Sarah Milstein (author and editor) is O’Reilly Media’s Managing Editor for Consumer Books. Previously, she was the Missing Manual series editor and a freelance business and technology reporter. She has been a regular contributor to the New York Times and a slew of other publications, most of them now defunct. When not planted at the keyboard, she likes to take epic walks, play poker, watch baseball, and rearrange the furniture. Email: milstein@oreilly.com.
J.D. Biersdorfer (author, Chapter 11 and revisions throughout the book) is the author of iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual and The iPod Shuffle Fan Book and sometimes even writes about things other than iPods. She does the weekly computer Q&A column for the New York Times and is equally obsessed with the BBC World News and the banjo in her spare time. Email: jd.biersdorfer@gmail.com.
Matthew MacDonald (author, Chapter 10 and revisions in Chapter 9) is an author, educator, and programmer extraordinaire. He’s the author of Excel: The Missing Manual, Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual, and over a dozen books about .NET programming. Web: www.prosetech.com.
Rael Dornfest (author, Chapters 8 and 9, previous edition) is O’Reilly Media’s Chief Technology Officer. He has co-authored various O’Reilly books, including Mac OS X Hacks, Google Hacks, Essential Blogging, and Peer to Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies, and he is program chair for the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. Email: googlemm@raelity.org.
Adam Goldstein (editor, technical reviewer) is the teenage founder of Goldfish-Soft, a Macintosh software company. He is the author AppleScript: The Missing Manual; co-author of Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition; and contributor to Mac OS X: The Missing Manual and Mac OS X Power Hound. Email: mail@goldfishsoft.com. Web: www.goldfishsoft.com.
Aaron Swartz (technical reviewer, previous edition) is a teenage writer, coder, and hacker. He’s also the guy behind the Google Weblog (http://google.blogspace.com/). Email: me@aaronsw.com. Web: www.aaronsw.com.
Rose Cassano (cover illustration) has worked as an independent designer and illustrator for 20 years. Assignments have ranged from the nonprofit sector to corporate clientele. She lives in beautiful Southern Oregon, grateful for the miracles of modern technology that make working there a reality. Email: cassano@highstream.net. Web: www.rosecassano.com.
Thanks to Jude, Adam, and Matthew for making this edition thorough, accurate, and entertaining. Special thanks to Brian Jepson for help with Google Wireless, to Glenda Dougherty for checking all the URLs, and to Michele Filshie for help with the details. And of course, thanks to my coworkers at O’Reilly for your patience and good humor in making this book possible.
—Sarah
The Missing Manuals are conceived as superbly written guides to computer products that don’t 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 Chapter 9“), and an ironclad promise never to use an apostrophe in the possessive word its. Current and upcoming titles include:
Access 2003 for Starters: The Missing Manual by Kate Chase and Scott Palmer
AppleScript: The Missing Manual by Adam Goldstein
AppleWorks 6: The Missing Manual by Jim Elferdink and David Reynolds
Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
Dreamweaver 8: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland
eBay: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner
Excel: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
Excel for Starters: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
FileMaker Pro 8: The Missing Manual by Geoff Coffey and Susan Prosser
FrontPage 2003: The Missing Manual by Jessica Mantaro
GarageBand 2: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Home Networking: The Missing Manual by Scott Lowe
iLife ’05: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
iMovie HD & iDVD 6: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual, Fourth Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer
iWork ’05: The Missing Manual by Jim Elferdink
Mac OS X Power Hound, Panther Edition by Rob Griffiths
Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition by David Pogue
Office 2004 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual by Mark H. Walker and Franklin Tessler
PCs: The Missing Manual by Andy Rathbone
Photoshop Elements 4: The Missing Manual by Barbara Brundage
QuickBooks 2006: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore
Quicken 2006 for Starters: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore
Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition by David Pogue and Adam Goldstein
Windows 2000 Pro: The Missing Manual by Sharon Crawford
Windows XP Power Hound by Preston Gralla
Windows XP for Starters: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual, Second Edition by David Pogue
Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual, Second Edition by David Pogue, Craig Zacker, and Linda Zacker
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