Boyd Barbara - iPhone All-in-One for Dummies

Joe Hutsko: Joe is the author of Green Gadgets For Dummies, Flip Video For Dummies (with Drew Davidson), and Macs All-in-One For Dummies (with Barbara Boyd). For more than two decades, he has written about computers, gadgets, videogames, trends, and high-tech movers and shakers for numerous publications and websites, including The New York Times, Macworld, PC World, Fortune, Newsweek, Popular Science, TV Guide, The Washington Post, Wired, Gamespot, MSNBC, Engadget, TechCrunch, and Salon. Joes website is www.joehutsko.com .

As a kid, Joe built a shortwave radio, played with electronic project kits, and learned the basics of the BASIC programming language on his first computer, the Commodore Vic 20. In his teens, he picked strawberries to buy his first Apple II computer. Four years after that purchase (in 1984), he wound up working for Apple, where he became the personal technology guru for the companys chairman and CEO. Joe left Apple in 1988 to become a writer and worked on and off for other high-tech companies, including Steve Jobss one-time NeXT. He authored a number of videogame strategy guides, including the bestsellers Donkey Kong Country Game Secrets: The Unauthorized Edition and Rebel Assault: The Official Insiders Guide.

Joes first novel, The Deal, was published in 1999, and he recently rereleased a trade paperback edition of it with a new foreword by the author ( www.bit.ly/thedealjoehutsko ).

Barbara Boyd: Barbara is the co-author with Joe of Macs All-in-One For Dummies and the previous editions of iPhone All-in-One For Dummies. She is the author of AARP Tech To Connect: iPad and iCloud For Dummies In A Day, and co-author of Innovative Presentations For Dummies (with Ray Anthony) and The Complete Idiots Guide to Pinterest Marketing (with Christine Martinez). When not writing about technology, Barbara writes about food, gardens, and travel.

Barbara worked at Apple from 1985 to 1990, beginning as Joes assistant and the first network administrator for the executive staff. She then took a position as an administrator in the Technical Product Support group. Barbara recalls working with people who went on to become top names in technology it was an exciting time to be in Silicon Valley and at Apple in particular. That experience instilled a lifelong fascination with technology and Apple products. Her interest and experience led to subsequent jobs in marketing and publishing at International Data Group (IDG) and later for a small San Francisco design firm. In 1998, she left the corporate world to study Italian, write, and teach.

Presently, Barbara stays busy writing, keeping up with technology, growing olives, and beekeeping. (Shes a certified honey taster.) Barbara divides her time between city life in Rome, Italy, and country life on an olive farm in Calabria. You can find links to her books and read her blog at www.barbarajboyd.com .

Joe Hutsko: I dedicate this book to my fabulously thoughtful, kind, caring, smart, creative, beautiful, and amazing co-author and lifelong friend (and karmic life preserver) Barbara Boyd.

Barbara Boyd: I dedicate this book to the memory of Dennis Cohen, witty and knowledgeable technical editor on most of the For Dummies books Ive written.

You see the authors names on the cover, but these books (like any book) are really a collaboration, an effort of a many-membered team. Thanks go to Aaron Black at Wiley for renewing this title and Kyle Looper for coming in during the final stages. We had the great pleasure to work with Elizabeth Kuball as our project editor and copy editor extraordinaire and Galen Gruman, whose vast technical experience and perfectionism offered a valuable contribution. Thanks, too, to the anonymous people at Wiley who contributed to this book not just editorial, but tech support, legal, accounting, and even the person who delivers the mail. We dont know you, but we appreciate the job you do; it takes a lot of worker bees to keep the hive healthy, and each task is important to the whole.