Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, El Capitan Edition

Acknowledgments

Over the years, 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, Ben Waldie, 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 Ryan James and Bill Evans for going beyond the call of duty to chase down tweaky tech answers; Philip Michaels, who wrote about Game Center for this book; proofreaders Kellee Katagi, Judy Le, and Nancy Young; John Uppendahl and Kurt Schmucker, who did me some favors capturing the uncapturable; and my assistant Jan Carpenter, whose help redoing this book’s 400 illustrations made my very survival possible.

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.

Julie Van Keuren is solely responsible for this book coming out on time. She began her Missing Manual life as a copy editor but, in recent editions, also became the adapter, updater, text integrator, and design re-layouter.

Thanks, as always, to David Rogelberg for believing in the idea. Above all, this book owes its existence to the patience and affection of Nicki, Kelly, Tia, and Jeffrey. They make these books—and everything else—possible. ...