Product Description: This essential companion to Apple's third-generation iPad will take you from setting up the trim tablet to reading ebooks to streaming videos to your TV. You'll learn how to set up a Wi-Fi and 4G connection, chat with family and friends with iMessage, read your favorite magazines with Newsstand, and browse the web with Safari...read more

Product Description: Visual QuickStart Guides, designed in an attractive tutorial and reference format, are the quickest, easiest, and most thorough way to learn applications, tasks, and technologies. The Visual QuickStart Guides are the smart choice—they guide the learner with a friendly and supportive approach...read more

Product Description: This concise guide covers every edition of Windows 7 in Visual QuickStart style, with plenty of screenshots, numbered steps, tips, and sidebars. You'll learn how to use new and updated features, including the redesigned taskbar; jump lists; libraries; federated search; desktop gadgets; window-management shortcuts; and the improved versions of Internet Explorer, Mail, Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, and Media Player...read more

Product Description: Microsoft's Windows Vista will open up for its users a whole new way of using their PCs. With plenty of screenshots to guide users along the way, respected author Chris Fehily takes readers through Vista's breakthrough capabilities, including its new user interface, Sidebar, Internet Explorer, Media Player, anti-spyware, Mail, SideShow, and photo-sharing capabilities; as well as all the new enhancements included in the Service Pack 1 update...read more

Utilizing a host of screenshots to guide users along the way and to clearly illustrate techniques, a visual tutorial takes readers through Vista's breakthrough capabilities, including its new user interface, Sidebar, Internet Explorer 7, Media Player, anti-spyware, Mail, SideShow, and photo-sharing capabilities. Original. (Beginner)

Product Description: SQL is a standard interactive and programming language for querying and modifying data and managing databases. This task-based tutorial and reference guide takes the mystery out learning and applying SQL. After going over the relational database model and SQL syntax in the first few chapters, veteran author Chris Fehily immediately launches into the tasks that will get readers comfortable with SQL...read more

Explores Windows XP, covering such topics as e-mail, establishing an Internet connection, burning CDs, system settings, and networking.

Explores Windows XP, covering such topics as e-mail, establishing an Internet connection, burning CDs, system settings, and networking. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Database management. It may sound daunting, but it doesn't have to be, even if you've never programmed before. SQL: Visual QuickStart Guide isn't an exhaustive guide to SQL written for aspiring programming experts. It's simply an invaluable resource for those who want a fast, easy way to harness information living in complex databases...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Named after the Monty Python comedy troupe, Python is an interpreted, open-source, object-oriented programming language. It's also free and runs portably on Windows, Mac OS, Unix, and other operating systems. Python can be used for all manner of programming tasks, from CGI scripts to full-fledged applications...read more