Customer Reviews

Google for Seniors: Get Acquainted with Free Google Applications: Google Earth, Maps, Reader, Docs, Sites, Chrome (Computer Books for Seniors series)

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I do NOT recommend reading this book. It has numerous faults, including: font size in screen images is too small, and the screen images have poor contrast. The page design includes extraneous graphics. For example, when we are to type something in a field, the book provides a callout to the word "Type" plus an image of a keyboard. When we are to click on something, the book gives us an image of a mouse. The keyboard and mouse images are visual clutter.

The book is sometimes wrong. On p. 21 it says to click the Back arrow to open the first hit in a Google search. Nope!

The book ssys nothing about sponsored links. Instead, the first hit is described as "the most important" (p. 21 top).

The book starts out assuming that Internet Explorer is your web browser. Later it introduces Chrome.

There are signs of a lack of careful editing. For example, sentences and ideas are sometimes in an illogical order. For example, the first paragraph at the top of p. 271 is: "The first time you open Picasa, the program will search your computer for images. On your desktop you will see a new shortcut to Picasa. Click the icon to open the program." Wait. First I find Picasa's desktop icon (in the book the picture of this icon is blurry with a medium gray background and looks nothing like Picasa's bright, attractive desktop icon). Then I double-click the icon. Then Picasa offers two options for searching the computer for images.

On the plus side, the "Please Note" box at the bottom of page 271 is well-written and gives good guidance. This and a few other useful bits of information earned this book 2 stars instead of 1.

One of the most important companies in our modern information technology age is Google. Almost all information passes through Google so knowing this technology is essential to benefit from human evolution.

This book explains to seniors what kids nowadays learn automatically and brings you up to date with Google, shows you how to find the information you are looking for, how to have fun with Google Maps & Earth, Google Docs & what the advantages are of Google Chrome.
A must-buy for every senior that has even the smallest interest in keeping up to date with the current world.

They say you can't tell a book by its cover; but in this case, you can! The cover explains exactly what you are getting into. A book that explain how to protect, clean up and speed up your computer, made with senior citizens in mind.

I have followed the Visual Steps series for a while and what I think makes them famous is their clear step-by-step teaching method of computer subjects, so on every page there is a big full-colour screenshot of the topic you are learning, together with a detailed step-by-step explanation of how & why this works. You can see this has been a method that has been perfected through years of experience with elder people and how they like to learn.

A perfect match for any older citizen that wants to know why a computer slows down after a while, but more important, wants to know what to do about it.

This very beautifully illustrated colourful computer books connects the elderly to the net with the most important skill that most people do not know how to do well; Google - knowing this single skill in our humanity allows us to find any information and connect to any person in the world - this is a basic life skill that ranks up with language in importance.

Give the seniors in your community the gift of communication with the best training tool they can use themselves.

A wonderful way to learn about computers & more importantly, the biggest search engine in history: Google.

This is the single most useful skill to learn in modern times & fusing a beautifully crafted book into a teaching mechanism for the modern computer is an excellent way of learning that fuses visuals, text and interactivity in an excellent self-learning process.

More for beginners then seniors - it is an excellent way to learn & be up to speed with the modern world of wonder.

Never be a free helpdesk for your grandparents again; get this Visual Step-by-step book to explain seniors how the internet works & connect them to the internet. This book is one refined piece of work, frequently updated and such a great feeling to see my grandparents online & sharing... Recommended if you want your parents/grandparents happy.

I got this book as a Christmas gift. Did not think much of it but an influential person in my life nudged me to give it a shot and learn to use the internet (Google).

This book clearly explains me in my own pace what I do & how it works. I even taught my son how to use the 'site:' tag, to specifically look through one site in particular.

Excellent to learn about Google & computers.

A great book that does exactly what it says: visually teaches seniors to use GOogle and connect them to the information network that is the internet. Looks specifically designed to welcome newcomers into this world, by easing them into this technology with a familiar medium. Recommended for seniors or as a self-teching tool.