David Pogue is the creator and primary author of the Missing Manuals (begun since 1999; a joint venture with O'Reilly & Associates) and leads Pogue Press. From 1988 until November 2000, he wrote the award-winning Desktop Critic column of Macworld magazine and currently writes the personal-technology column at the New York Times. He is also a CBS News correspondent. A successful author, his first book was Macs for Dummies (1992). He has also co-written, along with Joseph Schorr, Macworld Mac Secrets. He also wrote a technothriller, Hard Drive.