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You´re smart and savvy, but you´re also busy. This comprehensive guide to Apple´s latest version of OS X, Lion, gives you everything you need to know to live a happy, productive Mac life. Learn OS X Lion will have you up and connected right away. With a minimum of overhead and a maximum of useful information, you´ll cover a lot of ground in the time it takes other books to get you plugged in.

If this isn´t your first experience with OS X, skip right to the "What´s New in Lion" sections. You may also find yourself using this book as a quick refresher course or a way to learn new Mac skills you´ve never tried before.

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Welcome to Lion
Using the Finder
OS X´s File System
Nifty Tools in Lion
Application Basics
Managing Applications
Lion´s included applications
Connecting to the network / Internet
Learn to browse the web
Learn to master email
Contact management with Address Book
Time management with iCal
Chatting and communication
iCloud and MobileMe
iPhoto
iMovie
GarageBand
Exploring the System Preferences
Printing & Peripherals
Time Machine Backup and Recovery
General Lion Care and Feeding
What you need to know about Security
Introducing Darwin, Terminal, and the Shell
Extending Lion with Darwin
Networking with Lion
Remote access and sharing
Lion as a web server
Working with your MS Windows friends
Running Other OSs on your Mac
An overview of Lion scripting and development
AppleScript and Automator
Xcode tools for Lion Development
Cocoa App Development 101

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Scott Meyers has worked in and around the computer industry, beginning as an Apple sales specialist and consultant over 12 years ago, and he has since moved on to various other jobs including web design and development, editing books on web development, open source and Apple technology, and marketing. He is a Select ADC (Apple Developers Connection) Member and a huge fan of Mac OS X, which brings together his love of the Apple´s traditionally best-of-class GUI and applications with the unrivaled power of Unix and open source technologies and applications. Scott lives outside of Indianapolis with his wife, two kids, and a cat and a dog. When not working or writing, he enjoys photography, playing guitar, and building amplifiers.

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