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Jewish World Review
May 13, 2005
/ 4 Iyar, 5765
A Better Way to Learn Computer Tech?
By
Mark Kellner
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
Do you "live" inside your e-mail program as much as I do? Whether it's work
colleagues, family, friends whatever I'm spending as much time, if not
more, in e-mail conversations as I do on the phone.
But learning about e-mail clients can be frustrating. They're often
neglected in computer books: one "comprehensive" guide to an operating
system devoted all of three pages to the OS's built-in e-mail client, and
three pages isn't exactly "deep."
So a visit to Barnes & Noble yielded a pleasant surprise, "Take Control of
Apple Mail," written by Joe Kissell, published by Peachpit Press of
Berkeley, Calif., and edited by two old Mac hands: Adam and Tonya Engst,
experts who each have years, if not eons, of Mac experience and knowledge,
editing the famed TidBITS (stet) e-mail newsletter and Web-zine
(http://www.tidbits.com).
Even though the book only covers the just-before-Mac OS X Tiger version of
Mail, I didn't hesitate in buying the book. Not only did I guess, correctly,
that Mr. Kissell would give plenty of tips usable in the Tiger-only 2.0
version of Apple Mail, but the red-letter words in the upper right of the
cover clinched the deal: "free updates," they read, and thereby hangs a
tale.
The Engsts and their "co-conspirators" at Peachpit surmise that not everyone
has the time to go through an 800-page super-book about a computer topic,
and have designed these "Take Control" volumes to be slim ("Apple Mail" is
142 pages, including index) and to the point. What's more, you can buy them
as e-books or in print, with the promised "free updates" a part of the deal.
The e-book files are in the portable document format, or PDF, readable on
just about any computer these days.
What do you get for $16.99? In the case of "Take Control of Apple Mail," you
get a crash course, in relatively plain English, in the different kinds of
e-mail accounts out there, such as POP (stet), IMAP and Microsoft Exchange.
You learn how to set up the Apple Mail software to receive mail from these
different kinds of accounts, as well as how to send via them. Early on, Mr.
Kissell, a former software development manager and prolific computer book
writer, helps readers troubleshoot sending and receiving problems, as well
as other issues associated with e-mail, such as how to better and more
quickly address messages, and even how to read e-mail more quickly.
The second half of the book a separate e-book if you buy the pieces online
deals with the not-so-wonderful world of spam e-mail, and how to get away
from it, or more precisely, how to keep it away from you. Spam is tough
enough that many of us can use some help in fighting it, and Mr. Kissell
offers his own, somewhat iconoclastic take on the subject. He thoroughly
analyzes strategies, software and services aimed at stamping out spam, and
is unsparing in his opinions. Both of these are good things, I believe:
readers who need this kind of help will appreciate more information, and not
less.
But the best thing of all with these "Take Control" books is the updates,
and the ability that the publishers have to release these quickly. "Take
Control of Upgrading to Tiger," another title written by Mr. Kissell,
debuted on April 29, same day as the Tiger launch. That's rather cool, as
were the updates to the Apple Mail book, which I downloaded shortly after
getting the print volume home.
For now, the series is limited to Mac hardware and software, even though
Windows users could arguably be in greater need of such help. Information,
and free sample chapters, are online at http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/. If
you need Mac help in a hurry, this is one of the best ways to go.
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