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Book description
Contains step-by-step instructions on getting connected and surfing your way to free goodies worth thousands of dollars. Offers completely updated material, and more than 100 pages of new material. Explains how to use some of the more powerful search engines like Lycos and InfoSeek. Gives you information on using file transfers (FTP) to get tons of freebies. Provides more information for getting free Mac software and software for Windows 95. Includes CD-ROM with more than 100 freeware and shareware programs, and other goodies.
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Reviews (2) and details of FREE $TUFF from the Internet, 2nd Edition: Your #1 Book on Getting the Most from the Internet

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Historically, the problem of connecting communications providers' neighborhood substations with individual subscribers' homes and offices has been called the "last mile problem," or the challenge of the last 100 feet. In The First 100 Feet: Options for Internet and Broadband Access, a group of authors turns the problem around, presenting it as an obstacle to be solved and financed from the bottom up (by non-telecommunications businesses, communities of homeowners, and individuals) rather than from the top down (by telecommunications companies). In discussing the problem in a series of assembled articles, the authors explain the relative merits--both economic and, to a lesser degree, technical--of various connectivity solutions. They cover ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Reviews (3) and details of The First 100 Feet: Options for Internet and Broadband Access

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Predicting the future in the technical world is a dangerous business, particularly in a rapidly changing field like communications. Yet the author attempts to do so not just in the short term, but over a range of twenty years. If nothing else, you have to admire his courage. And Webb does know the dangers: he points out, in chapter one, the foolish predictions that have been made over the years. But he also demonstrates the importance; to business, public policy, and other endeavors; of prediction, and the possibility of achieving educated guesses if you make the right kind of forecast. Part two examines the factors that drive future development. Chapter two starts at the end--the end user, the final customer, and the desires of the ... Rest of this review on the detail page
(Review by Rob Slade)
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Reviews (1) and details of The Future of Wireless Communications (Artech House Mobile Communications Library,)

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This volume (following an earlier beginner's guide) is obviously aimed at sysops who have been operating a board for some time. Therefore the material, probably legitimately, assumes a greater level of technical sophistication, and a desire to move into a commercial, or at least self-supporting, operation. The business advice is practical and important. For small business operators it is probably unsurprising, covering the value of listening to your customers, business plans, positioning and marketing. Three chapters look at the addition of Internet service on a BBS. In the technical area, Bryant again provides some very interesting and potentially useful material. He may, however, have confused two possible markets. For those in... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Reviews (1) and details of Growing and Maintaining: A Successful Bbs: The Sysop's Handbook

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The title is ever so slightly misleading: it should probably read "Getting *Others* Connected". There is much more here than anyone would need to get a connection to the Internet for one account. The purpose is to get a business or organization onto the net, and to establish that nebulous entity which has become known as an Internet "presence". That minor quibble out of the way, this is a very serviceable and complete guide for those charged with linking an institution to the electronic global village. The concepts and overall requirements are covered, and backed up by just enough technical details to make the job possible. The tone of the text is practical and realistic. Dowd's (rather bizarre) sense of humour is used to good effe... Rest of this review on the detail page
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