Load more results. Apple Footer Apple Support. Apr 01, 2000 Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual- The Book That Should Have Been in the Box Sebastopol, CA-The latest system software for the resurgent Macintosh platform is Mac OS 9, which includes over 50 new features. Despite the long list of enhancements however, Apple ships Mac OS 9 without one of the most important features of all: a manual.
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A lot of changes happened in the world of Macintosh in the years that followed iMac’s introduction back in the latter half of 1998. Internal floppy drives were slowly jettisoned from all future Mac models, as well as serial and SCSI ports in favour of the then emerging, now prevalent USB and FireWire. Even the venerable Cathode Ray Tube monitors that used to come with every Macintosh system (even iMac) have now been usurped by flat-panel Liquid Crystal Displays.
One less-noticed but slightly more worrying aspect of the “Think Different” campaign that Apple has otherwise so successfully executed, however, is the fact that Apple-supplied hardware and software manuals have been shrunk to the size of your average pamphlet. While this is progress in the sense that it takes a whole lot less effort on the user’s part to set up their brand new iMac, it creates more headaches when it actually comes to finding out how to use the system software and other pre-installed software.
Mac digital soft photo slideshow manual. While Mac Help (and formerly Apple Guide) does a good job in helping you solve problems, there is still a lot to be said for the printed manual. You know, a big book which you can read from cover to cover while curled up in the comfort of your living room sofa, or dip into from time to time when you want to find out something specific about your new product. So when Apple unleashes a brand new, ground-up, brave new world operating system on the masses and expects the masses to be proficient in using this OS from reading a thirty-page pamphlet, it’s expecting a lot.
Maybe dumbing down manuals was a good move on Apple’s part, as it’s certainly created a void, which book publishers have quickly and gratefully filled. The latest in the Missing Manual series, covering Mac OS X, will come as a godsend therefore to many Mac users baffled, curious, or even scared about this Unix-based OS and what it means to the Macintosh community. You couldn’t be in better hands, either; author David Pogue has written a slew of Mac-oriented titles in the past, notably all six editions (to date) of the brilliant thousand-plus page Macintosh Secrets (in collaboration with Joseph Schorr), and at least two other titles in the Missing Manual series. Not to mention of course the countless articles that have appeared in Macworld magazine, amongst others.
https://evermine571.weebly.com/blog/adobe-photoshop-cs6-basic-student-manual-mac-commands. I’m surprised this guy has any free time at all. Not even a permanent wrist ailment could stop Pogue from using dictation software to write this latest book, and remain good-humored all of the time. From reading this book, I distinctly get the impression that Pogue actually wants to be my friend, take my hand, and show me around the complex beast that is OS X. I’ll come back to that point later, though.
So, what does this book cover? Being a manual, it covers pretty much everything about Mac OS X. The introduction takes you through some of the history behind OS X, briefly compares it with its predecessor, OS 9 (as it will continue to do throughout the book), and explains just what you, as a Mac user, need to be able to do (use the mouse) and recognize (menus, icons, and the like). The first two chapters cover the basic stuff: working with folders and windows, and organizing your data, most of which will be common knowledge among existing Mac users.
From then on the book focuses in greater detail on various aspects of the supplied applications, such as iTunes, Mail, and Sherlock; and even a small crash-course in using the underlying Unix layer of the OS. Mac users upgrading to OS X from OS 9 or earlier will find two appendices worth reading: one dealing with the installation process, and another containing an A-to-Z of OS 9 features missing, moved, or otherwise different in OS X. Mac os x manual pdf free.
What this book does not do is teach you the ins and outs of Unix. If you want to really get to know and use the command line buried within OS X, the book helpfully points you to the bunch of man files (electronic documentation for Unix) available to you, but it stops short of teaching you how to become proficient in using the command line. For that, you’d need another 600-page book if the man files just don’t cut it. The book doesn’t touch on iMovie, because that is fully covered by iMovie 2: The Missing Manual, also by Pogue; and Apache—arguably the best Web server out there, and included as part of OS X—is an entirely different beast, also covered in greater detail in another publication.
