Macworld Mac Secrets
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Macworld Mac Secrets (or formerly Macworld Mac & Power Mac Secrets is a Macintosh book written by David Pogue and Joseph Schorr. The most recent edition is the 6th Edition, which only just covers Mac OS X 10.0 "Cheetah".
The book is over 1,200 pages long. At the end of the book are diskettes (CD-ROMs as of the 3rd edition) packed with fully functional applications, some of them commercial software. The authors seemed to know its place very well: the start of the book states: "Heck, even if you throw away the book, the ... megs of spectacular software ... will make you mighty glad you picked it up."
[edit] Audience
The book, according to Pogue and Schorr, is for "everybody in the middle". It is not intended for absolute beginners (Schorr made it clear: the book would not, for example, define scroll bar), and, as the authors state, "wouldn't tell you what you can accomplish by going inside your Mac with a soldering gun -- even if we knew".
[edit] Sources and References
- Quotes from Macworld Mac & Power Mac SECRETS, 2nd Edition, page 2.
