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Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

Errata for Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger 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 8
First paragraph (below Note)

Appendices title reference errors of a past printing are simularly in error here
(October 2006 printing).

Anonymous   
Printed Page 27
Tip (footnote)

Control-F4 does not cycle through windows on my Macbook

Anonymous   
Printed Page 30
2nd line

Delete "striped"

The title bar is more accurately described as "brushed aluminum," the term you use
elsewhere.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 31
Last paragraph

"Figure 1-11" should read "Figure 1-12"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 49
Under heading "Manipulating the Columns", 2nd line

As helpful memory-jogs, insert "green" before "zoom button" and ribbed" before
"resize box"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 54
1st line under heading "Display Tab"

after "is considered" insert "to come"
or change "is considered" to "sorts"

The wording is currently awkward.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 57
Fig. 2-15

You might circle the little arrow badge in the lower left corner of the alias
folder--it's barely visible.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 58
Fig. 2-16, top

You might circle the button and the little arrow that is pointing to it--it's
easy to miss.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 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.)

Anonymous   
Printed Page 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.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 92
Para. headed "Action"

It would be helpful to append, "See p. 58, figure 2-16 for an example."

Anonymous   
Printed Page 98
2nd line under heading "Application Menu"

After "The first menu" perhaps insert "(the one to the right of the apple)"
Helpful for novices

Anonymous   
Printed Page 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.)

Anonymous   
Printed Page 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"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 115
Para. headed "Note"

Change "in Chapter 1" to "on page 27"
More helpful to be more specific.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 118
Under heading "Column View", 2nd para., last line

after "triangle" perhaps insert the helpful "to the right of the Save As option"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 153
Last paragraph

The word "way" is repeated. Please delete one of the occurrences.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 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.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 271
2nd para., 1st line

Change "Mailboxes menu" to "Mailbox menu"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 273
last line

Perhaps insert "results" after "search"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 296
first paragraph

"...which browser your using."

should be "you're"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 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.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 363
1st line under heading "Display Tab"

Delete "main" in "main headquarters"
Redundant (?)

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I suggest this web page be modified so that clicking Clear Form also moves the cursor
into the first text entry box (page number).

Anonymous   
Printed Page 368
2nd para., last line

Perhaps change "on" to "of"

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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.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 373
Under heading Trackpad gestures, 2nd para., 1st line

Change "directly" to "right"

to avoid using "direct" twice in the same sentence.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 382
Fifth paragraph from top, last sentence.

Replace "monitor" with "magnifier"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 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.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 433
Under heading "Sherlock"

change "Chapter 11" to the more informative "pages 315-17"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 448
last para., 3rd line

Change "preserving all your old data" to "preserving any old data not overwritten"

(Right?)

Anonymous   
Printed Page 464
last line

Maybe change "agree with" to "agree to"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 485
1st line under heading "Drivers"

Perhaps append "in this Dictionary"

(Helpful to some)

Anonymous   
Printed Page 485
Under heading Exiting Programs, 1st line

change "its" to "the program's"

Clearer

Anonymous   
Printed Page 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

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You should also give these page numbers in the missingmanuals site, not just chapter-
number references.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 505
Entry for Disk Warrior

Add ", 477"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 509
Entry for Mail

Insert the entry, "flagging messages, 272

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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.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 511
entry for "quitting programs"

change page references to: "98-100, 471-72

this incorporates forced quitting, which is a subset of quitting

Anonymous   
Printed Page 513
Entry for TinkerTool

Append, ", 493"

Anonymous