books by Preston Gralla     books:       Sams Teach Yourself e-Auctions Today1 review Preston Gralla Sams Publishing, 1999 A wealth of knowlege on e-auctions This is a MUST READ for anyone involved in online auctions. There are many issues to address before you bid and this book outlines them all. Everything you need to know from how to get the best bid price to which sellers to trust, is covered in this detailed book. Since reading this book I have managed to win about 85% of the auctions I'm interested in, at what I consider a minimal bid ...             Online Activities For Kids: Projects For School, Extra Credit, Or Just Plain Fun1 review Preston Gralla Topeka Bindery, 2001 Online Activities For Kids This book is so much fun! It is easy to use and offers imaginative ideas for internet projects and cybersurfing. My favorite project was to write haiku poetry and get it published on the web. You won't want to put this book down until you've tried every single project, either with your family, your classroom, or even just by yourself.             How to Expand & Upgrade PCs (2nd Edition)1 review Preston Gralla Que, 2001 Makes Computer Learning Much More Fun And Easy! Preston Gralla and Que Publishing have done a great job updating and expanding "How to Expand & Upgrade PCs." This second edition provides a more comprehensive look at how average computer users with little technical know-how can perform major upgrades to their computers and expand the use of them by installing new memory chips, hardware, and a variety of peripheral accessories. In keeping with ...             Big Book of Windows Hacks3 reviews Preston Gralla O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 Your Chance to Slap Windows Back § Despite Microsoft's claims that their vaunted "focus groups" and client experience consultants have allowed them to offer us painless computing, you and the rest of the world know it isn't true. Waiting for Windows XP or Vista to boot up and shut down certainly are irritations in themselves worth a hack or two. As you can imagine, this is a large book. That is not just the number of pages ...             The Complete Idiot's Guide to Internet Privacy and Security1 review Preston Gralla Alpha, 2002 Great book! I've always been worried about my privacy when I go online --- but after reading this book, I don't worry any more. It taught me how to protect my privacy, stop cookies and snoopers, and make sure that no one can track what I do. It even taught me how to keep my home network safe! For anyone who want to protect themselves when they go online, or want to know more about the subject, get this book ...             Complete Idiot's Guide to Volunteering for Teens2 reviews Preston Gralla Topeka Bindery, 2001 A must-have for any high school library Many of today's young people want to make a difference, even if their schools haven't made volunteering a graduation requirement. Gralla's book not only takes that selfless drive and nurtures the spirit, but he offers sensible, down-to-earth advice on how to act upon it. Unlike many authors of "how-to" books for kids and teenagers, Gralla doesn't talk down to his target audience; he treats the ...             Online Kids: A Young Surfer's Guide to Cyberspace3 reviews Preston Gralla Jossey-Bass, 1999 Great for parents/kids to get started, find great sites I'm a parent and a grandmother, and this book helped me show my 7 year old granddaughter some really fun and interesting sites on the World Wide Web. The other thing it did was to explain a few things I didn't know, like the difference between the Internet and online services, and some basic information for the totally clueless on how to get started on setting up a computer at home. We found the ...             The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Cloning1 review Jay D. Gralla, Preston Gralla Alpha, 2004 Unique and informed! Having been a human cloning activist since 1997, I expected this book would be another moralistic rehashing of today's contemporary debate. It certainly covered all those arguments. However, it proved to be amazingly accurate, well researched and informative. This was one of the few books which clearly explained technical details that even I was not aware of--like the chromosonal reasons ...             Complete Idiot's Guide To Online Shopping (The Complete Idiot's Guide)4 reviews Preston Gralla Alpha, 2003 Learn How to Shop Online More Intelligently. Preston Gralla, no stranger to the Internet scene, has written The Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Shopping to educate current and prospective online shoppers about the pros and cons of online shopping. Gralla offers plenty of sound advice people should read up on before spending their time and money shopping online. The book features an incredible wealth of information including some of ...             Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying Computer (The Complete Idiot's Guide)1 review Preston Gralla Alpha, 1999 A wonderful book Before I read this book I knew nothing about the inner workings of a computer. This book explained everything you could possibly want to know about a computer in terms which the computer illiterate could very easily understand. I have plans to buy a computer sometime in the near future and now I know exactly how to read a computer ad and what all of the terms in the ad mean. Most importantly I ...             