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iTunes and You: By Christopher Breen; May 28, 2009; To best understand what makes the iPod’s world turn, you must be familiar with how it and iTunes 8 work together to move music (as well as pictures, videos, and games, in the case of some recent iPods) on and off your iPod. In the following pages, you’ll see just that.

Online Community Handbook: Member Recruitment: By Anna Buss, Nancy Strauss; Mar 26, 2009; Learn some ways that you can design your community and website to be user magnets, attracting traffic while you sit back and watch the population grow. Also learn how to run successful recruitment campaigns and how to convert casual website visitors into loyal members.

Privacy and Security on Facebook: By Dave Awl; Mar 18, 2009; As long as you exercise a little caution, there’s no reason the time you spend on Facebook should be any more perilous than a night on the town with friends. In both cases, it’s important to keep your wits about you, know the lay of the land, and think before you share too much info with people you don’t know very well.

Seven Rules for Establishing a Corporate Presence on Twitter: By Joel Postman; Mar 2, 2009; These “rules” by Joel Postman will guide you in building trust with consumers, and that includes assuring them that they are dealing with an authorized company representative.

Responding to the Social Media Mobocracy: By Joel Postman; Feb 23, 2009; No company “has” to be on Twitter, but with the low cost of entry, and the opportunity to get involved in and learn from some of these discussions (and possibly head some of them off before they become blog posts and social media failure case studies), why wouldn’t you?

Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read: The Dashboard: By Scott McNulty; Feb 2, 2009; Scott McNulty takes a look at the anatomy of the Dashboard in WordPress. Along the way, he points out what you can change.

Using the "View Map" Feature of the Garmin Nuvi: By Jason D. O'Grady; Dec 3, 2008; Jason D. O'Grady reviews the features of the "View Map" feature of the Garmin Nuvi, including Map Screen, Turn List and Trip Computer.

Customizing WordPress with Google AdSense Ads: By Miraz Jordan; Nov 24, 2008; Placing ads in your WordPress blog may not earn you a big wad of cash, but Google AdSense makes the process easy enough that it's worth the effort. Miraz Jordan shows how simply you can get rolling with AdSense.

Working with Raw Files in Capture NX 2: By Ben Long; Nov 3, 2008; Ben Long looks at Capture NX’s raw processing capabilities for Nikon cameras.

Living for the Weekend with Your Palm Centro: By Patrick Ames; Oct 29, 2008; This chapter explains why you shouldn't reserve your Palm Centro for use only during the week.

Digital Video Editing Tips: Organizing Your Video: By Michael Rubin; Oct 27, 2008; this chapter will guide you in how to label tapes, take notes efficiently, and prepare for editing should you decide that’s what you want to do.

Mail and Calendar: By Christopher Breen; Oct 21, 2008; Christopher Breen explains the ins and outs of iPhone's Mail and Calendar applications.

Solve a Problem: Reconcile a Household Budget: By Richard Harrington; Oct 20, 2008; This chapter offers an exercise to teach students how to produce a budget to evaluate their household expenditures.

Apple’s MobileMe: Hot or Not?: By Terry White; Aug 15, 2008; Author Terry White shares his likes and dislikes of Apple's new MobileMe service. If you use lots of calendars, you may want to read this before subscribing.

Return on Investment: Seven Business Benefits of Tagging Systems: By Gene Smith; Jun 20, 2008; Implementing a tagging system for your site may sound unnecessary or even painful. But Gene Smith points out that tagging can provide significant advantages in exchange for a relatively small investment of time and energy on your part.

The Beginner's Guide to Doing Everything In iTunes: By John Tollett, Robin Williams; Jun 18, 2008; Best-selling authors Robin Williams and John Tollett share their best tips and tricks for working with music, movies, podcasts, Internet radio stations, and more in iTunes 'O8.

How To Buy and Rent Media To Play on Your Apple TV: By Jeff Carlson; May 2, 2008; In this excerpt from The Apple TV Pocket Guide, Second Edition, author Jeff Carlson tells you how to buy cool stuff to watch on your Apple TV using either your computer or the Apple TV itself.

Liven Up Your Design Through Repetition: By Robin Williams; Apr 2, 2008; Author Robin Williams offers practical, fun advice on creating continuity through repetition to make your design work appear more cohesive and professional.

The Three White Girls from YouTube: A Modern Day Fable: By Mark Stephen Meadows; Feb 29, 2008; What is real online? Does it matter? Author Mark Stephen Meadows explores the role of the avatar using the stories of three white girls from YouTube and the debate that resulted from their collective fame.

Peachpit Exclusive: Interview with Legendary Computer and Photography Book Author Scott Kelby: By Scott Kelby; Feb 19, 2008; In this exclusive interview, bestselling Photoshop and technology book author Scott Kelby speaks with Peachpit Publisher Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel about being the top-selling computer book author for the fourth straight year, making the transition from podcast to television, his latest book projects, his photography equipment, his workflow, and much, much more.