With Leopard, Apple has unleashed the greatest version of Mac OS X yet, and David Pogue is back with another meticulous Missing Manual to cover the operating system with a wealth of detail. The new Mac OS X 10.5, better known as Leopard, is faster than its predecessors, but nothing's too fast for Pogue and this Missing Manual. It's just one of reasons this is the most popular computer book of all time. Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition is the authoritative book for Mac users of all technical levels and experience. If you're new to the Mac, this book gives you a crystal-clear, jargon-free introduction to the Dock, the Mac OS X folder structure, and the Mail application. There are also mini-manuals on iLife applications such as iMovie, iDVD, and iPhoto, and a tutorial for Safari, Mac's web browser. This Missing Manual book is amusing and fun to read, but Pogue doesn't take his subject lightly. Which new Leopard features work well and which do not? What should you look for? What should you avoid? Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition offers an objective and straightforward instruction for using:
Leopard's totally revamped Finder Spaces to group your windows and organize your Mac tasks
Quick Look to view files before you open them
The Time Machine, Leopard's new backup feature
Spotlight to search for and find anything in your Mac
Front Row, a new way to enjoy music, photos, and videosEnhanced Parental Controls that come with Leopard Quick tips for setting up and configuring your Mac to make it your own
There's something new on practically every page of this new edition, and David Pogue brings his celebrated wit and expertise to every one of them. Mac's brought a new cat to town and Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition is a great new way to tame it.

If you're ready to jump into digital photography or would like to increase the skills you already have, David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual is just what you need. Bestselling author David Pogue provides a no-nonsense guide to the entire process, including how to: buy and use a digital camera; get the same photographic effects as the pros; manage the results on your Mac or PC; edit photos; and, finally, share the results with your adoring fans — on paper, online, or on mugs, jigsaw puzzles, and blankets.

After reviewing hundreds of digital cameras and photo services in his weekly New York Times column, David Pogue knows digital photography. With this new Missing Manual you will:

Get expert advice on how to choose a digital camera, including information on the only specs that matter. (Hint: it's not about megapixels).Learn the basics of lighting, composition, and shooting lots of photosUnderstand how to choose the best camera settings for 20 different scenariosUnravel the problems of correcting images and storing themLearn David's tips and tricks for sharing and printing imagesGet a special troubleshooting section you can turn to when things go wrong

David Pogue's witty, authoritative voice has demystified the Mac, Windows, iPods and iPhones for millions of readers. Now, he offers step-by-step instructions and plenty of friendly advice to help you join in the fun and get real satisfaction from digital photography.

If you have a new iPhone 3GS, or just updated your 3G with iPhone 3.0, iPhone 3.0: The Missing Manual will bring you up to speed quickly. New York Times tech columnist David Pogue gives you a guided tour of every feature, with lots of tips, tricks, and surprises. You'll learn how to make calls and play songs by voice control, take great photos, keep track of your schedule, and more. This entertaining book offers complete step-by-step instructions for doing everything from setting up and accessorizing your iPhone to troubleshooting. If you want to learn how iPhone 3.0 lets you search your phone, cut, copy, and paste, and lots more, this full-color book is the best, most objective resource available.Use it as a phone — save time with things like Visual Voicemail, contact searching, and more
Treat it as an iPod — listen to music, upload and view photos, and fill the iPhone with TV shows and movies
Take the iPhone online — get online, browse the Web, read and compose email in landscape, send photos, contacts, audio files, and more
Go beyond the iPhone — use iPhone with iTunes, sync it with your calendar, and learn about the App Store, where you can select from thousands of iPhone apps

Unlock the full potential of your iPhone with the book that should have been in the box.

This updated edition of David Pogue's immensely popular Mac guidebook offers a wealth of detail on Apple's newest operating system. Snow Leopard is faster and more reliable than earlier Mac OSX versions, and no one is more reliable at bringing you up to speed than David Pogue.

The most authoritative book for Mac users of all technical levels and experience, this Missing Manual is amusing and fun to read, but Pogue doesn't take his subject lightly. Which features work well and which don't? What should you look for? What should you avoid? You get all the answers with crystal-clear, jargon-free introductions to:

The Dock, the Mac OS X folder structure, and Mail — all faster and with new Snow Leopard-only featuresiLife apps such as iMovie, iDVD, and iPhoto — each with its own mini-manualSafari 4, the latest and best-performing Mac web browserQuickTime X, the new multimedia player that lets you trim and share clips to YouTube, MobileMe, and iTunesSnow Leopard's new support for Microsoft Exchange, and how you can best use itFeatures such as Spaces for organizing tasks, and Time Machine for backupsQuick tips for setting up and configuring your Mac to make it distinctive

There's something new on practically every page of this edition, and David Pogue brings his celebrated wit and expertise to every one of them. No wonder it continues to be one of the most popular computer books of all time.

