codes
- Why you want to change type and creator codes
- Changing type and creator codes
- Type and Creator code Secrets
- Which Copy Will Launch?
- Which copy on your system
- Which version of the program
- Multitasking Pro: OpenDoc
- Mac to PC and Back
- PC disks
- PC documents
- PC programs and CD-ROMs
- PC-to-Mac Secrets
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- Chapter 17: Word Processing
- A Few Words about Word Processing
- Universal Word Processing Secrets
- Microsoft Word
- Customizing menus
- Adding keyboard shortcuts
- Customizing Word 6 Toolbars
- Styles and style sheets
- AutoCorrect, AutoText, and the Glossary
- Templates and Settings files
- Microsoft Word Secrets
- Word 5.1 (or earlier) Secrets
- WordPerfect
- WordPerfect Secrets
- Nisus, WriteNow, MacWrite Pro
- ClarisWorks
- ClarisWorks Word Processor Secrets
- SimpleText — and TeachText, too
- SimpleText Secrets
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- Chapter 18: Page Design
- Page-Layout Principles
- Two font families, three at most
- Page grid
- In defense of the ragged-right margin
- Break up the text
- Use rules
- Reverse type
- Widows and orphans
- Indents
- How to start a paragraph
- Watch those line lengths
- Keep your eyes open
- PageMaker
- PageMaker Secrets
- QuarkXPress
- Measurements palette
- Document palette
- QuarkXPress Secrets
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- Chapter 19: Number and Data Crunching
- Spreadsheet Basics
- Excel Secrets
- Quicken
- Quicken Secrets
- FileMaker and ClarisWorks
- FileMaker/ClarisWorks Secrets
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- Chapter 20: Graphics and 3-D
- Types of Macintosh Graphics Programs
- Painting
- Painting pointers
- Editing high-resolution bitmaps
- ClarisWorks
- ClarisWorks paint Secrets
- Adobe Photoshop (and Color It)
- Photoshop Secrets
- Drawing
- Drawing program advantages
- Selecting and grouping multiple objects
- Universal drawing-program Secrets
- PostScript Drawing Programs
- Paths and wireframes
- Faster, more reliable printing
- Universal PostScript drawing Secrets
- FreeHand Secrets
- Illustrator Secrets
- File Formats
- PICT files
- TIFF files
- JPEG
- EPS files
- GIF files
- SCRN (Startup screens)
- 3-D Graphics
- QuickDraw 3-D
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- Chapter 21: The ResEdit Chapter
- What is ResEdit?
- How To Use ResEdit
- The Peril Factor
- A primer in customizing menus
- Adding a keyboard equivalent in Finder 7
- Customizing dialog boxes
- Editing individual dialog-box elements
- ResEdit Secrets
- Top Ten ResEdit Pranks
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- Chapter 22: Public Utilities
- Hard-Disk Repair and Recovery Software
- Disk Utility Secrets
- Virus Protection
- Where viruses live
- Software protection
- QuicKeys and Tempo II
- Intro to QuicKeys
- Batch processing
- QuicKeys Secrets
- Tempo II
- Tempo II Secrets
- AppleScript
- Scripting and recording
- Apple Events
- What to do with Apple Events
- What it’s good for now
- Screen Savers and Screen Grabbers
- Screen savers
- Screen grabbers
- Screen saver/grabber Secrets
- Compression Software
- Kinds of compression programs
- Segmenting files
- Now Utilities
- Now Utilities Secrets
- Font, Icon, Desktop, and Other Utilities
- Desktop pattern editors
- Extension managers
- Extension manager Secrets
- A few utilities you already own
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- Chapter 23: Speech, Movies, and Sound
- A Mac Digitized-Sound Primer
- How to record sounds
- Microphone Secrets
- What to do with sounds
- Sound Secrets
- Music with MIDI
- Sequencing
- What you need
- MIDI Secrets
- QuickTime Movies
- How to record your own movies
- How to play back and edit movies
- What good is it?
- QuickTime Secrets
- QuickTime VR
- Mac Meets TV
- Bringing TV to your Mac
- Bringing your Mac to TV
- Speech I: The Mac Talks
- Speech II: The Mac Listens
- The importance of Speech
- What you can say to the Mac
- Speech Secrets
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- Part IV: Attachments
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- Chapter 24: Inside Fonts
- The Evolution of Mac Fonts
- Font format #1: bitmapped fonts
- Font format #2: PostScript fonts
- ATM
- ATM Secrets
- Font format #3: TrueType
- Font format #4: GX fonts
- Working with multiple font formats
- Which font version is that?
- Hinting
- Where Do They All Belong?
