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  OS X Lion Books TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2011-09-26 14:29 -0500
    Re: OS X Lion Books jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2011-09-27 13:17 +1200
      Re: OS X Lion Books dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2011-09-27 20:06 +1200

#5517 — OS X Lion Books

I recently purchased a copy of the Teach Yourself Visually book Mac OS 
X Lion, written by Paul McFedries. I was somewhat taken aback that of 
the some 300 pages in the book only a single page was devoted to 
Mission Control, and that did not include any explanation of how to 
create and manage multiple desktops. Given that Mission Control is one 
of the important new features, one that replaces former features such 
as Spaces, I find myself unable to recommend this book. I would be 
interested in knowing what books regarding Mac OS X Lion others have 
found helpful.

-- 
James Leo Ryan - Austin, Texas

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#5522

TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> wrote:

> I recently purchased a copy of the Teach Yourself Visually book Mac OS X
> Lion, written by Paul McFedries. I was somewhat taken aback that of the
> some 300 pages in the book only a single page was devoted to Mission
> Control, and that did not include any explanation of how to create and
> manage multiple desktops. Given that Mission Control is one of the
> important new features, one that replaces former features such as Spaces,
> I find myself unable to recommend this book. I would be interested in
> knowing what books regarding Mac OS X Lion others have found helpful.

I've not looked at Lion versions yet, but I've always kept a copy of
David Pogue's comprehensive Missing Manual for every version of OSX I
own. They cover nearly everything, barring the more under the hood Unix
stuff. Invaluable to have on hand for stuff I do less commonly.

Regards,
 Jamie Kahn Genet

P.S. Sure you posted to enough groups? :-D I bet that set off many
people's killfiles, heh.
-- 
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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#5525

Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:

> TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> wrote:
> 
> > I recently purchased a copy of the Teach Yourself Visually book Mac OS X
> > Lion, written by Paul McFedries. I was somewhat taken aback that of the
> > some 300 pages in the book only a single page was devoted to Mission
> > Control, and that did not include any explanation of how to create and
> > manage multiple desktops. Given that Mission Control is one of the
> > important new features, one that replaces former features such as Spaces,
> > I find myself unable to recommend this book. I would be interested in
> > knowing what books regarding Mac OS X Lion others have found helpful.
> 
> I've not looked at Lion versions yet, but I've always kept a copy of
> David Pogue's comprehensive Missing Manual for every version of OSX I
> own. They cover nearly everything, barring the more under the hood Unix
> stuff. Invaluable to have on hand for stuff I do less commonly.

And for reference, I just happened to be looking at the O'Reilly web
site, and David Pogue's Missing Manual for Lion is due to be published
in October.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz

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