"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life." - Chinese Proverb. "This book teaches you how to fish." - Dr. Mac. Macintosh guru, Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus will help you use your Macintosh better and faster, and will kick-start you on your way to becoming a Power User. Starting with the basics, you'll find tips, hints, tutorials, shortcuts, troubleshooting advice, informative screen shots, timesaving software recommendations, where to do what on the Web, and much more. What is a Power User? According to Dr. Mac's "Really Abridged Dictionary", Power User (pou'ar yoo'zer) means - someone who uses a Macintosh better, faster, or more elegantly than you do; and someone who can answer Macintosh-related questions you can't. This book features hundreds of useful and timesaving tips and hints, and tons of advice - not only from Dr. Mac, but from more than 60 other Mac OS X Power Users. The companion Web site is chock-full of links to the absolute best freeware, shareware, games, demo programs, informative .pdf files, icons, and more - all handpicked by Dr. Mac.
Learn how to: diagnose and cure common OS X problems, with a minimum of inconvenience; find anything and everything your Mac will ever need on the World Wide Web; impress your friends with your newfound Unix knowledge (and maybe even fix some things too); customize your system with more than 100 handpicked programs reviewed throughout the book that make Mac OS X better, more fun, or both. Who is this book for? Everyone from beginners to Power Users will benefit from reading this book. It is for anyone who would like to get more done with Mac OS X in less time and with less effort.
- ISBN10 0764516809
- ISBN13 9780764516801
- Publish Date 1 June 2002 (first published 31 December 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 21 March 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Imprint Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
- Edition Abridged edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 672
- Language English