Author's Acknowledgments
This (my second For Dummies) book wouldn't have my name on its cover if my literary agent, Carole Jelen, hadn't reached out on LinkedIn.com a few summers ago to say hello after we had fallen out of contact since meeting in the 1980s, when I was working at Apple. Thank you, Carole, for pitching me to Wiley acquisition editor Bob Woerner — and thank you, Bob, for saying yes!
Kudos to copy editor Brian Walls for helping me mind my words, grammatically speaking.
Special thanks to Keri Walker of Apple for her always friendly support when it comes to all things Apple products, and to Khyati Shah, for helping me get (and stay) in sync with MobileMe — a many splendored thing!
Super-duper thanks to my good ol' friend Barbara Boyd, for helping me pull off many of the chapters in this book that featured collaborative applications or uses, such as iChat, networking, and a dozen or so others. Thanks, Barbara, for your lifelong friendship, and your "always present" presence — you may live in Rome, but you're never more than a heartbeat away.
Major thanks to every one of my ever-encouraging dear friends, especially Drew Davidson, and to Ric Firmino, David Unruh, David Baron, my cousin Chip McDermott, my brothers Steve and John, and my sister, Janice, and last but never least, my close friend and Monday Night Supper slinging mom, Frances Hutsko.
I'm deeply indebted to eight close friends whose generous support and faith made this book possible (literally!): Susan Godfrey (a.k.a. ...
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