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Architosh review: Mac OS 9 - The Missing Manual
David Pogue's Mastery of the Mac OS Shines in this Delightful Book (opps!..Manual) Mac OS 9 - The Missing Manual: The Book that Should Have Been in the Box is one of the first books in this new series by Pogue Press (TM) and O'Reilly (TM). Pogue Press is Macintosh author and columnist David Pogue's new venture in publishing; the Missing Manuals are, in his words, 'designed to be authoritative, entertaining, superbly written guides to popular computer products that don't come with printed manuals (which is just about all of them).' David is very right about this, increasingly the top programs today often come with no manuals or very anemic ones. So I guess David and his crew are going to be quite busy in the future. What Makes This Book 'different' ? Even before I opened the front cover I went over to the book shelf and picked up some classic Apple Computer manuals from the good ole days. You know the ones...with the ring bindings and folding flap over the open edge with a legible title for when it sat on the shelf.
The classic old Apple manuals would divide up into a limited number of main sections, possibly up to ten. Each section would be clearly distinct. I found Mac OS 9 Missing Manual to be exceptionally clear in this regard, but even more simplified. Here's a table comparison of Mac OS 9 The Missing Manual and some Apple manuals from the past:
Mac OS 9 The Missing Manual has an exceptional organization. Basically within five main sections there are small, tightly bound chapters on a specific topic, like 'Icon Management' (chapter 2 in Part 1) or 'The Save and Open Dialog Boxes' (chapter 8 in Part 2). Even chapter 10, 'An Introduction to AppleScript', is correctly placed in Part 2, Applications in Mac OS 9 -- as AppleScript is an advanced user's way of working with 'applications in the Mac OS' as well as being an application of the Mac OS itself. Mac OS 9 The Missing Manual is also very friendly to the new Mac user, something the older classic Apple manuals were quite good at -- getting acquainted with the Mac. For instance, in 'Part 1, The Mac OS Desktop' is devoted to the same GUI orientation features that the classic Apple manuals did very well at, in such areas as 'Basic Macintosh Techniques' (see Apple System Software User Guide, version 6.0, above).
Another excellent feature of this book is the whole section, Part 3, devoted to The Components of Mac OS 9, which has three chapters including, 'What's in the System Folder', 'Control Panels and Extensions', and 'Apple Leftovers, Apple Extras'. Apple rarely covered such detail on this precious folder, leaving users to explore with trial and error when troubleshooting or just exploring the deep mysteries of the Mac OS. The last two main parts are Mac OS 9 Online, devoted to all things Internet, and Plugging in to Mac OS 9, devoted to things like 'Networking in Mac OS 9', 'One Mac, Many Users' (a whole chapter on the new multi-user features of OS 9), and things related to various disks, cables and other insertions; plus printing, fonts and ColorSync. The remaining chapters deal with sound and digital movies, speech recognition and synthesized speech. What really makes this book so different is its superior organization, which is especially friendly to the new Mac user. However, this is more to it than that. The Best Mac OS 9 Secrets Revealed, Tips for Power Users, and Humor! There are always lots of books published on operating systems, usually a good half dozen for each major version of the Macintosh. What can really make these books valuable for Mac veterans at every level (but especially the intermediate to advanced user) are tips and secrets. After all, how else do you move up to the Mac Elite level? In the remaining part of this review I'll share with you a small sampling of some of the cool power user tips and secrets Pogue has revealed. If you like them and want more you should definitely get this book. It's filled with more like the ones we'll look at next. Cool Trick No. 1 For this one we don't need a screen shot. Most of these will have screen shots, but not this one. Most Mac users know about hiding applications by using the Finder's Application menu. Say you are working in Dreamweaver on an HTML document (like I am now) and want to quickly hide all windows and palettes related to that application (hide the application). Steps: Instead of going to the Application menu and selecting, Hide Dreamweaver, justOption click any visible portion of the desktop. Dreamweaver (or the program you are currently using) vanishes! Ok, let's move on to something even better. Cool Trick No. 2 Having the ability to have multiple windows open, of various sizes, is a power user's blessing on the Mac, but it can also be a curse at times when windowing tasks get too complicated. Nothing is worse, for example, than having to move a larger window directly under a smaller active window --which you desire to keep both visible and active. Here's the fix. Steps: Instead of clicking on the larger inactive window below and making it come forward (unintentionally hiding the smaller window) just to move it, do this, press the Command key (that's the one with the Apple symbol) and click and drag the lower window to where you want it. The smaller active window will stay active and visible. All right, chances are if you are a true Mac power user you already knew about both of these power tips. Maybe just the first? On the next page we'll go over a few more good ones. Next Page: More Power Tips and Review Summary & Recommendations Other Architosh News Stories & Related Info MacCAD News: Autocad and ProE for Mac OS X efforts - Hot! Mac3D News: Strata introduces Strata3D, and for FREE! - Hot! Alias' StudioTools CAID and Apple's Industrial Design Group - Hot!
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