Special Edition Using the Internet and Web

Annotation Special Edition Using the Internet and Web is the first book that targets the most popular activities of Internet users in a single book. The primary advantage of Special Edition Using the Internet and Web is that it focuses on the most common activities of Internet users, not on the underlying technologies or software. The approach is similar to that of The Complete Idiot's Guide? to Online Investing and other similar single-activity Internet titles-except that this title covers multiple activities in a single book! The book is organized by activity-how people spend their time online-with individual Internet technologies introduced as appropriate within each activity. Where other "big" Internet books covered the software (browsers, email clients, newsreaders, FTP clients, etc.) and smaller books covered individual topics (online investing, online shopping, online auctions, etc.), this book covers multiple individual end user activities. Topics range from getting connected-and getting connected faster-to online shopping and downloading MP3 files. In short, whatever users want to do online, they'll find in this book-without having to wade through hundreds of pages of software-specific instruction. Michael Miller has authored more than three dozen non-fiction how-to books in the past decade, including The Complete Idiot's Guide? to Online Auctions, The Complete Idiot's Guide? to Online Search Secrets, and Using Windows 98 Preview Edition. He is regarded as an industry expert in online searching and online auctions, and was a regular columnist for the former AuctionRover.com Web site (now part of GoTo Auctions). Mr. Miller is also President of the Molehill Group, a writing/consulting firm based in Carmel, Indiana. More information can be found at the author's Web site, located at www.molehillgroup.com.