The Internet Unplugged: Utilities & Techniques for Internet Productivity...Online and Off [Paperback]

Michael A. Banks (Author), Donald R. Eamon (Author, Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1997

Provides Windows users with practical, easy-to-follow instructions identifying, downloading, installing, and using the full range of important Internet utilities.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Once you get online, it doesn't take long to discover that there are features of the Internet--special graphic, sound, or multimedia files--that you can't access. In The Internet Unplugged, Michael Banks spills the beans about all the available extras that can get you the most out of Internet access--whether for work or enjoyment.

As the title indicates, much of Bank's book focuses on making life easier when you are not actually on the Net. He includes programs and techniques for making files more manageable and for sorting and simplifying e-mail, recommends tools for installing and removing software, and suggests ways to decode files that seem to be gibberish. He also talks about online helpers, including browser add-ons that enable you to access files your basic browser cannot read on its own. Banks covers browsers, graphics viewers, navigation aids, Web-site management tools, e-mail helpers, file managers, compression and archiving software, data encryption, and much more, providing answers even for those who don't yet know enough to ask.

In discussing the various tools, Banks shows his talent for explaining technical details in a most enlightening manner. The Internet Unplugged's tools and explanations are for both novice and intermediate Internet users, for those who simply want to get the most from their browsing, and for those who are ready to produce Web sites of their own. Even dedicated non-techies will begin to understand a lot of the phrases that have been thrown at them in the past.

The book gets continually updated at its own Web site.

Product Details

• Paperback: 251 pages
• Publisher: Information Today Inc (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0910965242
• ISBN-13: 978-0910965248
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,521,790 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Full-time freelance writer. Hobbies and interests include model building, travel, dogs, language, classic cars, the blues, collecting books and old toys, old radio, and history in general. Author of the New York Times bestseller "CROSLEY: Two Brothers and a Business Empire that Transformed the Nation," "Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the Web's Top Bloggers" and 41 other books.

Available to speak at trade shows, corporate events, training sessions, writers' conferences, and other events on product development and marketing, broadcast history (esp. Ruth Lyons), Crosley cars, WLW, and other topics. Contact banksbook at yahoo dot com or crosleybook at aol dot com