We frequently provide one to one tuition to our clients here at the MacDoctor, covering all the mac basics and beyond. Showing and teaching someone what they can do with their mac and what it can do for them, is one of the best bits of our job. It’s great to see someone go from complete mac novice to empowered user after just a few lessons.
But almost without fail, whenever we undertake a course of tuition we advise a client to pick up a copy of David Pogue’s excellent Mac OS X: Missing Manual, to boot. And just released before christmas was the Leopard edition.
There’s many sources for learning more about your mac and its’ software, not least Apple’s built in help and web based tutorials. But for a one stop, how do I do this, type shop, you can’t go too far wrong than this brilliantly written, amusing, informative and downright awesomely laid out tome. It’s still something we use ourselves from time to time. As close to a reference manual for the Mac OS as you’re ever likely to need. I’ve actually just ordered our new copy from Amazon today.
(ed as I sat down to write this entry, I noticed in our RSS feeds that Lisa Hoover over at TUAW had posted an almost identical entry. Oh well, guess Mr Pogue and his now classic tome deserve all the praise it gets.)
