Last updated 3/07/2006
The Missing Manual: Tiger Edition
The Missing Manual: Tiger Edition, Version 10.3
Author David Pogue
Publisher Pogue Press/O'Reilly
860 pages ...... $29.95
ISBN 0-596-00941-0
The book that should have been in the box
Like Mac OS X, The Missing Manual
keeps getting better and providing more for the same cost - The Tiger edition has about 100 more pages that the previous Panther edition.
Richard Lubot and ordered Mac OS X The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
in advance of its publication. We have been using it as our primary reference to the Mac OS X since then. I also use Mac OS X The Missing Manual, Panther Edition
because my wife has no reason to want to upgrade to Tiger and take the time to learn the newer system.
If we upgrade to the next Mac OS X, we will no doubt also upgrade to the next Mac OS X The Missing Manual edition.
This is a manual and a reference. It tells you in clear, sometimes humorous, language about the features in the new system and how to use them. For example there are chapters about organizing your stuff using OS X Tiger, and about using Spotlight to find stuff.
It covers practically everything included in Mac OS X 10.4, including the not so humble TextEdit text editor and word processor. It describes what you get when you use TextEdit to read a Microsoft Word document, and what translates from TextEdit when you save it as a Microsoft Word document. It also describes how the Tiger version can highlight two separate chunks of text by pressing the Apple command key as you select more text. You will everything you need to know to create a newsletter using TextEdit, but you will not find a step-by-step procedure to create a newsletter, and another step-by-step procedure for addressing an envelope.
Mac OS X The Missing Manual
contains clear illustrations when the best way to describe something is to show it. You will not find a series of screen snapshots showing every individual step when a listing of the steps would serve as well.
Other books, such as tutorials, are useful, but you really need a good manual to get the most from your Macintosh. Some people have other preferences, but we recommend Mac OS X: The Missing Manual
by Pogue.
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