Joel Durham, Derek Torres

eBook, PDF

Windows Vista Ultimate Bible (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

The ultimate book on the ultimate Vista for gamers and digitalmedia buffs.If you're the ultimate gamer and multimedia fan, Windows VistaUltimate and this information-packed book are for you. Want tolaunch games with a single click? Share files with your Xbox 360?Try out new audio and media tools? It's all here and then some.You'll find step-by-step tutorials, techniques, and hacks-plusin-depth discussions of games, gaming, performance tips, and muchmore. Whether you're a veteran Windows gearhead or just gettingstarted, this is the book you need!* Try out the new Aero Glass user interface and new desktopfeatures.* Set up your graphics card, sound card, and speakers.* Keep Vista secure with stronger firewall and family safetysettings.* Meet the new DirectX with 32-bit floating point audio andhigh-speed DLLs.* Share multimedia across a network with ease.* Enrich your audio with crossfade, shuffle, and volumeleveling.* Get up to speed on the new Media Center and Media Player11.* Use the Universal Controller and WinSAT for gaming.* Find out how to run Windows(r) XP games on Vista.* Edit video like a pro.

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• Geräte: PC
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 28.75MB

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Autor

Joel Durham, Jr.I hate writing about myself in the third person for theseauthor blurbs, so I'm going to put a stop to it right now.I'm Joel Durham Jr., and I'm one of your hosts for thisadventure. I've been a computer and video game nerd all mylife, and I've been writing professionally about computers,games, operating systems, consoles, and all that kind of stuffsince 1997 -- when Matt Firme gave me my big break by hiringme as PC Gamer's first Technical Editor. After a yearin that blissful atmosphere I left that job, mainly to escape theSan Francisco Bay area (having to get an interestonly ARM mortgagefor a $750,000 2-bedroom house on a lot the size of a sheet ofstandard copier paper, and somehow survive on an editor'ssalary).I moved back to upstate New York to be near family. Since then,I've been freelance writing for such markets as GameSpy,Gamecenter (I spent time as the Senior Technical Editor therebefore CNET closed the site down), 1UP, Computer GamingWorld, ExtremeTech, PC Magazine, Computer Source, and abunch more. I live with my wife (who defies logic by being toogorgeous to be interested in a geek like me, and yet she is), andthe two smartest, cutest children in the world.Derek TorresI, too, hate writing about myself in the third person; knowingthat Joel hated this odd phenomenon as much as I do was the realreason that I chose to write a few chapters for this book.Technical writer by trade, I've been into computers for avery long time and getting paid to do it since 1998 or so. Mycareer as a tech writer took off in Paris, France, around the turnof the century where I worked for several software shops.After returning to the U.S. a few years ago, I decided to focusmore on writing for software and small business issues. Some of thepeople nice enough to publish my work include Microsoft (WorkEssentials and the Vista Expert Zone), RedmondChannel Partner magazine, and STC's Intercommagazine. I also write a column for the Information in Focus Website and regularly present at technical communication conferencesin the U.S. and in Europe. Additionally, I've had theprivilege of writing or co-writing several books on Windowsoperating systems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 792
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470377451
• Artikelnr.: 37291667