New Releases by Preston Gralla

Looks at the features and functions of the Amazon Fire Phone, covering such topics as making phone calls, using Firefly, texting, downloading and using apps, playing music, watching videos, and syncing with the Amazon Cloud.

Ju? na pierwszy rzut oka Windows 8 zdecydowanie ro?ni si? od swoich poprzednikow. Te ro?nice wci wzbudzaj? emocje, a u?ytkownikow wp?dzaj? w zak?opotanie. Jednak pewna rzecz nie uleg?a zmianie - Windows 8 to wci system operacyjny, ktory mo?na zmodyfikowa? na wiele sposobow tak, aby dopasowa? go idealnie do swoich potrzeb. Dzi?ki tej ksi ce poznasz tajniki systemu Windows 8 i dowiesz si?, jak usprawni? Twoj system. Je?li post?pisz zgodnie z zawartymi tu wskazowkami, zauwa?ysz, ?e system szybciej si? uruchamia. Ponadto dowiesz si?, jak uruchomi? Windows 8 na komputerach spod znaku ugryzionego jab?ka oraz jak b?yskawicznie dosta? si? do najcz ciej u?ywanych folderow. Twoj? ciekawo na pewno wzbudz? wskazowki po?wi?cone pracy w chmurze. Integracja z us?ug? SkyDrive to tylko jeden z punktow. Na koniec przekonasz si?, ?e Windows 8 mo?e by? jeszcze lepszym partnerem w zakresie sk?adowania i odtwarzania plikow multimedialnych oraz zarz?dzania tymi plikami. Jest to obowi?zkowa lektura dla ka?dego nowego u?ytkownika systemu Windows 8. Si?gnij po t? ksi k? i: poznaj zalety systemu Windows 8przekonaj si?, jak ?atwo mo?esz zwi?kszy? wydajno Twojego systemuzintegruj system z us?ugami w chmurzewykorzystaj potencja? systemu Windows 8! Poznaj moc ukryt? pod mask? Windows 8!

Now that you have a new NOOK HD Tablet, all you need is the know-how to take full advantage of its features. With this book, technology expert Preston Gralla provides clear instructions, full-color illustrations, and savvy advice to help you get up to speed on the new video and family-friendly features, as well as manage WiFi access, web browsing, email, and apps. Make the most out of your sleek device with the best NOOK guide you’ll find anywhere. The important stuff you need to know: Relax with a book. Load your NOOK library with ebooks, comics, and interactive books for kids. Play with apps. Enjoy the games and apps everyone’s talking about. Go online. Browse the Web and check your email with built-in WiFi. Spread the word. Share books and recommendations with your NOOK Friends and Facebook and Twitter contacts. Take in a show. Watch movies and TV series, and listen to your favorite music anywhere. Read all about it. Subscribe to a variety of magazines and newspapers.

Ju? na pierwszy rzut oka Windows 8 zdecydowanie ró?ni si? od swoich poprzedników. Te ró?nice wci?? wzbudzaj? emocje, a u?ytkowników wp?dzaj? w zak?opotanie. Jednak pewna rzecz nie uleg?a zmianie - Windows 8 to wci?? system operacyjny, który mo?na zmodyfikowa? na wiele sposobów tak, aby dopasowa? go idealnie do swoich potrzeb. Dzi?ki tej ksi??ce poznasz tajniki systemu Windows 8 i dowiesz si?, jak usprawni? Twój system. Je?li post?pisz zgodnie z zawartymi tu wskazówkami, zauwa?ysz,?e system szybciej si? uruchamia. Ponadto dowiesz si?, jak uruchomi? Windows 8 na komputerach spod znaku ugryzionego jab?ka oraz jak b?yskawicznie dosta? si? do najcz??ciej u?ywanych folderów. Twoj? ciekawo?? na pewno wzbudz? wskazówki po?wi?cone pracy w chmurze. Integracja z us?ug? SkyDrive to tylko jeden z punktów. Na koniec przekonasz si?,?e Windows 8 mo?e by? jeszcze lepszym partnerem w zakresie sk?adowania i odtwarzania plików multimedialnych oraz zarz?dzania tymi plikami. Jest to obowi?zkowa lektura dla ka?dego nowego u?ytkownika systemu Windows 8. Si?gnij po t? ksi??k? i: poznaj zalety systemu Windows 8 przekonaj si?, jak?atwo mo?esz zwi?kszy? wydajno?? Twojego systemu zintegruj system z us?ugami w chmurze wykorzystaj potencja? systemu Windows 8! Poznaj moc ukryt? pod mask? Windows 8!

