Degunking Your Mac - Softcover

Ballew, Joli

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932111948 ISBN 13: 9781932111941

Publisher: Paraglyph Press, 2004

Synopsis

Degunking Your Mac covers the latest operating system (OS X Panther) and earlier versions, including OS 9. It provides the essential tips and tricks to help all Mac users bring their computers up to top performance. This book is a huge time saver because it's organized according to the special twelve-step degunking process that will improve the performance of any Mac. The book includes a handy degunking chart that will help users really focus on what they need to do to clean their Macs. All of the crucial degunking tips and tricks are in the book, including how to degunk Macs that run dual operating systems, how to better manage hard drives that get gunked up with all types of media files, how to properly optimize the desktop, how to manage fonts properly and get rid of unneeded ""font gunk,"" how to properly get rid of the extra stuff that OS X installs, how best to deal with spam, how to fix and improve the Dock and Desktop, and much more. The book provides proven degunking maintenance tasks that users should perform on a regular basis to keep their Macs running at optimum levels. Mac users really need this book because it will help them get organized (and stay organized), optimize their workspace, solve clutter problems, and keep their Macs running fast and smoothly.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Mac users are loyal to their Mac--and for good reasons. The Mac provides a stable OS, user-friendly apps, and infinite uses of media. Millions of Mac users deal with many types of media files and because of this their machines can get overloaded in no time at all. Because the Mac runs efficiently (even when under a bit of stress), users might not realize how their Mac is slowing down or becoming harder to use. Unfortunately, Mac users often dont have easy access to tech support to help them with maintenance, security issues, and troubleshooting tasks. Degunking Your Mac provides easy tips for Mac users that will help prevent problems and reduce headaches--and keep their machines running well for many years.

From the Author:

· Shows how to get the best use out of Tiger’s new searching and file organizing features. · Features tips and techniques on installing and uninstalling programs quickly, and how to know which ones may be the biggest contributors to gunk build-up. · Provides hints on how to get the most from Dashboard, which houses a new application called widgets and provides access to the most commonly used features of iTunes, iCal, and Address Book. · Features the best techniques to degunk Mac OS X Tiger Mail and Spotlight--the new file indexing program--to get the results you want every time. Also covers Safari RSS, the new web browser for the Mac which now features RSS support. · Provides special degunking techniques for Mac users who download and use lots of multimedia files. · Features an entire chapter on degunking and managing fonts. Readers will learn which fonts they should have open when, how to get rid of fonts they don’t really need, and how to keep fonts from becoming a gunk magnet.

About this edition

• Publisher: Paraglyph Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1932111948
• ISBN 13: 9781932111941
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320