Pogue's basics Essential tips and shortcuts (that no one bothers to tell you) for simplifying the technology in your life
Book - 2015
"Did you know that you can dry out your wet cell phone by putting its parts in separate bowls of uncooked rice? That you can scroll through a website using only your spacebar? That if you type your airline and flight number in to Google, it tells you where your flight is, the gate, terminal, and how long until it lands? ... Pogue's tips have earned him 1.5 million followers on Twitter. And now that he writes his columns for Yahoo Tech, the audience for this advice has grown by millions more. Here at last is the book all these fans have been waiting for: a book of 200 tips that will change your relationship to your phone, computer, tablet, camera--all of the technology in your life"--
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New York, N.Y. :
Flatiron Books
2015.
©2014 - Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- 357 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 9781250053480
- Introduction: A Therapy Session About Tech
- Part 1. Your Gadgets
- Chapter 1. Phones
- Chapter 2. Tablets
- Chapter 3. Cameras
- Chapter 4. Everything Else with a Plug
- Part 2. The Computer
- Chapter 5. Computers
- Chapter 6. The Mac
- Chapter 7. Windows
- Chapter 8. Word Processing, Number Crunching, Slideshowing
- Chapter 9. What Not to Do
- Part 3. The Internet
- Chapter 10. E-mail
- Chapter 11. Web Browsers
- Chapter 12. Google
- Chapter 13. Videos Online
- Chapter 14. 12 Free Services You'll Adore
- Chapter 15. 10 Fantastic Phone Apps to Install Right Now
- Part 4. Social Networks
- Chapter 16. Facebook
- Chapter 17. Twitter
- Index