Computer Guide

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Computer Guide

How many times have you wished you knew someone who could answer all your computer questions?

George Skarbek ’s popular Computer Guide is back! Extensively updated and re-written based on reader feedback, this latest edition is the next best thing to having a personal computer expert at your beck and call.

Answering questions from beginners to intermediate computer users, it solves all your nagging problems and offers a wealth of information, such as:

  • E-mail solutions, including backing up mail and transferring mail to a new computer
  • Finding and fixing startup errors
  • Setting up and securing wireless networks
  • Tips on digital imaging and scanning
  • Hints, tips and problem solving, e.g. how to prevent that annoying cAPS LOCK problem and more

As a result of asking readers what they would like to see in this edition, it also contains new information, including detailed sections on email and reviews of the best free software on the net. Also included are step-by-step tutorials explaining how to:

  • Record your LP or tape collections onto CDs
  • Improve productivity in Word and Excel as well as on the Internet
  • Explanations on settings for scanning images
  • Make cheap phone calls using VoIP

This 238 page book contains over 100 hints, including Vista tips, and tips and over 60 pictures and screen dumps. Even if this book fixes only one nagging problem, it will have been worth buying!

A sample chapter and the Table of Contents can be read online.

Read a sample chapter on-line

You can order this book to be mailed to you anywhere in Australia for $37 including postage and GST

You also have the option to purchase it as a PDF document for $9 and download it immediately. This PDF document uses cross-references that are linked to relevant topics, as are captions. By utilising the bookmarks in the PDF reader you go quickly go to any article. In addition, any subject can be found immediately from by simple search in the PDF document. Using a dial-up connection the download will take about 9 minutes

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* The Computer Guide is based on material published in weekly columns in the computer section of The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The West Australian. Also included are comprehensive articles written for the Melbourne PC User Group’s award winning magazine, PC Update.

To view back issues of the Q & A columns click on the year: 2005 2006 2007 2008

For further details contact George Skarbek at gskarbek@skarbek.com.au