Internet Annoyances: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things about Going Online (Annoyances)6 reviews Preston Gralla O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005 Another outstanding Annoyances book... I recently had the chance to read and review the book Internet Annoyances by Preston Gralla (O'Reilly). All I can say is that I'm really getting hooked on this Annoyances series. Internet Annoyances is no exception... Chapter List: Chapter 1 - Email and Spam Annoyances: General Email Annoyances; Spam; Outlook 2003 and Outlook Express; Gmail; Eudora 6 Chapter 2 - Making The Connection ...             The Complete Idiot's Guide to the PalmPilot and Palm III9 reviews Preston Gralla Alpha, 1999 Stop the Booker Prize Jury Before They Pass Over This Book But only if Preston is British (With a name like 'Preston,' how could he not be!). You won't read a more compelling account of one man's journey to master technology this year. Most of the "Complete Idiot's Guide..." books are long on helpful tips, but short on characterization. Not this one! You really get to know Preston Gralla as he takes you on a magical tour of the PALM III "Personal ...             PC Pest Control8 reviews Preston Gralla O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005 Stop Those Internet Pests From Ruining Your Computer Life!! "PC Pest Control" is an outstanding look at the common problems that computer users will face on a daily basis. Preston Gralla writes in a concise, clear manner that will benefit anyone from the most novice of user to the most experienced (while the focus is on novice to amateur, this is a nice overview that will help reinforce the old pros). The author looks at the most common problems users ...             Windows Vista in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))5 reviews Preston Gralla O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006 VERY VERY HIGHLY REOMMENDED!! Are you a network administrator or application developer? If you are, then this book is for you. Author Preston Gralla, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that focuses on users and their networks and applications, not on large enterprise or corporate systems or network administration. Gralla, begins with a brief guided tour of Windows Vista. Then, the author covers the basics of ...             How Intranets Work (How It Works Series (Emeryville, Calif.).)3 reviews Preston Gralla Ziff-Davis Press, 1996 A Must Read for Internet/New Media Job Seekers The perfect guide for the technically clueless on how everything Internet works from the macro to the micro levels in easy to understand discriptions and pictures. As a career counselor, I suggest this book for every client looking to work in the Internet or for a dot com company as the appropriate introduction to high tech for low tech types. It gives you the big and small pictures, ...             Windows XP Power Hound: Teach Yourself New Tricks4 reviews Preston Gralla O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004 Required reading for new to intermediate users This book is well worth the price just for the section in the first chapter on how to speedup startup and shutdown and resolve problems with both of them. Most of this information is available on the Internet but why not have it at hand instead of spending hours looking for it? For the novice to intermediate user this is an excellent way to get things Windows XP under control and operating ...             Windows XP Hacks, Second Edition7 reviews Preston Gralla O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005 Windows XP Hacks I thought this book was great. I'm an intermediate level user with XP using it every day and this book is just outstanding, even just for speeding up the star up for my computer.             Windows XP Cookbook (Cookbooks)8 reviews Robbie Allen, Preston Gralla O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005 COOKING WITH WINDOWS XP Are you involved in deploying, administering or automating Windows XP? If you are, this book is for you. Authors Robbie Allen and Preston Gralla, have written an outstanding end user book that covers the spectrum of topics involved with running Windows XP in both small and large environments. Allen and Gralla, begin by setting the stage for the rest of the book by covering their approach on ...             Zdnet Software Library 10,0001 review Ziff-Davis Press, 1997 Every windows user needs a copy of this One of the wonders of the internet is the ease of obtaining shareware and freeware utilities from the numerous sites on the internet. However, the internet is slowwww... disconnections are frequent, corrupt files are common. Redownloading 14 megabyte files is probably enough to drive you crazy. Luckily, ZDNet's popular hotfiles compiled all its favourite and popular utilities and tweaks to ...             How the Internet Works (6th Edition)32 reviews Preston Gralla, 2001 Great overview of the internet and related technologies Simple, easy top read, give lots of indepth info for the non-techie and answers to all the questions you've wanted to ask. Great starter book on the internet for someone who wants to understand better everything from digital media technology to ASPs to how ISPs work.              search for books activities, annoyances, annoying, auctions, cloning, complete, computer, control, cookbook, cookbooks, cyberspace, desktop, e-auctions, edition, emeryville, internet, intranets, nutshell, palmpilot, privacy, projects, reference, security, shopping, software, understanding, upgrade, volunteering, windows, yourself books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Going Home leave a comment home  impressum - about us