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PowerBook Fan Book: Love at First Boot [Paperback]

Derrick Story (Author)
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)


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Book Description

November 24, 2004

You've coveted one for a long while, and now it's yours: the sleek and speedy PowerBook. It's as stylish as you wanted, as slick as you imagined, and as mighty as you hoped. So now what? The PowerBook Fan Book is your quick and fun guide to mastering all the features and taking advantage of the infinite advanced capabilities of your beloved new laptop. No PowerBook owner should be without a copy.

Lightweight but power-packed, your PowerBook comes with all sorts of high-end features so that you can effortlessly enjoy portable connectivity, wireless networking, lightning-fast graphics, and much more. In either the 12-inch, 15-inch, or 17-inch model, the PowerBook boasts a PowerPC G4 processor with speeds topping the charts at 1.5GHz and 4x-speed SuperDrives, and it comes standard with AirPort Extreme--offering the fastest speeds in wireless networking--and Bluetooth.

But there's a lot to learn before you know your trusty machine well enough to make the most of these many offerings. The PowerBook Fan Book is just the thing to get you up to speed in a flash with your new laptop. This compact, affordable, and accessible guide takes you through the process of getting familiar with your machine and OS X Panther, learning cool tricks and tidbits, and finding out about often little-known but must-have accessories for your favorite new piece of hardware.

The ideal gift for anyone wielding the most desirable of Apple's laptops, this book includes sections on getting started, organizing your digital lifestyle, advanced features, using your PowerBook at home, at the office, or on the go, and tips and tricks for doing most anything and everything you could want. In no time, you'll be burning DVDs, crunching numbers, building a website, composing music, and editing digital video like an expert.


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About the Author

Derrick Story has more than 25 years as a photojournalist, including serving as managing editor for O'Reilly Network. He speaks at technology conferences including Macworld, PMA, PhotoPlus, and Santa Fe Workshops. He is the author of Digital Photography Hacks, Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Ed., The Digital Photography Companion, and his latest, The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers. He coauthored iPhoto: The Missing Manual with David Pogue.

Derrick likes to keep his shooting skills sharp by running his photography business, Story Photography. You can listen to his photo podcasts and read his tips at The Digital Story (thedigitalstory.com) and follow him on Twitter. Aperture fans might want to check out his co-authored video training on Lynda.com: Aperture 2 Essential Training.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (November 24, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596008171
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596008178
  • Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,767,010 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Derrick Story is a professional photographer, writer, instructor, and the Photography Evangelist for O'Reilly Media. He's authored many books including the recent "The Digital Photography Companion." Derrick's video tutorials are available through Lynda.com, featuring Aperture and iPhoto titles. His photo articles are a regular staple for Macworld Magazine.

Derrick is also a member of the conference faculty for Macworld Expo SF, where he teaches classes on iPhoto, Aperture, and digital imaging. You can visit his commercial site at www.storyphoto.com. He also runs a virtual camera club at www.thedigitalstory.com, featuring weekly photography podcasts, reader-submitted photos, and pro tips.

 

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars for a digital lifestyle, December 4, 2004
This review is from: PowerBook Fan Book: Love at First Boot (Paperback)
As the book says, using a PowerBook is a digital lifestyle statement to some of its fans. That might sound a trifle pretentious, if you don't have one of these gadgets. But Story describes bunches of cool ways to use it. These are in the key chapters 3 and 4.

He quickly describes the basics of using iPhoto to amass a collection of digital photos. And of using iMovies to view digital video. The chapters are somewhat short. There is enough detail to use the most common operations of these programs, and others. But the narrative only hints at the complexity of the full features of each program. The book provides a useful and quick survey.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An Ode to the PowerBook, December 2, 2004
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This review is from: PowerBook Fan Book: Love at First Boot (Paperback)
Who subtitles a computer book, "Love at First Boot"??? Mac people, of course.

This book gushes about the PowerBook and why it's the coolest computer on the planet. At only 100 pages and a small 6 inch by 6 inch form factor, this book isn't something you'd get to dive into the Mac world. (However, it does recommend plenty of other books to pick up.) This book would be great as a "Stocking Stuffer" (being the holiday season) or a welcome gift for the owner of a PowerBook. It covers at a high level the various things you might want to know about; from cases, screen protectors and travel kits to the included Mac software.

Full color pictures throughout the book make it a gorgeous piece of eye-candy as well. While it does contain a lot of useful information, the real reason you get the book is simply because it is cool... Just like the PowerBook.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for first time owners, December 14, 2004
This review is from: PowerBook Fan Book: Love at First Boot (Paperback)
This is the book to go along with your first time purchase of a powerbook, or a good present for someone getting a new powerbook. You could think of this trim form factor book as a super introductory manual that should have come in the box. Though Derrick does a good job of covering some additional topics that you won't find in the Apple documentation, like where to get good accessories and third party software.

This is not a book for a long time Mac owner. That reader wouldn't find much they didn't already know. This is a great book for a first time Mac owner.
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