Links to his columns and weekly videos await at .
About the Creative Team
Julie Van Keuren (copy editor) quit her newspaper job in 2006 to move to Montana and live the freelancing dream. She and her husband, M.H. (who is living the novel-writing dream), 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: .
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 Sarkar 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 ; Philip Michaels, who wrote about Game Center for this book; my crack team of eleventh-hour proofreaders, Diana DAbruzzo, Kellee Katagi, and Judy Le; the PBS NOVA crew, who gracefully accommodated my nutty book schedule during our shoots; my assistant Jan Carpenter, who fixed hundreds of captions and generally helped me survive; Brian Jepson, who wrote up OS X Server; and my spectacular screenshotter/index-marathoner, my beautiful Nicki.
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 bookand 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:
For the Mac
AppleScript: The Missing Manual by Adam Goldstein
FileMaker Pro 12: The Missing Manual by Susan Prosser and Stuart Gripman
iMovie 11 & iDVD: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and Aaron Miller
iPhoto 11: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and Lesa Snider
iWork 09: The Missing Manual by Josh Clark
Office 2011: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover
Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Lion Edition by David Pogue
Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider
For Windows
Windows 7: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Windows 8: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Access 2010: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
Excel 2010: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore
Office 2010: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover, Matthew MacDonald, and E. A. Vander Veer
QuickBooks 2012: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore
Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider
Photoshop Elements 10: The Missing Manual by Barbara Brundage
Electronics
David Pogues Digital Photography: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
iPhone: The Missing Manual, Fifth Edition by David Pogue
iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual by Craig Hockenberry
iPad: The Missing Manual, Fourth Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer
iPod: The Missing Manual, Tenth Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer
Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual by Peter Meyers
Motorola Xoom: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla
Netbooks: The Missing Manual by J.D. Biersdorfer
NOOK Tablet: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla
Droid X: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla
Droid X2: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla
Galaxy S II: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla
Galaxy Tab: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla
Web Technologies
Adobe Edge Preview 7: The Missing Manual, Third Edition by Chris Grover
Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual, Third Edition by Matthew MacDonald
CSS: The Missing Manual, Second Edition, by David Sawyer McFarland
Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland
Flash CS6: The Missing Manual by E. A. Vander Veer and Chris Grover
Google+: The Missing Manual by Kevin Purdy
HTML5: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual, Second Edition by David Sawyer McFarland
PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual