Auto Repair for Dummies
Most of us don’t know the first thing about the machines we’re licensed to drive – and this can turn a ticket to freedom into a ticket to trouble. If you’re like most people, you probably tend to drive around until something goes wrong with the car. You then incur the expense of replacing worn and burnt-out parts (or the entire engine) when low-cost, regular maintenance could have kept your wheels turning for a long time.
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Car Hacks and Mods for Dummies
So you want to turn your Yugo into a Viper? Sorry--you need a certified magician. But if you want to turn your sedate sedan into a mean machine or your used car lot deal into a powerful, purring set of wheels, you’ve come to the right place. Car Hacks & Mods for Dummies will get you turbo-charged up about modifying your car and guide you smoothly through:
Choosing a car to mod
Considering warranties, legal, and safety issues
Hacking the ECU (Engine Control Unit) to adjust performance-enhancing factors like fuel injection, firing the spark plugs, controlling the cooling fan, and more
Replacing your ECU with a plug and play system such as the APEXi Power FC or the AEM EMS system
Putting on the brakes (the faster you go, the faster you’ll need to stop)
Setting up your car for better handling and cornering
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Building Your Business with Google for Dummies
The first-ever book to show businesses step by step how to capitalize on advertising programs offered by Google, the world's #1 search engine, with more than 200 million search queries per day
Written by a veteran For Dummies author working in cooperation with Google, which will help support the book
From selecting the right keywords to crafting the right message, the book explains how to boost site traffic using AdWords, Google's hugely successful sponsored-link advertising program, which now has more than 150,000 advertisers
Also details how to make money with AdSense, a Google program that funnels relevant AdWords ads to other sites-and pays those sites whenever someone clicks on them.
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HTML 4 For Dummies
Are you fascinated by the look and design of Web pages? Do you wish that you had the knowledge and skills to create a great looking Web site? Whether you’re an up-and-coming Web designer or just an enthusiastic hobbyist, you are probably using HTML, the standard authoring language for the Internet. HTML 4 For Dummies, now in its 5th edition, will show you the basics of working with this language as well as advanced skills for all-around knowledge.
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Hacking For Dummies
Develop a plan to keep your information safe
Find out how to test your systems, plug the holes, and foil attackers
You'll find out how external hacker and rogue insider hacks happen, how to discover where your systems and network are weak, what you can do to strengthen your defenses, and how to prepare reports and recommendations to management.
Discover how to
* Identify the different types of attacks
* Create a plan for testing
* Recognize vulnerabilities in your network
* Prevent attacks by rogue insiders
* Test applications, files, and databases
* Plug security holes
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Investing Online for Dummies, 5th Edition
Investing Online for Dummies is an invaluable resource for those who want to take advantage of the timely nature of the Internet for online investing. Author Kathleen Sindell covers all the bases for the online investor including setting up stock screens, selecting mutual funds, fishing for IPOs, and online banking and trading. This book is loaded with links to investment resources on the Internet and also includes a CD-ROM with demos of various investment tools and popular shareware programs. Highly recommended for online investors. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Charles R. Schwab
Provides clear instructions and ample illustrations so you don't get lost in cyberspace. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Linux For Dummies, 6th Edition
Previous editions of Linux For Dummies have garnered rave reviews. However, there’s one scary term applied to them—outdated! The 6th Edition remedies that with easy-to-understand information on the latest version of the most popular Linux distributions, including Fedora Core, SuSE, Mandrake, Xandros, Linspire, and Knoppix. This guide walks you though installing, configuring, tuning, and using each version of Linux, the low-cost, secure alternative to expensive operating systems. You’ll discover how to:
Prep your computer for Linux
Boot and stop Linux
Connect to the Internet, e-mail, surf the Web, and access and use cool Internet tools
Manage files and directories
Do word processing and more with Open Office.org
Updated material includes:
Info on the wireless Internet connection
Coverage of the new SELinux infrastructure, an important new security feature
Updated GNOME and KDE coverage
Written by Dee-Ann LeBlanc, award-winning author of numerous books and articles and author or coauthor of the popular previous editions of Linux For Dummies, this edition not only guides you step by step, it also includes an appendix of common Linux commands and a comprehensive index so you can find what you need to know without taking extra steps.
