Book description
The press has called Tekserve Corporation, the idiosyncratic Macintosh repair store in New York City, "The Epicenter of Mac Culture in NYC", "The leader in Apple triage services" and "warm and eclectic - maybe even a little eccentric".Unfortunately, not everyone can get down to Tekserve's West 23rd St location for the clear, down-to-earth Mac troubleshooting advice that Tekserve's owners dispense. For the rest of us, O'Reilly & Associates has published the Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide ($12.95) written by David Lerner and Aaron Freimark, of "the world's best Macintosh repair shop".This slim pocket guide has the answers to frequently asked Macintosh troubleshooting questions. Imagine the quirky record store in the movie "High Fidelity," or the popular "Car Talk" show on National Public Radio, and you'll have a good idea of this book's flavor.Tekserver has long provided its customers with a free "Frequently Asked Questions" document. We recently discovered this FAQ sheet and realized that-- like New York itself-- it was too good to leave just for the New Yorkers. With the help of Tekserve, we turned this FAQ sheet into the Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide.The Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide covers the most common user hardware and software trouble, from disks stuck in drives to lost files. It's not just a book for Mac OS X (although it includes tips for OS X and Jaguar, the latest release), it's for anyone who owns a Mac of any type-- there are software tips going back as far as OS 6. The Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide distills the answers to the urgent questions that Tekserve's employee's answer every week into a handy guide that fits in your back pocket or alongside your keyboard.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
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1. Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Avoid Going to Your Technician or Consultant in a Panic
- 1.3. Being Prepared
- 1.4. Crisis Situations
- 1.5. Bombs and Crashes
- 1.6. The System (OS 9.x and Earlier)
- 1.7. Mac OS X
- 1.8. Mac OS X Passwords
- 1.9. Mac OS X Multiple Users
- 1.10. Printers
- 1.11. Connecting Old Devices to New Macs
- 1.12. SCSI, FireWire, and USB
- 1.13. Monitors/Displays
- 1.14. Memory
- 1.15. Viruses
- 1.16. Powerbooks and iBooks
- 1.17. Communications, Internet, and AirPort
- 1.18. File Sharing
- 1.19. Other Questions
- A. Command Key Combinations
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide for Mac OS
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2002
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596004439
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