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Teach Yourself Visually: Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar

Ruth Maran

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* Full-color, step-by-step screen shots show users how to make the most of Mac OS X, the super-modern operating system that combines the power and stability of UNIX with the simplicity and elegance that Apple is known for
* Explains how to accomplish everyday tasks and create movies, manage music files, and work on digital photography projects
* Includes useful information regarding the 10.2 update
* Discusses running applications, printing, networking, multimedia, security and available utilities
* Features self-contained two-page lessons in full color, "Teach Yourself" sidebars, and minimal text
Combining clear, step-by-step screen shots with minimal text, our five Visual series are the ultimate resources for visual learners, who represent up to forty percent of your customers.
Teach Yourself VISUALLY guides help computer users get up to speed on a wide range of office productivity, graphics, and Web design software. Offering significantly more coverage than our Simplified series, these books provide real-world tips and illustrate basic and intermediate level techniques using crisp full-color screen shots.
Visual Blueprints apply the proven Visual formula to professional-level programming, Web development, and networking tips. Each two-color guide includes self-contained two-page lessons, covering more than 100 key topics, accompanied by practical tips and code samples as well as examples and bonus software on CD-ROM.

Keynote 2 for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Tom Negrino

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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The first task-based guide to Keynote is back, just in time for the revision of Apple's elegant presentation software, Keynote. Keynote 2 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide gets readers quickly up-to-speed on the powerful presentation software through detailed step-by-step tasks and hundreds of screenshots. Business and educational users will want to start leveraging the power of Apple's graphics-intensive Keynote presentation software ($79, as part of Apple's iWork suite) immediately--dragging and dropping graphics, digital photos, QuickTime movies, and audio into their slide shows; creating animations, shadows, and labels for their charts and tables; producing dynamic drop shadows and cinematic transitions between slides; and more--and this Visual QuickProject Guide will show them how. Task-based instructions, peppered with plenty of full-color screenshots, tips, and sidebars make it easy to dive in and start creating high-impact presentations in no time. Readers will learn how to use Keynote's professionally designed "themes" to create coordinated backgrounds, fonts, colors, bullets, tables, and charts in seconds. 

Mac Programming for Dummies

Dan Parks Sydow

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Total reviews: 24 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Good start book, just start 3 out of 5 stars.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.

No doubt this is a good book for starter and in all just that. Some very basic like dialog box design or a little bit advanced like memory management are all missing from the book.

However, if you're first on Mac programming, take two days read this book to get rough ideas. Then read 'Programming Starter Kit for Macintosh'. It's an old title but contains some more info. CodeWarrior Professional CDROM includes the whole 2nd book.

But, where is a C++ book for CodeWarrior!!??

Editorial Review:

You know that your Mac is easy to use for word processing and building spreadsheets -- now find out how easy it is to use for programming. Even if you've never written a line of code, Mac Programming For Dummies, transforms you from plain ol' user into the propeller-head you were destined to become. Mac fanatic Dan Parks Sydow takes you behind the screens of the Mac's revolutionary graphical user interface so you can hack out your own user-friendly software. You discover how to use the ResEdit resource editor to customize the way that your Mac's operating system looks and acts, and then you plunge into the powerful programming language C. A CD-ROM bundled with the book comes chock-full of indispensable and fun tools, from a lite version of Metrowerks' industry-standard CodeWarrior C compiler and Apple's ResEdit, to an assortment of programming goodies.

ABAP/4: Programming the SAP(R) R/3(R) System

Bernd Matzke

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Still trying to figure this out 2 out of 5 stars.
8 of 9 people found this review helpful.

The book would be good for someone who has started the programming of ABAP/4. However if you are a new comer to this you will find it difficult and having to flip to this chart on page ?? then to this chart on page ?? makes it even more difficult. If you want to learn the basics this is not the book to buy. After I learn somemore in the programming stage of my training I might make a new review.But if your a beginner to SAP as I am stay away from this for now!!

A Very Good, to the point, technically oriented, book ! 4 out of 5 stars.
4 of 6 people found this review helpful.

One of the best books on ABAP/4 . This is not one of those simplistic books that have large typefaces and garish pictures. Has all the technical details that will interest an experienced IT professional.

Editorial Review:

The premiere programming guide to ABAP/4-SAP's R/3 system programming language. Software developers, software programmers, and information technology professionals will gain insightful knowledge of Elementary ABAP/4 constructs such as data definitions, arithmetic computations, string manipulation, and subroutines, special reporting techniques, and interfaces to non-SAP applications.

Running Mac OS X Tiger: A No-Compromise Power User's Guide to the Mac (Animal Guide)

Jason Deraleau, James Duncan Davidson

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Running Mac OS X Tiger is the ideal resource for power users and system administrators like you who want to tweak Tiger, the new release of Mac OS X, to run faster, better, or just differently.

If you areready to dig deep into your Mac, this book expertly guides you to the core of Mac OS X. It helps you understand the inner workings of the operating system so you can know how to get the most out of it. And it gives you countless ideas--and step-by-step instruction--for customizing and revving up Tiger to your specific needs and your liking.

Completely revised and updated for Mac OS X Tiger, Running Mac OS X Tiger covers all the new features and functionality of Tiger. You can count on authors Jason Deraleau and James Duncan Davidson to give what you need--and not bother with what you don't. They don't spend time on Finder tips and keyboard shortcuts; they focus on showing you what makes a Mac tick and, more importantly, how you can make it tick just the way you want it to.

