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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Mac OS 8.5
By Todd Stauffer
Published 1998
Designed to teach the reader the new features of the Mac OS 8.5 in a light hearted conversational style. The book discusses hardware and software basics, running each feature and learning its importance, troubleshooting as well as other ti -Up-to-date coverage of the latest and greatest Mac OS yet, 8.5 -Better price value than the competition at $16.99 -Award winning Mac author, Todd Stauffer, takes complex subject material, like operating systems, and explains it using light, fun techniques to keep the reader interested -Idiot-proof steps and humorous cartoons are used in teaching the reader how to use the new features of the popular Mac operating system.
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Mastering Mac OS X
By Todd Stauffer
Published 2001
Mac OS X is Apple's next generation operating system, combining a powerful Unix-based kernel with the friendly Mac interface. Mastering Mac OS X is the most comprehensive resource available, a book for everyone who wants to become immediately productive with the latest version of the Mac operating system. Not only does it cover every feature and every built-in application in the new OS, it also includes an advanced Administrator's Section that covers Mac OS X Server--the only general book to do so. The author is a well-known Mac authority and personality; he has won an Emmy for his computer-troubleshooting TV show Disk Doctors, and is the Macintosh columnist for Peak Computing Magazine.
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The Macintosh Bible, 7th ed.
By Sharon Zardetto Aker
Published 1998
Billed as the most popular Mac book ever, the Macintosh Bible is now in it's 7th edition. It includes a chapter dedicated to OS 8.5 as well as iMac info. This 1000 page tome has just about everything you need to know! Topics treated in depth include: beginning with a Mac, hardware, the operating system, other system elements, productivity software, creativity software, and connections. More than 80 percent of the material is new in this edition.
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Mac OS X Killer Tips
By Scoty Kelby
Published 2002
Covers Jaguar 10.2
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Making iMovies
By Scott Smith
Published 212000
Just as digital cameras revolutionized still photography, digital motion-picture devices are sure to have a big effect on the home and amateur video scenes. Making iMovies shows how you--the owner of a video camera, and with an interest in digital movie production--can make professional-quality video sequences on your personal computer. Author Scott Smith's editing platform of choice? The Apple iMac DV, or any other Macintosh computer with a FireWire interface for external devices. Smith presents a beautifully illustrated guide to the techniques of telling stories and eliciting emotions via digital video.
As you'd expect, Smith covers his bases in terms of explaining iMovie's essential capabilities. More valuably, he takes readers beyond the basics of connectivity and clip splicing. A typical example: While makers of traditional film-based movies can depict characters against a brick-wall background with no worries, bricks can cause jitter and compression problems in digitally recorded sequences. Therefore, Smith says, digital video producers need to zoom closer to subjects that are backed by a complicated surface. Not all of his advice is as explicitly technical. He also offers advice on orienting elements in the video frame, choosing subtle but effective music, selecting costumes, and storyboarding. He's written (and, no less importantly, helped lay out) a superb book that balances the technical and artistic sides of digital video production on the Macintosh.
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Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS 9 in 24 Hours
By Rita Lewis, Chris Denny
Published 1999
Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS 9 in 24 Hours provides you with insight into the new OS 9 features and technologies. Focusing on tutorials that teach you how to get around on a Macintosh system, you'll learn to customize the desktop, manage files, use fonts and color, learn about audio and video features, and how to search and use the Web. This book gives in-depth coverage of popular features, such as Sherlock and QuickTime. In addition to providing instruction for new users, this book meets the needs of people who want to dig deeper into Mac OS 9 by introducing you to some of the advanced features of the operating system. Advanced subjects include automating the Mac with Applescript, optimizing the Mac, and troubleshooting.
* Best-selling author Rita Lewis has authored over 20 books on Macintosh software and hardware
* Provides end users with time saving tips and advice from a very experienced Mac user
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The Mac OS X Book - The ultimate Macintosh User's Guide
By Mark R. Bell
Published 162001
Written by the author of the highly successful Coriolis books, Mac OS 8.5 Black Book (Coriolis, 1-57610-304-8) and The Mac OS 8 Book (Coriolis, 1-56604-688-2). Revision of the highly successful Mac OS 8.6 Book (Coriolis, 1-57610-443-5). In-depth coverage of the newly developed UNIX-based OS, Apple's newest element to the OS, and what effects it will have on the user interface and operability. Available day and date with the release of the software. Includes troubleshooting tips to help beginners utilize the important new features of this newer, more robust OS.
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Mac OS X Black Book : The Reference Guide for Power Users
By Mark Bell, Debbie Suggs
Published
Coming soon!
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Mac OS 8.5 Black Book
By Mark Bell
Published 1998
Mac OS 8.5 Black Book distinguishes itself from most books for intermediate Mac users by providing a comprehensive picture of the latest version of the Macintosh operating system without descending into wearisome interface documentation or indecipherable jargon.
This book tackles the Mac OS 8.5 one task at a time, devoting chapters to functional areas (such as AppleScript and memory management). Within the chapters, headings describe problems users might want to solve (such as "Sharing Files and Folders" and "How to Determine Your Hardware Configuration"). Explicit procedures--combined with expository prose, plenty of screen shots, and some bulleted lists--tell exactly what the user needs to do to accomplish the stated goal.
Mac OS 8.5 Black Book covers a wide range of Mac OS situations, beginning with those related to customizing the user interface and progressing through performance tuning, networking, and multimedia. The chapter on Java is weak, but the authors make up for it by including tons of reference information on Mac OS error codes, hardware specifications, and shareware recommendations. The book's coverage of connectivity also distinguishes it from its competitors. You'll find very good information on using Macs as Internet, intranet, and extranet servers, plus discussions of some ways to get Mac OS computers to talk to Windows machines over networks
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The Mac OS 8.6 Book
By Mark Bell
Published 1999
The Mac OS 8.6 Book says a great deal about Mac OS 8.6 from the user's point of view. If you're wondering how to get something done or how to use a particular feature of this operating system, the answers you need are in these pages. Covered subjects include the contents of the System Folder, the Finder's features, typography, printing, and memory management.
You'll find particularly good coverage of networking: the book shows you how to configure file and printer sharing on an AppleTalk network and explains the ins and outs of Personal Web Sharing. It also walks you through the process of getting connected to the Internet. More information on hooking Macs to Windows boxes on local networks would have made this book a standout.
The Mac OS 8.6 Book tends toward the elementary end of the difficulty scale, giving lots of attention to basic skills and features while including only broad-brush coverage of AppleScript programming and other advanced capabilities. This book includes better-than-average coverage of Sherlock, including its new ability to let the user choose from among a series of search engines to which to submit a query.
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