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Subject(s)

• Mac OS. [Browse]
• Apple computer [Browse]
• Macintosh (Computer)—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Operating systems (Computers) [Browse]

Series

• Hacks series. [More in this series]
• Hacks

Summary note

Bigger in size, longer in length, broader in scope, and even more useful than our original Mac OS X Hacks, the new Big Book of Apple Hacks offers a grab bag of tips, tricks and hacks to get the most out of Mac OS X Leopard, as well as the new line of iPods, iPhone, and Apple TV. With 125 entirely new hacks presented in step-by-step fashion, this practical book is for serious Apple computer and gadget users who really want to take control of these systems. Many of the hacks take you under the hood and show you how to tweak system preferences, alter or add keyboard shortcuts, mo

Notes

• "Proven techniques from the experts at MAKE Magazine and O'Reilly Media".
• Includes hacks for peripheral devices such as iPod, iPhone and Apple TV, and also tips for running other operating systems such as Windows on a Macintosh computer.
• Includes index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• CONTENTS; PREFACE; How to Use This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Acknowledgments; We'd Like to Hear from You; 1 BEFORE YOU HACK; HACK 01: Back Up Now with Disk Utility; Backing Up with Disk Utility; That's Great, But I've Got One Mac and No External Hard Drive!; HACK 02: Create an Emergency Bootable Flash Drive; Creating a Bootable Disk; Using the Emergency Boot Disk; HACK 03: Install Developer Tools; What You'll Get; Installing Xcode; HACK 04: Understand Your User Account; What's in a Name?; Your Home Directory; Who's the Boss?
• Deleting an AccountHACK 05: Become an Administrator for a Moment; Desktop Root; Command-Line Root; Enabling the Root Account; HACK 06: Behold the Power of PLIST; PLIST Files for Hackers; 2 HACKS FOR THE NET; HACK 07: Change Your Browser; Firefox; Google Browser Sync; Greasemonkey; Trim Firefox's fat on Intel Macs; Opera; Shiira: A WebKit-Based Safari Alternative; Change Your Default Browser; HACK 08: Safari: More Than Meets the Eye; Safari Tricks; Safari Add On: Saft-The Do-It-All Sidekick; HACK 09: Browser Agnosticism; Portable Passwords; Liberate Your Bookmarks
• HACK 10: Enable Safari Debug MenuHACK 11: Roll Your Own Web Server; Define Your Needs; Using Pre-OS X Macs; Using OS X Hardware; Getting Your Domain; Opening Your Router So Your Web Server Can Peek Out; Setting Up Your Web Server on Older PowerPC Equipment; Pulling It Off with OS X; HACK 12: Two Ways to Reset Safari; HACK 13: Ditch That Hidden Data; Viewing Metadata; Ditching the Metadata; HACK 14: Scrape the Web for Images; HACK 15: User-Initiated Privacy for Web Applications; 3 HACKING MAC OS X; HACK 16: Know Your Cats; HACK 17: Kill Dashboard; Unhacking the Hack
• HACK 18: Move a Widget to the DesktopLater; HACK 19: Turn Your Desktop into a Font of Useful Information; HACK 20: Tame the Finder; Undoing the Hack; HACK 21: Use That Software Restore Disk on (Almost) Any Mac; Target-Disk Mode Approach (Not 100% Safe); Installation of Single Packages (Safe but Complicated); Change the Requirements (Safe); HACK 22: Get Things Done with Automator; Quit All Applications Workflow; Access the Media Browser; Watch Me Do; Locating Your Workflows; HACK 23: A Context Menu for Moving Files
• HACK 24: Free Up Gigabytes of Space on Your Hard Drive (and Never Miss the Data)Removing Unneeded Language Files; Getting Rid of Unneeded Printer Drivers; Slimming Down iPhoto; HACK 25: Create an Encrypted USB Drive; Getting Started; Using Your New Image; HACK 26: Capture That Screen; Capturing the Whole Screen; Capturing a Portion of the Screen; The Next Level in Screenshots; HACK 27: Launch in a Different Way; LaunchBar; Quicksilver; Spotlight; Plenty More Where That Came From; HACK 28: Meet the Dictionary: Your Hidden Wikipedia Browser; 4 COMMAND-LINE FUN; HACK 29: Meet Unix
• HACK 30: Getting Things Done with the Command Line

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Other title(s)

Big book of Apple hacks : tips & tools for unlocking the power of your Apple devices

ISBN

• 1-306-81143-0
• 1-4493-4352-X
• 0-596-52326-2

OCLC

• 772458224
• 297575770

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