Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS X Tiger All in One [Paperback]

Robyn Ness (Author), John Ray (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0672327058 | ISBN-13: 978-0672327056 | Publication Date: June 11, 2005 | Edition: 1

The Macintosh environment is very exciting — and very confusing, especially for the first time user. What you need is one book that will guide you through all of the exciting features and programs that came with your new Mac. That's where Mac OS X Tiger All in One comes in. This thorough, easy-to-understand introduction to all of the components of Mac OS X Tiger will teach you how to easily work with Mac hardware, the operating system and all of the powerful digital media applications that are built right into your system. Did you know you can make your own music with a program called Garage Band? You can even burn CDs and DVDs using a program called iDVD. All of the features and programs in a Mac work together cohesively, so why consult multiple books that work against the natural flow of the Mac system? Mac OS X Tiger All in One is all you need to become a fluent Mac user.

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About the Author

John Ray is an award-winning developer and security consultant with more than 17 years of programming and administration experience. He has worked on projects for the FCC, the National Regulatory Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Xerox, and the State of Florida. He has written or contributed to more than 10 books currently in print, including Mac OS X Unleashed, Special Edition Using TCP/IP, Sams Teach Yourself Dreamweaver MX Application Development in 21 Days, and Maximum Mac OS X Security. He bought his first Macintosh in 1984 and remains a strong proponent for the computer and operating system that revolutionized the industry.

Robyn Ness holds a master's degree in psychology with a specialization in judgment and decision making from The Ohio State University. She currently works as a web developer, focusing on issues of usability and content design. In her spare time she tests the bounds of iPhoto by taking a ridiculous number of digital photographs, the best of which can be seen at http://www.floraphotographs.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 744 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (June 11, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672327058
• ISBN-13: 978-0672327056
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,680,723 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS X Tiger All in One (Paperback)

Ness and Ray offer a comprehensive guide to much that the latest Mac OS X Tiger can do for you. For a company with less than 5% of the desktop market, Apple has still been able to stuff an amazing amount of functionality into Tiger.

Take for instance searching on the Internet. One of the core tasks that everybody does. Apple put together a cute meta-search engine, called Sherlock. If you give it a query, it forwards these to actual search engines like Google, Lycos or AskJeeves, and collects and displays the combined results. In itself, this is quite useful, as you can appreciate. Indeed, there are other meta-search engines that also do this.

Sherlock goes further. As the authors show, it has "channels". Specialised to key areas like pictures, stocks (finance), movies, eBay and flights (travel). These let you search websites with databases in those fields. To be sure, experienced users may not need this. But other, newer users might like this ease of use.

Then for amateur musicians, Tiger has GarageBand. The book explains how it lets you make your own compositions. Easy to use functions that cover much if not all of what you might want to do in your garage. Much cheaper than buying custom software, since it comes bundled into Tiger.

There is much more covered in the book. The above should give you some idea of what's available in Tiger.