In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how- to authors. While they appear to run the same Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6 version, the newer build (10J3210 versus 10J567, the newest build of Mac OS X 10.6.6 available for download from Software. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. The coolest collection of tips, tricks, and undocumented shortcuts ever assembledįor a review copy or more information please email Please include your delivery address and contact information.ĭavid Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News.QuickTime X: the new multimedia player that lets you trim and share clips to YouTube, MobileMe, and iTunes.Safari 4: the latest and best-performing Mac web browser.The Dock, the Mac OS X folder structure, and Mail: all faster and with new Snow Leopard-only features.Everything new: the rewritten Finder, 64-bit mode, Microsoft Exchange compatibility, build-them-yourself Services and keyboard shortcuts, self-waking networked Macs, and more.You get all the answers with crystal-clear, jargon-free explorations of: Which features work well and which don't? What should you look for? What should you avoid? The most authoritative book for Mac users of all technical levels and experience, Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly/Pogue Press, US $34.99) is amusing and fun to read, but Pogue doesn't take his subject lightly. Writing the ultimate, complete, most entertaining guide to all of it was absolutely exhausting, but I guess somebody's got to do it." An insane amount has changed-tiny, tweaky things, under-the-hood things, and even some big, routine-changing things. "Steve Jobs said that Apple was going to 'put a pause on new features' in Snow Leopard," Pogue says, "but not everyone got the memo. You can download it here, but remember: use at your own risk. The utility he has released is called TRIM enabler, is simple to use, and has been shown to be successful. Snow Leopard is faster and more reliable than earlier Mac OSX versions, and no one is more reliable at bringing you up to speed than David Pogue. Oskar Groth, also known as Cindori, has built a script and a GUI that will allow you to enable TRIM on and SSD in 10.6.7. I would enable TRIM support on the OS wether the SSD has Garbage Collection or not. As far as garbage collection goes, this feature is found mostly in newer SSDs. The new Snow Leopard edition offers a wealth of detail on Apple's newest operating system. TRIM enabler works fine with Snow Leopard, I wouldnt recommend it for LION being that it actually replaces the Lion Kernel with the older Snow Leopard Kernel. Sebastopol, CA-Since its release in September 2007, Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual has been the bestselling computer book in America.
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