December 2003
Beginner to intermediate
776 pages
45h 2m
English
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Acknowledgments
The Missing Manual series is a joint venture between Pogue Press (the dream team introduced on these pages) and O’Reilly & Associates (a dream publishing partner).
I’m grateful to all of them, and to AppleScript genius Bill Briggs for his help on Chapter 7; O’Reilly’s Chris Stone for the two Unix chapters; Apple’s Ken Bereskin, Mike Shebanek, and Anuj Nayar for their technical assistance; to Wacom’s Burt Holmes; and Jennifer Barber, Chuck Brandstater, John Cacciatore, Stephanie English, and Danny Marcus for their proofreading smarts.
And introducing...Adam Goldstein! is what movie credits would say about the gifted 15-year-old who met me at a book signing one day...and eventually became my right-hand man. He wrote this book’s discussions of FileVault, journaling, and the new Disk Restore feature; revised the Mail chapter; and polished many other discussions to a shine. You’ll be hearing a lot more from this guy.
Thanks to David Rogelberg for believing in the idea, and above all, to Jennifer, Kelly, and Tia, who make these books—and everything else—possible.
—David Pogue
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