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Last updated 6/23/2004

The Macintosh Bible, 9th Edition

The Macintosh Bible, 9th Edition
Author:Cheryl England
Publisher: Peachpit Press
1028 Pages .... $34.99
ISBN 0-321-21349-1

This is the original Macintosh Bible, now in its 9th edition.

This 20th anniversary edition contains interviews with early developers containing very quotable views about concepts.

The Macintosh Bible, 9th Edition is intended to give new Mac users and experienced users who want to explore new areas "all the information you need to use your Mac's powers to its fullest." Its more than two dozen authors have done an amazingly good job of it.

Here is a small sample of subjects that particularly struck my interests:

  • Dimming the display and turning off AirPort to extend battery life on a portable Mac.
  • How to install drivers later if you did not install ones you need originally.
  • Excellent coverage of maintenance and trouble shooting.
  • Excellent coverage of archiving and backup, including the importance of keeping archives up to date so they can be accessed by current hardware and software.
  • Great coverage of typography and using fonts with Panther along with printing hints
  • Explanations of MIDI, sound, sequences and channels and Garage Band. Brief coverage of important aspects of other applications like Garage Band that I have no experience with.
  • Using tabbed browsing in Safari.

Whatever your Macintosh interests, you will find articles that fit whether it be graphics, working with both the Mac and Windows, networking and the Internet, you name it, you will likely find it The Bible. It also seems to be a good reference for other Macintosh related questions and interests as they come up.

This is a big book full of information. As is says, "Speaking of size, the Bible couldn't physically get one page larger or we would have to would have to make a second volume."

As The Macintosh Bible, 9th Edition also says, We've moved from a black-and-white world where a mouse and icons were curiosities to to a world where everyone can create their own video and music and then burn it to a DVD for friends and family to enjoy. As a guess, the original Macintosh Bible may have been 400 to 600 pages long, and that was long enough. Today, no-one can put all the information you may need into one volume, but I doubt if any other book does it better than The Macintosh Bible, 9th Edition.

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