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Mac OS X Power Tools, Second Edition is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed book by Dan Frakes -- a 600+ page tour de force on becoming an OS X power user. It provides you with an essential understanding of what makes Mac OS X tick, and takes you step-by-step through insightful and essential tips, shortcuts, and solutions.
But don't let the book's title fool you -- it's not just for "power users." Just as power drills and band saws allow you to do things you couldn't ordinarily do, or help you to perform everyday tasks much more easily, the Second Edition of Mac OS X Power Tools, like the First Edition, helps beginning users do things they never knew how to do, and shows all users, beginning or advanced, how to do everything better, faster, and more easily. Filled with choice coverage on setup, installations, the Finder, the Dock, applications, networking, security, sharing, Unix, and much more, Mac OS X Power Tools is certain to save you countless hours of time (and frustration) and turn you into the OS X expert you've always wanted to become.
From the cover:
Completely Revised & Updated for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
Become a Power User by Learning the Hows and the Whys of OS X
Overflowing With Tips, Tricks, and Software Solutions
Customize Mac OS X to Suite Your Needs -- No Matter How You Use Your Mac
Exploit the Power of OS X and Turn on Hidden Features
Enhance and Extend Os X With the Best Third-Party Software
What makes Mac OS X Power Tools different from all the other books?
Although Mac OS X Power Tools includes an impressive amount of background information on OS X, it's not just an "about" book. Likewise, even though it includes lots of tips and tricks, it's not just the usual "tips and tricks" book. Rather, it takes a different, and novel, approach: showing you both how to do things, and why they work. Each chapter includes extensive background information on the hows and whys of the OS, and then shows you how to get the most out of it through specific examples. When appropriate, third-party software that provides additional or enhanced functionality is presented.
Another unique advantage of Mac OS X Power Tools is that it acknowledges different OS X user accounts and user account levels. Before each exercise or example, you're clearly told whether a change or procedure can be performed by any user of your computer, or if it is restricted to administrative users. You're also told whether or not you'll need to use Terminal in order to perform the actions to be discussed. Finally, you're told whether what you're about to do will affect just your own user account, or if it will affect all users of your computer. Mac OS X Power Tools is the first -- and at this time, the only -- OS X book on the market that provides the reader with this level of information.
In short, no other book provides you with this level of understanding of OS X combined with such an extensive collection of tips, tricks, and solutions. Mac OS X Power Tools will turn you into a power user, and will turn your Mac into an even more powerful tool.
Mac OS X Power Tools, Second Edition is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed book by Dan Frakes -- a 600+ page tour de force on becoming an OS X power user. It provides you with an essential understanding of what makes Mac OS X tick, and takes you step-by-step through insightful and essential tips, shortcuts, and solutions.
But don't let the book's title fool you -- it's not just for "power users." Just as power drills and band saws allow you to do things you couldn't ordinarily do, or help you to perform everyday tasks much more easily, the Second Edition of Mac OS X Power Tools, like the First Edition, helps beginning users do things they never knew how to do, and shows all users, beginning or advanced, how to do everything better, faster, and more easily. Filled with choice coverage on setup, installations, the Finder, the Dock, applications, networking, security, sharing, Unix, and much more, Mac OS X Power Tools is certain to save you countless hours of time (and frustration) and turn you into the OS X expert you've always wanted to become.
From the cover:
Completely Revised & Updated for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
Become a Power User by Learning the Hows and the Whys of OS X
Overflowing With Tips, Tricks, and Software Solutions
Customize Mac OS X to Suite Your Needs -- No Matter How You Use Your Mac
Exploit the Power of OS X and Turn on Hidden Features
Enhance and Extend Os X With the Best Third-Party Software
What makes Mac OS X Power Tools different from all the other books?
Although Mac OS X Power Tools includes an impressive amount of background information on OS X, it's not just an "about" book. Likewise, even though it includes lots of tips and tricks, it's not just the usual "tips and tricks" book. Rather, it takes a different, and novel, approach: showing you both how to do things, and why they work. Each chapter includes extensive background information on the hows and whys of the OS, and then shows you how to get the most out of it through specific examples. When appropriate, third-party software that provides additional or enhanced functionality is presented.
Another unique advantage of Mac OS X Power Tools is that it acknowledges different OS X user accounts and user account levels. Before each exercise or example, you're clearly told whether a change or procedure can be performed by any user of your computer, or if it is restricted to administrative users. You're also told whether or not you'll need to use Terminal in order to perform the actions to be discussed. Finally, you're told whether what you're about to do will affect just your own user account, or if it will affect all users of your computer. Mac OS X Power Tools is the first -- and at this time, the only -- OS X book on the market that provides the reader with this level of information.
In short, no other book provides you with this level of understanding of OS X combined with such an extensive collection of tips, tricks, and solutions. Mac OS X Power Tools will turn you into a power user, and will turn your Mac into an even more powerful tool.
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