Dan Frakes - Mac OS X power tools

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Acknowledgments

(Or: The people I've remembered to thank, which is not necessarily everyone whom I should have thanked.)

Specific Thanks

First, I couldn't have done this without the Sybex team: (in order of appearance) Ellen Dendy, Joel Fugazzotto, Brianne Agatep, Dennis Fitzgerald, and Cheryl Hauser. I can't thank them enough for approaching me to do this book, and for guiding me through the process of writing it. (Brianne's significance in the latter category was beyond measure.) And to the rest of the Sybex staff who shepherded the book through the writing, editing, and production processes so that you could be reading it right now: thank you, thank you, thank you.

Along those lines, I also want to thank my agent, Neil Salkind. If the Sybex team held one of my hands through this process, Neil pulled me along by the other. He and the StudioB staff made writing the book easier by worrying about contracts, payments, and the like, so that I didn't have to.

I of course want to thank Chris Pepper, who wrote the first and second drafts of off my hands, helping to ensure that we made our publishing deadlines. He did a great job squeezing an immense amount of information into one chapter, and was very responsive to feedback and questions. I consider myself to be fairly knowledgeable about Unix, but I learned some very cool things from his writing. I'm sure you will, too.

I also want to thank James Bucanek, the book's technical editor, for all his hard work in both catching my mistakes and commenting on my content (not to mention the time he spent trying every single procedure in this book!). His feedback improved the book significantly. I just hope he's available the next time, as well.

General Thanks

Since they rarely get thanked in places like this, I want to publicly express my gratitude to the people at Appletop to bottomwithout whom there wouldn't be this amazing thing called the Mac. They may not be perfect, but they get pretty darned close most of the time. Similarly, thanks to Mac software developers for keeping the pantry stocked with cool and useful products. Anyone who says the Mac platform doesn't have a lot of great software must not be looking very hard.

I would also be remiss if I didn't mention the thousands of Mac users with whom I've talked and exchanged e-mail over the years. Your support, questions, and knowledge have kept me at this longer than I ever would have imagined.