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Hi everyone, I'm giving away a copy of each book to the first person who emails me. Prior winners are ineligible. --Marc Discounts on Snow Leopard Ebooks from Take Control Apple says Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will make your Intel-based Mac faster and more reliable for a mere $29. That's great, but Snow Leopard also brings an extra helping of important changes to the user interface: Expose has new options and the Services menu is entirely more useful, plus there's a new text engine that provides smart quotes, smart copy and paste, automatic spelling correction, and automatic text substitution. Then there are enhanced searching features, a new version of QuickTime (with some gotchas), Time Machine tweaks, a new input-menu language switcher, and, wait for it... you can finally show the date on the menu bar! To help you discover and take advantage of all this Snow Leopard goodness, we have new editions of our Take Control ebooks about upgrading and customizing Mac OS X. Since you're a MUG member, you can get these books for 30% off (these links put the books directly into your cart with the discounts applied): * Save $3 on "Take Control of Upgrading to Snow Leopard," by Joe Kissell. (30% savings, you pay $7.) <http://store.eSellerate.net/s.asp?s=STR5625274989&Cmd=BUY&SKURefnum=SKU77170261125&COUPON=CPN90219MUG&Options=PREVALIDATECOUPON&PT=TCMUG > * Save $4.50 on "Take Control of Exploring & Customizing Snow Leopard, by Matt Neuburg (30% savings, you pay $10.50.) <http://store.eSellerate.net/s.asp?s=STR5625274989&Cmd=BUY&SKURefnum=SKU29861038800&COUPON=CPN90219MUG&Options=PREVALIDATECOUPON&PT=TCMUG > * Save $7.50 when you buy both ebooks together (30% savings, you pay $17.50.) <https://secure.esellerate.net/secure/prefill.aspx?s=STR5625274989&cmd=BUY&_cartitem0.skurefnum=SKU77170261125&_cartitem1.skurefnum=SKU29861038800&_Shopper.CouponName=CPN90219MUG&_eSellerate.Options=prevalidatecoupon&pt=TCMUG > Here's more info about each ebook: **Take Control of Upgrading to Snow Leopard** -- The Snow Leopard installer offers fewer options than previous Mac OS X installers, but it has a few twists and quirks that can cause stress and uncertainty. In this 81-page ebook, Joe helps readers upgrade calmly and successfully with clear, expert steps developed over innumerable test installations. In particular, he helps you evaluate if your Mac's hardware and software are ready to run Snow Leopard, create a bootable duplicate as insurance against upgrading woes, understand what the installer will do, run the installer, perform post-installation tweaks, and solve problems that might arise. <http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-upgrading?pt=TCMUG&cp=CPN90219MUG > **Take Control of Exploring & Customizing Snow Leopard** -- This new 165-page ebook is based on Matt's "Take Control of Customizing..." ebooks, but we added "Exploring" to its title to give Matt more room for how-to topics. The ebook points out lots of tiny things that are new in Snow Leopard but that you might not notice otherwise. You'll learn how to adjust how things look, get around fast, and use special features like a pro. Particular topics covered include: Spotlight, Time Machine, Software Update, Dashboard, the Dock, the Finder window, organizing and finding your folder and files, window management with Exposé and Spaces, keyboard and trackpad shortcuts, Services, zooming the screen, font management, typing special characters, typing in a second language, customizing your menu bar, login items, parental controls, and Internet helpers. <http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-customizing?pt=TCMUG&cp=CPN90219MUG > PS: Seen TidBITS recently? We have some great Snow Leopard coverage up already, and more is on the way. You can read all our articles (back to 1990!) and subscribe via email, RSS, or Twitter at <http://www.tidbits.com/>.
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