About the Creative Team

Chuck Toporek (editor) is the author of Inside .Mac, the Mac OS X Panther Pocket Guide (and all its previous incarnations for earlier versions of Mac OS X), and is a coauthor of Mac OS X Panther in a Nutshell. He's a senior editor with O'Reilly Media, Inc., responsible for all of the non-Missing Manual Mac OS X-related books published by O'Reilly. Chuck resides in Portland, Oregon, where he spends his free time sipping coffee and enjoying the grandeur of the Pacific Northwest. Email: [e-mail]. Web: http://homepage.mac.com/chuckdude.

Rose Cassano (cover illustration) has worked as an independent designer and illustrator for 20 years. Assignments have ranged from the nonprofit sector to corporate clientele. She lives in beautiful Southern Oregon, grateful for the miracles of modern technology that make working there a reality. Email: [e-mail]. Web: www.rosecassano.com.

Ellie Volckhausen (cover designer) has been at O'Reilly for several years, and has discovered that the sooty phalangist from Van Diemen's Land is the same animal as the Common Brushtail Possum from Tasmania.

Paul Berkowitz (technical reviewer) has tech-edited other O'Reilly AppleScript books, including AppleScript: The Definitive Guide by Matt Neuburg, and has also done some technical proofreading of AppleScript-related documentation for Apple and Microsoft. He is the author of the AppleScript chapter in Office 2004 for the Mac: The Missing Manual. He is well known as the author of over 100 AppleScripts for Entourageincluding major script programs for exporting and importing just about everythingand programs for syncing Entourage to Apple's Address Book and iCal. In his "other life," he is a classical pianist and Professor of Piano at the University of California in Santa Barbara, where he now lives happily ever after.

John Gruber (technical reviewer) is a freelance writer, Web developer, designer, and Mac nerd. He combines those interests on his Web site, Daring Fireball (http://daringfireball.net), which is widely regarded as "not bad." John lives in Philadelphia with his lovely wife, Amy, and their young son Jonas.

Lydian Meredith (technical reviewer) has been working and playing with Macs since 1988, in academia, business, and publishing. Currently she runs her own publishing bureau in London and lurks in several Mac User lists, including some for AppleScript.

August Trometer (technical reviewer) is the creator and developer of the podcasting client iPodderX, as well as the creator and administrator of the .Mac portal Web site, dotmac.info. A former restaurant owner, he now works as a software and Web developer. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. Email: [e-mail]. Web: http://dotmac.info.

Linley Dolby (copyeditor) spent several years in the production department at O'Reilly before moving to Martha's Vineyard to pursue a freelance career. She now helps whip technical books into shape for several companies, including O'Reilly and Pogue Press. Email: [e-mail].

Genevieve d'Entremont (production editor) has been at O'Reilly for two years now, but she still doesn't understand why people are so fascinated by technological minutiae. In her spare time, she reads novels and dreams of spending the rest of her days on a tropical beach, sipping Mai Tais and reading more novels.