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Microsoft Office v.10 for Macs for Dummies

Tom Negrino

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The new version of Microsoft Office for Macs brings many features from Office XP to the Macintosh platform -- and is the first Office upgrade to take full advantage of the souped-up multimedia capabilities and new user interface of Mac OS X. This friendly guide gets users up to speed fast on all of the programs in the suite -- Word ,Entourage, Excel ,and Power Point-and provides ample coverage of collaboration tools and the many enhancements.

How to Boss Your Fonts Around (2nd Edition)

Robin Williams

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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Fonts. They seem to have a life of their own. And they can cause no end of heartache to the harried desktop or webtop publisher. Perfectly lovely documents on screen can suddenly transmogrify into a perfect nightmare when printed. So how can you control these willful beasts? Get a copy of this book and end your power struggle with fonts forever.

How To Boss Your Fonts Around has been completely revised and updated for the Second Edition. It's a must-have primer on font technology and font management for anyone who works on a Macintosh. It's updated for Mac OS 8, and includes all new coverage of how to work with and manage fonts for the Web. You'll learn to identify and work with all the different kinds of fonts available, from PostScript to TrueType to Type 1, bitmapped to screen, outline to printer, resident to downloadable and more. There's coverage of Adobe Type Manager, ATM Deluxe, Suitcase, Master Juggler, Font Reserve, new font management tools and utilities, installing fonts, and solving font conflicts. A detailed reference section answers common questions and problems, tells you how to acquire fonts, and offers an amazingly detailed glossary. This is the essential troubleshooting guide to taking control of fonts and learning to use them efficiently and effectively.

Appledesign: The Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group

Paul Kunkel

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Total reviews: 26 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

a glaring problem with the book 1 out of 5 stars.
3 of 62 people found this review helpful.

This book offers a comprehensive look at Apple's design, to be sure - and it's a story worth telling. However, the presentation is fundamentally flawed in that it reads like propaganda from the Jobs machine. The fact of the matter is that Jobs had very little to do with design at Apple, or with anything else that Apple did well, for that matter. The myth of Jobs is a nothing more than a fraud - an incredibly successful fraud.

apple! yay! 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 8 people found this review helpful.

mmm... great book.

Sure, there are typos and misnamed images, but, the quality is (overall) excellent.

Apple's design is not the only thing that should be commended- I should know, as my family made the switch after my father's PC caught fire and had to be ditched out a window. Never has an Mac done that to me, and I've used them my entire life.

But, I digress.

The images are excellent, although the text is rather long and dull.

I picked up my copy at a closeout sale for 12 bucks last year, but it is definitly worth the price if you want an homage to mac for your coffeetable.

Editorial Review:

On Apple's 20th anniversary, the firm's groundbreaking and colorful design history is laid out more fully than ever before. With the author awarded complete access by Apple to its archives and executives, this is the most detailed study of the company and its products ever published. The book covers all the goods made and sold by Apple, and also discusses concepts for products that never made it to production. 400 color and b&w illustrations.

The Macintosh Digital Hub: An Interactive Guide to iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD

Jim Heid

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In the Macintosh world, Apple's free digital hub tools--iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iPod, and iTools--are the driving force behind the convergence of digital media and digital devices. You can use these tools to entertain, educate, persuade, and inspire your audiences at home, school, and work. To help you master this elegant and fun desktop studio, there's no better place to turn than The Macintosh Digital Hub.

The Macintosh Digital Hub is a unique book-DVD hybrid that provides an interactive tour of the digital hub. Written by noted digital media expertJim Heid, a contributing editor of Macworld since 1984 and a Macintosh columnist for the Los Angeles Times, it uses clear, to-the-point text, gorgeous illustrations, and interactive video to do justice to the digital hub's enormous capabilities. The book-DVD combo addresses the basic concepts behind the digital hub, like how to balance file size and image quality in digital photography and how to create effective DVD menus. It also tackles more advanced concepts, like how to record Internet radio for later playback, prepare video for Web distribution, and get digital photos printed onto mugs and mousepads.

The accompanying DVD-Video disc contains two hours of entertaining instruction covering all of Apple's i-programs. You'll see how to produce professional-looking digital media, and you'll see hardware add-ons that will round out your digital studio. Beautiful to look at and enjoyable to watch, The Macintosh Digital Hub is your user manual for the digital lifestyle!

Mastering Mac OS X, Third Edition

Todd Stauffer, Kirk McElhearn

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Total reviews: 18 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

This suited my specific needs 5 out of 5 stars.
13 of 13 people found this review helpful.

I didn't want to buy a book where a significant portion is devoted to introductory comments for beginners. When I bought David Pogue's Jaguar Edition of the OSX Missing Manual, I was new to OSX and it suited my needs perfectly (Pogue is a great writer). However, I've moved on a bit and Pogue's Panther Edition covers too much of the same ground for me.

