Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Peachpit Learning Series [Paperback]

Robin Williams (Author), John Tollett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 4, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0321635388 | ISBN-13: 978-0321635389 | Edition: 1

The latest update of Robin Williams's bestselling guide will have you working miracles in no time with Snow Leopard, the fastest and most reliable version of the Mac OS X ever. With this book, you can learn in your own way, whether it's working through the lessons from start to finish, jumping straight to step-by-step exercises about new features, or looking up just what you need to know at that moment. There are hundreds of exciting tools and hidden gems in your Macintosh. And with the gentle, yet expert, hand of Robin Williams guiding you along the way, you will learn to take full advantage of all that Snow Leopard has to offer. If you are new to Mac OS X, you'll learn to use your Mac with help from a world-renowned teacher. From there, you can move on to customize it to suit the way you work. And if you've been using Mac OS X already, you'll learn to use all of the new features in Snow Leopard.

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About the Author

Robin Williams is the author of more than 25 bestselling and award-winning books, including The Little Mac Book, The Non-Designer's Design Book, The Non-Designer's Web Book, and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Peachpit Learning Series. Through her writing, teaching and seminars, Robin has influenced a generation of computer users in the areas of design, typography, desktop publishing, the Mac, and the Web.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (September 4, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321635388
• ISBN-13: 978-0321635389
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #108,881 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #29 in Books > Computers & Technology > Apple > Mac OS X
  • #79 in Books > Computers & Technology > Operating Systems > MacOS

More About the Author

Robin Williams is the author of dozens of best-selling and award-winning books, including Robin Williams Mac OS X Book, The Little Mac Book, The Non-Designer's Design Book, Robin Williams Design Workshop, and Web Design Workshop. Through her writing, teaching, and seminars, Robin has influenced a generation of computer users in the areas of design, typography, desktop publishing, the Mac, and the World Wide Web.

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41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One mighty good choice, September 29, 2009

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Hartley J. Jackson (Lyndonville, VT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Peachpit Learning Series (Paperback)

This is an excellent guide to using Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and its applications. Its topics are well illustrated and presented clearly so, like the Mac, they just work.

The topics range from getting to know the Finder Window and using the Dock to Trouble Shooting Your Internet Connection. The applications that come with Snow Leopard are included. iLife and iWork applications are not included.

I enjoyed the great many little features such as control-click an item in the Trash to get an action menu including "Put Back" to restore the item to its last location, and Command-double click any folder in any view to open it in a new separate window. And, try this one yourself, Control-click on any word in TextEdit, or in Pages, for a contextual menu to search for it in Google.

There is excellent coverage of the integration of features in Snow Leopard. As and example the end of a section on Mail lists how it is integrated with Parental Controls, Address Book, iChat, iCal, MobileMeSync, TextEdit, Safari, and Dashboard.

There are instructions for using new Snow Leopard features such as Shared Files, and for retrieving old versions of files using Spotlight in Time Machine.

I was impressed by "Robin and John's Personal Troubleshooting." It provides a description of steps to take in a logical order to resolve most computer problems, except, it says, when you hear your hard disk make a noise and it is time to get to your repair shop.

If you want a quick reference guide to mastering snow leopard that covers most interests, I believe this is one mighty good choice.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but not great, December 14, 2009

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Larry R. Hinkle "larry Hinkle" (bend oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Peachpit Learning Series (Paperback)

Good information for a novice user. Organized as a tutorial, with lesson in each chapter. Not much advanced stuff here.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Robin Williams Usual Great Book, October 26, 2009

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James R. Feil "Tall, Gray and Hansome" (Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Peachpit Learning Series (Paperback)

Since "The Mac Is Not a Typewriter", Robins Williams writes the most reader/user friendly books about how to deal with computers particularly the Macintosh. If she writes the book, I buy it.Amazon has the best prices and delivery system

Jim Feil