My wife and I had some extra time on a combination work/pleasure trip recently. We picked up this book before leaving based on the reviews and found several places that had exactly what we were looking for. Wish Sue would publish a version for Colorado!

The Great New Jersey Shopping Guide has been very helpful for me. I have lived in New Jersey all my life and I still learned new places to go and new sources for shopping. This book is not only good for the serious shopper but also for those who want to try someplace new.

As a seasoned shopper, I thought I knew just about every worthwhile retail destination in the state. I was pleasantly surprised when I picked up this book and discovered interesting locales even I wasn't aware of. Everything is included--from shopping malls to museum shops to gourmet food stores. Best of all, The Great New Jersey Shopping Guide isn't written in standard guidebook form, but rather includes personal anecdotes from the authors, which are quite enjoyable to read. I especially liked Sue Bruskin Clarke's tales of mall shopping in the '60s and '70s and I related to her downtown shopping experiences in towns like Hoboken and Princeton.

This book is a must have for all New Jersey shoppers.

Appleworks 6 for dummies is great. Apple has manuals stored in Appleworks 6 but they get in the way of what you are trying to do. Having the book handy makes it a great asset for any Appleworks 6 owner. Easy step by step instructions.

Great read and a must have help book.

In the tradition of all IDG Bible series books, the AppleWorks Bible by Steve Schwartz and Dennis Cohen is a home run! ... Starting out gently, and then progressing to the more difficult concepts of Appleworks 6, this book can benefit just about anyone using the program. For beginners, the quick tour of AppleWorks is clear and concise -- getting new users up to speed quickly. For the veteran user who may have come up through the ranks of ClarisWorks, there's lots of detailed help on new features like clippings, frames, styles and even macros. Reviewers at both Graphic-Design.com and User-Groups.net particularly liked the help on the new presentation tools, function integration, mail merge and the intracies of aWorks' database. If there's an AppleWorks user in your crowd, the AppleWorks Bible will make a superb gift. The AppleWorks Bible from IDG Books has been selected as the Editor's Choice Book for December, 2000 in The User Group Network, and Design-Bookshelf.

Future project managers' success will be graded by their contributions to the enterprise's economic value than their completing a project on time, within budget.

The authors argue project managers will function as entrepreneurs or CEOs, assuming responsibility for the ultimate success of their projects. In the business that means they will be responsible for producing a level of customer satisfaction high enough to produce sales generating enough cash flow to cover project and operating expenses, make a profit and pay back the cost of capital used to produce the product. Only at this point will the project produce enough economic value to enhance shareholder value.

To accomplish this, project managers will require new skills. They will rely not only on traditionally operational skills, but also knowledge of the enterprise's: 1.Accounting and Finance 2.Organizational Strategy 3.Marketing and Value Propositions 4.Human Relations 5.Internal Processes.

This will require, the authors say, a radical change in the measurement and control systems of most organizations. For project managers to act as CEOs, they will have to be treated as CEOs. They will have to be judged not only by detailed assessments of their project outcomes, durations and costs but by new metrics based on increases in shareholder or stakeholder value.

If the authors are correct, the Project Manager's maxim of "Make it fast. Make it good. Make it cheap.," is in the process of being replaced "Make it Economically Viable."

This book is very helpful for anyone new to Web TV. I found the step-by-step examples were just what I needed to gain confidence and skill. The authors really take you by the hand and guide you. Perfect for the internetphobic. Well worth the investment and also quite useful as a reference book.

If you are looking for an easy to read guide with great photographs and you are a new Webtv user, this is the book for you.

Teach Yourself Webtv guides the reader slowly through the internet maze whether learning how to chat,email, or shop for the first time. To some, technology is daunting enterprise but this book helps those who are interested but afraid of making mistakes online. An excellent reference guide that should be in all libraries.

I turn to a book, especially one that should cover more than the basics and help when troubleshooting, but this one comes up short.

The first time I tried to use a Mac it was Word 3.02 and I bought a book (Cobb Group) that covered the Mac OS, hardware, extensions, everything. Mac Internet Starter kit helped when I needed to go online and do email and use Mozaic and Anarchy, Gofer, etc.

This is "Office 101" to walk you through doing simple tasks. Not trouble-shooting Office, exchanging with Windows users, or error codes, crashes, upgrades, patches, or links to places on the web.

If someone is slightly familiar with earlier versions, there are best off with a short "What's New, Quickstart Guide." If your Entourage won't sync with a PDA, or your message database needs a complex rebuild, the things I look for in a tomb of this size, well, it seemed to come up short.

As a co-author of this book, I want to state up-front that the Editorial Reviewer either never looked at the book or was intoxicated while writing.

We cover the Macintosh version of Microsoft Office and it does NOT include Access, Publisher, or Outlook. It does include Microsoft Entourage (falls somewhere between Outlook Express and Outlook in functionality).

I'm biased, but I think the book does a very good job in the space available of covering Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage (it even has an overview of Internet Explorer).

