Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc.", Oct 8, 2009 - Computers - 906 pages

For a company that promised to "put a pause on new features," Apple sure has been busy-there's barely a feature left untouched in Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard." There's more speed, more polish, more refinement-but still no manual. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, with the humor and expertise that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for eight years straight. You get all the answers with jargon-free introductions to:

  • Big-ticket changes. A 64-bit overhaul. Faster everything. A rewritten Finder. Microsoft Exchange compatibility. All-new QuickTime Player. If Apple wrote it, this book covers it.
  • Snow Leopard Spots. This book demystifies the hundreds of smaller enhancements, too, in all 50 programs that come with the Mac: Safari, Mail, iChat, Preview, Time Machine.
  • Shortcuts. This must be the tippiest, trickiest Mac book ever written. Undocumented surprises await on every page.
  • Power usage. Security, networking, build-your-own Services, file sharing with Windows, even Mac OS X's Unix chassis-this one witty, expert guide makes it all crystal clear.

 

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Contents

Programs in Mac OS X
147
The Components of Mac OS X
309
The Technologies of Mac OS X
459
Mac OS Online
665
Appendixes
811
Index
861
Colophon
886
Copyright

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Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual
David Pogue
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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2009)

David Pogue is an American technology writer and TV science presenter. He was born in 1963 and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Pogue graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1985, with distinction in music. After graduation, Pogue wrote manuals for music software, worked on Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, and wrote for Macworld Magazine. He wrote Macs for Dummies, which became the best-selling Mac title, as well as other books in the Dummies series. He launched his own series of humorous computer books entitled the Missing Manual series, which includes 120 titles. He spent 13 years as the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times, before leaving to found Yahoo Tech. In addition to how-to manuals, he wrote Pogue's Basics: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) for Simplifying the Technology in Your Life, collaborated on The World According to Twitter, and co-authored The Weird Wide Web.

Bibliographic information

TitleMac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual
Missing manual
AuthorDavid Pogue
Editionrevised
Publisher"O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 2009
ISBN1449388787, 9781449388782
Length906 pages
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Computers / Computer Architecture
Computers / General
Computers / Operating Systems / Mac OS
Computers / Reference
  
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