Not only is this book personable and funny, but it does not skimp on the tech details Mac users need. [UNK] Written by Leo Laporte, one of the most widely recognized voices in consumer technology today! [UNK] Leo shows users how to securely network a Mac, how to work with PC users, how to wring every last drop of performance from the iLife apps [UNK] Much like Apple's promise of fun and frivolity with their hardware and software, we guarantee that you'll have fun reading this book. The ads make it all look so easy, so simple and [Illegible] so utterly uncomplicated, don't they? Buy a Mac, live happily ever after? While we'll agree that right-out-of-the-box, Macs are more inttinsically friendly than their PC counterparts, they get difficult in a hurry, especially if you try to do anything useful with them. Setting up wireless networking, troubleshooting network problems, dealing with periphecals run amuck, futzing with security settings, and living in a PC-dominated world is enough to make even grizzled Mac veterans turn a little green around the gills. a Mac and an iPod, you most certainly aren't invincible, it's time to make that cheery little Mac of yours do what Apple and the media would lead you to believe it can do right out of the box. Leo Laporte's Guide to Mac OS X Tiger spotlights troubleshooting, problem solving, the latest Tiger features, security, and using common gadgers (iPod, smartphones, PDAs). This book leaos away from a describe the menus approach used by just about every other book and instead focuses on rips and techniques the help you really understand Mac OS X Tiger, and how to make it sing. Throughout the book, you'll find dozens of useful tips that will help you get closer to that original Mac-driven nirvana you pictured when you first carried your beloved Mac over the threshold.