Advanced Books, Programming Books

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Mac Essentials

  • AppleScript: The Missing Manual by Adam Goldstein. This book is a patient, witty guide to the basics of scripting your Mac with AppleScript. Step-by-step examples include batch-renaming files in the Finder, altering and applying text styles in TextEdit, tweaking QuickTime movie files, and much more.

  • AppleScript: The Definitive Guide by Matt Neuburg. Once you've got the basics down, this book takes you deeper into AppleScript, teaching you the finer details of the language from the ground up.

  • Inside .Mac by Chuck Toporek. This book shows you how to get the most from your .Mac membership, showing you how to use apps like Backup and Virex, and how to build your .Mac HomePage using the online tools.

  • Mac OS X Tiger Hacks by Rael Dornfest and James Duncan Davidson. 100 no-nonsense, sometimes quick-and-dirty solutions to administering and taking full advantage of Web, Mail, and FTP serving, security services, SSH, Perl and shell scripting, compiling, configuring, scheduling, networking, and hacking.

  • Mac OS X Tiger Pocket Guide by Chuck Toporek. Need a handy guide to Mac OS X Tiger that you can carry ...

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