Stories by: Deanne McIntosh

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    How To Do Everything with Your Digital Video Camcorder 16/06/2004 08:48:51

    Digital video editing is one those infuriating technology propositions. Everyone wants to make home movies that look like they could be shown in your local multiplex, but often a multitude of problems crop up on the way to finishing your masterpiece. From equipping your PC to shooting good footage, editing it and then making DVDs, there’s a lot that can go wrong. Hence, titles like this one.
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    Scrapbook with PC help: My Scrapbook 2 31/05/2004 09:38:31

    Forget quilting, embroidery, folk art or dé-coupage — there’s a new kid in craft town: scrapbooking. Now, Ulead’s My Scrapbook 2 brings this paper-based craft into the PC age.
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    Macromedia Flash MX 2004 A Beginner’s Guide 13/05/2004 07:30:53

    If you’ve seen those glamorous sites featuring Flash and want some of that magic for your own outpost on the Web, this book is worth considering.
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    Online! The Book 12/05/2004 08:09:37

    Online! The Book tries to be so many things to so many different readers that it ends up feeling like a bit of a brain dump.
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    How to Do Everything with Google 11/05/2004 08:38:11

    If you think your Web searches are a little lacklustre and you’re often frustrated by the results, How to Do Everything with Google has a bookload of tips to improve your skills.
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    CD encyclopedias: Encarta 2004 Premium Suite CD and Britannica Reference Suite 2004 CD 04/05/2004 07:17:05

    Encyclopedias have always been about heft. Although many of us have passed the era of multi-tomed print editions, this fact remains true in the multimedia arena. Take Encarta, for example. This latest version offers over 130,000 articles and entries, 24,000-plus photos and illustrations, and over 3100 sound and music clips. Not to be outdone, Encyclopædia Britannica promises some 101,000 articles and 25,000 images and multimedia files amongst its statistics.
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    New PDAs pack a punch 23/04/2004 07:59:24

    After a spate of announcements focusing on Palm products (not to mention Palm’s buyout of Handspring), we’re now seeing some movement in the Pocket PC-based PDA market.
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    Books: Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Building Robots 08/04/2004 07:23:01

    If the feature in the February 2004 edition of PC World on building robots whetted your appetite for creating your own electronic beasties, Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Building Robots has been written for you!
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    Books: How Computers Work, Seventh Edition 07/04/2004 07:20:14

    If you can do some basic troubleshooting of your PC’s problems but still feel mystified by what is actually going on in there, take a look at this latest version of Ron White’s How Computers Work.
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    Photoshop Elements 2 Hands-On Training 02/04/2004 07:25:34

    Adobe’s Photoshop Elements’ growing popularity — tied to the rise in digital photography and the product’s cut-down price compared to other Adobe image editing products — has made it a target for numerous how-to books. This latest one is a streamlined entry without the buzzy gimmicks of some of the competitors.
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    XPhone phone home 12/03/2004 07:56:07

    As PDAs and mobile phones merge functions, different users approach the market with different perspectives. Veteran PDA users, for example, take quickly to using PDA/phones such as the XDA and Handspring (now Palm) Treo. Never used a PDA? These devices may feel a little clunky for some to use after a streamlined phone.
 
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