December 9, 2011
Mac 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:
- Getting to grips with the Mac
- Dealing with Documents
- Mastering email
- Browse the web with Safari
- Calendars & Contacts
- Photos & Videos on the Mac
- The world of iTunes
- Networking using the Mac
- Video chat using the Mac
- Personalising your Mac
- 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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June 25, 2010
How to Do Everything iPad © 2011
Authors: Ballew, Joli
ISBN-13: 9780071748698
ISBN 10: 0071748695
©2011 | 1st Edition | 336 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: July 2010
Price: US$ 25.00
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Tap into every feature of your iPad!
Get the most out of the revolutionary iPad with help from this easy-to-follow guide. Covering both the Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi + 3G models, How to Do Everything: iPad shows you how to quickly master the basics, such as customizing your iPad, using the Multi-Touch screen, accessing the Internet through wireless and cellular connections, syncing, and backing up your data. Learn to use Mail, Safari, iBooks, iTunes, Maps, the App Store, and much more. View photos and video, create a slideshow, watch movies, use GPS, and play games. If you’re looking for a book as cutting-edge and streamlined as the iPad itself, you found it!
- Configure, register, customize, sync, and back up your iPad
- Select a data plan for your iPad 3G
- Connect to Wi-Fi networks, access the web, and surf with Safari
- Set up Mail and integrate with various email accounts
- Install iBooks and download and read books
- Download and run cool apps from the App Store
- View, manage, and share photos and videos
- Set up iTunes, sync music and media from your computer, download songs, and create playlists
- Rent, purchase, download, and watch movies and TV shows
- Manage your contacts and schedule and keep notes
- Navigate with GPS and Maps
- Discover, download, and play awesome games
- Take advantage of the iPad’s built-in accessibility features, including VoiceOver and Zoom
Features
- Personalize your iPad with applications, ringtones, themes, skins, and wallpapers and explore iPad accessories
- Use iPad Desktop Software to synchronize the iPad with your computer
- Download and access e-books, online newspapers, magazines, videos, movies, blogs, journals, and educational materials like college textbooks and lab books
- Use the operating system to navigate file folders, applications, and perform computer-related tasks
- Place and answer phone calls, use voice activation, add phone contacts, and incorporate a Bluetooth headset
- Send and receive text, picture, and video SMS, MMS, and e-mail messages, and explore additional messaging options (Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, AOL, and others)
- Find Wi-Fi hotspots, surf the Internet, research, and locate and read online publications, and explore GPS and Maps
- Learn about networking options including Ethernet, ad-hoc, Bluetooth, wireless, and connect the iPad to your home entertainment center or game console
- Readers quickly learn how to use basic features like making phone calls, sending text messages, and managing contacts, as well as listening to music, taking and viewing photos, working with e-mail, creating contacts and synching data with their computer
- Readers learn about things they did not expect to see in the iPad, including using GPS and maps, working with an actual “Tablet computer”, and easily obtaining downloadable electronic publications in the nature of books, magazines, newsletters, journals, and blogs in the fields of entertainment, sports, science, history, culture, celebrities, news, current events, politics, technology, and education
- Readers learn how to locate and connect to Wi-Fi hotspots, choose an Internet subscription plan, surf the Internet, and perform Internet-related tasks, like shopping, updating their device, signing into Web sites, and managing bookmarks and cookies.
- Contents are arranged so readers can either work through the book chapter by chapter or use the book as reference, using the Table of Contents and Index as a guide
- See what fun and games are available at the App Store, what can be acquired from iTunes, and download and install 3rd party applications created for the iPad
- Learn how to take handwritten notes on the iPad and translate them into typed pages, how to navigate the mobility options, how to video conference with others, and how to use the computer functions
Review
1. SciTech Book News, April 2011
Covering both Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi + 3G models for those new to or familiar with other Apple iDevices, a technical writer/website manager/technology trainer in Texas introduces the basics of setting up and using the iPad tablet computer securely to access iTunes, other audio-visual content, the Safari web browser, Mail, iBooks, and applications (some free). The guide includes a chapter on accessibility options for those with a disability, and tips on customizing apps and preferences and troubleshooting. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Author Profile
Joli Ballew (Garland, TX) Microsoft MVP, MCSE, MCDST, A+, and MCTS: Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2007 is the extremely popular, bestselling author of Degunking Windows (Paraglyph Press), voted IPPY’s Best Computer Book of the Year in 2005. Joli has written over 30 books overall, including but not limited to How to Do Everything with Windows Vista Media Center (McGraw-Hill), How to Do Everything with BlackBerry Storm 2 (McGraw-Hill), PC Magazine’s Office 2007 Solutions (Wiley), Breakthrough Windows Vista (Microsoft Press), and 5 books in Pearson’s Brilliant and In Simple Steps series including Brilliant Windows 7 for the Over 50′s and Computer Essentials with Windows 7. Beyond her book writing career, Joli has written articles and given live webcasts for Microsoft’s Windows XP Expert Zone, and is currently writing web pages for Microsoft’s new Malaysia web site for small- to medium-sized businesses. She was the managing editor for BrightHub.com’s Home Office channel and still currently writes for the site, teaches classes weekly at Eastfield and Collin community colleges in Dallas and Collin County, Texas, and has created training videos for Keystone Learning. She has also served as technical editor and/or contributor on myriad book titles.
