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The Creative Digital Darkroom
By Katrin Eismann, Sean Duggan $44.99
This tutorial takes photographers beyond the quick tips and gimmicky effects of many digital photography books. Author Katrin Eismann -- an internationally acclaimed artist, bestselling author, and gifted educator -- offers high-profile work, including her own, as examples for teaching photographers how to use the digital medium to create, edit, and output images that reflect their true vision.
Co-authored by photographer and teacher Sean Duggan, The Creative Digital Darkroom translates skills, concepts, and nomenclature of the traditional darkroom into digital solutions for photographers who sense that, despite the newness of the technologies at hand, there remains a timeless method for learning and practicing photography the right way. This is not a Photoshop book per se, but it does focus on the photographic aspects of Photoshop, something other books claim to do but rarely have the discipline to
accomplish. The Creative Digital Darkroom includes:
Clearly, The Creative Digital Darkroom is not your typical digital photography "how to" book. It's ideal for intermediate and advanced photographers, artists, and educators looking for clear, concise, insightful, and inspiring information and techniques on how to make their photographs shine. The language, and techniques will immediately appeal to serious students and professionals, and the original tutorial images and high-profile work will make the book an important visual resource for educators and art appreciators.
Facebook: The Missing Manual
By E. A. Vander Veer $19.99
Facebook is the wildly popular, free social networking site that combines the best of blogs, online forums, photo sharing, clever applications, and interaction among friends. The one thing it doesn't have is a user's guide to help you truly take advantage of it. Until now. Facebook: The Missing Manual gives you a crystal clear and entertaining look at everything this fascinating Facebook phenomenon has to offer.
Teeming with high-quality color graphics, each page in this Missing Manual is uniquely designed to help you with specific Facebook tasks, such as signing up, networking, shopping, joining groups, finding or filling a job, and a whole lot more. You'll discover how to create your page and make connections with other members in no time -- everybody who went to your school, for example, or those who work at your company or play on your soccer team. Then, bingo! Instant access to the personal and professional details
of all the folks you're connected with, the people they're connected with, and so on, and so on. With Facebook: The Missing Manual, you learn to:
Think of Facebook as a 30-million-plus-entry searchable Rolodex on steroids! With help from this guide, you'll quickly get into the Facebook experience -- without getting in over your head.
Windows Vista Annoyances
Tips, Secrets, and Hacks for the Cranky Consumer
By David A. Karp $34.99
Windows Vista may be the next big thing, but it still contains enough quirks and unaccountable behaviors to vex anyone. This unique guide not only discusses the most irritating features of the latest Microsoft operating system and how to get around them, but also explains how to improve Windows and do more with the software than Microsoft intended. You'll find information on setup, installation, upgrade from other Windows versions, the revamped interface, new security features, user accounts, troubleshooting,
and the markedly improved Internet Explorer 7. Other chapters cover a wide range of key topics:
No other book takes our patented cranky, solutions-oriented approach. Our collection of tips, tools and techniques will improve your experience with Windows Vista, so you can control the OS -- rather than the other way around.
Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One
By Deke McClelland $54.99
Nothing speeds up learning like personal training from a skilled tutor. With Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One, you get the equivalent of private lessons with author Deke McClelland, a world-renowned expert on digital graphics and design. Deke offers you DVD video with more than two hours of professional instruction and advice to accompany the book's easy-to-follow text. The book itself includes 600 full-color images, diagrams, and screenshots to illustrate every key step.
This highly popularly learning approach is quite simple: "read the book, watch the video, do the exercise". Each chapter has corresponding video lesson that demonstrates the techniques covered. The combination of text and video instruction is uniquely effective. You proceed at your own pace and work on relevant, real-world projects as you master fundamental and advanced concepts, theories, techniques, and best practices for making the most of InDesign. This comprehensive multimedia training solution
teaches you how to:
Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One puts you on the fast track to becoming a real InDesign expert. Once you're finished, you'll use InDesign smarter, faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you thought possible.