If you are a beginner and have just graduated from "Mouse Movements and Double Clicking 101", then this book is for you. I was disappointed that a book with "Bible" in it's title could be so superficial. But if you need to read entire pages on how to open and save files, what an alert box is and how to click "OK", then go for it, you will especially enjoy the HUGE pictures of screen shots with the small paragraph of descriptive text on each page.

But if you have any notions of setting up file sharing groups and privileges (without buying OS X Server), you might find the single paragraph on page 357 quite inadequate. Of course, you can do it from the Unix command line, which I wouldn't really expect this book to cover, but you can do it with the GUI interface NetInfo Manager as well. Sorry, you won't even find the word "utilities" in the index of this "Bible."

With great anticipation I cracked open this latest edition of Lon Poole's classic book. Imagine my surprise and dismay when I discovered that it didn't actually cover version 10.1! I immediately called the publisher to complain, and to my delight, they sent me a CD-ROM containing an entire 10.1 PDF update to the book. What started out as a bummer worked out to my advantage in the end, and now I've got the supremely portable (10.1) edition. Hopefully they'll integrate this stuff into a future printing (which would earn it a "5"). In the meantime, I can attest that Lon Poole hasn't lost a step in his lucid, thorough treatment of the latest rev of the latest Mac OS. Thanks again, Lon!

Lon Poole has been writing computer books for quite a long time. A quick search on Amazon shows 33 titles with his name on the cover, with some titles dating back to the Apple II and Atari 400 (!) days. Dennis Cohen, while not quite as prolific as Poole, has a substantial amount of computer writing experience. He also has spent time as a professional Macintosh programmer.

The MacWorld Mac OS X Bible clearly shows the years of writing experience at work here. It is a solid, well-crafted, and readable manual that covers Macintosh OS X 10.1. Be forewarned that it is not the be-all and end-all reference manual for aspiring Unix geeks. That market is better served by Mac OS X Unleashed.

The MacWorld Mac OS X Bible (hereafter referred to as Mac OS X Bible) is targeted at those who are upgrading to OS X, as well as those new to the Mac OS. Poole and Cohen present the material with a logical flow, discussing Mac OS X concepts, features, and tips. Most of the OS X material is followed with a compare-and-contrast with OS 9, so upgraders will be able to see how OS X differs from OS 9. I found this approach useful, as my mind works better by knowing how the new is different from the old, rather than just being told what's new.

Poole and Cohen cover the expected material; OS X basics, the Aqua user interface, Internet setup, how to use the included OS X applications, etc. This is familiar ground that every OS X book covers (or should cover). The author duo presents this information in a steady, workmanlike fashion. I did not learn anything new that other OS X titles had not covered. There is only so much one can write about Sherlock, and every book says much the same things. But the writing style is clear and easy to follow.

Part III: Beyond the Basics is the best part of this 779 page tome. The authors strike a good balance between too-simple and too-complex in their presentation of more advanced OS X concepts. Again, it is important to note that the target readership is beginner to intermediate level Macintosh users. Mac OS X Bible is not going to tell you much about using the included Apache web server to administer your personal web site. Nor is there a down and dirty how-to for advanced Terminal use.

But that's not the point. Most readers of this book want end-user information, not Unix administrator information. And that's what they get. The authors do a good job of covering User accounts and privileges, local area networks, and the various methods of sharing files (Web sharing, FTP, and remote login). It's the right mix of detail for the home or small-business Mac user who wants to do something, but who does not need the amount of detail that a professional administrator does.

Apple released OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) last month. Is this book (and review) obsolete? Not at all. It will take several months before the Jaguar books hit the shelves. Even then, the fundamentals of Max OS X will not have changed. MacWorld Mac OS X Bible is still very useful, even if you are using 10.2.

MacWorld Mac OS X Bible is a worthwhile competitor in the fight to be the best all-around OS X manual

MacMice Rating: 4 out of 5

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David Weeks
http://www.mymac.com/weeks/mwosx_9.19.02.shtml

I confess to having been spoiled by Pogue's books on the Palm Pilot and the Mac, and so expected a lot of information that went way beyond the Appleworks manual, but I didn't find this book at all helpful in the areas I most needed the help. For years I've happily used the old Microsoft Works (version 2.00e) program and switched a year ago to the Appleworks program. The vastly larger number of bells and whistles made it difficult to figure out how to do things that were simple on the older program, and Appleworks 5 didn't provide much or easily findable help (e.g., TRY to find out how to get numerical data formatted as dollars in the manual.) I'd hoped this book would give me the answers, but found it essentially repeats the program manual's lack of helpfulness. Index wasn't very good either.

I have used this program since the ClarisWorks 3.0.1 version, and was a little overwhelmed by all the changes in the latest version of this book. A lot of information in the book I already knew, but a lot I did not. I only wish I had this book 5 years ago, and it would have saved me A LOT of frustration.