Includes bibliographical references and index.

GUI -- Enjoy the Animations -- Spice Up Your Desktop -- Use Labels Effectively -- Launchers, or, Dial [characters not reproducible]-Space M for Mail -- Wear Multiple Hats, Run Multiple Desktops -- Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts -- Tweak Menu Extras -- Incorporate Services into Your Workflow -- Autocomplete Your Words -- Get Sidetracked -- eMac, Meet eBook -- Build Your Own Konfabulator Widget -- Scripting -- A Hacker's Introduction to AppleScript -- AppleScript the GUI -- Fulfill Wishes with Address Book -- Fetch the Paper, AppleScript Style -- Batch-Convert Screenshots to JPEGs -- Build AppleScript Apps with FaceSpan -- Mac::Glue Your Perl -- Update iChat Status with Mac::Glue -- Hack Your Address Book with Perl -- Manipulate Images on the Command Line -- Script CoreGraphics with Python -- Tap RSS with Shell Scripts -- Add a Dab of GUI to Unix Scripts -- Automatically Dim Your Laptop Screen -- Web, Chat, and Mail -- Hack Safari -- Browse Different -- Avoid the Ads -- Read Syndicated Online Content -- Breathe Life into Your Staid Buddy List -- Better iChat Transcripts -- Gather Ye Buddies While Ye May -- USB Videoconferencing -- Provide Remote Support -- IRC: Chatrooms for Hackers -- Label Your Mail -- Search Your Mail with ZOE -- Encrypt and Sign Your Mail -- Interleave Mail and Pine -- Multimedia -- Build a Household MP3 Server -- Clutter Your Desktop with Music -- Feed Streaming Audio to Your iPod -- Autofeed Text to your iPod -- Automate a Web Photo Gallery with iPhoto and Perl -- Keep a Digital Diary -- Rendezvous Picture Transfer -- Rotate Your Movie from Horizontal to Vertical -- Store Pictures and Movies in Your iPod -- Gadgets and Hardware -- Expand Your Screen Real Estate -- iPod Tips and Tricks -- Build an Emergency iPod Boot Volume -- Pair and iSync with Bluetooth Devices -- Use Your Cellphone as a Bluetooth Modem -- Share Your Mac's Net Connection with a Bluetooth Phone -- Control Your Mac with a PDA -- Listen to Bluetooth -- Print Without Wires -- Zip, Zap, and Sync Your Gizmos -- iOscillate -- Networking and Network Apps -- Share Your Address Book and iCal -- Collaborative Editing with Rendezvous -- See Spike Share His Clipboard -- Detect Wireless Networks -- Secure Your AirPort Network with WPA -- Manage Multiple AirPort Base Stations -- Access Remote Desktops -- Servers -- Apache Behind the Scenes -- Turn on WebDAV -- Turn on PHP -- Advertise Web Sites with Rendezvous -- Set Up a Postfix Mail Server -- Relay Mail with Postfix -- Set Up Secondary Mail Servers -- Create Mail Aliases -- Set Up IMAP and POP Mail Servers -- Files and Backup -- Synchronize Your Files -- Edit Special Unix Files -- Find and Unerase Misplaced and Deleted Files -- Store and Search Your Records as PDF -- Flex OmniOutliner -- Decide What to Back Up -- Automate Backups with Existing Tools -- Back Up Your Digital Music Collection -- Make a Carbon Copy -- Bluetooth File Exchange and Browsing -- Secure File Sharing with SSH -- System Administration -- Become an Administrator for a Moment -- Understand Your User Account -- Rename a User Account -- Use the Terminal -- Set Shell Environment Variables -- A Security Primer -- Stash Data in the Keychain -- Panther Maintenance -- Use iCal to Schedule Tasks -- Use periodic to Schedule Tasks -- Use cron to Schedule Tasks -- Reinstall Mac OS X -- Bypass the GUI.

Mac OS X is a wonderful combination of the power and flexibility of Unix with the ease of use that seems to come only from Apple. Between the tools baked right into the system, a veritable cornucopia of third-party applications, and a cottage industry of customizations, tweaks, and hacks, the Mac is a force to be reckoned with like never before. Mac OS X Panther Hacks celebrates the Macintosh's adventurous spirit, inviting the citizen engineer on a quest of deeper discovery -- both with the purpose of going further and simply enjoying the ride. Mac OS X Panther Hacks continues the tradition started with Mac OS X Hacks, sitting squarely at the peculiar confluence of deadly earnest optimization and creative (albeit sometimes wacky) tweaking you seem to find only on a Mac.