Some of you may be familiar with the OS X Guidebook I wrote back in April of this year. This was a 12-page PDF file with some general advice on using OS X, and it proved quite popular -- over 20,000 downloads to date!
Since its release, I've been slowly working on a revised version with more detail and updated information relative to recent OS X updates. I used the four-day break for Thanksgiving to complete the revision. Only it was so 'revised' that I felt it merited a new name. After way too many hours in development, I am pleased to announce the release of:
The Mac OS X Solutions Guidebook - download [1.3mb PDF] **
The Guidebook is now 60+ pages long and covers a number of topics, including general advice, the Finder, the dock, Classic, System Prefs, a few key apps, and a detailed section of UNIX command-line tricks and hints. There are over 100 screenshots to help illustrate various hints, and the entire Guidebook runs over 32,000 words (spellchecking took forever!).
As a reflection of the size and scope of the new Solutions Guidebook, it is being distributed as a shareware project. I'll be using the registration fees to help fund macosxhints in the future. The shareware fee is only $10.00 ($5.00 for students), but if you've made a donation (either monetary or a submitted hint) to support macosxhints, then the Guidebook is free -- consider it my way of saying "Thank You" for the support!
For everyone else, please download the guide and put it to use. If, after you've read it thoroughly and tested the hints and found the Guidebook to be valuable, please pay the shareware fee. Not only will you be helping to support macosxhints (remember, I don't accept advertising), but you'll be getting an incredibly useful book for only $10!
As always, I welcome comments, corrections and criticisms - drop me an email with your thoughts.
Enjoy!
** NOTE: If you have trouble with the mac.com download, the Guidebooks is also available via a direct download from macoshxints. If you can't get mac.com to work, try the direct download.

