Pogue's basics essential tips and shortcuts (that no one bothers to tell you) for simplifying the technology in your life
"Did you know that you can dry out your wet cell phone by putting its parts in separate bowls of uncooked rice? That you can scroll through a website using only your spacebar? That if you type your airline and flight number in to Google, it tells you where your flight is, the gate, terminal, an...
| Main Author: | Pogue, David, 1963- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Flatiron Books,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"Did you know that you can dry out your wet cell phone by putting its parts in separate bowls of uncooked rice? That you can scroll through a website using only your spacebar? That if you type your airline and flight number in to Google, it tells you where your flight is, the gate, terminal, and how long until it lands? ... Pogue's tips have earned him 1.5 million followers on Twitter. And now that he writes his columns for Yahoo Tech, the audience for this advice has grown by millions more. Here at last is the book all these fans have been waiting for: a book of 200 tips that will change your relationship to your phone, computer, tablet, camera--all of the technology in your life"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes index. |
| Physical Description: |
357 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781250053480 (pbk.) 125005348X (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: |
After graduation, Pogue wrote manuals for music software, worked on Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, and wrote for Macworld Magazine. He wrote Macs for Dummies, which became the best-selling Mac title, as well as other books in the Dummies series. He launched his own series of humorous computer books entitled the Missing Manual series, which includes 120 titles. He spent 13 years as the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times, before leaving to found Yahoo Tech. In addition to how-to manuals, he wrote Pogue's Basics: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) for Simplifying the Technology in Your Life, collaborated on The World According to Twitter, and co-authored The Weird Wide Web. (Bowker Author Biography) |