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by: Rob Griffiths, David Pogue
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.4465
EAN: 9780596004514
ISBN: 0596004516
Label: O'Reilly
Manufacturer: O'Reilly
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: February 01, 2003
Publisher: O'Reilly
Sales Rank: 1067070
Studio: O'Reilly
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Product Description:
Both Mac and Windows fans have spent years collecting bits of lore-a keyboard shortcut here, an undocumented double-click there-and then Mac OS X 10.2 came along. It may be the world's best operating system, but it has a personality all its own.
As it turns out, Mac OS X harbors just as many delicious secrets as any system that came before. You just have to know where to find them. And Mac OS X Hints: Jaguar Edition is the guide you need.
Inside, you'll find 560 high-octane secrets in every conceivable category:- Desktop and Finder. How to shut down using only the keyboard; use an animated screen saver as a desktop picture; and jump to System Preferences with a keystroke.
- iApps. How to burn six hours of iTunes music onto a single CD; merge calendars in iCal; and prevent iMovie 3 from applying the Ken Burns effect.
- Mac OS X programs. How unlock 32,000 secret Unicode symbols in each font; rename the System Preferences panels; add an 'Email this page' button to Safari; and make Mail announce, in a cute British accent: 'Mail has arrived, O all-wise master.'
- Mastering the system. How to share Web bookmarks between Mac OS X and Classic; connect to your Mac from the road; and make your iDisk work ten times faster; and.
- Terminal. Unix fiends have never seen anything like the 105 pages of Terminal brilliance in this book. They explain how to save Terminal commands as Finder icons; put background programs to sleep; wake a sleeping Mac via the Internet; unearth the secret emacs adventure game; set up a message board on your Apache-based Web site; and more.
With authority, humor, and 440 illustrations, Mac OS X Hints: Jaguar Edition brings you insight, surprise, and delight at every turn. And that, after all, is what the Mac is all about.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Spectacular, especially in customizing the BSD Portions!
I have been reading Rob Griffiths http://www.macosxhints.com/ since it came out years ago, and I am so happy he made this book. He has culled all the best hints from his web site, and rewritten them with plenty of photos, and extras. The stuff on customizing your OS X Unix Shell alone is well worth the price of the book. You don't know what you are missing on the Unix side of OS X until you start playing around with some of his advanced tips. I couldn't recommend this more!!!!
Rating:  - Some Great Stuff in here!
I bought this at the Apple Store in Downtown Chicago and on the train ride to Toledo kept waking up my traveling buddy to tell him about stuff I found in there. He'll be borrowing the book shortly. Cool tips getting into plist files and other fairly substantial tweaks.
Rating:  - Not the best choice for intermediate OS X users
Probably not the best choice for someone who already has a some working knowledge of Mac OS X. Filled with many useful tips and hints the book contains lots of very trivial stuff that fills the majority of the pages.
Maybe useful for an OS X newcomer but certainly not for an intermediate to power-user. I would recommend "Mac OS X Hacks" instead which has lots more to offer than this book.
Rating: - Excellent, useful
One more hit for the Pogue Press/O'Reilly team. This book is rich of real, useful, great hints. Just the ones about DVD snapshots, Add Ons, and some basic Unix hacks are worth the book. The truth is these are not hints that you will find elsewhere, and no useless tips made it into this volume. Worth every cent.
Rating: - Tips, tricks, techniques, & secrets to improved performance
Written by Rob Griffiths and edited by David Pogue, Mac OS X Hints: Jaguar Edition is a 421-page burgeoning collection of tips, tricks, techniques, and secrets to improved performance and making the best use of Mac OS X 10.2. Ranging from putting six hours of music on a single CD; to making iDisk work ten times faster; to a secret emacs adventure game, and a great deal more, Mac OS X Hints is an enjoyable and very highly recommended supplementary resource for Mac OS X users who are already familiar ... Read More
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