How to Do Everything with Mac OS X Panther

Kirk McElhearn

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Publisher	Brandon A. Nordin
Vice President & Associate Publisher	Scott Rogers
Senior Acquisitions Editor	Jane Brownlow
Project Manager	Betsy Manini
Project Editors	Emily Rader, Julie Smith
Acquisitions Coordinator	Athena Honore
Technical Editor	Joe Kissell
Copy Editor	Mike McGee
Proofreader	Linda Medoff
Indexer	Valerie Perry
Composition	Lucie Ericksen, John Patrus
Illustrators	Melinda Lytle, Kathleen Edwards
Series Design	Mickey Galicia
Cover Series Design	Dodie Shoemaker

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About the Author

Kirk McElhearn is a freelance technical writer, journalist, and translator. Kirk has been a Mac user since 1991, when he bought his first Mac, a PowerBook 100. He has written user manuals for many popular Macintosh programs, as well as technical documentation for Windows and Linux programs. As a journalist, he has written articles for a variety of publications, including Macworld magazine, TidBITS, and Technology and Society Book Reviews. As a translator, he works for some of the world’s leading computer and telecommunications companies.

Kirk has worked in many jobs over the years: he has been a pension plan administrator, a bookseller, a teacher of English as a foreign language, a translator, and a writer. He has a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics. A native New Yorker, he has lived in France for almost two decades, and currently lives in Guillestre, a village in the French Alps.

You can find out more about the author at his web site, http://www.mcelhearn.com, and you can contact him at [e-mail].

About the Technical Editor

Joe Kissell has worked in the Macintosh software industry for the past ten years. He previously managed software development for Nisus Software, Inc. and Kensington Technology Group, and has written several books about Mac software, including the popular e-book Take Control of Upgrading to Panther. When not writing computer books, Joe runs alt concepts, inc., an Internet publishing company that chose not to squander capital on its corporate name. With the honorary title Curator of Interesting Things, he spends much of his time writing, speaking, consulting, and maintaining the “Interesting Thing of the Day” web site.

Acknowledgments

A book may only have one name on the cover, but dozens of people work behind the scenes, contributing in different ways to make it as good as possible. I’d first like to thank Todd Stauffer, who created the How to Do Everything series, and Jane Brownlow, my editor, for making it so successful. Well-deserved thanks go to my agent Neil Salkind for being a matchmaker and helping get this from proposal to final book.

Many people at Osborne worked on this project, and I’d like to thank them all: Athena Honore, the Acquisitions Coordinator, kept things flowing; Mike McGee, the copy editor, saw to it that the text reads smoothly; Linda Medoff, the proofreader, spotted the tiny lapses and made me look good; Melinda Lytle and Kathleen Edwards handled illustrations; Lucie Ericksen and John Patrus were in charge of composition; Pattie Lee did the cover; and Lee Healy wrote the cover copy. Special thanks to Emily Rader, the project editor who oversaw the copyediting and query review stages of this project; Emily never thought she’d be working with an author in France while she, too, was in France, and she was the only person I worked with on this project who was (for a brief time) in the same time zone as I am. Thanks also to Julie Smith, the project editor who oversaw the proofreading and indexing stages through to final pages.

I’d especially like to thank Joe Kissell, the book’s technical editor, who checked all the technical details and shared his take on some of Panther’s features. I’ve known Joe for many years, having corresponded with him by e-mail when he was working for a software company, and it was a pleasure to work with him on this book and to finally meet him face to face when he and his wife Morgen visited France in the summer of 2003.

I’d like to thank Mike Shebanek of Apple Computer for his assistance during the Panther beta campaign. Mike was a great help, answering some nit-picking questions as the operating system went through the beta testing process.

I’d also like to thank all those who contributed to this book by sharing their experiences with me: Jeff Abbott, Arthur Golden, and Mike Rich, who took time to answer my questions, and H l ne Dion, Jean-Paul Florencio, Guy Forster, Rob Griffiths, Petra Hall, Norbert Heger, Jeff Sepeta, Ruth Thaler-Carter, and Mark Willan, who told me about how they used their Macs. Thanks also to thank Rob Griffiths and Mark Willan for the many chats we’ve had over iChat, where they both helped me resolve problems and iron out details.

Finally, many thanks to Marie-France and Perceval for their help on the home front.