Windows Vista Accelerated
Publisher: Young Jin $24.99
A friendly and approachable visual guide to the long awaited update to the Microsoft operating system. Accelerated books from Young Jin offer the reader a visual step-by-step tutorial approach to learning all the new features of the Vista OS. Includes coverage of the new Media Player, Internet Explorer and MovieMaker. This book covers the Vista Ultimate version of the OS.
Two Slick QuickTime Tricks
Turn your video on its ear! Our hands-on tutorial shows you how to work with vertical movies and then embed them in a web page with a friendly new kind of trigger.
Web Domination Using Photoshop
The time has come for designers to execute their plans to dominate the World Wide Web with stunning graphics! Here, Corrie provides a full arsenal of fundamental techniques, before launching you on a stellar trajectory that takes in buttons in all their forms. With her step-by-step instructions, handy hints, and secret tricks, you'll have everything you need to bring the Web to its
knees...in awe!
Your New iTunes Movies to DVD (and Protect Your Other iTunes Purchases)
How much money have you spent at the iTunes store? And what do you have to show for it? An iPod full of music? TV shows? Those new games and movies? Too many people forget how much cash they've put into their digital media. And when bad things happen--house fires, computer theft, iPod loss--they're not always prepared to be able
to recover those digital assets. Erica Sadun shows you archiving techniques to preserve your (hefty) iTunes investment.
Better Registry Searching
Finding what you need in the registry is harder than trying to find a needle in a haystack. Mitch Tulloch shows you how to find what you need--fast!
Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup
Here's the weekly summary of a mix of Windows Mobile and general mobile tech related items from Todd Ogasawara's blog.
What is Java Content Repository
You might have heard of JSR-170, but what is a content repository, and what can you do with it? Well, do you want to manage documents with versioning, search, access control, and more? Content repositories offer these features, and JSR-170 codifies them into a single API. Sunil Patil shows how to use the reference implementation--Apache Jackrabbit--to create
a blogging application.
Managing a Honeypot
If intruders are always scanning the Internet for potential victims--and they are--can you find the intruders and their exploits by putting up fake networks that only a deliberate scan could find? That's the theory behind honeypots. Peter Mikhalenko discusses the implementation, theory, and legality of using a honeypot to protect your network.
Survey Exposes The Four Web Dev Stereotypes
Which are You? In what may be the largest survey of web developers ever, The State of Web Development 2006/2007 exposes four key web professional stereotypes. In this review, Nick explains how the stats were collated, and what they revealed about the industry and those who work in it.
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Web Expo SF Registration is Open
April 22-25, 2008 in San Francisco, CA
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April 14-17, 2008 in Santa Clara, CA
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July 21-25, 2008 in Portland, Oregon
O'Reilly Media is seeking proposals from people in tune with the heartbeat of open source.
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July 21-22, 2008 in Portland, Oregon
This is your opportunity to present your experiences of working with Ubuntu to a knowledgeable audience that is keen to learn more and participate.
Registration for the O'Reilly GSP East Conference is Open
June 9-11, 2008 in Washington, DC
GSP is the premier conference for developers and marketers building and distributing apps for MySpace, Facebook, OpenSocial, and other social networking platforms. Over three days of tutorials, sessions, and keynotes, participants will explore how to reach online communities using new and established social networking platforms and applications. Use code "gspe08usrg" when you register, and receive 15% off the registration price. Click here to register for the conference.
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June 23-24, 2008 in Burlingame, CA
Velocity is designed to deliver the best information on building and operating web sites that are fast, reliable, and always up. We're bringing together people from around the world who are doing the best performance work, to improve the experience of web users worldwide. Pages will be faster. Sites will have higher up-time. Companies will achieve more with less. The next cool startup will be able to more quickly scale to serve a larger audience, globally. Velocity is the key for crossing over from cool Web 2.0 features to sustainable web sites. Use code "vel08usgr" when you register, and receive 15% off the registration price. Early registration discount is available until May 5. Click here to register for the conference.
