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Enterprise Mac Administrator’s Guide

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:16:07 +0000

A Must Read for any Mac Admin – Brian C. Weber – Watchung, NJ
I found this book to by very easy and dare i say enjoyable, especially for a technical book. It has elements of advise, how-to and reference that gave it a nice blend to read through now, but to also keep on the shelf for future reference.
Enterprise Mac Administrator’s Guide :

Charles Edge, Zack Smith, and Beau Hunter provide detailed explanations of the technology required for large-scale Mac OS X deployments and show you how to integrate it with other operating systems and applications.

Enterprise Mac Administrator’s Guide addresses the growing size and spread of Mac OS X deployments in corporations and institutions worldwide. In some cases, this is due to the growth of traditional Mac environments, but for the most part it has to do with “switcher” campaigns, where Windows and/or Linux environments are migrating to Mac OS X. However, there is a steep culture shock with these types of migrations. The products that are used are different, the nomenclature is different, and most importantly the best practices for dealing with the operating system are different.

Apple provides a number of tools to help automate and guide IT toward managing a large number of Mac OS X computers–it has since before Mac OS X was initially released. However, if you want to put together all of the pieces to tell a compelling story about how to run an IT department or a deployment of Macs, you need to compile information from a number of different sources. This book will provide explanations of the technology required.

Provides complete solutions for the large- and medium-scale integration of directory services, imaging, and security
Complete guide for integrating Macs and Mac OS X into mixed environments with confidence and no down time
One-stop volume for IT professionals who need the technical details to get their job done as efficiently and effectively as possible

What you’ll learn

Choose a directory services model that works for your organization and integrate it into your existing model
Choose an imaging model and begin imaging workstations with or without third-party products
Leverage scripting techniques to reduce labor for the IT department
Provide network services (file sharing, mobile home folders, messaging, etc.) to the Mac OS X clients
Mass-deploy the iPhone

Who is this book for?

System administrators and IT professionals who need to manage a large number of Mac OS X computers, be they Mac OS X–based servers or workstations. The assumption is that readers are somewhat familiar with Mac OS X and/or IT in general, but not that they are familiar with the Apple system internals, server services, or deployment techniques.

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2003 Software: Safari, Skype, Windows Server 2003, Amarok, Waste, Presto, Keepass, Hugin, Notepad++, Openkore, Mac Os X Panther, Andreamosaic

admin — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 04:34:18 +0000

2003 Software: Safari, Skype, Windows Server 2003, Amarok, Waste, Presto, Keepass, Hugin, Notepad++, Openkore, Mac Os X Panther, Andreamosaic : Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Safari, Skype, Windows Server 2003, Amarok, Waste, Presto, Keepass, Hugin, Notepad++, Openkore, Mac Os X Panther, Andreamosaic, Centricity, Adobe Audition, Rtext, Shapeshifter. Excerpt: Skype (pronounced ) is a software application that allows users to make voice calls over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phones can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system. Skype has also become popular for its additional features which include instant messaging, file transfer, and video conferencing. Skype was developed by Estonian developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu and Jaan Tallinn, who had also originally developed the peer-to-peer file sharing software Kazaa. Skype Limited, the company that operates Skype, was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis with headquarters in Luxembourg. eBay acquired Skype Limited in September 2005 and in April 2009 announced plans to spin it off in a 2010 IPO. Registered users of Skype are identified by a unique Skype Name, and may be listed in the Skype directory. Skype allows these registered users to communicate through both instant messaging and voice chat. Voice chat allows calls between pairs of users and conference calling, and uses a proprietary audio codec. Skype’s text chat client allows group chats, emoticons, storing chat history, offline messaging and (in recent versions) editing of previous messages. The usual features familiar to instant messaging users such as user profiles, online status indicators, and so on are also included. The SkypeIn service allows Skype users to receive calls on their computers dialed by regular phone subscribers to a local Skype phone number; local num… More: http://booksllc.net/?id=424589 read more

Das Grundlagenbuch Mac OS X 10.6 – Snow Leopard: Das Betriebssystem von Apple in der Praxis

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:44:12 +0000

Das Grundlagenbuch Mac OS X 10.6 – Snow Leopard: Das Betriebssystem von Apple in der Praxis Mandl & Schwarz: Hersteller: Mandl&Schwarz Herstellernummer: 978-3-939685-17-3 Bezeichnung: 978-3-939685-17-3 BUCH // Grundlagen zu Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard read more

Big Book of Apple Hacks: Tips & Tools for Unlocking the Power of Your Apple Devices

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:46:17 +0000

A bit outdated but still very useful for the beginners – Esposito Mario – Redmond, WA United States
There’s a LOT of content in this book and it is well organized. However if you’re a strong hack-boy you probably will find new content only for the 40% of the book. It’s a nice piece for your collection.
Big Book of Apple Hacks: Tips & Tools for Unlocking the Power of Your Apple Devices :

Bigger in size, longer in length, broader in scope, and even more useful than our original Mac OS X Hacks, the new Big Book of Apple Hacks offers a grab bag of tips, tricks and hacks to get the most out of Mac OS X Leopard, as well as the new line of iPods, iPhone, and Apple TV.