Combine a world-class e-reader with a top-notch tablet—then add know-how from technology guru Preston Gralla—and you have the perfect recipe for portable entertainment. Packed with clear instructions and helpful illustrations, this book gets you up to speed on the NOOK Tablet so you can enjoy ebooks, magazines, games, apps, TV shows, and movies right away. The important stuff you need to know: Relax with a book. Load your NOOK library with ebooks, comics, and interactive books for kids. Play with apps. Enjoy the games and apps everyone’s talking about. Go online. Browse the Web and check your email with built-in WiFi. Be social. Share books and recommendations with your NOOK Friends and Facebook and Twitter contacts. Take in a show. Watch movies and TV series, and listen to your favorite music anywhere. Read all about it. Subscribe to a variety of magazines and newspapers.

When you open the box for your brand-new NOOK Tablet, you''ll find Barnes & Noble''s latest 7-inch media device to hit the market, a USB cable, power adapter, and a "Quick Start Guide" that tells you how to turn it on. But to really take advantage of all the content and features the device has to offer, you''ll need a little more. NOOK Tablet: Out of the Box gets you up and running beyond the first "Slide to unlock" screen to unlock all of your media from the cloud in the palm of your hand. The new NOOK Tablet gives you immediate access to online music, movies, and the best of HD entertainment, wherever you are, as long as you know where to find it and how to consume it. With NOOK Tablet: Out of the Box, you''ll jump right in to reading full-color magazines, newspapers, comics, interactive NOOK Kids books, beautiful PagePerfect titles, and your entire personal B&N library in the NOOK Reading App. Then, go beyond your own media to experience integrated email, games, Android apps, and lightning-fast web browsing. This intuitive, easy-to-follow ebook opens the world of possibilities made possible by the NOOK Tablet, right out of the box.

Looks at the features and functions of the Motorola Xoom, covering such topics as accessing the Internet, setting up an email account, using apps, playing games, playing and managing music, watching videos, and more.

Ready to unleash the Droid 2? This entertaining guide helps you take full command of Motorola’s sleek new device to get online, shop, find locations, keep in touch, and much more. Every page is packed with useful information you can put to work right away, from setup to troubleshooting, with lots of valuable tips and tricks along the way. Get organized. Sync your contacts, calendar, and email with your Google Calendar and Outlook accounts. Go online. Make your phone a portable hotspot or a modem to get your laptop online. Be productive. Use Google docs to create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Play music. Purchase music from Amazon and sync your Droid 2 with Windows Media Player. Capture photos and video. Edit your photos and share everything you shoot—instantly.

Packed with full-color illustrations, this engaging book covers everything--from shopping for an Android phone and getting started to advanced features and troubleshooting.

Windows Vista Pocket Reference is the ideal guide to setting up and navigating the basics of this new operating system, from the new user interface to networking, multimedia, security, and mobility. This pocket reference offers four sections that will familiarize readers with Vista quickly: Getting Started gives a crash course in using Windows Vista, including the user interface, handling files, folders, drives and search, and working with hardware. Networking, the Internet and Wireless offers a tour of Internet Explorer 7, a wireless networking guide, and how to set up and maintain home networks. Multimedia shows how to use the Media Center, Windows Media Player, and how to handle graphics and photos, podcasts and MP3 players. Security, Mobility, and Troubleshooting visits the security features, shows how to tune up Vista, troubleshoot problems, and use Vista with mobile devices.

This useful book gives Windows power users everything they need to get the most out of their operating system, its related applications, and its hardware.

Un interesante viaje por el mundo de las comunicaciones inalámbricas. Las tecnologías inalámbricas o Wireless están revolucionando la forma de trabajar, las comunicaciones y los hábitos de ocio. Ello, gracias a Wireless Fidelity , un protocolo de comunicación inalámbrica de área local. Para usarlo sólo debe conectar un router e instalar al ordenador una tarjeta de recepción WI-FI. Con este libro obtendrá una visión interna de cómo funcionan las Wireless, desde las redes WiFi a los puntos de acceso inalámbricos, pasando por la navegación Web y los teléfonos móviles.

These days, nobody really wants to learn everything there is about a product like Google Tools. And even if you did, who has the time to endlessly tinker and play with it until you figure everything out? You just want a book that will quickly show you how to do things with Google Tools, like perform power searches, find pictures with Google Images, find online bargains with Froogle, use the Google Toolbar, and discover the world with Google Earth. Google Search and Tools in a Snap does just that. Organized into a series of well-organized, bite-sized, quickly accomplished tasks, the book lets you zero right in on the one particular task you want to accomplish, quickly figure out what to do, do it, and then get back to using the plethora of Google Tools.

The book''s appendixes offer information on installation, keyboard shortcuts, common filename extensions, and more. Windows Vista in a Nutshell is your one-stop source for everything you need from Microsoft''s latest operating system.

