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In The Complete Idiot's Guide to MP3 Music on the Internet, you get the full scoop on MP3 tunes. Covered topics include MP3 player software, portable MP3 hardware, ripping CD tracks, digitizing tapes and records, and publishing your music online. There's also some information on copyright as it applies to MP3 files and a guide to Internet sites that publish MP3--material that's useful for musicians as well as listeners. The book begins by showing you why MP3 is one of the best digital music formats. For one thing, most MP3 encoded music is legally free of charge. And because it's completely digital, an MP3 file loaded into a handheld player won't skip while you exercise the way CDs can. On the software side, the book focuses on playing MP3s... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Of the many books currently available on the topic of the World Wide Web, some specialize in HTML (HyperText Markup Language) explanation, some just enthuse, and a *lot* specialize in the Mosaic browser. Most general guides, though, tend to dedicate the bulk of the pages to various Web sites and presentations. (Screen dumps are a very quick way to fill up space.) Kent doesn't do as much of this, and uses the space saved to produce the most complete description of WWW that I have yet reviewed. After the four chapters of general introduction in part one, part two provides a raft of information on text, graphical, DOS, Windows, Mac, UNIX and other browsers. Even W3 by mail gets mentioned. Part three gives some background on establishi... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Kent's book has some miscellaneous stuff for those who have gotten past the first hurdles of learning what the Internet is, and how it works. The chat and game material will depend on your taste, and the UNIX tips will depend on what you do. Chapter five is a helpful introduction to quick ways to get known on the net (aside from spamming). There is a very useful discussion of mail and newsreaders in chapter six which could be of great help to those who get charged by the hour, or are limited to a certain period online per day. The thing that really sets this book apart from the pack, though, is the coverage of SLIP (Serial Link Internet Protocol) and dial-up IP connections (known in the book as "dial-up direct"). CSLIP (Compressed S... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Cliche alert: just as railroads influenced settlement patterns and economics of the 19th century, and automobiles influenced settlement, commerce, and recreation in the 20th century, computer networks will influence how we live, work, and move (and how and even whether we move) in the 21st century. William Mitchell, from MIT, is one of the first scholars to rigorously examine this modern cliche, and draws heavily on the history of architecture, and urbanism. If you suspect there is truth in these truisms, and want to get beyond facile sloganeering prophesying an infintely ductile future, I highly recommend this book. Mitchell does a very job of explaining not just how things are likely to change, but also of examining historical precendent... Rest of this review on the detail page
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In the last chapter, analyzing success factors of the Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV), one of the points is to "Show, do not tell, community members how to use the technology as a way of increasing use of the network in the community." Applying the same point to the book, it succeeds, where many other books on similar topics failed, primarily because it shows the actual workings of a functional, and functioning, electronic village. This puts it far ahead of blue-sky proposals of what might (or might not) become possible in the future. An introduction and historical background leads into discussion of architecture, evaluation, use and impact, community dynamics and seniors, families, education, technology (now a much expanded chapter... Rest of this review on the detail page
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