With 6 million members now, America Online is the world's largest online service provider. America Online 3 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide provides an easy, step-by-step guide for beginners to getting up and running with AOL and for intermediate users to gain more in depth understanding of the service. The book helps readers go from installing the newest version of the software to exchanging email, using newsgroups and the web browser, and participating in forums and live chats. Key America Online areas, such as Entertainment, NewsStand, Computers and Software, Marketplace, and Kids Only, are described and illustrated, and appendices offer lists of shortcut keys, forums, and companies. The book comes with a Mac AOL setup disk, with the latest AOL interface, version 3, included.As with all books in Peachpit's highly successful Visual QuickStart series (now with more than a million copies in print), information is presented in a graphic, visual fashion. Hundreds of screenshots and detailed illustrations are accompanied by clear, step-by-step instructions.
Maria Langer has been a freelance writer since 1990. She has written more than 75 books and hundreds of articles about using computers, software, and online services. She provides support for her work, as well as new content, on the Maria's Guides website. These days, she also writes about aviation and travel for a variety of print and online publications.
Maria is also a commercial helicopter pilot and owner of Flying M Air, a helicopter tour and charter company based in Arizona. Her company offers tours, day trips, multi-day excursions, and aerial photography services throughout the southwest.
And if that's not enough to keep her busy and out of trouble, she's also a serious amateur photographer. She shows off her best work on her photo gallery, Flying M Photos.
Maria blogs at Eclectic Mind, her personal journal of thoughts and experiences.
