OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual

The Missing Credits

About the Author

David Pogue (author, illustrator) wrote the weekly tech column for The New York Times for 13 years. In late 2013, he joined Yahoo to launch a new consumer tech site for non-techies: yahootech.com.

He’s also a columnist for Scientific American, Emmy-winning correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, host of four NOVA miniseries on PBS, and the creator of the Missing Manual series. He’s written over 60 books, including 28 in this series, six in the For Dummies line (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music), and two novels. 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 weekly videos await at www.davidpogue.com. He welcomes feedback about his books by email at [e-mail].

About the Creative Team

Julie Van Keuren (copy editor) quit her newspaper job in 2006 to move to Montana and live the freelancing dream. She and her husband, M.H. (who is living the novel-writing dream), have two sons, Dexter and Michael. Email: [e-mail].

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: [e-mail].

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 four great felines. Email: [e-mail].

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 nonprofit arts center in Providence, Rhode Island. Email: [e-mail].

Acknowledgments

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 Sarkar 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; Philip Michaels, who wrote about Game Center for this book; my crack team of eleventh-hour proofreaders, Diana D’Abruzzo, Kellee Katagi, and Judy Le; the PBS NOVA crew, who gracefully accommodated my nutty book schedule during our shoots; and my spectacular screenshotter/index-marathoner, my beautiful Nicki.

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 book—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:

For the Mac

• AppleScript: The Missing Manual by Adam Goldstein

• FileMaker Pro 12: The Missing Manual by Susan Prosser and Stuart Gripman

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

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

• iWork ’09: The Missing Manual by Josh Clark

• Office 2011: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover

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

• Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider

For Windows

• Windows 7: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

• Windows 8: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

• Access 2010: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

• Excel 2010: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

• Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore

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

• QuickBooks 2012: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore

• Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider

• Photoshop Elements 10: The Missing Manual by Barbara Brundage

Electronics

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

• iPhone: The Missing Manual, Fifth Edition by David Pogue

• iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual by Craig Hockenberry

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

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

• Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual by Peter Meyers

• Motorola Xoom: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla

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

• NOOK Tablet: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla

• Droid X: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla

• Droid X2: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla

• Galaxy S II: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla

• Galaxy Tab: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla

Web Technologies

• Adobe Edge Preview 7: The Missing Manual, Third Edition by Chris Grover

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

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

• Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

• Flash CS6: The Missing Manual by E. A. Vander Veer and Chris Grover

• Google+: The Missing Manual by Kevin Purdy

• HTML5: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

• JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual, Second Edition by David Sawyer McFarland

• PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual by Brett McLaughlin

Life

• Personal Investing: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore

• Your Brain: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

• Your Body: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

• Your Money: The Missing Manual by J.D. Roth