Dashboard Widgets Poguecast -- Listen to David Pogue cover Dashboard Widgets: what they are, how to use the Widget Bar, and what Widgets can do for you. He provides tips on some of the crazy and fun widgets available for free download. For more on Dashboard, pick up a copy of David's newly updated Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition.

Automator Automation Poguecast -- Listen to David Pogue cover Automator workflows that can help save on computing time. Learn how to use Automator to automate backups, zip up applications, and set alarms for automatic processing. Then check out all of David's Poguecasts.

My Favorite Macworld Product: The IRISPen -- Have you ever said, "If I learn just one great thing, then the whole conference was worth attending"? Last month, at Macworld Boston, Adam Goldstein discovered the IRISPen, and he shares the details of this handy text-scanning device with us. Adam is the author of AppleScript: The Missing Manual.

David Pogue is Podcasting! -- David Pogue's first podcast is all about Spotlight. Listen to David's secret Tiger tips for Spotlight super searches--how to use spotlight to help access your data faster, streamline searches, and even launch applications faster. And for everything you need to know about Tiger, pick up a copy of David's newly updated Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition.

Revving Up Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows -- Photoshop Elements 3 offers lots of great new features and tools. Unfortunately, you may find its performance isn't always as up to snuff. Barbara Brundage rounds up some of the most useful hints for revving up Elements' performance and keeping it running smoothly. Barbara is the author of Photoshop Elements 3: The Missing Manual.

Tax Time: A Year-End Checklist of Accounting Tasks -- Whether you handle your company's accounting yourself or hand off the major accounting tasks to an accountant, Bonnie Biafore provides a checklist of eight accounting tasks you'll want to complete shortly after the end of your fiscal year. Bonnie is the author of QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual.

Security Centers and Firewalls -- With the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Microsoft's latest and most reliable corporate desktop operating system now provides better protection against viruses, worms, and malicious hackers. This book excerpt describes how to use SP2's Security Center, along with everything you need to know about choosing and using a firewall. Knowledge is power; learn to protect your system with Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition.

David Pogue's "CBS News Sunday Morning" Wins an Emmy -- The National Television Academy has announced the winners of the Annual Emmy Awards for Business and Financial Reporting. In the category of "Outstanding Interpretation and/or Analysis of a Business News Story -- Regularly Scheduled Newscast," David Pogue's "CBS News Sunday Morning" won the Emmy: "David Pogue takes complex technological applications such as Google or Spam and makes them comprehensible to the ordinary, non-technophile viewer." David is the creator of the Missing Manuals Series.

Mac OS X Power Hound Helpful Hints -- Here are eight tricks to help your Mac OS X run smoother, along with some new ways to personalize your working environment. Examples include activating Exposé with a multi-button mouse, saving iTunes Music Store videos and trailers, and customizing the Dock "poof." You'll get hundreds of secrets for easier, faster, and better ways to use Panther in O'Reilly's new Mac OS X Power Hound, Panther Edition.

Power Hound Tips for Online Protection -- The Internet is a dangerous place, and sometimes the dangers come from unexpected quarters. So in addition to taking the usual online precautions, the Power Hound offers some tips about how to protect yourself against dangers you may have never even thought of, excerpted from O'Reilly's newly released Windows XP Power Hound.

Apple Logo in iDVD -- If you make your own movies with iDVD, you may be troubled by the Apple logo that imposes itself upon your finished images. You and your viewers need not suffer through the persistent advertisement. David Pogue tells you how to get rid of the Apple watermark so your movies can be Blockbuster hits. Get a complete course in Macintosh filmmaking with iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual.

The Fight Against Spam, Part 2 -- François Joseph de Kermadec continues his discussion of how to establish an anti-spam strategy by taking a close look at Mail.app's Junk Mail filter. Learn the math behind how it works, and then learn how to fine-tune and automate Mail's Junk Mail feature. Unleash the full potential of your Mac with Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Panther Edition.

Mac Fan, Yech -- A Mac owner and Missing Manual reader wrote to David Pogue to object to the use of "Mac fan" in David's books. "I don't like to be called a Mac fan any more than I like being called a Dummy." David explains that this choice of words is quite deliberate, but he's also open to other suggestions. Read about it in the latest From David's Desk.

David Pogue's iLife '04 Mini Manual (PDF) is your guide to the new features in iLife, Apple's tightly integrated suite of media applications. This exclusive preview is the only documentation available until the spring release of our full-length books on these applications: iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual; iPhoto 4: The Missing Manual; iMovie 4 & iDVD: The Missing Manual; GarageBand: The Missing Manual; and iLife '04: The Missing Manual. Meanwhile, be sure to check out the best Mac book, period: Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Panther Edition.

Hopscotch Reading -- Mac OS X: The Missing Manual includes comments about earlier editions of the Mac OS, comparing what was with what currently is. One reader says these retrospective comments make him come to a screeching halt. David Pogue responds in the latest From David's Desk.

Trouble Downloading to iPhoto -- A reader asked David Pogue why all of the pictures stored in her digital camera aren't downloading to iPhoto. David explains it's a matter of file format, not memory, and he offers solutions that are covered more fully in his book, iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual.

