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Safari Books Online Section 20.1.4.3
20.1.4.3. Impersonating Internet Explorer

The book recommends enabling Safari's Debug menu using Tinker Tool or a command-line command.

In new versions of Safari (3.2.1), this menu is called the Develop menu and is accessible under Preferences > Advanced > Show Develop menu in menu bar.

Related Get Satisfaction question here: http://getsatisfaction.com/oreilly/topics/debug_safari_for_bank_websites

 Anonymous 
Safari Books Online 1
Missing CD-ROM downloads page

The link given for downloading the application 'SuperGetInfo' is dead (404: not found):
http://ven.barebones.com/SuperGetInfo_1.3.dmg

The link to the application developer's main page is still valid.

 John DeStefano 
Printed Page 6
Last paragraph of sidebar "Nostalgia Corner"

"... consult the downloadable Appendix F (at www.missingmanuals.com)..."

There does not seem to be any such appendix at that web site.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 12
Figure 1-2

Reads: You can right-click on laptop trackapds, too.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 13
first full paragraph

The comment about 'stealing a good idea from microsoft' is totally fictional. Right-clicking was in many windowing systems before microsoft even thought about a graphical user interface.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 13
3/4 of the way down "TIP" section

The "tip" states you can 'right-click' using a Mac laptop's trackpad...see page 467. It is actually on page 468.

 Anonymous 
Other Digital Version 24
Troubleshooting Moment -- Fixing the Sidebar

The Confirmed Errata item listed as being on Page 21 is actually on Page 24. The page number should be corrected in the online errata listing.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 25
Tip

The tip about changing between open windows of the same application:

The tilde key is not to the left of nr 1 on all keyboards, as written.

I use a MacBook Pro, with a Danish keyboard, and just gave up trying to use the tilde, as it requires alt to be pressed in order to be "active" - I tried using the international, and also tried Finnish & US, but the tilde just moved to different keys, but stayed behind Alt. And pressing cmd-alt-tildekey did not work in any of the Internationals.

I find it annoying, as I'd have very much use for the shortcut.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 103
Limit by recent date

Only today, tomorrow, and yesterday works correctly.
Other keywords does not work at all.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 109
on the box: problem solution hour for the spotlight use examples as a math calculator

on the brazilian portuguese edition of the book, the mathematical functions sqrt() and pow()
are both wrong:
- its written: raiz quadrada (25) instead sqrt (25)
-its written: pot (6,6) instead pow(6,6)

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 145
PPPoE

In the OSX leopard missing manual (Pogue), in the section about network preferences, he mentions a "show pop-up menu" which would allow me to a) turn off the PPPoE menulet and b) set up an "offline" location which wouldn't look for an internet connection. I can't find the "show" menu. Is that an error, left over from previous versions of OSX, or am I just looking in the wrong place?

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 153
Second bullet point under "Quitting Programs" at top of page

Premature reference to the "heads-up" program switcher:

"...Leopard's 'heads-up' display of open programs (133),..."

should be

"...Leopard's 'heads-up' display of open programs (155),..."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 153
4th paragraph

Reference to page 133 (for "heads-up display") is incorrect. Should be page 155.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 153
2nd bullet

The reference to "page 133" for heads-up display should be "page 155".

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 156
Troubleshooting moment sidebar - end of 1st paragraph

"don't not work" - delete "not"

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 156
Troubleshooting Moment

"...the F9, F10, and F11 keys...are mapped to the Mac's speaker volume!"

On my iMac aluminum keyboard, the speaker volume keys are F10, F11, and F12.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 165
8th paragraph

Is: "Use the heads-up switcher (page 133), ...".
Should be: "Use the heads-up switcher (page 155), ...".
I.e. the page number is incorrect.

 Anonymous 
PDF Page 206
9 th para

Unable to locate or download Quicken PDF files to transfer data from Windows to the Mac Thank you.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 215
Under the heading 'Weather'

The reference (Figure 5-29, lower left) should read (Figure 5-30, lower left)

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 246
second paragraph - synch with a Palm organizer

In the larger world of Macintosh this may be minor, but I have wasted hours trying, unsuccessfully, to isync the data on my Palm Tungsten E2 with ical and address book. Isync doesn't even see my Palm handheld.

I have a MacBook Pro running Leopard, build 9F33 and within the past month downloaded the Palm Desktop for Macintosh from the Palm site. It appears that no isync conduit for Palm is provided by Apple.

I wish you had just said either "it can't be done" or "it can be done but it's complicated. Here's how ..."

I did find on the web suggestions about using software called Missing Sync, but have also seen posts saying it doesn't work with Leopard either.

If you have correct information about this I'd be most grateful if you would share it.

Thanks,
Susan

Anonymous 
Printed Page 291
near top

"Create a Second Partition." This 1st option is not available for an internal 2nd drive on a Mac Pro!

Boot Camp will not create the 2nd partition, as described, on a secondary drive... only on the primary drive in which Leopard is installed.

Personally, as a newcomer to Mac, I found it very frustrating to learn, after hours of Googling, that one cannot partition a secondary drive on which Boot Camp installs the MS OS... especially in a world of 1TB HD's!

Apple seems yo have designed Boot Camp only for the single drive MacBook!

 Scott Andrews 
Printed Page 299
penultimate paragraph

Windows files in Fusion are stated to be in Home--Documents--Virtual Machine folder. I am running Windows in bootcamp using Fusion 1.1.3 and this folder does not exist on my hard drive. Where is this folder? I would like to back it up.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 307
The 7th paragraph

The paragraph under (sub)header "Number of Recent Items" contains a typo:
The last line is:
programs, and 5 for severs.
The last line should be:
programs, and 5 for servers.

I.e. the last word should be "servers" instead of "severs".

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 355
Figure 10-1

Calculator, show paper tape. Book says go to View-> Show Paper Tape. It actually is Window->Show Paper Tape.

 Bob Neale 
Printed Page 365
Bottom 1/3rd of page, below 'Tip: The "time zone" pop-up...'

Text in March 2008 printing: "Now, when you arrive in the distant city, use the Time Zone pop-up menu at the top-left corner of the iCal window to tell iCal where you are."

Should read: "Now, when you arrive in the distant city, use the Time Zone pop-up menu at the top-right corner of the iCal window to tell iCal where you are."

Both the included screenshots (e.g. 10-4 pg. 362, 10-7 pg. 369) and my own iCal 3.0.4 (1263) under Leopard 10.5.4 draw the relevant drop-down in the upper right of the iCal window.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 393
Figure 21-2

It says "This column view shot". The screen shot is in icon view.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 439
2nd paragraph in Box Gem in the Rough

States that you may burn multisession DVD-Rs,as well as CD-R discs. According to Apple Disk Utility help, only CD-Rs can be burned in multisession.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 495
First paragraph, fourth line

When you say "It would take a password guessing computer 149 trillion years before" guessing the FileVault password, you give a misleading view of the protection accorded by FileVault in light of the fact that it would take a human with a can of CO2 less than half an hour to discover the key. See http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/. People need to be aware of this vulnerability. Do not leave your laptop unattended when the memory is powered on.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 508
"Gem in the Rough" section

Dear Mr. Pogue:

"Gem in the Rough" provides incomplete instructions on connecting 2 x Macs via Ethernet connection. The first two paragraph's provide "How To" w/respect to the physical connection; however, it abruptly stops there and picks up with establishing a "Wireless Connection." The Apple Assistant is little help in guiding me through the remainder of establishing a Network. I'm stuck.

My Story...can you all help: In my situation I'm trying to migrate my iTunes, iPhoto, and Documents from my 2002 iMac to my new MacAir...this is more of a challenge than I anticipated for several reasons:

* "Leopard" does not support my iMac...thus I can't move my files to the Time Capsule and then drag them into my MacAir.

