by Macworld70 pages, 3.
9 MB downloadPDF format, designed for reading online or printingPublication date: April 8, 2008Free 14-page sample available!
Discover over 200 tips for Mac , Mail, Safari, and more, including Terminal basics and beyond! In this colorful title, Rob Griffiths, editor of the MacOSXHints.
com Web site, presents a cornucopia of over 200 tips to help you get the most out of Mac 10. 5 Leopard. Culled from MacOSXHints.
com, and with additional content from other Macworld experts, the book covers a wide range of topics and user experience, with basic tips any Mac user can easily implement and plenty more that go way beyond the basics, employing Terminal, Automator, and AppleScript to maximize your Mac's mileage.
Rob covers a lot of territory, with tips relating to new Leopard features like Screen Sharing and Spaces, others that cover existing features like screen savers and keyboard shortcuts, and hardware-related tips for printing and working with discs.
He also helps you get the most out of standard Apple applications, including Mail (find and remove large attachments from your mail store), iCal (learn how to add and work with URLs easily in events), Safari (want to invoke bookmarks with voice commands?
), and iTunes (check out the AppleScript to update podcasts manually), as well as iChat, Preview, and Dashboard.
If you've wondered about using Unix commands in Terminal tocustomize your Mac beyond what the graphical interface offers, or if you've wanted to get more comfortable with Terminal, the book provides a nice foundation.
It coversthe basics of using Terminal and has a generous collection of tips sprinkled throughout that will get youtyping (or pasting) simple command strings in order to tweak your Mac in useful and interesting ways.
It also has info for those who are already comfortable with Terminal, covering new commands in Leopard, searching from the command line, and more.
We encourage you to download the free 14-page sample to see what it looks like, since it is rather different from our Take Control design.
If you plan to print, print a few test pages from the sample first in case you wish to consider Macworld's $19.
95 print version, which has higher-resolution images than are feasible in an ebook.
