yay or nay on the "missing manual"

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kishankishan
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
I am finally making the switch at the end of this month. It has been at least 15 years since I have owned/used a Mac and I am very excited to be going back. Chalk me up to the iPod "halo" effect.



During my years of using Windows machines, I made it a point to learn as much about the OS's inner workings as I could. As a result, my windows experience has been very good.



I would like to start down the same path with my new Mac machines. I have heard that the missing manual series of books is good reading for those who want to get to know more about OSX. There is a new version for Tiger out now. Can anyone comment on if this is a useful book towards my goal?

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    gene cleangene clean Posts: 3,481member
    When a book tries to explain how to use Safari, and takes pages to do that, you know that it's full of boring, already-in-the-face type of 'manuals'.
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    cakecake Posts: 1,010member
    The Tiger Edition of The Missing Manual is very good - especially since you've been away from Macs for a while.



    At 840+ pages it has very detailed information about OS X.

    It'll give you a good foundation to build your knowledge of OS X upon.
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    regreg Posts: 832member
    I tend only to get the books after a major change os 9 to os 10. The missing manuals are very good and I also get Gene Stienberg's Little Black Book. As for general tips on apps I scan web sites to find things I never thought about Macosxhints for tips and OS X Apps or VersionTracker for apps that I might want.

    Good luck on your reading. If you get iLife you might want to get a book on that because there is so much in those apps.



    reg
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    thinkingdifferentthinkingdifferent Posts: 1,604member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Kishan

    During my years of using Windows machines, I made it a point to learn as much about the OS's inner workings as I could. As a result, my windows experience has been very good.



    For inner workings check out the documentation on the Apple Developer site.



    http://developer.apple.com/referencelibrary/
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