Product Description

Mac OS® X Leopard Phrasebook

 

Brian Tiemann

 

Essential Code and Commands

 

Mac OS X Leopard Phrasebook gives you the complete command phrases you need to take full advantage of the Leopard’s hidden and undocumented power underneath the graphical user interface: time-saving solutions for effectively working with files, folders, the Finder, Spotlight, text files, servers, disks, CDs/DVDs, permissions, printing, applications, Exposé, networking, security, and much more.

 

Concise and Accessible

 

Easy to carry and easy to use–lets you ditch all those bulky books for one portable pocket guide

 

Flexible and Functional

 

Packed with more than 100 complete command phrases–so you can make the most of Mac OS X Leopard in just about any situation

 

Brian Tiemann is a freelance technology columnist and software engineer who has spent more than a decade operating websites on servers running BSD, the technology underlying Mac OS X. A graduate of Caltech, Tiemann is the author of Mac OS X Tiger in a Snap and FreeBSD Unleashed.

 

 

Operating Systems / Mac OS X 10.5

 

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #922861 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

About the Author

Brian Tiemann is a freelance technology columnist and software engineer who has operated his own business and leisure websites on servers running BSD–the technology underlying Mac OS X–since 1995. As an outspoken advocate for the Apple Macintosh platform as well as for FreeBSD, he values a synthesis between open-source and closed-source development and believes FreeBSD and Mac OS X both validate that synthesis for the benefit of all users. He resides in San Jose, is a graduate of Caltech, and is the author of Mac OS X Tiger in a Snap and FreeBSD Unleashed.

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Customer Reviews

A good introduction to the Mac OS X taste of Unix, but not much more.
This book is good if you know nothing about Unix in MacOS X and you would like to start learning it. It takes you step by step introducing you to the different concepts of Unix and how to use the Command Line Interface (the Terminal.app). However, it seems that the author wasn't sure for what public he was writing, for MacOS X users interested in looking under the hood of their Macs, or Linux and Unix users trying to switch to Apple. Of the two, I imagine the former would benefit the most from reading it. In any case, if you're an experienced Mac user who already has ventured into Unix and the Mac Terminal (which is my case and probably of many Mac users really seeking to get a grasp of Unix), you'll learn relatively little from this brief book. Nonetheless, I don't regret having bought it, since it's helping me to order my learning process and I imagine I'll be able to use it as a quick reference guide in the future.