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Mac Hacks Tips & Tools for Unlocking the Power of OS X Chris Seibold (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) Many people buy Apple’s Macintosh computers precisely because they do not want to have to mess with their machines. They just want to open a specific app, use it, close it and move on to the other … Continue reading Mac Hacks – More than 50 ways to unlock the power of OS X – #apple #mac #bookreview
Programming iOS 6, 3rd Edition Matt Neuburg (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) “My book is way bigger than your book.” Matt Neuburg, author of Programming iOS 6, could make that claim and win almost any book-size contest. The recently published 3rd Edition of his well-respected how-to guide focuses on the “Fundamentals of iPhone, iPad, and iPod … Continue reading Programming iOS 6, 3rd Edition – In with the New, Out with the Old (iOS 5 & Earlier) – #bookreview
Core Data, 2nd Edition Data Storage and Management for iOS, OS X, and iCloud Marcus S. Zarra (Pragmatic Bookshelf – paperback) “If you plan on writing an application that saves data to disk, then you should take a very long look at Core Data,” urges Marcus S. Zarra, in the new second edition of his … Continue reading Core Data, 2nd Edition – Updated for OS X Mountain Lion and iOS 6 – #programming #bookreview
iPod: The Missing Manual, 11th Edition J.D. Biersdorfer, with David Pogue (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) I own and use a small collection of old iPods, including a Shuffle and a Classic. I play them when I exercise and when I work at my computer in a coffee shop and don’t want to listen to the … Continue reading iPod: The Missing Manual, 11th Edition – A clear, concise keeper for your reference needs – #bookreview
Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition Kier Thomas (Pragmatic Bookshelf – Paperback, Kindle) More than a hundred new tips and tricks have been packed into the new edition of Kier Thomas’s popular how-to guide for OS X Mountain Lion. His book now offers “Over 400 Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks for Apple OS X.” And it … Continue reading Mac Kung Fu – Kick productivity into higher gear with 400+ tips, tricks – #bookreview
Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 3rd Edition Paris Buttfield-Addison and Jon Manning (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) In some surveys, Objective-C is now the third most popular programming language, up from fifth place in 2011. O’Reilly recently has published the awaited third edition of Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, with coverage of Xcode 4.2 and iOS 6. The book’s … Continue reading Learning Cocoa with Objective-C – An excellent how-to guide from two experts – #programming #bookreview
iOS 6 Programming Cookbook Vandad Nahavandipoor (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) If you are a new iOS developer, you can learn many things quickly from this hefty book. And even if you are an iOS veteran, you can gain some important new insights. The iOS 6 cookbook has been completely updated to cover the recently released iOS … Continue reading iOS 6 Programming Cookbook – Updated for the new SDK – #iOS #programming #bookreview
iOS SDK Development Chris Adamson and Bill Dudney (Pragmatic Bookshelf, paperback) The previous, 2009 edition of this popular how-to book was titled iPhone SDK Development. But this new and re-titled second edition is much more than a copy-and-paste, just-make-some-tweaks update. “[W]e have copied absolutely nothing from the old book,” the authors say. “As we looked at … Continue reading iOS SDK Development – A totally new and improved 2nd edition – #programming #bookreview
Master Your Mac Matt Cone (No Starch Press, paperback – Kindle) This well-written how-to book will please many new Mac users, as well as many who have been using Macs for years. But, to fully benefit from this excellent new guide, you must be willing to go beneath the Mac’s easy-to-use OS X surface and work at the command line. In other words, … Continue reading Master Your Mac – Useful how-to projects for intermediate users – #bookreview
iPhone: The Missing Manual, 6th Edition David Pogue (O’Reilly, paperback, Kindle) This latest “Missing Manual” from David Pogue covers all iPhone models that have iOS 6 software, including iPhone 5. The 538-page book is well-written, well-organized, and heavily illustrated with color photographs, illustrations, and screen shots. It also has numerous tips set off in … Continue reading iPhone: The Missing Manual, 6th Edition – Covers all iPhone models with iOS 6 software – #bookreview
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