Joe Hutsko - Macs All-in-One For Dummies

Macs ALL-IN-ONE For Dummies

by Joe Hutsko and Barbara Boyd

Macs ALL-IN-ONE For Dummies

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About the Authors

Joe Hutsko is the author of Green Gadgets For Dummies, Flip Video For Dummies (with Drew Davidson), and iPhone All-in-One For Dummies (with Barbara Boyd). For more than two decades, he has written about computers, gadgets, video games, 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. You can find links to Joes stories on his blog, JOEyGADGET.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 Jobs one-time NeXT. He authored a number of video game 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 ( tinyurl.com/hutskodeal ).

Barbara Boyd writes about food, gardens, travel, and technology. Shes written for Chile Pepper Magazine, Islands, and BeeCulture. With Joe, she just finished iPhone All-in-One For Dummies .

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 IDG (International Data Group) 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.) Her next writing project barring any unforeseen For Dummies books will be a memoir of building a farm and house in Italy. Barbara divides her time between city life in Rome and country life on an olive farm in Calabria, which she blogs about at http://honeybeesandolivetrees.blogspot.com .

Dedication

Joe dedicates 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 dedicates this book to: My sweet, patient husband, Ugo de Paula, who appreciates my inner geek and keeps me on my toes by asking complicated and challenging technical questions. And to my talented, inspiring, since-childhood friend Joe Hutsko, without whom I wouldnt be doing any of this techie stuff.

Authors Acknowledgments

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 Bob Woerner at Wiley for trusting Joes judgment and taking a chance on an unknown author. We couldnt have completed this book without our terrific project editor, Jean Nelson, who kept track of everything and kept everything on track. We truly appreciated our sharp-eyed, guitar-playing copy editor, Barry Childs-Helton, for polishing our book with his precise edits. A big hats off to Dennis R. Cohen for his insightful and accurate technical editing and witty comments that often made us laugh out loud during author review. Thanks, too, to the anonymous people at Wiley who contributed to this book not just editorial, but tech support, legal, accounting, 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.