The bonus DVD includes:
The full, installable version of Fedora Core 3 and Knoppix
ISO images (that will save hours of downloading time) for SUSE live, Mandrake full version, Xandros Open Circulation version, and Linspire full version
If you want to explore the different distributions of Linux, this is the guide for you!
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PHP 5 for Dummies
Covers the latest major release of PHP, the most popular open source Web scripting language, in the friendly, easy-to-understand For Dummies style
PHP is installed on nearly nine million servers, and usage has grown at the rate of 6.5 percent per month for the past two years
PHP is easy to learn, well suited for Web development, and can be embedded with HTML, making it a good choice for creating dynamic Web pages for e-commerce sites and other Web applications; a database-friendly language, it connects easily to Sybase, MySQL, mSQL, Oracle, and other databases
Explains how to acquire and install PHP, how PHP's features make it a useful scripting language, and how to use PHP for three of the most common applications: interactive Web sites, database storage, and common operating system tasks
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Photoshop CS2 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummie
Brace yourself—this For Dummies guide is in full, dazzling color! That way you can see how you can lighten, brighten, blur, sharpen, or even age your digital images with Photoshop CS2. Chances are you have Photoshop CS2 and have explored it enough to know that you need a good guide to make the most of all its capabilities and get up to speed fast. Odds are you’ve experimented with some photos and spent hours tweaking them. Maybe you’re a veteran and used Photoshop CS2 to turn the gray sky to blue in a resort photo or to brighten the CEO’s smile. Maybe you’re a novice and gleefully extracted your ex from old photos and gave yourself a flattering mini-makeover at the same time. Maybe you used it to remove a scratch from a treasured family photo.
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Starting an Online Business For Dummies, 4th Editi
So you want to own your own business, be your own boss, set your own hours, and make real money. If you’re comfortable with computers and have a marketable idea, service, or product, this guide will help you become an ontrepreneur (online entrepreneur). It covers everything you need to know to set up shop in cyberspace. You’ll find out about using established storefronts as a shortcut (sort of like setting up shop in a huge, established cybermall) or building your own Web site from scratch. You’ll explore:
Doing research, defining your niche and target market, and putting it together in a practical business plan
Getting the hardware and software you’ll need to get going
Creating your own Web site with good organization, useful content, and eye-catching design, including ten must-have features and info on clip art and photos
Selecting a Web hosting service (with info on free Web site homesteading)
Setting up for handling business online, including building in security, accepting charge cards, creating shopping carts, and more
Managing your goods and services, including sourcing goods, handling returns, adding shipping fees, and maintaining inventory
Taking advantage of successful online business models, including storefronts such as Amazon.com, Yahoo!, CafePress, PayPal, or Microsoft that already have all the tools and systems, plus great traffic
Running a business on eBay
Marketing your business and the secrets to search engine success
Keeping good business records and staying on the right side of the law, including everything from trademarks , copyrights, and licensing to taxes, with info on accounting tools and software
Written by e-biz whiz Greg Holden, Starting an Online Business For Dummies, Fourth Edition has all kinds of case studies of successful cyber businesses, including a woman who sells her own insect repellent, a mapmaker, a housewife who sells sweetener and coffee on eBay, a sculptor and painter, and more. Packed with inspiration and information, it includes:
Lots of Web sites that will give you good ideas
A companion Web site that includes an online directory of Internet business resources
A list of legal and business requirements
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Quicken All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies
Quicken is the #1 personal finance software on the market, with greater than 70 percent retail market share and 16 million active users
This book features eight minibooks comprising nearly 750 pages-all the information people need to get the most out of the latest Quicken release, get their finances under control, start building a nest egg, and pay less to the IRS
The only book on the market to include coverage on Quicken Premier Home & Business
Minibook topics include personal finance basics, an introduction to Quicken, household finances, planning ahead and saving, tracking investments, retirement planning, taxes, and managing small business finances
