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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
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
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.
Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal $20.99 Joe Kissell Book
Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal $20.99 Joe Kissell Book If you've ever thought you should learn how to use the Unix command line that underlies Mac OS X, or felt at sea when typing commands into Terminal, Joe Kissell is here to help! This 111-page book will help you become comfortable working on the Mac's command line, starting with the fundamentals and walking you through more advanced topics as your knowledge increases. And if you're uncertain how to put your new-found skills to use, Joe includes numerous real-life "recipes" for tasks that are best done from the command line. The book begins by teaching you these core concepts:
  • The differences between Unix, a command line, a shell, and Terminal
  • Exactly how commands, arguments, and flags work
  • The basics of Terminal's interface and how to customize it
Next, it's on to the command line, where you'll learn:
  • How to navigate your Mac's file system
  • Basic file management: creating, copying, moving, renaming, opening, viewing, and deleting files
  • The types of command-line programs
  • How to edit a text file in nano (even if you are not named Mork)
  • What a profile is, why it's cool, and how to customize yours
  • The importance of your PATH and how to change it, if you need to
  • How to get help (Joe goes way beyond telling you to consult the man pages)
You'll extend your skills as you discover how to:
  • Create and run scripts to automate repetitive tasks.
  • See which programs are running and what system resources they're consuming.
  • Quit programs that refuse to quit normally.
  • Enable the command line to interact with the Finder.
  • Control another Mac via its command line using ssh.
  • Understand and change an item's permissions, owner, and group.
  • Run commands as the root user using sudo.
Questions answered include:
  • Which shell am I using, and how can I change my default shell?
  • How do I quickly figure out the path to an item on my Mac?
  • How can I customize my Terminal window so I can see man pages behind it?
  • How can I make a shortcut to avoid retyping the same long command?
  • Is there a trick for entering a long path quickly?
  • What should I say when someone asks if I know how to use vi?
  • How do I change my prompt to suit my mood or needs?
Finally, to help you put it all together, the book showcases 40 real-world "recipes" that combine commands you've learned to perform useful tasks, such as listing users who've logged in recently, figuring out why a disk won't eject, changing filename extensions, copying the source code of a Web page, downloading a file via FTP, determing which programs have open connections to the Internet, learning details about a domain name, and deleting stubborn items from the Trash.
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