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Take Control of Users & Accounts in Snow Leopard Take Control of Users & Accounts in Snow Leopard $19.99 Kirk McElhearn Book Mac expert Kirk McElhearn walks you through everything you need to know to understand and manage accounts on your Mac, even if the only person using the Mac is you. You'll learn how to create the right types of accounts for the different people who use your Mac, why it's often a good idea to set up at least two accounts, and how you can take advantage of the parental controls options. Kirk shows you how to set up a troubleshooting account, use Fast User Switching, share files among users, manage login and startup items, and more. Kirk also reveals tricks for sharing music and photos among multiple users on your Mac using iTunes and iPhoto. Coupon savings! Snow Leopard's parental controls can limit the content that a Mac user sees, but for still more control, a coupon in the ebook saves you 25% on Intego's ContentBarrier X5 (normally $49.95, so you save about $12). You'll find the answers to these questions and more:
  • Why do I have I log in to my Macintosh?
  • Why do my files reside in the Users folder?
  • What is the purpose of an Administrator account?
  • How can I take advantage of the Guest account?
  • How do I limit time of day when my child can use the Mac?
  • Can I control who my child exchanges email with?
  • What's the best way for users on my Mac to share files?
  • How can I customize the way my login window behaves?
  • How can I speed up the log in and log out process for everyone?
  • Can users on my Mac share my iTunes songs or iPhoto images?
  • What's the difference between a login item and a startup item?
Take Control of Syncing Data in Leopard Take Control of Syncing Data in Leopard $21.99 Michael E. Cohen Book With clear directions and a humorous touch, Take Control of Syncing Data in Leopard explains how to sync data from a Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with a variety of devices from Apple and other companies. Whether you want to sync phone numbers between your Mac and your mobile phone, share calendars and keychains between Macs, or move only new podcast episodes to an iPod, syncing expert Michael Cohen has the answers. You'll learn what software and gear you need and the best ways to move data between devices. The ebook also explains how syncing works under the hood and provides troubleshooting advice in case your sync engine throws a rod. Covers iTunes 9 and iPhone OS 3! Types of sync data covered include:
  • Calendar items stored in iCal, Entourage, and Google
  • Contacts stored in Address Book, Entourage, Yahoo, and Google
  • Data on Exchange servers
  • Dock items and Dashboard widgets
  • Apple Mail account settings, Safari bookmarks, and application preferences
  • Apple Mail and Entourage notes
  • Keychains (user names and passwords)
  • Items from software that uses Leopard's Sync Services, including NetNewsWire and Yojimbo
  • Audio, video, photos, and associated metadata from iTunes
Types of devices covered include:
  • Macs, with details on MobileMe and overviews of popular third-party options
  • iPhone and iPod touch, via MobileMe or iTunes
  • Old and new iPods via iTunes, with details on USB and FireWire connections
  • The Apple TV via iTunes
  • Mobile phones, smartphones, BlackBerries, and Palm OS PDAs
Connection technologies and software examined include:
  • Bluetooth, USB, FireWire, Wi-Fi, and Ethernet
  • MobileMe, iTunes, iSync, IMAP (IMAP discussion is limited to Apple Mail)
  • Third-party products from BusyMac, Mark/Space, PocketMac, and Spanning Sync
Sampler of special questions you'll find answers to:
  • What is the truth database? And what should I do if I think it's lying?
  • When a sync occurs, what's going on behind the scenes?
  • What is push syncing and how does it work?
  • What is the difference between syncing and a backup?
  • What does Bluetooth "discovery" mean, and what should I do about it?
  • Can I control exactly which audio and video files sync to my iPod?
  • How do I override automatic syncing when I connect my iPod to iTunes?
  • How does iTunes decide if a video file is a movie, TV show, or music video?
  • How does the Apple TV figure out what to sync if it fills up?
  • How do I sync everything possible to my iPhone—calendars, contacts, Safari bookmarks, the works?
  • How do I sync a mobile phone that Apple doesn't support?
  • Why won't my Palm device show up in the iSync app?
  • I have to sync with an Exchange server... what do I need to know?
  • What's the smartest way to sync keychains between Macs?
  • How can I best avoid data duplication problems when syncing?
  • I have a syncing feeling about my data—what should I do?
