The Missing Manual series is a joint venture between the dream team introduced on these pages and O’Reilly & Associates: Tim O’Reilly, Mark Brokering, and company.
I’m grateful to all of them, and to AppleScript genius Bill Briggs for his help on Chapter 7; Apple’s Ken Bereskin and Bill Evans for their technical assistance; to the resourceful Noah Zerkin for helping my first-edition prose escape PageMaker; and Jennifer Barber, Chuck Brandstater, Kate Briggs, Stephanie English, Danny Marcus, Jim Elferdink, and Elizabeth “Eagle Eye” Tonis for their proofreading smarts. Thanks to David Rogelberg for believing in the idea, and above all, to Jennifer, Kelly, and Tia, who make these books—and everything else—possible.
Missing Manual books are designed to be 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; cross-references to specific page numbers (not just “See Chapter 14“); and a promise never to use an apostrophe in the possessive word its. Current and upcoming titles include:
iPhoto: The Missing Manual by David Pogue, Joseph Schorr, & Derrick Story
Dreamweaver MX: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland
Photoshop Elements 2: The Missing Manual by Donnie O’Quinn
Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Mac OS X Hints by Rob Griffiths
Office X for Macintosh: The Missing Manual by Nan Barber, Tonya Engst, & David Reynolds
AppleWorks 6: The Missing Manual by Jim Elferdink & David Reynolds
iMovie 2: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual by David Pogue, Craig Zacker, and Linda Zacker
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