They're fed up with the virus-prone Windows way of life, and they're lured by Apple's well-deserved reputation for producing great all-around computers that are reliable, user-friendly, well designed, and now-with the $500 Mac mini-extremely affordable, too.
It's little wonder that longtime Windows users are migrating in droves to the new Mac. When he's not writing books or code, Adam attends high school in New Jersey, where he is captain of the Debate and Quizbowl teams and an editor of the school paper. Adam was a technical editor for O'Reilly's best-selling Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, and an editor for Mac OS X Panther Power User. Nowadays, he runs GoldfishSoft, a shareware company that makes games and utilities for Mac OS X. Through middle school, Adam wrote useless but amusing HyperCard programs. His Web page is and his email address is Adam Goldstein got his programming start in Kindergarten, when he first played around with Logo on an old Apple II. Titles in the series include Mac OS X, Windows XP, iPod, Microsoft Office, iPhoto, Dreamweaver, iMovie 2, and many others. Pogue is also the creator and primary author of the Missing Manual series of complete, funny computer books, a joint venture with O'Reilly & Associates.
With nearly 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how-to authors, having written or co-written seven books in the "for Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music), along with several computer-humor books and a technothriller, "Hard Drive" (a New York Times "notable book of the year").
0 kommentar(er)
