or the others.I'm sorry but this book left me disappointed and wanting my money back.
Rating: 
Summary: Not worth it
Review: I was very disapointed with this book. I bought Mac OS X The Missing Manual along with this book, but the Missing Manual is by far the superior book (for about the same price).
This book uses full color pages, large type, and large screen captures to waste space. It could easily have been condensed into half the number of pages, or better yet, just put online in the form of a web page where something like this belongs.
The tips are mostly very trivial and obvious ones - I'm not sure I came across a single one I wasn't already familliar with. I *suppose*, if you don't know any of the little keyboard tricks for navigating your mac quickly, this may be useful to you, but I think I'll be selling mine - I consider it a waste of money.
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Summary: If you are a Mac user, get this book!
Review: If you are a Macintosh user, get this book!
There are a ton of good tips and hacks. Even a Mac veteran such as myself learned a lot.
There is so much so everyone in this book.
Rating:
Summary: If you are a Mac user, get this book!
Review: If you are a Macintosh user, get this book!
There are a ton of good tips and hacks. Even a Mac veteran such as myself learned a lot.
There is so much so everyone in this book.
Rating: 
Summary: Great for complete beginners
Review: If you've used OS X for a little while you'll know most or all of these. (Unless you're pretty slow to pick things up on computers.) If the book were marketed that way, I'd give it 5 stars, since it looks great for complete beginners, pointing out little things like "Command-A selects all the files in the folder you have open" I'm not kidding! the things are that obvious. Anyone who takes the time to look at the keystroke short cuts listed in the menus and play around and hit all the buttons and right-click everywhere will already know 95% of this. I did learn two things: you can add aliases to your button bars in the Finder, and leaving an app open in OS X barely uses any resources. Nice but not worth the price of the book.
Get Rael Dornfest's OS X Hacks instead if you want to learn something new.
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Summary: Lots of chaff...very few "Killer Tips" ;^(
Review: Nice design and page layout (sorta), but there are very few things in this book that I would call "Killer Tips". I'm quite disappointed with this book, and feel that I've just wasted $$$ . Save your cash, or you'll get a "Killer Pain" in your pocketbook.
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Summary: Interesting Tidbits
Review: Not the manual, but just what the titles states, all cool tips and enough attitude to keep you amused as can be expected from Scott.
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Summary: Don't state the obvious
Review: Scott Kelby has written a book that is beautifully typeset and in fact does contain a useful tip or two, but the majority of the content feels to me as "stating the obvious".
It might be a good guide for those among us who do not adventurously explore their new environment once they made the leap from MacOS 9 (or even Windows) to MacOS X, but I really doubt if this book gets used as a reference manual after the first read.
In my opinion "Killer Tips" is not a good title for this book; it's more like another "MacOS X, the Missing Manual" type of book.
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Summary: Killer Book
Review: Scott Kelby has written a killer book for OS X Jaguar users. How often do you open a compute manual and immediately read all of the sidebars? After all that is where the nitty gritty information is. Mac OS X Killer Tips is nothing but sidebars - two hundred sixty-nine pages of sidebars.
The book is well organized into chapters which cover everything from windows, icons, cool tips, cheap tips, trouble shooting and everything in-between. It doesn't have to be read in any particular order, but I would certainly recommend reading all of it.
At first the thought of learning all of those tips is a bit overwhelming; however I have a system which works pretty well for me. I keep a stack of sticky notes or flags handy. When I find a tip that looks like one I could really like to learn I mark it. Be careful or you will have sticks on every page. Then at the conclusion of a chapter, I choose the two or three which I like best and use them until they are second nature. Then I look for the next two or three. At this rate it might take a while to master the "killer tips" but the book has already made my life easier. I highly recommend it for novice or expert.
Just for fun read the introduction to the book and then the introductions to each chapter. They are amusing and will give you a chuckle or two. And if you want to have even more fun, read Macintosh - The Naked Truth, also by Scott Kelby.
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Summary: All around a great book... Tons of good pranks too.... :)
Review: Scott Kelby is an absolute master at pretty much anything he touches. I have enjoyed reading many of his PhotoShop books, but this Mac OS X book is great. As it is not a cover to cover book where you MUST read everything to continue, it is more of a how to in a page or two or less. He gave me tons of great idea's on pranks and things to do to coworkers as well as how to manage a better system and where to find things. A+ on this book... if you're just transitioning over to Jaguar or are interested in learning more in a fun and exciting way, buy this book!
