Mac OS X Panther Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools FROM OUR EDITORS
The Barnes & Noble Review
Running Mac OS X Panther? Bet you didnﾽt know you could add keyboard shortcuts to your favorite Safari bookmarks. Or share your Address Book and iCal calendar with a colleague, and stay synced automatically. Or feed streaming audio to your iPod. Or transform your Mac into a full-fledged mail server. You can do all that, and about 96 other surprising things, with Mac OS X Hacks.
Like: automatically grab copies of web pages for offline viewing. Or search your email using a Google-like interface. Or build a household MP3 server using Rendezvous. Or make a restorable ﾽcarbon copyﾽ of your hard drive. Or read your old iChat conversations. A little scripting, a little freeware, and thereﾽs no end to what your Mac can do. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2003 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Like the animal it's named for, Mac OS X Panther is
beautiful, sleek, superbly efficient, dangerously alluring,
and all muscle under the surface. Beneath its appealing
interface, it's a hard-working machine. Those coming to Mac
OS X from previous incarnations of the operating system
recognize much of the friendly face of the Macintosh they're
used to, but they're also plunged into a whole new world.
Unix converts to Mac OS X find a familiar FreeBSD-like
operating system at the core and many of the command-line
applications that they're familiar with: it's like an open
invitation to roll up their sleeves and hack.
Mac OS X Panther Hacks brings together the perfect
combination of tips, tricks, and tools to help serious Mac
users--regardless of their background--get the most from
their machines. This revised collection reflects the
real-world know how of those well-steeped in Unix history
and expertise, sharing their no-nonsense, sometimes
quick-and-dirty solutions to administering and taking full
advantage of everything a Unix desktop has to offer: Web,
Mail, and FTP serving, security services, SSH, Perl and
shell scripting, compiling, configuring, scheduling,
networking, and hacking. Add to that the experience of
die-hard Macintosh users, customizing and modifying their
hardware and software to meet their needs. The end result
is cool stuff no power user should be without.
The hacks in the book range from the quick and easy to the
more complex. Each can be read easily in a few minutes,
saving countless hours of searching for the right answer.
Mac OS X Panther Hacks provides direct, hands-on solutions
in topics such as:
User Interface
Accessories (iPod, USB devices, mobile phones, PDAs, etc.)
Wired and wireless networking (Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth,
etc.)
Email (servers and clients)
Web (servers and clients)
Messaging (iChat and associated apps)
Printing and Faxing (sharing printers, fax server, etc.)
Multimedia
If you want more than your average Mac user--you want to
explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, create useful
tools, and come up with fun things to try on your own--this
book will set you on the right track. Written for users who
need to go beyond what's covered in conventional
manuals--Mac OS X Panther Hacks will bring your Mac to its
full potential.
SYNOPSIS
Ideal for Mac geeks who like to play under the hood and Unix veterans switching to Mac, the 100 tips in this collection show how to modify the GUI, write AppleScipts, optimize internet surfing, get creative with iLife, share files with other Macs, and protect data stored on the computer. A thermometer rates the difficulty of each hack. Some of the hacks are updated from the previous Mac OS X edition, while others are brand new for Panther. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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