Product Description

Do you prefer instructions that show you how instead of telling you why? This book is packed with easy, visual directions and full-color screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 150 tasks with Mac OS X Leopard, including adding applications to the Dock, color-coding files and folders, viewing windows in Exposé, using the QuickTime player, storing files on your iPod, creating your own Web widgets, and more. Succinct explanations walk you through step by step.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12437 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

From the Back Cover
Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something — and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up, and you will find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 150 Mac OS X Leopard tasks. Each task-based spread includes easy, visual directions for performing necessary operations, including

• Adding applications to the Dock

• Color-coding files and folders

• Viewing windows in Exposé

• Using the QuickTime player

• Storing files on your iPod

• Creating your own Web widgets

• Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks

• Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task

• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step

• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

About the Author
Lynette Kent (Huntington Beach, CA) studied art and French at Stanford University. After completing her master’s degree, she taught at both the high school and community college level. A fervent Mac user since 1987 and unconventional computer person, she writes books and magazine articles on digital imaging and photography and enjoys presenting computer graphics hardware and software at trade shows. Her books include Photoshop CS3: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Digital Photography, and Scrapbooking with Photoshop Elements: The Creative Cropping Cookbook. Lynette is also one of the leaders of the Adobe Technology Exchange of Southern California, a professional organization for graphic designers, photographers, and artists.

Customer Reviews

Teach yourself Visually - Mac OS X Leopard
One of the greatest instructional books for the Mac Leopard.
Having a pictorial way of helping you to learn how to use the Mac is so much better than just reading instructions.
I highly recommend this great book.
I bought a used version & it was just as good as the new book.

5 star manual for iMacs
This volume is excellent. It's easy to read and understand. Helps to make up for the fact that Apple doesn't put any manual of value in the computer box these days.

Teach yourself VISUALLY
I found this manual, like many I've used previous to this, to be very poorly organized. My first clue was that there is no glossary, like it is assumed that someone who needs a tech manual is fully fluent in the semantics of the subject. If that were the case, I wouldn't need a tech manual. The comic book format is, I suppose, great for a young student, but is a distraction to some one like myself who is just looking for easily understood verbal answers. Here's one, "The most important folders in the Mac OS are at the top of the hierarchical organization. Wow, that tells me sooo much about folders I'm still amazed. If I really understood more about folders and how or why to use them, it might be very useful. Perhaps when I know and understand more about my Mac, and I am able to customize and color code my e-mails and files, this manual may be very useful.