Total Leopard Macworld OS X 10.5 Superguide (ebook)
Product Review
Publisher: Mac Publishing LLC
Price: $12.95
Pros: Wonderful reference for the more than 300 new features on Leopard OSX 10.5 you would have never known about or thought about using
Cons: The articles sometimes leave you at a loss as to where to begin looking for the features in Leopard. They assume you know ALL about Macs.
Product Rating
Impressive
by Theresa Geiger, AAUG Member
The book was both educational and daunting. I knew Tiger enough to get by on what I wanted to do. After installing Leopard on my machine I challenged myself to learn as much as I can about Leopard. Reading the chapters sent me to Tutorial videos as I am more of a visual person. It gave me the background to understand the articles. I finally began to understand this is a great reference book you will refer to when you are ready to explore something new. The book is awesome with the amount of information in it.
The articles instruct you on many of fine details in the tools and hidden features. Tips in the highlighted box focus on short cuts. An example of a Finder Tip is Quick Look. Quick look lets you view a file without opening it in its application. To operate Quick Look you (press once on the file and then the space bar). This is most helpful when you are looking for a file in a folder. Quick Look works in Mail, Spotlight, and Time Machine.
The other feature important to me is Time Machine. Having had a PC crash for me, I like having a automatic back up with Leopard. It is a must to have this feature. I have many songs in my iTunes library and really would not like to install or buy them again.
Another of the neat features in this book, if you read it on line or a pdf file on your computer, is as you go along Macworld has website of their own and others that give you more information about the topic. To arrive at the website in blue you just need to click on it.
There are many great new items in Leopard to mention here. This book is a necessity if you really want to explore and learn the system. You would not use all 300 or more features in Leopard, but just to know you can work on and broaden your knowledge over the life of this operating system is impressive