Your vacuum comes with one. Even your blender comes with one. But your PC–something that costs a whole lot more and is likely to be used daily and for tasks of far greater importance and complexity–doesn’t come with a printed manual. Thankfully, that’s not a problem any longer: PCs: The Missing Manual explains everything you need to know about PCs, both inside and out, and how to keep them running smoothly and working the way you want them to work.
A complete PC manual for both beginners and power users, PCs: The Missing Manual
has something for everyone. PC novices will appreciate the unassuming, straightforward tutorials on PC basics, such as hooking up a monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, and scanner. Families will enjoy sections on networking several computers to share an Internet connection, sharing one monitor between two PCs, connecting portable media players, and creating a home theater system. Adventurous PC users will like the clear photos explaining how to take your PC apart and replace or
upgrade any failing parts; IT professionals will be grateful to have something to hand to their coworkers who need solid, trusted information about using their PC.

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Sure, it’s just what you’ve been clamoring for: an ultra slick, portable version of the most popular console gaming system in the world. But Sony’s new PlayStation Portable (PSP) isn’t just a handheld gaming device. Beyond its killer graphics and spectacular widescreen LCD for unparalleled game play, it also sports wireless connectivity and a variety of multimedia features, including video, music, and digital photography. Your wildly versatile, endlessly powerful PSP practically begs you to hack and repurpose it to your liking.

To save you the trouble and show you how to make the PSP do more than you ever imagined–and more than Sony ever intended–PSP Hacks is one succinct volume of 50 of the coolest, most useful, up-to-the-minute hacks for this amazing device. You’ll learn how to open your PSP’s hardware and what to safely plug into it. You’ll explore and put to good use every hidden feature of the device. You’ll be able to move all sorts of multimedia onto your PSP and find ways to extend its wireless capabilities. And you’ll find out how to get the very best experience out of online game play.

With PSP Hacks, you can accomplish a whole lot more than good gaming on the PSP. You’ll quickly learn to surf the Web with a PSP, chat in IRC, and use the PSP to read web comics, ebooks, and RSS feeds. Other expert tips and tools allow you to sync an address book to your PSP, watch UMD movies, fool iTunes into thinking the PSP is an iPod Shuffle, and much more.

The innovative hacks, tweaks, and how-tos in this essential guide make it easy to customize your PSP, take full advantage of features, capabilities, and functionality far beyond what’s listed in the PSP user manual, and make your PSP perform countless tricks that only an all-in-one portable entertainment unit as remarkable and revolutionary as this one could.

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Take control of your PC! Why do they load up a PC with stuff you don’t
need and leave off the things you really want? Don’t take it anymore!
Grab a screwdriver and let these two experts show you how to build the
PC of your dreams, even if you’ve never cracked a case before. You’ll
learn to choose the right components, install them safely, test your
system, find the best prices on parts, and even trick out your new
machine with some cool tweaks and mods. Plenty of illustrations and
step-by-step directions make it easy, and you just might make your
wallet happy, too. How to build what you want Oh, the things you’ll
learn! Safety first it’s Chapter 1 Choose your tools Powering this
puppy Motherboard knows best RAM it into drive(s) Video and sound are
in the cards Bringing your PC to life Testing! Testing! Operate on
Windows ; XP Warranties in English

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Get ready to make the most of Sony’s awesome entertainment device, and
hacker’s dream - the PSP. Hacking the PSP covers everything you need to
know to: Transfer video and DVDs to your PSP Transfer audiobooks and
text Hack the games you play every day (including using the PSP as an
XBox game save device) Move your TiVo and ReplayTV shows to your PSP
Convert your DVDs to run on your PSP Create your own quick-charge
battery packs Learn how to program the PSP Repair your PSP Create your
own hacks and run homebrew software Find all the online and offline
resources you need And much more!

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