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Switching to a Mac ®

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2 ND EDITION

by Arnold Reinhold

Switching to a Mac ® For Dummies, 2nd Edition

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About the Author

Arnold Reinhold has more than three decades of experience in the soft-

ware industry. His rst Apple product was a Mac 512. Arnold helped found

Automatix, Inc., a pioneer in robotics and machine vision, and is coauthor of

The Internet For Dummies Quick Reference, E-Mail For Dummies, Green IT For

Dummies, and Mac mini Hacks & Mods For Dummies. He developed and main-

tains diceware.com , widely regarded as the “gold standard” in password

security, and mathinthemovies.com .

Arnold studied mathematics at City College of New York and MIT, and man-

agement at Harvard Business School. You can check out his home page at

arnoldreinhold.com.

Dedication

To Max and Grete, who put me here, and Josh, who keeps me going. B’’H.

Author’s Acknowledgments

Thanks to Barbara Model, Carol Baroudi, and Barbara Lapinskas for their

help and suggestions. And, thanks to the folks at Apple computer and their

loyal customers, who keep alive a dream that personal computers, cell-

phones, and music players are not just utilitarian machines but can be tools

that empower and inspire us.

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