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April 7, 2010
Robin Nixon has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s (his first computer was a Tandy TRS 80 Model 1 with a massive 4KB of RAM!). During this time he has written in excess of 500 articles for many of the U.K.’s top computer magazines.
Robin started his computing career in the Cheshire homes for disabled people, where he was responsible for setting up computer rooms in a number of residential homes, and for evaluating and tailoring hardware and software so that disabled people could use the new technology – sometimes by means of only a single switch operated by mouth or finger.
After writing articles for computer magazines about his work with disabled people, he eventually worked full time for one of the country’s main IT magazine publishers, where he held several roles including editorial, promotions, and cover disc editing.
With the dawn of the Internet in the 1990s, Robin branched out into developing websites. One of these presented the world’s first radio station licensed by the music copyright holders, and was featured in several news reports on TV and radio networks in the United Kingdom. In order to enable people to continue to surf while listening, Robin also developed the first known pop-up windows.
Robin lives on the southeast coast of England with his wife Julie, a trained nurse, and five children, where he also finds time to foster three disabled children, as well as working full time from home as a technical author.
Robin has contributed an article to “The Daily Tip” section on “IT World,” and Plug-In PHP is one of the featured books on the company’s web site. For a look at the article, please click HERE.
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Mac Basics in easy steps
How to Do Everything iPad
June 25, 2010How to Do Everything iPad © 2011
Authors: Ballew, Joli
ISBN-13: 9780071748698
ISBN 10: 0071748695
©2011 | 1st Edition | 336 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: July 2010
Price: US$ 25.00
Author’s Facebook | Podcast | Chapter 10 | Learn More
Tap into every feature of your iPad!
Get the most out of the revolutionary iPad with help from this easy-to-follow guide. Covering both the Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi + 3G models, How to Do Everything: iPad shows you how to quickly master the basics, such as customizing your iPad, using the Multi-Touch screen, accessing the Internet through wireless and cellular connections, syncing, and backing up your data. Learn to use Mail, Safari, iBooks, iTunes, Maps, the App Store, and much more. View photos and video, create a slideshow, watch movies, use GPS, and play games. If you’re looking for a book as cutting-edge and streamlined as the iPad itself, you found it!
Features
Author Profile
Joli Ballew (Garland, TX) Microsoft MVP, MCSE, MCDST, A+, and MCTS: Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2007 is the extremely popular, bestselling author of Degunking Windows (Paraglyph Press), voted IPPY’s Best Computer Book of the Year in 2005. Joli has written over 30 books overall, including but not limited to How to Do Everything with Windows Vista Media Center (McGraw-Hill), How to Do Everything with BlackBerry Storm 2 (McGraw-Hill), PC Magazine’s Office 2007 Solutions (Wiley), Breakthrough Windows Vista (Microsoft Press), and 5 books in Pearson’s Brilliant and In Simple Steps series including Brilliant Windows 7 for the Over 50′s and Computer Essentials with Windows 7. Beyond her book writing career, Joli has written articles and given live webcasts for Microsoft’s Windows XP Expert Zone, and is currently writing web pages for Microsoft’s new Malaysia web site for small- to medium-sized businesses. She was the managing editor for BrightHub.com’s Home Office channel and still currently writes for the site, teaches classes weekly at Eastfield and Collin community colleges in Dallas and Collin County, Texas, and has created training videos for Keystone Learning. She has also served as technical editor and/or contributor on myriad book titles.
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