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iPhoto 2: The Mini Manual (PDF) is a quick reference to some of the best features in the iPhoto 2 digital shoebox, including importing and editing pictures, emailing photos, and making big iPhoto libraries a lot faster. This booklet is excerpted from iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual.

The 2003 MDJ Power 25 -- Four of the MDJ's Power 25 of the Mac Industry are speaking at October's O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference: Adam Engst, David Pogue, Tim O'Reilly, and Sal Soghoian.

Mac OS X Hints Sampler (PDF) -- Learn how to make quick exits, stifle irrelevant software updates, minimize all open windows, and a host of tips to get the most out of iTunes and iPhoto, in this sampling of the 560 high-octane secrets presented in Mac OS X Hints: Jaguar Edition.

The Care and Feeding of Your iPod -- Here are ten basic battery tips to help iPodders keep the tunes spinning, from J.D. Biersdorfer, author of iPod: The Missing Manual.

Managing Large Image Libraries with iPhoto 2 -- You have thousands of pictures you want to move to iPhoto 2. How do you set up iPhoto to handle all the data without getting bogged down? This tutorial by Derrick Story shows you how to import, organize, and archive vast image collections in iPhoto 2. Derrick is a coauthor of iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual.

Power Keys in Jaguar -- David Pogue received a letter from a reader who couldn't put his Mac to sleep. The keyboard command described in Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition kept giving him a black screen instead. David points the power user in the right direction in the latest From David's Desk.

Rob's Top Mac OS X Hints, Part 1 -- Here are eight useful and fun tips from Rob Griffiths, creator of macosxhints.com and author of O'Reilly's Mac OS X Hints: Jaguar Edition.

New on Safari: Mac OS X: The Missing Manual -- This best-selling Pogue Press/O'Reilly title is now available online through the O'Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf. If you haven't gone on Safari yet, try a free trial subscription.

Getting Dreamweaver MX Up to Speed with PHP -- David McFarland has updated his article on Dreamweaver's PHP extensions to include some free and commercial products from Interakt. If you missed his article the first time around, Dave has written a comprehensive list of available add-ons for using PHP with Dreamweaver. Dave is the author of Dreamweaver MX: The Missing Manual.

iMovie 3 and Other New Books -- Author David Pogue talks about a number of upcoming releases that will cover everything you need to know about the Apple iLife suite, in the latest From David's Desk.

Missing Keystrokes in OS X -- Missing Manuals reader Jim Scott is a new OS X switcher who regrets the absence of keystrokes in OS X like those found on Windows machines. David Pogue explains that it's not really an operating system issue in January's From David's Desk.

David Pogue on Missing Manuals as Performance Art -- In part 2 of our interview with David Pogue, he talks about nuances and quirks of writing and editing the Missing Manuals. David has authored many of the books in the series, including the best-selling Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition .

An Interview with David Pogue -- How did a theater geek who never studied computers become a best-selling technical books author? Find out in part one of our interview with David Pogue, author of Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition.

An Interview with David Pogue -- How did a theater geek who never studied computers become a best-selling tech book author? Find out in part one of our interview with David Pogue.

Readers Love iPhoto: The Missing Manual -- Jane Roberts writes in this Reader Review that after reading iPhoto: The Missing Manual, she at last could understand the filing, the date system, the pixels, and much more. "All was explained in simple language and it was fun to read. Thank you for a really worthwhile investment." Get your copy of iPhoto: The Missing Manual.

David Pogue's Many Hats -- In this Pioneer Press interview, David Pogue observes that what makes a best-selling computer book isn't the size of the market, but the size of the informational void. David is the author of the popular Mac OS X: The Missing Manual.

Method for Writing Your Books--Speaking Them -- Thomas Hall and David Pogue discuss speech-recognition programs and the deficiency of what's available for use on the Mac, in this month's From David's Desk.

Mac O'Lanterns!  Famous Mac luminaries have had their likenesses immortalized in this new twist on the old Halloween favorite.  Check out the dashing young pumpkin head we know as David Pogue, author of the second edition of Mac OS X: The Missing Head, 'er, we mean 'Manual'.

Office X's Sorely Needed Missing Manual--BusinessWeek's Charles Haddad writes, "This how-to book unlocks all the secrets that Microsoft doesn't bother to reveal about its truly terrific software suite." See for yourself: Office X for Macintosh: The Missing Manual.

Upgrade My Missing Manual? David Pogue answers the question, How different is 10.1 from 10.2 and should I get the new Mac OS X book? in this month's From David's Desk.

Computer Tips from David Pogue--David shares tips on how to hide your IE toolbars, close and save documents in MS Word, quickly return to the OS X desktop, and reduce the amount of spam you receive. To read other sage advice David has dispensed to readers, check out From David's Desk.

A Review--Mac OS X: The Missing Manual--Random Maccess says the vacuum that is technology documentation has been filled quite nicely for Mac OS X, in its review of David Pogue's Mac OS X: The Missing Manual.

2002 MDJ Power 25--Tim O'Reilly, David Pogue, Adam Engst, and Sal Soghoian are among this year's Mac-industry notables making the Macintosh Daily Journal Power 25 list. All four will speak at September's O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference.