Mac OS X v. 10.2 Jaguar Killer Tips
by Scott Kelby
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Book Reviews of Mac OS X v. 10.2 Jaguar Killer Tips
Book Review: Get up to speed quickly with OS X
Summary: 4 Stars
There are plenty of little tricks in OS X that seasoned users take for granted: just clever little ways to move windows, adjust icons, speed up common tasks with key-combinations.If you have come to the Mac as a "switcher" from the world of Windows, OS X can appear a little alien. This is the ideal book to help you feel more at home: don't tell your more experienced Apple buddies you've bought it, and they will be extremely impressed when you demonstrate your new knowledge. And of course you'll be happier that you've adjusted the Dock to work the way you want, found a quick way to open your Home folder and discovered a new way of using iMovie.
Killer Tips is a beautiful looking book, and the price is good too. Definitely worth a peek if you are a new or new-ish Apple user, or want to one-up your Mac mates. It's like several years worth of Mac magazine tips in one glossy book.
Book Review: Why aren't these tips in the "Help" feature?
Summary: 4 Stars
This book unlocks the fun of OS X. I bought three other books which have proven useful (though redundant) but have overlooked virtually all of the "tips" that this book offers. After having worked my way through 3 or 4 of the first of its 13 chapters, I was convinced it was worth the money. I've marked items on nearly every page that I didn't know were "available" until finding these gems. Many are keyboard "shortcuts" that really are not any faster and would be hard to remember. There are many other tips that enhance the system's operation. I wonder how one would find these out as the "traditional" books seem too busy with the mundane aspects of the system. It's major shortcoming is its limited index. This book is for moderately experienced OS X users and would not be as useful for beginners.Book Review: Great for complete beginners
Summary: 3 Stars
If you've used OS X for a little while you'll know most or all of these. (Unless you're pretty slow to pick things up on computers.) If the book were marketed that way, I'd give it 5 stars, since it looks great for complete beginners, pointing out little things like "Command-A selects all the files in the folder you have open" I'm not kidding! the things are that obvious. Anyone who takes the time to look at the keystroke short cuts listed in the menus and play around and hit all the buttons and right-click everywhere will already know 95% of this. I did learn two things: you can add aliases to your button bars in the Finder, and leaving an app open in OS X barely uses any resources. Nice but not worth the price of the book.Get Rael Dornfest's OS X Hacks instead if you want to learn something new.
Book Review: Now in color!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I actually haven't gotten my jaguar in the mail yet- so i have yet to actually use the tips in this book. I've read reviews on the "other" site- and decided to buy the book. I was surprised when I opened the book- it's in COLOR! Every single page in color! The layout of the book is great and easy to understand writing. I've bought hundreds of dollars worth of computer books in the past couple of years and i would just like to say... this is the most visually impressive book i've seen! There's no excess in text- just short concise tips! (duh! It's called killer tips!). sure it might be lame to give 5 stars to a book that hasn't been tested- but it all seems to be right from my os x usage. Thanks scott! Too bad mac design didn't give any additional discounts for their subscribers!
Book Review: Sleazeball antics from the acned classes
Summary: 1 Stars
There's a short chapter on "cheap tricks" you can play on your co-workers that would earn the author a short trip to the front door in most software engineering shops. One of them, in fact, is reserved for "your last day on the job."In brief, the "joke" involves dropping several hundred files onto the Dock -- this is a denial of service attack -- which effectively deprives newbies of a few moments' peace of mind. The author claims that only "reinstalling from scratch" will clean up the mess. (Command-TAB, Command-Q through the list also works.)
The prevention and the cure, Grasshopper, is simply to backup your system before you allow morons like this to get near it -- Carbon Copy Cloner 2.0 and an external Firewire hard disk will do nicely.