Web 2.0 Expo
September 16-19, 2008 in New York, NY
The Call for Participation is now open. Web 2.0 Expo is for the builders of the next generation web: designers, developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, business strategists, and venture capitalists. O'Reilly and CMP are seeking the best and brightest in the Web 2.0 universe to show the world how the next Internet Revolution is being designed and delivered. To submit a proposal to speak at Web 2.0 Expo, go to: http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/cfp/18
Adobe Photoshop CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques
By Chris Orwig $24.99
Adobe Photoshop CS3 is more than just the world's most popular image-editing tool: as part of Adobe's Creative Suite, it's a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create graphically rich content for print, Web, motion graphics, and mobile devices. This info-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Photoshop CS3 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a
relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn just what they need to know, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to them. Before they know it, users will be using the Bridge to manage their files, exploring the revamped Photomerge tool to effortlessly combine multiple images, tweaking color with Photoshop's enhanced color-correction features, and will enjoy taking advantage of Photoshop's built-in integration with Photoshop Lightroom to import, select, develop, and share
their digital photos.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Classroom in a Book
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y Adobe Creative Team $39.99
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Classroom in a Book is the most thorough and comprehensive way for new users to master all the new features in Adobe's consumer-targeted image editing software. Each chapter in this step-by-step, project-based guide contains a project that builds on the reader's growing knowledge of the program, while end-of-chapter review questions reinforce each lesson. Readers will learn the basics of editing their images with Photoshop Elements and will learn how best to use the program's many new
features. These new features include amazing photo-blending technology that lets you easily combine facial expressions and body language from a series of group shots to create a single, perfect composite. Those who need help fixing a blemish or creating a scrapbook page can take advantage of new step-by-step assistance. And users can now create photo books with greater ease and flexibility, take advantage of new selection tools, easily stitch together multiple photos to create seamless panoramas, and quickly
find the photos they need with the new Smart Albums feature.
Real World Adobe Photoshop CS3
By David Blatner, Conrad Chavez and Bruce Fraser $59.99
Anyone who relies on Photoshop to meet tough production challenges knows that when a new version arrives, especially one as chockfull of enhancements as Photoshop CS3, there's no time to fool around. You need to get up to speed on it, and you need to do so now. This book will get you there. In this copiously illustrated book, best-selling author David Blatner offers shows you how to sharpen your Photoshop production techniques and provides clear explanations of the concepts that drive them. Readers will learn
about managing color, correcting colors, capturing images, getting great scans, and more. They'll also find complete coverage of Photoshop CS3's new features: a streamlined interface, nondestructive Smart Filters, a new Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools, improved Curves, automatic layer alignment and blending, and more. Throughout, the emphasis in this book is on efficiency: the timesaving tips and professional shortcuts that will allow readers to solve their everyday production challenges creatively with
Photoshop CS3.
The Digital Photography Book, Volume 2
By Scott Kelby $24.99
In Volume 2, Scott adds entirely new chapters packed with Plain English tips on using flash, shooting close up photography, travel photography, shooting people, and even how to build a studio from scratch, where he demystifies the process so anyone can start taking pro-quality portraits today! Plus, he's got full chapters on his most requested topics, including loads of tips for landscape photographers, wedding photographers, and there's an entire chapter devoted to sharing some of the pro's secrets for making
your photos look more professional, no matter what you're shooting.
This book truly has a brilliant premise, and here’s how Scott describes it: “If you and I were out on a shoot, and you asked me, ‘When I use my flash, the background behind the person I’m shooting turns black. How do I fix that?’ I wouldn’t give you a lecture on flash ratios, or start a discussion on flash synchronization and rear curtain sync. I’d just say “Lower your shutter speed to 1/60 of a second. That should do it” Well, that’s what this book is all about: you and I out shooting where I answer questions,
give you advice, and share the secrets I’ve learned just like I would with a friend—without all the technical explanations and techie photo speak.”
