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    Windows 7: The Missing Manual
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    Windows 7: The Missing Manual

    By David Pogue

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    About this ebook

    In early reviews, geeks raved about Windows 7. But if you're an ordinary mortal, learning what this new system is all about will be challenging. Fear not: David Pogue's Windows 7: The Missing Manual comes to the rescue. Like its predecessors, this book illuminates its subject with reader-friendly insight, plenty of wit, and hardnosed objectivity for beginners as well as veteran PC users.

    Windows 7 fixes many of Vista's most painful shortcomings. It's speedier, has fewer intrusive and nagging screens, and is more compatible with peripherals. Plus, Windows 7 introduces a slew of new features, including better organization tools, easier WiFi connections and home networking setup, and even touchscreen computing for those lucky enough to own the latest hardware.

    With this book, you'll learn how to:

    • Navigate the desktop, including the fast and powerful search function
    • Take advantage of Window's apps and gadgets, and tap into 40 free programs
    • Breeze the Web with Internet Explorer 8, and learn the email, chat, and videoconferencing programs
    • Record TV and radio, display photos, play music, and record any of these to DVD using the Media Center
    • Use your printer, fax, laptop, tablet PC, or smartphone with Windows 7
    • Beef up your system and back up your files
    • Collaborate and share documents and other files by setting up a workgroup network

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherO'Reilly Media, Inc.
    Release dateMar 19, 2010
    ISBN9781449389444
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    Windows 7: The Missing Manual
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    David Pogue

    David Pogue is the host of twenty science specials on PBS NOVA, a five-time Emmy Award–winning technology and science correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning, and a New York Times bestselling author.  

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    • 4/5
      I got this book because I got a new Ipod Touch, and they don't come with a manual. It covers all the Ipods, and Itunes too. I would have preferred one that was just about the Touch, but this was all they had at the book store and I wanted something immediately. It is well written and organized, and was helpful. I have a Classic as well as the Touch - and it helped me figure out how to get all my covers on Itunes.There is a web site that is available for more help. I would have liked more coverage on file storage and reading/editing which has to be done with an App. Although the book was published not too long ago (7th Edition), it was not accurate with the Itunes interface. I don't know if that is because they were displaying the Mac version, and I have a PC or it it had changed.I also wish they had talked about Mobile.Me.Still it was helpful and worthwhile.
    • 4/5
      I'm just a casual user of my 30gig video iPod, and had run across a few things that I couldn't intuitively figure out how to do. I ran across this at the library and gave it a shot. I found the parts dealing with my particular equipment to be well-written and fairly clear, although I still had to do some experimentation to get my iPod to do what the instructions said it should do. The sections dealing with other technology (such as the iPod Touch) were extraneous to me, and therefore something of a waste in this book.Overall, this book did what I needed it to...it gave me a clearer picture of how to do basic stuff with a video iPod. But I'm still glad I checked it out for free from the library instead of paying for it.