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Sit down at your computer and let bestselling author Robin Williams gently introduce you to the basic features of the Mac. This classic, beloved guide shows you just what you need to get started with a Macintosh computer running Mac OS X Panther. In her gentle, friendly, funny style, author Robin Williams explains the basics of navigating the Mac's desktop and Finder windows, using a mouse, accessing menus and shortcuts, opening and saving applications, printing documents, getting online, surfing the web, and sending email. You'll find plenty of step-by-step instructions, plenty of screenshots, and helpful tips throughout--soon you'll feel comfortable, confident, and able to do just about anything.This beloved guide is the ideal starting place for users new to the Macintosh--and it also makes a great gift for your grandmother who won't stop calling you with questions about how to use her new Mac. No matter how old you are, this book shows you how to acquire exciting new computer skills while having fun in the process.

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Terrific resource forWindows switchers
I got this book because I'm taking a software class in a computer lab entirely full of Macintosh computers. I'm a veteran computer user, but I felt clueless.I didn't understand the Mac vocabulary,and I couldn't do basic things like find the power button, rename a file, or see what was on the hard drive. I still don't know how to page up and down using the keyboard.

This _Little Mac Book_ was wonderful. It told me the name of the Mac browser (Safari), helped me use the "Dock" (Mac's version of the Taskbar), explained the weird extra keys (the one with the funny symbol works similarly to the Windows Ctrl key), and it gave me the vocabulary to find my way around what to me was an entirely foreign computer. (A Mac "alias" is the same as a Windows "shortcut").

I think this is a great book. Naturally, it's meant as an introduction to Macs, and doesn't go very deep into the details. You'd have to look elsewhere for that. But for an introduction to the Mac computers for newbies, this book is marvelous. I recommend it.

Not enough coverage
I usually like Robin Williams' books but I am reallly disappointed with this one. I can't even find anything about the expose feature which is one of the main new features for Panther. If she doesn't cover this, I am wondering what else is missing. I really feel like I was cheated out of my money. This book might be useful to someonewho isn't familiar with Mac OS, but it won't help anyone looking for new features in Panther. ... Read more

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In this full-color book, author Robin Williams and illustrator John Tollett celebrate the new wave of type design known as "grunge" typography. The book consists of famous and not-so-famous quotes about type and design set in a range of grunge fonts, using rule-breaking layouts. The illustrations, created in Fractal Design Painter, complement the text. Includes a companion disk containing 22 freeware and shareware grunge fonts (Type 1), several of which were newly created for this book."Grunge" fonts - crazy typefaces - can be seen everywhere these days, from magazines to advertising materials. It's the hot topic in design circles, creating debate among those who use this new, lively, uninhibited typography and those who eschew it, believing that readability should be the main goal of type. A Blip in the continuum is the first book to spotlight and celebrate this revolutionary aesthetic. It is written by award-winning author Robin Williams, who regularly breaks rules not just in her design, but in the computer books she writes. Few authors have a following equal to hers both within the professional typographic community and among the wider computer-using public.Throughout the book, quotes about type and design are set in a range of grunge fonts, using rule-flaunting layouts.Each layout contains a full-color illustration created with the Painter software program. The off-the-wall illustrations form a bridge to the typography, enhancing the reader's understanding of this new graphic movement. More than 100 of the best new grunge fonts are featured in the book, which is for graphic designers, illustrators, and computer users of every level who want to understand grunge typography at the same time they feast on this eye-popping tour of design's cutting edge. ... Read more

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Graphic designers, illustratos and computer users of every level will feast on this eye-popping tour of design's cutting edge. This book celebrates radical typography, a style creating dramatic controversy among designers and artists. It's the old guard vs. the "grunge" typographers, readability vs. a whole look and feel that exudes energy and breaks the rules. ... Read more

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Excellent fun font book!
I gave the Mac version of this book as a gift to my hard-to-buy for sister and it was a winner! I am SOOO glad there's a Windows version for the non-Mac crowd. Every book by Robin Williams is visually inspiring and I especially liked the orginality of this one! Keep those books comin' Robin

Great fonts, well written - but maybe overpriced.
The fonts featured in the book are great.Not only are they varied and interesting, but they are also very versatile.However, if you're not interested in the phsycho-babble, new age publishing, and "celebration of grunge typography", you can find most of the fonts freely available on the internet and packaged with other fonts in larger, less expensive colloections.On the whole, though, it is a good read. ... Read more

