Hacking Mac OS X Tiger: Serious Hacks, Mods and Customizations: Extreme Tech

by Scott Knaster

This serious, but fun, down-and-dirty book will let you make Tiger purr, ensuring that your Mac's appearance, speed, usability, and security settings are what you want. Author Scott Knaster: Shows you... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076458345X
• ISBN13: 9780764583452
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Wiley Publishing
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The perfect blend of tips and technique

I love clever tips, and Scott Knaster delivers a ton of them here, many seen nowhere else. But this tome goes way beyond tips, diving into the gnarly details of Tiger that others have glossed over, such as application internals, Widget construction, and Unix command language. So many Mac books are just a rehash of the surface of the user interface. Scott's book is way ahead of the pack.

Decent collection of stuff including source code

I was looking for a book with medium to advanced info on Tiger and this one seemed to fit the bill. I was a little concerned at first when it started off with user tips which were handy, but I wanted more technical stuff. The latter parts of the book really delivered. There's well done sections on Automator and Quartz Composer. The best part is the last chapters which have programs with source for Dashboard, Spotlight, dock badging, and a few more. My advice is skim the first few chapters and pay attention to the rest.