If you really want to take advantage of everything your PC has to offer, then you need this book. For the first time, well-known TV and radio host Bob O'Donnell shares his most powerful PC secrets in a fun-to-read, one-stop reference. From Windows 95/98/2000 tips to networking to digital photography, this all-encompassing guide opens up new PC horizons and helps you do more in less time.
The same team who brought you French for Cats and O.J's Legal Pad now exposes the hyperkinetic brain of the world's most famous billionaire - Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. Relying on a hilarious blend of misrepresentation and outright fabrication, Bill Gates' Personal Super Secret Private Laptop employs the technique of Virtual Parody to penetrate the most paranoid computer company in history, and tap into Bill Gates' super-secret files. This amazing 'record' of Gates' innermost thoughts is presented in the form of an actual laptop computer, complete with a dandruff-littered and Coke-stained keyboard as well as screen after screen crammed with notes, charts, graphs and drawings. And on its hard drive, readers will get a glimpse into the warped genius of the nerdy, super-competitive Boy Scout who became the richest man in the world.
Like DOS Secrets this book explores hidden tricks and tips that increase the effectiveness of a computer. However, PC Secrets presents information on a much broader scale, exploring both hardware and software tricks that will make computing easier and more efficient. Includes utility programs, keyboard hints, and much more.
Presents unique craft projects that have been seen on the Life hacks for kids YouTube show, including feather earrings, melted crayon art, a headband holder, and indoor s'mores, and includes questions answered by Sunny.
A comprehensive book--with two disks of utilities--for optimizing PC performance, and for configuring, diagnosing, and troubleshooting a system. Over 15 ready-to-use utilities are included for diagnosing problems without taking the PC apart.
The classic guide to how computers work, updated with new chapters and interactive graphics "For me, Code was a revelation. It was the first book about programming that spoke to me. It started with a story, and it built up, layer by layer, analogy by analogy, until I understood not just the Code, but the System. Code is a book that is as much about Systems Thinking and abstractions as it is about code and programming. Code teaches us how many unseen layers there are between the computer systems that we as users look at every day and the magical silicon rocks that we infused with lightning and taught to think." - Scott Hanselman, Partner Program Director, Microsoft, and host of Hanselminutes Computers are everywhere, most obviously in our laptops and smartphones, but also our cars, televisions, microwave ovens, alarm clocks, robot vacuum cleaners, and other smart appliances. Have you ever wondered what goes on inside these devices to make our lives easier but occasionally more infuriating? For more than 20 years, readers have delighted in Charles Petzold's illuminating story of the secret inner life of computers, and now he has revised it for this new age of computing. Cleverly illustrated and easy to understand, this is the book that cracks the mystery. You'll discover what flashlights, black cats, seesaws, and the ride of Paul Revere can teach you about computing, and how human ingenuity and our compulsion to communicate have shaped every electronic device we use. This new expanded edition explores more deeply the bit-by-bit and gate-by-gate construction of the heart of every smart device, the central processing unit that combines the simplest of basic operations to perform the most complex of feats. Petzold's companion website, CodeHiddenLanguage.com, uses animated graphics of key circuits in the book to make computers even easier to comprehend. In addition to substantially revised and updated content, new chapters include: Chapter 18: Let's Build a Clock! Chapter 21: The Arithmetic Logic Unit Chapter 22: Registers and Busses Chapter 23: CPU Control Signals Chapter 24: Jumps, Loops, and Calls Chapter 28: The World Brain From the simple ticking of clocks to the worldwide hum of the internet, Code reveals the essence of the digital revolution.
Shows Internet users how to get the most out of Internet searches, portals, and commerce sites Covers using Google to solve mathematical equations, making search engines safe for kids, harnessing the full power of Yahoo!, and getting the best bargains on shopping sites Explains how to search for street addresses and phone numbers, stock quotes and other financial information, MP3s and other digital music, computer programs and utilities, medical information, legal information, genealogical information, job listings, and more Reveals the secrets behind directory sites, indexing, and search result rankings
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Collectible hardcover edition! All new illustrations! Same top-secret mix of fun and illustrations. Adults, stop reading now. We mean it. This book is TOP SECRET and it’s FOR KIDS ONLY! (Are the grownups gone? Good.) Now that it’s just the kids, we’ll let the cat out of the bag: This book is full of disgusting things and nasty (but funny) pranks. It’s also got weird superstitions, freaky facts, unbelievable myths and legends, and did we mention gross stuff? Like boogers. And farting ghosts. And armpit sniffers. And entomophagy. (What’s that? It’s the practice of eating worms.) But there’s more than just gross stuff in this illustrated and easy-to-read book. You’ll be briefed in . . . * How to make your own secret code * Where the “Jolly Roger” pirate flag came from * Mermaid tales and other unbelievable sightings * The original alchemist and the search for the Philosopher’s Stone * The Captain Underpants story * A secret recipe for edible glass * Sneakers of the future And a whole bunch more!
