Mac OS X has captured the attention of consumers and programmers alike
with its ability to run existing Mac programs along with Unix and Open
Source software. The latest version, Panther, includes more than a
hundred new features and improves many of the technologies underlying
Mac OS X, including graphics and the Unix-based core. With more than 500
power tips and tricks for Mac aficionados like yourself, Mac OS X Power
Hound, Panther Edition helps you unleash the power of Panther.Mac OS X
Panther is a complex and powerful operating system with a personality
all its own. To make your computing experience with Panther as efficient
and enjoyable as possible, you need to learn its secrets, appreciate its
idiosyncrasies, and be able to customize it to your needs and wants.
Author Rob Griffiths shows you how.Creator and editor of the extremely
popular Mac OS X Hints Web site (www.macosxhints.com), Griffiths knows
Panther inside and out. His Mac OS X Power Hound lifts the hood on the
sleek and elegant, Formula-One-powered operating system and delivers
over 500 high-octane secrets in every conceivable category, including
the Desktop and Finder, iApps, Mac OS X programs, Mastering the system
and Terminal, and much more.Consider this book your pit crew, helping
you find easier, faster, and better ways of using the Finder, the Dock,
the assortment of programs that come with Mac OS X, and a bunch of
programs that don't. And if you want to become your own master mechanic,
it also includes two rich chapters on Unix, the engine under Mac OS X's
hood.With this collection of stand-alone hints, notes, tips, and
tricks--every one of them organized, indexed, tested for compatibility
with the latest version of Mac OS X 10.3, and, in many cases,
illustrated--you'll rapidly progress from an anybody-can-do-this user to
a power user.