With 125 entirely new hacks presented in step-by-step fashion, this practical book is for serious Apple computer and gadget users who really want to take control of these systems. Many of the hacks take you under the hood and show you how to tweak system preferences, alter or add keyboard shortcuts, mount drives and devices, and generally do things with your operating system and gadgets that Apple doesn’t expect you to do. The Big Book of Apple Hacks gives you:

Hacks for both Mac OS X Leopard and Tiger, their related applications, and the hardware they run on or connect to
Expanded tutorials and lots of background material, including informative sidebars
“Quick Hacks” for tweaking system and gadget settings in minutes
Full-blown hacks for adjusting Mac OS X applications such as Mail, Safari, iCal, Front Row, or the iLife suite
Plenty of hacks and tips for the Mac mini, the MacBook laptops, and new Intel desktops
Tricks for running Windows on the Mac, under emulation in Parallels or as a standalone OS with Bootcamp

The Big Book of Apple Hacks is not only perfect for Mac fans and power users, but also for recent — and aspiring — “switchers” new to the Apple experience. Hacks are arranged by topic for quick and easy lookup, and each one stands on its own so you can jump around and tweak whatever system or gadget strikes your fancy. Pick up this book and take control of Mac OS X and your favorite Apple gadget today!

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Mac OS X: Mac OS X. History of Mac OS X, Mac OS, Mac OS 9, Macintosh, NeXT, Mac OS X v10. 5, Mac OS X Server 1. 0, Mac OS X v10. 0, Mac OS X Server, Apple? Intel transition

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:43:19 +0000

Mac OS X: Mac OS X. History of Mac OS X, Mac OS, Mac OS 9, Macintosh, NeXT, Mac OS X v10. 5, Mac OS X Server 1. 0, Mac OS X v10. 0, Mac OS X Server, Apple? Intel transition : Mac OS X. History of Mac OS X, Mac OS, Mac OS 9, Macintosh, NeXT, Mac OS X v10. 5, Mac OS X Server 1. 0, Mac OS X v10. 0, Mac OS X Server, Apple? Intel transition read more

Mac OS X Version 10.3 Panther Fast & Easy (Fast & Easy (Premier Press))

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:35:22 +0000

Mac OS X Version 10.3 Panther Fast & Easy (Fast & Easy (Premier Press)) : With “Mac OS X v10.3 Fast & Easy’s” step-by-step instructions and hundreds of screenshots, you will be navigating the Mac OS X interface and customizing your Mac in no time. Panther offers a slick new feature, Expose. Using function keys, users can, by default, tile all open windows, tile all open windows for the current application, or hide all open windows so you can see the contents of your desktop. If you want to get the most from your Mac, this book will provide everything you need to exploit your system’s resources. Learn the ins and outs of everything in this new OS, from navigating, managing your files, networking, handling email, and using digital applications. This book is geared toward the novice new to all versions of Mac OS X, including first-time Mac users, as well as users upgrading from earlier OS X versions who want to know more about new features. read more

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Peachpit Learning Series

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:51:28 +0000

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Peachpit Learning Series :

If you want to tame Mac OS X Tiger, but you want to do so in the comfort of your own home, this guide makes it possible! Robin Williams uses her trademark friendly teaching style to reveal exactly what you want to know: What’s new in Tiger, what’s great about it, and how can you get the most out of it fast! Focused lessons take you step-by-step through practical, real-world projects that teach Mac OS X Tiger inside and out. Covers everything from upgrading your Mac to Tiger and customizing and troubleshooting your system to all of Tiger’s new goodies: configuring the spoken-user interface, audio and video messaging with multiple people at once, a Dashboard full of Widgets, the innovative Spotlight Search system, the enhanced Safari RSS browser, and more.

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Using Samba: A File and Print Server for Linux, Unix & Mac OS X, 3rd Edition

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:01:22 +0000

Samba – C. Dean I. Anderson – Sault Ste Marie, ON, Canada
Great book for the price. Assisted in setting up shares for linux and windows systems. Need to read it thoroughly to get an understanding of samba.
Using Samba: A File and Print Server for Linux, Unix & Mac OS X, 3rd Edition :

This book is the comprehensive guide to Samba administration, officially adopted by the Samba Team. Wondering how to integrate Samba’s authentication with that of a Windows domain? How to get Samba to serve Microsoft Dfs shares? How to share files on Mac OS X? These and a dozen other issues of interest to system administrators are covered. A whole chapter is dedicated to troubleshooting!

The range of this book knows few bounds. Using Samba takes you from basic installation and configuration — on both the client and server side, for a wide range of systems — to subtle details of security, cross-platform compatibility, and resource discovery that make the difference between whether users see the folder they expect or a cryptic error message.

The current edition covers such advanced 3.x features as:

Integration with Active Directory and OpenLDAP
Migrating from Windows NT 4.0 domains to Samba
Delegating administrative tasks to non-root users
Central printer management
Advanced file serving features, such as making use of Virtual File System (VFS) plugins.

