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.2, a feature that lets you tunnel into corporate networks from the road.Details are in Section21.5.Of course, even then, you don't really need Internet Connect to get online.If your dial-up settings are configuredcorrectly (see Section 18.2), your Mac will automatically dial whenever you launch a program that requires one(such as Internet Explorer).Image Capture Super-PrefsApple spared no expense on this baby.Lurking in the dialog box that appears when you click theOptions button (shown in Figure 9-5) are some very powerful options.They're well worth exploring.The Download Options tab, for example, is where you can set Image Capture to grab picturesautomatically when you plug in the camera, saving you a click on the Download button.Here's whereyou specify, too, that you want to delete the photos from the camera after they've been downloadedto the Mac another step-saving option that makes your memory card ready for more pictures.Toaccess these settings, click the Options button shown in Figure 9-5.The View Options tab controls the displays shown at bottom in Figure 9-5: the size of the icons in"slide-sorter" view, and which columns of information appear in the list view date, height andwidth, resolution (DPI), aperture, and so on.9.1.12 Internet ExplorerThe OS X version of Microsoft's Web browser is almost identical to its predecessor, except for the new windowstyle, buttons, and other Aqua interface features.9.1.13 iPhotoThis remarkable (and free) new "i" program debuted in January 2002 as a worthy member of Apple's "i-apps"collection (iDVD, iMovie, iTunes, and so on).When you connect a recent-model USB camera and click Import, theprogram automatically sucks the pictures into your Mac, where you can rotate, crop, organize, sort, and printthem.The best part may be the Share mode, where a few quick clicks turn selected photos into a Web page,printout, slide show, screen saver, desktop picture, or book.(iPhoto's book feature lets you design and order ahardbound, linen-covered, professionally printed picture book for as little as $30.It comes to you by mail inabout a week.)iPhoto is a rich, flexible program that could be the topic of its own book.In fact, it is iPhoto: The Missing Manual.9.1.14 iTunesiTunes is Apple's beloved digital music-library program.(Chapter 10 tells all.)9.1.15 MailMail, the Mac OS X email program, has received a significant upgrade in version 10.2.See Chapter 19 for thewhole story.9.1.16 PreviewPreview is Mac OS X's built-in graphics viewer.When you double-click the icon of a graphics file whose "parent"the Mac can't identify (maybe something you grabbed from a Web page or imported with your digital camera),Preview takes over.It does the work of opening and displaying the image onscreen.Preview's hallmark is its surprising versatility.It works with pictures saved in a wide variety of formats, includingless commonly used formats like BMP, PNG, SGI, TGA, and MacPaint, as well as the typical JPEG, TIFF, GIF, andPICT images.Preview can even open Photoshop files and multipage PDF documents.9.1.16.1 Converting images with PreviewPreview doesn't just open all these file formats it can also convert between most of them.You can pop opensome old Mac PICT files and turn them into BMP files for a Windows user, pry open some SGI files created on aSilicon Graphics workstation and turn them into JPEGs for use on your Web site, and so on.All you have to do is open the file you want to convert and choose File Export.In the Save As dialog box thatappears, choose the new format for the image using the Format pop-up menu.(For each format, the Optionsbutton may be available.When exporting to JPEG, for example, you can choose a Quality setting.When savingTIFF files, you can turn built-in compression on or off.If the Options button is active, click it and choose thesettings you want.)Finally, click OK to dismiss the Options dialog box, and then click Save to export the file.NOTEWhile Preview understands many of the most common formats, there are a few notable exceptions.You can't open, save, or export EPS files using Preview.And while you can open GIFs, Preview can'tconvert files in other formats into GIF (you can thank the lawyers for that; see Section 13.9.1).9.1.16.2 Flipping your view with PreviewPreview isn't Photoshop.It's not even AppleWorks; you won't find a single drawing or painting tool.But thetoolbar (new in 10.2) and Display menu do let you perform image manipulation of the most basic kind.You canrotate an image even a PDF document in 90-degree increments and then flip it vertically or horizontally.9.1.16.3 The toolbarIn Mac OS X 10.2, Preview sports its own toolbar, much like the one in the Finder, System Preferences, or Mail.Its buttons (Zoom, Rotate, and so on) duplicate the functions of the Display menu, but leave them out in theopen where they're easier to find (shown in Figure 9-6).You can have hours of fun with the new toolbar.Exactly as with the Finder toolbar, you can customize it (bychoosing View Customize Toolbar), rearrange its icons (by -dragging them sideways), and remove icons(by -dragging them downward) [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]