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Rule the Web: How to Do Anything and Everything on the Internet---Better, Faster, Easier [Paperback]

Mark Frauenfelder (Author)
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0312363338 978-0312363338 June 12, 2007 1st

In Rule the Web, you'll learn how to:

* Browse recklessly, free from viruses, ads, and spyware

* Turn your browser into a secure and powerful anywhere office

* Raze your old home page and build a modern Web masterpiece

* Get the news so fast it’ll leave skidmarks on your inbox

* Fire your broker and let the Internet make you rich

* Claim your fifteen megabytes of fame with a blog or podcast

You use the Web to shop, do your banking, have fun, find facts, connect with family, share your thoughts with the world, and more. But aren’t you curious about what else the Web can do for you? Or if there are better, faster, or easier ways to do what you’re already doing? Let the world’s foremost technology writer, Mark Frauenfelder, help you unlock the Internet’s potential—and open up a richer, nimbler, and more useful trove of resources and services, including:
 
EXPRESS YOURSELF, SAFELY. Create and share blogs, podcasts, and online video with friends, family, and millions of potential audience members, while protecting yourself from identity theft and fraud.
 
DIVIDE AND CONQUER. Tackle even the most complex online tasks with ease, from whipping up a gorgeous Web site to doing all your work faster and more efficiently within your browser, from word processing to investing to planning a party.
 
THE RIGHT WAY, EVERY TIME. Master state-of-the-art techniques for doing everything from selling your house to shopping for electronics, with hundreds of carefully researched tips and tricks.
 
TIPS FROM THE INSIDERS. Mark has asked dozens of the best bloggers around to share their favorite tips on getting the most out of the Web.
 


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"Frauenfelder knows the answer to every question you have ever asked. Luckily he has written it all down here for you, on non-electric pages which even you can understand."--John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise and correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
 
"Frauenfelder doesn't just live on the cutting edge…he is the cutting edge."--Seth Godin, author of Small is the New Big
 
"When it comes to capturing the zeitgeist of the Web, nobody does it better than Mark Frauenfelder."--John Battelle, author of The Search
 
"Rule the Web is like The Joy of Cooking, only it's about the Web instead of meatloaf."--Xeni Jardin, NPR News technology contributor

About the Author

Mark Frauenfelder is the founding editor of the world's most popular blog, BoingBoing.net, as well as the editor-in-chief of the hit technology magazine Make. Formerly an editor at Wired and a technology columnist for Playboy, he is frequently interviewed for television, radio, and print, including MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and Business Week.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition (June 12, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312363338
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312363338
  • Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.2 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #826,742 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I'm a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles. I am the editor-in-chief of MAKE magazine (http://makezine.com) I co-founded bOING bOING magazine, and was the founding editor-in-chief of Wired Online. I write a monthly column for Playboy called 'Living Online,' and was the co-editor of The Happy Mutant Handbook (Putnam-Berkley, 1995). Find out more about me at http://boingboing.net

 

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36 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars might be the most valuable reference book I own, June 15, 2007
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Create your owk wiki? Find coupon codes? Music way cheaper than Itunes? Bittorrent files? Want to text your friend money? Skype? Bluetooth?

How are we supposed to know everything we can get out of the internet? We didn't learn it in school and one would feel dorky for buying Internet For Dummies.

The cool thing about this book is it answers every question you ever had about using the internet, and the cooler thing is it answers questions you wished you ask. The tone is breezy - never boring or didactic. There's a lot in here for web neophytes and a lot for people that consider themselves web experts. You can tell the author's labour of love is getting the most out of the internet, and he's filtered that love into a mind opening reference book.

It'll be next to my computer for a long time.
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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars For beginners only, September 23, 2007
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While the author is a very successful blogger the blog he is famous for founding is a non-technical one, Boing Boing - it does feature some techie news links but if you bother following the tech news the ones at Boing Boing are always a few days old. The tips and tools he presents are all things that anyone with technical common sense can find within ten minutes doing a simple search. I do recommend it if you are the type of person who likes dead trees. I would not have bought it had I known the information would be this light. From a positive point of view the book is clear and well written and it is good to have recommendations from someone with an honest perspective.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening For the Newest of Users, But Much "Already Knew That" for Old Hands, July 29, 2007
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Maybe it's gratifying to know that I could already have done much of what's in Mark's book, but I don't think I'm all that savvy compared to a couple of million other people who regularly use the Web for our work and home lives. I have dog-eared a number of pages that I intend to go up and try, which is why this is definitely worth it even for me, but I think the value would be even greater for the people who don't already consider themselves marginally power Web-Heads.
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I think my favorite thing about the Internet is the way it lets anyone with a computer and a $20-a-month connection create and distribute their words, sounds, images, and movies to a potential audience of a billion people. Read the first page
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sniping service, bookmarks toolbar, positive feedback rating, rule the web, smart playlists, blog entry, master password, text adventures, online pharmacies, boing boing, blog entries, email application, outgoing mail server
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Google Earth, The New York Times, What's the Best Way, Internet Archive, Internet Explorer, Instant Handbrake, Microsoft Office, Google Desktop, United States, Feedback Score, Google Maps, Delicious Library, Microsoft Word, System Preferences, Cory Doctorow, Google Page Creator, Internet Protocol, Mad Professor, World of Warcraft, Date Added, Disk Inventory, Google Calendar, John Battelle, Play Count, Project Gutenberg
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