ILife All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers))
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Rating | : | 4.78 (741 Votes) |
Asin | : | B00A18H2FW |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 498 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2014-02-09 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Discover how to work with a playlist and burn CDs, enhance digital photos, create and edit DVD movies, download songs from the iTunes online service, and more!The Dummies Way Coverage of the essentials and beyondExplanations in plain English"Get in, get out" informationThumbtabs and other navigation aidsTear-out cheat sheetA dash of humor and fun. From the Back Cover Includes bonus coverage of Apple’s cool MP3 player, the iPodEdit home movies, burn CDs and DVDs, play MP3s, and more!How do you get the most from your digital camera, camcorder, or iPod? This one-stop guide gets you quickly up to speed on iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and iPod
Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes have kicked around the computer industry for decades, editing the influential Inside Report on New Media newsletter and writing for weekly and monthly magazines, including Computer Currents, Nextworld, The Chicago Tribune Sunday Technology Section, and Newmedia. They also co-founded and edited Desktop Publishing/Publish magazine.
* Enables users to get up to speed quickly with all four of Apple's digital media applications: iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD* An essential resource, since Apple doesn't provide user manuals for any of these four software applications* Includes a bonus minibook on Apple's iPod-the hot-selling MP3 player that is often used in conjunction with the iLife applications* Key coverage includes ripping songs and working with a playlist, editing and saving digital photo files, assembling picture and video clips into a home movie, and creating, editing, and burning DVD slide shows and movies* One of the first books to ever cover Apple's new iTunes music download service
Almost iDeal for the novice. This was an ideal book for me to review. I never had a Mac before, just unwrapped my laptop a week before I got this book, and had only one file on my computer before starting to read this book. I had also just bought an iPod. I had absolutely zero experience with any of the utilities discussed in the book (as my only file was a text file). The structure is the same as other "For . All this dummy needed -- and more! It's almost weird that a Mac should need a dummies Guide. It's not that they're hard to use: Macs are still THE easiest (possibly the only true) path to computing Nirvana. But it's gotten to the point where there are som many cool things you can do with your Mac that it helps to have someone lay 'em out for you. Which is what this book does, beautifully. Bove and Rhodes have been