- Where to put fonts in System 6
- Where to put fonts in System 7.0 and 7.0.1
- Where to put fonts in System 7.1 and later
- System 7 Font Secrets
- Why Text Prints with Jaggies
- For any printer
- For StyleWriter-type (QuickDraw) printers only
- Style Variations
- Style variations for bitmapped fonts
- Style variations for PostScript fonts
- How to apply bold and italic
- Other styles — and Multiple Masters
- Other derived styles
- The Non-Typographer’s Guide to Type
- Proportional fonts
- Spaces between sentences
- Don’t use underline style
- Use tabs, not spaces
- Em dashes
- En dashes
- Special spaces
- Leading
- Tracking
- Kerning
- Ligatures
- Hyphenation
- Fractions
- Ellipses
- Curly quotes
- When to use dumb quotes
- The Option-key character set
- Option-key Secrets
- Where to get fonts
- Font Futures
- Common Font Problems
- Font-menu problems
- Option-key character glitches
- The classic “damaged” suitcase problem
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- Chapter 25: Macintosh Printing Secrets
- How Printing Works
- Dot-matrix printers
- Inkjet printers
- Laser printers
- Tales of DPI
- General printing Secrets
- QuickDraw Printing
- QuickDraw versus PostScript
- The ImageWriter series
- The StyleWriter series
- StyleWriter Secrets
- The Truth about PostScript
- PostScript fundamentals
- PostScript printing
- PostScript fonts
- PostScript Page Setup
- PostScript printing Secrets
- PostScript — the Language
- LaserWriter 8: a New Level
- What you get with LaserWriter 8
- A tour of the Level 2 PostScript driver
- LaserWriter 8 (Level 2) Secrets
- QuickDraw GX
- Features you get instantly
- GX features you have to wait for
- Why GX is mostly irrelevant
- QuickDraw GX Secrets
- PostScript Printer Guidebook
- Background printing
- The messages you see during printing
- What a difference RAM makes
- LaserWriter Utility/Apple Printer Utility
- PostScript printer Secrets
- PrintMonitor
- Notes on Color Printing
- Color printers
- Color separations
- Secrets of the Service Bureau
- Service bureau checklist
- PostScript files: the pros and the cons
- Service Bureau Secrets
- Printing Troubleshooting
- When the printout doesn’t match the screen
- Font and graphics problems
- General printer errors
- Complex printing errors
- Poor printout quality
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- Chapter 26: Scanning Secrets
- How It Works
- Hooking Up Your Scanner
- Color Scanning
- Which Scanner to Buy
- Other kinds of scanners
- Choosing a Resolution
- Hand-held scanners — and the PaperPort
- Scanning Secrets
- All About OCR
- How OCR software works
- Faxes and OCR
- The end of spell-checking?
- OCR Secrets
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- Chapter 27: Mysteries of the Modem
- The Hardware
- Modem speeds
- Standards and protocols
- Beyond the modem
- Handshaking: two modems get acquainted
- The Software
- Modem settings demystified
- The Hayes AT command set
- The modem initialization string
- How to Dial Up Another Mac by Modem
- Transferring files
- File-transfer protocols
- Telecom Secrets
- The Mac as Fax
- How to fax
- Fax/modem Secrets
- The GeoPort
- MegaPhone and GeoPort 2.0
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- Chapter 28: The Web, the Net, and Everything Online
- Online Services
- Working offline
- The Secrets guide to online etiquette
- Online service Secrets
- The Internet
- What it is
- What’s on it
- How to get on it
- Getting around: Internet addresses and URLs
- Where to go on the Internet
- The World Wide Web
- A World Wide Web warning
- Web browsers
- Where to go on the Web
- HTML — The language of the Web
- Internet and Web Secrets
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- Chapter 29: A Short CD-ROM Chapter
- CD-ROM Basics
- The speed issue
- How a CD works
- What to Do with 600MB
- Shovelware
- Interactive CDs
- Getting Your CD-ROM Up and Running
- Photo CD
- After you have a Photo CD disc
- Make Your Own CDs
- CD-ROM Secrets
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- Chapter 30: The SCSI Chain — and IDE
- What is SCSI?
- The Importance of Drivers
- The Three Basic Rules
- Rule #1: Termination
- Rule #2: SCSI Addresses
- Rule #3: Cabling
- The Great SCSI Power-Off Myth
- SCSI Troubleshooting
- Spotting the symptoms
- Solving the problems
- IDE: Cheaper, Sooner, and Less Flexible
- The Future of SCSI
- SCSI Manager 4.3
- The Future: FireWire
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- Chapter 31: NuBus, PCI, and Other Slots
- NuBus Cards
- The big idea
- NuBus ’90
- PDS Cards
- The PCI Revolution
- Why PCI?
