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The El Capitan Edition of Customizing OS X is the 4th book in the Customizing OS X series and contains over 400 fantastic tweaks, hacks, secret commands, and hidden features to completely customize your OS X El Capitan user experience. Learn how to completely personalize your Mac, fine-tuning every aspect of OS X to help you become more productive and efficient by making OS X El Capitan more closely match your personal computing style. You will learn how to tinker and tweak OS X, bending it to your every will and squeezing every last drop of performance out of your Mac. Customizing OS X shows you how to completely customize your user experience until your Mac has its own unique look and feel. New chapters show you how to create your own custom trackpad and mouse gestures, snap windows, make your Mac more secure, and boost the performance of older Macs. You don't need to be an Apple genius to customize OS X. Learn how you can safely and quickly customize and personalize OS X El Capitan. Why customize your Mac and OS X? Well, because you can. It's that simple.

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Tom Magrini is the author of 4 books in the Customizing OS X series, which teach Mac users to completely customize their OS X experience with hundreds of tweaks, hacks, secret commands, and hidden features. Tom's books teach Mac users how to customize OS X to give their Macs their own unique and personal look and feel. Tom is an information technology professional with over 30 years experience as an engineer and senior manager. He has worked with Macs since 1984 and still fondly remembers his first Apple Macintosh computer with its 8 MHz Motorola 68000 processor, 9-inch 512 x 342 pixel black-and-white screen, 128 kB of RAM, and built-in 400 kB 31/2 inch floppy drive. Tom also worked with NeXT computers and the NeXTStep operating system, the forerunner to Apple's OS X. And yes, Tom has crossed over to the dark side and has worked extensively with Windows-based PCs. During the work week, Tom is a busy IT director, leading a team of IT professionals who maintain two data centers and the network, telephony, server, storage, operating systems, and security infrastructure for a large city. Tom has taught programming, operating systems, Cisco Networking Academy, and wireless technology courses as a Computer Information Systems professor at two colleges. He has worked for numerous technology companies including SynOptics Communications, Bay Networks, FORE Systems, 3Com, and Cisco Systems, Inc. When Tom isn't working on his MacBook Pro or hanging out with his family and dogs, he enjoys reading, movies, writing, and the beautiful Arizona weather with its 300 days of sunshine. Please subscribe to Tom's Flipboard magazine, Apple OS X + iOS, where he keeps you up-to-date on the latest OS X, iOS, and Apple news, features, tips, and tricks. Books by Tom Magrini Customizing OS X - El Capitan Edition - Fantastic Tricks, Tweaks, Hacks, Secret Commands, & Hidden Features to Customize Your OS X User Experience Customizing OS X - Yosemite Edition - Fantastic Tricks, Tweaks, Hacks, Secret Commands, & Hidden Features to Customize Your OS X User Experience Catch the Wave: Customizing OS X Mavericks - Fantastic Tricks, Tweaks, Hacks, Secret Commands, & Hidden Features to Customize Your OS X User Experience Taming the Pride: Customizing OS X Mountain Lion - Fantastic Tricks, Tweaks, Hacks, Secret Commands, & Hidden Features to Customize Your OS X User Experience

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