Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

Contents.

Part I: Using Tiger.

Chapter 1: Why Having Chosen Mac OS X Was by No Means a Dopey Idea.

Chapter 2: Installarama.

Chapter 3: Hello, I Must Be Going (and, uh, Sleep).

Chapter 4: Getting to First Base with the Mac User Interface.

Chapter 5: Leopard-Skin Pillbox Mac: Monkeying with System Preferences.

Chapter 6: I Don’t Know Why They Call It the Finder, Either.

Chapter 7: Spotlight Dance.

Chapter 8: The Dock, and Why It Doesn’t Stink Even a Little.

Chapter 9: Just Deal with It: Apps.

Chapter 10: Running Apps that God Never Intended You to Run.

Chapter 11: Further on Files and Folders.

Chapter 12: Using Hard Drives, CDs, DVDs, and Other Silos of Data.

Chapter 13: Archiving to Analog Pulpware Substrate (Printing).

Chapter 14: Networking on Copper, Air, and a Prayer.

Chapter 15: The Apps Wot You Get for Nothin’.

Chapter 16: Dash(board)ing All Your Hopes.

Chapter 17: Automationalizing.

Chapter 18: I Love People! I Want to Share My Mac!

Chapter 19: I Loathe People! I Want to Secure My Mac!

Part II: The Technical Bits.

Chapter 20: Unix. . . Alas, the Name Is Its Only Funny Part.

Chapter 21: Lewis and Clarking through Tiger’s Directories.

Part III: Bonus Material.

Chapter 22: Twenty-Five Questions from My Aunt Estelle.

Chapter 23: Drop the Book and Come Out Peacefully: Online Resources.

Chapter 24: Troubleshooting by the Seat of Your Pants.

Chapter 25: Wheels of the Mine.

Index.