Book: Lion: The Missing Manual by David Pogue.

This book will be released in UK on 22 September. I have books by David Pogue and really like them. Just thought it might be a good idea to wait till this book comes out, study it carefully before doing anything about Lion. I'm in no hurry. Is this a sensible option to avoid a lot of heartache?

Wow, David never ceases to amaze me in his money-making skills. As the tech blogger for one of the sister orgs to the NYT, I have to say that I would recommend his books on anything, even if on kitten euthanasia. He is a very gifted writer, but he was completly wrong about FCPX. But for Lion, I bet he has a good handle on that. Cheers!

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Book: iPhone - The Missing Manual

It's not out in the book stores yet... But after reading the review on +ipod observer+, I found that you can pre-order it from O'Reilly/Pogue Press for $25 and get the full PDF download immediately [$5 for the PDF and $20 for the book]. Amazon is pre-selling the book for $13 and change, but hey, you don't get to get a head start on it by reading the PDF.
Pretty good book, as all O'Reilly books are. Learning some things I didn't know about, and getting answers to things I've wondered about. I recommend it to anyone looking to learn their way around the iPhone faster [I've had mine a couple days...]
On a side note, I'm scheduled for the Going Further iPhone Workshop at the Apple Store on Saturday. So that will get me moving along, I'm sure. Actually, I'm doing really well with it. I just want to be able to use it to it's full potential

Oh, is this supposed to be where I'm supposed to tell you something you don't know? Right. I just recommended a book I'm reading. That's all.
temper temper, Mr. Dre, Mr. NWA, Mr. AK Comin' straight out of Compton,
It was more rhetorical than anything else.
All due respect:
"Changing a Lightbulb: the Missing Manual"
"Watching TV: the Missing Manual"
"Brushing my hair: the Missing Manual."
"Sitting: the Missing Manual."
"Wondering Where My Cat Is: The Missing Manual"

Photoshop Elements 4: The Missing Manual

We having been using Photoshop Elements 2. For Christmas my daughter and I got my wife a Wacom Tablet. On one of the disks that came with the tablet was Elements 4. Very nice. So I figured I would get Barbara Brundage's Missing Manual book, but the book is now out of print and because Elements 5 is out, the publisher will not be reprinting. So congratulations to Barbara for writing a very popular book. (By the way, the missing manual for elements 3 is still available). So my question is, does anyone know where I can get a copy of said book. At this point used is fine.

My local bookstore tried to order it and they couldn't because all of their suppliers listed it as out of print, and they have ordered many books for me successfully in the past. Three stores on the web who were out of it informed me via email that they wouldn't be getting any more copies. See this reply as an example:
> Unfortunately, the book in question is out of stock at the
> publisher's warehouse and has been for several months. It'll not
> be reprinted as the Elements 5 book is out / released. In other
> words, the Elements 4 Missing Manual book is, essentially,
> "Out of Print" or very near it.
> We will not be getting more copies in stock. I apologize.
I am unwilling to put in an order to Amazon unless I can get a firm date of shipping, also, and I quote "if you still prefer to use a credit card, we recommend that you enter your full account number". I do not give my bank account number out if I can help it.
When I tried to order the book from one of their affiliates who listed the book as in stock, I got this message: "*** We're sorry. The quantity you requested is no longer available. The number to the right is the maximum quantity currently available. ***" That number was zero.
I think you might get in touch with your publisher and find out just what is the status on this book. I could find out nothing on the publishes web site. I could find no way of determining if the book was available before I put in an order there, and I don't like ordering blind either by phone or over the web.
The fact is, as far as I can tell, and I have spent 4 hours on this, is no one has your book in stock, except maybe the publisher, but they're not telling. Amazon lists the book, but they don't have it in stock. They are promising to ship it in 4 to 6 weeks. That means, according to them, they will have it if the publisher sends it to them. Normally that means they will ship it, but not in all cases. Listen, I run a store and many times we only find out from a publisher that the book is out of print when we make an order for the book and they don't include it in the received order but list it as out of print on the invoice. That is how publishers work.
Sorry, I really wanted to buy your book.

PSE8 for Mac - The Missing Manual?

Barbara B. & others,
When is the release date for The Missing Manual for PSE8 for Mac? Will the format be similar to that for PSE6 for Mac?
Thank you.

