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Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
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Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

by David Pogue
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
866 pages
29h 18m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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