The Internet for Dummies

Don't miss the 12th edition of this bestseller, fully updated and now covering social networking!

Sixteen years since the publication of the first edition, this smash hit book has outsold and outlasted all the competition. See what all the excitement is about with the newest edition, The Internet For Dummies, 12th Edition. You'll not only find a lot of the basics presented in an easy-to-follow and friendly style, you'll also get the latest on social networking, security, and much more-stuff barely on the horizon a couple of years ago that now dominates the online landscape.

• Introduces you to what's online, how to deal with annoyances like spam and spyware, and how to control what your kids see and do online
• Walks you through picking a provider, getting hooked up to the Internet, and sharing a connection in your home or with other devices
• Gives you a guided a tour through popular Web browsers, getting good search results; finding music and video; shopping; banking; and sharing files
• Also covers e-mail, connecting with friends, online chats, and more
• Helps you find the hot social networking sites and see how to handle photo and video sharing

Using the Internet? Get thoroughly up to speed with this popular guide.

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Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours

Intended for the beginner, this series of 24 lessons describes the different SAP components available for large and medium businesses, outlines SAP planning from both the technical and project management perspectives, and explains how to log on to an SAP system, navigate with transaction codes, customize the SAP display, and generate reports from SAP data.
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Upgrading and Repairing PCs

Provides information on how to upgrade, maintain, and troubleshoot the hardware of personal computers, discussing the differences among them was well as their various configuration options.
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Web Design for Developers: A Programmer's Guide to Design Tools and Techniques

A guide to creating effective, professional-designed Web sites covers such topics as choosing colors, adding graphics, fonts and typography, using CSS, working with Web standards, adding styles, working with Internet Explorer, and designing for mobile devices.
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Tweak It and Freak It: A Killer Guide to Making Windows Run Your Way

McFedries, author and Microsoft Windows expert, provides the tools and techniques Windows users can employ to customize, improve, and better safeguard their programs and computers, speed up Internet access, and tweak wireless connections. Tips include critical performance and security adjustments, email, administrative issues, media, file systems, networks, working with the registry editor, and much more. The book is written in a readable and straightforward style that is easy to follow.
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Publishing a Blog With Blogger: Visual Quickproject Guide

Peachpit Press has published the second edition of the book Publishing a Blog with Blogger: Visual QuickProject Guide. A blog is a clever combination of database and Web site that lets you focus on writing while a computer program, in this case Blogger, dates and archives your entries and then automatically generates a Web site that not only contains what you’ve written that day, but also contains links to all your previous entries. The blog you’ll create in this book is a simple, online journal, complete with photographs and links. Because the project covers all the basic techniques, you’ll be able to use what you learn to create all sorts of other blogs--perhaps to begin an online newspaper, showcase a frequently updated photography portfolio, or work on a team project using a blog both as a communication tool and also for archiving the team’s progress.

Why use Blogger to create your blog? Blogger is one of the most popular online blogging tools, works with any modern browser, and is free, well designed, and easy to use. The Web pages it generates follow current standards for both XHTML and CSS. And it offers beautiful, professionally-designed templates for formatting your blog. In addition, Blogger offers free blog hosting in exchange for a miniscule bit of advertising. It’s a great choice.

New topics covered in the second edition include using the new post editor, adding a jump break, adding labels in both lists and clouds, uploading images, audio, and video, adding page elements like polls, slideshows, and more, adding and setting variables, blogging with your phone, syndicating your blog, analyzing blog traffic, and finally, placing advertisements on your blog, particularly from Google. You can see the complete table of contents here.

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PCs for Dummies: Windows 7 Edition

Get the latest edition of the bestselling PC book on the planet!

What better way to make friends with your new PC than with this new edition of the bestselling PC book in the world? PCs For Dummies, Windows 7 Edition explains the latest Windows operating system in a refreshingly jargon-free way that's loaded with good humor and great help.

Discover how to make your PC safe for your kids, get in touch with your digital life, use flash drives, learn about green computing, and much more.

• Dan Gookin, author of the original DOS For Dummies, helped launch the worldwide popularity of the series; his books have been translated in 32 languages and have more than 12 million copies in print
• This guide gets you up to speed on the latest PC hardware and software and covers all the innovations and changes in Windows 7, all without the boring jargon
• Covers making your PC safe for kids, organizing your digital life, green computing, storage on memory cards and flash drives, online photo sharing, and much more

Make your life easier the Dummies way with PCs For Dummies, Windows 7 Edition.

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Windows 7 Inside Out

Explaining how to use the new features of Windows 7, a comprehensive manual details hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds, along with information on such topics as Internet Explorer 8, Windows Media Center, networking, and security.
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Easy Microsoft Windows 7

Explains how to use the Windows 7 operating system, discussing how to get started; how to work with programs, folders, files, and peripherals; and how to use Windows 7 for entertainment and communication purposes.
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Windows 7 Just the Steps for Dummies

Just the steps you need to get going with Windows 7!

Coming in day and date with Microsoft's exciting release of the new Window 7 operating system, this friendly, accessible book shows you the features and functions you need from this exciting new operating system. Presented in a series of numbered steps that are concise, visually clear, and easy to follow, you'll learn to navigate the Windows 7 desktop, create files, connect to the Internet, search the Web, use e-mail, and more with this fun and practical guide.

• Get quickly and easily up to speed on Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7
• Master Windows 7 through a list of steps and easy-to-follow visual elements
• See how to set up your desktop, copy and delete files, connect to the Internet, create folders, and more
• Discover what so many readers already know-fun, readable Dummies books are a great way to get the most out of your Windows technology in a non-intimidating way

Why waste time on extraneous information? Get this book and get just the steps!

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