Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition

The Missing Credits

About the Author

David Pogue (author) is the weekly tech columnist for The New York Times, Emmy-winning correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, 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 funny 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 cowrote Mac OS X for Unix Geeks and has written or edited a number of other tech books. He’s the cofounder of Providence Geeks and serves as an all-around geek for AS220, a nonprofit, unjuried, and uncensored arts center in Providence, R.I. Email: [e-mail].

Acknowledgments

The Missing Manual series is a joint venture between the dream team introduced on this page and O’Reilly Media. I’m grateful to all of them, and also to a few people who did massive favors for this book. The prose of Joseph Schorr and Adam Goldstein, contributors to earlier editions, lives on in this one. Lesa Snider put in a gruelling week, brilliantly getting this puppy ready for the printer. And Kellee Katagi cheerfully proofed hundreds of pages on a tight deadline. Thanks also to David Rogelberg for believing in the idea, and above all, to Jennifer, Kelly, Tia, and Jeffrey, who 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 word its.

Here’s a partial list of current and upcoming titles.

• iPhone: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition by David Pogue

• iPod: The Missing Manual, 8th Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer

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

• Photoshop CS4: 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

• Dreamweaver 8: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

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

• 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

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

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

• iMovie ’09 & iDVD: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and Aaron Miller

• iPhoto ’09: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and J.D. Biersdorfer

• iWork ’09: The Missing Manual by Josh Clark

• Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual by Jim Elferdink et al.

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

• Windows 7: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

• Windows Vista: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

• Office 2007: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover, Matthew MacDonald, and E. A. Vander Veer

• Photoshop Elements 8: The Missing Manual by Barbara Brundage

• Quicken 2009: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore