My New Mac: 52 Simple Projects to Get You Started (Paperback)

by Wallace Wang (Author)
Key Phrases: smart mailbox, burn folder, photo booth, System Preferences, Click the Apple, Parental Controls (more...)

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Product Description
You finally took the plunge and bought a Mac. Whether yours is a MacBook, Mac Pro, Mac mini, or iMac &mdash it's still a Mac, and it runs the Macintosh operating system, Mac OS X.

But what do you do with your Mac after you turn it on? Do you even know how to turn it on and off properly or put it to sleep? You need a book like My New Mac to make everything easy.

Wallace Wang, author of the best-selling Steal This Computer Book, will show you, step-by-step, how to use tools like iPhoto to organize your photos, track birthdays with iCal, and clip and save information from the Internet so you can find it again. You'll find simple projects that will show you how to:

• Organize your files and folders by color and keyword
• View stocks, flights, and the weather
• Set up and manage parental controls to limit your children's computer and Internet access
• Play and burn CDs and DVDs
• Transfer photos from your digital camera to your computer
• Share songs, images, and documents wirelessly between Macs

Don't put off learning how to use your new computer. Let Wallace Wang show you the ropes with My New Mac.

About the Author
Wallace Wang is the author of several best-selling computer books including the Steal This Computer Book series, Steal This File Sharing Book, The Book of Nero, and Visual Basic 2005 Express: Now Playing (all No Starch Press). He is also a successful standup comic who has appeared on A&E's "Evening at the Improv" and appears regularly at the Riviera Comedy Club in Las Vegas.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: No Starch Press; illustrated edition edition (April 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593271646
• ISBN-13: 978-1593271640
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #194,544 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Questionable Accuracy?, November 7, 2008

By	DigitalMan - See all my reviews

I'm a Macintosh tech. Just perusing the excerpt of this book available on Amazon, I found a couple errors. First, he says that pressing the power button will bring up the Shut Down dialog. This is only true of laptops and certain very old Macs which had the power button on the keyboard. All current non-laptops will by default just go to sleep if you press the power button.

He then recommends the keystroke combination "CTRL-OPTION-ESC" as a way to shut down your Mac if it is frozen. This too is incorrect. To begin with, that keystroke does nothing whatsoever. The keystroke he is looking for is "COMMAND-OPTION-ESC"... and even that keystroke doesn't shut down your Mac. Instead it brings up a list of programs you can force to quit.

Since it seems this book is targeted at beginners, every small error like these will cause considerable confusion and frustration. Whether the rest of the book is like this, I do not know, but felt a review might be helpful to someone. Best of luck!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A complete and comprehensive guide for anyone who wants to do everything they did on a Windows machine and more, August 11, 2008

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

The major alternative to PCs with the Windows OS is the Macintosh. "My New Mac" is a complete and comprehensive guide for anyone who wants to do everything they did on a Windows machine and more, using the popular alternative. With countless tips on organization, internet browsing, media creation and archiving, security and more, "My New Mac" is the ideal starter's manual, and even has a few tips veterans will find handy. Highly recommended for community library computer collections.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Project based learning, July 23, 2008

By	Brian J. S. Chee (Kaneohe, HI United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

http://weblog.infoworld.com/geeks/archives/2008/06/my_new_mac.html
I wrote a review on this book for InfoWorld...let me say that this is a great book and was a great help in my migration from a PC to my new Mac. Mr. Wang has done a great job digging down deep and exposing some truly useful tips instead of bubble gum like too many newbie books.

/brian chee