Random House New Releases - Computers - Between November 26, 2008 and December 26, 2009.

Rapture for the Geeks by Richard Dooling

2009-11-24T00:30:00-05:00

Rapture for the Geeks When AI Outsmarts IQ
Written by Richard Dooling

“Nimble and entertaining . . . A fascinating historical review of our longtime obsession with machines.”
–David Takami, Seattle Times

In Rapture for the Geeks, Richard Dooling looks at what some of the greatest minds have to say about our roles in a future in which technology rapidly leaves us in the dust. Is the era of Singularity, when machines outthink humans, almost upon us? Will we be enslaved by our supercomputer overlords, as many sci-fi writers have wondered? Or will humans live lives of leisure with computers doing all the heavy lifting?

With antic wit, fearless prescience, and common sense, Dooling provocatively examines nothing less than what it means to be human in what he playfully calls the age of B.S. (before Singularity)–and what life will be like when we are no longer alone with Mother Nature at Darwin’s card table.

“One doesn’t expect a nonfiction book to be fascinating, chilling, thoughtful, and funny in equal measure. This one is.”–Kurt Andersen

“Dooling really is onto something here.”–Ars Technica

iPhone Apps Book Vol. 1 by Mojo Media

2009-09-15T00:30:00-05:00

iPhone Apps Book Vol. 1 The Essential Directory of iPhone and iPod Touch Applications
Written by Joe Funk and Mojo Media

Computadoras para todos by Jaime Restrepo

2009-07-08T00:30:00-05:00

Computadoras para todos
Written by Jaime Restrepo

¡Conozca a fondo su computadora y todo lo que puede hacer con ella!

¿Necesita saber usar las computadoras para mejorar su empleo y nivel de vida, pero no sabe por dónde empezar?

¿No entiende la terminología de lengua inglesa que se usa en la computación?

¿Quiere comunicarse con sus amigos y su pa’s de origen por correo electrónico o por llamadas telefónicas por Internet pero no sabe cómo hacerlo?

¿Sabe ya cómo entrar en el Internet pero le cuesta trabajo aprovecharse de todo lo que ofrece?

Computadoras para todos, 2 a edición es su entrada al mundo de la informática, educación, negocios y diversión para la familia hispana. Jaime Restrepo le brinda al lector—tanto el principiante como el más conocedor—la guía más práctica y actualizada para aquel que quisiera saber lo que es una computadora, cómo funciona, y cómo usarla y sacarle provecho.

En esta edición actualizada, Computadoras para todos, 2 a edición le enseña lo œltimo en:

Cómo usar los sistemas operativos Microsoft® Windows® 98/Me, 2000 y XP, y las ventajas de cada uno

Cómo funciona el programa de computación Microsoft® Office 2003, incluyendo los programas Word®, Excel® y PowerPoint®

Cómo utilizar los navegadores más populares: Internet Explorer y Safari

Cómo enviar y recibir correo electrónico mediante los programas Microsoft® Outlook® y Hotmail

Cómo utilizar el programa de mensajero instantáneo Windows Messenger para realizar llamadas gratis a cualquier parte del mundo

Además, el autor esclarece el vocabulario de lengua inglesa que domina la computación al presentarlo de una manera comprensible para cualquiera que no se siente cómodo con ese idioma.

Escrito para el público hispanoparlante y con ilustraciones detalladas, Computadoras para todos, 2 a edición es un recurso imprescindible que esclarece todos los pormenores que se necesita saber para usar todos los componentes de una computadora de forma eficaz.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Say Everything by Scott Rosenberg

2009-07-07T00:30:00-05:00

Say Everything How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
Written by Scott Rosenberg

Blogs are everywhere. They have exposed truths and spread rumors. Made and lost fortunes. Brought couples together and torn them apart. Toppled cabinet members and sparked grassroots movements. Immediate, intimate, and influential, they have put the power of personal publishing into everyone’s hands. Regularly dismissed as trivial and ephemeral, they have proved that they are here to stay.

In Say Everything, Scott Rosenberg chronicles blogging’s unplanned rise and improbable triumph, tracing its impact on politics, business, the media, and our personal lives. He offers close-ups of innovators such as Blogger founder Evan Williams, investigative journalist Josh Marshall, exhibitionist diarist Justin Hall, software visionary Dave Winer, "mommyblogger" Heather Armstrong, and many others.

These blogging pioneers were the first to face new dilemmas that have become common in the era of Google and Facebook, and their stories offer vital insights and warnings as we navigate the future. How much of our lives should we reveal on the Web? Is anonymity a boon or a curse? Which voices can we trust? What does authenticity look like on a stage where millions are fighting for attention, yet most only write for a handful? And what happens to our culture now that everyone can say everything?

Before blogs, it was easy to believe that the Web would grow up to be a clickable TV–slick, passive, mass-market. Instead, blogging brought the Web’s native character into focus–convivial, expressive, democratic. Far from being pajama-clad loners, bloggers have become the curators of our collective experience, testing out their ideas in front of a crowd and linking people in ways that broadcasts can’t match. Blogs have created a new kind of public sphere–one in which we can think out loud together. And now that we have begun, Rosenberg writes, it is impossible to imagine us stopping.

