Mac OS X Panther Killer Tips
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Editorial Reviews:
Nothin' but sidebars! The hottest collection of cool tips andhidden secrets for the pro who needs results FAST! Not another newbie book. OS X Killer Tips speaks directly to the daily Mac user who needs to get the most out of their Mac NOW. Other such books tend toward fluffiness, where Killer Tips is all business.
Time is money and a lot of experienced users find themselves trying to save time by skimming through larger computer books in order to pull out the useful nuggets of info that are often placed within what we call sidebars (i.e. those Note/Tip/Warning boxes). The Killer Tips series was developed by Scott Kelby because he recognized how useful non-beginning technology users find those cool "I didn't know THAT" sidebarsthat are peppered all over the other computer books out there. This book is allabout speed; showing the Mac professional how to get more work done faster,while actually increasing quality.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating:
Summary: This is a great book!
Comment: It's not for someone wanting to learn OSX but for those who know OSX and want some great shortcuts. It's a great supplement for those other "how-to" books. Recommended by www.onlymacintosh.com - Enjoy!
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Killer Tips aren't very killer ...
Comment: This is the only poor review I've ever given and its not because Scott Kelby wrote a poor book - he just wrote a book thats not very useful.
I bought this book the same time I purchased my first Apple computer. I bought it to learn how to use Mac OS X, which I hadn't used at the time. Unfortunately, while I found the OS very easy to use, the book contained mostly common sense "tips" that wouldn't be much use to someone who has any experience on a computer. Most of the killer tips - such as dragging the bottom right corner of a window to resize it - apply to any OS. All other tips, such as changing your background to a photo require not much more then a few minutes of playing.
If you're a veteran user of Mac OS's this book isn't for you.
If you're new to Mac OS this book won't really show you anything a half an hours with of playing won't.
Take my advice and flip through the pages @ your local bookstore or read a demo chapter here @ Amazon. If you already know half of what you're reading, why buy it?
Customer Rating:
Summary: This book rocks!
Comment: I have used a Mac since 1984 and Mac OS X since it was public beta. However, I don't always have the time to figure out all the little time saving tips on my own. I learned several tips from this book that I now use on a daily basis. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to be more productive with Panther!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Highly recommended!
Comment: This book is not on the same level as the Visual Quickstart Guides that come from Peach Pit Press, but in some ways it is better. This title from New Riders Publishers (but still distributed through Peach Pit Press) is MUCH smaller at only 300 pages, but it also has less information in it because much of the interface it dedicated to graphics showing pictures of the various apps and utilities discussed in the book.
Having said that, this book is extremely well laid-out and written. It IS the kind of book that you can curl up with in front of the fireplace with. No, seriously. There are just so many cool tidbits in this thing that it becomes difficult to put down. If you pick it up at all, you can't simply look up the one question you were thinking about because you immediately get distracted by the other things you see while trying to find your answer. More than once, after spending 10 minutes looking at tips, I have ended up closing the book only to realize that I never actually got around to looking up my original question, and so I go back, promising myself to only focus on the one thing I need to learn.
However, for a geek like me, it doesn't take long to get through it all. Now when I grab it, it's more like "Oh, ya, I remember that one." ...and so, it now spends most of it's time just sitting on my shelf. Ah, well, maybe it is time to pass this one on to someone else... oh, wait! I just found something new. Nevermind!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Stuff only a newbie wouldn't figure out on their own
Comment: I just purchased this book after reading the other review for this book. I expected that I'd learn at least something from it, but found that the Killer Tips were actaully largely straight-forward configuration options (that you can find out by just clicking on Preferences for the various apps).
If you're a brand new Mac user or really don't like to spend at least a little time getting familiar with the new OS on your own, maybe the book would help. But I couldn't pawn this book off on a friend who's had his Mac for 3 days, so I suppose it depends. Killer Tips, they are not.
I wish they had that "Look Inside" option for this book because you could then get an idea of whether the book would help you out. For me, it's a quick return.
Technical Details
Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 005.4465
EAN: 9780735713932
ISBN: 0735713936
Label: New Riders Press
Manufacturer: New Riders Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2004-01-09
Publisher: New Riders Press
Studio: New Riders Press
