The Robin Williams Mac OS X Book Book

The latest Mac OS user guide from respected Mac expert Robin Williams (and co-author John Tollett, this time) is what readers have come to expect: Comprehensive, carefully illustrated, and patient in its explanations of what most novice and intermediate-level users want to do with their computers at home or in a small office. Trust The Robin Williams Mac OS X Book: Panther Edition to show you how to get switched on, hooked up, and happily generating nicely formatted documents full of useful prose, pictures, and calculations. The book will show you how to share your computer among several people, offer an Internet connection or printer to other machines, and add new software to your configuration. Williams and Tollett explain everything in highly-illustrated detail, a format that's appropriate for the eminently graphical Mac OS environment. A series of screen shots accompanies a typical procedure, and black ovals superimposed on the screen shots indicate the particular interface element (button, list box, or whatever) that the text refers to. It's a good approach, and the instructions are easy to follow. This is clearly not a guide for power users. Coverage of Darwin, the user-accessible Unix-like core of Mac OS X, is woeful--there's hardly any coverage at all. A few network-related utility commands are mentioned, but that's about it. The coverage is hardly adequate, considering that Darwin appears to be doing more to bring in new Mac users than any other aspect of the operating system. --David Wall Topics covered: The complete capabilities of Mac OS X Panther, with the significant exception of the Darwin command-line environment. This is a beginner's guide, with sections on basic file management and mouse usage in addition to more advanced subjects like network setup and printer sharing.Read More