About the Author

About the Author

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David Pogue (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 coauthor of 60 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 .

About the Creative Team

Julie Van Keuren (copy editor) is a freelance editor, writer, and desktop publisher who runs her “little media empire” from her home in Billings, Montana. In her spare time she enjoys swimming, biking, running, and (hey, why not?) triathlons. She and her husband, M.H., have two sons, Dexter and Michael. Email: .

Kirill Voronin (technical editor) is the head of an IT consulting company, aptly called Shortcut, based in Moscow, Russia. He has worked with Macs since the ’90s, and he’s an Apple Certified System Administrator and Apple Certified Trainer for IT courses. He lives with his wife, Maria, and son, Nil. In his spare time, he enjoys backpacking. Email: .

Phil Simpson (design and layout) 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 three great felines. Email: .

Brian Jepson (technical consultant) is an O’Reilly editor and hacker, and co-organizer of Providence Geeks and the Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire. He’s also been involved in various ways over the years with AS220, a non-profit arts center in Providence, Rhode Island. Email: .

Chris Stone (author of Chapter 16) is a senior systems administrator at O’Reilly Media and coauthor of Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell, published by O’Reilly. A San Francisco native, he got his English degree from Humboldt State University and spent 10 years hidden away in the Japanese countryside before returning to the North Bay area, where he lives with his wife, Miho, and sons, Andrew and Jonathan.

Acknowledgments

Over the years, over the eight editions of this book, many friends and colleagues have contributed enthusiasm, expertise, and even prose to this book’s editions. They include Zachary Brass, Dan Pourhadi, Rich Koster, J.D. Biersdorfer, Teresa Noelle Roberts, and Lesa Snider.

In addition to the dream team members identified above, I owe debts of thanks to O’Reilly’s Missing Manuals editor-in-chief, Brian Sawyer; Apple’s Monica Sarker for going beyond the call of duty to chase down tweaky tech answers; Ben Waldie, who did a beautiful job updating the Automator/AppleScript material in Chapter 7; my crack team of eleventh-hour proofreaders, Diana D’Abruzzo, Kellee Katagi, and Jennifer Carney; the NOVA crew, who gracefully accommodated my nutty book schedule during our shoots; and my spectacular screenshotter/index-marathoner, the lovely Emma Hollister.

I’ve never met, or even spoken to, Kirill Voronin; he lives in Moscow. But he submitted so many corrections to the previous edition’s Errata page online that I wound up hiring him to be the tech editor for this edition—and he knocked it out of the park.

I also wish I could send out an “I Made the Book Better!” T-shirt to every reader who ever took the time to write with corrections, suggestions, tips, and tricks. And thanks, as always, to David Rogelberg for believing in the idea.

Above all, this book owes its existence to the patience and affection of Kelly, Tia, and Jeffrey. They make these books—and everything else—possible.

—David Pogue

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; 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.

Here’s a list of current and upcoming titles:

  • iPhone: The Missing Manual, 5th Edition by David Pogue

  • Droid X: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla

  • Droid 2: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla

  • iPad: The Missing Manual, 5th Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer

  • iPod: The Missing Manual, 9th Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer

  • David Pogue’s Digital Photography: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

  • Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider King

  • JavaScript: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

  • CSS: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition, by David Sawyer McFarland

  • Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

  • The Internet: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and J.D. Biersdorfer

  • Dreamweaver CS5: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

  • Flash CS4: The Missing Manual by E. A. Vander Veer and Chris Grover

  • eBay: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner

  • Wikipedia: The Missing Manual by John Broughton

  • Google: The Missing Manual by Sarah Milstein and Rael Dornfest

  • Google Apps: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner

  • Google Sketchup: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover

  • Palm Pre: The Missing Manual by Ed Baig

  • Netbooks: The Missing Manual by J.D. Biersdorfer

  • Home Networking: The Missing Manual by Scott Lowe

  • Your Brain: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

  • Your Body: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

  • Living Green: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner

  • Facebook: The Missing Manual by E.A. Vander Veer

For Macintosh:

  • Photoshop Elements for Mac: The Missing Manual by Barbara Brundage

  • iMovie ’11 & iDVD: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and Aaron Miller

  • iPhoto ’11: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and Lesa Snider

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

  • iWork ’09: The Missing Manual by Josh Clark

  • AppleScript: The Missing Manual by Adam Goldstein

  • Office 2011 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover

  • FileMaker Pro 10: The Missing Manual by Geoff Coffey and Susan Prosser

For Windows:

  • Windows 7: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

  • Windows Vista: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

  • FrontPage 2003: The Missing Manual by Jessica Mantaro

  • Office 2010: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover, Matthew MacDonald, and E. A. Vander Veer

  • Word 2010: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover

  • Excel 2010: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

  • PowerPoint 2010: The Missing Manual by Emily A. Vander Veer

  • Access 2010: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

  • Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore

  • PCs: The Missing Manual by Andy Rathbone

  • Photoshop Elements 9: The Missing Manual by Barbara Brundage

  • Premiere Elements 8: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover

  • Quicken 2009: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore

  • QuickBooks 2011: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore

  • QuickBase: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner

  • Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition by David Pogue

  • Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition by David Pogue, Craig Zacker, and L.J. Zacker

  • Windows XP Power Hound by Preston Gralla

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