[PDF] Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual Free

[PDF] Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual Free

[PDF] Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual Free
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The popular system software for the resurgent Macintosh platform is Mac OS
9, which includes over 50 new features. Among them are a searching program
that finds not just files, but even web pages and words inside files a multipleusers
feature that stores a separate desktop for each user and one-click file
encryption. Despite its long list of enhancements, however, Apple ships Mac
OS 9 without one of the most important features of all: a manual.Pogue
Press/O'Reilly comes to the rescue with Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual.
Award-winning author David Pogue brings his humor and expertise to Mac OS
9 for the first time in this lucid, impeccably written guide. The book
includes:Getting started. The book's early chapters cover using menus, finding
lost files, reducing window clutter, and interior-decorating the screen.Figuring
out what's what. A complete guide, Mac OS 9:The Missing Manual explains
the purpose of every single software crumb in the System Folder, the A menu,
and even the Apple Extras folder.Mastering networks. Learn how to connect
Macs together--and even dial in to your home Mac from the road.Surviving the
hordes. The new Multiple Users feature protects the Mac from mischievous (or
clueless) kids or coworkers.Flying the Net. If Apple calls Mac OS 9 your
Internet copilot, then this book is the flight manual. It covers Sherlock 2, which
searches the Internet Mac OS 9's self- updating software feature and Personal
Web Sharing.Consultants and home-office workers will enjoy the book's stepby-step
guides to setting up small networks. Teachers and administrators will
get great mileage from the tutorials on using Mac OS 9's new Multiple Users
control panel. And almost everyone will benefit from the book's coverage of
Mac OS 9's speech-recognition, color printing, digital video, and self-updating
software features.Along the way, Pogue communicates the joy of using the
little shortcuts, drag-and-drop surprises, and elegant design touches that make
the Mac the most passionately championed computer in the world.Above all,
Mac OS 9:The Missing Manual offers warm, witty, jargon-free writing, with
enough patience for the novice and enough depth for the power user. The
book bursts with the shortcuts, surprises, and design touches that make the
Mac the most passionately championed computer in the world.