When I ordered a new Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) book the other night from Amazon.com, little did I realize that it was a brand new book. I recognized the author’s name (Eric Meyer) and knew he had written a number of popular books on CSS. I also had recently purchased another book in the “Smashing” [...]
Computer Secrets Unleashed – A First Look
Recently, I bought a copy of Computer Secrets Unleashed, a 3-volume downloadable PDF e-book set. It’s aimed at helping novice to medium-skilled computer user to get more familiar with their computers, solve hardware problems, tweak their systems, handle home networking, solve problems themselves and more. Basically, the author wants you to feel comfortable fixing hardware [...]
The World’s Shortest Excel Book
I ran across a small ebook with a grand title The World’s Shortest Excel Book. At only 29 pages, the book is designed to cram the things you need to know into an easy-to-read electronic book (Adobe Reader .pdf file). Richard Kraneis, the author, matches the book with a series of videos to guide you [...]
Web Design Book Recommendations
These are a few of the HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL and JavaScript books that I have purchased and recommend to you as good resources for web design and site building. Web Usability If you’re using FrontPage, get FrontPage 2003 The Missing Manual. FrontPage 2003: The Missing Manual offers help from the basics to meaty [...]
Surviving the Robot Uprising
I usually visit Slashdot (also known as /. and www.slashdot.org), one of the computer geek sites, at least once a day. This site often has some breaking news, but it is news of an off-beat nature. While Slashdot runs custom-developed discussion software, but basically is a blog with a lot of comments. Unlike other blogs, [...]
Learning Office 2007 – Important Tips for Word, Powerpoint, Outlook and Excel 2007
In some recent Terry’s Computer Tips online issues, I’ve written about my experiences getting started with Office 2007. I was happy with Office 2003, so just having a new version available wasn’t enough to make me upgrade. Both my wife and I are starting to use it at work, so I needed to get my [...]
Java Speed Reader – Just For Fun
A guy named Trevor Smith created a cool speed-reading tool using Java and has it on the web. The Java SpeedReader requires Java. Ever since Sun Microsystems won its lawsuit against Microsoft for license violations (for changing Java to add functions that were incompatible with the official Java “runtime” version), Java has not been distributed [...]
HOWTO – Writing Books and Articles
I’ve been asked several times: "How do you manage to write as many articles as I write for my sites and newsletters?" As you may or may not know, I write two newsletters and also blog entries for a number of different blogs. Most are computer-related in some way. I stumbled across something incredible recently. [...]
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