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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?
Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac $19.99 Joe Kissell Book We may love our Macs, but they can still suffer significant problems. In this essential guide from best-selling author Joe Kissell, you'll learn 17 basic troubleshooting procedures and how to solve 9 common problems, along with an easy-to-follow way to troubleshoot novel problems. Whether your Mac won't turn on, experiences kernel panics repeatedly, or is glacially slow, this book has the calm, friendly advice you need to find a solution. Following in the footsteps of his critically acclaimed books Take Control of Mac OS X Backups and Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac, Joe starts by helping you prepare for trouble. You'll learn how to prevent problems from occurring, what tools you'll need to diagnose and fix problems, and the key troubleshooting techniques and solutions for common problems. You'll also learn how to handle problems that include:
  • Your Mac won't turn on.
  • Repeated kernel panics.
  • Abnormal slowdowns.
  • Emptying the Trash when the Finder balks.
  • An application grinds to a halt.
  • An application crashes.
  • Recalcitrant keyboards and mice.
  • A dead Internet connection.
  • Printing doesn't work.