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Kindle - the unofficial manual. Guidebook tips and tricks - ...

"Kindle - the unofficial manual. Guidebook, tips and tricks" – INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - is currently the most extensive English-language Kindle handbook around and aims to live up to its title. The e-book was Amazon's official bestseller 2011 in Germany. In France, Italy and Spain it occupied top positions in the Kindle charts for months.

"Kindle - the unofficial manual. Guidebook, tips and tricks" describes Amazon's successful family of e-readers in plain English. It invites you to a tour through the many functions of the device. You won't be left alone even in the depths of the configuration and of the file system. The book tells you how to use your Kindle optimally. You learn what to read, hear and watch with the reader and how to adapt the device to your needs so to save time and money.
If you're interested, we'd like to bring you from entry-level Kindle user up to the level of a pro who can get the very most out of his Kindle, even including programming apps for the Kindle and writing your own books.

The helpful guide stems from the plentiful pool of experience both authors have amassed with all revisions of the Kindle. The English version combines German engineering background with the thorough translation of a native English speaker (and Kindle user himself). All tips and tricks, discovered by the world wide Kindle community, were checked thoroughly before being described in the guide.

You'll find that beyond the basics we've been able to bring together a great deal of true insider knowledge. We've also asked for contributions from guest authors from the programmer and hacker scene that will hopefully show you entirely new sides of the Kindle.

About the authors:

Matthias Matting is a physicist and journalist - and an avid e-book user since they were invented. He's known for “Matting's product tests” — texts and videos on YouTube, Facebook, and Focus.de that are characterized by competent, comprehensible, and entertaining reporting on the most exciting gadget topics. At the Frankfurt book fair in 2011, he received the book prize "Der Neue Buchpreis" in the non-fiction category for his e-book “Travel to Fukushima”.

Frank Großklaus is the founder of threebooks Publishers and has been an e-book fan for many years. His “e-book career” began in the late 90's with the monochrome handheld PCs from Palm and Psion. He's worked since 1999 in digital media as a consultant and project manager. Besides that, Frank Großklaus works as a coach and offers training and lectures on the topics of e-commerce, affiliate marketing, online marketing, and e-books and digital publishing.

From the contents (excerpt):

Buying a Kindle
Giving the Kindle as a gift
Important accessories
The basics
Reading on the Kindle
Reading and removing books
The book detail page
Changing the font size
Adding and using bookmarks
Highlighting and adding notes
The archive
Managing personal documents
Managing devices
Buying books
Returning books
Borrowing books
Lending platforms
The search function
Text-to-speech
Updating books
Giving books as gifts
Free books
Commercial books
Supported book formats
Converting documents
Music
Photos
Games / Apps
Calibre: iTunes for eBooks
Tips and Tricks
Screenshots
Guidebook
Calendar
Translator
Starcharts
ToMyKindle
To-do list
Weather station
Calculator
Changing the margins
Secret options in reader.pref
Your own fonts
Your own screen savers
Kindle plays chess
Crossword puzzles (KT)
Sudoku puzzles (K3)
Kindle as a recording device (K3)
Kindle as a webserver (K3)
Kindle as a remote controller (K3)
Programming with Perl (K3)
Read better! (= read more)
The hardware from A to Z
Adapting websites
Programming Kindle applets
Your own Kindle books
Creating dictionaries
Creating X-Ray files
Appendix: All shortcuts
Index
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Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop CS5 choose Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 14 project-based lessons in this book show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working in Photoshop CS5.

In addition to learning the key elements of the Photoshop interface, this completely revised CS5 edition shows readers how to edit images with precise selection control, correct a wide range of lens-based errors, interactively transform their images with the new Puppet Warp tool, and easily remove or replace image elements with the new Content-Aware Fill mode. The book also covers new powerful painting effects to artistically enhance images and shows how to combine multiple exposures into a single HDR image.

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Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

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The New Rules of Marketing & PR How to Use Social Media ...

David Meerman Scotts marketing bible has become a modern day business classic.

This is the book every ambitious, forward-thinking, progressive marketer or publicist has at the front of their shelf. Business communication has changed over the recent years. Creative ad copy is no longer enough. The New Rules of Marketing and PR has brought thousands of marketers up to speed on the changing requirements of promoting products or services in the new digital age. This is a one-of-a-kind, pioneering guide, offering a step-by-step action plan for harnessing the power of the Internet to communicate with buyers directly, raise online visibility, and increase sales. Its about getting the right message to the right people at the right time - for a fraction of the cost of a big-budget advertising campaign. This new, updated edition includes:

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The Singularity Is Near When Humans Transcend Biology

For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.

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Talking Back to Facebook The Common Sense Guide to Raising ...

