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Two new Snow Leopard titles from Take Control Books -- and a giveaway

Do you have a few hours to kill while you're waiting in line at the Apple Store for your Snow Leopard upgrade? Take Control Books has just the thing to help fill your time and your mind!

Two new Snow Leopard titles have been released today in both ebook and print format. The first, "Take Control of Upgrading to Snow Leopard" is author Joe Kissell's take on how to perform a flawless upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6. Kissell, a long-time contributor to TidBITS and Macworld, did many installations of Snow Leopard beta versions to create a process you can follow to insure a flawless upgrade. He describes how to make a bootable duplicate of your existing machine in case the upgrade doesn't work out as planned, and has tips and tricks for optimizing Snow Leopard or troubleshooting issues after the install. This 81-page ebook is available today for US$10 from Take Control Books, or you can order a printed copy for US$19.99.
The second title is Matt Neuberg's mammoth "Take Control of Exploring and Customizing Snow Leopard." Neuberg, a TidBITS contributing editor and Apple development author, has written an ebook all about tweaking Snow Leopard to work and look the way you want. Matt covers literally dozens of topics in the book, so I recommend looking at the web page for the book if you are interested in learning more about what you can customize. The ebook is a whopping 165 pages long and is available today for US$15 (US$27.99 for the printed version) from Take Control Books. You can also purchase both Snow Leopard ebooks for only US$20.

As part of our Snow Leopard celebration, we're also giving away copies of both books to two lucky TUAW readers. To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment with your most perplexing Snow Leopard question. Here are the legal minutiae for the giveaway:
  • Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, and to legal residents of Canada (excluding Quebec), who are 18 and older.
  • To enter leave a comment below with your most perplexing Snow Leopard question.
  • The comment must be left before August 28, 11:59PM Eastern Daylight Time.
  • You may enter only once.
  • Two winners will be selected in a random drawing.
  • Prize: One copy each of Take Control of Exploring & Customizing Snow Leopard and Take Control of Upgrading to Snow Leopard (Value: US$20.00)
  • Click Here for complete Official Rules.
Good luck, and keep watching TUAW for more exciting Snow Leopard giveaways.

Disclaimer: Steve Sande has written several books for the Take Control series.

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MJD

Grand Central baby!!!

August 31 2009 at 7:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steve Anderson

Will ant builds be faster thanks to this update?

August 29 2009 at 4:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Abhinav Gautam

Why does Snow Leopard offer an option to run apps in 32-bit mode?

August 28 2009 at 11:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
m

most perplexing question: if this one's snow leopard, what will the next version of os x be called? i'm hoping for 'howler monkey'.

August 28 2009 at 10:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bobby

My mbp gets odd raster lines in random application windows and routinely peaks out at 201 degrees f. If AppleCare repeatedly denies this is abnorlal behavior, can sl provide me with power to kill this machine once and for all?

August 28 2009 at 8:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
peragroster

can i do a clean install from the $30 upgrade? is the upgrade the same as the one bundled with iwork and ilife?

August 28 2009 at 6:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ClownX

If Snow Leopard has the word "snow" in it, why isn't my MacBook any cooler?

August 28 2009 at 6:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
gary.rsvl

How much quicker does it really start up?

August 28 2009 at 5:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
artifex

My most perplexing question, which might actually be answered in one of these books: is there a way to install a bootable version of Snow Leopard to a (USB, not internal) flash drive?

Bonus: what color spots does a snow leopard have, anyway?

August 28 2009 at 5:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
m4cG33k

When can I buy QTPro 10?

August 28 2009 at 4:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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