If two heads are better than one, then six heads are better still--at least that's what you'll find in this tightly focused volume written by leading Mac luminaries and aimed at readers just like yourself: intermediate to advanced Mac users who aren't afraid to tinker around a bit to get the most out of the Panther operating systems. Using full-color screen shots, step-by-step instructions, and straightforward explanations, this task-based guide promises to help you customize the operating system to fit your needs. Organized into four major section--"Upgrading to Panther," "Customizing Panther," "Users and Accounts in Panther," and Sharing Files in Panther"--this volume provides all the technical help and troubleshooting tips you need to ensure a smooth and speedy upgrade without any corresponding loss in productivity. In short order you'll learn how to customize Finder windows, create user accounts, take advantage of the new sidebar, and more.

Take Control Of Panther

Computers & Technology

Neuburg, Matt

Fleishman, Glenn

McElhearn, Kirk

Engst, Adam

Kissell, Joe

Engst, Tonya

Operating Systems

Peachpit Pr

If Mac OS X Tiger has you bewildered, it's time to regain the upper hand with Take Control of Tiger. Rather than have a single overworked author attempt to give you a brief overview of every imaginable topic, explaining none fully, Take Control assembled an all-star team, with each author dedicated to telling you everything you need to know about a particular subject. For each topic, you'll find a concise introduction, detailed explanations, useful tips, and step-by-step instructions, all amply illustrated. Best of all, you can receive free updates to each of the titles in this collection!Aimed at readers just like yourself, who aren't afraid to tinker around a bit to get the most out of their OS, this full-color volume shows you how to customize Mac OS X Tiger to fit your very specific needs. In the guide's four major sections-"Upgrading to Tiger," "Customizing Tiger," "Users and Accounts in Tiger," and Sharing Files in Tiger"-you'll find all the technical help and troubleshooting tips you need to ensure a smooth and speedy upgrade without any corresponding loss in productivity. In short order you'll learn how to create user accounts, take advantage of the new Spotlight search system, set up multiway video and audio conferences, and more.

Take Control Of Tiger

REALbasic is a programming language in the best Macintosh tradition: visual, intuitive, and easy to learn. It allows you to create interfaces in minutes and entire, compiled applications without having to learn a complicated language; the strong object orientation makes it very easy even for beginners to develop, maintain, and alter projects. Best of all, an REALbasic 3, a single button click generates your project as a Mac OS 8/9 application, a Mac OS X native ("Carbon") application, or a Windows executable. No other application framework lets you compile for users on so many platforms so quickly and easily.REALbasic: The Definitive Guide not only gives you a firm grasp of the program's essential concepts, but also tells you things you won't learn from the official documentation alone. If you've never programmed before, the book offers both a primer in REALbasic and an intuitive approach to the concepts of programming itself, as you quickly reach the ability to program every aspect of REALbasic. You start out drawing the interface much as you would do in a drawing program: by selecting buttons, menus, dialog boxes, and the like from a tools menu. Then you use the code editor to fill in the code that tells these pieces what to do.The widely hailed first edition of REALbasic: The Definitive Guide has been completely rewritten to encompass reader suggestions and the many improvements of REALbasic 3--like its ability to compile and run under OS X.The book is divided into three sections:
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<li>Fundamentals: a detailed summary of the language that quickly shows you how to think about programming and accomplish your goals in less time</li>
<li>User Interface: how to create a complete application using the rich classes and pre-defined tools that make life so much easier for the REALbasic programmer.</li>
<li>Reaching Out: Internet communications, databases, multimedia, game programming and more!</li>
</ul>

REALBasic: TDG: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition (Definitive Guides)

Programming

O'Reilly Media

Mac users everywhere-even those who know nothing about programming-are discovering the value of the latest version of AppleScript, Apple's vastly improved scripting language for Mac Os X Tiger. And with this new edition of the top-selling AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, anyone, regardless of your level of experience, can learn to use AppleScript to make your Mac time more efficient and more enjoyable by automating repetitive tasks, customizing applications, and even controlling complex workflows. Fully revised and updated-and with more and better examples than ever-AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition explores AppleScript 1.10 from the ground up. You will learn how AppleScript works and how to use it in a variety of contexts: in everyday scripts to process automation, in Cgi scripts for developing applications in Cocoa, or in combination with other scripting languages like Perl and Ruby. AppleScript has shipped with every Mac since System 7 in 1991, and its ease of use and English-friendly dialect are highly appealing to most Mac fans. Novices, developers, and everyone in between who wants to know how, where, and why to use AppleScript will find AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition to be the most complete source on the subject available. It's as perfect for beginners who want to write their first script as it is for experienced users who need a definitive reference close at hand. AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition begins with a relevant and useful AppleScript overview and then gets quickly to the language itself; when you have a good handle on that, you get to see AppleScript in action, and learn how to put it into action for you. An entirely new chapter shows developers how to make your Mac applications scriptable, and how to give them that Mac Os X look and feel with AppleScript Studio. Thorough appendixes deliver additional tools and resources you won't find anywhere else.

AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

<div> Move into iOS development by getting a firm grasp of its fundamentals, including the Xcode 13 IDE, Cocoa Touch, and the latest version of Apple's acclaimed programming language, Swift 5.5. With this thoroughly updated guide, you'll learn the Swift language, understand Apple's Xcode development tools, and discover the Cocoa framework. <ul> <li>Explore Swift's object-oriented concepts</li> <li>Become familiar with built-in Swift types</li> <li>Dive deep into Swift objects, protocols, and generics</li> <li>Tour the life cycle of an Xcode project</li> <li>Learn how nibs are loaded</li> <li>Understand Cocoa's event-driven design</li> <li>Communicate with C and Objective-C</li> </ul> In this edition, catch up on the latest iOS programming features: <ul> <li>Structured concurrency: async/await, tasks, and actors</li> <li>Swift native formatters and attributed strings</li> <li>Lazy locals and throwing getters</li> <li>Enhanced collections with the Swift Algorithms and Collections packages</li> <li>Xcode tweaks: column breakpoints, package collections, and Info.plist build settings</li> <li>Improvements in Git integration, localization, unit testing, documentation, and distribution</li> <li>And more!</li> </ul> </div>

iOS 15 Programming Fundamentals with Swift: Swift, Xcode, and Cocoa Basics

Get a solid grounding in the fundamentals of Cocoa Touch, and avoid problems during iPhone and iPad app development. With this revised and expanded edition, you’ll dig into Cocoa and learn how to work effectively with Objective-C and Xcode. This book covers iOS 5 and Xcode 4.3 in a rigorous, orderly fashion—ideal whether you’re approaching iOS for the first time or need a reference to bolster existing skills.
Many discussions have been expanded or improved. All code examples have been revised, and many new code examples have been added.
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<li>The new memory management system—ARC—is thoroughly explained and all code examples have been revised to use it.</li>
<li>New Objective-C features, such as declaration of instance variables in the class’s implementation section, are described and incorporated into the revised example code.</li>
<li>Discussion of how an app launches, and all code examples, are revised for project templates from Xcode 4.2 and later.</li>
<li>Other new Xcode features, including the Simulator’s Debug menu, are covered, with screen shots based on Xcode 4.2 and later.</li>
<li>The discussion of Instruments is expanded, with screen shots—by popular request!</li>
<li>Storyboards are explained and discussed.</li>
<li>The explanation of view controllers is completely rewritten to include iOS 5 features, such as custom parent view controllers and UIPageViewController.</li>
<li>The Controls chapter now includes iOS 5 interface customizability and the appearance proxy.</li>
<li>New features of interface classes are discussed, including tiling and animated images, new table view features, new alert view styles.</li>
<li>Coverage of frameworks such as Core Motion and AV Foundation is greatly expanded. New iOS 5 classes and frameworks are also discussed, including Core Image and UIDocument (and iCloud support).</li>
<li>Important iOS 5 changes that can break existing code are explicitly called out in the text and listed in the index.</li>
</ul>

Programming iOS 5: Fundamentals of iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Development

Networking & Cloud Computing

Programming IOS 6 Get a solid grounding in all the fundamentals of Cocoa Touch, and avoid problems during iPhone and iPad app development. With this revised and expanded edition, you'll dig into Cocoa and learn how to work effectively with Objective-C and Xcode. Full description

Programming iOS 6

If you’re grounded in the basics of Objective-C and Xcode, this practical guide takes you through the components you need for building your own iOS apps. With examples from real apps and programming situations, you’ll learn how to create views, manipulate view controllers, and use iOS frameworks for adding features such as audio and video.
<ul>
<li>Learn how to create, arrange, draw, layer, and animate views—and make them respond to touch</li>
<li>Use view controllers to manage multiple screens of material in a way that’s understandable to users</li>
<li>Explore UIKit interface widgets in-depth, such as scroll views, table views, text, web views, and controls</li>
<li>Delve into Cocoa frameworks for sensors, maps, location, sound, and video</li>
<li>Access user libraries: music, photos, address book, and calendar</li>
<li>Examine additional topics including files, threading, and networking</li>
</ul>New iOS 7 topics covered include asset catalogs, snapshots, template images, keyframe and spring view animation, motion effects, tint color, fullscreen views and bar underlapping, background downloading and app refresh, Text Kit, Dynamic Type, speech synthesis, and many others. Example projects are available on GitHub.Want to brush up on the basics? Pick up iOS 7 Programming Fundamentals to learn about Objective-C, Xcode, and Cocoa language features such as notifications, delegation, memory management, and key-value coding. Together with Programming iOS 7, you’ll gain a solid, rigorous, and practical understanding of iOS 7 development.

Programming iOS 7

Start building apps for iOS 8 with Apple’s Swift programming language. If you’re grounded in the basics of Xcode and the Cocoa framework, this book provides a structured explanation of all essential real-world iOS app components. Through deep exploration and copious code examples, you’ll learn how to create views, manipulate view controllers, and use iOS frameworks for adding features such as audio and video, access to user calendars and photos, and tracking the device’s location.

Programming iOS 8

Move into iOS development by getting a firm grasp of its fundamentals, including the Xcode IDE, the Cocoa Touch framework, and Swift—Apple’s new programming language. With this thoroughly updated guide, you’ll learn Swift’s object-oriented concepts, understand how to use Apple’s development tools, and discover how Cocoa provides the underlying functionality iOS apps need to have.
<ul>
<li>Explore Swift’s object-oriented concepts: variables and functions, scopes and namespaces, object types and instances</li>
<li>Become familiar with built-in Swift types such as numbers, strings, ranges, tuples, Optionals, arrays, and dictionaries</li>
<li>Learn how to declare, instantiate, and customize Swift object types—enums, structs, and classes</li>
<li>Discover powerful Swift features such as protocols and generics</li>
<li>Tour the lifecycle of an Xcode project from inception to App Store</li>
<li>Create app interfaces with nibs and the nib editor, Interface Builder</li>
<li>Understand Cocoa’s event-driven model and its major design patterns and features</li>
<li>Find out how Swift communicates with Cocoa’s C and Objective-C APIs</li>
</ul>
Once you master the fundamentals, you’ll be ready to tackle the details of iOS app development with author Matt Neuburg’s companion guide, Programming iOS 8.

iOS 8 Programming Fundamentals with Swift: Swift, Xcode, and Cocoa Basics

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