Easy to follow and intuitively organized, Running Mac OS X Tiger is divided into three parts: "Getting Started" introduces Mac OS X and explains how it's put together and why it works; "Administration Essentials" gives you the tools you need to examine how your system is running and adjust all the knobs behind its operation; and "Networking and Network Services" covers the ways Mac OS X interfaces with the world around it, including wireless and spontaneous networking. Developer Tools for Mac OS X, including Xcode, are discussed throughout the book as appropriate.

For the growing number of intermediate to advanced users who are ready and eager to customize Mac OS X, Running Mac OS X Tiger delivers everything you need to become master of your Mac.

Novell GroupWise 7 Training Workbook - Nearly 300 Pages of Step-by-step, Screen Shot-illustrated Instruction on GroupWise 7 Windows Client. Book Includes Chapters on GroupWise 7 WebAccess, Document Management, Messenger & More. (Professional Software Learning)

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The Novell GroupWise 7 Training Workbook is nearly 300 pages of step-by-step, screen shot-illustrated instruction on all the features of the GroupWise 7 Windows Client. The workbook also includes chapters on GroupWise 7 WebAccess, Document Management, and GroupWise Messenger. Complete with exercises, a comprehensive index, and an alphabetical list of topics, your users will be able to also use the workbook as a reference guide to find all the answers to their questions about GroupWise 7.

Mac OS X Panther All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Mark L. Chambers

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7 books in 1 – your key to taming the Panther!

Your one-stop guide to setting up OS X and using the latest Panther features

Wow – a whole set of OS X guides under one cover! All the new stuff is here, like iChat AV, Fast User Switching, and all the iLife™ applications including iTunes®4, Expose, and the latest incarnations of the Finder™ and Apple Mail®. Customize your Panther, explore the digital hub, check into AirPort, and enjoy it all!

The Dummies Way

• Coverage of the essentials and beyond
• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Thumbtabs and other navigation aids
• Tear-out cheat sheet
• A dash of humor and fun

Discover how to:

• Navigate OS X and run programs
• Make repairs with Disk Utility
• Set up multiuser accounts
• Use iTunes and iPod™
• Expand Internet storage with iDisk
• Upgrade your internal hard drive

Adobe Illustrator Scripting with Visual Basic and AppleScript

Ethan Wilde

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UntitledIf you're a designer, production pro, or Illustrator power user, chances are you repeat tedious tasks over and over in your daily work. Think about it: How many times have you performed the same step on hundreds of images? Save time--and wear-and-tear on your wrists--with Adobe Illustrator Scripting, the clearest, quickest route to reducing your workload and making life easier through the power of scripting.

Adobe Illustrator Scripting combines the in-depth coverage of a reference book with actual hands-on training that shows you how to create and run scripts in Illustrator, using both AppleScript (for Mac users) and Visual Basic (for the PC). You'll learn how to automate tasks such as linking graphics to a database, transforming images, and performing batch processes. There's no better time to try your hand at scripting, even if you have no prior experience--with Illustrator 10, the program is more scriptable than ever before. Adobe Illustrator Scripting will help you unlock the true potential of this workhorse application.

Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 1.5

Orlando Luna, Ben Long

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Now fully updated for version 1.5, this comprehensive book-DVD combo starts with the basics of image management and takes you step by step all the way through Aperture's powerful photo-editing, image-retouching, proofing, publishing, and archiving features. Version 1.5's new features are completely covered, including the new image editing tools, expanded search capabilities, new Loupe tool, and support for many more RAW file formats. It delivers comprehensive training - the equivalent of a two-day course - in one project-based book. You'll learn time-saving techniques for sorting, ranking, and organizing images for use in different jobs, and effective ways to display images for client review, apply metadata, keep your online portfolio up to date automatically, color-manage your workflow from input to final print, and much more. Real-world exercises feature professional photography from a variety of genres, including fashion, sports, wedding, commercial, and portraiture. All the files you need to complete the exercises are included on the DVD.

Danny Goodman's Applescript Handbook

Danny Goodman

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This book is the Old Testament of AppleScript - Move On! 1 out of 5 stars.
12 of 13 people found this review helpful.

So this would have been a great title, say in 1993. Do yourself a favor, unless you're into antiques, and get a real AppleScript book like the VQS titles from Peachpit. This book is nice to read, but it refers to an AppleScript of the past and has little relevance in the world of Mac OS X. Why people keep recommending this dinosaur is beyond me.

Oldie, but goodie 4 out of 5 stars.
7 of 8 people found this review helpful.

I was very surprised to even find this book listed (and with a new cover at that).

I have the 1998 Edition and was under the distinct impression that the book was no longer available in any shape or form (as some friends that liked the book discovered years ago.)

Some books will be more appropriate at the 'bottom' of the learning curve but will seldom be touched 'further down the road'.

In contrast, I find that over the years, I can still return to this book and find the answers I need, as AppleScript syntax, commands and flow control have been robust enough to remain unchanged for the most part.

Since Applications do not usually undergo radical changes in functionality over time, neither do their command dictionaries, so scripting the Finder under Mac OS X is not much different than under System 7.5.

In closing, I still find Goodman's 1998 book a good read; it bootstrapped the learning process when I started and is still a current and comprehensive reference today.

(BTW I dont hand out five stars merely as a matter of principle :) )

Editorial Review:

Make your Mac do what you want your Mac to do. This bestselling guide to Applescript by author Danny Goodman gives you everything you need to know to create scriptable applications. This edition includes in-depth coverage of the scriptable Finder, FileMaker Pro, QuarkXPress, Microsoft Excel, Hypercard, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, MacWrite Pro and TouchBase. AppleScript is an important facet of the new Apple OS 8.5.