Internet Annoyances: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things about Going Online
Preston GrallaThis insightful guide shows you how to overcome the most annoying Internet-related quirks, bugs, and hassles. You'll learn how to make a seamless connection, thwart would-be hackers, ensure greater security while surfing, eliminate pop-up ads, maximize online services, conduct more effective Google searches, better utilize digital media (music and video), and much more. In addition, Internet Annoyances discusses how to design and host a personal web site something once thought of as only possible for the technically gifted.
Topics like blogs, domain names, setup, HTML, fonts, and graphics and are all dissected and analyzed for easy consumption. Unlike other books on the subject, Internet Annoyances assumes readers already possess a working knowledge of the Internet. By fully recognizing the experience level of today's Internet culture, author Preston Galla is able to cut immediately to the chase and not waste time on the more obvious points. Internet Annoyances, therefore, is a quick read that presents succinct solutions for the many glitches that still populate the Internet experience.
About the author: Preston Gralla is the author of more than 20 books about computers and the Internet, including Windows XP Hacks and Windows XP Power Hound (both from O'Reilly). He's been writing about technology since the dawn of the PC, was a founding editor of both PC Week and PC/Computing, an executive editor at CNET/ZDNet, and contributor to dozens of publications, including PC Magazine, Computerworld, and the Los Angeles Times.
Other details:
# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0596007353
# ISBN-13: 978-0596007355