The Little Imac Book - Softcover

Tollett, John; Williams, Robin

3.4

5 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321116305 ISBN 13: 9780321116307

Publisher: Peachpit Pr, 2002

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The Mac community's leading teacher, Robin Williams, is at it again--this time guiding users through the ins and outs of the newest generation of iMacs. Employing the same friendly, comprehensive approach as its best-selling predecessors, The Little iMac Book, Third Edition has been completely revised to cover all of the iMac's new features--and there are plenty!

Once you get over being dazzled by the iMac's dramatic new hardware design and knock-your-socks-off 15-inch flat-panel display, you'll see that there's plenty going on inside the "box" as well, including a radically redesigned operating system (Mac OS X), a DVD player, iPhoto digital photo organizing software, a new e-mail and address book application, and much more. Robin and co-author John Tollett take you through the old and the new, starting with the basics of using the mouse and getting around the desktop, then going on to show you how to take advantage of the iMac's built-in productivity tools, how to connect to and browse the Internet, and more. Let the book that has influenced a generation of Mac users take you and your iMac into the next generation of computing.

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Review:

Good things often come in small packages, and that's certainly the case with The Little iMac Book. Targeted toward Macintosh novices, this guide doesn't overwhelm the reader with every last bit of minutia about working with Apple's popular line of computers. It's as easy to comprehend as the iMac itself is supposed to be.

Robin Williams's goal is to make you merely proficient at performing a variety of tasks, a goal she accomplishes quite nicely. She deftly guides you through such projects as creating a simple database and working with spreadsheets, eventually working her way through building basic Web pages and editing digital movies (a smart move, since Apple is hyping all its machines as digital editing studios).

Perhaps the best thing about The Little iMac Book is that Williams has an uncanny ability to explain concepts in the simplest terms without succumbing to the cutesy language that afflicts similar guides geared toward computer novices. Even when detailing such subjects as USB and Firewire ports, Williams ably conveys information clearly without condescending to her readers.

If you're new to the iMac, you'll be hard-pressed to find a clearer guide than The Little iMac Book to help you navigate your new machine. --John Frederick Moore

About the Author:

Robin Williams has written numerous best-selling and award-winning books, including The Little Mac Book, The Non-Designer's Design Book, and The Little iBook Book. Robin's down to earth style and refreshing sense of humor have helped hundreds of thousands of people to move forward with confidence in areas of design, digital typography, Web site development, and mastery of the computer. She has that rare talent for explaining confusing subjects with organized clarity, using layman's language, beautifully effective layout and design, and wonderfully obsessive indexes.

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