Well, it would be better to pm me on this,since I'm not really supposed to talk about that here, but it's been printed and is on the way to the various distributors. Yes, format is pretty much the same as the PSE 6 book.
Anyone else with questions, please contact me directly. Thanks.

Tutorial Dreamweaver Cs5.5 The Missing Manual (Pg 998 - 1018) about adding dynamic data to your page

Hallo,
I did Tutorial: Displaying Database Info in the Missing Manual for Dreamweaver CS5.5.
My problem is with "Editing a Recordset and Linking to a Detail Page" (which starts at pg 1002:
I did this exercise ,over 5 times nowe, but every time with "Building the Detailed Product Page" at pg 1007, I get a bad result.
I only get one page (the default one with productID = 1) for every link on the indexpage.
In the adressbar (Live View) I see the right adress: for example: http://localhost/cos...hp?productID=16, but for all productID's only the detailspage for productID are shown.
There is also a message: Notice: Use of undefined constant ‘productID’ - assumed '‘productID’' in E:\xampp\htdocs\cosmo_shop\product.php on line 34
But I don't understand what could be wrong in this line.
Here is the code lines 33 -48: is is about the second line:
$varProduct_rsDetails = "32";
if (isset($_GET[‘productID’])) {
$varProduct_rsDetails = $_GET[‘productID’];
mysql_select_db($database_connCosmo, $connCosmo);
$query_rsDetails = sprintf("SELECT products.productID, products.productName, products.price, products.`description`, products.inventory, products.image, vendors.vendorName FROM products, vendors WHERE products.vendorID = vendors.vendorID AND products.productID = %s ", GetSQLValueString($varProduct_rsDetails, "int"));
$rsDetails = mysql_query($query_rsDetails, $connCosmo) or die(mysql_error());
$row_rsDetails = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsDetails);
$totalRows_rsDetails = mysql_num_rows($rsDetails);
mysql_select_db($database_connCosmo, $connCosmo);
$query_rsCategories = "SELECT * FROM categories ORDER BY categoryName ASC";
$rsCategories = mysql_query($query_rsCategories, $connCosmo) or die(mysql_error());
$row_rsCategories = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsCategories);
$totalRows_rsCategories = mysql_num_rows($rsCategories);
?>
Can someone tell me what is going on here?
Kind regards, Ans Hekerman

I can manually type in double brackets, like this:
$varProduct_rsDetails = "1";
if (isset($_GET["productID"])) {
$varProduct_rsDetails = $_GET["productID"];
this is accepted; no syntax-error report.
I can manually type in single brackets, like this:
$varProduct_rsDetails = "1";
if (isset($_GET['productID'])) {
$varProduct_rsDetails = $_GET['productID'];
this is also accepted; no syntax-error report.
Dreamweaver itself made this code:
$varProduct_rsDetails = "32";
if (isset($_GET[‘productID’])) {
$varProduct_rsDetails = $_GET[‘productID’];
this was not OK; there was a syntax-error report.
But strange enough, when I do paste this now from here, it is accepted.
So the problem has been, that DW created code that gave a syntax error.
I could repair it by replacing the single qoutes of DW, by typing single quotes in DW manually, or by typing in in DW manually double qoutes!!!
So maybe everybode was right!!!
But is was a very bad problem; maybe a "bug" of the program?
I repeated this about 10 times before I got the solution frome this Forum.

Re: Password Assistant -- "The Missing Manual" references such a beast, but I cannot locate it. I have ver 10.6.8. Anyone out there who can help?

According to The Missing Manual, Version 10.6.8 of the Mac OSX Snow Leopard system should have a password generating utility, called the "Password Assistant," which actually generates passwords for you. I've been unable to find this miraculous utility on my Mac, and seek enlightenment from the learned readers of this community. Anyone out there have some light to shine on my dark corner?

I think the "Password Assistant" they are specifically referring to comes up when creating or changing an Account's password. For example, go into your System Preferences Accounts. Select an Account. Click the Change Password... The sheet that drops down has a little key in a box. Click that. And a window with the title "Password Assistant" is displayed.
Example: Using Apple’s Password Assistant
Note, the Password Assistant can also be brought up from Keychain Access's New Password Item... menu. It brings up a sheet with a little key too.
Lastly, a little google searching flushed out a little app which apparently directly uses the built in OS X Password Assistant used by Change Password and Keychain Access. It's called, no surprise, Password Assistant and can be found here.

