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About the Author About the Creative TeamTeresa Noelle Roberts (copy editor) is a freelance copy editor and proofreader, as well as a published fiction writer and poet. When she can tear herself away from the computer, she may be found gardening , belly dancing , or enjoying the beautiful beaches of New England. On this edition, she was joined in her editorial duties by Missing Manuals editorial veteran John Cacciatore. Lesa Snider King (production editor and graphics goddess) assists David Pogue on many projects. As Chief Evangelist for iStockphoto.com and a veteran writer for international graphics publications , Lesa is on a mission to teach the world how to create beautiful graphics. You can see more of her work at TheGraphicReporter.com, and catch her live at many conferences. Email: lesa@graphicreporter.com. Shawn King (graphics assistance and beta reader) is the host of a popular Internet broadcast called Your Mac Life, and has been using computers since several years B.D. (Before DOS). Having grabbed a PC mouse and literally followed every single step on every single page of this book to test for accuracy, he can safely say that he now knows more about Windows Vista than he ever hoped to know. Email: shawn@yourmaclife.com. 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: pmsimpson@earthlink.net. AcknowledgmentsThe Missing Manual series is a joint venture between the dream team introduced on these pages and O'Reilly Media. I'm grateful to all of them, and also to a few people who did massive favors for this book. They include Matt Parretta and Frank Kane, PR guys for Microsoft who devoted themselves to helping me find information; Windows Vista product manager Greg Sullivan, who tolerated being henpecked with my questions; HP and Motion for loaning me testing gear; and proofreaders Sohaila Abdulali, John Cacciatore, Genevieve d'Entremont, Jamie Peppard, and Sada Preisch. Incidentally, this book is adapted from a much heavier, fatter, more advanced tome called Windows Vista: The Missing Manual . That 850-page monster featured contributions from some of the best technical writers in Windows-dom, and some of their prose still inhabits these pages: Joli Ballew, C.A. Callahan, Preston Gralla, and Brian Jepson. I was honored to work with them. Thanks to David Rogelberg for believing in the idea, and above all, to Jennifer, Kelly, Tia, and Jeffrey, who make these booksand everything elsepossible. David Pogue The Missing Manual SeriesThe Missing Manuals are 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 RepKover, a detached-spine binding that lets the book lie perfectly flat without the assistance of weights or cinder blocks. Recent and upcoming titles include:
For StartersThe "For Starters" books contain only the most essential information from their larger counterpartsin larger type, with a more spacious layout, and none of those advanced sidebars. Recent titles include:
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EAN: 2147483647
Pages: 175