* Airport Network: Back in the day....I didn't purchase the Airport option. Unfortunately, they don't make Airport cards for my old iMac to do wireless...ergo, no Wireless networking option.

* FireWire Network: MacAir doesn't support a FireWire connection...crazy...thus I can't establish a FireWire Network. I was "eyes wide open" on the "FireWire" issue upon purchase, but didn't think through the secondary/tertiary effects.

Respectfully,

Allen Ford
allensford@mac.com
540-720-0879

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 674
UP TO SPEED box (bottom), 1st paragraph

The text reads "If you have DSL service, you may be directed create a PPPoE service."

It should read "If you have DSL service, you may be directed to create a PPPoE service."

This is a typo (the omission of 'to').

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 704
Figure 19-6

'(page 799)' should read '(page 709)'

Anonymous 
Printed Page 705
Fourth line of the paragraph "acheter un routeur"

This is a remark about the "FRENCH" book (ISBN : 978-2-212-12308-1), but the "problem" may come from the original version....

In the chapter 18
in the sixth section "Partage Internet" (Share Internet ?)
in • Acheter un routeur (Buy a router ?)
at the fourth line

it is written "plusieurs prises Internet" ;

I think it should read "plusieurs prises Ethernet".

I am very pleased with this book. I don't know the original edition, but the translation is so good that it reads like it has been written in French !!!

Congratulations.

Jean-Pierre

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 708
2nd paragraph

Attaching photos, when photo's are dragged as described in the paragraph and also referred to in Fig. 19-7 the image fills the page. No icons appear.
I have tried many ways to produce the icon display and not fill the message with pictures.
I am using Mail v 3.5:

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 758

An error of omission: I wished to put several of my Safari bookmarks into subfolders of the primary folders. Safari does have this obvious and elementary capability, but there is nothing in your book about it. It should be there.

Mike Freeman


 Anonymous 
Printed Page 820
Boxed grey area, Workaround Workshop

I have a brand new refurbished iMac direct from Apple USA, it shipped with Leopard installed and the
Leopard "Up to Date" Upgrade Disk. You suggest performing a clean install of Leopard is need be, the
problem is when we try this the following pops up:

"Mac OS X cannot be installed on this computer"

There is no way around it, we refurbished buyers need to buy a new copy of Leopard. I have looked around,
no solution so far. I do know your solution offered does not work, checked the Apple forums and others
agree....

Solution?

I tried to install Leopard as a clean install on my secondary iBook, same no-go as above.

Notes from the Author: Refurb might be a special case.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 835
Top of Page

The page currently reads, "The trick is to press the Shift key as the machine is starting up. Hold it down from the startup chime until you see the words "Safe Boot" in red lettering.

According to the Apple kbase, you only need to hold down the shift key until the spinning sprocket starts...

 kehrer1701 
Printed Page 835
last line of first list item

In the Sixth Printing, there is a page number error, I believe. It refers to p. 779x. I can find nothing on that page that appears to refer to a disk check having to do with my hard drive.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 874
2nd paragarph

the index title should be 'E', not 'D'.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 876
Last entry on the page

"heads-up display, 133" should be "heads-up display, 155"

Anonymous 
Printed Page 876
The last line of the second column

Index entry for heads-up display gives page number 133 that is incorrect. It should be 155.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 882
left column

There should be an entry or entries regarding the location of the page references to the "missing CD" files and links. It is frustrating to check the index for "Quay" for example only to find no mention of it, even though it appears in the book.

 M.Paris 

"The preeminent general reference source for Mac OS X has always been the Missing Manual Series written by David Pogue. The latest iteration in the series is its Mac OS X Leopard Edition, completely revised, and it is the biggest, most comprehensive, and most useful of all the editions in the series."
--John Suda, Slashdot.org