- PCI futures
- How to Install a NuBus, PCI, or PDS Card
- Losing charge
- The board meeting
- NuBus and PCI Secrets
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- Chapter 32: The Networking Chapter
- Networking Basics
- Shared devices and servers
- AppleTalk messages and LANs
- LocalTalk vs. PhoneNet
- Ethernet
- Ethernet Secrets
- Token Ring
- Connecting One Mac, One Printer
- Connecting Two Macs (+ Printer)
- Two Macs, no printer
- And printer makes three
- Beyond the mini-network
- Network Services
- File servers
- Print servers
- E-mail
- Net modems
- Fax servers
- Program linking
- File Sharing 1: Setting Up the Control Panels
- A file-sharing history
- First stop: the Network control panel
- Second stop: Sharing Setup control panel
- Third stop: Users & Groups control panel
- File Sharing 2: Sharing Specific Folders
- The Sharing command
- The Sharing window
- Different degrees of access
- Open for business
- Sharing-command Secrets
- File Sharing 3: Logging onto Other Macs
- File-sharing Secrets
- Connecting a PowerBook to a Mac
- Setting up the PowerBook
- Setting up the desktop Mac
- File synchronization
- When Nobody’s Home: Remote Access
- Remote Access Secrets
- Expanding the Net
- General networking Secrets
- PowerTalk
- Where it comes from
- Sharing nicely
- All that PowerTalk clutter
- The key to it all
- Totally wired
- Files all over
- PowerTalk for power users
- Network Troubleshooting
- AppleTalk troubles
- Other common problems and solutions
- For more information
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- Chapter 33: Troubleshooting
- Principles of Troubleshooting
- A word about troubleshooting
- More troubleshooting
- The Secrets Rule of Three
- Step 1: Turn off your extensions and control panels
- Step 2: A “clean reinstall” of the System
- Step 3: Unplug the SCSI chain
- Other things to try
- Avoiding Troubles in the First Place
- The Mac Secrets Error-Message Table
- DS Errors
- Negative Error Codes
- Details on the most common error messages
- Oddities on the Screen
- “Generic” icons
- “Generic” icons II: the SuperATM factor
- Shimmering monitor
- Flashing Apple menu
- Black Apple menu
- Finder changes don’t stick
- No Mac icon on the System Folder
- Start-up Troubles
- The “Sad Mac” icon
- The blinking question-mark icon at start-up
- Crashing on start-up
- Twilight Zone theme, car crash, or four notes
- Disk Troubles
- Hard-disk troubleshooting
- All floppy disks show up locked
- File, Desktop, and Icon Troubles
- Strange crashes with 32-bit Enabler
- Can’t empty the Trash
- Keyboard Ailments
- Dead key
- Crazy slow typing
- When All Else Fails
- The Top 10 Software Suspects
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- Part V: The SECRETS Software Vault
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- Chapter 34: The SECRETS Software
- What You’ve Got Here
- The Commercial Software
- Shareware
- Freeware
- Installation
- Disclaimer
- How the CD-ROM Is Organized
- The Secrets Software Described
- A Zillion Kajillion Rhymes
- Add/Strip
- Anagrams
- Apeiron
- AppDisk
- AreaCodeFinder
- Art Explosion! Sampler
- ArtValve
- Before Dark
- Bitstream Fonts
- Blood
- Cache-22
- Chiral
- Clockometer
- Color Coordinator
- Color It!
- ColorSwitch
- Conflict Catcher 3 Demo
- Control Strip modules
- Dialog View
- Disinfectant
- Disk Rejuvenator
- DiskFit Direct
- DragAnyWindow
- DragStrip
- DropStuff
- Dvorak Keyboard Layouts
- Easy Envelopes+
- Easy KEYS
- Eclipse Screen Saver
- FC Text-Picture
- File Buddy
- Flash-It
- FlashWrite ][
- Folder Icon Maker
- Googol Eyes
- GURU
- Helium
- Holiday Lights
- Kaboom! Sounds
- KeyQuencer
- Label Secrets Pro
- Mac Identifier
- Mac Secrets Outtakes
- Macman Classic Pro
- Maelstrom
- MenuChoice
- MIDI Files
- Movie Play
- Movie2Snd
- Now Utilities 5.0
- Olduvai Fonts & Sounds
- Oracle
- PhoneBook Plus
- PowerPCheck
- PowerSecretary demo movie
- PrintChoice
- Program Switcher
- QuickPop
- QuickTime 2.1
- Remember?
- ResEdit
- ScrapIt Pro
- SCSIProbe
- Sleeper
- SmartKeys
- Snapz
- SoundBuilder
- Startup Screens
- StuffIt Expander
- Super Comments
- SuperClock!
- Swoop
- System 7 Pack!
- TechTool
- TempoEZ
- The Tilery
- To Do!
- TypeIt4Me
- X-Words
- Zonkers! Sampler
- ZTerm
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- The Final Dialogue
- Glossary
- Index
- Installation Instructions
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