Whether you're the next Ansel Adams or just a photo nut, iPhoto '09: The Missing Manual lets you marry the stunning quality of digital photography with the power of your imagination.

Tips from iPhoto '09: The Missing Manual
1. Take That (Slide)Show on the Road
Got a saved iPhoto slideshow that you’re especially proud of? Take a copy with you to show off on your iPhone, iPod, computer, Apple TV, or Web site. With the slideshow open in iPhoto, click the big Export button on the toolbar. The Slideshow Export box pops up, offering you a selection of movie sizes designed for specific devices. Click the option you want and then click the Export button in the box to make a video that’s perfectly sized for your pocket gadget or big screen. If you plan to watch the show on an iPhone or iPod, make sure the “Automatically send slideshow to iTunes” box is turned on—all you need to do now is sync up your portable with the computer and your slideshow is good to go. 2. The Places You Go (End Up on Flickr, Too)
With iPhoto ’09, pictures taken with a GPS-enabled camera or mobile phone can be automatically geotagged — that is, plotted to a map that shows where they were taken. Even if you don’t have a GPS camera or geotagging gadget to stamp your photos with location coordinates, you can add that information to the pictures manually. Click the Info icon on the lower right corner of a photo thumbnail to spin the picture around. There on the “back” of the photo, click “Enter a photo location” and start typing the name. Most of the time, iPhoto recognizes the place name and drops a pin on a virtual map to mark the photo’s location. (If it doesn’t, click the New Place bar to pop out to Google Maps and find the location there.) One great thing about geotagging and iPhoto — if you plan to post the pictures to your Flickr page through iPhoto, all those places you tagged follow the photo up to the Web. (To publish them from iPhoto, choose Share?Flickr.) Visitors to your Flickr page just need to click the Map link there to see where you took the photo. 3. Smart Albums for Your Favorite Faces
The new Faces feature in iPhoto ’09 can identify people in your photos by analyzing them and matching up similar faces. Once you have identified a bunch of friends or family, you can make a Smart Album that automatically gathers pictures of specified people every time you add photos and confirm the names to iPhoto. This can be helpful, say, if you need to whip together a slideshow of multiple people for an upcoming wedding reception or anniversary party. To make a face-based Smart Album:
a) Click the + button underneath the iPhoto Source list, click the Smart Album icon and give it a name.
b) In the “Match conditions” like, choose “Any” if you want separate photos of each person you’re about to name, or “All” if you only want pictures containing all the people.
c) In the first box, choose Name from the pop-up menu on the left. (For example, “Jack.”)
d) Choose “is” in the middle box.
e) In the third box, type in the name of the first person you want to add to the Smart Album. (Make sure you’ve identified and named the subject with the Faces feature first.)
f) Click the + button to add a new line in the Smart Album box.
g) Repeat steps 2-4 for the next person, but type in the second name. (Say, “Diane.”)
h) Click OK to add the new Smart Album to the iPhoto Source list, where it now is on the lookout for “Jack” and/or “Diane,” depending on your matching conditions. 4. Make a Smart Album from the Places on Screen
Smart Albums just aren’t for pretty faces, either. You can easily make a Smart Album to automatically round up all the photos you tag with specific location information. One quick way to make a Smart Album for a bunch of different places, say, an annual summer vacation to England and France:
a) Click Places in the Source list.
b) If the map view is not on screen, click the globe icon in the iPhoto toolbar.
c) Zoom in close enough on map to show all the cities or countries you want to include in your Smart Album.
d) Click the Smart Album button on the iPhoto toolbar.
You now have a new Smart Album in the iPhoto source list, ready to collect copies of any photo that contains the same location information as the places you just group-tagged. If you visit the same towns regularly, all the geotagged photos from these locations get added to the Smart Album, no matter when you took them. 5. Put Your Vacation on the Map
With iPhoto ’09, you can add personalized maps of your vacation destinations to the glossy color books you can make from your photos. To add custom cartography to a book in progress:
a) Choose Layout——>Map from the iPhoto toolbar.
b) On the resulting pop-up menu, select Map.
You can add a map to any book theme, but if you choose the Travel theme, you have 20 different map styles at your disposal.
c) Once the map page is added to the book, click it to add the places you visited to the map.
A box pops up showing the locations of any geotagged photos in the book.
Even if you haven’t added location information to your photos with iPhoto’s Places feature, you can still plot your trip on the map. In the Places box on the Map page, click the + button to add a new location and type in the name of the city. If iPhoto doesn’t recognize then place and mark it on the map, click “New Place” to jump to Google Maps and find it there. Once you find it, iPhoto adds a dot to the map. If this was a multi-destination trip, turn on the Show Lines box to get a series of red arrows that show your route.

