Mac OS X Tiger: Missing Manual by David Pogue
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Book Reviews of Mac OS X Tiger: Missing Manual
Book Review: An Excellent Reference Tool
Summary: 5 Stars
"The book that should have been in the box" is absolutely right! I bought this book when I upgraded from my old iMac running OS 9.1 to a PowerMac running OS 10.4. This book has been an invaluable tool in helping me get up to speed on the look and functioning of OS X. It's written with enough humor to keep it interesting, but not so much that it gets in the way of the information. It's very clearly written, easy to understand. I read the first few chapters straight through, but now that I have my bearings in the new system, it's a handy reference that I can pull off the shelf when I want to look up something specific. I would highly recommend this book to anyone upgrading from OS 9 to OS X.Book Review: Great learning tool
Summary: 5 Stars
Back in the early 90's I bought my first Macintosh, and since I'd had no previous computer experience, I bought David Pogue's 'Macs For Dummies' book. That book, written in a humorous, extremely readable format, easily taught me the basics that I've used all through the years with my subsequent Macs. I recently sent an old eMac to my daughter (this will be her first Mac) that I wiped clean and zeroed out, etc., reinstalled the software & OS, which was Tiger. I also ordered this book for her, so she could learn the way I did, and that has already helped her enormously. I highly recommend these books to anyone who really wants to learn to use and take care of their computer and do it well.Book Review: Very nice and complete introduction book
Summary: 5 Stars
It is very nice and compelling guide to OSX. It is really friendly, well written and easy to read. It makes the whole studying process the plain fun. This book covers the pretty part of the system its Aqua environment.
For those who wants to go underneath and try to play with this UNIX that is under the hood try
Linux and UNIX for a beginner complete training suite, 4DVDs + 2CDs ed.2008
I was quite overconfident about what I know about OS X before I picket this book and to my amazement discovered great many ways to do things more efficiently.
Book Review: The Standard
Summary: 5 Stars
David Pogue has been my favorite tech author for 11 years now. Ever since starting with Mac Secrets Second Edition in 1995, I've been hooked. He manages to provide fun to read material that is always useful.
With almost 17 years of Mac experience under my belt, I got this book to sharpen up on the newest version of OS X. The stuff in here is amazing. It's like reading a nice cross between the manual Apple forgot to provide and reading a new version of Mac Secrets. I've learned a lot of new tricks from this book.
By the way, David is a great guy. I had the chance to meet him in February 2006 and he was awesome. Good musician, too.
Book Review: A must have for Mac users/developers
Summary: 5 Stars
Mac OS X is a combination of a Mach kernel, FreeBSD, and a presentation layer that gives it the Apple look-and-feel. The FreeBSD is based on the concepts of Unix. Like anything built by the phone company (ATT) Unix has a multitude of features and can do almost anything you want, but it's BIG. Even a knowledgeable Unix user benefits from having a printed manual for reference. This book gives me a warm feeling that I am not alone at the command line, or finder level. I highly recommend this book for any Mac user or developer. It has been updated for Tiger and is worth upgrading if you have the old edition.