Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Panther Edition

Acknowledgments

The Missing Manual series is a joint venture between Pogue Press (the dream team introduced on these pages) and O’Reilly & Associates (a dream publishing partner).

I’m grateful to all of them, and to AppleScript genius Bill Briggs for his help on Chapter 7; O’Reilly’s Chris Stone for the two Unix chapters; Apple’s Ken Bereskin, Mike Shebanek, and Anuj Nayar for their technical assistance; to Wacom’s Burt Holmes; and Jennifer Barber, Chuck Brandstater, John Cacciatore, Stephanie English, and Danny Marcus for their proofreading smarts.

And introducing...Adam Goldstein! is what movie credits would say about the gifted 15-year-old who met me at a book signing one day...and eventually became my right-hand man. He wrote this book’s discussions of FileVault, journaling, and the new Disk Restore feature; revised the Mail chapter; and polished many other discussions to a shine. You’ll be hearing a lot more from this guy.

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.

—David Pogue

The Missing Manual Series

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 2: The Missing Manual by David Pogue, Joseph Schorr, & Derrick Story

• iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

• iPod: The Missing Manual by J.D. Biersdorfer (covering iTunes, MusicMatch, and the iTunes Music Store)

• Google: The Missing Manual by Sarah Milstein

• Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

• Mac OS X Hints, Panther Edition by Rob Griffiths

• FileMaker Pro: The Missing Manual by Geoff Coffey

• Dreamweaver MX 2004: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

• Office X for Macintosh: The Missing Manual by Nan Barber, Tonya Engst, & David Reynolds

• AppleWorks 6: The Missing Manual by Jim Elferdink & David Reynolds

• Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

• Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual by David Pogue, Craig Zacker, & L. J. Zacker