Take Control of Mac OS X Backups, Fourth Edition Take Control of Mac OS X Backups, Fourth Edition $28.99 Joe Kissell Book Set up a rock-solid backup strategy so that you can restore quickly and completely, no matter what catastrophe arises. In this comprehensive book, backup guru Joe Kissell helps you pick the best backup strategy for your needs and understand the whys and hows of what you are doing, helping you go far beyond the false security of turning on Time Machine or copying a few files to CD. You'll find an at-a-glance comparison of different backup strategies (low-cost, easy, safest), along with advice for backing up digital photos and massive video projects. You'll learn the pros and cons of many types of backup media; discover how to pick the best backup software for your needs; and find time-tested recommendations for setting up, testing, and maintaining backups, complete with the essential instructions on how to restore after a crash. Free online appendixes compare almost 100 backup products. Bonus! Includes coupons worth $30 off Data Backup and 10% off CrashPlan. Covers Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, as well as Leopard and Tiger! Find answers to questions such as these:
  • Should I use an online backup service to back up to a different location?
  • How do I minimize the downtime I might suffer if my boot drive fails?
  • How can I maximize the benefits of using Time Machine?
  • What's a hard link, and how does it relate to Time Machine?
  • What are the important gotchas relating to Time Machine?
  • How do I migrate an existing backup system to Time Capsule?
  • How can I back up easily and safely while traveling?
  • How can I create my own command-line-based backups?
  • Is the Drobo a useful device?
  • How do I deduplicate my backups?
  • Which hard drive should I buy for my backups?
  • What are the pros and cons of running Retrospect 8?
  • I'm running Windows on my Mac—how do I back up my Windows files?
Take Control of MobileMe Take Control of MobileMe $20.99 Joe Kissell Book MobileMe has become a Swiss-army knife of online services, offering not only a whizzy "push" data syncing service for tracking calendar, contact, and bookmark info on a variety of devices, but also email services, online storage and file sharing, Web hosting, and more. Take Control of MobileMe helps you understand the features and get set up, and then it dives into the details of real-life projects. Take Control of MobileMe covers syncing - what to expect, what kinds of data besides calendar and contact information sync, handling problems, and more. The ebook also examines various ways to use an iDisk for storing and sharing files; setting up a MobileMe email account; accessing and updating calendar and contact data on the MobileMe site; using the Gallery feature along with iLife '09 to put photos and movies online with an attractive layout and interface; publishing a Web site to MobileMe's servers; and how to use Back to My Mac to get at the files and screen of one of your Macs while using another. Back to My Mac: This book devotes six pages to Back to My Mac. However, fully covering this feature would take another book, so we wrote Take Control of Back to My Mac. "Kissell cuts through [the syncing] thicket cleanly, with clear step-by-step instructions, with key caveats included. The book also provides great detail—good for peace of mind..."   —The Cherry Creek News Read this book to learn the answers to questions such as:
  • What are the primary features available in the MobileMe service?
  • How do I set up MobileMe syncing on my iPhone or iPod touch?
  • How quickly should I expect MobileMe to sync my data?
  • What types of data can sync only with Macs versus with Macs, Windows PCs, and the iPhone/iPod touch?
  • How do I configure my MobileMe email account in my email software?
  • How do I access my iDisk from Windows XP and Vista?
  • How do I add movies and photos to my Web Gallery?
  • Where in my MobileMe account does my iWeb-created site go? What if I want to host a non-iWeb site in my MobileMe account?
  • How can I configure my AirPort Extreme so it will work with Back to My Mac?
  • How do I set up and use Find My iPhone?
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Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac, Second Edition Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac, Second Edition $19.99 Joe Kissell Book Regular maintenance is necessary to avoid problems and to ensure your Mac runs at peak performance, but it's hard to know what to do and when to do it. Best-selling author Joe Kissell has now applied his commonsense approach to the task of maintaining your Mac, whether you use Tiger or Leopard! Learn how to start on the right foot; what you should do daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly; and how to prepare for Mac OS X updates. Joe even explains how to monitor your Mac's health and debunks common panaceas.
Read this book to learn the answers to questions such as:
  • How can I tell if my Mac is likely to have trouble?
  • How can I find out which unnecessary files are taking up space on my disk?
  • Should I defragment my hard disk and repair permissions regularly?
  • What are the safest ways to clean dust and crud from my Mac?
  • What is the best way to keep my software up to date?
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Macs: To Switch or Not To Switch Macs: To Switch or Not To Switch $1.00 Kevin Cullis Download Are you considering switching to a Mac? This article asks the 7 Questions and gives you 7 Steps on what is need to switch to a Mac. Answers the questions: 1. Do you know the difference between the Part and Full Time Windows solution? 2. What approaches are there to getting stuff done on the Mac 3. Do you know which approach to keep you out of harms way regarding Windows viruses? Having sold and worked with thousands of companies here are the real secrets to reducing wear and tear on you when switching to a Mac.
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