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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 Your 802.11n AirPort Network Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Network $30.99 Glenn Fleishman Book Find real-world advice from Wi-Fi wizard Glenn Fleishman on setting up the 802.11n models of Apple's AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and Time Capsule, with full information about the simultaneous dual-band models introduced in early 2009. You'll get help with all the special networking details, such as how to set the best band and channel for your network, use pre-802.11n base stations and clients without hurting performance, set up complex Internet addressing, share USB disks and printers, solve a variety of problems, and much, much more. If you're trying to solve a particular problem, you can jump in and read the topics in this ebook in any order, but if you start at the beginning, you'll find a primer on important Wi-Fi networking terminology and concepts, and a look at how Apple's 802.11n gear fits into the world of Wi-Fi networking. With that background, you'll learn how to locate and set up base stations, with diagrams showing common network scenarios—see two examples above on this Web page—and with step-by-step instructions for configuring key Internet sharing and security options and connecting client computers. For those who have funky Internet connections or tricky IP addressing problems, Glenn provides extended advice for creating a working Wi-Fi network. Glenn also provides real-world steps for important add-ons to a Wi-Fi network, including:
  • Getting started with a Time Capsule and Time Machine backups, plus thoughts on making an archive so you can have an offsite backup of your Time Capsule drive and what to do if you want to erase the drive
  • Detailed advice for setting up a USB-based printer and for making connections to the printer work from Macintosh and Windows computers
  • Help with connecting an Apple TV to your network and advice on how to start syncing it to your computer
  • Steps and configuration advice for adding a USB-attached drive to a Time Capsule or AirPort Extreme, with important information about how best to allow and configure client access
  • Tips and setup advice for streaming music from an AirPort Express to your stereo system
  • Detailed configuration advice for multi-base-station networks
To make your network fly, Glenn helps you:
  • Make band and channel choices
  • Combine your old 802.11g network with a new 802.11n network to split traffic and maximize network bandwidth
  • Extend your network's coverage while handling any interference
Glenn also discusses wireless-network security, noting oft-suggested security approaches that don't work well and explaining how to implement measures that do work well. He covers the new guest networking option in the 2009 models of the AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule.
Take Control of Exploring & Customizing Snow Leopard Take Control of Exploring & Customizing Snow Leopard $27.99 Matt Neuburg Book Read along as Mac expert Matt Neuburg takes you on a Snow Leopard safari. With dry wit and infectious enthusiasm, Matt shines a light on the major and minor changes in Snow Leopard, with an emphasis on how to customize your Mac's interface, navigate quickly among apps and around your disk, and use special features like a pro. Along the way, you'll learn useful Mac OS X skills, such as how to:
  • Make your default Finder window look the way you want.
  • Set up your Dock for your needs and screen.
  • Get around using the keyboard.
  • Use any special features built into your laptop's trackpad.
  • Zoom your screen and use tricks to help tired or weak eyes.
  • Type special characters, and type in multiple languages.
  • Find windows with Exposé and organize them with Spaces.
  • Set up Time Machine backups the smart way.
  • Set up Software Update to match your personal style.
  • Search for stuff on your Mac.
You'll also gain confidence to explore Snow Leopard's features further. These include new capabilities like automatic fixing of misspelled words and text substitution as you type, totally revamped Services, better control over Time Machine backups, whizzy new Exposé options, and the new keyboard switcher for multi-lingual Mac users. Matt also reminds you about how best to to customize the sidebar in your Finder windows, configure Open and Save dialogs, and arrange items on your toolbar for quick access, and he covers the Path Bar, Dashboard, status menus, login items, zooming controls, sleep vs. hibernation for laptops, and double-headed scroll arrows. Matt even explains how Leopard's contextual menu plug-ins and QuickTime Pro disappear in Snow Leopard. He also covers a handful of important third-party utilities, and he provides easy-as-can-be steps for a script that even beginners can run to place a new Finder window in exactly the right spot. Specific questions answered in this ebook include: Making things look right:
  • Where is the elusive checkbox for making my menu bar look solid?
  • Where'd the flag icon on my menu bar come from?
  • How do I best position and configure my Dock?
  • How do I add an item to "Search For" in my Finder window sidebar?
  • What folders should I put in "Places" in the Finder window sidebar?
  • How do I change which categories appear on my search results menu?
  • How do I customize my Desktop with a special color or photo?
Using a keyboard, trackpad, or mouse:
  • How do I turn off or reassign the Caps Lock key?
  • How do I start Exposé with my mouse?
  • How can I move the mouse very precisely?
  • How do I change the size of my mouse pointer icon?
  • What's the purpose of the "Ignore accidental trackpad input" checkbox?
  • What is the keyboard shortcut for choosing a menu item without the mouse?
  • What if I don't want my function keys to do hardware-related things like muting and screen dimming?
Getting things done:
  • How do I stop all the disk activity when I first boot Snow Leopard?
  • Where's the interface for "tagging" files?
  • How do I limit who my child can exchange email with?
  • How can I set up my fonts so they are easier to work with?
  • How can I keep certain windows in specific Spaces?
  • How do I identify—and delete—huge files in my Time Machine backup?
  • How can I easily make my laptop sleep more quickly?