Don’t expect this book to teach you exactly what to do with everything on your grey Developer Tools CD, either. Its focus remains on the installed operating system, although it does from time to time mention certain fun applications on the CD such as Bomb and Pixie. Nevertheless, don’t let that hold you back from buying this book, as it still contains a lot of information that you’ll want to digest.
The Missing Manual series dispenses with the usual CD-full of software on the inside back cover, offering any pieces of software mentioned in the book for download from its Web site instead. In a development world where new versions of applications such as GraphicConverter seem to be released on an hourly basis, this is an especially good move as the book claims it slashes $5 off the cover price (a figure I don’t quite believe myself), and saves taking the time to produce a CD that effectively becomes obsolete within a matter of weeks.
The Internet comes into its own linking in with this book, as besides software downloads the Web site offers an errata section detailing any reader-submitted corrections, omissions and the like, as well as e-mailing lists you can subscribe to in order to receive information on updates to the book itself (remember the update pamphlets periodically sent to owners of the Macintosh Bible editions?) and new and existing titles in the Missing Manual series.
So, along with its Web site connections, Mac OS X: The Missing Manual remains an indispensable wealth of tips and tutorials interspersed with anecdotes and interesting bits of history. Operator manual mac 1700 nav comm. Pogue’s flawless writing style, as noted above, retains the feel-good factor throughout, and will teach every new (and some seasoned) OS X users something they didn’t know before. Definitely a recommended read, this book well deserves an Excellent rating.
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I first reviewedMac OS X: The Missing Manual exactly a year ago, in which time Mac OS X has changed considerably. The inevitable release of version 10.2, code-named Jaguar, brought a much-hyped myriad of changes, additions, and improvements to the operating system, and has prompted a much-needed update to its counterpart in the Missing Manual series. This review will only cover changes made in this edition.
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The first noticeable change to this book is its thickness. The second edition adds more than a hundred pages to the first, and Pogue claims that not a single page has been left unchanged in the overhaul. Most of the screen shots have been updated to reflect the subtle interface changes in 10.2, and all the confirmed errata submitted by readers of the first edition are no longer present.
More importantly, the book is now much less involved in explaining the differences between OS X and its predecessor, OS 9. Bearing in mind a lot of new Mac users are former Windows users, Pogue has aptly chosen to refrain as much as possible from mentioning Mac OS 9 outside its own chapter. Additionally, the useful “Where’d It Go?” appendix has been split into two appendices, one covering Mac OS 9 features and the other covering Windows features.
Certain chapters have been slightly reorganized to reflect changes to 10.2 itself. System Preference panes are now explained in alphabetical order rather than by category, and the distinction between Terminal and the Unix that lies underneath OS X’s graphical user interface is now made much clearer. New sub-chapters have been created for the new Find function and Menulets, and my favorite chapter—Hacking Mac OS X—has happily been expanded.
The section which has seen the most changes is Part Five: Mac OS X Online. A whole new chapter covers Sherlock 3, iChat, and iCal, and .Mac (née iTools) is explained in full, along with Mail’s new spam filter and the new personal firewall. Finally, this book no longer takes you through Mac OS X menu by menu: that appendix has disappeared. In its place is a much-requested (and much more useful) “master list” of keystroke combinations.
There are a number of related titles available from O’Reilly worthy of mention if you find yourself wanting to learn more, which weren’t around when the first edition was published. Pogue has written a separate Missing Manual for switchers from the Windows world, as well as a short book containing hundreds of tips and tricks. Those who want to learn more about the Unix aspect of OS X should look at Dave Taylor and Brian Jepson’s Learning Unix for Mac OS X, also from O’Reilly.
Mac OS X: The Missing Manual could only have improved, and this new edition does by no means disappoint. The second edition is current as of version 10.2.1, and new editions will surely surface as OS X progresses through version 10.2.3 and beyond. If you already own the first edition, there is not a lot you will discover in the second, providing you actively follow OS X-centric Web sites such as the excellent MacOSXHints.com. If on the other hand you have not yet bought this book, seriously consider it. It’s still the best starting point to OS X there is.
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Copyright © 2003 Johann Campbell, [email protected]. Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone. If you’re interested, write to us at [email protected].