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by: Rob Griffiths
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.446
EAN: 9780596008185
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 059600818X
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 574
Publication Date: September 24, 2004
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Sales Rank: 972317
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Mac OS X has captured the attention of consumers and programmers alike with its ability to run existing Mac programs along with Unix and Open Source software. The latest version, Panther, includes more than a hundred new features and improves many of the technologies underlying Mac OS X, including graphics and the Unix-based core. With more than 500 power tips and tricks for Mac aficionados like yourself, Mac OS X Power Hound, Panther Edition helps you unleash the power of Panther. Mac OS X Panther is a complex and powerful operating system with a personality all its own. To make your computing experience with Panther as efficient and enjoyable as possible, you need to learn its secrets, appreciate its idiosyncrasies, and be able to customize it to your needs and wants. Author Rob Griffiths shows you how. Creator and editor of the extremely popular Mac OS X Hints Web site (www.macosxhints.com), Griffiths knows Panther inside and out. His Mac OS X Power Hound lifts the hood on the sleek and elegant, Formula-One-powered operating system and delivers over 500 high-octane secrets in every conceivable category, including the Desktop and Finder, iApps, Mac OS X programs, Mastering the system and Terminal, and much more. Consider this book your pit crew, helping you find easier, faster, and better ways of using the Finder, the Dock, the assortment of programs that come with Mac OS X, and a bunch of programs that don't. And if you want to become your own master mechanic, it also includes two rich chapters on Unix, the engine under Mac OS X's hood. With this collection of stand-alone hints, notes, tips, and tricks--every one of them organized, indexed, tested for compatibility with the latest version of Mac OS X 10.3, and, in many cases, illustrated--you'll rapidly progress from an anybody-can-do-this user to a power user.
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Rating:  - Stupid (and Useful) Mac Tricks
"Mac OS X Power Hound" is an impressive collection of tips, hints, and productivity enhancers. I don't consider myself to be a power hound, but I have been using Macs exclusively for 16 years. I discovered a satisfying number of of useful and undocumented tips. About two thirds of the items are easy enough for a novice to follow, such as simple modifications of standard applications, and using Terminal to modify how the System behaves. (Working in Terminal gave me the same kind of thrill I remember ... Read More
Rating: - Lots of Hints & Tricks for OS X
If you are new to Mac OS X and looking for a book to help you learn the
system, this book is probably not for you. As the author points out, he
assumes you already know the basics. However, if you are experienced and do understand OS X and are looking for ways to do things differently or to do things that you didn't know was possible, then this book is for you. This book contains 16 chapters with over 650 hints that are easy to find in the well organized table of contents. As the ... Read More
Rating:  - A supplemental book for everyone
This is an excellent book! It's a book that every Mac user can learn from! I even learned things, and as a Mac author I'm big on uncovering hidden features myself. It's easy to find things and easy to understand. If you're new to the Mac or OS X, choose a book that teaches the basics so you're comfortable with the Mac. Then get this book to learn much more.
Rating: - Something useful on every page!
In Mac OS X Power Hound, Panther Edition Rob Griffiths of Macosxhints.com and a monthly article in Macworld magazine offers a collection of well over 600 tips and tricks covering everything from basic Mac OS X Finder tips to tricks that will help just about any Macintosh user use Terminal like a pro.
For this book, Mr. Griffiths has compiled and completely rewritten the best and most useful hints found on his very helpful website Macosxhints.com. Chapters include tips for using the Finder ... Read More
Rating: - Tim Robertson MyMac.com Review
Mac OS X Power Hound
by Rob Griffiths
Pouge Press
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 059600818x
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macxpu/index.html
I have read a ton of Mac books since starting MyMac.com back in 1995. A LOT of them. And while most actually do convey the information you were hoping to glean from buying the book in the first place, many do so in such a dry and boring manner that I found myself simply trying to stay awake while reading. That ... Read More
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