This updated guide for 2003 will help readers shop smart with ratings of desktops, laptops, PDAs, monitors, printers, scanners, camcorders, digital cameras, CD players/recorders, MP3 players, cell phones and more.
With more than 20 years' experience in wildlife photography, Moose Peterson is America's most accomplished documenter of endangered species. He reveals his professional secrets and techniques in his most comprehensive and spectacularly photographed guide to date. Peterson explains exactly how to make the most of your equipment and how to use animals' habits to optimize your results. Find the right tools for the job, including every type of lens; learn techniques such as panning, shooting from blinds, and remote triggering of the flash; and take expert advice on how to make the subject really come to life in your images. Understand how to use animals' habits to optimize your results, see how to frame the animal within a background for that perfect shot, and explore techniques for modifying the natural light to really highlight your subject. Of course, Peterson has fascinating stories to tell about his own experiences, and his fabulous photos provide real enjoyment even as they teach valuable lessons.
“My favorite book of the year.”—Doug McMillon, CEO, Wal-Mart Stores Harvard Business School Professor of Strategy Bharat Anand presents an incisive new approach to digital transformation that favors fostering connectivity over focusing exclusively on content. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BLOOMBERG Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, Bharat Anand examines a range of businesses around the world, from The New York Times to The Economist, from Chinese Internet giant Tencent to Scandinavian digital trailblazer Schibsted, and from talent management to the future of education. Drawing on these stories and on the latest research in economics, strategy, and marketing, this refreshingly engaging book reveals important lessons, smashes celebrated myths, and reorients strategy. Success for flourishing companies comes not from making the best content but from recognizing how content enables customers’ connectivity; it comes not from protecting the value of content at all costs but from unearthing related opportunities close by; and it comes not from mimicking competitors’ best practices but from seeing choices as part of a connected whole. Digital change means that everyone today can reach and interact with others directly: We are all in the content business. But that comes with risks that Bharat Anand teaches us how to recognize and navigate. Filled with conversations with key players and in-depth dispatches from the front lines of digital change, The Content Trap is an essential new playbook for navigating the turbulent waters in which we find ourselves. Praise for The Content Trap “A masterful and thought-provoking book that has reshaped my understanding of content in the digital landscape.”—Ariel Emanuel, co-CEO, WME | IMG “The Content Trap is a book filled with stories of businesses, from music companies to magazine publishers, that missed connections and could never escape the narrow views that had brought them past success. But it is also filled with stories of those who made strategic choices to strengthen the links between content and returns in their new master plans. . . . The book is a call to clear thinking and reassessing why things are the way they are.”—The Wall Street Journal
This critically acclaimed desktop publishing how-to guide gives instructions on computer coloring, lettering, and comic production. "Recommended for anyone working in comics! Four stars."QComputer Publishing Magazine.
Moore's Law states that computer speed will double every eighteen months, and so far, it's true. Computer speeds have been accelerating relent-lessly and show little signs of slowing. That's good news, as computers can be used for everything from letter-writing to managing personal finances, and can be the entre to the Internet, giving access to e-mail and hundreds of millions of sites. But your computer can also be the linchpin for scores of other digital equipment: cameras, camcorders, scanners, printers, game boxes, and more. It is also the place where you store, swap, copy, or alter photos, graphics, songs, and games in progress. Given all this, Consumer Reports' expert advice in the 2004 edition of Digital Buying Guide is indispensable. The volume covers: -Shopping for essential services such as Internet providers -Getting off to the right start in digital imaging -Valuable buying guidance on desktops, laptops, PDAs, monitors, printers, fax machines, cameras, scanners, MP3 players, and more -Brand-name Ratings you'll only get from Consumer Reports, plus a comprehensive glossary and profiles of the major home-computer and home-office brands.