| | |  | Remote Access | Home » » » Mac OS X Lion All-in-One For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers)) | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Eight minibooks thoroughly cover the newest Mac operating system—Mac OS X LionMacs continue to gain market share, and Mac OS X Lion is expected to draw even more converts as it adds the magic of some of your favorite iPad and iPhone features to the legendary power of the Mac. This easy-to-follow guide to Mac OS X Lion features eight self-contained minibooks covering every phase of navigating, customizing, and expanding Mac OS X Lion; the iLife and iWork applications; maintenance and troubleshooting; Internet activities; and much more. Mac OS X Lion All-in-One For Dummies is ideal for those switching to a Mac, anyone upgrading from an earlier version of Mac OS X, beginning Mac users, and experienced users looking for a more comprehensive reference. - Minibooks include: Introducing Mac OS X, Customizing and Sharing, the Digital Hub, Using iWork, the Typical Internet Stuff, Networking in Mac OS X, Expanding Your System, and Advanced Mac OS X
- Covers Mac OS X Lion basics, using the Finder and Spotlight, customizing the desktop, setting up multi-user accounts, working with the Address Book and Apple Mail, and using the amazing iTunes, iLife and iWork applications
- Highlights the new features of Mac OS X Lion showing readers how to find and download apps from the Mac App Store, organize their desktop with Launchpad and Mission Control, take advantage of full-screen apps, and more
- Features advanced advice on using AppleScript, troubleshooting your system, staying secure, and setting up a network
You'll tame your Lion in no time with this book and a little help from For Dummies. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Mark L. Chambers | | Paperback:
| 816 pages | | Publisher:
| For Dummies | | Publication Date:
| September 13, 2011 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1118022068 | | Product Length:
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| 7.39 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.71 inches | | Product Weight:
| 2.62 pounds | | Package Length:
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43 of 44 found the following review helpful:
 The author should try Lion.Oct 17, 2011
By Peter G. Cook
I do not recommend this book because it is full of errors. The author apparently took a previous OS X manual, added the name Lion in two or three places, and shipped it out with a new cover.
Lion is a major migration in Apple philosophy from Leopard toward iOS interfaces. I bought the book to get an overview of the changes and new features, but the author seems to completely ignore them. He refers to the system not as Lion, but as "Big X", apparently in a move to ease his work in covering new releases.
Lion has a greatly enhanced trackpad interface with many new gestures. The one small paragraph on trackpad (pg. 220) is wrong. It completely ignores the importance of the trackpad in the new paradigm and its 16 gesture repertoire, particularly on desktops.
Chambersrefers over and over (pgs. 51, 435, 450, and probably more) to the "familiar" SAVE and SAVE AS commands, as in Pages. THEY ARE GONE, replaced with CLOSE, SAVE A VERSION, AND DUPLICATE. The most glaring deficiency here is not explaining the new Auto Save system, and the very important new REVERT DOCUMENT... command with its Time Machine-like capabilities for individual documents. Ironically, he says "I know one technology author who is downright thankful for Auto Save". But there is only one index entry for Auto Save, pointing to this reference on page 15. This feature is a big addition, and a major change in how OS X should be used. I COULD NOT FIND ANY EXPLANATION OR DIRECT REFERENCE TO IT IN THE VOLUME.
Page 191 says that an icon is reomved from the doc by dragging it off. Sorry, Charlie/Mark, that has been replaced by right clicking the icon, and selecting Options>Remove from Dock.
I bought the book hoping to get some insight into the new world of Lion. There are many chapters full of useful information, but unfortunately the ones that I tried to use were left over from previous editions of the book, so there is no easy way to tell whether something worked or not except by trying it. That is not why I bought this book. I wasted a lot of time figuring all this out, and probably way too much effort on this negative review.
David Pugue's book is not out at this writing, but it is probably worth waiting for.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Great all-in-one manualOct 18, 2011
By Harry the Cat
I have ordered several of the "dummies" manuals for Mac in the past and all have been useful and well written; this one is no exception. Mark Chambers' style gets all the right points across without being dull or boring; not too technical for "technically challenged" people.
8 of 10 found the following review helpful:
OS X ReviewOct 04, 2011
By RichardZ
The book is well written and very easy to understand. It provided a great deal of insight and features that I had no idea existed. I highly recommend it.
7 of 9 found the following review helpful:
The Latest Version Of IMAC Dummies Book!!!!Oct 06, 2011
By Great Scott!
I wasn't sure if this was the latest book. .... I'm happy to tell you that this is the new one!
and is it very inexpensive
It even got here 3 day early!
Enjoy your new Dummies Mac Book
~~R.I.P. Steve Jobs~~
~~~1955 - 2011~~~
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Poor Image Quality - Doubtful use as reference pieceDec 21, 2011
By Sophist
I am still in the process of reading it. But in a nutshell, this book will not be my primary reference on OS X Lion. I am still looking for that book.
I gave it one star because of the image quality issues. At the minimum, I expect an author to be proud of their work. I don't know how you could be proud of a work where some of the images were not even remotely readable. How did that get through the quality control process?
Here are a few of the specific issues I encountered.
Poor picture quality/ contrast of the images. The text tells you to look at an image, but the resolution is so low, it's difficult to see any detail. Some of the screen shots are just black. For example, look at the image on page 224. The text tells you:
"As soon as you begin playing with the DVD Player controls, you'll notice activity in the Viewer window, as shown in Figure 9-2."
What you see in Figure 9-2 is a back screen with the words DVD Player and the Apple logo on the bottom of the screen. What activity is the author referring too?
Unique problem? No, check out the image on pages 390, 395 - poor contrast makes the image mostly unreadable.
The image of patterns iTunes can display on Page 311 shows two large white dots... no detail... no color. It shows nothing of interest at all. How did that get through the quality control review?
No color because the book is black and white trying to demonstrate an interface that uses color as an important interface characteristic. Sure, making the images colored would add cost. But the Mac OS X interface uses color as part of the interface encoding. I would prefer a smaller book where ALL of the images were colored and at a sufficient resolution so they can be read. Images that can't be read should NOT have made it through the quality control review.
The book tries to address multiple kinds of users. However, the needs and wants of someone new to OS X will be different than the needs and wants of people that are using previous versions of OS X. In fact, the author points out that the book is really eight books in one.
I think trying to provide relevant material for beginning users and users that already have basic familiarity with OS X results in an excessively large book. Yes, there is a lot of information in the book, but does packing more and more information into the book make it a more valuable read?
The one thing I was hoping to find MORE information on was Fusion and Parallels. Sadly, these two virtualization environments only get briefly mentioned in exchange for a discussion of Boot Camp. Yes, running Windows in Boot Camp is faster. But many people buy Mac's for ease of use and maintenance, not to have the absolutely fastest piece of hardware on the planet.
In summary, I did not like the book, and fully expect it will not make it to my reference shelf.
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