Camera RAW 5.6 - The missing manual

OK - so maybe this is a dumb question, but is there anywhere I can download a self-contained manual that explains how to use Camera RAW (5.6)? Perhaps there is information buried somewhere in an Adobe-produced manual, but after a number of Internet searches, I've come up short. Could not find anything on Adobe's site - I must be missing something!
Thanks

Well, to be fair there really aren't multiple "steps" in Camera Raw to undo. The entire set of controls is evaluated at once to produce the image you see, and there's not a multi-level control change undo capability. If you've changed 3 or 4 controls, then want to revert the last two, I think you pretty much have to adjust them again or just start over.
If you really DO want to start over, you can choose Image Settings from the fly out menu and that will set all the controls back to the settings from the last conversion. If this is the first time you've converted a particular file, you can revert the settings by choosing Camera Raw Defaults instead.
Now, if you're doing things like using the Adjustment Brush, I believe you can make the "pins" visible and delete individual ones. I don't do much spot editing in Camera Raw myself, as I prefer to do it in Photoshop proper (where there really is multiple level undo).
-Noel

Where can I find the "missing manual"

Hello,
Can someone give me the title of a good book about IpodTouch ? Or an url where I can find deep-inside informations about it ?
(In english, and in french if anyone knows)
Thanks
Pascal

http://www.apple.com/support/ipodtouch/
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Where do I find iDVD according to my manual(the missing manual) if I have imovie 11 then I should have iDVD.my Mac is OS X 10.8.4 can anyone help?

Need help with burning a dve from an imovie I have completed. I cannot find iDVD which i understand I should have with my original package.
Can anyone help.
Many thanks

iDVD has been discontinued by Apple and new machines don't include it or even a DVD drive for burning.
If you've purchased the iLife suite on DVD then you can re-install iDVD from it. It is not a part of any OS X.

Missing from the "Missing Manual"; any ideas on this one?

Greetings Wizards, Gurus, Freakazoids, and anyone else willing to share their wisdom,
I recently upgraded to iMovieHD (5.0.2) and have come across a few anomolies; some harmless and some downright debilitating (and stupid, I might add), for instance:
What is this @%#$ "Updating Files - This could take awhile" message?! It interrupts every process. Sometimes it's just during an edit, but earlier today it interrupted a capture and blew the whole clip (it was a 10 minute clip for time lapse). I had to go back and start over.
Fortunately, it didn't take "awhile", but in previous sessions it really did. Sometimes 5 minutes or more. What is this process and how can one avoid/work around it?
Perhaps related, perhaps not, but I was working with large clips today (for a time-lapse project; many 5 - 10 minutes long) and found that it was nearly impossible to scrub through these clips without invoking the Spinning Beachball Of Death. Now I'm guessing that it may have something to do with a really long clip being scrubbed too fast, but here's the issue: I have a 2.5GHz DP G5 and it can't seem to handle the same thing I was able to do with my trusty old 450MHz G4 running iMovie 3.03. I've never had problems like this. In addition, it doesn't seem to depend on length; I can scrub 10 minute clips fine and then it'll hang up on a 6 minute clip. Next I'll try a 12 minute clip - no luck. However, it always has problems with the same clips.
And they call this an upgrade?!......don't even get me started on the whole "non-destructive editing" thing....
Any ideas?
In the immortal words of James Brown,
Please, Please, Please, Please,..........help a brother out.
Thanks,
Chris
PPC G4 450, 768 MB RAM + G5 2.5DP, 512 MB RAM Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Wow. That's brutal. I think I would have scratched my eyes out by then.....
We do our own letterboxing, so we shoot 4:3 with tape over the monitor (or the camera's LCD - really) and frame for that. (we call it "ghettoboxing" - I suppose we'll have to stop calling it that at some point.)
Anyway, it's easier to deal with in post because we never have to worry about squeezing or unsqueezing, etc. It always looks right, and well, there's a certain amount of caché when one walks around with a $4000 camera with tape stuck all over the monitor....
Even classier, I have a china marker in the edit suite so I can draw the lines on the monitor and line up the letterboxing. Nothing but the best for our clients....."Wait, we have clients?! Where?!"
If you've got a lot of clips it can be a drag, but I usually select a screen-length's worth in the timeline and render the letterbox on all at the same time, scrub forward and do it again to the next batch. The settings usually stay the same from the last time you used the effect, so it works out.
The more I think about it, the more I think it has something to do with the drop-frame time code. I don't think the Quicktime engine is able to deal with it effectively, especially if there are dropouts on the tape. Which in this case, ther seemed to be on a couple of clips.
Not sure why 16x9 would cause an issue, unless it's somesort of rendering or conversion issue. When you view your clips back onscreen, are they squeezed, or does IM accomodate the format and stretch the preview monitor?
- Chris
PPC G4 450, 512 MB RAM + G5 2.5DP, 512 MB RAM Mac OS X (10.3.7)

