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About the Creative Team
Julie Van Keuren (copy editor) is a freelance editor, writer, and desktop publisher who runs her little media empire from her home in Billings, Montana. In her spare time she enjoys swimming, biking, running, and (hey, why not?) triathlons. She and her husband, M.H., have two sons, Dexter and Michael. Email: .
Phil Simpson (design and layout) works out of his office in Southbury, Connecticut, where he has had his graphic design business since 1982. He is experienced in many facets of graphic design, including corporate identity/branding, publication design, and corporate and medical communications. Email: .
Brian Jepson (technical consultant) is a Senior Editor for OReilly Media. He co-wrote Mac OS X for Unix Geeks, and has written or edited a number of other tech books. Hes also the co-founder of Providence Geeks, and serves as an all-around geek for AS220, a non-profit, unjuried, and uncensored arts center in Providence, RI. Email: .
Chris Stone (author of ) is a senior systems administrator at OReilly Media and coauthor of Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell, published by OReilly. A San Francisco native, he got his English degree from Humboldt State University and spent 10 years hidden away in the Japanese countryside before returning to the North Bay area, where he lives with his wife, Miho, and sons, Andrew and Jonathan.
Rich Koster (beta reader) bought his first Mac, a 17-inch MacBook Pro, in 2009, and has never looked back toward the Dark Side (PCs). Rich served as the tech editor of David Pogues iPhone: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition . Hes a husband, a father, and creator of the Disney Echo at DisneyEcho.emuck.com , which he has fun tending daily with his MacBook Pro!
Acknowledgments
Man was this book a lot of work. Apple just could not leave well enough alone. For an OS update that supposedly put a pause on new features, Apple sure put a lot of effort into rejiggering, rewording, or shuffling around what was already there!
Over the years, many friends and colleagues have contributed enthusiasm, expertise, and even prose to this books editions. They include Zachary Brass, teenage screenshot machine; Dan Pourhadi, Mac writer extraordinaire, who updated for the previous edition; and Lesa Snider, my assistant for several years, who was the graphics goddess and co-indexer on previous editions.
In addition to the dream team members identified above, I owe debts of thanks to OReillys Missing Manuals editor-in-chief, Peter Meyers; Teresa Noelle Roberts, copy editor for previous editions; Apples Monica Sarker and Bill Evans for helping me get answers to baffling tech questions; piano/indexing virtuoso Jim Jacoby; and to my crack team of eleventh-hour proofreaders, Kellee Katagi, Diana DAbruzzo, and Julie Van Keuren. 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 Jennifer, Kelly, Tia, and Jeffrey. They make these booksand everything elsepossible.
David Pogue
The Missing Manual Series
Missing Manuals are witty, superbly written guides to computer products that dont 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 ); and an ironclad promise never to put an apostrophe in the possessive pronoun its .
Heres a list of current and upcoming titles:
iPhone: The Missing Manual, 4th Edition by David Pogue
Droid X: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla
Droid 2: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla
iPad: The Missing Manual, 4th Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer
iPod: The Missing Manual, 9th Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer
David Pogues Digital Photography: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider King
JavaScript: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland
CSS: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition, by David Sawyer McFarland
Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
The Internet: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and J.D. Biersdorfer
Dreamweaver CS5: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland
Flash CS4: The Missing Manual by E. A. Vander Veer and Chris Grover
eBay: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual by John Broughton
Google: The Missing Manual by Sarah Milstein and Rael Dornfest
Google Apps: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner
Google Sketchup: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover
Palm Pre: The Missing Manual by Ed Baig
Netbooks: The Missing Manual by J.D. Biersdorfer
Home Networking: The Missing Manual by Scott Lowe
Your Brain: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
Your Body: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
Living Green: The Missing Manual