The Missing Credits
About the Authors
J.D. Biersdorfer (author) is the author of several O’Reilly books, including iPad: The Missing Manual, Best iPhone Apps, Second Edition, and Netbooks: The Missing Manual. She’s been writing the weekly computer Q&A column for The New York Times since 1998 and has covered everything from 17th-century Indian art to the world of female hackers for the newspaper. She’s also written articles for the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, Budget Travel, The New York Times Book Review, and Rolling Stone. She studied in the Theater & Drama program at Indiana University and now spends her limited spare moments playing the banjo badly, drinking copious amounts of tea, and watching BBC World News. Email: jd.biersdorfer@gmail.com.
David Pogue (co-author) is the weekly tech columnist for the New York Times, an Emmy-winning correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, a weekly CNBC contributor, and the creator of the Missing Manual series. He’s the author or co-author of 51 books, including 25 in this series, six in the For Dummies line (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music), two novels, and The World According to Twitter. In his other life, David is a former Broadway show conductor, a piano player, and a magician. He lives in Connecticut with his three awesome children.
Links to his columns and weekly videos await at www.davidpogue.com. He welcomes feedback about his books by email at david@pogueman.com.
About the Creative Team
Peter McKie (editor) lives in New York City, where he traces the history of old buildings (and, yes, there are more than three of them there). He has a master’s degree in journalism from Boston University and is pleased to be doing his fourth book with J.D. Email: pmckie@oreilly.com.
Adam Zaremba (production editor) has a master’s degree from the Editorial Institute at Boston University. He lives in Chestnut Hill, Mass., and has decided, on second thought, not to go to Camelot, for ‘tis a silly place. Email: zaremba@oreilly.com.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank David Pogue for suggesting this book to me way back in 2002, and then being a terrific editor through the mad scramble of the first two editions. Also thanks to editors Peter Meyers and Peter McKie for guiding me through the past seven updates. Thanks to Adam Zaremba, Nellie McKesson, Lesley Keegan, Rob Romano, Sara Peyton, Betsy Waliszewski, Laurie Petrycki, and all the folks at O’Reilly. Thanks to Apple for courteously providing the iPod images and to the assorted iPod accessory companies who made their photos available. Thanks also to Odessa Chen and Susan Thompson for letting us use their album art and video images on the cover.
I’d also to thank all my friends and family (especially and most importantly, Betsy Book) for putting up with me every September when Apple announces new iPods and I disappear into my computer for several weeks, muttering incoherently and cranking up the show tunes and bluegrass playlists to a hearty volume.
The Missing Manual Series
Missing Manuals are witty, superbly written guides to computer products that don’t come with printed manuals (which is just about all of them). Each book features a handcrafted index and RepKover, a detached-spine binding that lets the book lie perfectly flat without the assistance of weights or cinder blocks.
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Access 2010: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
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Best iPhone Apps, 2nd Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer
CSS: The Missing Manual, Second Edition, by David Sawyer McFarland
Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual, Second Edition, by Matthew MacDonald
David Pogue’s Digital Photography: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Dreamweaver CS5: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland
Excel 2010: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
Facebook: The Missing Manual, Second Edition by E.A. Vander Veer
FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual by Susan Prosser and Stuart Gripman
Flash CS5: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover
iMovie ‘09 & iDVD: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and Aaron Miller
iPad: The Missing Manual by J.D. Biersdorfer
iPhone: The Missing Manual, 4th Edition by David Pogue
iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual by Craig Hockenberry
iPhoto ‘09: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and J.D. Biersdorfer
JavaScript: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland
Living Green: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner
Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition by David Pogue
Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore
Netbooks: The Missing Manual by J.D. Biersdorfer
Office 2010: The Missing Manual by Nancy Connor, Chris Grover, and Matthew MacDonald
Personal Investing: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore
Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider
Photoshop Elements 9: The Missing Manual by Barbara Brundage
QuickBase: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner
QuickBooks 2011: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore
Quicken 2009: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore
Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition by David Pogue
Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition by David Pogue
Windows 7: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Your Body: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
Your Brain: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
Your Money: The Missing Manual by J.D. Roth
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