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This book is a general-purpose guide to all things that have to do with the Internet. It takes on a variety of subjects — how to send and receive e-mail, chat online, conduct Internet research, use Yahoo!, shop on eBay, enjoy music with iTunes, and create your own Web pages. Don’t look in this book to find out how the Internet works. Look here to find out how you can make the most of the time that you spend on the Internet.
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Have you always wanted to play piano? This revised edition of the popular Piano for Dummies makes it easier and more fun than ever. If you don’t know how to read music, this book explains in friendly, uncomplicated language all the basics of music theory and applies it to playing the piano. And if you’ve been playing piano for a while – or took piano lessons when you were a child but haven’t played since – you can pick up some valuable tips to improve your playing or use the book as a refresher course. This new edition features fresh and updated practice lessons, teaching techniques, and musical examples, as well as a new audio CD with examples for all pieces presented in the book. You get expert information on left- and right-hand piano techniques; playing scales, melodies, harmonies, and chords; and practicing to improve your technique.
As though you hadn’t guessed, OpenOffice.org For Dummies covers the OpenOffice.org office suite of programs, including Writer (word processor), Calc (spreadsheet), and Impress (presentation program). We also explain how to use the HTML editor and Draw, the drawing program. We comprehensively explain OpenOffice.org’s features, including
Welcome to MindManager For Dummies, your portal to levels of productivity and creativity that you have only dreamt about! You’ve heard of thinking outside of the box? MindManager doesn’t even know where the box is. Open this book to any page and you will find ideas and examples that will open your mind and stimulate you to see new solutions in your world. This is a down-to-earth, practical book based on real ways to use the program. We remain astounded at the richness of MindManager: even as we were writing the last sentences in this book we continued to discover new ideas, new connections, and new possibilities. We discovered MindManager by word of mouth. Most of the 300,000 plus users did, too. You can’t walk into the local computer store and pick up a box with MindManager marketing hype. Go to www.minjet.com where a free download of MindManager Pro awaits you. The download is a fully functioning program that gives you a full three weeks to explore every facet of the software. You are not going to be bombarded with Mindjet extras and advertising. You’ll get an e-mail thanking you for downloading the program and one inviting you to purchase and register the program. The program and this book get you going at warp speed. You are going to find that the number of uses for MindManager grows each day you use the program. Imagine sitting in a large room. Innumerable things you have to solve, organize, or communicate surround you. There are doors on the opposite side of the room marked Web Interface, Document Publishing, Professional Presentations, and Task Tools, but they are all locked. A computer screen rises in front of you. MindManager is running. External information links are active. You look at each problem and solve it. One of the previously locked doors opens, easily, effortlessly. You take the tasks and organize them. Another door springs open. You structure and data mine seemingly unrelated bits of information. Now all the doors are open. You link stakeholder needs to activities. The mountain of tasks disappears, handled brilliantly. The sun shines, the birds sing, and work has become joyful and fulfilling. MindManager is fun to use. You are going to see that simplicity and fun can bring big benefits. Enjoy yourself, and use the program in ways unimagined. Share your discovery with others.
Welcome to Investing Online For Dummies, 5th Edition, and to the exciting world of online investing. Regardless of whether you’re a new investor or an experienced trader, this book can guide you to the Internet-based resources that can help you make better, more informed investing decisions than ever before. The Internet offers an astounding amount of financial information, and Investing Online For Dummies, 5th Edition, provides clear instructions and ample illustrations so that you don’t get lost in cyberspace. With the assistance of this book, you can find up-to-the-second stock quotes, historical financial data on public companies, professional analyses, educational materials, and more. In this book, I show you how to get started, what you really need to know, and where to go on the Internet for additional information. You don’t need to memorize complex commands or formulas. I describe everything in plain English, and I leave the Wall Street–speak out in the street. Thousands of new Web pages are added each day. Many institutions bring educational and government materials online, large and small commercial enterprises create Web-based services, and individuals also account for much of the content that is posted online. This vast amount of content continues to grow in size and sophistication but still remains user-friendly. New online investor applications are added on a regular basis. Today you can finetune your online investing in more ways than ever before because more Internet resources are out there than ever before. As the amount of online content constantly increases, it also changes. Some sites listed in this book may have changed or gone away due to mergers with larger sites. Some Web sites just vanish for no reason. If a site has moved, you may find a link to the new location. If not, try a search engine such as Google (www.google.com), Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com), or MSN (search.msn.com) to locate the resource you need.
