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Summary: A GOOD CASE OF QUALITY OVER QUANTITY
Review: The 288 pages of this book may not seem impressive; but its contents do. A question of quality; not just quantity!
"Mac OS X v. 10.2 Killer Tips" measured upto standard. The book offered a thorough analysis of every aspect of the 'Mac OS X version 10.2': including accurate dissection, which ranged from its BSD UNIX foundation to Aqua. No foreseeable Mac OS X problem eluded this book.
Despite its small size, comprehensive diagnosis-and-treatment pattern was maintained throughout the chapters. It even provided guidance on how best to configure and/or troubleshoot potential hardware and networking problems. Each page was colourfully illustrated, thus making it easy for readers (or troubleshooters) to grasp all the salient points.
Indeed, this is one book which will be of great assistance to anybody who runs the Mac OS X 10.2 operating system. It offers concise, but accurately vital tips. It is a dependable troubleshooting guide, which all-level Mac users can count on.
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Summary: Think about this
Review: There are a few reviews out dissing the book for wasting space, having [bad] tips and a few other things. These must be PC users that never read the book OR THE 44 SAMPLE PAGES. I don't undestand why the book's a surprise... It's called Killer Tips! Tips, it's not a freaking novel. If you want to use Jaguar like a pro, go for it. Don't let those bad reviews keep you from looking at the sample pages, it's a great book (I really do have it).
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Summary: Get up to speed quickly with OS X
Review: There are plenty of little tricks in OS X that seasoned users take for granted: just clever little ways to move windows, adjust icons, speed up common tasks with key-combinations.If you have come to the Mac as a "switcher" from the world of Windows, OS X can appear a little alien. This is the ideal book to help you feel more at home: don't tell your more experienced Apple buddies you've bought it, and they will be extremely impressed when you demonstrate your new knowledge. And of course you'll be happier that you've adjusted the Dock to work the way you want, found a quick way to open your Home folder and discovered a new way of using iMovie. Killer Tips is a beautiful looking book, and the price is good too. Definitely worth a peek if you are a new or new-ish Apple user, or want to one-up your Mac mates. It's like several years worth of Mac magazine tips in one glossy book.
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Summary: Sleazeball antics from the acned classes
Review: There's a short chapter on "cheap tricks" you can play on your co-workers that would earn the author a short trip to the front door in most software engineering shops. One of them, in fact, is reserved for "your last day on the job." In brief, the "joke" involves dropping several hundred files onto the Dock -- this is a denial of service attack -- which effectively deprives newbies of a few moments' peace of mind. The author claims that only "reinstalling from scratch" will clean up the mess. (Command-TAB, Command-Q through the list also works.) The prevention and the cure, Grasshopper, is simply to backup your system before you allow morons like this to get near it -- Carbon Copy Cloner 2.0 and an external Firewire hard disk will do nicely.
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Summary: Fun bathroom reading
Review: This book is great for the few spare moments you might have during the day. You can pick up non-obvious tips to enhance your experience of using OS X; or, at least, I did.
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Summary: eh, not bad
Review: This book is pretty good, it provided me with some tips that i had been wondering how to do, but some of the tips were of no use whatsoever. for instance, there was one tip that asked "are you the only user on your computer? then why do you have to log in every single time you turn it on? well, when you set up your computer, don't put a password in, that way you can just click login and you're on your way!" This seems pointless to me, there are also other things in the book that he says are total neusances but don't really bother me at all. So, i think that it is still a useful book, but not worth 5 stars.
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Summary: Lavish but lacking
Review: This book may deserve recognition for its artwork, design, and typography, but the writing is unfortunately quite weak and sophomoric in tone. Kelby spends far too much time self-consciously riffing and jesting that he loses focus and overwhelms the presumed core purpose of the book. Jaguar (a.k.a., Mac OS X 10.2) is a major upgrade with a great deal for people to learn -- even longtime Macintosh users; for that reason, it's very important that a guide to using it be cogent and include step-by-step explanations. Instead, readers get an uneven, confusing treatment of the subject. Kelby isn't entirely unfunny, but I think he could learn much by studying the work of David Pogue, a more polished technology writer whose wit doesn't get in the way of his teaching. Also, some may be put off by the intensely saturated, almost cartoonish visuals in the design of the Kelby volume, though I concede that some others may find it cute. In the end, those who wish to avoid serious frustration will likely have better luck with OS X: The Missing Manual, 2nd edition, which has been substantially revised to reflect the new aspects of Jaguar. Some other reader reviewers have pooh-poohed these concerns, saying that the Kelby volume is merely a collection of "killer tips," and as such should be somehow immune from criticism for that reason. I respectfully disagree. It's true that Pogue's tome is more of a reference work than a compendium of tips (though it certainly has plenty of the latter). In the end, if you want completeness and clarity, go with Pogue. If you want a lot of disjointed giggling, go with Kelby.
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Summary: Why aren't these tips in the "Help" feature?
Review: This book unlocks the fun of OS X. I bought three other books which have proven useful (though redundant) but have overlooked virtually all of the "tips" that this book offers. After having worked my way through 3 or 4 of the first of its 13 chapters, I was convinced it was worth the money. I've marked items on nearly every page that I didn't know were "available" until finding these gems. Many are keyboard "shortcuts" that really are not any faster and would be hard to remember. There are many other tips that enhance the system's operation. I wonder how one would find these out as the "traditional" books seem too busy with the mundane aspects of the system. It's major shortcoming is its limited index. This book is for moderately experienced OS X users and would not be as useful for beginners.
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Summary: Killer topic and a Killer Book
Review: This is a great book! Scott Kelby has found a way to take the best parts of teaching a complicated subject and put it all in one book. His humor starts on page one and is sprinkled throughout the book. Scott goes into detail for each iApp (as we know the Apple help sections need more help) and I constantly got the "oh that's how it works" thought. The chapters are clear and makes sense. I saw this book listed for pre order on Amazon[.com] and contacted 5 of my friends. We each bought a copy and all love it, no sharing necessary. It is a great investment. This is a book I am reading and using, it is not collecting dust in my book library. This is a must have book for anyone migrating to Jaguar.
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Summary: A tip or two for everyone!
Review: This is a terrific book for brand new users of Mac OS X, but if you're a long time user it's value falls a bit. A lot of these tips are keyboard shortcuts and other little things that you pick up just by messing around with the OS. But there are so many hidden corners of OS X that you're bound to miss a few and that's where this book comes in. The tips cover everything from the iapps, to managing the Finder, the Dock, the Classic enoronment, icons and more. There are so many tips offered, covering so many aspects of your Mac that you're bound to run into a few things that pique your interest. I discovreed the Font Panel because of this book and it has helped me so much, that it alone makes the purchase worthwile. Thats the kind of benefit this book can give. You might have to wade through a bunch of stuff you already know or don't care about but then, you run into someting that makes you jump for joy!
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