- Managing The Holidays With Your iPhone or iPad
- Dec 18, 2013
- Lisa Spangenberg offers up her favorite iPhone and iPad apps for making shopping, cooking, and entertaining a little bit easier.
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- Nikon D7100: The Professional Modes
- Jul 19, 2013
- If you really want to take that next step in controlling your photography, it is essential that you understand not only how to control aperture and shutter speed, but why you are controlling them. John Batdorff explores the modes of the Nikon D7100, including Programmed Auto Mode, Shutter Priority Mode, Aperture Priority Mode, and Manual Mode.
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- You Are Not Your Work
- Jul 10, 2013
- Michael Janda explains that in order to succeed in the design industry, it is imperative that you remember that you are not merely the sum of your work. If you interpret design critique as a character critique, you are setting yourself up in a defensive position that will impede your ability to improve your design skills and adapt to different creative environments.
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- A Guide to Newborn Baby Photography: The Planning Stage
- Jun 27, 2013
- In this chapter you’ll learn how to prepare and plan your newborn sessions, which baby tools every newborn photographer needs, and how to work with parents. This information will help you stay organized, gain trust, and complete a successful sales session by learning to shoot for the products you want to sell.
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- How to Shop on Your Kindle Fire
- Feb 4, 2013
- This chapter shows you how to use the Shop app to buy a variety of things right from your Kindle Fire with a few taps.
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- Get the Most out of Mail and Outlook.com with Your Microsoft Surface Tablet
- Jan 23, 2013
- This chapter from Microsoft Surface: Visual QuickStart Guide focuses on the Mail app and how it, along with People and Calendar, uses Outlook.com to do more on the tablet.
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- iPhone App Anthem: Using Apps & the App Store
- Jan 22, 2013
- Scott Kelby and Terry White show you how to download iPhone apps to your computer, get apps from your iPhone's app store, delete, update and rearrange apps, quickly switch to another app, cut the app clutter by creating folders, access more apps at the bottom of your screen, use Apple's own downloadable apps, and access your audio controls while in another app.
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- Filmmaking with Your iPad or iPhone: Prepping the Shoot
- Jan 2, 2013
- Preparing for a shoot takes many forms. It might be knowing where to look for a hard-to-find prop. It might be having the right tools mastered for your next location scout. It might be understanding the importance of a release form. It all comes down to this: The more you prepare, the greater your chances for success.
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- Using Your iPhone as a Phone
- Dec 25, 2012
- Don’t forget, your iPhone is also a telephone. And not just a simple phone, but one that helps you, among other things, keep and organize your contacts, view records of calls you’ve made, manage numbers you call frequently, conduct calls with speakerphone and mute, and retrieve voicemail. In this chapter, you’ll take some time to discover just how your iPhone functions as a phone.
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- Working with Text on the Google Nexus 7 Tablet
- Dec 24, 2012
- Learn how to use onscreen or physical keyboards, type in other languages, cut, copy, and paste text, and dictate text on the Google Nexus 7 tablet.
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- Why to Buy a Nexus 7 Instead of an iPad mini
- Oct 31, 2012
- Thinking of buying an iPad mini? Chris Fehily, author of Google Nexus 7 Tablet: Visual QuickStart Guide, suggests you hold back a bit and consider the relative technical merits of the Nexus 7 and its operating system, Android.
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- Understanding the New Google+ Layout
- Aug 6, 2012
- Colby Brown, author of Google+ for Photographers, was pleasantly surprised by the updated interface for Google+ that was unveiled on April 11. He points out some of the new and changed features that will make you a Google+ believer.
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- OS X Mountain Lion: Game Center for Playing with Friends
- Jul 26, 2012
- Game Center is an app that manages your collection of Mac games, keeping track of them and giving you an easy way to boast about your prowess to others. But it’s much more than that. Use Game Center to connect with friends, and see what games they’re playing and how well they are doing. In this excerpt from OS X Mountain Lion: Peachpit Learning Series, Lynn Beighley shows you how to use it.
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- Listening to Music on Your Kindle Fire
- Apr 5, 2012
- This chapter will cover the music interface and all the ways to get music onto your Fire, as well as what to do with it when it is there.
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- Handheld Moviemaking: iMovie on the iPhone
- Apr 4, 2012
- Joanna Silber hated using iMovie from the first minute she opened it on her iPhone. Then she started working with it, and the app pretty rapidly changed her mind. Read what this iMovie convert says about it now.
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- Using Apps & the App Store with Your iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS
- Mar 8, 2012
- Scott Kelby and Terry White share everything you need to know about getting apps from the Apple app store, including updating and deleting them, organizing and moving apps, and where to find the coolest apps.
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- Five Steps to Profiting Through Social Media
- Feb 21, 2012
- Is your business still just gingerly dipping a toe into the surface of the social media pool? It's time to dive into the deep end. Brian Proffitt, author of The PayPal Official Insider Guide to Social Media, provides a simple five-point list of ways to get busy swimming with social media, while avoiding the risk of drowning.
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- How to Make the Most of the Internet on Your iPhone
- Feb 16, 2012
- With your iPhone, all the information you could possibly want is there, right in your hands and in the most updated form; you just need to get it. This chapter shows you how.
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- The PayPal Official Insider Guide to Selling with Social Media: Mapping the Social Media Landscape and Key Websites
- Jan 30, 2012
- Before exploring how to capitalize on social media for your business, it’s best to familiarize yourself with the social media landscape.
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- 10 Cool Things You Can Do with Your Kindle Fire
- Jan 18, 2012
- Did you know that you can email documents, load your own content, and sideload apps with the Kindle Fire? Scott McNulty, author of The Kindle Fire Pocket Guide, offers a list of ten cool things he loves about the Kindle Fire.
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