Each page covers a single concept on how to make your photography better. Every time you turn the page, you’ll learn another pro setting, tool, or trick to transform your work from snapshots into gallery prints. If you’re tired of taking shots that look “okay,” and if you’re tired of looking in photography magazines and thinking, “Why don’t my shots look like that?” then this is the book for you.
This isn’t a book of theory—full of confusing jargon and detailed concepts. This is a book on which button to push, which setting to use, and when to use it. With nearly another 200 of the most closely guarded photographic “tricks of the trade,” this book gets you shooting dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful, more professional-looking photos every time.
Visual Design for the Modern Web
By Penny McIntire $44.99
Just as great artists must understand their tools, great Web designers must understand the technology behind their art. In Visual Design for the Web, author Penny McIntire shows novice Web designers how to use their tools--including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript--in conjunction with the principles of aesthetics and usability to become masters of their craft. Chapters begin with explanations of the terminology and techniques of web structures, then demonstrate how to apply the rules of desing to create beautiful sites.
The book:
Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop's Most Powerful Feature
By Matt Kloskowski $39.99
When Photoshop guru Matt Kloskowski was asked why he wrote this book, he replied, “It’s simple: I wanted to write the Photoshop book that I wished was around when I was learning Photoshop”. You’ve always known that layers were the key to understanding Photoshop, and now you have a resource to show you exactly how. With Matt’s clear, easy-to-follow, and concise writing style you’ll learn about:
If you want to finally understand layers in Photoshop, this book is the one you’ve been waiting for.
Photoshop Elements 6 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide
By Jeff Carlson $29.99
Photoshop Elements is geared for business users, students, educators, and home users who want professional-looking images for their print and Web projects, but don't want or need the advanced power of Adobe Photoshop. With Photoshop Elements 6 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start reading from the beginning of the book to get a tour of the interface and start with image-editing basics, or they can look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference
guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to show readers how to capture photos, reduce red eye, correct color, work with layers, and much more. Updated to cover Photoshop Elements 6 and it's new features including the refined compositing capabilities that allow for seamless panoramas and stitching together the perfect group photo. Both beginning and intermediate users will find what they need here--in straightforward language and with readily accessible examples.
Running Windows on your Mac
By Dwight Silverman $34.99
With software, such as Parallels, Boot Camp, and Fusion, computer users now don't have to decide which OS to run: they can run Windows and Mac OS X side by side on their Intel-based Macs. These software programs are becoming an increasingly popular and convenient way to get the most out of the Mac. Mac users don't need to leave Windows behind; and they'll no longer have to switch to a PC whenever they need to access a PC-compatible software application. Instead, they can run Windows and Mac side by side,
moving back and forth between the two operating systems. This book will show readers how to install and run Windows Vista on an Intel-based Macs and use it side by side with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard--all on one machine.
The book will be aimed at consumer-level readers who have a basic understanding of Mac and Windows operating systems. The book will take a step-by-step approach to setting up and using the software, with plenty of screenshots to guide the reader along the way. It will also include guidance on how to use Windows and Mac OS X.
The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters
By Joe McNally $54.99
Joe McNally shows us images from his new book and talks about how he achieved the perfect shot
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Designing Webbed Environments: The Importance of the Define and Design Phases
By Jason Cranford Teague
A large Web site built without the benefit of a blueprint will fail as surely as a large building built without the benefit of an architectural blueprint. But even if you are building a garden shed-sized Web site, a good plan will save you time in the long run. All plans require that you follow a process that is
understood by everyone concerned with the project, whether they are designers, developers, managers, or the client. The Web is about information, and before you can begin your Web design you need to define the information you are presenting and how the user will interact with that information.
