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Part III: Application Secrets
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
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
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
Chapter 19: Number and Data Crunching
Spreadsheet Basics
Excel Secrets
Quicken
Quicken Secrets
FileMaker and ClarisWorks
FileMaker/ClarisWorks Secrets
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
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
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
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
Part IV: Attachments
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Part V: The SECRETS Software Vault
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
The Final Dialogue
Glossary
Index
Installation Instructions