In his first book, Dreaming in Code, Scott Rosenberg brilliantly explored the art of creating software ("the first true successor to The Soul of a New Machine," wrote James Fallows in The Atlantic). In Say Everything, Rosenberg brings the same perceptive eye to the blogosphere, capturing as no one else has the birth of a new medium.

Say Everything by Lincoln Hoppe

2009-07-07T00:30:00-05:00

Say Everything How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
Written by Scott Rosenberg
Read by Lincoln Hoppe

Say Everything by Scott Rosenberg

2009-06-16T00:30:00-05:00

Say Everything How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
Written by Scott Rosenberg

Stealing MySpace by Julia Angwin

2009-03-17T00:30:00-05:00

Stealing MySpace The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
Written by Julia Angwin

A few years ago, MySpace.com was just an idea kicking around a Southern California spam mill. Scroll down to the present day and MySpace is one of the most visited Internet destinations in America, displaying more than 40 billion webpage views per month and generating nearly $1 billion annually for Rupert Murdoch’s online empire. Even by the standards of the Internet age, the MySpace saga is an astounding growth story, which climaxed with the site’s acquisition by Murdoch’s News Corporation in 2005 for a sum approaching one billion dollars. But more than that, it may be the defining drama of the digital era.

In Stealing MySpace, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Angwin chronicles the rise of this Internet powerhouse. With an unerring eye, Angwin details how MySpace took the Internet by storm by grabbing the best ideas from around the Web, encouraging pinup stars such as Tila Tequila to make their home on its pages and giving everyone freedom to experiment with online identities–including using somebody else’s identity.

Stealing MySpace introduces us to the site’s founders, Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, who dabbled in computer hacking, online pornography, spam, and spyware before starting MySpace. Although their street savvy, doggedness, and clubbing skills far eclipsed their tech prowess, they stumbled their way to success and soon found themselves at ground zero of a high-stakes war that pitted Rupert Murdoch against his frequent nemesis, the combative Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone. Angwin sheds light on the dizzying backroom deals that allowed Murdoch to snatch MySpace from Viacom’s grasp even as the MySpace founders remained in the dark about their own fate. Then she takes us inside the Murdoch empire as DeWolfe and Anderson lobby furiously to regain control of their creation.

Venturing beyond the business aspects of the story, Angwin also explores the Internet culture, a voyeuristic world in which MySpace must stay one step ahead of amateur pornographers, sexual predators, and “spoofers” who set up fake profiles (Rupert Murdoch himself tolerates dozens of phony “Ruperts” on the site) and cope with the general excesses and sometimes illegal acts of a community of account holders equal in number to the population of Japan.

In Stealing MySpace, Julia Angwin dishes on the epic real-world battle for control of a virtual empire. In a savvy, smart, fast-paced narrative reminiscent of Bryan Burrough and John Helyar’s Barbarians at the Gate and Michael Lewis’s The New New Thing, Stealing MySpace tells is the whole gripping story behind a breakout cultural phenomenon.

Stealing MySpace by Julia Angwin

2009-03-17T00:30:00-05:00

Stealing MySpace The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
Written by Julia Angwin

Computadoras para todos (3a edici�n) by Jaime Restrepo

2009-01-06T00:30:00-05:00

Computadoras para todos (3a edici�n) Edici�n ampliada con m�s informaci�n sobre el Internet
Written by Jaime Restrepo

¡Conozca a fondo su computadora y todo lo que puede hacer con ella!

¿Necesita saber usar las computadoras para mejorar su empleo y nivel de vida, pero no sabe por dónde empezar?

¿No entiende la terminología de lengua inglesa que se usa en la computación?

¿Quiere descubrir y aprovechar todo lo que el Internet tiene que ofrecer?

¿Quiere mantenerse en contacto con sus amigos y familiares por correo electrónico, llamadas telefónicas por Internet, o a través de las redes sociales virtuales?

Computadoras para todos es la entrada al mundo de la informática, educación, negocios, diversión y relaciones sociales para la familia hispana. Jaime Restrepo brinda al lector— tanto al principiante como al más conocedor —la guía más práctica y eficaz para quien quiera saber cómo usar una computadora y cómo sacarle todo el provecho.

En esta edición ampliada y actualizada, Computadoras para todos le enseña lo último en:

Programas de computación

• Microsoft® Windows® XP y Vista
• Microsoft® Office
• Microsoft® Word, Excel y PowerPoint
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer
• Microsoft® Outlook® y Windows Mail

El Internet

• Google
• Skype y Windows Messenger
• iTunes
• Yahoo Maps
• Amazon.com
• Monster.com
• Facebook

Dirigido al público hispanohablante, Computadoras para todos contiene más de 400 ilustraciones detalladas, incluyendo pantallas en inglés y el vocabulario de lengua inglesa que domina la computación, explicado y presentado de una manera comprensible para cualquiera que no se sienta cómodo con ese idioma.

