What's New!

Old Fart’s Guide™ to the Macintosh

• A complete overhaul on all chapters

There have been many modifications. All links to Web sites have been reverified and almost every chapter has seen some significant revisions and alterations. We now have a foreword by Guy Kawasaki and an introduction by Charles W. Moore.

• More detailed video conferencing content

When the first edition was written, not much was available for doing video conferencing in OS X. Oh how this has changed! We now have a few good choices, one of them from Apple in the form of “iChat AV.” This new section can really get the reader up and video conferencing with friends and family quickly.

• A bigger book

This edition has 410 insightful pages. Fans of the first edition know how much information was contained inside its 270 pages. There is simply more to love about the second edition.

• A new subchapter demystifies computer technology

The first edition did a great job of introducing the reader to the different Macintosh makes and models. It did not; however, go into detail about how Macs work. This new material gives the reader a solid understanding of what lies “under the hood” of your Mac. This is the kind of knowledge a savvy shopper needs to understand how to buy a used Macintosh or to fully appreciate what they are getting in a new machine. The subchapter is called “G3, G4 and G5, Oh My!” and is contained in the “Advanced Topics for the Curious” chapter.

• Covers Mac OS 10.3 (Panther)

The latest Macintosh operating system is upon us. It is version 10.3, popularly known by its code name “Panther.” The second edition has an entire chapter dedicated to what is great about Panther and what to watch out for.

• A new chapter on giving slide-show presentations

The first edition covered many aspects of AppleWorks with the exception of how to do presentations. You can use your Mac to presents slides on a TV screen or a projector, this new chapter shows you how. It is called “Creating Presentations With AppleWorks (version 6).”

• A first-rate index

If there was a major shortcoming in the first edition, it was that it lacked an index. Having a detailed Table Of Contents and Glossary were nice but an index was desperately needed. The second edition has a great index.