Cloud Computing For Dummies

A guide to managing and securing cloud services covers such topics as developing a cloud strategy, managing data, using software as a service, setting standards, and governing the cloud.
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Ebay for Seniors for Dummies

A guide to the online auction house explains how to buy and sell online, submit winning bids, and effectively market items for sale.
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Quicken 2010 for Dummies

Demonstrates the personal finance program's most recent upgrade, discussing banking and bill-paying online, retirement planning, investment management, and tax preparation.
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Introducing Windows 7 for Developers

Presents information on the tools and techniques of Windows 7 to help create effective applications.
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Windows 7 Plain & Simple

A guide to Windows 7 covers such topics as running programs and gadgets, playing games, working with pictures, accessing the Internet, using voice and sounds, printing and scanning, networking, and maintaining security.
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Google SketchUp: The Missing Manual

A stalwart of the advertising and design community in the San Francisco Bay Area, Grover contributes a third volume to the series of practical handbooks on just about everything. Here he describes how to use what he calls the easiest program available to create three-dimensional models of buildings, furniture, and everyday objects, and has the added advantage of being free. Some previous experience drawing with computers would be helpful, he says, but rank amateurs can just pull the software off the Net and follow along in the book. He covers basic skills; building a house; advanced construction techniques; adding realism and movement; and saving, printing, and sharing projects.
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Introduction to VBA for Excel

Visual Basic for Applications, Excel’s powerful built-in programming language, permits you to easily incorporate user-written functions into a spreadsheet. 1 You can easily calculate Black-Scholes and binomial option prices, for example. Lest you think VBA is something esoteric which you will never otherwise need to know, VBA is now the core macro language for all Microsoft’s office products, including Word. It has also been incorporated into software from other vendors. You need not write complicated programs using VBA in order for it to be useful to you. At the very least, knowing VBA will make it easier for you to analyze relatively complex problems for yourself.
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Wireless All-in-One for Dummies

Presents an overview of wireless home computer networks and provides instructions on such topics as installing an adapter, configuring the network, providing security, troubleshooting, and setting up an entertainment system.
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Real World Google Sketchup 7

A guide to using Google SketchUp for creating three-dimensional models, covers such topics as creating custom templates, importing CAD files, creating components, mastering scenes, and exporting graphics.
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Teach Yourself Visually Excel 2007

Brings together full-color, step-by-step instructions with real-life examples and practical tips to showcase the upgraded features and enhancements of the latest version of the spreadsheet program, explaining how to edit worksheets, use formulas and functions, create charts, access the Internet, and integrate data with other Office applications.
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Quickbooks 2010 Quicksteps

This step-by-step guide explains how to use QuickBooks software to set up a customized small business management system, including how to create accounts, handle bookkeeping, process invoices and manage payroll, and features screenshots with numbered callouts detailing new features.

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Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MYSQL

Yank updates again his guide for intermediate and advanced web designers, first published in 2001, to keep up with changes in the two free software packages, and in the technology and climate of the web. He assumes readers to be comfortable with simple HTML, but not necessarily with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or JavaScript. He discusses such matters as installation, publishing MySQL data on the web, a content management system, and binary data. The system he describes should work on Windows, Linus, or Mac OS X.

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