iPod: The Missing Manual, 10th Edition

The Missing Credits

About the Authors

J.D. Biersdorfer (author) is the author of several O’Reilly books, including iPad 2: The Missing Manual, Best iPhone Apps, Second Edition, and Netbooks: The Missing Manual. She’s been writing the weekly computer Q&A column for the New York Times since 1998 and has covered everything from 17th-century Indian art to the world of female hackers for the newspaper. She’s also written articles for the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, Budget Travel, the New York Times Book Review, and Rolling Stone. She studied in the Theater & Drama program at Indiana University and now spends her limited spare moments playing the banjo badly, drinking copious amounts of tea, and watching BBC World News. Email: [e-mail].

David Pogue (co-author) is the weekly tech columnist for the New York Times, an Emmy-winning correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, a weekly CNBC contributor, and the creator of the Missing Manual series. He’s the author or co-author of more than 50 books, including 25 in this series, six in the For Dummies line (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music), two novels, and The World According to Twitter. 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 www.davidpogue.com. He welcomes feedback about his books by email at [e-mail].

About the Creative Team

Peter McKie (editor) lives in New York City, where he traces the history of old buildings. He has a master’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Email: [e-mail].

Kristen Borg (production editor) is a graduate of the publishing program at Emerson College. Now living in Boston, she originally hails from Arizona and considers New England winters a fair trade for no longer finding scorpions in her hairdryer. Email: [e-mail].

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank David Pogue for suggesting this book to me way back in 2002, and for being a terrific editor through the mad scramble of the first two editions. Also thanks to editors Peter Meyers and Peter McKie for guiding me through the past eight updates. Thanks to Kristen Borg, Lesley Keegan, Ron Bilodeau, Rob Romano, Karen Ippoliti, Monica Kamsvaag, Sara Peyton, Betsy Waliszewski, Laurie Petrycki, and all the folks at O’Reilly. Thanks to Apple for courteously providing the iPod images and to the assorted iPod accessory companies who made their photos available. Thanks also to Hans White of the band Nacho Business for letting us use his album art on the cover.

I’d also to thank all my friends and family (especially and most importantly, Betsy Book) for putting up with me every year when Apple announces new iPods and I disappear into my computer for several weeks, muttering incoherently and cranking up the show tunes and bluegrass playlists to a hearty volume.

The Missing Manual Series

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