Getting StartED with Mac OS X Leopard [Paperback]

Justin Williams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 12, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1590599292 | ISBN-13: 978-1590599297 | Edition: 1

Mac OS X Leopard Made Easy is a fast-paced tutorial for Mac novices that is organized so that the chapters mimic the icons that the user sees on the screen, making it easy to find what you want. No prior experience is necessary and it is a great way for a PC user to get up to speed on a Mac. Integration with the iLife applications is included so that users can get the most out of integration with the iPod, iTunes, etc…

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About the Author

Justin Williams Second Gear is a software and Web development firm based in Evansville, Indiana founded in 2006 by Justin Williams.. He is the lead developer of Second Gear's Porchlight bug tracking system for small development teams. He graduated from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, with a degree in Computer & Information Technology. His personal extremely popular blog is located at carpeaqua.com. Justin is the author of Rails Solutions: Ruby on Rails Made Easy.

Product Details

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: friendsofED; 1 edition (November 12, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590599292
• ISBN-13: 978-1590599297
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,281,560 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Source for Transitioning from Windows, March 3, 2008

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RagtimeWillie - See all my reviews

This review is from: Getting StartED with Mac OS X Leopard (Paperback)

Microsoft Windows has been my operating system of choice for years. But Apple's OS X product caught my attention from Day One. After the Intel-based Macs were on the market for awhile, I decided it was time for me to take the plunge.

"Getting StartED with Mac OS X Leopard" has proved to be an invaluable tool to ease transition between Windows and Leopard. Don't get me wrong: I still have a soft spot in my heart for Windows and have installed Vista Home Premium on my iMac. But now with Microsoft's awesome Office 2008 for Macintosh, I am finding myself visiting the Vista partition less and less.

If you are a person who was "brought up" on Windows, but now looking into a Mac, I can wholeheartedly recommend this book as a good source to get the ball rolling. After you put in your order for your Mac, the very next thing you'll want to do is order this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good overview for upgrading from Tiger, March 2, 2008

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D. Greenbaum "DoctorDave™" (Lawrence, KS) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getting StartED with Mac OS X Leopard (Paperback)

Getting StartED with Mac OS X Leopard

Apress and the freindsofed division is a fairly new player to the Mac book industry, having focused in the past on heavier topics for programmers and hard core web designers. They are a welcome addition to the Mac Family.

Justin Williams wrote a very first-person account of his adventures with OS X Leopard. This should not be considered a beginners book, especially given the family this book is in. The book is designed for Tiger or other OS X users wanting to know what is new in Leopard. The book is a great effort, but at points I got annoyed that he was stating the obvious things a OS X user knows. Williams writing however was spot-on: easy to understand with plenty of screen shots and detailed examples. He also includes the basics of iLife '08, which is a bonus, though makes the title a bit misleading and leaves the reader with the assumption Leopard includes iLife '08. Unless you upgraded to iLife '08 and Leopard, 30% of the book isn't applicable to you. Even with the iLife '08 the book is refreshingly short and can't be used a child's booster seat like so many technical books can be.

Though I'm an experienced Leopard user, I even learned a few tricks from this book, based on Williams personal experience with the operating system. This would be a good book to give a experienced Mac user that wants to know "what's new" in Leopard. It was quick, straightforward and to the point: a good book for people who don't like to read manuals.

Pros: Excellent tips, easy to understand for a experienced OS X user new to Leopard
Cons: Covers iLife '08 which adds unnecessarily to the book, covers thins many in the target audience would consider obvious

Three out of Five DogCows

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Crammed full..., January 3, 2008

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John M. "John M." (New Bern, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Getting StartED with Mac OS X Leopard (Paperback)

Getting StartED with Mac OS X Leopard arrived and I haven't had a moment since. This book by Justin Williams is crammed full of new interesting material... While not the encyclopedia of all the nuances of "Leopard" it is an excellent resource and a must for any new Macintosh user. I was surprised that Justin is such a new graduate of Purdue, I and my three children all attended Purdue... I feel that I bought and paid for a part of the university, so reading Justin's bio made me a fan before I ever read a page. I consider myself a "Power User" having owned Macs since the first 128K in 1984 (which I still own), so I have seen and tried to master each iteration of the system software over the years, but reading and rereading Mac OS Leopard has taught me a thing or two. It has sent me back to some of my other machines and OS's to test out a feature that I wasn't sure didn't exist before. I did highly recommend this book to our membership at our last MUG meeting when I introduced Leopard.