Le Service Pack 2 (SP2) de Windows XP marque un grand changement dans la manière d'utiliser ce système et une nette amélioration de la sécurité. Outre ce point, les nouvelles fonctionnalités plairont tout autant et ceux qui sont attirés par une interface plus riche et une meilleure gestion des images qu'aux utilisateurs plus expérimentés qui préfèrent prendre le contrôle de leur système. Cette seconde édition de Windows XP à 200 % se compose de 100 hacks sous forme de fiches indépendantes, chacune présentant une astuce de professionnel, le plus souvent inédite et surprenante. Cet ouvrage dévoile tous les dessous de Windows XP au fil de treize chapitres. Ces hacks, fruits de l'expérience d'utilisateurs chevronnés, vous permettront de gagner un temps précieux, de personnaliser l'interface, de mieux utiliser le courrier électronique, de tirer le meilleur du Web, d'utiliser le Registre pour soumettre le système à vos desiderata.

In the past few years, eBay has become a household name. Even if you''ve never traded on eBay yourself, chances are you know someone who has. Now is your turn to get in on the action! eBay In a Snap, Second Edition is a hands-on, task-based guide that will let you zero right in on the thing you most want to know about eBay, and then quickly apply it to your own trade. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions will show you how to: Power search for the best items Win auctions with power bidding Sell your items Start an eBay business Use PayPal to send or receive money Participate in special eBay auctions Written by a well-known expert on Internet shopping, bargain-hunting, and auctions, eBay In a Snap reveals the best tips, tricks, and techniques for everything eBay, from enhancing a listing with HTML and multimedia, to buying and selling a car.

Solutions and examples for power users and administrators.

Based on real-world gripes supplied by Internet users from domains far and wide, Internet Annoyances show you how to wring the most out of the Internet and Web without going crazy.

Windows XP can be a great tool, but it is all too easy to trip over Windows XP''s annoying traits more often than you leverage its productivity. Windows XP power-users troll online resources, documentation, and the expertise (or lucky finds) of friends for valuable tips and tricks--a keyboard shortcut here, an undocumented double-click there--to eliminate annoyances, save time, and take control of their Windows XP. But what if there was an easier way?This new book presents literally hundreds of problems and solutions, amazing power tips, cool tricks, and clever workarounds in one clearly organized, easy to use, and portable resource. Truly insightful and amusing, Windows XP Power Hound gives Windows XP users practical hints for everything from the desktop to Office programs to the registry, and includes documented (but little-known) tips as well as previously undocumented tricks. Windows XP Power Hound moves far beyond mere productivity and explores what''s possible with Windows XP--including cool things you probably never thought of doing.An understanding of Windows XP basics will get the job done. But discovering the most useful I didn''t know that! tips and shortcuts will make using Windows XP a far richer and less frustrating experience. The practical, concise format of Windows XP Power Hound makes it easy to dip into for a quick tip from time to time; the warm, jargon-free tone makes it easy to read cover to cover.Anyone who wants to smooth out Windows XP''s speed bumps and get some serious speed to accelerate through the bottlenecks will find that even a handful of these useful, to-the-point tips will make Windows XP Power Hound worth its weight in chocolate.

Provides a series of lessons on Microsoft Windows XP, covering such topics as customizing the desktop, Windows Explorer, networking, wireless computing, firewalls, Outlook Express, and Windows Media Player.

How to Expand and Upgrade PCs is a richly illustrated, full-color book focusing on upgrades and add-ons that any consumer level user can make to their PC. Instead of simply reading like a manual, this book brings together all of the pre-purchase, installation, and usage issues a user faces. Each chapter looks at determining the type of upgrade needed, the tools and other requirements for installation, and using the hardware once it''s installed.. Coverage includes DVDs, digital cameras, scanners, removable drives, USB scanners, firewall devices, palmtop devices, home wireless networks and more.

Surf your way to fun-filled adventure and school success incyberspace! Want to join in the search for real-life aliens, take a virtualtrip into the eye of a hurricane, and learn magic as you mastermathematics? With Online Activities for Kids, the fun never stopsand the learning just comes naturally. Where else can you buildresearch skills while creating a family Web page, or learn aboutworld geography while going on an Internet treasure hunt? Take ajourney on the Underground Railroad. Turn your room into aworld-class art museum. Build a dinosaur from fossils. Thiseasy-to-use, step-by-step guide is bursting with imaginativeprojects like these and many more, including: * Design your own roller coaster * Relive a day in the life of a Civil War soldier * Write a letter in a language you don''t even speak * Find out how much you''d weigh on Jupiter * Write haiku poetry * And much, much more . . . With Online Activities for Kids, you''ll have a great time exploringthe Internet, and you''ll amaze everyone with your fabulous projectsand super cybersurfing skills.

Outlines the personal and social benefits of voluntarism, and helps teens find volunteer positions that match their interests and experience.

Online shopping is becoming a minefield. There so many sites now available it is becoming difficult to know which are worth visiting, and which are not. For example, which are the sites that have the best offerings, which are backed by big chains, what are the protocols involved. All these questions are answered in the Complete Idiot''s Guide to Online Shopping, in the series'' usual irreverent style.