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Mac Book Author David Pogue Interviewed 33

Posted by pudge from the the-missing-interview dept.
MacSlash writes "There's an interview over at MacSlash with David Pogue, the New York Times Tech columnist and author of lots of stuff, including the best-selling Mac OS X: The Missing Manual and his brand new Piloting Palm, The Inside Story of Palm, Handspring and the Birth of the Billion Dollar Handheld Industry. The interview deals with subjects like the future of Mac OS X, how Unix programmers are providing some of the best new stuff, and even why Pogue uses Windows to write his books."
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Mac Book Author David Pogue Interviewed

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  • Introducing David Pogue... (Score:5, Informative)

    by ubiquitin ( 28396 ) on Monday February 25, 2002 @01:05PM (#3065534) Homepage Journal
    For interested non-Mac Slashdot readers, David Pogue was an early champion of Hotline (Mac warez tool of choice) and MP3 before it hit the bigtime. He wrote humorous and interesting stuff for the inside back cover of MacWorld before Andy Inahtko did and some time after John Dvorak. Now he has Pogue press (affiliated with O'Reily Books) and writes for the NYTimes. check www.pogueman.com for his web site.

    Am I the only one to notice that the Mac postings on Slashdot are getting hardly any comments? Well, here's my contribution to the cause of getting the apple.slashdot.org site off the ground. Good luck with it.
    • Don't miss the David Pouge icon [geekculture.com] courtesy of Nitrozac and Snaggy of geekculture.com.
    • Am I the only one to notice that the Mac postings on Slashdot are getting hardly any comments?
      This is probably just because most of the Apple stories aren't posted to the main slashdot page. Since the apple page started, only about 3 of the total stories here have made it to the front page. You can tell 'cause the comment count is much greater!

      btw, does anybody know of a link on apple.slashdot.org to get to the main site quickly? it't probably pretty obvious, but I can't find it, and I'd rather goto the apple page first, and then flit over to the main page.

  • Interesting interview (Score:3, Insightful)

    by crumbz ( 41803 ) <[moc.liamg>maps ... uj>maps_evomer> on Monday February 25, 2002 @05:17PM (#3067001) Homepage
    It is refreshing to read an interview with someone about the Macintosh and not have it deteriorate into a Win-tel bad/Mac good dialectic. Useful, critical insights into the diferent realms of personal computing are rare given the tremendous amounts of PR-spin in this industry. I can think of another example: John Dvorak is the only one left at Ziff-Davis with any kind of integrity.

    • Re:Interesting interview (Score:1, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward
      This is a joke, right? Dvorak was the guy who trashed the original iBook just because it had a handle (which is a good idea for laptops, actually).
      • While I agree Dvorak writes sometimes just to get more hits/attention, sometimes he has a decent point About the iBook handle, I actually saw him on some TechTV talkshow shortly after it came out and he was praising the unique design and he liked the handle for personal use. However, he said the look and style were a detriment to serious office use, something I think we can all agree on. :)
  • The guy seems pretty cool, I might have to check out his OSX Missing Manual next time I'm at B&N. Can anyone comment on if the book is any good?

    • Re:That guy seems cool (Score:3, Informative)

      by Harv ( 102357 )
      I borrowed a copy for a secretary in the office who was making the switch to OSX (with my help.) She did pretty well without any manual, but I didn't have the time to spend as much time with her as she needed. I asked her to test-drive Pogue's OSX Missing Manual for me, to see if it helped with the newbie stuff she was asking me about, and asked whether she thought others in the office would find it useful. She liked it, and said it was easy to find answers when she got stuck. In fact, she bought her own copy.

      I've used it a couple of times, too, as I'm not all that good with cli stuff yet. He's got some simple directions in there for that, too.

      Overall, I'd recommend it; it's both well-written and it covers most of the basic bases. It's worth the $25, especially if you have relative newcomers who are trying to get up to speed.

    • He is pretty cool.

      His Palm Pilot books rock as well.

      I found the OS X book to be good but definitely geared towards:

      A -- Old mac users
      B -- n00biez

      This does not make it a bad book. In fact, it is quite a bit of fun to read.

      If you are a *nix literate though it may seem a little tedious. Since you won't be doing a lot of what the book talks about.
    • if you have a microcenter near you (www.microcenter.com), they have it on sale for $14.95 this week...of course that's 2 weeks after I buy mine online for $25.
      :-p

    • Well, he's the guy O'reilly uses to write thier books on macs, if that any indication. So, yes, yes he is any good.
    • Thanks guys for the replies! I think I'll pick up a copy, unfortunately (or maybe fortunately :p), there is no Microcenter near me. I need some help on the CLI/Unix side of OSX, so this sounds like a good starting pointing.
  • Ironically enough, I think Macslash is Slashdotted

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