In his other life, David is a former Broadway show conductor, a piano player, and a magician. He lives in Connecticut with his three awesome children.
Links to his columns and weekly videos await at .
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: .
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 hes 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: .
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 three great felines. Email: .
Brian Jepson (technical consultant) is an OReilly editor and hacker, and co-organizer of Providence Geeks and the Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire. Hes also been involved in various ways over the years with AS220, a non-profit arts center in Providence, Rhode Island. 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.
Acknowledgments
Over the years, over the eight editions of this book, many friends and colleagues have contributed enthusiasm, expertise, and even prose to this books 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 OReillys Missing Manuals editor-in-chief, Brian Sawyer; Apples Monica Sarker 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 ; my crack team of eleventh-hour proofreaders, Diana DAbruzzo, Kellee Katagi, and Jennifer Carney; the NOVA crew, who gracefully accommodated my nutty book schedule during our shoots; and my spectacular screenshotter/index-marathoner, the lovely Emma Hollister.
Ive never met, or even spoken to, Kirill Voronin; he lives in Moscow. But he submitted so many corrections to the previous editions Errata page online that I wound up hiring him to be the tech editor for this editionand 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 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, 5th Edition by David Pogue
Droid X: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla
Droid 2: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla
iPad: The Missing Manual, 5th 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