The world's top Internet provider, America Online(, hotwires beginners on the Web with a fun and easy guide and CD. For the millions of Americans still intimidated by the Internet, this is an accessible, easy-to-understand tutorial to accessing its wonders in just one week. (Communications/Networking)
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A comprehensive guide written especially for AOL users, Wired in a Week starts off with the basics. Each chapter covers a handful of information that can be easily absorbed by novices in a single day. In fact, the first day covers skills like plugging in your modem, using a mouse, and setting up your first account. Most folks won't lose out by skipping ahead to later chapters, and depending on your current skill level, you may be able to just skim the book for its useful points. Instant messaging, chat rooms, e-mail shorthand like LOL and IMHO, e-cards, and basic keyword searches are explained over two chapters, while an entire day is devoted to online shopping procedures. Days five and six revolve around tools like Mapquest and Digital City, which together will have you not only dining out at the best restaurants, but not getting lost on your way to dinner. The last chapter covers various ways to set up parental controls for everything from time limits to age ratings for particular sites, and also suggests methods of introducing your kids to the Web, if they haven't begun to explore it themselves.
In general, Wired in a Week is designed to help brand new users (newbies, as they are called by the digerati) take advantage of all the tools AOL has built into its system. If you've been using AOL for a while, chances are you're already familiar with most of the skills presented here. With short chapters, simple directions, and plenty of diagrams and pictures to help out when words aren't enough, you'll find it easily possible to be "wired in an afternoon," rather than an entire week. --Jill Lightner
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EXCELLENT RESOURCE,
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This review is from: AOL Wired in a Week: Master the Internet in 10 Minutes a Day (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)
This book is a must have next to your computer. It tells you how to get started online and how to use AOL for checking stocks, sports scores, email and getting pictures online. I refer to it all the time.
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My mother-in-law loved this book,
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We've been trying for years to get my mother-in-law online so that we could email her and send her pictures of the kids online. We bought her a computer for Christmas last year, but she never used it. We gave her this book last weekend, and I just got an instant message from her. It really worked!
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Quick & Easy!,
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This review is from: AOL Wired in a Week: Master the Internet in 10 Minutes a Day (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)
I actually read the book over the course of a weekend. Having been an AOL user for several months, I thought I would be familiar with most of the information provided, but was pleasantly surprised to find that the book contained an abundance of extremely useful hints -- shortcuts and access to fun stuff I didn't even know existed on AOL!Definitely a must-read for both newbies and for veteran AOL users, this book comes VERY highly recommended by me! It will top my holiday gift-giving list this year!
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An important note: Everything that follows in this book is based on the latest version of our software, AOL 6.0. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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An important note: Everything that follows in this book is based on the latest version of our software, AOL 6.0. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
channel menu, online experience, screen name Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Buddy List, Welcome Screen, America Online, Kids Only, Digital City, Yellow Pages, Life Keyword, People Connection, You've Got Mail, Billy Bob, Certified Merchants, Get the Info Keyword, Pre-order Star Wars Video, Whats New New!
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