Mac Toys: 12 Cool Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment (ExtremeTech) | 
| Authors: John Rizzo, Scott Knaster
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 623996
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0764543512
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.165
EAN: 9780764543517
Publication Date: March 5, 2004
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Product Description
How many cool things can you do with your Mac? Well, add 12 more to that list. If you're one of the millions of Mac owners who like to tinker with their machines and do what their PC brethren can only dream about, this is the book for you. Mac gurus John Rizzo and Scott Knaster will open your eyes to a dozen cool new tricks you can do with your Mac. Create a Harry Potter style picture frame that puts on a continuous slide show; teach your house to turn on the lights, adjust the thermostat, and water the lawn by itself; edit and record live TV while you watch; and more. With a dozen new things to do with your Mac, your PC pals are going to envy you more than ever.
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 Out of date February 15, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Want to have a TV on your Mac?...Buy an external Video Card!! How smart. Talks about the Ipod, but the 2nd and 3rd generation, no Ipod photo, video, nano, etc. This book is completely out of date. Would not recommend it to anyone. Save your money.
 I LOVE THIS BOOK October 1, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Frankly, I'm not too impressed by most of the Mac OS X-centric books out there, and when I bought this, I wasn't sure that my mindset would change. Was I ever wrong... Thanks to the knowledge acquired from this book, my Macs now do far more than what Windows could ever hope to do. Don't get me wrong, for I earn my living with Windows, but thanks to this book, the Macs prove how uniquely strong they are. This is a fantastic book. Keep 'em coming.
 Versatile fun August 20, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
A book that revels in the sheer number of playful possibilities of a Mac. Rizzo and Knaster put together a set of projects that should appeal to any creative types that frequently use a Mac. Like being able to be an Internet radio station. Or being able to record and edit TV. Just a few years ago, the disk and RAM requirements for this would have been totally prohibitive.
Apple has been strongly pushing wireless networking, so it should be no surprise that the authors show how to easily implement this inside a home. For over a decade, Macs have been prevalent in the music industry. So you get an extensive tour of MIDI and how it is actually easy to build a synthesiser around a Mac.
The only discordant note is that the authors never really point out that probably everything they describe can also be done on a PC.
Makes me want to buy a new Mac! April 22, 2004
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I am not a hard core Mac guy. I just have an old iMac I bought on eBay for fun, running Mac OS 9, so i didnt really know if any of these would work. I bought the PC Toys and Linux Toys books from this same series (yes, I know I have too many old machines laying around,) and really liked them so I thought I might see what I could do with my little Mac in the basement.Turns out many of the projects will work out fine on my OS 9 machine, although those of you serious Mac users with OS X will be able to do do them all without any problems. I went straight for the "Classic Video Game Mac" project and am busily assembling a makeshift cabinet for my new MacMAME machine. Sure beats having that machine sit powered down on a desk in the basement, huh?
A very differnent kind of computer boook April 9, 2004
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
A friend gave me this book and I was surprised by how different it was. I had no idea my Mac could do such cool things. The directions are not that hard to follow. The best part is you can show it to your PC friends and they are jealous!
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