Creating Web Pages for Screen, Print, and Email
By Jason Cranford Teague
Although vertical scrolling is a fact of life on the Web, most users would prefer to not spend their time running up and down the window. However, splitting your content over multiple HTML pages to shorten the height of those scrolls means that the user has to wait between page loads. Even more problematic is how to create a print-only version
of an article whose text may be split between multiple files.
A better solution is to use a simple DHTML technique to split the content of a single HTML file into multiple page layers, which you can then browse or jump between. All these page layers are in the same HTML file, but only one is showing at a time. Using a single file with its content split between multiple page layers also makes the job of printing the entirety of the content a lot easier than if it were split across multiple HTML files and also
allows a single URL, which can give the user a quick and easy way to send it to friends.
Edgy Edge Effects in Photoshop
By Helen Bradley
We're surrounded by images with interesting edges. Look around and you'll see photos with soft foggy edges and others that look torn or sanded. These edges provide interesting outlines for photos and digital art, and they're easy to create for your own images. Better still, when you create an interesting edge treatment, you can save it to use again on another image.
Helen Bradley shows how to create a range of different edge effects and how to apply them by using masks and layers to any photo or image in your collection.
SXSW South
by Southwest
March 7-16
Austin, TX
Peachpit will have a booth presence at the upcoming SXSW Conference. The SXSW
Interactive Festival brings together the world's most creative web developers,
designers, bloggers, wireless innovators and new media entrepreneurs. Four days
of captivating keynote presentations and provocative panel sessions provide
hands-on training as well as big-picture analysis of the future of this
industry. In addition to the bountiful business opportunities at the three-day
Trade Show & Exhibition, SXSW Interactive provides a full array of exciting
evening events to entertain attendees.
VOICES THAT MATTER: WEB DESIGN CONFERENCE
June 10-13,
2008
Loews Vanderbilt Hotel
Nashville, TN
You've read their books and now you're ready for more! Come and join the conversation. Meet your favorite Web design authors live and in person at the Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference, in Nashville, Tennessee, June 10-13, 2008.
Sams is in the process of launching a new Reference Library on their website where you can read and search classic books in their entirety. The first four books are now live, so take a moment to explore Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2003, Sams Teach Yourself Windows XP in 24 Hours, and Sams Teach Yourself Windows 2000 in 10 Minutes. New titles will be added on a regular basis, so come back often. Future topics include Mac OS X, Visual C++ Java, JavaScript, Red Hat Linux, XML, and more.
100 Things You Need to Know about Microsoft Windows Vista
By Eric Geier $24.99
Tired of clawing your way through computer books that start at the beginning of recorded history just to find one tiny nugget of information you need? Tired of wrenching your back to pull that massive Windows tome off your bookshelf? Tired of wishing you could find a simple answer to what should be a simple problem? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then 100 Things You Need to Know about Microsoft® Windows Vista™ is just the book you’ve been looking for. Chock full of timesaving tips, heady solutions, and expert know-how, this book doesn’t break the bank nor does it require a Bowflex body to hoist it around. Inside you’ll find step-by-step help for the 100 things every Windows user needs to know when making the big switch between Windows XP and Vista. Even if you’re brand new to Windows (meaning Vista is your first-ever operating system), you’ll find the advice here indispensable. In this book, we assume, for instance, that you really don’t give a hoot about what TCP/IP is. We’re betting you just want to get your Internet connection up and running, and leave the techy muck to the propeller heads.
dotCrime Manifesto, The: How to Stop Internet Crime
By Phillip Hallam-Baker $29.99
Internet crime keeps getting worse...but it doesn’t have to be that way. In this book, Internet security pioneer Phillip Hallam-Baker shows how we can make the Internet far friendlier for honest people–and far less friendly to criminals.
The dotCrime Manifesto begins with a revealing new look at the challenge of Internet crime–and a surprising look at today’s Internet criminals. You’ll discover why the Internet’s lack of accountability makes it so vulnerable, and how this can be fixed –technically, politically, and culturally.
