Chapter 1. The Tiger Finder

Any artist can tell you that without the right inks, paints, brushes, or pencils, your ability to express yourself creatively is greatly hampered. The same holds true for graphic designers, although their inks, paints, and brushes are represented by applications like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, and QuarkXPress. Along with these applications sits one other vitally important piece: Mac OS X 10.4, or Tiger.

Tiger can be an amazingly powerful ally in helping you get your job done better, faster, and more creatively. It’s the part that binds everything together: Without it, the applications you rely on to get your job done won’t run, and you can’t save or find documents. Tiger is a big enough beast that ...

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