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The Mac OS X Panther is incredibly full-featured. Chances are, you don’t fully appreciate all the shortcuts and timesaving options you have right at your fingertips. Mac OS X Panther Timesaving Techniques For Dummies gets you up to speed fast with over 60 timesaving techniques! While it includes keyboard shortcuts to expedite basic tasks, it goes further and shows you how to customize your Mac so it works faster for the way you work and the types of things you work on. Step-by-step instructions help you: Perfect your keyboard and mouse navigation techniques, so you can get where you want to go fasterUse keyboard shortcuts and create shortcuts of your ownCustomize the Finder, Windows, and the DockHandle files, aliases, favorites, and icons so you always know what’s what and what’s whereGet proficient and efficient with Safari and Internet Explorer Web browsers, searches, e-mail, and moreMac OS X Panther Timesaving Techniques For Dummies was written by Larry Ullman, and Marc Liyanage. Larry is the Director of Digital Media Technologies at DMC Insights, Inc., author of four other computer books, and an obsessive Mac tinkerer. Marc is a senior software engineer at FutureLAB AG. He has programmed Macs professionally for 15 years and writes Cocoa software for fun! (No, you probably don’t need to know what that is, but if you want to, you’ll find it in the book.) With an easy style and lots of screen shots, they show you how to:Make the most of multimediaTake advantage of services—at least a dozen handy little tools available in many of your applications like the Grab utility for taking screen shots and Mail ServicesSave time online with AutoFill formsMake the most of iChat, for communicating with your buddies and iTunes for managing your music collectionUse iPhoto to manage your digital library, create photo albums, present photographs online, edit images, and moreConfigure and use Rendezvous to network computers and devices, locate people in iChat, listen to other music collections in iTunes, and moreHave your computer and your cell phone talk to each other using Bluetooth wireless communicationsMac OS X Panther Timesaving Techniques For Dummies covers topics from A (ACC file format) to Z (Zingg application, contextual menus), literally. The index is 20 pages, with three columns to a page. That’s a lot of tips! You pick and choose the ones to use—the ones that will save you time and help you make the most of the features and options of Mac OS X Panther.

Time—the commodity most of us never have enough of. Mac OS X Tiger Timesaving Techniques For Dummies is exactly what you need to get more results from every minute you spend with your Mac OS X Tiger. Loaded with more than 60 timesaving tricks and techniques, this helpful volume gets right to the point and shows you how to streamline dozens of everyday computer functions. If you already know your way around Mac OS X Tiger, you can discover how to speed up your Mac, make searches faster and more efficient, optimize your network, and a lot more. For example, you canCreate your own keyboard shortcutsFind files faster with SpotlightSave steps with contextual menusMake the most of the address book and iCalTake advantage of Safari RSS feedsUse your iPod for secure, encrypted storageSet up a videoconference with iChat AVThere are guidelines for customizing OS X to meet your specific needs, so your Mac will be well organized even if you aren’t. And the techniques are organized too, by the application or the general concept for which they work. You get no-nonsense, step-by-step instructions for putting each technique to work. After all, the whole point of Mac OS X Tiger Timesaving Techniques For Dummies is—well, saving time! These are a few of the places where this book will help you trim the minutes.Starting, stopping, and running your Mac more efficientlyOptimizing your interface and customizing the Finder, windows, and the DockOrganizing, managing, and finding stuff—yours, and the computer’sBeefing up application performanceUsing the Internet more efficiently, with tips on searching, stopping spam, using Google, and moreMaking the most of your networkBeing more efficient with multimedia, including boosting productivity with your iPodMaintaining your Mac and keeping it secureCreating your own timesaving techniques with Automator and other slightly advanced tricksYou can’t help but be more productive with Mac OS X Tiger Timesaving Techniques For Dummies!