First and foremost, I wish to thank my family for their patience and help as I completed this exciting project. My children had to give up their homework computer to become a Snow Leopard test machine, and my wife Christa provided unwavering support during an extremely challenging work schedule. I want to thank Bob Woerner and Wiley for bringing me on for this book, and the Wiley publishing team who helped put it all together. Paul Levesque and Virginia Sanders turned my cocktail napkin scribblings into something readable, and Dennis Cohen made sure that it was all technically accurate.

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