The Expanding Digital World

While the bulk of the book discusses more traditional computer networks, more and more devices are cropping up that make it easier to carry your connection to the digital world. In this chapter, we discuss personal digital assistants and devices ranging from pagers to lamps that you might want to integrate with your Mac.

Connectivity

Peripherals, personal digital assistants, other computers, and accessibility hardware and software

Multimedia

Telephony, digital audio, digital video, and amateur (ham) radio

Macs at Work

Bar-code readers, point-of-sale software, data acquisition and measurement, GPS, home automation, and home security

Table 8-17. General Mac resources