...very informative and written in a style that is accessible to the beginner...explains things clearly and directly...background information is presented in sidebars

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Piano (2nd Edition)

Arts & Photography

Hill, Brad

Music

Alpha

Brad Hill offers the working musician an easy-to-use guide to the world of digital music making.

Going Digital: A Musician's Guide to Technology

Schirmer

The Virtual Musician is the musician's map to the Internet. The first 70 pages can be skimmed (or maybe even skipped). After that, the guide provides a good mix of fan forums; music publications; and educational, record label, and MIDI sites, as well as resources for musicians. Learn how to tune a piano online. Discover obscure music-related Web sites, such as Vangelis' ("Chariots of Fire") fan page. The Virtual Musician comes with a CD-ROM containing PC and Macintosh utilities to play .wav and MIDI files, interactive piano lessons, and general Internet information. It is a useful resource for musicians and music junkies alike.

The Virtual Musician: A Complete Guide to Online Resources and Services

Schirmer Trade Books

The Digital Songstream: Mastering the World of Digital Music

This is the ultimate guide to the new digital world of music. Cutting through myths, it offers a step-by-step introduction to what's possible for performers, composers, and listeners-addressing legal and ethical issues as well as the nuts and bolts of what equipment to buy and what services are available. Written in a friendly, easy-to-understand way, this book will be the first and only reference needed for anyone wishing to enter the world of computer music.

The Digital Songstream

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

Routledge

NAVIGATE THE WORLD OF ONLINE PERSONAL FINANCE Getting Started in Online Personal Finance Comprehensive Coverage Completely Up-to-Date The number of consumers turning to the Internet for banking, credit, and personal finance transactions is on the rise. As a result, timely guidance through the often confusing world of online finance is crucial to achieving financial success. In Getting Started in Online Personal Finance, Internet expert Brad Hill provides an easy-to-understand, comprehensive education in this popular arena, including: * Finding and using online insurance agents, mortgage brokers, and banks * Paying bills and borrowing money online * Obtaining credit cards online * Using online investing resources * Choosing an online investment broker Simplify your life, enjoy the changes technology has to offer-and get your personal finances on firmer ground than ever before-with the accessible, practical information in this invaluable book.

Getting Started in Online Personal Finance

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

John Wiley&Sons

If you want to give yourself a Web presence without spending a lot of time or money, a blog is your answer and this is your guide. Blogs (Web logs) are short, diary-like entries on a Web site that has a chronological, journal format. Fun or informative, but not formal, blogs are easy to set up, maintain, and update. You can share your personal, stream-of-consciousness musings or your expertise on any subject ranging from your family vacation to world peace. This guide helps beginners (even technophobes) get started fast, with the essential info on: 
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<li>The elements of blogs, such as entries, sidebars, categories, comments, and index pages</li> <li>The different types of hosting services, from free to fee and from “turn key” services that are easy-to-use to DIY programs </li> <li>Details on two popular, free “social community” hosted Web services that are ideal for casual bloggers—MSN Spaces and Yahoo! 360</li> <li>The scoop on Blogger, a popular free hosted service that has some community tools like the social networks, but is basically blog-intensive</li> <li>DIY blogging, covering three of the most powerful and flexible blog programs—Movable Type, WordPress, and Radio Userland</li> <li>Hooking into RSS feeds to distribute your blog entries beyond your site</li> <li>Choosing a newsreader</li> <li>Ways to raise the visibility of your blog and make money from blogging</li> </ul>
Complete with step-by-step instructions and lots of screen shots, this guide walks you through everything from setting up your blog and posting your first entry to adding photos, audio, and more. It includes the URLs of lots of sample sites to see to give you an idea of blog possibilities. In addition to the essential how-to, it fills you in on: <ul>
<li>The blogosphere, blog culture and etiquette, snarks, macrologues, and more</li> <li>Moblogs that let you post entries remotely using your portable computer, PDA, or cell phone</li> <li>Buying a domain through a registrar such as Network Solutions, Register.com, or Go Daddy</li> <li>MP3 blogs, vlogs (videoblogs), photoblogging, audioblogging, podcasting, and more</li> </ul>
You know you have something to say, whether it’s heavy stuff or just your thought for the day. Make your opinions known. Get your photos shown. With Blogging For Dummies, you’ll soon be blogging with the best of ‘em.

Blogging For Dummies

Web Development & Design

For Dummies

Incunabula, Hebraica & Judaica: Five centuries of Hebraica and Judaica, rare Bibles, and Hebrew incunables from the Jacob M. Lowy Collection : ... Jacob M. Lowy : exposition catalogue

Religion & Spirituality

National Library of Canada

Offers advice for getting connected to the Internet via the WebTV system and explains how to use e-mail and explore the Web

Webtv for Dummies (For Dummies Series)

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

With search engines and directories like Yahoo!, Excite, and Infoseek available on the Net itself, you may wonder why you need Internet Directory For Dummies. Just type a search term into any of these sites, and the thousands -- or even millions -- of results you get should prove the value of a single, well-thought-out book that selects the best of the best Web sites, categorizes them by topic, and even provides concise descriptions. With Internet Directory For Dummies, you save yourself the time and trouble of searching for the needle in the World Wide Web haystack. Author Brad Hill guides you straight to the best sites on everything from baseball to online stock trading. Best of all, Internet Directory For Dummies comes complete with a bonus CD-ROM containing all the links in electronic format so that you can just click on the title rather than typing in a lengthy URL. Also included on the CD-ROM are valuable Internet programs, such as Internet Explorer 4.0 and Eudora Light, along with multimedia and Web authoring tools.

Internet Directory for Dummies (1st ed)

Hungry Minds, Inc

Does it sometimes seem that the World Wide Web is all haystack and no needle? Thanks to World Wide Web Searching For Dummies, 2nd Edition, you can save a great deal of time and find just what you want by using the same information-sleuthing techniques that Web professionals use. Author and online expert Brad Hill has completely updated his indispensable guide with tips on using new search engines on the block, including HotBot, and revamped mainstays like Infoseek and Excite. Plus, with World Wide Web Searching For Dummies, 2nd Edition, you a bonus CD-ROM containing such software as AT&amp;T WorldNetSM Service for Internet access Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, the two top Web browsing programs VDOLive Player for viewing streaming video and audio over the Internet Utilities for everything from decompressing files to viewing graphics An evaluation version of WebWhacker for browsing Web sites offline

World Wide Web Searching For Dummies 2e

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