Are you thinking about building your own electronic gizmos? Ever wonder how transistors, capacitors, and other building blocks of electronics work? Do you have an interest in finding out how to solder or make your own circuit boards? Well, you’ve come to the right place! Electronics For Dummies is the key that opens the fun and exciting door of modern electronics. No dry and boring tome, this; what you hold in your hands is a book that gives you just what you need to know to make and troubleshoot your own electronic gadgets.
We wrote this book to make our favorite hobby game more accessible to every fantasy and gaming fan, from the novice who enjoys fantasy novels such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy and has a passing curiosity about DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, to the seasoned D&D player who goes to every convention and has been playing since Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson published the original White Box version of the game. Whether you have yet to play your first game or have been in a regular gaming group for years, our mission is to measurably increase the fun you have playing D&D and your proficiency with the game. As a new player, this book shows you the basics of the game. You end up with a character to play and enough understanding to confidently take your place at any gaming table. Read this book today, grab a copy of the D&D PlayerÕs Handbook, and you can play tomorrow without worry or confusion. D&D is a game. Games are fun. We hope to make learning to play fun, too. For experienced players, we provide hints and tips to elevate your level of play. Character creation, character advancement, combat and encounter strategies, gamemastering Ñ we cover it all. It doesnÕt matter if youÕve played once or a hundred times; you can find something in this book to make you a better D&D player or gamemaster (known as a Dungeon Master in D&D lingo).
If marketing folks want to breathe new life into an existing technology, the method du jour is to tack “digital” onto the name. Today we have digital cable, digital cell phones, digital fuel injection, and now, digital video. But unlike some other technologies that have recently earned the digital prefix, digital video isn’t just a minor improvement over the old way of doing things. Digital video is a revolution that is changing the way we think about and use moving pictures. Regular folks have had the capability to record their own video for many years now. Affordable film movie cameras have been available since the 1950s, and video cameras that record directly onto videotape have been with us for over two decades. But after you recorded some video or film with one of these old cameras, you couldn’t do much else with it. You could show your movies to friends and family in raw, unedited form, but there was no confusing your rough home movie with a professional Hollywood production. Digital camcorders provide a slight quality improvement over older camcorders, but the real advantage of digital video is that you can now easily edit your video on a computer. I don’t have to tell you how far computer technology has progressed over the last few years, and you know that modern Macs and PCs can now do some pretty amazing things. In a matter of seconds, you can import video from your digital camcorder into your computer, cut out the scenes you don’t want, add some special effects, and then instantly send your movies to friends over the Internet — or burn them to a DVD. The capability to easily edit your own movies adds a whole new level of creativity that was — just five years ago — the exclusive realm of broadcast and movie professionals. In a culture so accustomed to and influenced by video images, it’s actually kind of surprising that personal moviemaking hasn’t burgeoned sooner. Video is the art of our time, and now — at last — you have the power to use this art for your own expression. What will you draw on your digital-video canvas?
Like anything else, digital photography is easy — if you know what you’re doing. It’s getting to the point of knowing what you’re doing that can be frustrating. This book gives you the little bit of help you need. The steps for using this book are:
In this book, I cover the art form of digital art photography. I start by giving you an introduction to the world of film-based photography and how it relates to digital photography. From there, I go on to cover the whole gambit of digital art photography, from shooting great photos to tweaking them in Photoshop to producing final output fit for a gallery wall. If that sounds intriguing, this book is for you whether you’re film-based or digital-only or both.
