Book Reviews
04/26/2007 "Mac OS X, Tiger Edition, The Missing Manual" review by Ray Bowler
BY David Pogue, Copyright 2005
Eighth Printing, O'Reilly Press
Soon after OS 9 was released "Mac OS 9, The Missing Manual" went on sale. David Pogue is now tech columnist for the New York Times and his Missing Manual's have been appearing since that first one. OS X Tiger Edition is the latest and the eighth printing includes new material to cover the Intel side of the Macs.
Four things have made these books popular: clearly written text, a through coverage of the subject, a touch of humor (which is natural for him) and great accuracy. Step by step Pogue goes through the features, programs and capabilities of the "Tiger" operating system as shipped by Apple, plus some programs which come from other sources.
I have never seen a manual for any program, hardware or OS which is anywhere close to this series in its helpfulness to the reader. Anyone other than the well trained techs can find this book valuable.
One feature of OS X which caught my attention is Pogue's explanation of the use of the sidebar in a finder window. It makes moving material from one folder to another easy. I have always had trouble dragging files from one location to another. I can get very confused and even lose the files by releasing the mouse too early. Pogue points out the obvious: drag the folder to be moved into the sidebar. Open the destination location and drag the folder into the destination. Fast!
In another place he describes many of the special keys and keyboard combinations which we can use in OS X/Tiger.
This is a book which I would recommend to those wanting to know more about the system.
Eighth Printing, O'Reilly Press
Soon after OS 9 was released "Mac OS 9, The Missing Manual" went on sale. David Pogue is now tech columnist for the New York Times and his Missing Manual's have been appearing since that first one. OS X Tiger Edition is the latest and the eighth printing includes new material to cover the Intel side of the Macs.
Four things have made these books popular: clearly written text, a through coverage of the subject, a touch of humor (which is natural for him) and great accuracy. Step by step Pogue goes through the features, programs and capabilities of the "Tiger" operating system as shipped by Apple, plus some programs which come from other sources.
I have never seen a manual for any program, hardware or OS which is anywhere close to this series in its helpfulness to the reader. Anyone other than the well trained techs can find this book valuable.
One feature of OS X which caught my attention is Pogue's explanation of the use of the sidebar in a finder window. It makes moving material from one folder to another easy. I have always had trouble dragging files from one location to another. I can get very confused and even lose the files by releasing the mouse too early. Pogue points out the obvious: drag the folder to be moved into the sidebar. Open the destination location and drag the folder into the destination. Fast!
In another place he describes many of the special keys and keyboard combinations which we can use in OS X/Tiger.
This is a book which I would recommend to those wanting to know more about the system.