Apple Mac OS v10.4 Tiger Owner's Manual

Welcome
to Tiger

Find out what you can do
with Mac OS X v10.4

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Welcome to Tiger

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Mac OS X puts power at your fingertips with Spotlight
searching, Dashboard widgets, custom web news, and
four-way video conferencing.

Spotlight

Dashboard

iChat AV

Safari RSS

Automator

Find anything, anywhere, anytime. Instantly.

Instant access to a new kind of application called widgets.

Video conference with up to three other people.

Scan the latest news, information, and articles from the Internet.

Automate tasks with point-and-click simplicity.

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Click to view a slideshow

of your images.

The Spotlight window

shows all the search

results in groups.

Spotlight

Find anything, anytime on your computer as quickly as you can type. Search your entire
system from anywhere to find documents, email, contacts, calendars, music, movies,
photos, bookmarks, and applications.

To find something, click the

Spotlight icon, then type a

few letters or words.

Click to show or hide a

group of items.

The Spotlight menu shows the
top 20 items you have opened

recently. Click an item to open it.

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Organized results

To view all the results of
your search, choose
Show All in the Spotlight
menu to open the
Spotlight window. You
can group items, sort
them, and limit the
results. You can preview
images and see
additional information
about items.

Customize Spotlight

Use Spotlight preferences
to select and prioritize
the types of items you
want to search for. If you
don’t want to search
certain folders or disks,
click Privacy and then
select them.

Click to select the way you
want to group the results.

Click to view additional
information about an item.

This is the metadata that
Spotlight uses to search
for this image.

Click to group, sort, or

limit search results.

Drag items to prioritize
search results. Click to
deselect items you don’t
want displayed.

Choose a shortcut to show
the Spotlight search field.

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or words to search

Spotlight… Everywhere

You’ll find Spotlight throughout Mac OS X Tiger, including the Finder, System
Preferences, Mail, Address Book, and elsewhere. You can also save search criteria to
create a Smart Folder that updates its contents automatically each time you open it.

After you specify a

search, click Save to

create a Smart Folder.

Type a few letters

your files.

Click a Smart Folder to
see the current contents
or edit its search criteria.

Click the Add (+)

button to search using

additional criteria.

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Finding preferences

To find and change a
preferences setting, open
System Preferences and
type a few letters or
words in the search
field. Spotlight even
understands Windows
terms.

Finding documents

You can use Spotlight to
find items when you’re
using any application.
You can also use the
search field in the Open
and Save dialogs to find
files and folders on your
computer.

Type a few letters or words
to find the preference you
want to set.

Choose a term in this
menu to see where the
setting is located.

When the preferences pane
you want is highlighted,
press Return to open it.

Type a few letters or
words to search for
items on your
computer.

Click to select where
you want to search.

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Click anywhere on the

desktop to close

Dashboard.

Dashboard

Dashboard zooms onto your desktop with the click of a mouse and, like Exposé,
disappears just as quickly. You can use widgets to get up-to-date information, quickly
look up contacts, check your stock portfolio, see what’s playing on iTunes, and more.

Some widgets get

information from

the Internet.

Click to open the
Dashboard widget bar
to add more widgets.

Click the Dashboard
icon to open it.

You can open more than
one copy of a widget.

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Expanding Dashboard

It’s a snap to get more
widgets. When you open
Dashboard, click the
Open (+) button to show
the widget bar. To add a
widget to Dashboard,
just click it.

Customizing widgets

Most widgets are simple
and customizable to fit
your needs. To see the
settings you can change,
click the Info button
in the bottom right
corner. For example, in
the Stock widget, you
can specify the stocks
you want to see.

Click to close the
widget bar.

Click to close the widget.

Click the Info button to
select options for a widget.

If this icon appears, click it

to see other widgets.

When you’re
finished, click
Done.

To add a stock, type a company’s
name or symbol, then press Return.
Select a name in the menu, then
click the Add (+) button.

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Chat with family,

friends, and colleagues.

All you need is their

.Mac member name,

AIM screen name,

or Jabber ID.

The 3D view practically
puts your guests in the

room with you, right

down to the reflection on

the table.

iChat AV

Use multiway video and audio conferencing to chat live with friends and colleagues.
Video conference with up to three other people with stunning, true-to-life pictures and
crystal-clear conversation.

Change your availability
with the iChat status icon.

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Click to view your video
conference full screen.