Degunking Your Mac, Tiger Edition - Softcover

Ballew, Joli

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933097051 ISBN 13: 9781933097053

Publisher: Paraglyph Press, 2005

Synopsis

Degunking Your Mac, Tiger Edition, covers the latest operating system (OS X Tiger). Tiger has been greatly expanded, and the new features of this powerful operating system can help Mac users get better organized and reduce clutter. This Tiger edition of the bestselling Degunking Your Mac takes readers inside Tiger and shows them step-by-step how to run Tiger at peak performance. This book is a huge time-saver because it's organized according to the proven twelve-step degunking process that made the Degunking Series popular around the world. After degunking their Macs, users can then focus on doing more creative things, such as making movies, recording music, using the Mac with the iPod, creating websites, and designing documents.

All of the crucial degunking tips and tricks and customization techniques are in this book, including how to better manage hard drives that get gunked up with media files, how to properly optimize the desktop, how to make programs run their best, how to keep fonts under control, how to get rid of the extra stuff that Tiger installs, how to best use the new security features, how to streamline repetitive tasks with Automator, and much more. Special degunking tips are also provided to help users upgrading from earlier versions of OS X to Tiger. 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 will love 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 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.

From the Inside Flap:

Need Help Getting the Most out of Tiger? Getting Overwhelmed by New Features? Want to Make Your Mac Run Faster? You Need to Degunk!

Apple’s new Tiger operating system has been hailed by critics as a "great OS." With revolutionary new features such as Spotlight, Dashboard, and Automator, it can do everything from organize your files, search your hard drive and the Internet faster than ever with Safari, automate tasks, backup files, perform regular maintenance tasks, send and read emails, and much more. The problem is, the more you use your Mac, the more it can get gunked-up over time. Nasty gunk and clutter can build-up, such as unneeded files, extra programs, and font and e-mail gunk. This gunk can slow down your Mac and make it harder to use.

To help you stay organized, keep your Mac running in top form, and get the most out of Tiger, you need Degunking Your Mac, Tiger Edition. Using the tips and advice in this book, you’ll be amazed at how you can improve the performance of your Mac. You’ll also learn how to perform important tasks like backing up and securing your files that can save you a lot of time, money, and heartache if you ever have a system crash.

About this edition

• Publisher: Paraglyph Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1933097051
• ISBN 13: 9781933097053
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 350