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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, Second 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, 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.
List of contents
The Missing Credits
Introduction
Chapter 1: Designing Your World
Chapter 2: The Finder and Desktop
Chapter 3: The Dock
Chapter 4: Programs
Chapter 5: System Preferences
Chapter 6: Networking
Chapter 7: Mail
Chapter 8: iTunes
Chapter 9: iPhoto 4
Chapter 10: The Other iApps
Chapter 11: Other Apple Goodies
Chapter 12: Web Browsers
Chapter 13: Other Applications
Chapter 14: Add-Ons Worth Adding
Chapter 15: Useful Unix Hints
Chapter 16: Intermediate Unix Hints
Colophon
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.
Summary
Creator and editor of the Mac OS X Hints Web site, Rob Griffiths lifts the hood on the Formula-One-powered operating system and delivers over 500 high-octane secrets for finding easier, faster and better ways of using Panther and the programs that come with it. He includes chapters on Unix, the engine under Mac OS X's hood.
