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Click to view the email you want to flag.
Click the Flag button; if you want a different color flag, click the triangle and choose a color from the pop-up menu.
Click Flagged in the Favorites bar to see all flagged messages.
Click to view one of the flagged messages.
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Tip: An Email of a Different Color
You can use different flag colors for different priorities or for different contexts—home, work, school, and so on—so you can see which emails you need to address at any given time.
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Tip: The Sorting Menu
At the top of the sidebar, click Sort by Date to see a pop-up menu of other sorting options, such as Flags (flag color) and From. You can even sort by which emails have attachments and which don’t.
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Syncing an iPad, iPod, or iPhone with Your Mac
It may seem strange, but iTunes is the conduit between your Mac and your other devices, shuttling contact and calendar info back and forth to make sure you’re up-to-date on all fronts. Naturally, you’ll need to get out the USB cable that connects your device to your Mac first.
With the device plugged in, click the device’s name in the iTunes sidebar.
Click Info.
Check boxes to sync Address Book contacts, iCal calendars, and Mail accounts.
Under each of those headings, check the groups, calendars, or mail accounts that you want to include in the sync.
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Note: When Little Changes Add Up
If more than 5% of your data will be modified by the sync process, iTunes lets you know what the percentage of change is and offers you the option of canceling the sync.
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Tip: Don’t Do That
iTunes is set to sync devices automatically after you’ve set them up the first time. To turn off this behavior, choose iTunes, Preferences, and check the Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically box in the Devices section.
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Under Sync Address Book Contacts, check the boxes to sync with your Yahoo! and Google contacts and specify a group for new contacts.
Under Other, check the boxes to sync Safari bookmarks and notes.
Under Advanced, check the boxes to delete information on the device and replace it with data from your Mac.
Click Apply to apply your changes and begin a sync.
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Tip: Feels Like the First Time
After the first time you sync, you can just click Sync (in the same place as the Apply button above) if you don’t want to change the settings.
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Chapter 7: Printing, Faxing, and Scanning
Mac OS X makes it easy to use your printer, fax modem, and scanner. All three functions are built in to the system, so you don’t need to worry about buggy, incompatible software that slows you down when you’re trying to get things done. You have lots of options for printing, faxing, and scanning that enable you to get the most from your devices, but if you’re in a hurry, each function can be accomplished with just a few clicks.
Before printing a document, you can preview it to make sure it looks the way you want it to. Preview documents can be saved as PDFs that you can exchange with others who don’t have the software you used to create the document, so they can see the document exactly the way you designed it, and print it on their own printers.
Faxing happens the same way and in the same place as printing—the Print dialog box—so if you have a modem, you can fax any document you can print. And a small, simple, but powerful program called Image Capture is responsible for scanning duties.
Using Printers, Fax Modems, Scanners, and Fonts
Setting Up a Printer
First, you need to know at least one thing about your printer: how it’s connected. It might be a USB printer plugged in to the Mac itself, or it could be a network printer. When you get that figured out, the Mac can go out and find the printer for itself.
Choose Apple menu, System Preferences.
Click the