Hardware Books

This Book Is A Great Book With Computer Anwsers. It Gives You A Question With A Anwser Following. This book is exclent for begining users. I recomend this book all the time. Leo Laporte is an exclent author and has two television shows, Call For Help, And The Screen Savers. Which both air at 7 and 9 eastern standered time on ZDTV. Over all this is an exclent book with a great author.

-I'm Brian

A great resource for multimedia researchers. Includes current and future work on content-based systems, speech and music recognition and MPEG applications. A definite (though expensive) must-have for your library!

Please help me to find a book that writes about Market Overview

I purchased this book for my mother. With the 3-D graphics and text aimed for computer-beginners, this book should replace the manual. I found myself reading over again and finding things I never knew existed.

This book contains a short and very descriptive information of computers. Unfortunately this should have been updated for PENTIUMs, AMDs and upwards

This book is very helpful for animation but you need also a hernashing max5 this is also a good one

Excellent read for A+. As book says it is 'missing link' for A+ exam. I found very easy to understand and fun reading this book. Plan to keep for reference. Tcat gets my vote on this.

Pros: The book is small in size (approximately 7 1/2" by 7 1/4"), making it easily transportable. Content of author's chapters are concise and well laid out with easily understood explanations and directions. Graphics are excellent, although some a tad bit small. However, in keeping with the size of the book it makes perfectly good sense to have the graphics fit proportionately!
Cons: None.
Moose Rating 5

The authors combine the 40 techniques into 9 chapters with a beginning introduction to the iPod and ITunes. Since the latest iTunes is now up to 7.0.2 there are some differences. However, the opening Introduction covers both the Mac and Windows side of installation.

Chapter 1 is Getting Started and covers the basics of the iPod and goes into iTunes. There is opening page to each Chapter which describes what you will find in the chapter. They give good suggestions about the use of your iPod as far as battery usage and what to not use to conserve battery life. This first chapter is 55 pages and covers 10 techniques including Technique 11. Transcoding Audio which becomes a little more technical, but still useful especially when one wants to convert an audio file from one format to another.

Expanding Your Audio Collection which deals with the iTunes Music Store, Podcasts and even free music which is Technique 15. While the iTunes store is great it is nice to know and find that you can download music for free and do so legitimately.

A chapter is devoted to the iPod Nano (not including the latest IPod Nanos recently released from Apple.

There is a Chapter for the IPod Shuffle [p.108 DO THE SHUFFLE. - older models obviously, however there are good suggestions and uses for using your Shuffle as a flash drive.

A chapter is devoted to accessories (Chapter 7). This shows just a small amount of accessories and even then a book unto itself would be needed at this juncture to reflect all of the various add ons and what not which have come about with the introduction of the iPod.

Chapter 8 covers the Maintenance and Troubleshooting, which also includes the Windows information for those folks who haven't or do not own a Mac. I was reading the book at my part time job and an individual stopped and asked me a question about an iPod. I went to the chapter, read him the solution and he walked away, a very grateful individual. I suggested he acquire this book to help him and his friend for future answers.

All in all I would say this is a great little book and I enjoyed reading this and applying the suggestions offered by the authors. Another aspect of the book was the way it included those items for the PC, not that I have any desire to own one, however I thought it was fair to cover both I will probably go and acquire some of the other books which are displayed in the inside back cover.

In my early teens, when looking around for a good 68000 assembly language book I found this to be the best of all the books I looked at. The style of writing makes this a very readable tome (relative to most data books you see on machine languages). The first few chapters of the book describe the processor architecture, addressing modes, and instruction set quite clearly. Unlike the dry data manuals you you often get from processor manufacturers, the authors spend the rest of the book describing coding techniques on the 68000 by using the building of a full-screen text editor as an example project. The last few chapters describe the I/O interfaces, bit-mapped graphics, data management and debugging. The appendices have a complete code listing for the text editor, math routines, instruction format summary and execution times.

At the time I had been writing 6502 code and this book made moving to the more advanced 68000 (wow, you mean we have multiply instructions!) very easy.

In the early 80's there was fierce competition among several of the then established manufacturers of 8-bit microprocessors to bring out 16-bit designs. Texas Instruments had been first, but its CPU was not widely accepted. Intel was next, with the Intel 8086/8088, but Motorola marketing stressed the true point that the 68000 was a much more complete 16-bit design than the others. This was reflected in its complexity. The transistor cell count, which was then a fairly direct measure of power in that era, was 70,000 versus the 29,000 of the 8086. I'll never know why the Intel processor was chosen to power the original PC instead of the Motorola chip.

At any rate, the MC68000 is long obsolete, but its offspring are still found in embedded systems everywhere. Also, the original MC68000 is still present in some functional controllers that are more than ten years old. If you need to understand the programming of this historic chip and the philosophy of programming it including examples and plenty of good illustrations which extend to its MC680X0 offspring, this book is an oldie but a goodie. I've had mine for 25 years, and from time to time I still consult it.