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Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual

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  • EAN: 9780596153281
  • Manufacturer: Pogue Press

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  • ISBN13: 9780596153281
  • Condition: New
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  • For a company that promised to "put a pause on new features," Apple sure has been busy-there's barely a feature left untouched in Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard." There's more speed, more polish, more refinement-but still no manual. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, with the humor and expertise that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for eight years straight. You get all the answers with jargon-free introductions to:

    • Big-ticket changes. A 64-bit overhaul. Faster everything. A rewritten Finder. Microsoft Exchange compatibility. All-new QuickTime Player. If Apple wrote it, this book covers it.
    • Snow Leopard Spots. This book demystifies the hundreds of smaller enhancements, too, in all 50 programs that come with the Mac: Safari, Mail, iChat, Preview, Time Machine.
    • Shortcuts. This must be the tippiest, trickiest Mac book ever written. Undocumented surprises await on every page.
    • Power usage. Security, networking, build-your-own Services, file sharing with Windows, even Mac OS X's Unix chassis-this one witty, expert guide makes it all crystal clear.

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  • Summary: Good detailed instruction
  • Comment: This book is very nicely detailed . It is geared for the new imac user with beginner and intermediate computer skills. Particularly good for those switching from Windows to imac.
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  • Summary: Kindle Version a Circus of Confusion
  • Comment: Looked at the contents book was well written, then purchased the kindle version. Kindle version doesn't really include a table of contents, for whatever reason they rewrote the contents pages and now looks like it was written by a 5 year old.

    I contacted David Pogue, he wasn't aware of this, and submitted it to his publisher, who states that Kindle can make some changes, but why they would change the contents page which is the most important part of the book, is beyond me.
    So I just have to meander around to find things.

    David's great, his publisher was very nice to take the time to answer my e-mail. I just don't recommend the Kindle version right now, buy the full book, which is worth 5 stars, just not the Kindle Version, which was hacked together poorly.

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  • Summary: Snow Leopard manual review
  • Comment: I first checked this manual out of the library and after using it for a week decided I needed my own copy.
    It is invaluable and well written.
    The only areas where it seems to be incomplete are the ripping and burning of cds.
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  • Summary: The best but not necessarily when it needs to be
  • Comment: Too many of the Mac OSX guides are little more than colorful, hand-holding versions of the Help menu that Apple includes with the computer. Pogue's manual, therefore, easily beats the field as a more informative, comprehensive, useful guide to Macintosh operating systems. It's a book to be consulted from time to time, not read from cover to cover. At the same time, I've recently had some freezes and disastrous, time-consuming, expensive crashes with an iMac and Macbook, compounded by ineffective professional "repair" services that I feel might have been avoided with a bit more advice. For example, there are repair programs that promise to fix everything. Drive Genius, Tech Tools, Disk Warrior--which is the best, and when and how are they best employed? A few more recommendations on, for example, the best kind of back-up system, including size, would be helpful and, as I recently discovered, some help setting up Garageband for simple tasks such as voice recording and editing would be enormously helpful. And it's still unclear to me why there appear to be three Applications folders (in the User's area, in the Finder, and on the hard drive). Life would be so much simpler without all of the sharing and users' features for a one-owner machine. Mobile Mac wouldn't be such a hovering danger if it weren't so easy to replace vital with irrelevant information by a misguided synchronization of the program (better, I say, to run between Macs than try to figure out where to send what and in which direction--whether from the computer to the "cloud" or vice versa). Perhaps it's understandable that the author can't play favorites in recommending Mac peripherals (e.g. Can Toast really do anything that a Mac without it is already capable of? Which add-ons are worth consideration, and which should be summarily excluded? Is G mail really so much superior to Apple Mail?). In sum, the Mac is "intuitive" to some but not all of us, and Pogue's guide, large as it is, falls considerably short of covering your backside in every emergency. So perhaps it's understandable that, short of acquiring a library of a dozen different volumes dealing with assorted Mac issues (all likely to become dated within a couple of years), I have yet to discover the all-purpose Mac book to go along with an owner's Macbook.
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  • Summary: Everything you might ever need
  • Comment: Whether you are new to the Mac, or just new to Snow Leopard as I am, this book will answer just about any question you might have. Apple has a way of introducing marvelous new features, like Time Machine, without providing any one place where you can find answers to basic questions, like "What is this feature for, and what will it do for me," "How exactly does it work," and "How does it fit into the rest of the system?" While this is in line with Apple's rep for elegant design (the spare white owner's manual for the new iMac is a little smaller than a CD jewel case) it leaves the user more than a little starved for information. In "the missing manual" you'll find your answers, presented simply, clearly, and with humor.