By Adam Engst, David Pogue
First Edition
November 1999
Pages: 320
ISBN 10: 1-56592-539-4 |
ISBN 13: 9781565925397
(Average of 5 Customer Reviews)
Like travelers in a foreign land, Mac users working in Windows or Windows users working on a Mac often find themselves in unfamiliar territory with no guidebook. Crossing Platforms: A Macintosh/Windows Phrasebook offers users a handy way of translating skills and knowledge from one platform to the other.
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Like travelers in a foreign land, Mac users working in Windows or Windows users working on a Mac often find themselves in unfamiliar territory with no guidebook. Crossing Platforms: A Macintosh/Windows Phrasebook, with information presented in a translation dictionary-like format, offers users a handy way of translating skills and knowledge from one platform to the other. Whether it's explaining the difference between Macintosh
aliases and Windows shortcuts or explaining how a Windows user would go about setting up Internet access on a Mac, this book provides readers a simple means to look up familiar interface elements and system features and learn how that element or feature works on the other platform.
Crossing Platforms: A Macintosh/Windows Phrasebook includes:
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- A general introduction to the key differences between the Mac and Windows
- A to Z sections for each platform: one section where Mac users look up familiar Macintosh terms to find the equivalent function in Windows along with an explanation of the differences; and another section where Windows users find familiar Windows terms with pointers to the Macintosh equivalent along with full descriptions of how the function works on the Mac and important differences between the two platforms
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Crossing Platforms: A Macintosh/Windows Phrasebook Review, November 09 2002
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This is a great book if the two platforms you are concerned with are Windows and Mac OS 8.x/9.x. However, the book hasn't been adapted to Mac OS X, so it seems incomplete to me. Hopefully, the authors are working on a new edition that compares Windows ME/2K/XP with Mac OS X.
Crossing Platforms: A Macintosh/Windows Phrasebook Review, May 15 2000
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I do cross platform support for a living, and knowing both platforms' jargon has been the basis for my success. I've also read Pogue's and Engst's independent work -- and am extremely happy at their collaboration. This is very objective and will help those who must positively speak on both the Win and Mac side.
Crossing Platforms: A Macintosh/Windows Phrasebook Review, May 15 2000
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As usual, David Pogue crosses platforms with his wit & style. It feels as though one isreading a humorous tome,but in fact, one is learning essential facts and gaining knowledge. Any other author would bore us to death, but Mr. Pogue doesn't even make us feel that we are learning. I have to give this 100 stars, 5 is just not enough.
Crossing Platforms: A Macintosh/Windows Phrasebook Review, May 15 2000
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An absolutly essential book, at least for Macusers. Many of us are confirmed in our
choice of operating systems but find ourselves in a cross-platform world. I find their approach unique , very handy to use,and invaluable in translating to a different platform. I can't tell you how much time and frustration it saved me, for instance in just one area -- comparing keyboard shortcuts.
Crossing Platforms: A Macintosh/Windows Phrasebook Review, May 15 2000
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As a translator, and Mac user, I was delighted to see that Adam Engst and David Pogue, who are, in a way, the Strunk and White of Macintosh journalism, released this original book. As a translator first, it is an essential reference book for terms on both platforms. But as a Mac user, confronted with Windows often (I do own a PC as well) this answers all my questions about how best to understand the different philosophies of the two operating systems. Well written, clear and efficient, this book is really excellent. If you work with both platforms, don't hesitate to get it. The only drawback I found was the lack of an
index. In spite of that, I couldn't recommend it more.
Media reviews "Crossing Platforms is an extremely useful book, whichever platform you're more familiar with. It won't burden you with information you don't need, and it won't force you to take the time to read cover-to-cover in order to gain familiarity with your new operating system. Instead, it takes advantage of what you already know, translating your need (in the vocabulary of one system) to the solution (in the vocabulary of the other)." -- Paul Fatula, ATPM, June 2001
"Best MAC-WIN book under $30" --Third Annual BookBytes Awards, Dec 2000
"Say what you like about the farmer and the cowman, but the Windows user and the Macintosh jockey likely will never enjoy much more than a grudging co-existence. That's why it can be so traumatic when a job or other tragic circumstance requires a devotee of one environment to switch to the other. Crossing Platforms: A Macintosh/Windows Phrasebook helps ease the change by translating the terms and conventions of each platform into the other's equivalenty This is an honestly useful book." --David Wall, Amazon.com, March 2000
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