Quicken books are consistent top sellers, with more than 900,000 copies of Quicken For Dummies sold in all in all editions
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The Internet GigaBook For Dummies
Get connected, get clicking, and get what you need from the Internet, whether that’s answers from Google, bargains from E-bay, music from iTunes, or merchandise from the thousands of shopping sites. The Internet Gigabook For Dummies has almost 900 pages jam-packed with information, how-tos, tips, techniques, advice, and short-cuts to help you use the Internet for all it’s worth! Whether you’re an experienced Web surfer or just daring to get your feet wet for the first time, you’ll discover how to get the most from the Internet and its most popular sites with information on:
The basics—everything from installation to browsing, navigation, and setting up your e-mail account
Googling—searching for information, photographs, newsgroups, bargains, and more
Yahooing— searching, mail, shopping, chatting, playing games, doing financial research, and more
Buying and selling on eBay—finding collectables, hard-to-find items, and bargains; bidding, buying, and paying online; and selling your own trash and treasures
Making beautiful music together with iTunes—buying and playing music, burning CDs, organizing your music collection with playlists, and even editing on your iPod
Creating your own Web Pages—building your first site, including the essentials and working with HTML, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, posting your Web site, and more
Edited by Peter Weverka, author of many For Dummies books, The Internet Gigabook For Dummies includes information culled from eight For Dummies books. It’s like a greatest-hits collection! Even experienced surfers will discover some new tricks such as how to:
Use Yahoo! Finance to get stock quotes, do financial research, and create an online portfolio
Use Instant Messaging with AOL, MSN Messenger, or Yahoo! Messenger
Shop Google Catalogs or use Froogle for online comparison shopping
Use advanced techniques and bidding strategies to help you win in eBay auctions
Use Yahoo! People Search to find old friends. search Yahoo! Personals to find true romance (or someone semi-compatible). place your own personal ad, and more
Use Google News to scan the headlines, search for specific topics, follow related links to go in-depth, or track a story over time
Whether you’re new to the Internet and want to learn how to set up your e-mail or have a great e-tail idea and want to set up an online business, this Gigabook, complete with an in-depth index, helps you get GigaValue from your online experience.
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UNIX for Dummies
The title of this book invites comment. "Some things weren't meant for dummies and Unix is one of them," you might say. Wrong! Levine and Young take advantage of the Dummies format's strength with command-line operating systems. They flatten the learning curve and have even the greenest beginner doing useful work with Unix in mere hours.
Once you get past a couple of pointless chapters about offering pizza to Unix experts in exchange for help, you'll find conceptual explanations of files, directories, permissions, and redirection. Command explanations take a hybrid form; they mix "type this verbatim" statements with tables showing switches and parameters.
Much of Unix for Dummies is task-oriented. You'll find a whole chapter on printing, for example, that covers the commands you'll need to know to format and print a document on the right printer. Other chapters cover file searches, software installation, and X Windows navigation. The book also provides cursory coverage of four text editors--ED, vi, Emacs, and pico--but you learn little more than how to enter and save text in each.
Levine and Young include an eminently useful "DOS-to-Unix Rosetta Stone" that immediately tells you, for example, that the approximate Unix equivalent of DOS's copy is cp. DOS experts who are new transplants to a Unix environment will appreciate this translation guide. The authors wrap up with a wealth of basic troubleshooting information and a command reference.
This book, along with its companion, More Unix for Dummies, is the perfect choice for those who have no knowledge of Unix and need to learn it quickly. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Visual Basic 2005 For Dummies
Visual Basic is Microsoft's premier programming language, used by more than three million developers and in 50 million Windows applications
Programming pro and veteran Wrox author Bill Sempf has thoroughly overhauled the book's organization and content, making it even more accessible to programming beginners
Highlights new VB features and functions, including important advances in compatibility with older VB versions
Offers plain-English explanations of variables, constants, loops, VB syntax, forms, controls, objects, and other fundamentals
The CD-ROM includes all source code and third-party software tools.
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