Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual

The Missing Credits

About the Author

David Pogue (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 coauthor of 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 wife and 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

Julie Van Keuren (copy editor) is a freelance editor, writer, and desktop publisher who runs her “little media empire” from her home in Billings, Montana. In her spare time she enjoys swimming, biking, running, and (hey, why not?) triathlons. She and her husband, M.H., have two sons, Dexter and Michael. Email: [e-mail].

Phil Simpson (design and layout) works out of his office in Southbury, Connecticut, where he has had his graphic design business since 1982. He is experienced in many facets of graphic design, including corporate identity/branding, publication design, and corporate and medical communications. Email: [e-mail].

Brian Jepson (technical consultant) is a Senior Editor for O’Reilly Media. He co-wrote Mac OS X for Unix Geeks, and has written or edited a number of other tech books. He’s also the co-founder of Providence Geeks, and serves as an all-around geek for AS220, a non-profit, unjuried, and uncensored arts center in Providence, RI. Email: [e-mail].

Chris Stone (author of Chapter 16) is a senior systems administrator at O’Reilly Media and coauthor of Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell, published by O’Reilly. A San Francisco native, he got his English degree from Humboldt State University and spent 10 years hidden away in the Japanese countryside before returning to the North Bay area, where he lives with his wife, Miho, and sons, Andrew and Jonathan.

Rich Koster (beta reader) bought his first Mac, a 17-inch MacBook Pro, in 2009, and has never looked back toward the Dark Side (PCs). Rich served as the tech editor of David Pogue’s iPhone: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition. He’s a husband, a father, and creator of the Disney Echo at DisneyEcho.emuck.com, which he has fun tending daily with his MacBook Pro!

Acknowledgments

Man was this book a lot of work. Apple just could not leave well enough alone. For an OS update that supposedly “put a pause on new features,” Apple sure put a lot of effort into rejiggering, rewording, or shuffling around what was already there!

Over the years, many friends and colleagues have contributed enthusiasm, expertise, and even prose to this book’s editions. They include Zachary Brass, teenage screenshot machine; Dan Pourhadi, Mac writer extraordinaire, who updated Chapter 7 for the previous edition; J.D. Biersdorfer, New York Times computer Q&A columnist, who updated Chapters Chapter 18, Chapter 20 and Chapter 21 for the previous edition; and Lesa Snider, my assistant for several years, who was the graphics goddess and co-indexer on previous editions.

In addition to the dream team members identified above, I owe debts of thanks to O’Reilly’s Missing Manuals editor-in-chief, Peter Meyers; Teresa Noelle Roberts, copy editor for previous editions; Apple’s Monica Sarker and Bill Evans for helping me get answers to baffling tech questions; piano/indexing virtuoso Jim Jacoby; and to my crack team of eleventh-hour proofreaders, Kellee Katagi, Diana D’Abruzzo, and Julie Van Keuren. 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 Jennifer, Kelly, Tia, and Jeffrey. They make these books—and everything else—possible.

—David Pogue

The Missing Manual Series

Missing Manuals are witty, 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 14”); and an ironclad promise never to put an apostrophe in the possessive pronoun its.

Here’s a list of current and upcoming titles:

• iPhone: The Missing Manual, 4th Edition by David Pogue

• Droid X: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla

• Droid 2: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla

• iPad: The Missing Manual, 4th Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer

• iPod: The Missing Manual, 9th Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer

• David Pogue’s Digital Photography: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

• Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider King

• JavaScript: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

• CSS: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition, by David Sawyer McFarland

• Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

• The Internet: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and J.D. Biersdorfer

• Dreamweaver CS5: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

• Flash CS4: The Missing Manual by E. A. Vander Veer and Chris Grover

• eBay: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner

• Wikipedia: The Missing Manual by John Broughton

• Google: The Missing Manual by Sarah Milstein and Rael Dornfest

• Google Apps: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner

• Google Sketchup: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover

• Palm Pre: The Missing Manual by Ed Baig

• Netbooks: The Missing Manual by J.D. Biersdorfer

• Home Networking: The Missing Manual by Scott Lowe

• Your Brain: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

• Your Body: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

• Living Green: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner

• Facebook: The Missing Manual by E.A. Vander Veer

For Macintosh:

• Photoshop Elements for Mac: The Missing Manual by Barbara Brundage

• iMovie ’11 & iDVD: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and Aaron Miller

• iPhoto ’11: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and Lesa Snider

• Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition by David Pogue

• iWork ’09: The Missing Manual by Josh Clark

• AppleScript: The Missing Manual by Adam Goldstein

• Office 2011 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover

• FileMaker Pro 10: The Missing Manual by Geoff Coffey and Susan Prosser

For Windows:

• Windows 7: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

• Windows Vista: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

• FrontPage 2003: The Missing Manual by Jessica Mantaro

• Office 2010: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover, Matthew MacDonald, and E. A. Vander Veer

• Word 2010: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover

• Excel 2010: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

• PowerPoint 2010: The Missing Manual by Emily A. Vander Veer

• Access 2010: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

• Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore

• PCs: The Missing Manual by Andy Rathbone

• Photoshop Elements 9: The Missing Manual by Barbara Brundage

• Premiere Elements 8: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover

• Quicken 2009: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore

• QuickBooks 2011: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore

• QuickBase: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner

• Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition by David Pogue

• Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition by David Pogue, Craig Zacker, and L.J. Zacker

• Windows XP Power Hound by Preston Gralla