Teach Yourself VISUALLY Mac OS X Leopard (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech)) | 
| Author: Lynette Kent
Publisher: Visual
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 12470
Media: Paperback
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0470101679
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.446
EAN: 9780470101674
ASIN: 0470101679
Publication Date: October 31, 2007
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Product Description
Do you prefer instructions that show you how instead of telling you why? This book is packed with easy, visual directions and full-color screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 150 tasks with Mac OS X Leopard, including adding applications to the Dock, color-coding files and folders, viewing windows in Expose, using the QuickTime player, storing files on your iPod, creating your own Web widgets, and more. Succinct explanations walk you through step by step.
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 Great Intro to Leopard November 6, 2007
Rick Redfern (Orange County, California)
63 out of 67 found this review helpful
Right up front I have to admit being an Apple Developer at the Select Level. That means I actually pay each year to use the title Developer. Additionally, on the Monday after the Super Bowl 1984 I went down to a nearby Apple Dealer and plopped down $2,495 for the first 128K Macintosh. Do these give me special abilities beyond those of other mortals? No. It just means that I have been on board for a few years. Have seen and tried EVERY system that has come down the road and when System 7 came along I waited till a guru by the name of Jay Nelson, the editor-in-chief of Design Tools Monthly, stated it was ready for prime time. Why? Jay has his finger on the pulse of a lot of Mac users and he is also quite technically savvy. Jay also brought on board Lynette Kent, the author of this book and several other Adobe Photoshop books as a contributing writer. Having read several of her books I decided to see for myself just how well Lynette communicated the basics of the new Leopard operating system. Lynette does quite an admirable job of what she does best - Communicating at a level that everyone can easily understand. That's what Lynette does best. As the introduction to the book stares in the "How to use this Book" under the "Who Needs This Book" -"this book is for a reader who has never used this particular technology or software application." So why am I reading it? Literally every day I am asked which book I recommend to read to learn about Leopard. There are three authors of technical books whom I have learned to trust and Lynette is one of them. Okay, who are the other two? That's easy. Scott Kelby and Robin Williams. This trio writes very clearly and don't waste words with asides of meaningless drivel and they are able to get a point across without side trips of self-aggrandizing blather. I collect the writings of all three. My personal technical library is loaded with the works by all three. Lynette's latest book is about the introduction of Apple's latest Operating System - Leopard. This is the book I recommend for anyone trying a new Apple Computer for the first time. Any new user should read this book and feel quite comfortable with their Macintosh within a few chapters. The book is laid out logically and quite well. The format of using cartoons should help any new user feel at home. Buy this book. It's the beginning of new relationship with a great computer system. Enjoy.
 Not exactly heavy duty stuff.... December 8, 2007
Dean W. Wilkey (New Mexico)
24 out of 30 found this review helpful
I am new to the world of Mac, having used PC's for all my life until this past month when I purchased a new Imac. I bought this book hoping it would help me with the new Leopard program, but I was a bit disappointed because it really doesn't cover the program in much depth. Everything that is in the book was pretty easy to figure out on my own or through watching the intro videos that come with the Imac. I would same your money and buy something that is a little more in depth, even if it means waiting for a few months until a better book comes along.
Shallow effort with errors November 3, 2007
S. Nevins
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
Many of the items get fairly shallow coverage which isn't really suitable for first time MAC OSX users. IPhoto, which is a popular application , has several errors. The IPhoto index entry indicates Page 264 but there is no reference to it on that page. The Photo Booth index page 264 takes you to the table of contents of the next chapter. Sloppy editing, at least in the Barnes and Noble stock that I perused.
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Mac OS X Leopard (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech)) October 31, 2007
Barbara K. Cooper (Long Beach, Ca USA)
15 out of 22 found this review helpful
This book has the answers. For a quick way to figure out just what to do without having to spend hours trying to figure out how to do or explaining how something works.
Very Helpful! December 6, 2007
Eddie Wannabee (Western Hemisphere)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I spent many months debating before buying my first Imac. I wanted to purchase and Apple computer because of the wonderful commercials stating that an Imac work better and more efficiently than a PC (with which I have had my share of very frustrating moments over the years!) and this promise alone made me want to purchase one. I waited for the release of Leopard, figuring might as well buy the computer with the most advanced operating system known to mankind (their words, not mine) but the release once scheduled for June got postponed for late October as we all know. I loved the looks of the Imac and being a frustrated "shower singer" I was ready to try Garage Band, the kind of application I could never find on a PC. I still waited till November thinking I may get lucky and my new Imac would arrive with Leopard already installed and not with a CD to install myself. The salesman assured me this would be the case so I finally dished out the money (quite a bit more than a PC, that's for sure) and when it arrived it still had Tiger on it but I was able to replace it with Leopard with minimum fuzz. Right around then I bought Teach Yourself Visually Mac OS X Leopard and took my first crash course on a new operating system. The results, even though short of fantastic, turned out to be Very Helpful. I played along from the first page to most of what this book showed me and at the end I did learn quite a number of interesting pieces of information. I give it 4 Stars and upon finishing the book for the first time I have been able to go back to certain chapters to reinforce pertinent information and as we all know: Repetition is the Mother of Skill (very wise words, indeed!) I have later bought the PeachPit Learning Series Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard by Robin Williams and the jury it's still out on that one. Learning visually has a lot of advantages and this book is most of the time very clear and easy to navigate. What else can I say? Do I miss PC's? Yes, of course, I really do like them now that I changed to Imacs. I am so far able to do the same things on the Imac with very little complications. I have read that a segment of consumers do not like the results of installing Leopard and perhaps the fact that my computer was brand new when I installed Leopard may account for the smooth results and that is good for I don't think I would have been able to handle complications on my first few days of ownership. Now all I have left to do is keep learning and buy the coming release by Robin Williams about Life 08' Cool Apps scheduled for a January release to cement my knowledge. I have already purchased Garage Band III released on April 2006, which has not yet arrived and by doing research I found that most of the information will be helpful with Garage Band 08. Yes, I am buying a lot of books but since the computer cost quite a bit more than what I am used to I think is the smart thing to do, specially where Garage Band is concerned. The Shower Singer in me would like to record a couple of tunes if only for his fragile ego to be amused! 4 Stars!
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