Is This Thing On? A Late Bloomer's Computer Handbook by Abby Stokes, Michael Sloan (Illustrator), Susan Hunt Yule (Illustrator)
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- Pub. Date: August 2008
- 408pp
- Sales Rank: 39,665
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: August 2008
- Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
- Format: Paperback, 408pp
- Sales Rank: 39,665
- ISBN-13: 9780761146193
- ISBN: 0761146199
Synopsis
"Stokes gives the feeling that a friend is explaining it all to you."
— The New York Daily News
Is This Thing On? is a reassuring, jargon-free, and totally straightforward nuts-and-bolts guide that introduces late bloomers, grandparents, technophobes, and the digitally challenged to all the wonders of using a computer, and will even have them using digital cameras and PDAs with ease.
Written for the reader who did not grow up with personal computers, this book updates and expands on Stokes's previous title, It's Never Too Late to Love a Computer. It covers everything you need to get wired: how to select, buy, and set up a computer; how to sign up for e-mail and internet access, and how to use the world wide web. There's information on peripherals—printers, scanners, wireless routers—and basic software, such as word processing programs. Plus, this new edition delves further into the online world to cover search engines and web navigation, information on online banking, shopping, travel planning, and dating. It covers security issues, "netiquette," instant messaging, and blogs, and there's an entire chapter devoted to digital photos—transferring them from camera to computer and sending them as attachments. Abby Stokes—who has a gift for taking the terrified by the hand and teaching old dogs new tricks—branches out into other essential digital accoutrements: cell phones, iPods, and Blackberries. A companion website, www.abbyandme.com, offers a safe place to practice and keep learning. Appendices include recommended websites, a resource list, and more.
Biography
Abby Stokes teaches courses in basic computing at both Cooper Union and New York University's School of Lifelong Learning, as well as computer skills to private and corporate clients. She has lectured on the topic across the country. Ms. Stokes splits her time between New York City and Niantic, Connecticut.
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March 03, 2009: I highly recommend this book,if you really want to learn computers this is the book for you. I LOVE IT.
Its so EASY TO UNDERSTAND. I never touched a computer before and was afraid I was going to BLOW IT UP if I hit the wrong key.Abby taught me that wasnt going to happen.I now know how to surf the internet and e mail and am going to learn how to put pictures on the web ,etc.Im now having FUN with this thing the kids got me so I could stay in touch when they decided to move 1000 miles away.They didnt teach me how to use it ,but Abby has.You wont regret buying this book.Over a Thousand Students and Counting ...by Tea_Cher
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March 02, 2009: Full disclosure: Abby is my sister and I have been using her books in my computer classes since 2001 - I teach at a regional senior center and adult education through the local high school. Over a thousand students have been taught using her books as a teaching guide and the feedback has been fantastic - no kicking and screaming when they are done and many continue on to e-mail, internet, word processing, spreadsheets, digital photography, and more! The students' only request after using the "It's Never Too Late To Love A Computer" book was, "when is she going to expand it?" Well, Abby has made a really good book even better! "Is This Thing On?" has more detail, more topics, newer screen shots, and, as always, is written in "Abby's language" - no geek speak. It has been a winner for even the toughest of my students and many students request one as a gift for their friends. Kudos, Abby - thanks for making the cyber leap easier for seniors and other newbies on the CT shoreline!
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