Sams Teach Yourself iMac in 10 Minutes [Paperback]

Rita Lewis (Author)

Book Description

Series: Sams Teach Yourself...in 10 Minutes | Publication Date: January 8, 1999

Sams Teach Yourself iMac in 10 Minutes is a tutorial-based book, organized into a series of easy-to-follow, 10 minute lessons. You will easily learn how to use the updated Installer and the new Finder, effectively browse the World Wide Web and set up Personal Web Serving, customize the appearance of your desktop, optimize the iMac's performance, use Quicktime and Digital Audio (MIDI), share data with others and networking, work with AppleScript, and troubleshoot the iMac.

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Rita Lewis's Teach Yourself iMac in 10 Minutes is a quick book but is not necessarily a beginner's book. In fact, the ideal audience is probably a current (or former) Mac user who is just now entering the iMac world. Much of the text, organized in bite-sized portions, describes how things are different from previous incarnations of the Mac operating system, and it reveals countless new features (like Sherlock's indexing and searching of file content as well as file names) that a former Centris user, for example, would never imagine. Lewis also offers a few tricks for dealing with the iMac's lack of an external floppy, customizing the desktop and software, installing peripherals, and troubleshooting. Though little time is spent defining terms or orienting readers who are first-time computer buyers (what is backside cache, anyway?), the numerous screen shots and step-by-step guides are helpful once you've got your machine up and running. The text may not be comprehensive as a reference guide, but Teach Yourself iMac in 10 Minutes is perfect for getting up to speed with all the major features that the iMac has to offer. --Patrick O'Kelley

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Sams Teach Yourself iMac in 10 Minutes is a tutorial-based book, organized into a series of easy-to-follow, 10 minute lessons. You will easily learn how to use the updated Installer and the new Finder, effectively browse the World Wide Web and set up Personal Web Serving, customize the appearance of your desktop, optimize the iMac's performance, use Quicktime and Digital Audio (MIDI), share data with others and networking, work with AppleScript, and troubleshoot the iMac.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1st edition (January 8, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 067231519X
• ISBN-13: 978-0672315190
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,559,331 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Sloppily Researched, Sloppily Written, February 23, 1999

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I found so many errors in the first 40 pages that I stopped reading and returned the book to the store.

1) Figure 2.1 The iMac desktop, shows the arrows in the scroll bar in the wrong position. On an iMac, both up and down arrows are located in the lower right corner of the scroll bar. And the author didn't know this?

2) Page 28 (with illustration of a lightbulb and called "Tip"- Tip is defined in the beginning of the book as a way to find out shortcuts and other timesaving advice (for the iMac)," but the writer uses this so-called tip to tell you she (the author) might use a word other than "icon" to describe an icon. What has this to do with an iMac?*** 3) On page 34, the author says: "In an emergency....press the keyboard combination command+control+power. Your iMac will restart, destroying any information that you have not saved and possibly messing up your hard drive." What kind of writer would tell you to do this if it might mess up your hard drive?*** 4) The second paragraph on page 38 ends with the same sentence printed twice. Such sloppy work indicates this was written in haste and without an eye for details like these, so I'm returning the book to the store. I doubt there will be a second edition. Buy iMac for Dummies instead.