Provides buying advice and profiles of a variety of gadgets, including MP3 players, cell phones, home theater equipment, satellite radio, and GPS navigation systems.

Nurse your PC back to health with a little help from Leo Laporte.Leo Laporte's PC Help Desk in a Bookuses a unique, medical dictionary approach, complete with symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment for all of your common and not-so-common PC maladies. Flow-charts will help you correctly diagnose and treat such problems as: Windows installation woes Storage device tragedies Printer problems Pesky audio, video and general multimedia mayhem Keyboard and mouse afflictions Home networking headaches Core PC hardware issues Application failures Viruses, spyware and spam infections Don't waste time digging through paperwork only to find a tech-support line that is going to cost you an arm and a leg to cure your PC's ailments. Make your own house calls instead withLeo Laporte's PC Help Desk in a Book.

The best all-around guide for diagnosing, maintaining and protecting your PC.

Leo Laporteis TV and radio's most recognized and prolific technology personality, best known for his humor, wit and ability to teach both newcomers and grizzled PC veterans. InLeo Laporte's 2006 Technology Almanac, Leo provides a year's worth of anecdotes, tips, factoids, and musings about the machines at the center of your life. A page is devoted to each day of the year, and each page includes several elements: typically a single-topic essay that takes up most of the page (on subjects as varied as ergonomics, Easter eggs in popular programs, processor overclocking, and discount-travel Web sites), and hints, tips, references to worthwhile software, and goofy trivia.

Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.

Podcasting in a Platform Age explores the transition underway in podcasting by considering how the influx of legacy and new media interest in the medium is injecting professional and corporate logics into what had been largely an amateur media form. Many of the most high-profile podcasts today, however, are produced by highly-skilled media professionals, some of whom are employees of media corporations. Legacy radio and new media platform giants like Google, Apple, Amazon, and Spotify are also making big (and expensive) moves in the medium by acquiring content producers and hosting platforms. This book focuses on three major aspects of this transformation: formalization, professionalization, and monetization. Through a close read of online and press discourse, analysis of podcasts themselves, participant observations at podcast trade shows and conventions, and interviews with industry professionals and individual podcasters, John Sullivan outlines how the efforts of industry players to transform podcasting into a profitable medium are beginning to challenge the very definition of podcasting itself.

As the price of servers comes down to the level of desktop PCs, many small - and medium-sized businesses are forced to provide their own server setup, maintenance and support, without the high-dollar training enjoyed by their big corporation counterparts. This book is the first line of defense for small- and medium-sized businesses, and an excellent go-to reference for experienced administrators who have pined for such a reference! It's all here in one, incredibly useful tome that readers will refer to again and again. Weighing in at more than 1,400 pages, this book blows away the competition's attempts to cover server hardware.