You're smart and savvy, but also busy. This comprehensive guide to Apple's Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard, gives you everything you need to know to live a happy, productive Mac life.Learn Mac OS X Snow Leopard will have you up and connected lickitysplit. 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 Mac OS X, skip right to the "What's New in Snow Leopard" 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.

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Getting to Know Snow Leopard.- Working in Snow Leopard: The Aqua Interface.- The File System.- Using Spotlight, Exposé, Spaces, and Dashboard.- Customizing and Administering Leopard.- System Preferences.- Printing, Peripherals, and Bluetooth in Snow Leopard.- Common Mac OS X Maintenance.- Backup, Synchronization, and Recovery of Data.- Mac OS X Security.- Communications and the Internet.- Connecting to the Internet.- Browsing the Web with Safari.- Mail, Address Book, and iCal.- iChat.- MobileMe.- Working with Applications.- Application Basics.- Snow Leopard Applications.- iLife 09.- Getting to Know Darwin.- Introducing Darwin and the Shell.- Extending the Power of Darwin.- Snow Leopard Networking.- Snow Leopard Networking.- Working with Remote Servers and Networks.- Snow Leopard As a Web Server.- Snow Leopard Development and Scripting.- Mac OS X Automation with Automator and AppleScript.- Mac OS X Development: The Application Frameworks.- Mac OS X Development: The Tools.- Mac OS X Development: Objective-C.- Cross-Platform Solutions.- Working with Microsoft Windows and Other Operating Systems.