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Modding Mac OS X
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by Erica Sadun
Sales Rank: 1070802
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List Price: $24.95
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Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 1st edition September 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596007094
ISBN-13: 978-0596007096
Product Dimensions:
9.5 x 8 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Product Description
Modding Mac OS X isn't about cutting up your Power Mac's case with a saws-all; it's about modifying Mac OS X's user interface and unlocking secrets and dispelling your fears of the Unix command line so you can take command of your Mac.
Modding Mac OS X starts out with the very basics of showing you how to configure your Mac and do simple things like change Finder views, use an image from iPhoto's library on your desktop, and how to find and use screen savers. From there, Modding Mac OS X shows you how to: - Find hidden features in your favorite applications
- Dive inside application bundles to find hidden resources
- Change application and system-wide keyboard shortcuts
- Work with the Property List Editor to read and edit property list files
- Wrap your head around the defaults command to tweak an application's settings
- Hack on NIB files to change an application's interface
- Control an application with AppleScript, even if it isn't scriptable
Each Modding example includes detailed step-by-step instructions that even a novice Mac user can follow, while also providing the necessary detail to satisfy the experienced hacker. The knowledge you gain from tweaking one application can be easily applied to the next.
So go on, empower your inner Mac geek. You know you want to.
About The Author
Erica Sadun is the bestselling author of iMovie 3 Solutions, DVD Studio Pro 2 Solutions, Digital Video Essentials: Shoot, Transfer, Edit, Share and Digital Photography Essentials: Point, Shoot; Transfer, Share . In addition, she is a contributor to O'Reilly's Missing Manual series. Erica has a Ph. D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech's Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center. A geek, a programmer, and an author, she's never met a gadget she didn't love.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book is primarily about tweaking the OS X end-user applications through clever use of the application itself, preference hacking, or finally by using the developer tools to tweak the application directly. It's an interesting read that is focused on that group of folks who aren't engineers, but love to tweak their desktop with custom styles, and make use of fun features like opacity. None of these things are workflow critical, but they are fun anyway. If you are someone who loves to mod then this is great starting point for you. It's well written and does a capable job walking you through each mod so that you don't break your system in the midst of your play.
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