macOS Mojave in easy steps


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macOS Mojave in easy steps opens up by explaining the foundations of macOS: the Dock and the Finder. Then, it reveals a raft of ways in which you can make the most of macOS Mojave: • Multi-Touch navigation options for getting around in macOS Mojave. • Working with and managing your apps. • Productivity options on your Mac. • Getting online with Safari, Mail, Messages and FaceTime. • Managing your digital lifestyle for photos, music, video, books and games. • The invaluable iCloud online function for backing up, sharing and continuing from different devices. • Using Siri, Dynamic Desktop and Dark Mode to make things even easier. • Keeping your Mac working smoothly. There is also a chapter on troubleshooting and keeping macOS Mojave in tiptop shape. Get more out of your Mac, Mac mini, Mac Pro or MacBook with minimum time and effort! Covers macOS Mojave, released September 2018. Table of Contents: 1. Introducing macOS Mojave 2. Getting Up and Running 3. Finder 4. Navigating in macOS Mojave 5. macOS Mojave Apps 6. Getting Productive 7. Internet and Email 8. Digital Lifestyle 9. Sharing macOS 10. Networking 11. Maintaining macOS




Access in easy steps


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Access in easy steps has an easy-to-follow style that will appeal to anyone who wants to get more from the Microsoft Access app. Whether you’re using Access in the Office 365 suite or standalone Office product, you can use this guide to learn the key features and get more out of Access. Learn how to: · Optimize database design for efficiency · Create Tables to store data · Use handy templates and get a head start · Make queries to extract specific data · Produce user-friendly Forms for data entry · Explore basic SQL for advanced queries · Construct informative Reports quickly · Import and export data to Excel and Word · Securely share your well-designed database and reports that’ll impress your colleagues! Access in easy steps contains separate chapters on the major features of the Access app. There are complete examples that demonstrate each aspect of Access, together with screenshots that illustrate the actual output. This book neatly demonstrates the important functions of Microsoft Access in a clear and concise manner, so you can get going quickly with this popular database application. Illustrated using Access 2019. Contents: Getting started Designing Databases Creating Tables Defining Relationships Handling Data Making Queries Coding Queries Producing Forms Enhancing Forms Supplying Reports Sharing Access




Photoshop Elements 2019 Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts in easy steps


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Photoshop Elements 2019 Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts in easy steps not only offers a comprehensive guide to getting up and running with the software, but goes further: providing a wealth of detail in ways to progress to more advanced photo-editing and also find some of the hidden secrets of the software. Although the book looks at some of the ways you can expand your photo-editing exploits, it does not forget new users or anyone who wants to brush up on the basics. Areas covered include: · Navigating around Elements and organizing images. · Using Quick Wins for removing unwanted objects, and Guided edits to create special effects. · Using Text and Drawing tools to add and edit text. · Sharing your photos in a range of formats, such as photo books or cards, and on social media. · Key features such as Auto Curate, Artistic Overlays, opening closed eyes, adding watercolor, and replacing backgrounds in your photos. · New features including Auto Creations, Meme Maker, Multi-Photo Text, and Text and Border Overlay. · Layered images, reducing camera shake or haze, removing imperfections, creating impressive text, removing red-eye, and more. Photoshop Elements 2019 Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts in easy steps has something for everyone: an in depth introduction for new users, and a range of options for those who want to take their photo-editing to the next level. Throughout, there are hundreds of tips and handy hints so that you will feel like an Elements expert in no time. Covers versions for both PC and Mac users. Table of Contents: 1. Introducing Elements 2. Organizing Images 3. First Digital Steps 4. Quick Wins 5. Artistic Effects 6. Beyond Basic Color Editing 7. Working with Selections 8. Layers 9. Text and Drawing Tools 10. Becoming an Elements Expert 11. Printing Images




macOS Mojave: The Missing Manual


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Answers found here! Apple’s latest Mac software, macOS Mojave, is a glorious boxcar full of new features and refinements. What’s still not included, though, is a single page of printed instructions. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, delivering the expertise and humor that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for 18 years straight. The important stuff you need to know Big-ticket changes. The stunning new Dark Mode. Self-tidying desktop stacks. FaceTime video calls with up to 32 people. New screen-recording tools. If Apple has it, this book covers it. Apps. This book also demystifies the 50 programs that come with the Mac, including the four new ones in Mojave: News, Stocks, Home, and Voice Memos. Shortcuts. This must be the tippiest, trickiest Mac book ever written. Undocumented surprises await on every page. Power users. Security, networking, remote access, file sharing with Windows—this one witty, expert guide makes it all crystal clear. MacOS Mojave gives the Mac more polish, power, and pep— and in your hands, you hold the ultimate guide to unlocking its potential.




