About the Author

Originally from Jackson, Mississippi, Clinton Kennedy Sample III (no relation to either president) has been known as "C.K." since he was a child. In fact, none of the men named Clinton Kennedy in his family have used "Clinton" as their name. His father goes by "Ken," from their middle name, and his grandfather used to go by "Sam," from their last name.

C.K. does entirely too much. Besides writing this book, he has contributed in the past to Mac OS X Panther Hacks by Rael Dornfest and James Duncan Davidson, and served as technical editor and contributor to iPod and iTunes Hacks by Hadley Stern. He is also a sometimes contributor to Hadley's Apple Matters web site (http://www.applematters.com). C.K. is an avid blogger and user of Apple computers, and besides writing in his own blog, Sample the Web (http://www.sampletheweb.com), he is the lead blogger for The Unofficial Apple Weblog (http://www.tuaw.com) and a contributor to TV Squad (http://www.tvsquad.com), Cinematical (http://www.cinematical.com), and PSP Fanboy (http://www.pspfanboy.com).

Besides all these "hobbies," he works full time as an Instructional Technologist, offering professors aid and instruction in the use of technology in the classroom at Fordham University, where he is also working on his dissertation in English.

He currently lives in Bronxville, New York with his lovely wife, Kristin, and his pet Eclectus parrot, Mikhail "Misha" Baryshnikov.