Question on B. Brundage's Missing manual

Hi
I have pse 3. I see the Missing Manual by B. Brundage is out now. I would like to buy a copy. Would I be better off with her previous edition 3 or does the new edition highlight what is applicable to the new version of pse
thanks
Neil

Well, I hope this is okay with Jim. (Jim, feel free to pull this if you consider it out of bounds.)
The PE 4 book does cover the new tools, color management options, slide show editor, etc. in PE 4. For Neil, my answer was that if he plans to continue using PE 3 he should get the PE 3 edition of the book, but that if he plans to upgrade to PE 4 in the near future he shouldn't be too confused by the PE 4 book, since PE 4 doesn't require any radical changes in editing strategies, and the Missing Manual is more focused on editing as opposed to organizing (which is where the bulk of the PE3->PE4 changes happened.)

A good book on the innards of Mac OS X

Always been a mac person but since the switch over to OS X I do not have the grasp I use to have on the underlying info like OS 9.
Can anyone recommend a good book that describes in English what the /etc folder does, when to use the NetInfo Manager...
I dont need a book on these are the preferences or this is how you open this window and such....
Thanks
JTS

Ahh, two books
Mac OS X Tiger: The Missing Manual will give a deeper coverage of Mac OS X but what your asking also about is more Unix things.
check out these books
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixmacosx/
So somewhere between the two I think will cover your interest.
check out my helpful downloads and info
http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/Personal11.html

Does Creative Suite 6 Classroom in a Book cover the programs in detail?

I would like to know if the said book covers Premiere, After Effects, and SpeedGrade in complete detail.

I am not familiar with Classroom in a Book.
I recommend Barbara Brundage's book: The Missing Manual to you. It is well written and illustrated.
http://www.amazon.com/Photoshop-Elements-10-Missing-Manual/dp/1449398502/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF 8&qid=1323291486&sr=8-1

Workflow chart of explanation-not understanding "Missing Manual" or tutorials on line

Help, never used public forum before. I've got the Missing Manual, watched Adobe TV, You Tube tutorials, my head is swimming. I'm on a mac. Not wanting to use Iphoto. I need help creating intelligent organizing system. So, if I use "pictures" to download to I'm getting lost as to what to to do from there via Bridge. I guess I'm visual and would like a flowchart explaining it. Any out there? My question is bigger then this but I'll see if I get any response to this first. Thanks

You're really the only person who can answer this question for yourself. Here's what I do: I download my photos by dragging the image folder from the card to the desktop, rename the folder (usually it's called 100 CANON or something like that) by date. I then use bridge to keyword the photos and delete any obvious duds, then back up the folder to my storage drive (and to CD if the pics are important) and stick the photos into my own photos folder in documents (I don't use the OS X pictures folder myself, but you could. I just prefer to know that everything is in documents for backup/transfer purposes.)
My photos folder is divided by the brand of camera and within that, by the model, then the date. I can find any particular photo by searching by keyword in bridge or in spotlight or in a Finder window.
You may want to do something very different. There's no one way.

Got the PSE 9 Missing Manual in Black and White?

Hey all, I don't normally talk about my books here, but if you recently ordered the Elements 9 Missing Manual from amazon and got it in black and white, please contact them.
They screwed up and somehow put it into their print on demand program instead of shipping the copies from O'Reilly. If you got one of these, get in touch with them and they'll send you a real copy as a replacement. The book should be in color.

Barbara:
Ordered mine from Amazon on 11/26/10. Shipping confirmation email received 11/28/10.
Full color. No problems.
Cheers,
/kim

Book: Lion: The Missing Manual by David Pogue.

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