First Week with My New IMac: A Very Basic Guide for Mature Adults and Everyone Who Wants to Get Connected
This book was written for the author’s 84-year-old mother and for everyone else who wants to "get connected" to the colorful new iMac but hates reading dense manuals. The First Week with My New iMac is the second title in this humorous, but practical and simple step-by-step guide that gives new iMac owners (no matter how old or young) all the information they need to do the basic tasks for which they bought a computer in the first place - sending and receiving e-mails, using the Internet,...
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A short, easy-to-use guide that will show anyone how to get started on their computer.
AcknowledgmentsviiIntroduction: Read This to Find Hidden Special Offer!1Chapter 1WYSIWYG: Prepurchase or Preassembly Instructions5Chapter 2Out of the Box: What You Should Do Whether Help Is or Is Not on the Way9Chapter 3Everything Is Connected--So Now What Do I Do?25Chapter 4The First Time: All Alone with the Computer (Will My Family Still Respect Me in the Morning?)31Chapter 5What Is the Internet? What Is a "User Name"? Just Tell Me How to Find Out What the Weather Will Be Here!41Chapter 6The Time Has Come: I Am Really Ready to Do Something47Chapter 7More to the Internet than Just E-mail: The World Wide Web Is Waiting!63Chapter 8Some Simple Basic Fun??? This Is Like the Piano! Do I Really Have to Practice One Hour a Day?73Chapter 9Writing Documents and Correspondence: I Am Already in the Middle of the Book and I Still Don't Know How to Write a Letter!79Chapter 10Everything Else, Including Other Ways to Get Information and Have Fun, or, What Do I Do with All These CDs and Did I Have to Pay Extra for All This Stuff?99Chapter 11A Step-by-Step Guide for Each Task107Appendices163Appendix ATroubleshooting and the Usual Questions, or, Why Won't This Stupid Thing Work?164Appendix BSome Important Key Commands177Appendix CSome "World Wide Web" Addresses of Interest179Appendix DE-mail Etiquette: "Smileys," Abbreviations, and Other Tips186Appendix ETech Support: Phone Numbers and Web Site Addresses188Appendix FHealthy Computer Habits: Taking Care of Yourself Physically and Mentally189Glossary193Index215
