Mac OS X Snow Leopard for dummies - Bob LeVitus

Shortcut
com +M: minimize
com +`: cycle through windows
com + N: new finder window
com + Shi +N: new folder
com + O: open
com + I: get info
com + A: select all
com + C: copy
com + D: duplicate
com + Shi + H: home
com +. : cancel
com + P: print
com + X: cut
com + V: paste
com + F: find
com + Z: undo
com + Q: quit
come + Delete: move to trash

p.264 Preview
Almost every OS X program with a Print command lest you save your document as a PDF file. Just click and hold the PDF button and choose Save As PDF.

p. 352-3 Boot Camp
Boot Camp is Snow Leopard's built-in technology that allows you to run Microsoft Windows XP or Vista on any Intel-based Mac. if your Mac meets the following requirements, you can run Windows on you Mac: 10GB HD, upartitioned HD, CD, printer, a full install copy of Windows.
1. Launch the boot Camp Assistant aplication, which is in you applications/Utilities folder.
This step creates a partition on you hard drive for Windows and then burns a specia cd with all the drives you'll need to use windows on your Mac.
2. Install windows on the new partition.
3. Install the drivers from the cd you jsut burned.

From now on, you can hold down Option during startup and choose to start up from either the MAC OS X or the Windwos partition.

p.366 Firewall: Yea or nay?
1. Sytem preference
2. Security -> Firewall
3. Deny incoming connections except for essential services radio button.

p.369 Locking down files with FileVault
If you absolutely, positively don't ever want anyone to be able to access the files in your Home folder, FileVault allows you to encrypt your entire home folder and its contents. It protects your data with the latest fovernment-approved encryption standard-- Advanced Encryption Standard with 128-bit keys (AES-128).
If you turn on FileVault and then forget both your login password and your master password, you can't log in to our account -- and your data is lost forever.
FileVault is always encrypting and decrypting files, if often slows down our Mac when you add or save new files, and it takes extra time before it lets you log ou, restart, or shut down.
1. Security System preferences -> fILEvAULT
2. set master password
3. Turn on.

p.374 Activity monitor
Window -> CPU Usage (or com+2), CPU History (com+3), floating CPU window.

p.380 Grab
screenshot
Utility Chest

p.381 Keychain Access
A keychain is a way to consolidate all you passwords.