How to Do Everything With Your Imac - Softcover

Stauffer, Todd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072124164 ISBN 13: 9780072124163

Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media, 1999

Maximize the powerful features of your iMac using this comprehensive, easy-to-read guide.

Review:

How to Do Everything with Your iMac does just what the title promises, covering all things iMac from setting up your machine to editing QuickTime movies to connecting your iMac to a network. Todd Stauffer, best known as co-host of the TV series Disk Doctors, has written a book that is all things to all iMac users.

Stauffer's attention to detail is what makes this book work. Even relatively simple tasks, such as formatting a text document, receive thorough treatment in his hands. Unlike many books on using the Mac, How to Do Everything doesn't give short shrift to running business applications. Stauffer devotes ample time to working with spreadsheets and databases, as well as Intuit's Quicken personal finance software, instead of perpetuating the myth that the iMac is only for working with graphics or surfing the Internet.

Stauffer does, of course, place particular weight on working online, taking you through the nuts and bolts of encoding e-mail attachments and backing up files on the Web--an important bit of advice given the iMac's notorious lack of a storage device.

Whether you're a computer novice or an experienced Mac user looking to get more out of your computer, you'll find a wealth of helpful information in this book. How to Do Everything with Your iMac should rest on your desk right next to your tangerine-colored computer. --John Moore

From the Back Cover:

Maximize the powerful features of your iMac using this comprehensive, easy-to-read guide. Create great looking reports and documents, manage your finances, communicate via e-mail, build Web pages, and even run a small business--using just the tools bundled with the iMac. Expert author, Todd Stauffer, explains how to install and run applications, access a high-speed or wireless network, and troubleshoot common problems. This is the ideal resource for every iMac user! Inside, learn to: master Mac OS 8.1 through Mac OS 9; connect to a network over IP--or go wireless; make your iMac compatible with any PC; explore the Internet and send and receive e-mail; network to a LAN, an Internet server, or a wireless network; perform targeted searches with Sherlock 2; manage your finances with Quicken; watch DVD movies or edit movies with the iMac DV; troubleshoot, maintain, and upgrade your iMac.