Books by author: David Pogue

David Pogue's Missing Manual entry for Apple's GarageBand doesn't quite live up to his efforts for the iPhone and for Mac OS X Leopard. It's a good overview of the application, but it doesn't have the same degree of nonobvious helpfulness as the others, and I don't think it's because GarageBand is easier to use than an iPhone.

Still, having read this, I'm looking forward to making some music with GarageBand.

The iPhone doesn't come with much of a manual, and there are a lot of subtle user-interface features that might take a long time for the average user to discover. Pogue does a great job of exploring every corner of the iPhone UI, and of pointing out lots of ways to better use it. It was worthwhile for me.

I'm becoming a fan of David Pogue's Missing Manual series. This book, and his iPhone: The Missing Manual are very detailed, clearly written, and full of non-obvious helpful advice.

This volume is hefty, weighing in at some 800+ pages, and it explores nearly every corner of the Leopard operating system. I bought a Macbook two weeks ago, coming back to Macintosh after about 10 years away, and this book has helped me come up to speed very quickly. Man has Apple leapfrogged Microsoft with OS X. Nearly every aspect of the operating system is extremely well thought out, and though you'd never discover a tenth of it's power by exploring on your own, it turns out that David Pogue is an excellent guide. He points out all the features you'd ever use, most of the time with explanations that help make good sense of everything.

Recommended.