Mac OS X Hints: The 500 Most Amazing Power Tips - Softcover

Griffiths, Rob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596004516 ISBN 13: 9780596004514

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Rob Griffiths is the creator of the Mac OS X Hints site, a database of over 3,500 tips on using OS X.

Review

"The amazing Mac OS X Hints book is out now. Published by Pogue Press and O'Reilly, featuring 500 of the most amazing power tips for OS X. Collected by Rob Griffiths and edited by David Pogue, this invaluable book brings together some of the best hints ever for getting more from OS X." - MacFormat, November 2003.

About this edition

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0596004516
• ISBN 13: 9780596004514
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480