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IPHONE FOR DUMMIES

EDWARD C BAIG · For Dummies
Pages: 416

The iPhone boot camp for getting the most out of your device iPhone For Dummies is the ultimate user-friendly guide to the iPhone Whether you're new to the iPhone or just want to get more out of it, this book will show you the essentials you need to know to take full advantage of the major...
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Teach Yourself VISUALLY iPhone 7: Covers iOS 10 and all models of iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, and iPhone SE

Hart-Davis · Visual
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A visual guide to the latest iPhone technology Teach Yourself VISUALLY iPhone is the visual guide to mastering the powerful features and functionality of Apple's latest smartphone. Whether you're a newbie or upgrading to the latest model, this easy to navigate guide features visually...
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Facebook for Beginners in easy steps

David Crookes · In Easy Steps Limited
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

New to Facebook? Then this essential guide will prove to be the perfect introduction to the world's largest social media site. Covering Facebook's key features, including: Setting up an account and posting on Facebook, whilst maintaining your privacy and staying safe. Having fun perfecting...
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The Gamer's Guide to Coding: Design, Code, Build, Play

Gordon McComb · Sterling
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Learn one of today's most important skills - coding - while creating your own games! With this illustrated, interactive guide to coding, readers will discover how to create, test, and play fun 2D computer games. No prior programming knowledge is required to become proficient: just follow...
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Making Things Smart: Easy Embedded JavaScript Programming for Making Everyday Objects into Intelligent Machines

Gordon H Williams · Maker Media, Inc
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Making Things Smart teaches the fundamentals of the powerful ARM microcontroller by walking beginners and experienced users alike through easily assembled projects comprised of inexpensive, hardware-store parts.Current ARM programming books take a bland, textbook approach focused on complex,...
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PHP and MySQL web development

Luke Welling; Laura Thomson · Addison-Wesley
Format:  Print book : English : 5th edView all editions and formats

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Protecting Your Children Online: What You Need to Know About Online Threats to Your Children

KIMBERLY ANN MCCABE · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 189
Format: Hardcover

As parents, our main job is to protect our children. These days, protection from includes not only the individuals we can see but, also, the individuals that we cannot see - yet who wish to harm our children. And with the growth of social networking and social media parents are often unaware...
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The Happiness Effect: How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost

Donna Freitas · Oxford University Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. Social media has become the dominant force in young people's lives, and each day seems to bring another shocking tale of private pictures getting into the wrong hands, or a lament that young people feel compelled to share their each and every thought...
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Social Media: A Reference Handbook

Kelli S Burns · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 398
Format: Hardcover

Social media is arguably one of the most powerful technology-enabled innovations since the Internet itself. This single-volume book provides a broad and easily understandable discussion of the evolution of social media; related problems and controversies, especially for youth; key people...
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The Selfie Generation: How Our Self Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture

Alicia Eler · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Whether it's Kim Kardashian uploading picture after picture to Instagram or your roommate posting a mid-vacation shot to Facebook, selfies receive mixed reactions. But are selfies more than, as many critics lament, a symptom of a self-absorbed generation? Digital native Alicia Eler's...
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Protecting Your Internet Identity: Are You Naked Online?

Ted Claypoole · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

People research everything online - shopping, school, jobs, travel - and other people. Your online persona is your new front door. It is likely the first thing that new friends and colleagues learn about you. In the years since this book was first published, the Internet profile and reputation...
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Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms

Douglas Downing · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 584
Format: Paperback

This updated edition includes the most recent terms relating to constantly expanding computer and internet technology. More than 3,200 terms and definitions deal with:Practical guidance for business software usersComputer security, law, and ethicsComputer programming, with examples in several...
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SketchUp For Dummies

Aidan Chopra · John Wiley
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

Design almost anything in 3D with SketchUp Whether you've dabbled in drawing in 3D or are interested in learning the basics of design, SketchUp For Dummies makes it fast and easy to learn the ropes of a powerful, user-friendly tool to bring your design ideas to life. From creating a basic...
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To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

Mark O'Connell · Doubleday
Pages: 241
Format: Hardcover

"This gonzo-journalistic exploration of the Silicon Valley techno-utopians' pursuit of escaping mortality is a breezy romp full of colorful characters." - New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) Transhumanism is a movement pushing the limits of our bodies - our capabilities,...
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The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age

Andrew O'Hagan · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A trio of reported essays exploring identity and the InternetThe slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL -- "in real life" -- now seems naïve. We no longer question the reality of online...
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