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The author of The Little Mac Book discusses the ins and outs of tabs and indents on the Macintosh and includes a quick reference help section that summarizes all of the chapters. Original. ... Read more

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Making Identity Matter provides a clear and lively critique of a variety of uses of the concept of 'identity' within sociology and associated human sciences. In the early chapters, Robin Williams draws on a range of historical and contemporary sources to describe and discuss some common images of identity -- as subjective achievement, as social location and as discursive effect. In later chapters, the author explores recent empirical studies, which have argued for the suspension or modification of conventional theoretical assertions about how and why identity matters to human subjects in their ordinary lives. Williams concludes by endorsing recent arguments for detailed descriptions of the ways in which identity matters arise and are dealt with within and through the accountability of social interaction.

Making Identity Matter will be essential reading for all those involved in the human sciences who are concerned to understand the significance accorded to identity within the wider effort to examine the relationship between subjectivity, action and social and cultural institutions.

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Addressing the concerns of professional designers and graphic artists, this guide to the latest version of the popular page layout program covers the new features, including free text and graphic rotation and built-in color separations, as well as all previous capabilities. Original. (Intermediate). ... Read more

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A Top-Notch Treatise for any Page Layout Program
Even though I currently use Pagemaker 6.5 - this book remains at my side.It is quite simply the best reference on the subject of Page Layout. Evenif you use another program, Ms Williams tips on good design are worth theprice. Though Pagemakers interface has changed, nearly everything in thisbookpertains to the current version. Its also without doubt the mostreadable and beautifully designed computer book I've read to date. BUY IT!before its discontinued, You won't regret it. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Policy & Practice, published by American Public Welfare Association on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2307 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Adopting a new compact.
Author: Robin Arnold-Williams
Publication: Policy & Practice (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: American Public Welfare Association
Volume: 62Issue: 3Page: 10(5)

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Now that you have a Mac laptop, you have everything
you need to be a Road Warrior—a mobile computing
expert. Grab your Mac laptop and let John and Robin
show you how to realize the full potential of mobile
computing. Be productive, be creative, or just have a
lot of fun while you’re on the go! Whether you’re
traveling from one room to the other, from home to
office, or even to another country, Macs on the Go!
shows you how to take advantage of the power of
mobility.

You’ll learn how to:
-    Modify your Network settings for connectivity.
-    Use the Mac’s built-in software to keep in touch.
-    Receive and send email from almost anywhere
in the world.
-    Customize Network settings.
-    Use iChat to video conference or audio chat
while on the go.
-    Keep in touch using .Mac Group pages or iWeb
for blogs, photo pages, and movie pages.
-    Take advantage of cool .Mac account features.

And you’ll learn about:
-    Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technology.
-    Wireless connections and Hotspots.
-    Using a mobile phone to connect to the Internet.
-    File sharing while on the go.
-    Advanced Road Warrior tips.

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This book makes significant advances in analyzing the relationship between technology and society. It highlights both the policy implications of this relationship and new possibilities for intervention by government, policymakers, managers and the public.

Shaping Technology, Guiding Policy examines and utilizes a variety of recently emerging concepts which highlight the scope for local discretion and choice in the way that technologies are designed and used, as well as the broader structures and systems that may serve to restrict choice. By applying these concepts to an analysis of case studies of various social and technical settings, the book explores their utility for understanding the ways in which contemporary technologies are developed and applied and how they are made to influence society.

Academics and researchers from a wide variety of perspectives will find this new book fascinating reading. Technology policymakers and practitioners will also find the book of great interest. ... Read more

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This work on patio and container gardening offers advice on: choosing the best hard surface to complement home and garden; contructing, designing and laying a patio area; ancillary features such as lighting; decorating the patio with containers; and the plants themselves. ... Read more

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Leopard es la sexta actualización importante que Apple ha hecho de Mac OS X desde que esta versión del sistema operativo fuera lanzada en el 2001. Destacan su facilidad de uso y eficiencia al alcance de todos los niveles.Ahora que muchos usuarios adquieren los Macintosh para complementar los iPod e iPhone, este libro ofrece un acercamiento práctico a todo el entorno Mac, desde los aspectos más básicos hasta numerosas pistas para avanzar con Leopard una vez asimilado lo principal. Aprenderá a familiarizarse con el Escritorio, el Finder, el Dock, cómo conectarse a Internet, cómo imprimir y muchas otras características útiles con las que se convertirá en un pujante usuario de Mac en muy poco tiempo. ... Read more