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Mac OS X Hints Paperback – May 15, 2003

ISBN-13: 978-0596004514 ISBN-10: 0596004516 Edition: 1st

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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (May 15, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596004516
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596004514
  • Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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"The amazing Mac OS X Hints book is out now. Published by Pogue Press and O'Reilly, featuring 500 of the most amazing power tips for OS X. Collected by Rob Griffiths and edited by David Pogue, this invaluable book brings together some of the best hints ever for getting more from OS X." - MacFormat, November 2003.

About the Author

Rob Griffiths is the creator of the Mac OS X Hints site, a database of over 3,500 tips on using OS X.

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I recommend it whole-heartedly.
mgreifenkamp
What I Liked I've read several other books on Mac OS X. The one I believe everyone should start with is still David Pogue's Mac OS X: The Missing Manual.
Emma Story
They were alright, most of the content even good, but I would quibble with a couple of the facts and some of the wording.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful By Emma Story on June 17, 2003
Format: Paperback
Addressing the Obvious
The most immediate question I had when I heard that O'Reilly would be publishing a book containing hints from macosxhints.com was, of course, why I should get the book when the hints are already on the site for free. Both the author and the publisher also thought of this, understandably enough. Here's how Rob Griffiths answered the question in a post on the site, when the book was first announced: "The book isn't just a "cut and paste" job from the site to print form. Every hint was rewritten and retested from scratch, and hundreds of screenshots were added to help clarify and explain the hints. In addition, many of the scripts and programs posted here are included (the author of each program was contacted for approval to include their original work in the book - thanks to each of you for agreeing!)."
So the question then becomes: is this really the case? Are the differences between the hints as posted on the site and as printed in the book really significant enough to merit shelling out [money]?
The short answer would be that, in my opinion, the book is worth its price. The long answer is (predictably) a little more complicated. There are, of course, people who are more than willing to do the extra digging on the web to get the relevant content for free - they'd rather do without the little perks (increased readability, revision, testing, screenshots) than spend potential beer money for a glossy O'Reilly book. And that's fine - I'm more than sympathetic with this position, being frequently hard up for beer money, myself. But of course there are also people for whom the convenience is just as important as the cost, and who consider the price of the book well worth it in terms of the time saved.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful By ber on May 27, 2003
Format: Paperback
I knew from his macosxhints web site Rob Griffiths was an honest, hard working, modest and generous guy with an eye for quality and esthetics. No doubt he's also loyal, obedient, brave, thrifty, clean and reverent. I didn't know until I read Mac OS X Hints, the book, that he was a literary genius. Clearly, the Pogue vibes energized Rob's creativity. The writing is entertaining while the hints are novel and valuable. Ignoring the author's suggestion I read the book from cover to cover. It's really nice to read paragraph after paragraph of geek gook and enjoy the text. I frequently got the "what's so hilarious now?" look from wife as I giggled and laughed out loud. I also found myself talking to the book -- "cool, I knew that", "hmm... interesting. I'll have to keep that in mind", "wow!", "OMG! that's how you do that!", etc. The entire range of nerd emotions.
It was clear the book was a winner after reading the preface; The Missing Credits. A clean, honest list of who's responsible, complete with email addresses. The quality is evident before you get to the introduction -- even the blurb "About Pogue Press" was amusing and encouraging. There's no explanation that a paragraph labeled "Tip" is a "Tip" or courier font means it's supposed to look like teletype output. That's refreshing. A book that assumes I can read a book. The cover boasts 500 hints. Leave it to Griffiths to be modest on the cover. There are 563 hints -- any other book would say "Over 500 Hints" or "almost 600 Hints". There's no animal on the cover. More points. This book was so obviously going to be good I wanted to write the review before I finished the introduction. But I wanted to read the book too, so I held off. Of course my impression was not only justified, but enhanced.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful By Midwest Book Review on July 19, 2003
Format: Paperback
Written by Rob Griffiths and edited by David Pogue, Mac OS X Hints: Jaguar Edition is a 421-page burgeoning collection of tips, tricks, techniques, and secrets to improved performance and making the best use of Mac OS X 10.2. Ranging from putting six hours of music on a single CD; to making iDisk work ten times faster; to a secret emacs adventure game, and a great deal more, Mac OS X Hints is an enjoyable and very highly recommended supplementary resource for Mac OS X users who are already familiar with the basics and want to add some new twists to their computer desktop.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful By F. Neunemann on August 22, 2003
Format: Paperback
Probably not the best choice for someone who already has a some working knowledge of Mac OS X. Filled with many useful tips and hints the book contains lots of very trivial stuff that fills the majority of the pages.
Maybe useful for an OS X newcomer but certainly not for an intermediate to power-user. I would recommend "Mac OS X Hacks" instead which has lots more to offer than this book.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful By A Customer on May 15, 2003
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I have just started reading this book, but I immediately recognized the
return of an old favorite; this is "MacWorld Mac Secrets" reborn for
Mac OS X. I loved the Mac Secrets series (it went through 6 editions)
and this book is done in the same spirit. It doesn't teach you OSX or
Macs, but it shows you invaluable little gems that will make using
Mac OSX much more fun and productive.
There are other "tips" books out for OSX, and I have looked at those,
although I haven't read them cover-to-cover. Still, I think OSX Hints
is the best book in the genre. Why? It is a distillation of the terrific
macosxhints.com web site, so the hints are collected by a cast of thousands
of Mac users around the world. With that kind of dragnet, you expect the
collection to include things found nowhere else, and that expectation is
fulfilled.
The book and the web site complement each other perfectly. The hints in
the book have been considerably polished and editing compared with the
raw form on the web page. David Pogue's unmistakable editorial style has
also resulted in a book that is fun and easy to read. With the website
and all the contributors available, I expect this book will see multiple
editions, just as the old Mac Secrets series did. Highly recommended.
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