Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Final Release Date: June 2004
Pages: 592
Like the animal it's named for, Mac OS X Panther is beautiful, sleek, superbly efficient, dangerously alluring, and all muscle under the surface. Beneath its appealing interface, it's a hard-working machine. Those coming to Mac OS X from previous incarnations of the operating system recognize much of the friendly face of the Macintosh they're used to, but they're also plunged into a whole new world. Unix converts to Mac OS X find a familiar FreeBSD-like operating system at the core and many of the command-line applications that they're familiar with: it's like an open invitation to roll up their sleeves and hack.Mac OS X Panther Hacks brings together the perfect combination of tips, tricks, and tools to help serious Mac users--regardless of their background--get the most from their machines. This revised collection reflects the real-world know how of those well-steeped in Unix history and expertise, sharing their no-nonsense, sometimes quick-and-dirty solutions to administering and taking full advantage of everything a Unix desktop has to offer: Web, Mail, and FTP serving, security services, SSH, Perl and shell scripting, compiling, configuring, scheduling, networking, and hacking. Add to that the experience of die-hard Macintosh users, customizing and modifying their hardware and software to meet their needs. The end result is cool stuff no power user should be without.The hacks in the book range from the quick and easy to the more complex. Each can be read easily in a few minutes, saving countless hours of searching for the right answer. Mac OS X Panther Hacks provides direct, hands-on solutions in topics such as:
- User Interface
- Accessories (iPod, USB devices, mobile phones, PDAs, etc.)
- Wired and wireless networking (Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.)
- Email (servers and clients)
- Web (servers and clients)
- Messaging (iChat and associated apps)
- Printing and Faxing (sharing printers, fax server, etc.)
- Multimedia
If you want more than your average Mac user--you want to explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, create useful tools, and come up with fun things to try on your own--this book will set you on the right track. Written for users who need to go beyond what's covered in conventional manuals-- Mac OS X Panther Hacks will bring your Mac to its full potential.
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- Title:
- Mac OS X Panther Hacks
- By:
- Rael Dornfest, James Duncan Davidson
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
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- Print:
- June 2004
- Pages:
- 592
- Print ISBN:
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Rael Dornfest Rael Dornfest is a Researcher at the O'Reilly & Associates focusing on technologies just beyond the pale. He assesses, experiments, programs, and writes for the O'Reilly network and O'Reilly publications. Dornfest is Program Chair of the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Chair of the RSS-DEV Working Group, and developer of Meerkat: An Open Wire Service. In his copious free time, he develops bits and bobs of Open Source software and maintains his raelity bytes Weblog. View Rael Dornfest's full profile page. -
James Duncan Davidson James Duncan Davidson is a freelance author, software developer, and consultant focusing on Mac OS X, Java, XML, and open source technologies. He is the author of Learning Cocoa with Objective-C (published by O'Reilly & Associates) and is a frequent contributor to the O'Reilly Network online website as well as publisher of his own website, x180 (http://www.x180.net), where he keeps his popular weblog. Duncan was the creator of Apache Tomcat and Apache Ant and was instrumental in their donation to the Apache Software Foundation by Sun Microsystems . While working at Sun, he authored two versions of the Java Servlet API specification as well as the Java API for XML Processing. Duncan regularly presents at conferences all over the world on topics ranging from open source and collaborative development to programming Java more effectively. He didn't graduate with a Computer Science degree, but sees that as a benefit in helping explain how software works. His educational background is in Architecture (the bricks and mortar kind), the essence of which he applies to every software problem that finds him. He currently resides in San Francisco, California. View James Duncan Davidson's full profile page. |
Colophon Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The tool on the cover of Mac OS X Panther Hacks is a pipe wrench, an adjustable tool that uses two serrated jaws for gripping and turning a pipe. In 1870, U.S. Patent #184,993 was issued for this type of wrench to inventor Daniel C. Stillson (pipe wrenches are also known as "Stillsons") of J.J. Walworth & Co., a Boston-area heating and plumbing company. Frustrated by existing pipefitting tools, Stillson whittled an improved wrench model out of wood and showed it to his boss. Impressed with the mechanics of this hacked prototype, Stillson's supervisor authorized corporate payment to a blacksmith so that the wrench design could be forged in steel. The forged wrench was then shown to the company president, who instructed its inventor to test it in the company's pipe room: "Twist off the pipe or break the wrench," he said. "Put enough strength on the wrench to do one or the other." Half an hour later, Stillson returned with a twisted off piece of pipe in one hand and an intact wrench in the other. His patent has long since expired, but the pipe wrenches manufactured today remain nearly identical to Stillson's original design. Genevieve d'Entremont was the production editor and proofreader, and Brian Sawyer was the copyeditor for Mac OS X Panther Hacks. Philip Dangler and Darren Kelly provided quality control. Julie Hawks wrote the index.Emma Colby designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is from the Just Tools collection of the CMCD Library. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's Helvetica Neue and ITC Garamond fonts.Melanie Wang designed the interior layout, based on a series design by David Futato. This book was converted by Andrew Savikas to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Helvetica Neue Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. This colophon was written by Philip Dangler. |
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