Learn OS X Lion

by Scott Meyers, Mike Lee

Overview

You’re smart and savvy, but you're also busy. This comprehensive guide to Apple's latest version of OS X, Lion, gives you everything you need to know to live a happy, productive Mac life. Learn OS X Lion will have you up and connected right away. With a minimum of overhead and a maximum of useful information, you’ll cover a lot of ground in the time it takes other books to get you plugged in.

If this isn’t your first experience with OS X, skip right to the "What’s New in Lion" sections. You may also find yourself using this book as a quick refresher course or a way to learn new Mac skills you’ve never tried before.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430237624
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	10/12/2011
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	736
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Scott Meyers has worked in and around the computer industry, beginning as an Apple sales specialist and consultant over 12 years ago, and he has since moved on to various other jobs including web design and development, editing books on web development, open source and Apple technology, and marketing. He is a Select ADC (Apple Developers Connection) Member and a huge fan of Mac OS X, which brings together his love of the Apple's traditionally best-of-class GUI and applications with the unrivaled power of Unix and open source technologies and applications. Scott lives outside of Indianapolis with his wife, two kids, and a cat and a dog. When not working or writing, he enjoys photography, playing guitar, and building amplifiers.

Table of Contents

• Welcome to Lion
• Using the Finder
• OS X’s File System
• Nifty Tools in Lion
• Application Basics
• Managing Applications
• Lion's included applications
• Connecting to the network / Internet
• Learn to browse the web
• Learn to master email
• Contact management with Address Book
• Time management with iCal
• Chatting and communication
• iCloud and MobileMe
• iPhoto
• iMovie
• GarageBand
• Exploring the System Preferences
• Printing & Peripherals
• Time Machine Backup and Recovery
• General Lion Care and Feeding
• What you need to know about Security
• Introducing Darwin, Terminal, and the Shell
• Extending Lion with Darwin
• Networking with Lion
• Remote access and sharing
• Lion as a web server
• Working with your MS Windows friends
• Running Other OSs on your Mac
• An overview of Lion scripting and development
• AppleScript and Automator
• Xcode tools for Lion Development
• Cocoa App Development 101