CSS3 in easy steps


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CSS3 in easy steps instructs the user how to create exciting web pages using Cascading Style Sheets version 3 (CSS3) for presentation and dynamic effect. CSS3 in easy steps begins by explaining how style sheets can determine the presentation of elements within HTML documents. Examples show how Cascading Style Sheet rules control content position and its appearance with font style, color, gradients, and drop-shadow effects. You will also learn how rules can provide dynamic effect with animation, transformations, and transitions. Each chapter builds your knowledge of style sheets. By the end of this book you will have gained a sound understanding of CSS3 and be able to create your own exciting interactive web pages. The book examples provide clear syntax-highlighted code showing how to selectively style components of an HTML document and how to endow components with interactive functionality, to illustrate each aspect of CSS3 . CSS3 in easy steps has an easy-to-follow style that will appeal to anyone who wants to begin creating stylish web pages. It will appeal to programmers who want to quickly learn the latest style sheet techniques, and to the student who is studying website design at school or college, and to those seeking a career in web development who need a thorough understanding of CSS3.




Python in easy steps


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Python in easy steps instructs you how to program in the powerful Python language, giving complete examples that illustrate each aspect with colourized source code. Python in easy steps begins by explaining how to install the free Python interpreter so you can quickly begin to create your own executable programs by copying the book's examples. It demonstrates all the Python language basics before moving on to provide examples of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and CGI scripting to handle web form data. The book concludes by demonstrating how you can use your acquired knowledge to create and deploy graphical windowed applications. Python in easy steps makes no assumption you have previous knowledge of any programming language so it's ideal for the newcomer to computer programming. It has an easy-to-follow style that will appeal to programmers moving from another programming language, and to the student who is studying Python programming at school or college, and to those seeking a career in computing who need a fundamental understanding of computer programming. Python is the language used to program the Raspberry Pi - covered by Raspberry Pi in easy steps.




HTML5 in easy steps


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Without doubt HTML5 is the future of the web and HTML5 in easy steps demonstrates all you can achieve NOW in the latest browsers - all described in easy to follow steps. HTML5 in easy steps instructs you how to employ the latest development for web page design with HyperText Markup Language (HTML5). Modern web browsers have united to support exciting new features of the HTML5 standard that allows easy creation of stunning web pages and engaging interactive applications. HTML5 in easy steps contains examples and screenshots that illustrate each feature of HTML5, describing how to incorporate meta information about a document within its 'head' section and how to add structured 'body' content. You'll learn how to create web pages to display text, images, lists, tables, hyperlinks, forms, audio, and video - and also how to write script instructions that draw and animate graphics on embedded 'canvas' areas. Each chapter builds your knowledge so by the end of the book you'll have gained a sound understanding of HTML5. HTML5 in easy steps has an easy-to-follow style that will appeal to anyone looking to create compelling web pages for the latest browsers. Ideal for programmers who need to quickly learn the latest HTML5 techniques, students learning website design at school or college, those seeking a career in web development who need a thorough understanding of HTML5, and the enthusiast eager to build the latest HTML5 features into their websites.




macOS Mojave For Dummies


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Pro tips for macOS from “Dr. Mac” Your shiny new iMac or trusty old MacBook both rely on macOS to help you get things done. It helps to have an equally reliable guidebook to steer you through the tasks and steps that make macOS run efficiently. This fun and friendly guide provides the direction you need to easily navigate macOS. Longtime expert Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus shares his years of experience to help you better understand macOS and make it a timesaving tool in your life. Take a tour of the macOS interface Get organized and save time with macOS applications Get pro tips on speeding up your Mac Back up your data with ease Covering the fundamentals of the OS and offering insight into the most common functions of macOS, this is indispensable reading for new or inexperienced macOS users.




Java in Easy Steps


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Provides information for readers on the features and functions of Java.




The Artist in Time


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The Artist in Time brings together twenty creatives from across the UK, with photographs and interviews that disclose their daily working habits and motivations. All born before 1950, this is a collective portrait of a generation who have shaped our artistic landscape. They provide a range of different answers to the question 'what makes an artist?', and a set of insights into what makes up a creative life. Giving the reader access to the studio and working spaces of a diverse group of painters, poets, choreographers, filmmakers, illustrators, musicians, photographers, sculptors, writers and creators, The Artist in Time is a handbook for creativity and inspiration, made up of artists from all backgrounds who have all in their own way shaped, and continue to shape, the creative landscape of the United Kingdom.