Macintosh Books

This Book for Mac or Windows is Outstanding. It covers just about all the commands in Lingo, And no one knows them better than the person who wrote the Lingo language. Sample movies help explain complex commands in an easy straight forward manner.

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This series of books/CD's start showing you from lesson one what you need to know to put together an interactive presentation. It shows you rollovers immediately, and interactively controlling elements on the screen. It is a very good series. After one weekend with this book and the companion Director book, I was able to put together a really well organized and functioning presentation (as long as you know how to use Photoshop as well)

As the author of several excellent computer technology books, Michelle Robinette offers some timely and pertinent classroom help for instructors in her book, Macs for Teachers. Written in the same humorous, yet succinct, style as the other instructional books in the Dummies series, Macs for Teachers de-mystifies the many possible classroom computer applications that, in the past, have been only confusing. Interspersed with cartoons and personal observations, Ms. Robinette, uses a witty, understandable style of writing to clarify and simplify many difficult procedures that should aid in: Organizing and simplifying classroom records, through word processing, databases, and spreadsheets, using ClarisWorks (now AppleWorks); expanding students' expressive artistic and writing outlets using Kid Pix, The Writing Center, The Student Center, and The Print Shop Deluxe; providing easy accessibility to the Internet as a research, telecommunications, and educational tool; organizing the technological classroom to fit a variety of situations. Also available are a good glossary of key terms, a troubleshooting section (which I too often have to use), phone numbers for advice and help, and a huge section of annotated lists of educational software. With the added bonus of an attached, supportive CD, which includes demos and free software, this book package is well worth the price. Since this book is three years old now, published in 1997, my only reservation about the modern applicability of this edition is questioning if it is actually up-to-date, considering how quickly computer technology changes. I hope that this book will be updated with the inclusion of a broader spectrum of technology and terminology. However, all aspects of the book are presently still very usable and helpful for today's teacher and an excellent way to put technology to good use in the classroom.

MacWorld Illustrator 6 Bible, is an exellent resource for beginers or experts. It is very well written and has excellent examples of previously produced works. Illustrator 6 Bible also comes with a CD that has many usefull tools that may make your work and or learning more fun and enjoyable.

I find that "Macworld Mac and PowerMac secrets" shows me the coolest secrets and tricks of the Mac. The typical humor of Pogue and Schorr make this book the best. I have never read anything better than this book. I read it anywhere -- even in bed, lights off, torch on, browsing through the book, and occasionally giggling at the stupendous humor. If I was to go anywhere with only one Mac book, this would surely be it...thank you, David Pogue and Joseph Schorr! This is an excellent book I'd recommend to anyone!

An incredible resource for information on Photoshop. McClelland covers beginning to advanced topics in an easy-to-read, fun and amusing style. He makes even the most advanced topics easy to understand. This book is targeted mainly at the features available within Photoshop rather than the plethora of special effects filters available, although he does mention some of these. This book unleashes the hidden powers within Photoshop and provides ways to experiment with all of the tools in ways you might not have considered prior to reading the book. Unusual for a technical book, this book is entertaining enough that one can sit and read for enjoyment, or search through it for specific information, easy to find with an excellent index and table of contents. The CD-ROM contains three introductory chapters from the previous edition of the book so that more new information could be included in the same size book

I'm reviewing this book when it has fallen out of print, which is probably for the best because my review is biased. You see, I edited this book. I worked with the author to develop the outline, I developed and copy-edited every chapter, and I sweated every detail on the galleys.

I've edited a number of computer books in the past six years, but none more satisfying than this one because *it's darn good.* Pogue writes extremely well, with charming humor. He knows his subject matter frontwards and backwards. He truly wants his books to be very well done and to serve readers well. Believe it or not, these are all rare traits among computer-book authors.

This book is a goldmine for "advanced beginners" and intermediate Mac users, giving them fast answers to the very usage questions they ask. It's not as comprehensive as Pogue's _Mac SECRETS,_ but it still packs in the information.

As Quark books go, this is the best. There is no other Quark book I know of that combines both the "been there" authority and range of information found here.

If you are trying to program in C for the Mac, and you don't have this book, then I feel sorry for you. :-) (Unless you are already a guru who recites chapter and verse from Inside Macintosh, in which case what are you doing here?)

This book is a great reference for Mac programmers. A quick, easy way to find answers.