Pimping Your Mac Mini

Performing Amazing Tricks with the World's Smallest Mac

Brad Miser

250 pages, parution le 01/11/2005

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Résumé

The Mac Mini's low price-point and small size make it the most versatile Mac ever, easily allowing the user to enjoy the digital life in stylish simplicity. In a small package, the Mac Mini provides what users need to have more fun with music, photos, and movies, right out of the box. Pimping your Mini, helps intermediate to advanced Mac users take their Mini capabilities a step further. Containing 10 exciting hands-on projects, the book features a colorful and visually appealing layout with many illustrations as well as concise instructions on how to do each project. Starting with the basics, the reader learns how to safely open up the Mac Mini case and how to add memory or upgrade hardware. After that, everything from customizing the Mac Mini case, to using the Mac Mini on-the-go, to transforming the Mac Mini into a personal video recording system is covered. This fun, projects-based book will help Mac users take their Mini to the next level.

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For the intermediate to advanced Macintosh user who wants to push the limits of what can be done with a Mac Mini for entertainment purposes.
Succinctly explains each hands-on project as well as addresses important maintenance and troubleshooting topics.
Learn how to do everything from upgrading the Mac Mini hard drive, to customizing the Mac Mini case, to installing the Mac Mini in a car dashboard.

L'auteur - Brad Miser

Brad Miser has written extensively about computers and related technology, with his favorite topics being anything that starts with a lowercase i, such as the iPod and iTunes. In addition to Absolute Beginner's Guide to the iPod and iTunes, Brad has written many other books, including Special Edition Using Mac OS X, v10.3 Panther; Mac OS X and iLife: Using iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD; iDVD 3 Fast & Easy; Special Edition Using Mac OS X v10.2, Mac OS X and the Digital Lifestyle; and Using Mac OS 8.5. He has also been an author, development editor, or technical editor on more than 50 other titles. He has been a featured speaker on various computer-related topics at Macworld Expo, at user group meetings and in other venues.

Sommaire

Setting Up a Wireless Network for a Mac Mini (and Other Devices)
Broadcasting a Mini's iTunes Tunes, iPhoto Photos, iMovie Movies, and Web Site Locally
Expanding a Mini's Reach with a .Mac Account
Synchronizing Your Mac Mini with Cell Phones and PDAs
Hooking Up a Mac Mini with Awesome Sound
Listening to Internet Radio on a Mac Mini
Watching and Recording Video and TV on a Mac Mini
Connecting a Mac Mini to a TV
Appendix A: Pumping Up a Mac Mini

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Thomson - Course Technology
Auteur(s)	Brad Miser
Parution	01/11/2005
Nb. de pages	250
Format	19 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	585g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781598630800
ISBN13	978-1-59863-080-0