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- REVIEW: MORE INTERNET FOR DUMMIES Levine & Young IDG Books 1994
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- If you enjoyed INTERNET FOR DUMMIES, here's more for you. After a quick
- refresher course on the basics that were well covered in the first volume,
- MORE INTERNET FOR DUMMIES expands on several topics and covers new areas
- to give the moderately experienced user new skills and knowledge on
- advanced Inter-netting.
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- To be sure, there's a certain amount of duplication, but I found enough new
- material to make this volume worthwhile in its own right. Authors Levine
- and Young provide detailed coverage of some of the commercial on-line
- services that offer Internet access such as Delphi and America Online as
- well as public UNIX providers. There's a chapter on using Windows software
- to cruise the Internet as well as chapters on Trumpet (a great newsreader)
- and Eudora (an easy-to-use mail reading pgm available for both Windows and
- Mac users). MORE INTERNET FOR DUMMIES even tells you how to grab your own
- copy of the shareware version of Eudora right off the net!
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- Other subjects expanded from INTERNET FOR DUMMIES include HGopher, WINWAIS,
- Internet Relay Chat or IRC for short, as well as updated and detailed
- World Wide Web coverage as well. There are a lot of little tidbits, called
- "Fun and Silly Stuff" and "10,000 Interesting Things to Do on the Net"
- to keep you busy for days. Finally there's a pretty comprehensive glossary
- that will intrepret the buzzwords and jargon and translate it to plain,
- understandable English.
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- MORE INTERNET FOR DUMMIES is a post-graduate course on mastering the Internet
- and would be of particular interest to anyone using Windows and the programs
- that run under it to access the Net. It is well written with humor and
- includes more Rich Tennant's 5th Wave cartoons which are delightful as
- always. Not only is it enjoyable reading, you'll learn something too!
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- %T More Internet for Dummies
- %A John R Levine & Margaret Levine Young
- %I IDG Books Worldwide
- %C San Mateo California
- %D 1994
- %O $19.95 USA $26.95 Canada
- %G ISBN:1-56884-164-7
- %P 390 pages, paperbound
- %K Internet, computer netwoeks, online services
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- (C) 1995
- Michael Crestohl
- Nahant Massachusetts USA
- mc@shore.net
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- DISCLAIMER: I have no interest, financial or otherwise, in the success or
- failure of the book or materials reviewed herewith, nor have I received any
- compensation (other than a review copy requested by me) from anyone who has.
- All opinions expressed are strictly my own.
-
- Other Internet and Aviation book/software reviews by me can be obtained
- by anonymous FTP from: x2ftp.oulu.fi in the /pub/books/crestohl directory.
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