Easy iMac [Paperback]

Lisa Lee (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 29, 1999 | Series: Que's Easy Series

A task-based tutorial that gives a new iMac buyer the full color, step-by-step tasks they are most interested in. Topics include: Getting Started; Sending E-Mail; Using Applications; Working with Disks, Folders, and Files; Printing with Mac OS; Personalizing Mac OS; Setting up Applications; Using Mac OS Application Accessories (Including Sherlock, Movie Player, Playing Games, and Other Fun Stuff); Maintaining Your System; Connecting to Online Services and the Internet; and iMac Hardware Features and Accessories.

• Only full color, step-by-step tutorial on the market quickly shows you how to perform the most common iMac tasks and procedures.
• The fun, fully-illustrated way to learn all of of iMac's functions! No matter what color iMac you have.

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From the Back Cover

A task-based tutorial that gives iMac buyers the full color, step-by-step tasks they are most interested in. Topics include getting started with your new machine, sending e-mail, setting up applications, working with disks, folders and files, using Mac OS 9 features, finding information on the Internet using Sherlock 2, making movies with iMovie, using AirPort wireless networking, maintaining your system and connecting to online services. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Lisa Lee is a former Apple and Microsoft employee who works as a software engineering consultant in San Francisco, California and Silicon Valley. She has worked with many Macintosh hardware and software developers to create Macintosh products, including Mac OS. She is the author of Easy iBook, Easy Linux, and the co-author of Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS 8.5 in 24 Hours.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: Que Pub (March 29, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789719924
• ISBN-13: 978-0789719928
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,218,957 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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60 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Mac Magazine #52, August 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Easy iMac (Paperback)

I can't help it! I'm totally enamored of how-to books that arefull of colorful pictures with numbered lessons. This title includeseleven color-coordinated thematic chapters, for easy and attractive navigation and study.

Flip to any page, and you will find:

* individual itemized tasks, charmingly illustrated

* columns of tips and techniques

* numbered lessons.

Let's try it, and thumb to page 194 and 195, containing "Part 8, Task 12: Using File Sharing:"

If your iMac is on a network, you can share files with other computers on the network. If another Macintosh is on the network, the other Mac can directly access the iMac on the network using File Sharing.

The author then proceeds to demonstrate how to select the File Sharing control panel, and in eight steps takes us to sharing "any Mac that logs onto your computer with guest access."

Ideal users of Easy iMac In Full Color are people who are new to the Mac, and who learn best via individual illustrated lessons. Lisa Lee thoughtfully makes the Internet her first priority, enabling readers to sign up and log in early in the book. If people want to delve deeper into additional Mac pursuits, they can do so at their own speed.

Both fun and serious subjects are covered, ranging from "Playing Games" and "Using Stickies" to "Editing a QuickTime Movie" and "Defragmenting a Disk." The design of the book is so appealing that I'm tempted to borrow Pete Miner's new iMac for a couple of months ("Don't even think about it, John!") so I can work through every lesson in Easy iMac In Full Color.

Don't buy this book for yourself if you are an experienced Macintosher. Instead, for $20 U.S., give it as a gift to someone who will let you use it whenever you need a little sparkle in your computing life.