Hallam-Baker introduces tactical, short-term measures for countering phishing, botnets, spam, and other forms of Internet crime. Even more important, he presents a comprehensive plan for implementing accountability-driven security infrastructure: a plan that draws on tools that are already available, and rapidly emerging standards and products. The result: a safer Internet that doesn’t sacrifice what people value most: power, ubiquity, simplicity, flexibility, or privacy.
Tactics and strategy: protecting Internet infrastructure from top to bottom - Building more secure transport, messaging, identities, networks, platforms, and more.
Gaining safety without sacrificing the Internet’s unique power and value - Making the Internet safer for honest people without sacrificing ubiquity, simplicity, or privacy.
Spam: draining the swamp, once and for all - Why spam contributes to virtually every form of Internet crime–and what we can do about it.
Design for deployment: how to really make it happen - Defining security objectives, architecture, strategy, and design–and evangelizing them
How to Build a Safer, Better Internet. You’ll find yourself deeply concerned, then fascinated, then hopeful as you read about
The Internet is today’s Wild West: too much lawlessness, too little accountability. Now, one of the Internet’s leading pioneers shows how we can build a more trustworthy Internet: one that resists crime without frustrating honest people or compromising privacy and civil liberties. Drawing on years at the cutting edge of Internet and security research, Phillip Hallam-Baker offers a complete plan for reinventing the Internet: a plan that addresses everything from technology to politics and culture. Whether you’re a technology professional, policymaker, or citizen, this book will show you how we can make the Internet better, smarter, and above all, safer.
Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses
By Markus Jakobsson, Zulfikar Ramzan $49.49
There’s a new breed of online predators—serious criminals intent on stealing big bucks and top-secret information—and their weapons of choice are a dangerous array of tools called “crimeware.” With an ever-growing number of companies, organizations, and individuals turning to the Internet to get things done, there’s an urgent need to understand and prevent these online threats.
Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses will help security professionals, technical managers, students, and researchers understand and prevent specific crimeware threats. This book guides you through the essential security principles, techniques, and countermeasures to keep you one step ahead of the criminals, regardless of evolving technology and tactics. Security experts Markus Jakobsson and Zulfikar Ramzan have brought together chapter contributors who are among the best and the brightest in the security industry. Together, they will help you understand how crimeware works, how to identify it, and how to prevent future attacks before your company’s valuable information falls into the wrong hands. In self-contained chapters that go into varying degrees of depth, the book provides a thorough overview of crimeware, including not only concepts prevalent in the wild, but also ideas that so far have only been seen inside the laboratory. With this book, you will
With contributions by Gary McGraw, Andrew Tannenbaum, Dave Cole, Oliver Friedrichs, Peter Ferrie, and others.
New School of Information Security, The
By Adam Shostack, Andrew Stewart $29.99
Why is information security so dysfunctional? Are you wasting the money you spend on security? This book shows how to spend it more effectively. How can you make more effective security decisions? This book explains why professionals have taken to studying economics, not cryptography--and why you should, too. And why security breach notices are the best thing to ever happen to information security. It’s about time someone asked the biggest, toughest questions about information security. Security experts Adam Shostack and Andrew Stewart don’t just answer those questions--they offer honest, deeply troubling answers. They explain why these critical problems exist and how to solve them. Drawing on powerful lessons from economics and other disciplines, Shostack and Stewart offer a new way forward. In clear and engaging prose, they shed new light on the critical challenges that are faced by the security field. Whether you’re a CIO, IT manager, or security specialist, this book will open your eyes to new ways of thinking about--and overcoming--your most pressing security challenges. The New School enables you to take control, while others struggle with non-stop crises.
Why the security data you have doesn’t support effective decision-making--and what to do about it
Why it’s so hard to improve security in isolation--and how the entire industry can make it happen and evolve
What IT security leaders can and must learn from other scientific fields
How to re-allocate your scarce resources where they’ll do the most good
Upgrading and Repairing Microsoft Windows 
By Brian Knittel, Scott Mueller $44.99
Fans of Upgrading and Repairing PCs, your call has been answered. Scott Mueller, author of the best-selling Upgrading and Repairing PCs, is now bringing you an equally in-depth guide to Windows troubleshooting. Upgrading and Repairing
Microsoft Windows explains how Windows works and how to fix it when things go wrong. Scott also includes references to helpful tools and scripting commands for maximum system controls. A DVD is included that provides you with additional resources and unique how-to video that brings Scott right to you. Find out how to make Windows work with you and not against you with Upgrading and Repairing Microsoft Windows.This comprehensive resource includes information on:
Online Sample Chapter: Upgrading Windows XP: Tips To Save Your Sanity
Manage Your Money and Investments with Microsoft Excel
By Peter G. Aitken $22.49
Saving money is sometimes easier said than done. Did you know that there is a program probably already installed on your computer that can help you manage your money better? It's Microsoft Excel, part of the Microsoft Office suite. Manage Your Money and Investments with
Excel can help you take control of your finances with Excel. The CD-ROM includes free template spreadsheets for Excel. These easy-to-use, professionally designed spreadsheets will help you perform all these tasks and more. The formulas and charts are already included in each spreadsheet. All that you have to do is plug in your information. Learn how to:
Discover new ways to make money-saving decisions and manage your finances. Online Sample Chapters:
Managing Your Money in Microsoft Excel: Basic Financial Calculations
Exploring Excel's Functions Part 2: ADDRESS() and INDIRECT()
Exploring Excel's Functions Part
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Home Network Router Security Secrets
By Andy Walker
Covered are: Turn off UPnP, Change your admin password, Deactivate SSID broadcast, Turn on the DMZ, Filter MAC addresses, Customize the SSID, Update your firmware, Reset the factory default, Engage WEP, Activate WPA, Conclusion: Most people who install a home network never delve inside the netherworld of security settings on their router. Who can blame them—it’s
about as frightening as putting your hand in a shoebox full of rabid gerbils. Nevertheless, it’s worth the effort if you know what you’re doing. That said, here are 10 router settings you can use to make your network more secure. For the purposes of this article, I used a popular router, the DLink DI-524, to show you how to engage the features, because this router doesn’t bite—usually.
Ten Things I Hate About Apple Apps
By Owen Linzmayer
The applications that Apple generously bundles with Mac OS X are widely regarded as some of the best in the industry, often comparing very favorably to competing commercial products. Nonetheless, at the risk of being accused of looking a gift horse in the mouth, in this article I spell out 10 things I can’t stand about some of Apple’s applications. Many readers
will no doubt rush to Apple’s defense, belittling my quibbles as minor irritants, which is exactly my point. The reason these things annoy me so much is because they would be so easy for Apple to address. For the most part, I’m not asking for incredibly complex new features; instead I point out rather small improvements to streamline otherwise universally acclaimed programs.
Listening to Internet Radio with Your Treo Smartphone
By Kulvir Singh Bhogal.
I’ve been quite impressed with the functionality of my Treo 600 smartphone. In addition to such basic tasks as making and receiving phone calls, the Treo handles more esoteric functions, including allowing me to send email messages using its full QWERTY keyboard. Like many Treo users, I subscribed to an unlimited data plan with my service
carrier. This gives me the liberty to connect to the Internet via my Treo for as long as I want, without having to worry about paying for per-byte/per-minute data plan usage. For my cell phone carrier, the cost is about ten bucks a month. In this article, I’ll show you how to use the power of your Treo smartphone as well as your unlimited data plan to listen to Internet radio, making your Treo a pretty powerful portable audio device.
The Technical Foundations of Hacking
This chapter helps you prepare for the EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Exam by covering the following EC Council objectives.
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