David Pogue (author, illustrator, indexer) is the founder of Yahoo Tech (yahootech.com), a job for which he was groomed by 13 years of writing the weekly tech column for The New York Times.
He’s also a monthly columnist for Scientific American, a three-time Emmy-winning correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, the host of several NOVA miniseries on PBS, and the creator of the Missing Manual series. He’s written or cowritten 80 books, including 40 in this series, six in the For Dummies line (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music), two novels (one for middle-schoolers), The World According to Twitter, Pogue’s Basics, and Pogue’s Basics: Life. In his other life, David is a former Broadway show conductor, a magician, and a funny public speaker. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Nicki, and three awesome children.
Links to his columns and videos await at www.davidpogue.com. He welcomes feedback about his books by email at david@pogueman.com.
Julie Van Keuren (copy editor, indexer, layout) quit her newspaper job in 2006 and moved to Montana to live the freelance-editing dream. She and her husband, M.H. (who’s living the novel-writing dream), have two teenage sons, Dexter and Michael. Email: little_media@yahoo.com.
Phil Simpson (original design) runs his graphic design business from Southbury, Connecticut. His work includes corporate branding, publication design, communications support, and advertising. In his free time he is a homebrewer, ice cream maker, wannabe woodworker, and is on a few tasting panels. He lives with his wife and some great felines. Email: phil.simpson@pmsgraphics.com.
Rich Koster (technical reviewer). The iPhone became Rich’s first cellphone the very first evening it was sold by Apple. From the start, he began corresponding with David Pogue, sharing tips, tricks, and observations; eventually, David asked him to be the beta reader of the first edition of iPhone: The Missing Manual—and hired him as the tech editor of subsequent editions. Rich is a husband, father, graphics artist, writer, and Disney fan (@DisneyEcho on Twitter).
The Missing Manual series is a joint venture between the dream team introduced on these pages and O’Reilly Media. I’m grateful to all of them, especially to the core of the iPhone Missing Manual team introduced above.
The work done on previous editions lives on in this one; for that, I’m grateful to Jude Biersdorfer, Matt Gibstein, Teresa Brewer, Brian Jepson, Apple’s Trudy Muller, Philip Michaels, O’Reilly’s Nan Barber, and my incredible assistant Jan Carpenter, who keeps me from falling apart like wet Kleenex. Thanks to David Rogelberg and Tim O’Reilly for believing in the idea; to Kellee Katagi, Judy Le, and Nancy Young for proofreading and fact-checking; and above all, to Nicki, Kell, Tia, and Jeffrey. They make these books—and everything else—possible.
—David Pogue
Missing Manuals are witty, well 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; cross-references to specific page numbers (not just “see Chapter 14”); and an ironclad promise never to put an apostrophe in the possessive pronoun its.
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