Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition by David Pogue & Adam Goldstein The unconfirmed error reports are from readers. They have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the opinion of the reader. Here's a key to the markup: [page-number]: serious technical mistake {page-number}: minor technical mistake : important language/formatting problem (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification This page was updated April 30, 2007. UNCONFIRMED errors and comments from readers: {8} First paragraph (below Note); Appendices title reference errors of a past printing are simularly in error here (October 2006 printing). {27} Tip (footnote); Control-F4 does not cycle through windows on my Macbook [30] 2nd line; Delete "striped" The title bar is more accurately described as "brushed aluminum," the term you use elsewhere. {31} Last paragraph; "Figure 1-11" should read "Figure 1-12" [49] Under heading "Manipulating the Columns", 2nd line; As helpful memory-jogs, insert "green" before "zoom button" and ribbed" before "resize box" (54) 1st line under heading "Display Tab"; after "is considered" insert "to come" or change "is considered" to "sorts" The wording is currently awkward. [57] Fig. 2-15; You might circle the little arrow badge in the lower left corner of the alias folder--it's barely visible. [58] Fig. 2-16, top; You might circle the button and the little arrow that is pointing to it--it's easy to miss. [59] 3rd line of text; Perhaps boldface "both" so inattentive readers (like me) don't miss the point. (I didn't catch it until I reread.) [61] Tip para., 2nd line; delete "from" "whence" already contains an implicit "from". It's not exactly an error to say "from whence", but it's clunky and laks panache. Leave it for a book on Windows. [92] Para. headed "Action"; It would be helpful to append, "See p. 58, figure 2-16 for an example." [98] 2nd line under heading "Application Menu"; After "The first menu" perhaps insert "(the one to the right of the apple)" Helpful for novices {107} 3rd line; change the cloverleaf symbol to the apple symbol. (This is the 4th instance of this mistake I've found. It's not a "serious" error, but it's not just a minor one either--at least not in a book aimed at novices.) [108] penultimate para., 3rd line; "What they most resemble, actually, is little Web pages" should be: "What they most resemble, actually, are little Web pages" [115] Para. headed "Note"; Change "in Chapter 1" to "on page 27" More helpful to be more specific. [118] Under heading "Column View", 2nd para., last line; after "triangle" perhaps insert the helpful "to the right of the Save As option" (153) Last paragraph; The word "way" is repeated. Please delete one of the occurrences. [162] 5th paragraph; Step one does not seem necessary; it asks you to startsetup an email account, this is confusing because the details of how to do this are not in the book, probably because they are not necessary. The author probably already had something setup, so he got a different dialog box. I skipped step 1 and went right to step 2, everything then worked fine. {271} 2nd para., 1st line; Change "Mailboxes menu" to "Mailbox menu" [273] last line; Perhaps insert "results" after "search" (296) first paragraph; "...which browser your using." should be "you're" [301] Fig. 11-6, 2nd line; Change "The length slider" to "The article length slider in the right-hand panel" This helpfully matches the terminology on the screen-shot and points to this small item's location. [363] 1st line under heading "Display Tab"; Delete "main" in "main headquarters" Redundant (?) ============= I suggest this web page be modified so that clicking Clear Form also moves the cursor into the first text entry box (page number). (368) 2nd para., last line; Perhaps change "on" to "of" =================== I suggest that this web page's "clear form" command leave the Name and Email fields alone. Those would and should stay constant throughout multiple submissions. (373) Under heading Trackpad gestures, 2nd para., 1st line; Change "directly" to "right" to avoid using "direct" twice in the same sentence. (382) Fifth paragraph from top, last sentence.; Replace "monitor" with "magnifier" [419] 1st line under heading "iPhoto"; After "for your digital photos" append "and other graphics files" To prevent the reader from thinking it's only for photos, not other graphics. (433) Under heading "Sherlock"; change "Chapter 11" to the more informative "pages 315-17" {448} last para., 3rd line; Change "preserving all your old data" to "preserving any old data not overwritten" (Right?) (464) last line; Maybe change "agree with" to "agree to" [485] 1st line under heading "Drivers"; Perhaps append "in this Dictionary" (Helpful to some) [485] Under heading Exiting Programs, 1st line; change "its" to "the program's" Clearer [503-14] Varies (four entries); Add index entries for four of the shareware programs available at missingmanuals.com, so that browsers there can look them up in the book and see if they want to download them: BBEdit, 175 Manopen, 461 Pop-up Zapper, 184 Wipecreator, 473 ================== You should also give these page numbers in the missingmanuals site, not just chapter- number references. {505} Entry for Disk Warrior; Add ", 477" {509} Entry for Mail; Insert the entry, "flagging messages, 272 ================= BTW, on this web page required fields are flagged with an asterisk at the end of their descriptive tag, where it's easy to miss. Conventional practice is to place the asterisk first. (511) entry for "quitting programs"; change page references to: "98-100, 471-72 this incorporates forced quitting, which is a subset of quitting [513] Entry for TinkerTool; Append, ", 493"