Stauffer and McElhearn's book gets straight to the point and gives me enough details for the tips to be useful. I found the sections on networking especially useful, and liked how many of my questions were anticipated by the authors. I also found the book well-organized and getting to the sections I needed wasn't a problem. If you're an intermediate-to-advanced user, this is probably for you.

Editorial Review:

The newest version of Mac OS X includes loads of innovative features that promise to tempt users to upgrade or switch. This third edition of a best-selling book that received rave reviews covers Mac OS X version 10.2/Jaguar and the upcoming release 10.3/Panther. The book with the most breadth, Mastering Max OS X teaches beginners the essentials and gives seasoned Mac users over 250 pages of advanced topics, including the most extensive coverage of troubleshooting and maintenance. Author Todd Stauffer contributes to MacAddict and is the author or co-author of over 25 books covering topics such as web publishing, upgrading Macintoshes, and using the iMac.

Adobe(R) GoLive(R) 6.0 Classroom in a Book

Adobe Creative Team

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When it comes to mastering Adobe GoLive, Adobe GoLive 6.0 Classroom in a Book puts you in a class of your own. This hands-on workbook leads you through a series of lessons that teach you everything you need to know to quickly get to work with the latest version of GoLive, but you learn on your own time, at your own pace. And here's something else that sets it apart from the other GoLive books out there: Adobe's Classroom in a Book is the only one that gives you the official training course created by the company's own team and tested in its classrooms and labs.

Adobe GoLive 6.0 Classroom in a Book makes it easy to learn what you want to know when you need to know it. The Adobe Creative Team breaks down GoLive and Web publishing into clear, step-by-step lessons that cover key concepts such as toolbars, palettes, layout design, the collaborative Adobe Web WorkGroup Server, site architecture, dynamic content creation, wireless-device authoring, Cascading Style Sheets, image maps, and more. You'll never feel overwhelmed by the information. At the end of each chapter, review questions wrap up and reinforce what you've learned, and the accompanying CD-ROM gives you customized files and images designed for use in conjunction with the book's hands-on exercises.

iPhoto "X" For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

Angelo Micheletti

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• What the book covers: Getting started with iPhoto, setting preferences, importing and exporting photos from various sources, organizing photos  into libraries and albums, cropping photos, rotating photos, removing red eye, correcting color and saturation with histograms, sharing photos via e-mail or MobileMe, printing your own photos, creating a photo book, making calendars and greeting cards from your photos,  and more.
• Series features: Information presented in the straightforward but fun language that has defined the Dummies series for more than fifteen years.
  

Apple Pro Training Series: Getting Started with Aperture

Estelle McGechie

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 2.0 of 5

Wait for the next one 1 out of 5 stars.
41 of 43 people found this review helpful.

This book is merely a text copy of the information that ships with the training DVD you get when you buy Aperture. In other words, you already have all this information if you own the program. The only value to this book is as a companion to the DVD or if you don't own the program and want to see what it can do. I'd wait for the next title in the series if you want some real training.

Editorial Review:

Welcome to Aperture, the revolutionary application for managing and editing digital photographs. Designed specifically for professional digital photographers, Aperture is an enormously powerful tool for handling some of the most time-consuming and tedious tasks of professional photography. This collection of Apple Pro Training tutorials will get you up and running in no time. You’ll learn how to sort, rank, and manage images with unparalleled efficiency; display onscreen proofs and contact sheets in compelling ways for clients; edit and retouch your selected images professionally; publish proofs, portfolios, and final images on the Web and in print; and archive images in a way that’s easy, secure, and intuitive. Available in 2005, these hands-on tutorials provide a great overview of an indispensable application for digital photographers.

Apple Pro Training Series: Getting Started with Aperture

Estelle McGechie

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Wait for the next one 1 out of 5 stars.
41 of 43 people found this review helpful.

This book is merely a text copy of the information that ships with the training DVD you get when you buy Aperture. In other words, you already have all this information if you own the program. The only value to this book is as a companion to the DVD or if you don't own the program and want to see what it can do. I'd wait for the next title in the series if you want some real training.

Editorial Review:

Welcome to Aperture, the revolutionary application for managing and editing digital photographs. Designed specifically for professional digital photographers, Aperture is an enormously powerful tool for handling some of the most time-consuming and tedious tasks of professional photography. This collection of Apple Pro Training tutorials will get you up and running in no time. You’ll learn how to sort, rank, and manage images with unparalleled efficiency; display onscreen proofs and contact sheets in compelling ways for clients; edit and retouch your selected images professionally; publish proofs, portfolios, and final images on the Web and in print; and archive images in a way that’s easy, secure, and intuitive. Available in 2005, these hands-on tutorials provide a great overview of an indispensable application for digital photographers.