Richard A. Schmidt said
I enjoyed this book very much--I'm a PC guy that switched ---learned and awful lot
--but not for the novice
Dan Zeltner said
If you have a techie edge and want to take your knowledge of your new mac to the next level, then this is the book for you. Just read, enjoy and try out the ones that look fun to you. "Hacking" may be the wrong word ... this book simply deepens your knowledge of the machine and operating system with a myriad of hints, techniques, downloads and other crevices that you would not think to try on your own. A true geek delight.
L. Folk said
For someone like me who is new to the Mac, I was looking for a book that would help me understand how to customize it. "Big Book..." was a little technical at times and could have done a better job of describing where some applications are located. However, I did find it extremely useful in helping me customize the programs I use the most (Safari, Finder, Mail, iTunes, iPhoto & iChat) and really make work how I want.
Stanley H. Zisk said
This book is written as a series of useful and powerful hints for the Macintosh, which they call "hacks". Its unusual, almost unique characteristic is that *everything* is useful or at least interesting (i.e. "save it for another time"). There's none of the usual repetition of simple facts from the manual, nor pages-long wordy discussions of not very much but the author's philosophy (I won't include references here!) It is just plain GREAT STUFF! And I haven't even read it all yet...
P. Peterson said
First off, this is a great book. If you like to tinker with your computer you'll probably already know 1/3 of the information that they discuss.
The next 1/3 of information will be things that you'll have had no idea existed or new ways of doing them (interfacing with terminal - although could have used more explanation on how other parts of it worked). Here's were the problem comes up....
In the last 1/3 of the book I found some of the information to be a little 'dated'. Which as sad as it is, is still very true. This is a very recently published book, but the computer field is moving so quickly that as I mentioned, some of what it talks about either no longer exists (like the Mozilla hack) or there have been updates to the software so that doing things the way they are explained in the book is near impossible and requires the reader to think of alternative ways to get the same end result (quartz composer - as an example).
Still, armed with the above information, I would still buy this book for the general information that's in it, and the way that it explains how to manipulate various parts of the computer. Definitely worth the price. I would have just liked to know ahead of time that some of the hacks were already outdated.
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