Master Your Mac: Simple Ways to Tweak, Customize, and Secure OS X (Paperback)

Mac OS X is more than just a pretty face. Sure, the basics are easy, but beneath that gorgeous surface lie lots of powerful features that aren't always obvious.

Master Your Mac will show you how to quickly and easily tweak, customize, and control your Mac. Productivity and shortcut tips will show you how to change hidden defaults, discover faster workarounds, and enable undocumented features. You'll learn how to enable helpful features like custom gestures and shortcuts, repair disk permissions, monitor your system, repair problems with the hard disk, and even create a bootable USB drive for emergencies.

With the basics out of the way, you'll learn how to:

• Automate day-to-day tasks with macros, triggers, and Automator scripts
• Turn your Mac into a file or Web server
• Improve your Web experience by creating Safari extensions and using site-specific browsers
• Handle massive amounts of email and media
• Secure your Mac with firmware passwords, firewalls, FileVault full-disk encryption, and even Tor to help protect your online privacy

Mac OS makes things easy. Master Your Mac will show you how to tweak Mac OS to make it your own.

Covers OS X Mountain Lion.