The Apple Macintosh Encyclopedia provides easily accessible, brief and understandable information on the topics that you are most likely to have questions about. We have carefully digested the manuals, books, magazine articles, and other information sources for the Macintosh. These, combined with our own experience in using the Macintosh and other personal computers, have been integrated into an alphabetical sequence of short entries in the style of an encyclopedia. The goal is to provide concise, useful and easy-to-understand information on a particular topic that is quickly accessible when you need it. Much of the information in the entries is not contained in the manuals provided with the Macintosh and various software products. For example, notice the discussion, under WIDTH, of the "deferred" nature of this command when used with a device name, the discussion of the colon (:) in Multiplan for ranges, or Saving, Problems With. These topics are omitted or inadequately covered in the standard manuals. The Macintosh is the first truly visual computer. In keeping with the highly visual nature of using the Macintosh, we have provided over 100 illustrations. Each shows exactly what you will see on the screen when exploring topics discussed in the text. The Macintosh Encyclopedia opens with a visual guide to icons, and remains highly visual in orientation throughout the text.

"Up-to-date reviews of ... Macintosh software including public domain utilities. Details on hardware and memory upgrades"--Cover.

This book explains how to use the Apple Macintosh computer, running Mac OS X. It is intended as a book for people who want to go beyond clicking on icons, and who want to know what is really running under the hood. It covers the BSD/UNIX commandline on Mac OS X, and explains the underlying structure of the OS in some detail, including how to set up the Mac as a server, how to write shell scripts, how to troubleshoot the Mac, and how to write AppleScripts.

This up-to-the-minute volume has entries on every conceivable Mac topic--hardware, software, utilities, and accessories, with tips, tricks, product reviews, resource lists, and more. Each entry begins with a topic overview, and then includes tips, techniques, and related product reviews. Hundreds of screen shots and graphic illustrations accompany the entries.