Macintosh... The Naked Truth - Softcover

Kelby, Scott

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9780735712843: Macintosh... The Naked Truth
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0735712840 ISBN 13: 9780735712843
Publisher: New Riders Pub, 2002

Synopsis

An irreverent, off-the-wall, PC-slammin', totally-biased look at Apple, and what it's like to be a Mac user stuck in a Windows dominated world. Macintosh...The Naked Truth is definitely not another Mac how-to book; it's a mass-market, personality book about a computer platform and the people who love it, and the love/hate relationship they have with Apple. It's about what you feel, how you're treated (and mistreated), and what it's really like living life in the computing minority.The book, based upon the author's hugely popular magazine column, takes a humorous, evangelical look at Apple Computer and what it's like to be a Macintosh user living in a PC-dominated world. The success of Kelby's column lies in the fact that although it makes serious points about Apple's shortcomings, and what it's really like being a Mac user, it presents them in a humorous, often sarcastic, and occasionally sophomoric way that Mac users love. It's brash, unapologetic, insightful, controversial, outspoken, and often hilarious, peppered with 100% Macintosh attitude. Although it pokes light-hearted fun at everyone from Apple CEO Steve Jobs to the PC users manning the Apple section of CompUSA, each chapter contains an underlying message of Apple evangelism, and it can often be as inspiring as it is funny.

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About the Author

Scott is Editor-in-Chief of Mac Design Magazine, the graphics magazine for Macintosh users, and Photoshop User magazine, the Adobe Photoshop "How-to" magazine. Scott is co-founder of Mac Today magazine, and has been a contributing editor and columnist to several Mac Web sites, including MacCentral. He is president of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), the worldwide trade association for Adobe Photoshop users, and is President of KW Media Group, Inc., a Florida-based software education andpublishing firm. Author of the best-selling books Photoshop 6 Down & Dirty Tricks and Photoshop 6 Photo-Retouching Secrets, Scott is also co-author of Photoshop 6 Killer Tips, all from New Riders Publishing. He's a contributing author to the books Maclopedia, the Ultimate Reference on Everything Macintosh from Hayden Books; Photoshop 6 Effects Magic from New Riders; and Adobe Web Design and Publishing Unleashed from Sams Publishing. Scott is training Director for the Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour, Technical Chair for PhotoshopWorld, and is a speaker at graphics trade shows and events around the world, including Macworld Expo. He is also featured in a series of Photoshop, Illustrator, and Web design video training tapes and has been training Macintosh graphics professionals around the world since 1993. Scott lives in the Tampa Bay area of Florida with his wife Kalebra and his 5-year-old son Jordan. For more background info on him, visit scottkelby

From the Back Cover

An irreverent, off-the-wall, PC-slammin', totally-biased look at Apple, and what it's like to be a Mac user stuck in a Windows dominated world. Macintosh...The Naked Truth is definitely not another Mac how-to book; it's a mass-market, personality book about a computer platform and the people who love it, and the love/hate relationship they have with Apple. It's about what you feel, how you're treated (and mistreated), and what it's really like living life in the computing minority.The book, based upon the author's hugely popular magazine column, takes a humorous, evangelical look at Apple Computer and what it's like to be a Macintosh user living in a PC-dominated world. The success of Kelby's column lies in the fact that although it makes serious points about Apple's shortcomings, and what it's really like being a Mac user, it presents them in a humorous, often sarcastic, and occasionally sophomoric way that Mac users love. It's brash, unapologetic, insightful, controversial, outspoken, and often hilarious, peppered with 100% Macintosh attitude. Although it pokes light-hearted fun at everyone from Apple CEO Steve Jobs to the PC users manning the Apple section of CompUSA, each chapter contains an underlying message of Apple evangelism, and it can often be as inspiring as it is funny.

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Publisher
New Riders Pub
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0735712840
ISBN 13 
9780735712843
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
240
Rating
  • 3.82 out of 5 stars
    51 ratings by Goodreads