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Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Lion Edition

Errata for Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Lion Edition

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Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 10
United States

My iMac w/bluetooth mouse and keyboard purchased new 11/12.
Pg.10 3rd line: "Instead, you use all those same iPad gestures and more, right on the surface of your trackpad or (if you have Apple's Magic Mouse) the top surface of the mouse." "all" is incorrect. The twist for photo rotation and the pinching for sizing do not work on the surface of the mouse.

 john deam  Feb 19, 2013 
Printed Page 73
Second bullet and last paragraph (above Tip)

Reference to type-selecting trick on page 91 should be page 75.

 Denise D.  Nov 22, 2012 
Printed Page 168
Forth sentence.

"See the dialog box shown in Figure 4-20?". This was probably meant as a statement instead of a question. Replace "?" with ".".

 Eric Jensen  Jul 09, 2012 
Printed Page 224
Workaround workshop:Thunderbird Method

"you can find step-by-step instructions..... this chapter's free online PDF Appendix, 'Transferring email with Thunderbird"

Referenced PDF does not appear oh the website.

 Douglass  Sep 14, 2012 
Printed Page 384
First bullet.

"Downloads. Here's that awesome new Downloads button described at the beginning of this chapter." I cannot find anything about downloads at the beginning of this chapter. "The Download Manager" is referenced on page 389 but I am not sure that this is where the reader should look.

 Eric Jensen  Jul 05, 2012