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Mac OS X Panther Hacks 100 Industrial Strength Tips and Tools

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ISBN-10: 0596007183

ISBN-13: 9780596007188

Edition: 2nd 2004

Authors: Rael Dornfest, James Duncan Davidson

List price: $29.95
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Like the animal it's named for, Mac OS X Panther is beautiful, sleek, superbly efficient, dangerously alluring, and all muscle under the surface. Beneath its appealing interface, it's a hard-working machine. Those coming to Mac OS X from previous incarnations of the operating system recognize much of the friendly face of the Macintosh they're used to, but they're also plunged into a whole new world. Unix converts to Mac OS X find a familiar FreeBSD-like operating system at the core and many of the command-line applications that they're familiar with: it's like an open invitation to roll up their sleeves and hack. "Mac OS X Panther Hacks brings together the perfect combination of tips,…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/13/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 590
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.02" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

(author, Chapters 8 and 9, previous edition) is O'Reilly Media's Chief Technology Officer. He has co-authored various O'Reilly books, including Mac OS X Hacks, Google Hacks, Essential Blogging, and Peer to Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies, and he's program chair for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. Email: googlemm@raelity.org.

James Duncan Davidson is a freelance author, software developer, and consultant focusing on Mac OS X, Java, XML, and open source technologies. He is the author of Learning Cocoa with Objective-C (published by O'Reilly & Associates) and is a frequent contributor to the O'Reilly Network online website as well as publisher of his own website, x180 ( http://www.x180.net ), where he keeps his popular weblog.Duncan was the creator of Apache Tomcat and Apache Ant and was instrumental in their donation to the Apache Software Foundation by Sun Microsystems . While working at Sun, he authored two versions of the Java Servlet API specification as well as the Java API for XML Processing.

Credits
Preface
GUI
Enjoy the Animations
Spice Up Your Desktop
Use Labels Effectively
Launchers, or, Dial [characters not reproducible]-Space M for Mail
Wear Multiple Hats, Run Multiple Desktops
Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts
Tweak Menu Extras
Incorporate Services into Your Workflow
Autocomplete Your Words
Get Sidetracked
eMac, Meet eBook
Build Your Own Konfabulator Widget
Scripting
A Hacker's Introduction to AppleScript
AppleScript the GUI
Fulfill Wishes with Address Book
Fetch the Paper, AppleScript Style
Batch-Convert Screenshots to JPEGs
Build AppleScript Apps with FaceSpan
Mac::Glue Your Perl
Update iChat Status with Mac::Glue
Hack Your Address Book with Perl
Manipulate Images on the Command Line
Script CoreGraphics with Python
Tap RSS with Shell Scripts
Add a Dab of GUI to Unix Scripts
Automatically Dim Your Laptop Screen
Web, Chat, and Mail
Hack Safari
Browse Different
Avoid the Ads
Read Syndicated Online Content
Breathe Life into Your Staid Buddy List
Better iChat Transcripts
Gather Ye Buddies While Ye May
USB Videoconferencing
Provide Remote Support
IRC: Chatrooms for Hackers
Label Your Mail
Search Your Mail with ZOE
Encrypt and Sign Your Mail
Interleave Mail and Pine
Multimedia
Build a Household MP3 Server
Clutter Your Desktop with Music
Feed Streaming Audio to Your iPod
Autofeed Text to your iPod
Automate a Web Photo Gallery with iPhoto and Perl
Keep a Digital Diary
Rendezvous Picture Transfer
Rotate Your Movie from Horizontal to Vertical
Store Pictures and Movies in Your iPod
Gadgets and Hardware
Expand Your Screen Real Estate
iPod Tips and Tricks
Build an Emergency iPod Boot Volume
Pair and iSync with Bluetooth Devices
Use Your Cellphone as a Bluetooth Modem
Share Your Mac's Net Connection with a Bluetooth Phone
Control Your Mac with a PDA
Listen to Bluetooth
Print Without Wires
Zip, Zap, and Sync Your Gizmos
iOscillate
Networking and Network Apps
Share Your Address Book and iCal
Collaborative Editing with Rendezvous
See Spike Share His Clipboard
Detect Wireless Networks
Secure Your AirPort Network with WPA
Manage Multiple AirPort Base Stations
Access Remote Desktops
Servers
Apache Behind the Scenes
Turn on WebDAV
Turn on PHP
Advertise Web Sites with Rendezvous
Set Up a Postfix Mail Server
Relay Mail with Postfix
Set Up Secondary Mail Servers
Create Mail Aliases
Set Up IMAP and POP Mail Servers
Files and Backup
Synchronize Your Files
Edit Special Unix Files
Find and Unerase Misplaced and Deleted Files
Store and Search Your Records as PDF
Flex OmniOutliner
Decide What to Back Up
Automate Backups with Existing Tools
Back Up Your Digital Music Collection
Make a Carbon Copy
Bluetooth File Exchange and Browsing
Secure File Sharing with SSH
System Administration
Become an Administrator for a Moment
Understand Your User Account
Rename a User Account
Use the Terminal
Set Shell Environment Variables
A Security Primer
Stash Data in the Keychain
Panther Maintenance
Use iCal to Schedule Tasks
Use periodic to Schedule Tasks
Use cron to Schedule Tasks
Reinstall Mac OS X
Bypass the GUI
Index