I’ve seen a fair number of books for OS X and they range in target audience from the raw beginner such as Mac OS X for Dummies and Robin William’s Mac OS X Book through to those for technical readers such as Mac OS X In A Nutshell (IAN).

Mastering Mac OS X falls firmly in the middle. Unlike IAN it spends a fair amount of time on the GUI and a major section is devoted to QuickTime and the iApps. Unlike Robin William’s volume it covers high end topics such as AppleScript and the terminal and has a good section on troubleshooting. One thing lacking that I applaud is that it does not have IAN’s large chapter summing up Unix commands.

The Good

The book is well structured, divided into 7 sections, 5 of increasing complexity, ‘The Mac OS X Basics’, ‘On The Internet’, ‘Multimedia: Images Sound, Video’, ‘Networking, Coonectivity and Portables’ and ‘Advanced Mac OS X topics’ - which covers AppleScript, the Terminal, and various servers including QuickTime, Samba and Sendmail. These are followed by a hardware and troubleshooting section and finally the appendices. The index is good and it has the by now traditional two level table of contents, the first listing just the chapter heads and the second listing all the sub sections as well.

Given that structure, the book touches all the bases and covers all the required topics well.

The writing is not bad, I think a stronger hand with the editing would have done wonders as it tends to the wordy.

The Bad

Once again a certain amount of the early stuff is either below the needs of the target audience or not really required. Oh, and Sybex do have a page for the book…!OpenDocument which includes a Table of Contents, sample chapter, index and errata but get a load of that URL and the author has a web page for the book but he hasn’t touched it in over a year, since before this second edition was published.

Conclusion

It should be said that among all the books in this genre none are badly written, or badly structured. Personally I don’t like the style of the ‘Dummies’ books and so I put it at the bottom of my list but others may not have the same feeling. That said, how do you choose among them? The choice boils down to two things, how close you are to the target audience for a particular book and how well it addresses the target audience. Mastering Mac OS X is targeted at “intermediate beginners (those who have some experience with a graphical operating system) and solidly intermediate to advanced users” according to the Introduction. I think that it covers the needs of the first group well but will probably fall short if you are already an “advanced user.” For these people I’d recommend Mac OS X In A Nutshell. If you are a total newbie, then I’d recommend Robin William’s Mac OS X Book.

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Mac OS X Hints has to be one of the most popular sites among Mac geeks, certainly any time I’ve read a review of a book for the Mac here on Slashdot at least one of the comments mentions the site. Not only does it have a marvelous collection of hints it also has some great forums full of people more than willing to help. I’ve often found it useful for fixing a problem and have helped my fellow Mac users more than once.

Why would you buy a book with exactly the same name written by the site owner? If the book is the same quality as the site then that’s got to be one reason.

Hints With Humour

The book is extremely well written with a wry sense of humour that appeals to me a great deal. The hints cover an extremely large range of subjects, not just the operating system and the iLife software but other commonly used packages such as Mozilla, Camino, Entourage and Word. They offer something new to everyone from the beginner to the advanced Mac user. Some are small and simple, others more complex. There is also a huge variation in the level of the hints, some are for the rank beginner, some could only be appreciated by a power user.

The structure, starting with a chapter called “Designing Your World” devoted to startup and basics such as windows and menus, does move from the simple through to the more complex in later chapters, chapters 15 and 16 are devoted to the Terminal and Unix. At first you may find the hints too simple but as you move through the book you will find your level and even in the early chapters you may pick up a trick or two.

A Book That Grows On You

There are a lot of good hints here, the cover says “more than 500″ and elsewhere the book mentions 540, either number is realistic - sorry, I couldn’t do the math. This is a book that will probably grow on you, at first I thought it wasn’t worth the money but I picked it up and put it down several times, used a few hints (fixed Mozilla so it uses an external mail program, made a few cosmetic adjustments, added a couple of menulets), lost it for a couple of days in the desk clutter and picked it up again. It seems to fit into a strange niche in computer books, it’s not a reference, it’s not a teaching guide, it’s more a book that should hang around and have a dozen or so pages read once a week so you can play with a hint or two and integrate them into your Mac use (or not, as you choose).

Finding the hints is no problem, the contents are long and detailed, the book is well indexed and the breakup of chapters is quite logical. There is some cross referencing of hints though this is perhaps one area that could improve.

O’Reilly have their usual page about the book Mac OS X Hints that includes the contents, sample chapter, index and a (short) errata page. The author, of course, runs the web site, Mac OS X Hints. If you want more of a feel for the book then there are two articles on O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter, the first article is a tip from each of the first eight chapters and the second article is a tip from each of the last eight chapters.

So I think you’ll get our money’s worth if you’re prepared to let this volume hang around your desk. If you’re the sort of person who likes to read a computer book, learn the information then pass it along this book won’t suit you.

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‘Mac OS X Hacks’ is a good grab bag of tips and techniques for getting the most from your Mac. While the tips are not as universally appealing (even among Mac owners) as those in ‘Google Hacks’ most people will find some value in the selection; some may find it a little thin.

The book is split into 9 chapters; ‘Files’, ‘Startup”, ‘Multimedia and the iApps’, ‘The User Interface’, ‘Unix and the Terminal’, ‘Networking’, ‘Email’, ‘The Web’ and ‘Databases’.

For my money the last chapter is a complete waste of space since it only covers installing MySQL and PostgresSQL, and if you can’t figure out how to install them from the documentation then you aren’t smart enough to use them. A number of the other tips would come close to that level, I feel their only use may be to encourage people who would otherwise stay away to make some use of the terminal and similar tools.

When I first started reviewing the book I would have complained about a large number of the tips being too application specific, too general or too low in skill level. Since then I’ve had a friend who wanted to edit a movie and we both found the chapter on iApps useful, one with a brand new Bluetooth phone who liked the couple of tips on Bluetooth and another who found the cross platform Windows-Mac stuff useful. so I have to say that while some of the tips might seem useless now you may come to appreciate them later.

Overall the book is well written, well laid out and well cross-referenced and covers a wide range of information.

My one major beef is still that there are too many ‘tips’ that are well covered by other material. Since you shouldn’t really get this book until you are at least Mac proficient and probably own a basic Mac book or two then perhaps a tenth of the hundred tips will be covered in most Mac books and perhaps another five to ten you will have discovered on your own.

Reading over my notes I feel split between raving about how good the book is - well written with a bunch of useful tips and tricks for any Mac user - and complaining about the useless nature of some of the tips. So I am left saying that if the book falls into your definition of ‘inexpensive’ then grab a copy. If the price is ‘expensive’ then just make sure a friend owns a copy and borrow theirs every so often.
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