Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Mountain Lion Edition

Acknowledgments

Over the years, over the eight editions of this book, many friends and colleagues have contributed enthusiasm, expertise, and even prose to this book’s editions. They include Zachary Brass, Dan Pourhadi, Rich Koster, J.D. Biersdorfer, Teresa Noelle Roberts, and Lesa Snider.

In addition to the dream team members identified above, I owe debts of thanks to O’Reilly’s Missing Manuals editor-in-chief, Brian Sawyer; Apple’s Monica Sarkar for going beyond the call of duty to chase down tweaky tech answers; Ben Waldie, who did a beautiful job updating the Automator/AppleScript material in Chapter 7; Philip Michaels, who wrote about Game Center for this book; my crack team of eleventh-hour proofreaders, Diana D’Abruzzo, Kellee Katagi, and Judy Le; the PBS NOVA crew, who gracefully accommodated my nutty book schedule during our shoots; my assistant Jan Carpenter, who fixed hundreds of captions and generally helped me survive; Brian Jepson, who wrote up OS X Server; and my spectacular screenshotter/index-marathoner, my beautiful Nicki.

I’ve never met, or even spoken to, Kirill Voronin; he lives in Moscow. But he submitted so many corrections to the previous edition’s Errata page online that I wound up hiring him to be the tech editor for this book—and he knocked it out of the park.

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 ...