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| The Mac OS X Tiger Book | 
 enlarge | Author: Andy Ihnatko
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 547221
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 522
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 8 x 1.3
ISBN: 0764579576
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.446
EAN: 9780764579578
ASIN: 0764579576
Publication Date: June 3, 2005
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Product Description
The cat's out of the bag, and Andy Ihnatko gives you a hundred reasons to fall in love with the Tiger. Packed with sage advice -- and plenty of humor -- this beefy volume holds your hand through installing Tiger, helps you diagnose and cure common problems, introduces you to more shortcuts than you ever imagined, and provides tips on everything from using Spotlight to choosing a tattoo. It's not only the greatest Mac OS X guide ever, it's surely the most entertaining. You'll find new chapters on: - Automator -- your servant for boring-yet-complex tasks.
- Spotlight -- to find anything on your Mac instantly.
- Dashboard -- a pile of useful tools just a keystroke away.
- Troubleshooting step by stepamaze your friends!
"Here, I'm going to help you out before you even start leafing through this thing. If you run an $8 FireWire cable between a pair of Macs running Tiger, the OS automatically creates an ultra-high-speed network between the two, with zero help from you. It's one of the easiest and quickest ways to swap files or play network games, and you can even use this mini network to 'share' an Internet connection! See? Have the other books' authors done so much for you at this stage? Please keep this in mind as you make your purchasing decision."
-- Andy Ihnatko
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| Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews...
 One computer manual is too many, but better this one (or the next one) than any other. March 10, 2008
Amazon is currently listing two identically titled pre-orders--"The Mac OS Leopard Book"--one by Kelby and the other by Ihnatko. If you're not afraid to admit you occasionally read instructions for a Mac (my students and my own kids laugh at me); if you actually do occasionally refer to them; if you miss the old puckish Pogue (the refreshingly informative handholder of the Dummies series who later got overly serious about supplying "Missing Manuals" for things you never missed in the first place); then Ihnatko's book is probably your best bet. Admittedly, he seems to write with more ego and attitude than any other writer of computer texts--bordering on churlish Mac megalomania at times--but more often than not his wacky jokes and attempts at humor succeed, not simply providing helpful information but eliciting the reader's trust in the super-confident author (it's like he's constantly reassuring you, "Trust me, it's piece of cake, folks."
Some reviewers refer to the humor as lame, as cute, as overdone. I take issue, especially after reading some of the plain stupid and insulting attempts at being "informal," "chatty," "friendly" in other, truly "smarmy" manuals, including some of Pogue's successors in the Dummies series. Ihnatko, plain and simple, is a good writer--he has a sense of style and proportion and a base of information--from allusions that should be familiar to anyone with a liberal arts degree to a savvy awareness of pop culture--that entitles him to have some fun along the way. Readers who are immediately turned off by the approach either need to address their own knowledge gaps or get beyond the introductory chapter.
How can you dislike a writer who, in one sentence, describes himself as "the world's 42nd most-beloved industry personality," deserving commendations and awards beyond Mother Teresa or any other humanitarian and, in the next, asks those of us who occasionally feel preyed upon by our inscrutable Mac machines and operating systems to see him as our "St. Francis of Assissi"--as our loudest champion and constant friend, working tirelessly on behalf of the needy neophyte.
In those moments when your Tiger or Leopard turns on you, making you feel no less dependent than the author's two goldfish, "Click" and "Drag," you could do worse than have a companion like this at your side. And if his taming of the Tiger is a good indicator, you can rest assured that the impending Leopard's spots are not about to change.
 hard to read March 4, 2008
The author may have a wealth of information to give, but his writing style makes it difficult to find. He somtimes fills half a page with his non-relevant musings and humor, so you find yourself skimming over a page just to find legimate information - and in the process, maybe missing important facts.
I paid 57 cents above the $5. shipping costs and I think I got what I paid for.
 Reference tool or joke book? August 28, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
For people who buy this book as a reference tool when your having problems, its just frustrating to use. Too many uneccesary words to sift through to get to the meat of it. After awhile you give up and go on to the next book you bought (if you have another). I guess for some people it could be comic relief if your frustrated about your computer messing up, but to call this book helpful, you'd have to be the computer geek type that reads manual after manual for entertainment(which I'm not), but maybe they might be able to find something in this book. To me, it was a waste of money. Good thing I also bought the Mac OSX Tiger Bible and The Missing Manual. These are much better reference tools.
Too cute January 9, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The writer tries to be funny. "Tries" is the key word. After about 10 minutes it was beyond annoying and I had to revisit Amazon spend another $25 on a different Mac OS X Tiger book. Every page contains lame attempts to be Letterman or Leno teaching Tiger. And it's from page one: Ihnatko (the author) starts the book with a queasy dedication to his mother in which he hopes she'll cut him slack for having a ponytail. Yep - you kinda got the flavor now. Turn the page, there's MORE hip techie sarcasm and wry mac system observations. Ha ha. If the jokes could be sidebars instead of woven into the very material you're trying to learn from it might be tolerable. But for me, this doesn't work.
Too many "Star Wars" jokes and no MAC OS X November 22, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I bought this book because I though the author had a funny approach to the subject. I started reading it and I found it had a nice sense of humor. However, after reading 5 chapters and not getting any significant knowledge about MAC OS X, I felt the book really felt short of its main purpose. As a comedy book is great especially for computer geeks like me, but man...no meat on this one. The chapter on troubleshooting is basically "DO NOTHING"....what??? Buy the missing manual from David it is a much more comprehensive book. Not as funny, but you actually get pretty good at learning MAC.
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