Samba is a cross-platform triumph: robust, flexible and fast, it turns a Unix or Linux system into a file and print server for Microsoft Windows network clients. This book will help you make your file and print sharing as powerful and efficient as possible. The authors delve into the internals of the Windows activities and protocols to an unprecedented degree, explaining the strengths and weaknesses of each feature in Windows domains and in Samba itself.

Whether you’re playing on your personal computer or an enterprise network, on one note or a full three-octave range, Using Samba will give you an efficient and secure server.

Final Cut Express 2 for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide)

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:42:12 +0000

Try to find something else – Richard J. Cirminello –
I have bought and used many Visual Quickstart Guides and they have always been great when getting started with something new. However, Final Cut Express 2 for Mac OS X is an exception.
Instead of explaining a sample project and then taking you step by step so you can get your feet wet, Lisa Brenneis instead decides it is more valuable to explain each item on each pulldown menu: whether you will need it or not.

She discusses in excruciating detail the various ways to save a project and how to open previous projects whose files have been misplaced, etc…without ever mentioning how to start a new project. In Chapter 3 she explains how to make a ‘Custom Shortcut Button.’ That’s nice, but since she doesn’t explain how to get video IN to FCE2 until Chapter 6, I have no idea what I would want to create a custom shortcut button for.

The first couple of chapters were full of so many details with no hands on experience or practical explaination…I was asking myself: “where’s the quickstart?” oh…that doesn’t come until page 145.

In Chapter 2:
“To restore a project:
1. Choose File>Restore Project
2. In the Restore Projects dialog box’s pop-up menu, select the archived project you want to restore
3. Click Restore”
DUH!

Now at this point, reading from the beginning of the book, I have no idea what restoring a project means, why I would want to do it, nor do I even have a project to restore!

I sat for a few hours with this book and a simple video project I wanted to complete in FCE2 and instead of getting some good experience and information, I decided a better use of time would be to come here and write this negative review. Afterward, I am going to work on the project in iMovie; possibly tomorrow I’ll look for another book and try again.

Visual Quickstart Guides are usually great, but this book is NOT like the rest.
Do yourself a favor, find yourself something else. But if you still really want this book, send me a message, I’m selling mine.
Final Cut Express 2 for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide) :

This task-based guide has been revised to cover the latest version of Apple’s consumer-level video editing, effects, and compositing software! Built around the same interface as its Emmy Award-winning big brother, Final Cut Pro, and updated with a slew of powerful new features, Apple’s Final Cut Express 2 (9; upgrade, ) is the digital video editing application for the rest of us: everyone who wants to make sophisticated, compelling videos using the tools and workflow of the pros but without investing heavily in training or equipment. This concise yet complete task-based reference by digital video expert Lisa Brenneis uses loads of illustrations and valuable professional advice to show Final Cut Express users how to edit video; apply special effects and transitions; master the program’s compositing, titling, and audio tools; and output their finished work. Readers will also learn to use Final Cut Express 2’s new features: real-time effects and transition preview, enhanced audio editing capabilities, real-time color correction tools, dynamic and asymmetrical trimming, and much more.

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Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:43:24 +0000

My favorite resource books – D. Urbaitis – No. Illinois, USA
Important reference book for Snow Leopard. Pogue’s books are always extensive, with lots of screen captures and concise but thorough explanations. Mr. Pogue is not so highly technical that he forgets to answer the more mundane questions that you’re not likely to find elsewhere (like, what’s the difference between QuickTime Player, QuickTime Player 7 and QuickTime Player Pro?). The book is not just written well, it’s illustrated and designed well, filled with necessary and just plain helpful information in a well-organized, attractive format. These Missing Manuals are not cheap, but just one problem fixed, or a couple of useable facts to remember, or one “aha” paragraph, may well be worth the entire price — and this book is loaded with such things. There’s so much information to cover that Mr. Pogue’s impish sense of humor scarcely appears in the almost 900 pages it takes to be thorough. His Missing Manual books are my favorite resources, since I run a small business and have to be my own tech guy. The manuals have helped me to extend my grasp of necessary Mac technologies when my equipment/software was aging, and also now that I’ve had to replace it with something brand new and mysterious. I keep Mac OS X Snow Leopard Missing Manual close to my work station.
Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual :

For a company that promised to “put a pause on new features,” Apple sure has been busy-there’s barely a feature left untouched in Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard.” There’s more speed, more polish, more refinement-but still no manual. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, with the humor and expertise that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for eight years straight. You get all the answers with jargon-free introductions to:

Big-ticket changes. A 64-bit overhaul. Faster everything. A rewritten Finder. Microsoft Exchange compatibility. All-new QuickTime Player. If Apple wrote it, this book covers it.
Snow Leopard Spots. This book demystifies the hundreds of smaller enhancements, too, in all 50 programs that come with the Mac: Safari, Mail, iChat, Preview, Time Machine.
Shortcuts. This must be the tippiest, trickiest Mac book ever written. Undocumented surprises await on every page.
Power usage. Security, networking, build-your-own Services, file sharing with Windows, even Mac OS X’s Unix chassis-this one witty, expert guide makes it all crystal clear.

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