My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition: 52 Simple Projects to Get You Started [Paperback]

Wallace Wang (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 159327209X | ISBN-13: 978-1593272098 | Publication Date: August 24, 2009 | Edition: Second Edition

So you finally took the plunge and bought a Mac. Whether it's a MacBook, Mac Pro, Mac mini, or iMac—it's still your Mac, and it runs the Macintosh operating system, OS X. But what do you do with your Mac after you turn it on? Do you even know how to turn it off and put it to sleep? Maybe you do. . . . But what about setting up an email account, or playing your favorite CDs and movies? You need a book like My New™ Mac to make everything easy.

In this new, Snow Leopard edition of the best-selling My New Mac, you'll find 52 simple projects that will have you doing useful things right away—like surfing the Internet, sending email, listening to music, taking notes, and playing with your digital photos. Fun stuff, if you know how to do it.

Wallace Wang, best-selling author of My New iPhone and several of those For Dummies® books, gives you step-by-step instructions for organizing your music with iTunes, tracking birthdays with iCal, and clipping and saving information from the Internet so you can find it again.

You'll also find simple projects that show you how to:

• Organize your files and folders by color and keyword
• Connect to the Internet, chat with your friends, and listen to online radio stations
• Install and update your software—and get rid of programs you don't want anymore
• Set up and manage parental controls to limit your children's computer and Internet access
• Share songs, images, and documents with other computers wirelessly
• Use your built-in firewall and keep your computer and information safe from intruders

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

Editorial Reviews

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, My New iPhone, 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: 512 pages
• Publisher: No Starch Press; Second Edition edition (August 24, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159327209X
• ISBN-13: 978-1593272098
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #306,427 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More Than For New Users, October 15, 2009

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Hartley J. Jackson (Lyndonville, VT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition: 52 Simple Projects to Get You Started (Paperback)

My New Mac Snow Snow Leopard Edition is a great book if you want to get more out of your Mac.

My first impression was, "This book is wonderful for a new user to get started, even one who has never owned a computer before." My second thought was that including Encrypting Your Data, and Configuring the Firewall was really not necessary for new users, but then new users often express concern about security at user group meetings.

As I read further, I found that My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition's projects are a wonderful way for me, or for any other user I know, to get started to use their Mac to do more things and to work in new ways. It is fun to do the projects and learn new stuff.

My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, begins with simple projects you need to get started, such as how to use your new mouse or track pad. Part 1 Basic Training even includes Conserving Energy which may be considered as basic for new laptop users.

An introduction to short cuts is just the beginning if the nine projects in Part 2 Making Life Easier with Shortcuts. Other projects include using the Dashboard, User Accounts, and Making Your Mac Easier to See, Hear, and Control. The projects are interesting, and clearly and accurately written to get you started to work better.

Parts 3, Putting Your Macintosh to Work, covers projects from Jotting Down Notes to Typing Foreign Languages with audio, visual, and other projects in between. You are sure to find some that will interest you in doing something new. Part 4, Touching the World Through the Internet, contains sets of projects to to keep you in touch with the wired world. These projects will get you started in doing new and interesting things and/or in learning new ways to do these things.

The are six projects in Part 5, Maintaining Your Macintosh, include three on maintenance and three on protecting your security.

As described in The Next Step, this book can only give you a solid foundation on which you can learn to use your Macintosh to do actual work. I hope that it also gets you interested in trying new things for the fun of it.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful, November 17, 2009

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David Zaremsky "timex758" (NY) - See all my reviews
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I bought my first Mac in the spring and learned the basics from the mac website. I recently purchased this book and though some of it is too basic for me, I've gotten a lot of great ideas on how to customize and use my iMac. I look forward to finishing the book and learn a lot more.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Honest Ed, February 10, 2010

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honest Ed (Delafield Wi.) - See all my reviews

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This is the second time I ordered this book from
Amazon.com. I was so impressed with it, that I wanted my brother to have it for his new Imac. My son originally got this book from the library for me to read, because he knew I was ordering a new Imac. The book is very easy to understand, showing pictures with the directions it gives. I'm a first time mac user, and by following the directions in the book, it made getting to know the mac a lot easier, with less frustration.