O'Reilly.O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Hwy N., Sebastapol, CA 95472 1-800-998-9938 www.oreilly.com O'Reilly's 'hacks' guides provide the depth and detail necessary to customizing programs and understand pitfalls and ways around them. Nigel McFarlane's Firefox Hacks: Tips & Tools For Next-Generat-ion Web Browsing (0596009283, $24.95) provides keys to understanding the open source web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. Firefox, from customizing its actions and appearance to using skins, themes, integration techniques and toolbars to increasing security and using preferences. An excellent guide to all of Firefox's capabilities, both obvious and those lesser known. James Avery's Visual Studio Hacks: Tips & Tools For Turbocharging The IDE (1) (Integrated Development Environment) A set of programs run from a single user interface. For example, programming languages often include a text editor, compiler and debugger, which are all activated and function from a common menu. (0596008473, $24.95) provides a hundred tips from Visual Studio experts, from debugging (programming) debugging - The process of attempting to determine the cause of the symptoms of malfunctions in a program or other system. These symptoms may be detected during testing or use by real users. scripts and locating new sources of information to be integrated with Visual Studio to testing code. Advanced Visual Studio users will find plenty of tips which lend to streamlining operations and code. The second edition of Steve Bass' PC Annoyances: How To Fix The Most Annoying Things About Your Personal Computer, Windows And More (0596008821, $19.95) is out, and it's a 'must' for any who wrestle with PC and Windows oddities The Oddities were a professional wrestling stable in the WWF. History The Jackyl formed the group in 1998 and called them "The Parade of Human Oddities." The group consisted of "freakish" wrestlers, including the masked Golga (formerly Earthquake, whose mask had and inconsistencies. From making Windows compatible with the iPod to handling the weighty service pack updates and handling Word annoyances in pasting from the Internet, PC ANNOYANCES updates and adds important tips and insights to make your PC more user-friendly. IPHOTO 5 comes packed not just with explanations, but with powerful all-color visual examples and screenshots to reinforce the learning. Nicholas Petreley & Jono Bacon's Linux Desktop Hacks: Tips & Tools For Customizing And Optimizing Your OS (0596009119, $24.95) teaches semi-experienced Linux system users how to tweak To make minor adjustments in an electronic system or in a software program in order to improve performance. See calibrate. 1. tweak - To change slightly, usually in reference to a value. Also used synonymously with twiddle. and customize the system to boost performance and make the most of the console. From running applications at near local speed to viewing PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. documents in a console or automating your system with cron A Unix utility (Unix daemon) that executes commands in a crontab file at a specified time and date. Cron is used to schedule such functions as backup and maintenance procedures. (operating system) cron , Linux Desktop Hacks has all the special tools difficult to unearth from the usual support material. |
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