[Pikes-peak-pm] Fwd: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--July28

Sun Jul 29 16:57:11 PDT 2012

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From: Marsee Henon & Jon Johns <usergroups at post.oreilly.com>
Date: Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 3:01 PM
Subject: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--July28

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We're excited to announce the early availability of David Pogue's OS X
Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual, the #1 bestselling Mac guide for over 10
years. If you or one of your UG members is upgrading to OS X 10.8 and would
like to review a copy, let us know and we'll get the ebook version to you
right away.

--Marsee Henon & Jon Johns
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