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Digital Photography Pocket Guide
The Digital Photography Pocket Guide gives you the tools and the knowledge to take the kind of pictures you've always wanted. Consider it your quick-reference photo mentor that explains each of the camera's components, shows you what they do, then helps you choose the right settings to accomplish your goal. When you want to ask an expert, "How can I get that picture?", simply pull this handy guide out of your camera bag, backpack, or back pocket, and you'll find the answer quickly.
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Digital Video Pocket Guide
The Digital Video Pocket Guide is organized into three chapters: "What Is It?", "How Does It Work?", and "How Do I...Tips, Tricks, and Techniques". Its compact size, organization, and detailed illustrations, make it easy to find the information you need. This is the ultimate shooting companion that will help your create the videos you want to show to friends, family, or even the world at large.
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Excel Pocket Guide
Packed with information, the Excel Pocket Guide is a compact reference that covers such basics as creating workbooks, entering data, printing, cell formatting, and spell checking. For more advanced users, the book provides handy information on formulas, pivot tables, collaboration, and customization. This helpful guide is easy to use anywhere -- it's the perfect quick reference for all users who want to complete tasks faster without having to wade through a five hundred-page tutorial.
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Extreme Programming Pocket Guide
The Extreme Programming Pocket Guide covers XP assumptions, principles, events, artifacts, roles, and resources, and more. It concisely explains the relationships between the XP practices. If you want to adopt XP in stages, the Extreme Programming Pocket Guide will help you choose what to apply and when. Concise and easy to use, this handy pocket guide to XP is a must-have quick reference for anyone implementing a test-driven development environment.
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Google Pocket Guide
Crafted from our bestselling Google Hacks title, the Google Pocket Guide provides exactly the information you need to make your searches faster and more effective, right from the start. The Google Pocket Guide unleashes the power behind that blinking curser by delivering a thorough but concise tour of Google's features; practical examples to inspire going beyond the basic keyword search; secrets for constructing more powerful queries using Google's special syntax and advice on how to understand and further refine the results Google provides.
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Mac OS X Panther Pocket Guide
Thoroughly updated, this slim book introduces you to the fundamental concepts of Mac OS® X Panther. It also features a handy "Mac OS X Survival Guide," telling Mac® users what's changed from Mac OS 9, and helps Windows® and Unix® converts get acclimated to their new OS. With more than 250 tips and tricks, this practical, to-the-point book is a small but powerful resource for unleashing the power of Mac OS X Panther.
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Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide
The Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide covers the most common user hardware and software trouble. It's not just a book for Mac OS X (although it includes tips for OS X and Jaguar), it's for anyone who owns a Mac of any type-- there are software tips going back as far as OS 6. This slim guide distills the answers to the urgent questions that Tekserve's employee's answer every week into a handy guide that fits in your back pocket or alongside your keyboard.
Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide ($12.95) written by David Lerner and Aaron Freimark, of "the world's best Macintosh repair shop". This slim pocket guide has the answers to frequently asked Macintosh troubleshooting questions. Imagine the quirky record store in the movie "High Fidelity," or the popular "Car Talk" show on National Public Radio, and you'll have a good idea of this book's flavor. Tekserver has long provided its customers with a free "Frequently Asked Questions" document. We recently discovered this FAQ sheet and realized that-- like New York itself-- it was too good to leave just for the New Yorkers. With the help of Tekserve, we turned this FAQ sheet into the Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide. The Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide covers the most common user hardware and software trouble, from disks stuck in drives to lost files. It's not just a book for Mac OS X (although it includes tips for OS X and Jaguar, the latest release), it's for anyone who owns a Mac of any type-- there are software tips going back as far as OS 6. The Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide distills the answers to the urgent questions that Tekserve's employee's answer every week into a handy guide that fits in your back pocket or alongside your keyboard.
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Outlook Pocket Guide
Any Microsoft Outlook® user knows that the program is about more than just email: it's a suite of organizational tools that can help you manage your schedule, contacts, and deadlines with remarkable efficiency. Regardless of experience, you'll find that the Outlook Pocket Guide significantly decreases the amount of time you spend trying to figure out tricky problems and decipher the various settings.
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RTF Pocket Guide
Any programmer working with text files today needs a way to deal with Microsoft® Word documents and their underlying Rich Text Format. RTF is notoriously difficult to work with, and our handy quick reference is the only book available on what many developers call "this maddeningly unstructured format." Small and easy to use on the job, RTF Pocket Guide focuses on the "workhorse" codes that programmers can't do without, including text style codes, paragraph formatting codes, and page formatting codes-- all with many examples of real use.
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SQL Pocket Guide
This unique reference can be a major help to programmers who use SQL in
their day-to-day work. Not just an endless collection of syntax
diagrams,
this small guide addresses the language's complexity head on and leads
by
example. The book covers the three most commonly used database
products:
Oracle, IBM's DB2, and Microsoft's SQL Server. It's a concise reference
to
frequently used SQL statements and commonly used SQL functions.
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Word Pocket Guide
Newly updated for Word 2003, Word Pocket Guide, Second Edition covers Microsoft Word's keyboard shortcuts, user interface, commands, and tasks. Following an overview of fundamental Word concepts, the book explains how to accomplish specific tasks, such as formatting, spelling, editing, printing, customizing, and more. It also provides reference tables for quick lookup of keyboard shortcuts, regular expressions, and common file locations. A must-have for Word users!
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Word Pocket Guide
Packed with information, Word Pocket Guide is a useful, condensed tool that covers Microsoft Word's keyboard shortcuts, user interface, commands, and tasks. This handy little book is easy to use anywhere --it's the perfect quick reference for all users who want to complete tasks faster without having to plow through a thousand-page tutorial.
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