Kate Binder - Easy Mac OS X Lion

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Kate Binder is a longtime Mac lover and graphics expert who works from her home in New Hampshire. She has written articles on graphics, publishing, and photography for magazines including Publish, PEI, and Desktop Publishers Journal. Kate is also the author of several books, including The Complete Idiots Guide to Mac OS X, and coauthor of books including Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS3 in 24 Hours, Microsoft Office: Mac v.X Inside Out, SVG for Designers, and Get Creative:The Digital Photo Idea Book. To those interested in a successful career as a computer book writer, Kate recommends acquiring several retired racing greyhounds (find out more at www.adopt-a-greyhound.org)she finds her own pack of greyhounds extraordinarily inspirational. Profuse thanks are due to Laura Norman for shepherding me through yet another one. Profuse thanks are due to Laura Norman for shepherding me through yet another one.

Thanks, too, to the awesome editorial, design, and production people at Queand especially my favorite tech editor, Paul Sihvonen-Binderfor making it happen once again.

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Mac OS X is like no other: Its incredibly stable and powerful, and it looks amazingly sleek. Mac OS X is like no other: Its incredibly stable and powerful, and it looks amazingly sleek.

But underneath the glitz and sparkle, it has the same old friendly nature that Mac users have enjoyed since 1984. And its all about enabling you to do whatever you want to do with your Mac. With Easy Mac OS X Lion, youll learn how to take advantage of powerful and useful Mac OS X features such as the built-in instant messaging program iChat, controlling other Macs over a network, and the ability to run Windows right on your Mac (if you really feel you must). Along the way, youll get used to being able to run a dozen programs at one time on a stable system that doesnt crash. This books step-by-step approach tells you just what you need to know to accomplish the task at hand, quickly and efficiently. All the skills you need to get the most out of Mac OS X, both online and on the desktop, are covered here.

If you want, you can work through the tasks in Easy Mac OS X Lion in order, building your skills steadily. Or, if you prefer, use this book as a reference to look up just what you need to know