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Mac OS X Leopard Pocket Guide (Pocket Reference)
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by Chuck Toporek
Sales Rank: 12179
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Discount: 32 %
$7.00
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Paperback: 223 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. November 6, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596529813
ISBN-13: 978-0596529819
Product Dimensions:
6.8 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
Book Description
No matter how much Mac experience you have, Mac OS X Leopard requires that you get reacquainted. This little guide is packed with more than 300 tips and techniques to help you do just that. You get all details you need to learn Leopard's new features, configure your system, and get the most out of your Mac. Pronto. Mac OS X Leopard Pocket Guide offers an easy-to-read format for users of all levels. If you're a Mac newcomer, there's a Survival Guide that explains how to adapt, and a chapter on Mac OS X's key features. Experienced Mac users can go right to the heart of Leopard with chapters on system preferences, applications and utilities, and configuring. In all, plenty of tables, concise descriptions, and step-by-step instructions explain: What's new in Leopard, including the Time Machine How to use Leopard's totally revamped Finder All about Spaces and how to quickly flip between them How to search for and find things with Spotlight How to use Leopard's enhanced Parental Controls Handy keyboard shortcuts to help you be more efficient Quick tips for setting up and configuring your Mac to make it your own If you're ready to tame Apple's new cat, this is the guide you want.
About The Author
Chuck Toporek is a long-time Mac user. When not strapped to his desk, editing the latest tech book, he can be found riding his mountain bike, writing, out taking pictures somewhere, or watching cartoons.
Customer Reviews & Comments
Mac OS 10 Leopard: Pocket Guide is another in the O'Reilly series of competently-done, nicely produced, easy-to-use guides to consumer software and hardware. This book is a guide to using Apple's latest computer operating system, OS 10.5, popularly known as "Leopard." Leopard has hundreds of new improvements over its predecessor although most of them are merely tweaks and revisions of existing features. There are, however, 150 new features and this book highlights the major ones like Time Machine, the backup program; Spaces, the virtual desktop view; Stacks, the look inside folder in the Dock; QuickView, the mini viewer; and Cover Flow, the new navigation tool. Author, Chuck Toporek, is a Mac geek and an experienced writer who has designed the book for new users to the Mac and for existing Mac users who need to get up to speed with Leopard . He writes clearly and succinctly. After an introduction to Leopard, the book provides a basic guide to setting up a Leopard computer for use and configuring the user, network, security and system preferences and settings. There is a list of most of the Leopard-included applications and utilities with brief descriptions of them. The most significant applications comprise the iLife suite of web browser, mail, calendar, chat program, and others. The author covers all of the basic matters dealing with using Leopard, but there is nothing covered in depth. For that, one can refer to O'Reilly's "Missing Manual" series book on Leopard. The Pocket Guide is a quick and easy read, but most likely useful as a handy reference when needed. It has numerous illustrations and, screenshots, tables and charts, and a dozen or so pages of keyboard shortcuts for system and application usages. There are also dozens of "Tips" spread throughout which provide practical guidance to new users. Although the book is pitched for all levels of users, I think geeks and even semi-geeks would feel it's too basic. New computer users and especially the rising millions of Windows switchers should find it quite useful.
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Mac OS X Leopard Pocket Guide (Pocket Reference)
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