Mac OS X Hands-On Training [Paperback]

Garrick Chow (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 23, 2003

Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) H.O.T. gets you up-to-speed on Mac OS X 10.2 and hands-on with all of its popular i-apps!

Project-based, step-by-step instructions based on lynda.com's classroom-tested tutorials make learning a snap.

Provides both operating system basics and detailed instructions for Mac OS X 10.2's bundled i-applications.

Companion CD contains not just project files, but music, photos, and video clips as well as plug-ins to use with the applications.

Increasingly, users are viewing their computers as not just a work or educational tool, but as windows into an ever-expanding digital universe. Nowhere is this shift more apparent than with Apple's new operating system: Mac OS X 10.2, also known as Jaguar. Included with the operating system are applications for instant messaging, working with photos and music, burning CDs, watching DVDs, cruising the Web, and more. However, it's difficult to use any of these great tools effectively if you don't understand how to work with the operating system itself.

Enter Mac OS X Hands-On Training. In these pages, veteran author and trainer Garrick Chow tackles first the operating system, then its digital goodies--all in the friendly, hands-on style that has become the hallmark of this popular tutorial-based series based on the classroom-tested training courses at lynda.com. Chow devotes the first sections of the book to grounding readers in the skills they'll need to use the OS. Then, once readers are Mac OS X fluent, the volume goes on to provide detailed coverage of each of the system's bundled "digital hub" applications: iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iTools, and iChat. Along the way, readers will find plenty of tips and tricks that illustrate not just how to use the applications, but how to use them creatively.

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Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) H.O.T. gets you up-to-speed on Mac OS X 10.2 and hands-on with all of its popular i-apps!

* Project-based, step-by-step instructions based on lynda's classroom-tested tutorials make learning a snap.

* Provides both operating system basics and detailed instructions for Mac OS X 10.2's bundled i-applications.

* Companion CD contains not just project files, but music, photos, and video clips as well as plug-ins to use with the applications.

Increasingly, users are viewing their computers as not just a work or educational tool, but as windows into an ever-expanding digital universe. Nowhere is this shift more apparent than with Apple's new operating system: Mac OS X 10.2, also known as Jaguar. Included with the operating system are applications for instant messaging, working with photos and music, burning CDs, watching DVDs, cruising the Web, and more. However, it's difficult to use any of these great tools effectively if you don't understand how to work with the operating system itself.

Enter Mac OS X Hands-On Training. In these pages, veteran author and trainer Garrick Chow tackles first the operating system, then its digital goodies--all in the friendly, hands-on style that has become the hallmark of this popular tutorial-based series based on the classroom-tested training courses at lynda. Chow devotes the first sections of the book to grounding readers in the skills they'll need to use the OS. Then, once readers are Mac OS X fluent, the volume goes on to provide detailed coverage of each of the system's bundled "digital hub" applications: iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iTools, and iChat. Along the way, readers will find plenty of tips and tricks that illustrate not just how to use the applications, but how to use them creatively.

About the Author

Mac expert Garrick Chow has developed training courses for lynda.com and DigitalSunrise learning centers. Garrick has been using Macs since 1990 and teaching courses on the Mac OS for over three years. He claims to have been using his Mac as a digital hub long before Apple CEO Steve Jobs coined the phrase. Garrick is also the author of Acrobat 5 Hands-On Training.

Product Details

• Paperback: 856 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press (April 23, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321180992
• ISBN-13: 978-0321180995
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,870,087 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The only Mac OS X book you will ever need!, June 12, 2003

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Travis C. Ward "C. William Anderson" (Silverton, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mac OS X Hands-On Training (Paperback)

I became a Mac convert in 1986 while editing a magazine (Living Among Nature Daringly) but overseas work forced me to switch to a Windows-driven PC 18 months ago. At that time I was using Mac OS 9.

Thus, I had to learn more complicated procedures for getting my prime writing and editing done.

During that 18 months I went bonkers with almost daily freeze-ups and system crashes. Finally, exasperated, I surrendered and bought a Mac iBook in Cairo, Egypt, even though almost no individual in this country uses one.

This iBook is running on Jaguar. In other words, it runs on system 9 (of which I am well-experienced), and system X in which I have not a clue! To make a long story short, I bought Mac OS X Jaguar Hands-on Training because I was having troubles trying to re-learn 9 and to learn to use X in a manner similar to 9.

The explanation of the differences between 9 and X helped bail me out of deep schisms I was falling towards.

The training in iLife programs, especially iTunes, iPhoto and iCalendar has given a deep appreciation for Apple - the corporation that knows how to provide a real system and computer for people who want to get a mission accomplished instead of impressing folks with how computer literate they are. In other words, engineers will use Windows, managers, writers and editors will use Mac.

This book is a quick read despite its 800-plus pages. The included lessons and examples on the accompanying CD are extremely helpful, especially for my wife, Dina, who has never used a MAC!

Allow me to use a metaphor. God made man in His image. Eventually, man made computers in his image - that is the MAC.

Mac is a Godsend. Mac OS X Hands-On Training is my first choice for learning to use a computer that acts like a human.

Bottom line: buy the best book for most easily learning the best computer operating system!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mac OS X Hands-On Training is the Best of the Bunch, May 3, 2004

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Dave Mayer (Huntington Beach) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mac OS X Hands-On Training (Paperback)

I've been a Mac guy for years, running good old dependable, only crashes sometimes, System 9. But I finally broke down (after my aging PowerBook did) and bought an iBook 700 with a fast (when I bought it) G3 processor, running System X, Jaguar. And after a couple weeks stumbling through the new, but not as intuitive could have been, operating system, I bought a couple books. Fortunately, this was one of them. If you are running Jaguar, this is the only book you'll need. You'll find simple exercises here, some a little more complicated. You'll find a little humor and you'll find all the help you'll ever need. As far as I'm concerned, among all of the Jaguar books out there, this book is the best of the bunch. A terrific two thumbs up from me.