OS X Mavericks the missing manual, the book that should have been in the box

Demonstrates the OS X 10.9 Mavericks operating system's basic features, including Internet access, file management, configuring the desktop, networking, installing peripherals, file sharing, and working with applications. What do you get when you cross a Mac with an iPad? OS X 10.9 Mavericks. I...

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Main Author: Pogue, David, 1963- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly, 2013.
Edition: First edition.
Series: Missing manual.
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Summary: Demonstrates the OS X 10.9 Mavericks operating system's basic features, including Internet access, file management, configuring the desktop, networking, installing peripherals, file sharing, and working with applications. What do you get when you cross a Mac with an iPad? OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Its 200 new features include Mac versions of iPad goodies like Maps, iBooks, and iTunes Radio - but not a single page of instructions. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, with the expertise and humor that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for over 11 years straight.
Item Description: Includes index (pages 831-861).
Physical Description: xvi, 861 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781449362249 (paperback)
1449362249 (paperback)
Author Notes: David Pogue is an American technology writer and TV science presenter. He was born in 1963 and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Pogue graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1985, with distinction in music.

After graduation, Pogue wrote manuals for music software, worked on Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, and wrote for Macworld Magazine. He wrote Macs for Dummies, which became the best-selling Mac title, as well as other books in the Dummies series. He launched his own series of humorous computer books entitled the Missing Manual series, which includes 120 titles. He spent 13 years as the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times, before leaving to found Yahoo Tech.

In addition to how-to manuals, he wrote Pogue's Basics: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) for Simplifying the Technology in Your Life, collaborated on The World According to Twitter, and co-authored The Weird Wide Web.

(Bowker Author Biography)