Adobe has a new Photoshop set called Photoshop CS4, which contains Photoshop plus other major programs, all for the somewhat staggering list price of $1,800. The computer to run them will be cheaper. However, just in case you want to spring for a lifetime hobby, here are a couple of books just out…
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O’Reilly’s “Head First” series is totally great, as they like to say in Silicon Valley. We often consult “Head First HTML,” to figure out web page coding. Well, here are two new ones…
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Scientific Imaging with Photoshop; Methods, Measurement and Output,” by Jerry Sedgewick; $75 from New Riders Press, newriders.com…
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“Cloud Computing,” by Michael Miller, covers one of the hottest new topics in computing…
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You can’t get real chemistry sets anymore, not like the ones Bob had as a kid. Lawyers fixed that. But you can still make things bubble up at home with experiments described in Robert Bruce Thompson’s “Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments;” $20 from makezine.com…
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The latest in O’Reilly’s “Missing Manual” series is “Your Brain: The Missing Manual,” by Matthew
McDonald; $25 from oreilly.com. This book is long overdue; we always wondered what was going on up there…
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Amazon.com now has 125,000 book titles available for wireless download to its popular Kindle e-book reader. This is up from 90,000 titles just a few months ago…
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“Easy Computer Basics, Windows Vista Edition,” by Michael Miller; $22 from informit.com/que…
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There’s a lot more to the social networking site Facebook than meets the eye and it’s all here in “Facebook, the Missing Manual,” by E.A. Vander Veer; $20 from MissingManuals.com…
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Wow your friends, impress you boss, be a tech support hero.
We can’t possibly provide tech support for the hundreds of problems that plague PC users, but we found a simulation program that can turn almost anyone into a professional trouble shooter. It’s “Windows Simulator, Exam Cram” from Que Publishing…
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