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With increasing access to evermore functional word processors and steadily more affordable laser printers has come proliferating attempts at desktop publishing. Books with that phrase in the title tend to show you some pedestrian, if not downright confusing, layout as a "before." Then, there is a flurry of menu choices and mouse clicks, followed by, "There, now. Isn't that better?" Well, of course, it is, but what were the choices that made it that way? Piles of church bulletins and club newsletters attest to the fact that not everyone has an eye for design. What Williams provides are rules. The book is divided roughly in half, looking first at design and then at typography. She introduces the concepts of contrast, repetition, al... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Until the Net became popular, we were used to pre-packaged, filtered news and information fed to us by giant media outlets. Now there is an abundance of raw material available via the Net. Along with easy access to lots of good stuff, there are sites developed by hate-mongers, conspiracy buffs, and others presenting urban myths or worse as fact. It's imperative, then, that we move from the passive consumer of broadcast media to critical consumers able to quickly assemble reliable knowledge. Digital Literacy capably instructs users in developing a set of critical thinking skills and core competencies that are different from those we've used in the past. Paul Gilster covers topics such as questions to ask when viewing material on a Web site, ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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As the subtitle says, this is a code-level look at the DOS operating system. This requires extensive citation of source code and, were it to be MS-, PC- or DR-DOS to be displayed, Microsoft, IBM or Novell might take exception to it. In this instance, Podanoffsky presents his own RxDOS system, and explains how MS-DOS differs. Were RxDOS a mere COMMAND.COM replacement such as 4DOS, we could examine command line pursing, program loading or batch file execution. However, as the system contains code from the master boot record on up, the whole of DOS is laid out before us. Chapters cover the structure of DOS, the boot process, file functions, disk reading and writing, file management, process management, memory management and the command... Rest of this review on the detail page
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They're heeeere. Spawn of the ungodly amount of hype surrounding the dread millennium bug, Y2K thrillers have been sneaking onto bookshelves for months now. Deadline Y2K comes a little late to the game, but if you still haven't acquainted yourself with the new genre on the block, this gripping, well-researched read is a fine place to start. The book's central plot device may strain credulity--a band of six good-guy hackers called the Midnight Club spends the late '90s secretly preparing to save the entire New York City infrastructure from millennial disaster. However, the story line makes a nice vehicle for getting readers up to speed on Y2K issues without slowing down the action, and it gives them a likeable, multicultural cast of characte... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Those who are promoting the advantages of the online world often cite the enormous volume of programs, utilities, graphics, sound bytes and other files available on BBSes, commercial services, and the net. They seldom mention the necessity for learning cryptic one- to three-letter codes that indicate which of a bewildering variety of archival, compression, encoding, viewing, and other programs need to be brought to bear on a given file, in order to make it yield up its secrets. The promoters often stress that much of this stuff is free (or ridiculously cheap), but don't stress the fact that, for that very reason, most of what you need simply cannot be found at the local "Computers-R-Us". This slim volume is an excellent starter for ne... Rest of this review on the detail page
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