Maria Langer

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Now that every new Macintosh computer ships with Mac OS X 10.1, you need Mac OS X 10.1: Visual QuickStart Guide to show you how to get the most out of Apple’s radically redesigned operating system. Responding to user input on the initial release of OS X, Apple has improved the already-gorgeous Aqua user interface and added a number of enhancements–all of which veteran Mac author Maria Langer walks you through in this Visual QuickStart Guide.

Offering the detailed, step-by-step instructions and plentiful visual aids that have become hallmarks of the VQS series, Mac OS X 10.1: Visual QuickStart Guide provides everything you need to know to install, configure, and use the OS and its accompanying software. Before you know it, you’ll be burning CDs, watching DVD movies, customizing your Dock, sharing files across networks, and more–all on an operating system that has the power, stability, and security of Unix at its core.

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Daniel K. Allen

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David L. Hart

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Maria Langer

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Designed for more experienced users who know the basics of file management and working with the Macintosh desktop, Mac OS X Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide provides more advanced information in an accessible format. Veteran Macintosh columnist and author Maria Langer shows readers the basics of OS X, including networking and telecommunications, security, fine-tuning functionality, customizing Mac OS X, working with OS X server, and more. The Visual QuickPro Guide format offers an easy, visual approach to teaching Mac OS X, using plenty of pictures and concise, straightforward commentary.

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Adam Engst

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In just a few short years, email has gone from the domain of the technological avant-garde to a mainstay of business and personal communication. The leader in this competitive market is Qualcomm’s Eudora. Whether you use the free, downloadable Light version, or the more feature-complete Eudora Pro, Eudora 4.2 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide is the easiest, most accessible way to learn this flexible cross-platform app.

Though fully updated and revised, this edition sticks to the popular Visual QuickStart format: concise, step-by-step instructions, plenty of screenshots, and clearly tabbed, easy-to-browse sections. Beginners can start with basic but essential tasks, like writing and sending email messages. If you’re familiar with the program, you can use the book to quickly refer to the new features and more advanced topics, such as customizing Eudora and working with attachments, filters, and address books. If you have Eudora 4.3, you’ll find this guide very useful. Though it doesn’t cover 4.3 specifically, there are very few entirely new additions in this upgrade.

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Apple Computer Company

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Inc., Apple Computer

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Cocoa™ is one of the principal application environments for Mac® OS X. Among Cocoa’s many attributes, its advanced object-oriented APIs allow you to develop in both Java and Objective-C. This revolutionary new way of developing sophisticated applications for the Macintosh is both powerful and easy.

With Learning Cocoa you’ll become familiar with Cocoa application development, using Objective C, not merely by reading, but by doing. The book begins with a discussion of essential object-oriented programming concepts for those with no previous experience. It proceeds through an introduction to the Cocoa environment, development, tools, and some simple tutorials to help you become familiar with the basic elements of Cocoa programming. The remaining tutorials guide you as you create a series of increasingly complex example applications. The techniques and concepts you learn in one tutorial lay the foundation for the more advanced techniques and concepts in the next.

You don’t need extensive programming experience to complete the examples in this book, though it would be helpful to have some experience with the C programming language. The code for each example is included in the text so you can simply type it in. If you’re already familiar with an object-oriented programming language like Java or Smalltalk, you’ll quickly feel right at home with Objective-C, the language used throughout this book.

As you ease your way into the experience of Cocoa programming, you’re encouraged to play, to explore, to “kick the tires.” You’ll finish this book much better prepared to take on serious application development with Cocoa, and you’ll find Apple’s development environment not only less mysterious, but one that you’ll be eager to program in.

Written by insiders at Apple Computer, the book brings you information that you can’t get anywhere else–and a potential leg up in the Mac OS X application development market.

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Global Marketing Partners

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Drive Genius provides unsurpassed hard drive management. It includes essential maintenance tools, effective optimization tools and powerful management tools. Use its simple interface, drive optimizer&comprehensive repair facility will satisfy even the seasoned Mac experts. You can also handle scanning, performance benchmarking and data integrity checking — and analyze, repair and rebuild volumes easily. Drive Genius provides all the tools needed to take control of your hard drive, and your digital life. Use the SMART diagnostic codes from your hard drive to avoid dangerous hardware failures Surface Scan verifies hard drive reliability with a complete suite of non-destructive tests Add, delete, hide, expand or shrink OS X partitions Get in-depth reports of specifications and space use of all devices and OS X volumes

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Edmark

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Mighty Math Number Heroes teaches your 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th grader the concepts, facts and thinking skills necessary to build math confidence and develop a strong, lasting understanding of math!

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Cliff Colby

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When the last edition of The Macintosh Bible was published Mac OS X was still in its infancy, the full suite of free Mac iLife apps had yet to appear, and the idea of switching from a PC to a Mac was still considered heresy by most Windows aficionados. Obviously, a lot has changed: Here to address those changes is the 9th Edition of the most comprehensive Mac resource on the planet. Offering an expanded chapter on digital media, a new appendix on switching (not just from Windows to Mac OS X but from earlier Mac OS versions as well), an increased focus on the newest (and newly mature) OS X versions, and brand-new interviews with Mac luminaries (at the end of each chapter), this completely revised volume offers something for Mac users of all stripes and skill levels. Leaders of the Mac community address every aspect of Mac use here, packing in hundreds of tips, trivia, sidebars, and other goodies along the way.

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