Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS 9 in 24 Hours provides you with insight into the new OS 9 features and technologies. Focusing on tutorials that teach you how to get around on a Macintosh system, you'll learn to customize the desktop, manage files, use fonts and color, learn about audio and video features, and how to search and use the Web. This book gives in-depth coverage of popular features, such as Sherlock and QuickTime. In addition to providing instruction for new users, this book meets the needs of people who want to dig deeper into Mac OS 9 by introducing you to some of the advanced features of the operating system. Advanced subjects include automating the Mac with Applescript, optimizing the Mac, and troubleshooting.
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A little more than a year ago both Apple and the Mac were given up for dead. The only question was who was going to buy Apple. Suddenly Steve Jobs reappeared, becoming the interim CEO for no salary. Jobs introduced the iMac, the iBook, and the G3/4s, and Apple is back with a passion. Now the company's biggest problem is producing enough because everything is selling like crazy. Apple has a new operating system, OS 9, which is more than an incremental improvement over OS 8. Integrated within OS 9 is the AppleScripting language, a personal web server that can be easily set up on an ethernet, and Sherlock, which allows the Mac to search simultaneously on both the local hard drive and any connected networks, including the Internet, without taking over the way Microsoft's "Active Desktop" does. And then there is also the iBook, easily the coolest portable design imaginable. All of these guides are excellent for OS 9 and the iBook. If you have Macintosh users among your patrons, these texts will circulate as fast as the Mac is selling.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS 9 in 24 Hours provides you with insight into the new OS 9 features and technologies. Focusing on tutorials that teach you how to get around on a Macintosh system, you'll learn to customize the desktop, manage files, use fonts and color, learn about audio and video features, and how to search and use the Web. This book gives in-depth coverage of popular features, such as Sherlock and QuickTime. In addition to providing instruction for new users, this book meets the needs of people who want to dig deeper into Mac OS 9 by introducing you to some of the advanced features of the operating system. Advanced subjects include automating the Mac with Applescript, optimizing the Mac, and troubleshooting.
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Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS 9 was fun to write because the Mac OS is such a pleasure to use. This book offers both new Macintosh users as well as intermediate users a tutorial approach to an extensive array of features that comprise Mac OS 9. Included in the book is a deep discussion of Color Sync 3.0, QuickTime 4, iMovie, Sherlock 2, Multiple Users, Keychain Access, and other new technologies. The book also covers using Macs on the Internet as well as a basic overview and details about the Macintosh user experience. I would highly recommend this book to be part of any Mac user's library.
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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS 9 in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself -- Hours) (Paperback)
I bought this for a friend that was just starting with Mac OS 9. He quickly picked it up and ran with it. I recommend it for anyone that wants a more basic reference for quick starting and self learning the Mac OS 9 operating system.
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A bit basic for most users,
This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS 9 in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself -- Hours) (Paperback)
If you've used the mac much at all, you'll find this book *very* elementary. I've been using the Mac for many years, and there isn't much in this book that you couldn't discover by reading the AppleGuide, or surfing around on mac sites.A waste if you ask me.
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