August 2009
Beginner
332 pages
11h 47m
English
Content preview from Netbooks: The Missing Manual
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The Missing Credits
About the Author
J.D. Biersdorfer is the author of iPod: The Missing Manual and The iPod Shuffle Fan Book, and is co-author of iPhoto ’09: The Missing Manual, The Internet: The Missing Manual and the second edition of Google: The Missing Manual. She has been the computer Q&A columnist for The New York Times since 1998 and occasionally writes about books and art for the newspaper. She studied theater at Indiana University and likes to play the banjo or watch the BBC news when not on deadline. Email: jd.biersdorfer@gmail.com.
About the Creative Team
Nan Barber (editor) has worked with the Missing Manual series since the previous millennium. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and G4 Macintosh. Email: nanbarber@oreilly.com.
Nellie McKesson (production editor) lives in Brighton, Mass., where she spends her free time playing in her band Dr. & Mrs. Van der Trampp (http://myspace.com/drmrsvandertrampp) and making t-shirts for her friends (http://mattsaundersbynellie.etsy.com). Email: nellie@oreilly.com.
Carla Spoon (copy editor) is a freelance writer and copy editor. She works and feeds her tech gadget addiction from her home office in the shadow of Mount Rainier. Email: carla_spoon@comcast.net.
Bob Pfahler (indexer) is new to the O’Reilly creative team. After working in an Information Technology department managing a business support team for many years, he started ...
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