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: Not worth it
Summary: 2 Stars
I was very disapointed with this book. I bought Mac OS X The Missing Manual along with this book, but the Missing Manual is by far the superior book (for about the same price). This book uses full color pages, large type, and large screen captures to waste space. It could easily have been condensed into half the number of pages, or better yet, just put online in the form of a web page where something like this belongs.
The tips are mostly very trivial and obvious ones - I'm not sure I came across a single one I wasn't already familliar with. I *suppose*, if you don't know any of the little keyboard tricks for navigating your mac quickly, this may be useful to you, but I think I'll be selling mine - I consider it a waste of money.
Book Review: I found my cheese!
Summary: 5 Stars
"They moved my cheese!!!" I said, after a rather anxiety-riddled move to OS X. After years of productive computing at warp speed in OS 9 and it's predecessors, I found myself suddenly slowed to impulse against my will. That is, until OS X Killer Tips. This book quickly and logically showed me the new way and put my frustrations at ease with little things like how to get my trash back on my desktop where it clearly ought to be, along with tons of other useful tidbits. I'm a very busy person and didn't want to spend the time reading other OS X books that are twice the weight of this little jewel. The unique layout along with great graphic examples got me up to speed in no time. Thanks for helping me find my cheese Scott!Book Review: Killer topic and a Killer Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great book! Scott Kelby has found a way to take the best parts of teaching a complicated subject and put it all in one book. His humor starts on page one and is sprinkled throughout the book.Scott goes into detail for each iApp (as we know the Apple help sections need more help) and I constantly got the "oh that's how it works" thought. The chapters are clear and makes sense.
I saw this book listed for pre order on Amazon[.com] and contacted 5 of my friends. We each bought a copy and all love it, no sharing necessary. It is a great investment. This is a book I am reading and using, it is not collecting dust in my book library.
This is a must have book for anyone migrating to Jaguar.
Book Review: Don't bother with this one.
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this book a while ago, and was disappointed with it ever since. Regardless of what Amazon's Editorial says; it is a NEWBIE book. All of the tips and tricks in this book are common knowledge among the Mac community. I'd say out of the entire book only 5 of the tips are useful. The book uses its design and layout to padd out the size so that it looks worth it. Its not.If you want more knowledge help books look else where. If you need help with Jaguar or Panther check out sites like <http://www.macosxhints.com> or the others.
I'm sorry but this book left me disappointed and wanting my money back.
Book Review: eh, not bad
Summary: 3 Stars
This book is pretty good, it provided me with some tips that i had been wondering how to do, but some of the tips were of no use whatsoever. for instance, there was one tip that asked "are you the only user on your computer? then why do you have to log in every single time you turn it on? well, when you set up your computer, don't put a password in, that way you can just click login and you're on your way!" This seems pointless to me, there are also other things in the book that he says are total neusances but don't really bother me at all. So, i think that it is still a useful book, but not worth 5 stars.