This guide provides an overview of features in Mac OS X that you can use to enhance security and harden your computer. In the paper, you can read instructions and recommendations for securing Mac OS X version 10.5 or later, and for maintaining a secure computer.
David Pogue is back with another meticulous Missing Manual to cover the operating system with a wealth of detail. Amusing and fun to read, this is the authoritative book for Mac users of all technical levels and experience. Which new Leopard features work well and which do not? What should you look for? What should you avoid? Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition offers objective and straightforward instruction.
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The Free iPod Book 3.0 includes the world’s first look at Ultimate Ears’ groundbreaking quadruple-driver UE-11 earphones, comprehensive iTunes and iTunes Plus tips, and the latest details on making the most of your Apple TV. Although not really iPod related, there's also info on the entire first wave of iPhone accessories.
All Lightroom fans will be excited to learn that a great book is to be released about it in March. PhotoshopNews has a free PDF download of Chapter 1.
As a professional photographer, author Martin Evening knows firsthand what photographers need for a more efficient workflow. He's been working with Lightroom from the beginning, providing feedback to Lightroom's public beta and monitoring the product's development. The book describes Lightroom's features in detail and with photographer's in mind.
If you download a song and find that you hate it, you've only wasted about 5 minutes and 99 cents, and a bad TV episode will set you back $1.99 and 45 minutes at most. An audiobook that sucks, however, will cost you at least $18.95 and, assuming you force yourself to listen to the whole thing, several hours of your time. So a free chapter is a very good thing for audiobooks in general, and for the iTunes Store in particular, in that it gives us consumers just enough of a book to know if we'd like to hear more. It's kind of like reading the jacket cover of the hardcopy and scanning the first chapter while browsing through Barnes and Noble, except now you get to do it while sitting at a stop light.
Just in time for holiday gift giving, The Cult of Mac by Wired News managing editor Leander Kahney is now being published as a paperback.
The book, a celebration of Mac users' loyalty and obsession, has sold 20,000 copies since its hardcover release in November 2005 and has received glowing reviews for its beautiful design and layout as well as its entertaining content.
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From the O'Reilly announcement: With the countless tutorials, shortcuts, stunts, and undocumented tricks in "iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual," shutterbugs will be able to exercise all the power, flexibility, and creativity of the stunning new iPhoto 6 to turn everyday snapshots into brilliant photos.
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AppleScript comes free as part of every Mac OS X system, and with it, users can harness the power of their Mac and control both the system and the applications that run on it. But they need to know how.
"AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition" teaches AppleScript as it's never been taught before - with scrupulous attention to detail and clarity.
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Author: Chuck Toporek
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596009143
Pages: 236
As Mac OS X evolves, new things are added and some things are done differently. There are many books on Tiger but few (if any) are so compact as the one I'm reviewing today. Let's see what it brings to the fold.
The first thing you'd expect this book to cover are the new features and this pocket guide covers most of them: Spotlight, Automator, Dashboard, etc. But that's not all.
"Podcasting Pocket Guide" is a book for the non-geek who wants to get in on this revolutionary medium. With it, you can enjoy the best podcasts or produce them yourself. Small enough to fit in your pocket, this book shows you how to us tools and techniques to make and publish podcasts with just basic equipment: a computer, microphone, and some free software. You'll find practical tips and how-tos for creating, recording, editing, and uploading our own, professional-quality podcast. For a sample chapter -
Finding, Subscribing to, and Listening to Podcasts - head over to O'Reilly.
David Pogue does it again. He's one of the most prolific writers when it comes to Mac related material and his work is quite impressive. Since Pogue has the freedom to write about the flaws in the programs as well as the features, his Missing Manuals are better than the books that would have been in the box. In this book, he blended coverage from his "iMovie HD and iDVD5," "iPhoto5," "GarageBand 2" and "iPod and iTunes" manuals, into one powerful, inexpensive how-to guide. Get all the information about the book here. A chapter in PDF format is available for download at this location. If you're in a shopping mood head over to Amazon and get the book right away.
Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell provides the perfect overview of Tiger, covers all the essentials and most-talked-about new features of Tiger, including big-ticket items such as Spotlight for effortless searching, iChat AV for video conferencing, and Dashboard for one-click access to a calculator, weather reports, stock prices, flight times, and more. It also covers the hundreds of nips and tucks Tiger made to its underlying technologies and existing applications, including improvements to graphics and the Unix-based core and an easy way to automate time-consuming, repetitive manual or batch tasks.
Authors: Michael Bartosha and Ryan Faas
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596006357
Pages: 846
It doesn't matter what Operating System you are running on your server, good documentation is always needed. If you think of quality computer books you probably think of O'Reilly first, somehow they always seem to be ahead of the competition. Let's see what value this book brings to Macintosh system administrators.
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