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This book was written on a black MacBook laptop that remained attached to David Pogue like an appendage. It was typed in Microsoft Word, with substantial assistance from the typing-shortcut program TypeIt4Me (www.typeit4me.com) and the macro program QuicKeys (www.quickeys.com).
The screenshots were captured with Snapz Pro X (www.ambrosiasw.com), edited in Adobe Photoshop CS3 (www.adobe.com), and overlaid with labels, lines, and circles in Macromedia Freehand Mac OS X (www.adobe.com).
The author wrote the index, entry by entry, using a highly tweaked FileMaker database (www.filemaker.com) and a clever Perl script that converted FileMaker’s output into a fully formatted index.
The book was designed and laid out in Adobe InDesign CS3 on a
PowerBook G4 and Power Mac G5. The fonts include Formata (as the
sans-serif family) and Minion (as the serif body face). To provide the
symbols (
, 
, 
, and so on), Phil Simpson designed two custom fonts
using Macromedia Fontographer.
The book was then exported as Adobe Acrobat PDF files for final transmission to the printing plant in Michigan.
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