Is Windows giving you pause? Ready to make the leap to the Mac instead? There has never been a better time to switch from Windows to Mac, and this incomparable guide will help you make a smooth transition. New York Times columnist and Missing Manuals creator David Pogue gets you past three challenges: transferring your stuff, assembling Mac programs so you can do what you did with Windows, and learning your way around Mac OS X.

Learning to use a Mac is not a piece of cake, but once you do, the rewards are oh-so-much better. No viruses, worms, or spyware. No questionable firewalls, inefficient permissions, or other strange features. Just a beautiful machine with a thoroughly reliable system. Whether you're using Windows XP or Vista, we've got you covered.

If you're ready to take on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the latest edition of this bestselling guide tells you everything you need to know:

Transferring your stuff — Moving photos, MP3s, and Microsoft Office documents is the easy part. This book gets you through the tricky things: extracting your email, address book, calendar, Web bookmarks, buddy list, desktop pictures, and MP3 files.

Re-creating your software suite — Big-name programs (Word, Photoshop, Firefox, Dreamweaver, and so on) are available in both Mac and Windows versions, but hundreds of other programs are available only for Windows. This guide identifies the Mac equivalents and explains how to move your data to them.

Learning Leopard — Once you've moved into the Mac, a final task awaits: Learning your way around. Fortunately, you're in good hands with the author of Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, the #1 bestselling guide to the Macintosh.

Moving from Windows to a Mac successfully and painlessly is the one thing Apple does not deliver. Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition is your ticket to a new computing experience.

A clear, step-by-step guide for anyone who wants to set up a wireless network in the home. Starting with an introduction to wireless networking that sets the stage on Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi5, Bluetooth and other standards, this how-to book guides you each step of the way with clear instructions and practical tips aimed at those making their first entry into wireless networking - no experience required!

Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the net - presentationzen.com - shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today-s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.

Anyone who plugs in a Mac whether it's the proud owner of the very latest version or someone still tapping away on yesterday's model usually finds these machines to be an immensely popular and beneficial tool. Unfortunately, they can also be a royal pain in the neck. Any way you slice it, Macs still have a tendency to induce minor headaches at the most inopportune times. Mac Annoyances feels your pain. Developed precisely for the individual who can't live without a Mac yet can't deal with its fickle temperament Mac Annoyances provides solutions to scores of common problems faced by Mac owners. Contained within its pages are hidden (plus well-documented) tips, tricks, and workarounds designed to drastically improve specific problem-solving capabilities. The result: a significant enhancement of the overall user experience and a tremendous savings of time no matter which version you own. What does Mac Annoyances cover? What doesn't it cover is the more appropriate question. Hassles associated with Mac OS X, iLife, Mac hardware, and Microsoft Office (the mother of all annoyances) are all addressed in sharp detail. Also tackled: how to overcome problems related to specific applications such as iTunes, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Apple's Mail program. Having trouble browsing the Web or searching with Google? Want to make your Mac a bit faster? Keyboard causing you trouble? These and dozens more annoyances like them are all dissected as well. Truth is, if you've experienced it, Mac Annoyances addresses it. Written by top-flight author and renowned Mac expert, John Rizzo, this book is a follow-up to the bestselling PC Annoyances. In keeping with the spirit of O'Reilly's Annoyances series, Rizzo adopts a sympathetic tone throughout the book that quickly ingratiates itself to readers. Rather than blaming Mac owners for possessing minimal technical savvy, Mac Annoyances takes them along for a fun-filled ride as they join forces and outsmart the system together.

Broadband wireless networks bring us closer to the Internet's ultimate destiny of interconnecting everyone, everywhere. But wireless networking can be a bit geeky and nerve-wracking without a proper guide. Let's face it: Networking can be hard.

If you're one of the last holdouts still connected to the Internet by a wire, The Book of Wireless, 2nd Edition is the book for you. You'll learn how to set up your own home (or small office) wireless network and how to use public wireless networks, safely and securely. This plain-English guide demystifies configuring and using wireless networks-everything from shopping for parts to securing your network. Learn how to: Select and configure hardware and software for your Wi-Fi network and configure access points to minimize interferenceSecure your network using WPA encryption or a virtual private network (VPN)Discover open networks and maintain your privacy while surfing in publicUse VoIP over a wireless connection to talk on the phone for next to nothingEvaluate wireless data services based on cost, speed, and coverageExtend your network to give your neighbors free wireless Internet access

You'll also learn about new and forthcoming broadband wireless standards and how to choose the right service provider and equipment. With up-to-date information on wireless routers, network interface cards, antennas, security, and software, The Book of Wireless, 2nd Edition will help you navigate the confusing wireless landscape to find the perfect solution.

