Mac OS 8.5: Visual QuickStart Guide - Softcover

Langer, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201353571 ISBN 13: 9780201353570

Publisher: Peachpit Press, 1998

Synopsis

Both new and longtime Mac users will appreciate this clear, visual guide to Mac OS 8.5 and its significantly overhauled graphical interface. Mac OS 8.5: Visual QuickStart Guide covers everything that was introduced in Mac OS 8.0, and then walks you through Mac OS 8.5's new features.

Using step-by-step instructions illustrated with hundreds of screenshots, seasoned Mac author Maria Langer walks you through the latest additions to the Mac OS, including version 8.5's new file finding and navigation techniques and the user interface "Themes." Why spend a lot of money on a guide when you know more system updates are on their way? Mac OS 8.5: Visual QuickStart Guide is the quickest, most cost-effective way to learn the ins and outs of Apple's newest operating system.

About this title

About the Author

Maria Langer has written more than 20 computer books. She also writes for MacWEEK, MacAddict, NetProfessional, FileMaker Pro Advisor, and Computer User. She is a consultant, Webmaster, computer trainer, and regular speaker at Macworld Expo.

From the Back Cover

This is the right book at the right time for the dedicated community of Macintosh users. Both new and longtime Mac users will need this clear, visual guide to their new operating system with its significantly overhauled graphical interface. And the affordability of this Visual QuickStart Guide will make it attractive to an informed user base that knows more system updates are on the way.

Mac OS 8.5:Visual QuickStart Guide will cover the features introduced in Mac OS 8.0, demonstrating the revised System Software Installer, Extensions Manager, Open Transport (facilitates smoother network connections), Text-to-Speech, File Translation Utilities (working with PC files), as well as covering the Apple Internet Connection Kit. Seasoned Mac author Maria Langer will illustrate the new Mac OS 8.5 features, including new file finding and navigation techniques and the new user interface "Themes."

Edition details

• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201353571
• ISBN 13: 9780201353570
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336