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Is Windows giving you pause? Ready to make the leap to
the Mac instead? There has never been a better time to
switch from Windows to Mac, and this incomparable guide
will help you make a smooth transition. New York Times
columnist and Missing Manuals creator David Pogue gets
you past three challenges: transferring your stuff,
assembling Mac programs so you can do what you did with
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you’re ready to take on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the latest
edition of this bestselling guide tells you everything
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part. This book gets you through the tricky things:
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bookmarks, buddy list, desktop pictures, and MP3 files.
Re-creating your software suite – big-name programs
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Author Biography
David Pogue, Yale ’85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world’s bestselling how- to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the “For Dummies” series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music). In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles. David and his wife Jennifer Pogue, MD, live in Connecticut with their three young children. His web site is www.davidpogue.com.
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