Mac Basics in easy steps

December 9, 2011

Mac OS X LionMac Basics in easy steps
(covers Mac OS X Lion)

Author: Drew Provan
ISBN: 9781840784459 / 1840784458
©2011 | 1st Edition | 192 pages | Paperback
Pub Date: SEP-11
Price: US$ 18.50 
In Easy Steps Series 

 

Covering the new Mac OS X Lion, Mac Basics in easy steps shows you how to get up and running on your Mac with minimum time and effort. Useful for anyone new to the world of Mac computing.

Mac Basics is easy steps covers all the essentials a novice need to know, from getting started to security issues. Areas covered include:

  1. Getting to grips with the Mac
  2. Dealing with Documents
  3. Mastering email
  4. Browse the web with Safari
  5. Calendars & Contacts
  6. Photos & Videos on the Mac
  7. The world of iTunes
  8. Networking using the Mac
  9. Video chat using the Mac
  10. Personalising your Mac
  11. Troubleshooting

This handy guide even shows how to move over from a PC – in easy steps – with minimum hassle.

 

About the Author

Drew Provan is currently a senior lecturer at Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry. He’s also a keen iPhone user. Drew enjoys writing and editing and has been involved with the production of a number of medical books. He also writes for GP Magazine, and have written pieces for other publications including Financial Times, Tesco Healthy Living, Readers Digest, and patient support group publications.

Drew uses technology extensively at home and at work, for creating music, reading, writing, databases and giving presentations. As an early adopter of the iPad he has almost stopped using his laptop and switched over to the iPad for most of his computing and multimedia needs.

 

 

 

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Multimedia Making It Work

October 26, 2010


Multimedia Making It Work Multimedia Making It Work

Author: Tay Vaughan
ISBN: 9780071748469 / 0071748466
©2011 | 8th Edition | 560 pages | Paperback
Pub Date: NOV-10
Price: US$ 63.00
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This thoroughly revised and updated full-color text covers the most current multimedia tools, techniques, and technologies, including Web and mobile content design and delivery

Multimedia: Making It Work, Eighth Edition teaches fundamental multimedia concepts and shows you the process of managing multimedia production. Beginning with the essential multimedia building blocks of text, images, sound, animation, and video, the book educates you on the business of making multimedia. Project planning, costs, design, production, talent acquisition, testing, and delivery are also covered.

Discussions of the most up-to-date technologies run throughout the chapters, with coverage of Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), the architecture for multimedia content delivery used in mobile devices. Lab projects have been updated with applications of multimedia on the Web, such as shooting videos on a cell phone and uploading the results to websites. Both Windows and Mac environments are covered. Starting with this edition, software tools will be drawn from Open Source and shareware. Each chapter of the text focuses on highlighted learning objectives and includes chapter summaries, key term lists, end-of-chapter quizzes, and lab projects.


Multimedia: Making It Work, Eighth Edition features:

  • New coverage of Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), the architecture for multimedia content delivery to mobile devices
  • Updated lab projects that feature multimedia Web applications
  • A focus on open source software tools
  • Free Online Learning Center with two user interfaces: student interface includes objectives and links to chapter quizzes; instructor interface hosts instructor’s guide, course syllabus, end-of-chapter question solutions, PowerPoint slides, and a link to an EZ Test test bank.
  • CD-ROM with all the chapter review questions from the book in a practice test application and trial versions of different multimedia software



About the Author

Tay Vaughan (Appleton, ME), a recognized authority and pioneer in the area of multimedia, is President of Timestream, Inc., a cross-platform, multiformat CD-ROM and Internet design and development company. He has developed and produced award-winning projects for clients such as Apple, Microsoft, Lotus, Novell, and Sun and was one of the founders of the Computer Press Association.



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