Whether you're new to the Mac or a longtime user, this handy book is the quickest way to get up to speed on Snow Leopard. Packed with concise information in an easy-to-read format, Mac OS X Snow Leopard Pocket Guide covers what you need to know and is an ideal resource for problem-solving on the fly.

This book goes right to the heart of Snow Leopard, with details on system preferences, built-in applications, and utilities. You'll also find configuration tips, keyboard shortcuts, guides for troubleshooting, lots of step-by-step instructions, and more.

Learn about new features and changes since the original Leopard releaseGet quick tips for setting up and customizing your Mac's configurationSolve problems with the handy reference to the fundamentals of the Finder, Dock, and moreUnderstand how to manage user accountsWork more efficiently using keyboard shortcutsTake advantage of MobileMe, Apple's online suite of services and tools

Learn how to use the basic design tools that already come with your Mac—iLife, AppleWorks, TextEdit, and more. What if it were just you and your Macintosh stranded on a desert island? Would you have the tools and skills necessary to design your way out of the situation—to create a flyer to stick in bottles, a Web site to alert people to your situation, a movie to document your adventure? If you’d remembered to bring along this handy guide, you would! In this witty and engaging full-color book, author Andrew Shalat shows you how to accomplish a surprising number of design projects using the Apple iLife, iWork, and AppleWorks suites of applications, .Mac services, and the tools that come with Mac OS X.

Andrew shows how to create the projects using the simplest Mac tools, from TextEdit and Grab. Then, in sections called “For a Few Bucks More,” Andrew demonstrates how to create the same projects using the tools that are part of Apple’s own easy-to-use and powerful software suites and services.

Divided into three main sections—print, Web, and video—this book demonstrates how to:
• Make postcards, flyers, business cards, and logos with TextEdit, AppleWorks, and Pages.
• Put together Web pages using .Mac, iWork, iPhoto, AppleWorks.
• Make videos using iPhoto, GarageBand, and iMovie.

Plus, the book offers up plenty of tips and rules of thumb to guide your design.

While many books address the equipment, techniques, and compositional approaches to image creation, few describe the steps involved in the creation of the picture idea. This book is a passport to the creative process of professional artists. The context is photography but the ideas can be applied across the board. This book emphasizes working out how to achieve the end result before we begin. A key question is what do we have to get right as we shoot and what can we achieve later in post-processing? The correct answer will drive the quality of our imagery and extend our careers.

This book is not a how-to book on making photographs. Rather, this book is about the creative process of conceptualizing ideas and executing those ideas to make a photograph. How do artists conceptualize? Where do they get their ideas? How do they incorporate those ideas into their work?

Compositing and storytelling abilities have never been easier and more difficult to achieve. Sound contradictory? It is. Illogical? It is. We will journey together to solve the many whys and hows so that the technology does not get in the way of image content and story.

As it relates to a particular topic in the text, there are discussions about photographic theory, lighting, composition, color and, of course, Photoshop. Included are examples of my work, each with a detailed examination of my creative process for that particular photograph. Again the idea here is to examine creativity in a way that demystifies the process.

Artists create. Good artists have a process. Great artists have discipline. This book is about all three.

Your digital camera is more than new incarnation of your old film camera. Yes, it still produces photos, but it also offers new outlets for creativity, including instant gratification of seeing your photos now, the ability to experiment without worrying about expense, the technology to fine-tune your photos with advanced professional techniques, and the means to share your work instantaneously with anyone, anyplace in the world. It's no wonder that digital cameras are outselling traditional cameras for the first time ever. But the question most digital camera users ask is this, "How do I get from taking 'decent' photos to doing the things I'd really like to do? How do I tap into that potential?"

Digital Photography Hacks is your passport to taking the kind of digital photos you've always aspired to. Written by Derrick Story, photographer and author of Digital Photography Pocket Guide and other books, it goes beyond the standard fare of most digital photography books—such as camera basics, understanding memory cards, and when to use a flash—to the things that professional photographers have learned through thousands of shots' worth of experience, years of experimentation, and fiddling and hacking. The book includes a foreword by photographer Rick Smolan, author of America 24/7.

With exquisite, full-color photos throughout, the book presents a collection of tips, tricks, and techniques for photographers ready to move beyond the basics. And if you don't have the latest in digital camera photography, this book will show you how to extend the life and functionality of your existing camera. All the hacks in the book are platform-agnostic, designed for use on both Mac on Windows-based computers. You'll find 100 proven techniques in the areas of: Daytime and nighttime photo secrets Flash magic Digital camera attachments The computer connection Photoshop magic Fun photo projects Camera phone tricks This book is for the photographer you are now, and the one you want to be. Digital Photography Hacks is for the creative adventurer who resides in each of us.