A smart, urgently needed book that helps parents and their kids navigate today’s online landscape—from the founder and CEO of the nation’s leading authority on kids and the media.

Is my kid a cyberbully? Does online privacy exist for children? When should kids be allowed to use Facebook? Should preteens have cell phones? Did the Internet give my child ADHD? Should I ban violent video games?

     Now, more than ever, parents need help in navigating their kids’ online, media-saturated lives. Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of Common Sense Media, the nation's leading kids and media organization, and the father of four children, knows that many parents and teachers—unlike their technology-savvy kids—may be tourists in the online world. Now, in this essential book, Steyer—a frequent commentator on national TV and radio—offers an engaging blend of straightforward advice and anecdotes that address what he calls “RAP,” the major pitfalls relating to kids’ use of media and technology: Relationship issues, Attention/Addiction problems, and the lack of Privacy. Instead of shielding children completely from online images and messages, Steyer’s practical approach gives parents essential tools to help filter content, preserve good relationships with their children, and make commonsense, value-driven judgments for kids of all ages.

     Not just about Facebook, this comprehensive, no-nonsense guide to the online world, media, and mobile devices belongs in the hands of all parents and educators raising kids in today’s digital age.

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Microsoft Office 2010 Introductory Shelly Cashman

Microsoft Office 2010: Introductory provides a project-based, step-by-step approach to teaching the Office 2010 applications.

About This Edition


Introduce your students to the new generation of Microsoft Office with the new generation of Shelly Cashman Series books! For the past three decades, the Shelly Cashman Series has effectively introduced computer skills to millions of students. With Office 2010, we're continuing our history of innovation by enhancing our proven pedagogy to reflect the learning styles of today's students. In Microsoft Office 2010: Introductory, you'll find features that are specifically designed to engage students, improve retention, and prepare them for future success. Our trademark step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach now encourages students to expand their understanding of the Office 2010 software through experimentation, exploration, and planning ahead. Brand-new end-of-chapter exercises prepare students to become more capable software users by requiring them to use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to create real-life documents.


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iPad The Missing Manual Missing Manuals

Apple’s third-generation iPad has a new, razor-sharp Retina display and a robust processor that will dazzle you with their looks and speed, but you won’t get far without an owner’s manual to all the tablet’s features. This comprehensive guide shows you how to transfer media to your iPad, sync and shop wirelessly, tap into WiFi and 4G cellular networks, and use iTunes for media management.

The important stuff you need to know:

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How to Install Windows XP The Complete Guide How To Series

Welcome to How to Install Windows XP: The Complete Guide. This book has been designed for one purpose and one purpose only – to help flawlessly install Windows XP. For this reason, this guide contains only as much theory as is required to fully understand each step of the installation procedure, while the rest of this publication is strictly practical. Every workshop available in this guide is illustrated, with more than 600 screenshots altogether, making it easy to complete each step of the installation and configuration process. What is more, inside one will find clickable links and references to various parts of this guide, which will accelerate the process of navigating across the book. All in all, this guide is as interactive, friendly and helpful as a computer guide could ever be.

This book was developed and prepared for beginners and semi-advanced computer users who are either having issues with Windows XP they are currently using, or would like to perform a ‘clean installation’ of Windows XP on a new computer or a new hard disk drive. Since most of the information in this book takes the form of step-by-step workshops, virtually any computer user from a beginner to expert will be able to take advantage of this guide.

This book consists of 10 distinctive chapters which are presented in the order in which all the operations should be carried out:

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2: PREPARATIONS
CHAPTER 3: INSTALLING WINDOWS XP
CHAPTER 4: INITIAL CONFIGURATION
CHAPTER 5: INTERNET ACCESS
CHAPTER 6: UPDATING AND SECURING WINDOWS
CHAPTER 7: DRIVERS
CHAPTER 8: PROGRAMS
CHAPTER 9: FINAL OPTIMIZATION
CHAPTER 10: SYSTEM IMAGE
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Daniel X Game Over

When Daniel X discovers that a duo of evil extraterrestrials is plotting to control kids around the world through videogames, he's determined to take them both out of commission. This pair of wicked game masters wants to destroy the human race by turning brainwashed videogamers into an unstoppable army of doom! They're also running an endangered species hunting club on the side, and their next target is none other than Daniel. He'll have no choice but to turn to the aliens' rebellious son who needs help to stand up to his malicious parents. But can Daniel trust the progeny of this treacherous twosome? Or will it be "Game Over" for the alien hunter?
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How to Build a Website for Beginners

The book titled "How to Build a Website (for Beginners)" by John Gower III will teach you how to build your own website step-by-step for free. In addition, it will teach you how to promote your web site by using social networking .
You will also learn how to submit your web site to major search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
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