PC User s Bible


John Ross

Kelly Murdock

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About the Authors

John Ross has been working with and writing about computers and networks since the late 1960s. He has authored more than a dozen books about computers, networks, and the Internet for major publishers including Random House, Sybex, IDG Books, Microsoft Press, No Starch Press and Sunset Books, and has been a contributor to many others. He has also written technical manuals, white papers, and marketing material about network and telecommunications equipment, marine electronics, and broadcast equipment for many corporations including Motorola and AT&T.

As a sound archivist, John Ross works with broadcasters, music festivals, and folklore societies in the Pacific Northwest to restore, catalog, and preserve old audio-tape recordings and convert them to modern digital formats. He has also produced radio news and feature reports for National Public Radio, the BBC, Radio New Zealand, and other broadcasters around the world. On his own time, he collects folk music, restores antique toy trains, and makes hard cider. John Ross lives in a 100-year-old house in Seattle, which he is gradually restoring and updating to twenty-first century technology.

Kelly Murdock is the author of multiple titles including the 3ds Max Bible (recently published in its seventh edition), Adobe Creative Suite Bible, Maya Reveled, and Poser Revealed (all in their second editions) along with numerous other graphics and Web-related titles including Edgeloop Character Modeling, 3D Game Animation For Dummies, Master VISUALLY HTML and XHTML, and JavaScript Visual Blueprint.

When not writing computer books, Kelly works as a consultant and with his brother in the Logical Paradox Design studio that he helped found. He enjoys spending time with his family, playing basketball, mountain biking, and rock climbing.

The salesman says it's a machine that I need,
To organize my desk with accuracy and speed.
So I bought a computer and took it home,
To straighten up my office where papers freely roam,
So I unpacked the computer and put it to work,
By moving my papers just like a clerk.
I put all the critical papers next to the screen,
And under the keyboard the papers rarely seen.
Important papers are under the printer,
And next to the mouse are receipts from last winter.
The salesman was right, my computer is great,
But kind of expensive for a paperweight.
To Kerry and Donna, who know what it is like to be organized, 2006

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Project Editor: Chris Wolfgang

Technical Editors: Barry and Marcia Press

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Alicia B. South

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Wiley Bicentennial Logo: Richard J. Pacifico

Acknowledgments

Thanks to the editorial and production staff at Wiley for converting our words and pictures into an attractive and well-organized book. The words are ours, but they have been polished and improved by Chris Wolfgang, Scott Tullis, and Marcia and Barry Press.

And thanks to Carole McClendon and the others at Waterside Productions for putting the project together. As always, the book would not have happened without their work.

Finally, thanks to all the people, corporations, and organizations that made the job easier by providing useful information, book images, and helpful explanations of complex topics and products on their Web pages. In particular, thanks to Amy Whelan at Pinnacle Systems, Mark Williams at Creative Labs, and Kelly Odle from Logitech.




PC User's Bible
PC Users Bible
ISBN: 0470088974
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 372

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