Inside .Mac

Despite the fact that I have been using .Mac for yesrs, this book has taught me a ton that I simply did not know. I never knew that there was this much to this program. This one is very solid and helpful. Owen O'Meara

Inside .Mac Making the Most of Your .Mac Membership - Book Review John Nemerovski Columnist, The Nemo Memo, Book Bytes Thursday, 04/21/05 Inside .Mac Making the Most of Your .Mac Membership by Chuck Toporek O'Reilly Media ISBN 0-596-00501-6, 360 pages $19.95 US, $28.95 CN Here we have one of the best-researched and most well written books ever reviewed by MyMac.com's Book Bytes. Author Chuck Toporek immersed himself in this topic so we readers and subscribers can take advantage of his endless energy and expertise. If I attempted to create a book such as this one, working every waking moment for over six months, I could not approach the breadth and depth of coverage Chuck provides. By now you probably realize that Book Bytes considers Inside .Mac - Making the Most of Your .Mac Membership to be is as good as it gets. Congratulations and thanks to Chuck and O'Reilly Media. If you or someone you know has an active .Mac membership, please give us your thoughts on the service in our Article Discussion area below. This review deals with a book, not an account, and we value your personal comments. I spent a long afternoon reading this volume cover to cover, and I was surprised and impressed with all the .Mac features offered by Apple. Most users take advantage of one or two of the components within .Mac, notably email and Backup or iDisk, and people are missing out on several others that add value to the annual fee. Inside .Mac takes readers slowly and patiently from "Setting Up Your .Mac Account" on a comprehensive, detailed journey all the way through "Using Virex" and "Using iSync with .Mac" to "Blogging with iBlog" and ".Mac's Keyboard Shortcuts." Have you encountered the "Common iDisk Error Codes," or have a need to install the iDisk utility for Windows XP? Now's your chance, with Chuck as your time-tested tutor. Turning to pages at random, we encounter: * IMAP Versus POP - Which Is Best for Me? (discussing hidden ways to access your .Mac email) * Blogging with iBlog (a third-party application Chuck recommends for integrating your account with a user-friendly blog) * From GIF to JPEG in a Jiffy (explaining why JPEG is the only type of picture compatible with .Mac's slide publishing software, and how easily you can create JPEGs) * Virus Scanning from the Terminal (if this appeals to you, I applaud your geek factor) and dozens greater and lesser techniques and tips. Screen shots are plentiful, all in '. At $20 US, the price of Inside .Mac is so loaded with reference and tutorial info that author and his publication team must have done this book as a labor of love, because I don't think the title is a bestseller. I hope I'm wrong, and I'll be using it on my daily rounds as a private computer tutor, urging my clients to find Chuck instead of Nemo when they need help with any aspect of .Mac. The text is divided into four major parts, with the first dedicated to .Mac service particulars, email accounts, and iDisk; the second addresses Virex a

Apple created .Mac (dot Mac) as a suite of services to let subscribers share information online, yet it hasn't received half the notoriety of its I-cousins, despite features range from an online contact management system and storage space to a customizable personal web site and more. Chuck Toporek's Inside .Mac is the first and only manual to prove the riches of this new suite, providing a quick reference to the entire program and its modules. If you own .MAC, you owe it to yourself to include this essential desk reference in your collection: .MAC is too valuable to miss.

I've had a .Mac account for about a year now and all that I thought it was good for was email and the iDisk. This book has really opened my eyes to everything that's available to .Mac members. The book is packed with little tips on how to use the different services and applications like Backup, Virex, and even iBlog. But for me, the best part of the whole book was the HomePage chapter. I've been posting Photo Album pages to my .Mac HomePage for a few months, but never really knew how to tie all of those pages together to make my site useful to my friends and family. As I said before, this is an excellent book, and I'd highly recommend it for anyone who has a .Mac membership. Even if you've been using .Mac for some time (like me), you're bound to find some great stuff here.

Inside .Mac is one of these great computer books that is at the same time detailed and simple to understand. In Inside .Mac, Chuck Toporek unveils little-known features of Apple's .Mac services, explains how to make the most of applications you may not use to their full potential (like iSync or Backup) and allows the reader to gain a solid view of all what .Mac offers -- which is far from an easy task.A very long time iTools and .Mac user, I am still surprised by the amount of content and the power of the services Apple put online. This book sure helped me discover new features and re-discover basic principles that had faded in my memory over time. A must-have !