Mac OS X Leopard Portable Genius (Paperback)

Mac OS X Portable Genius is always at the ready for you with facts, tips, and secrets to give you the most from your favorite OS. This genius teaches you to customize your computer and workspace, troubleshoot and maintain Mac OS X, and just have fun. Browse and manipulate images and multimedia, listen to music and Podcasts, copy music to an iPod, add a printer, sync your Mac to other devices, and take control of Leopard to make it work for you.

From the introduction:
"Some of you may be rolling your eyes right now; all computers use the file and folder concept and some sort of colorful user interface, so there couldn’t be that much difference between Mac OS X and its competitors, right? Wrong. I don’t just say this because of some blind devotion to all things Apple; I’ve actually used different flavors of Windows and Linux for more than 13 years, right alongside my trusty Mac, so experience has been my teacher. If I have any devotion to Apple, there are plenty of good reasons why, the subject of this book being the first. Readers of this book who are already Mac users understand exactly what I’m talking about. For those of you moving from other computing platforms, it’s my desire that by the end of this book you will have a whole new perspective on computing and see what it means to really have fun while working with your computer. In Mac OS X Leopard Portable Genius you can learn not just the basics, but the subtle nuances and little tips and tricks that make using your Mac that much easier. I’ve covered the gamut, from printing files, surfing the Internet and using e-mail, to partitioning your hard drive, automating repetitive tasks, and using UNIX commands, with just a little bit of geeky humor thrown in for good measure. I hope this book will do justice to Mac OS X Leopard, which isn’t just a computer operating system; it’s an art form."

《Mac OS X Portable Genius》是一本隨時為您提供有關您最喜愛的操作系統的事實、技巧和秘訣的書籍。這本書將教您如何自定義您的電腦和工作空間，疑難排解和維護Mac OS X，並享受其中的樂趣。您可以瀏覽和操作圖像和多媒體，聆聽音樂和播客，將音樂複製到iPod，添加打印機，將Mac與其他設備同步，並掌控Leopard，使其為您工作。在引言中寫道：“現在有些人可能會翻白眼；所有的電腦都使用文件和文件夾的概念以及某種豐富多彩的用戶界面，所以Mac OS X和其競爭對手之間不可能有太大的區別，對吧？錯了。我這麼說不僅僅是因為我對蘋果的盲目崇拜；事實上，我在過去的13年裡一直使用不同版本的Windows和Linux，並與我可靠的Mac並行使用，所以經驗是我的老師。如果我對蘋果有任何忠誠，那是有很多充分的理由，而本書的主題就是其中之一。已經是Mac用戶的讀者們完全明白我在說什麼。對於那些從其他計算平台遷移的讀者們，我希望在閱讀本書結束時，您將對計算機有全新的觀點，並了解在使用計算機時真正享受工作的含義。在《Mac OS X Leopard Portable Genius》中，您不僅可以學習基礎知識，還可以了解使用Mac更加輕鬆的微妙差別、小技巧和訣竅。我涵蓋了從打印文件、上網和使用電子郵件，到分割硬盤、自動化重複任務和使用UNIX命令等方方面面，並加入了一點點怪異的幽默感。我希望這本書能夠對Mac OS X Leopard做出公正評價，因為它不僅僅是一個計算機操作系統，更是一種藝術形式。”