Sarah Milstein (author and editor) is O’Reilly Media’s Managing Editor for Consumer Books. Previously, she was the Missing Manual series editor and a freelance business and technology reporter. She has been a regular contributor to the New York Times and a slew of other publications, most of them now defunct. When not planted at the keyboard, she likes to take epic walks, play poker, watch baseball, and rearrange the furniture. Email: [email protected].

J.D. Biersdorfer (author, Chapter 11 and revisions throughout the book) is the author of iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual and The iPod Shuffle Fan Book and sometimes even writes about things other than iPods. She does the weekly computer Q&A column for the New York Times and is equally obsessed with the BBC World News and the banjo in her spare time. Email: [email protected].

Matthew MacDonald (author, Chapter 10 and revisions in Chapter 9) is an author, educator, and programmer extraordinaire. He’s the author of Excel: The Missing Manual, Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual, and over a dozen books about .NET programming. Web: www.prosetech.com.

Rael Dornfest (author, Chapters 8 and 9, previous edition) is O’Reilly Media’s Chief Technology Officer. He has co-authored various O’Reilly books, including Mac OS X Hacks, Google Hacks, Essential Blogging, and Peer to Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies, and he is program chair for the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. Email: [email protected].

Adam Goldstein (editor, technical reviewer) is the teenage founder of Goldfish-Soft, a Macintosh software company. He is the author AppleScript: The Missing Manual; co-author of Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition; and contributor to Mac OS X: The Missing Manual and Mac OS X Power Hound. Email: [email protected]. Web: www.goldfishsoft.com.

Aaron Swartz (technical reviewer, previous edition) is a teenage writer, coder, and hacker. He’s also the guy behind the Google Weblog (http://google.blogspace.com/). Email: [email protected]. Web: www.aaronsw.com.

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: [email protected]. Web: www.rosecassano.com.

Thanks to Jude, Adam, and Matthew for making this edition thorough, accurate, and entertaining. Special thanks to Brian Jepson for help with Google Wireless, to Glenda Dougherty for checking all the URLs, and to Michele Filshie for help with the details. And of course, thanks to my coworkers at O’Reilly for your patience and good humor in making this book possible.

—Sarah

The Missing Manuals are conceived as 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 9“), and an ironclad promise never to use an apostrophe in the possessive word its. Current and upcoming titles include:

Access 2003 for Starters: The Missing Manual by Kate Chase and Scott Palmer

AppleScript: The Missing Manual by Adam Goldstein

AppleWorks 6: The Missing Manual by Jim Elferdink and David Reynolds

Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

Dreamweaver 8: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

eBay: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner

Excel: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

Excel for Starters: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

FileMaker Pro 8: The Missing Manual by Geoff Coffey and Susan Prosser

FrontPage 2003: The Missing Manual by Jessica Mantaro

GarageBand 2: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

Home Networking: The Missing Manual by Scott Lowe

iLife ’05: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

iMovie HD & iDVD 6: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual, Fourth Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer

iWork ’05: The Missing Manual by Jim Elferdink

Mac OS X Power Hound, Panther Edition by Rob Griffiths

Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition by David Pogue

Office 2004 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual by Mark H. Walker and Franklin Tessler

PCs: The Missing Manual by Andy Rathbone

Photoshop Elements 4: The Missing Manual by Barbara Brundage

QuickBooks 2006: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore

Quicken 2006 for Starters: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition by David Pogue and Adam Goldstein

Windows 2000 Pro: The Missing Manual by Sharon Crawford

Windows XP Power Hound by Preston Gralla

Windows XP for Starters: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual, Second Edition by David Pogue

Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual, Second Edition by David Pogue, Craig Zacker, and Linda Zacker