Mac OS X Leopard On Demand
Reviewed by Robert Pritchett
Author: Steve
Johnson
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http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0789736543
Released: November
15, 2007
Pages: 576
$40 USD, £29 GBP
ISBN-10: 0789736543
ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-3654-3
Requirement: Mac
OS X Leopard
Strengths: Full
Color, color-coded section-by-section, step-by-step. Online workshop link.
Weaknesses: None
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Introduction
For those who would rather be shown how than told how, see how to;
• Master the Mac OS X Leopard user interface, file management, and
applications
• Manage and share your schedule with iCal
• Use Microsoft Windows along with Leopard using Boot Camp
• Manage and play digital music with iTunes and iPod
• Chat online instantly with iChat
• Explorer the Internet with Safari and send e-mail with Mail
• Customize and fine-tune Mac OS X Leopard
• Set up multiple users and maintain security
• Find and use keyboard shortcuts to save time
• Get a Front Row seat to play DVDs and other media
• Keep your files up to date and backed up with Time Machine
• Find everything you need with Spotlight
On the Web
This book uses real world examples
to give you a context in which to perform a task. This book also includes
workshops to help you put together individual tasks into projects. The Mac OS X
Leopard example files that you need for project tasks are available at www.perspection.com.
About this book…
This is a reference guide, albeit one of the best formatted
and well laid out ones I’ve seen in quite a while. Emphasis is on show and not
tell.
The other book I reviewed in this issue of macCompanion magazine was for the Command Line Interface
(Leopard Phrasebook). This is the exact opposite and glorifies the eye candy
associated with Mac OS X Leopard in all its glory.There are 21 chapters and one
Appendix Some are short and some are not so short depending on how much it
takes to show, but the book adequately covers each topic and is a joy to
“read”.
This is the picturebook mode for learning Leopard.
If this is any indication of the quality of training offered
by Perspection, I’m hooked. Down the left side of each page is a colorized
bulleted step-by-step column with pictures, graphics and screenshots to the
right presenting what to see when using Leopard.
The last chapter is on Automating work with Automator. The
Table of contents even has a “New!” by each subchapter that differs enough
from Tiger to warrant the addition. I like that.
Conclusion
Get this book if you use the side of your brain that
requires visual stimulation to “get it”, because after “reading” this book, you
will.