Organize Your Digital Life by Aimee Baldridge

2009-01-06T00:30:00-05:00

Organize Your Digital Life How to Store Your Photographs, Music, Videos, and Personal Documents in a Digital World
Written by Aimee Baldridge

Now that digital cameras and music players have become so incredibly widespread, a forest of sound and imagery is blossoming in our homes. We’ve got digital pictures in the camera, scans on the computer, JPEGS attached to e-mails, and tunes on tiny players. But there’s also the old-fashioned stuff: photos in shoeboxes, videos in the attic, documents in desk drawers, songs on tape and vinyl. How do you transform all of these different elements into a convenient archive you can store in your computer, easily reach, and actually enjoy? This book delivers basic step-by-step instruction on streamlining and organizing your "digital life" so you can find what you need instantly and create presentations your friends and family will love. In addition, you’ll be amazed at the decrease in household clutter and paper waste.

For everyone —from teenagers who thrive on the technical to families with overflowing photo albums and seniors who’d love to collate decades’ worth of letters and pictures —this reader-friendly source has all the answers. These easy-to-follow solutions can truly enhance and simplify the hectic, over-saturated lives so many of us find ourselves leading today.

Organize Your Digital Life by Aimee Baldridge

2009-01-06T00:30:00-05:00

Organize Your Digital Life How to Store Your Photographs, Music, Videos, and Personal Documents in a Digital World
Written by Aimee Baldridge

Internet para todos by Jaime Restrepo

2008-12-18T00:30:00-05:00

Internet para todos
Written by Jaime Restrepo

¡Aprenda todo lo que usted necesita saber acerca del Internet!

Cómo utilizar los navegadores más populares: Internet Explorer, Safari, Netscape

Cómo funciona el correo electrónico, incluyendo los programas MS Outlook® y Hotmail

Cómo usar el mensajero instantáneo, inclusive para hacer llamadas por el Internet

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Windows 98/Me Para Todos by Jaime Restrepo

2008-12-18T00:30:00-05:00

Windows 98/Me Para Todos
Written by Jaime Restrepo

¿Sabe cómo más o menos usar las computadoras, pero no sabe cómo sacarle provecho a todo lo que ofrece el sistema operativo Windows® 98/Me?

¿No sabe cómo usar el teclado para poder escribir en español más fácilmente?

¿No entiende la terminología de lengua inglesa que se usa en la computación?

¿Quiere usar el programa Windows® 98/Me para obtener archivos cibernéticos, pero no sabe cómo hacerlo?

¿Sabe ya cómo entrar en el Internet pero le cuesta trabajo encontrar todo lo que ofrece?

Escrito en español para los hispanoparlantes y con ilustraciones detalladas, Windows® 98/Me para todos es un recurso imprescindible que esclarece todos los pormenores que se necesita saber para usar el sistema operativo de computación más popular del mundo de forma eficaz, ya sea para uso personal, para hacer compras, en el trabajo, para desarrollar un negocio, o para pasar el tiempo.

Paso a paso, Windows® 98/Me para todos abarca todo sobre el uso de todas las funciones y las opciones que ofrece Windows® 98/Me:
> cómo instalar los programas que funcionan con Windows® 98/Me
> cómo usar los CD-ROM y tocar los CD de música grabada
> cómo trabajar con los LAN o redes locales.

Además, el autor explica el vocabulario inglés que domina la computación al presentarlo de una manera comprensible para cualquiera que no se sienta cómodo con ese idioma. Windows® 98/Me para todos también incluye un útil glosario de terminología de computadoras de interés para los hispanos.

En Windows® 98/Me para todos, Jaime Restrepo le abre a la familia hispana la puerta al mundo de la informática, educación, negocios y diversión.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Random House New Releases - Computers - Between November 26, 2008 and December 26, 2009.

Rapture for the Geeks by Richard Dooling

Rapture for the Geeks When AI Outsmarts IQWritten by Richard Dooling

iPhone Apps Book Vol. 1 by Mojo Media

iPhone Apps Book Vol. 1 The Essential Directory of iPhone and iPod Touch ApplicationsWritten by Joe Funk and Mojo Media

Computadoras para todos by Jaime Restrepo

Computadoras para todos Written by Jaime Restrepo

Say Everything by Scott Rosenberg

Say Everything How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It MattersWritten by Scott Rosenberg

Say Everything by Lincoln Hoppe

Say Everything How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It MattersWritten by Scott Rosenberg Read by Lincoln Hoppe

Say Everything by Scott Rosenberg

Say Everything How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It MattersWritten by Scott Rosenberg

Stealing MySpace by Julia Angwin

Stealing MySpace The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in AmericaWritten by Julia Angwin

Stealing MySpace by Julia Angwin

Stealing MySpace The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in AmericaWritten by Julia Angwin

Computadoras para todos (3a edici�n) by Jaime Restrepo

Computadoras para todos (3a edici�n) Edici�n ampliada con m�s informaci�n sobre el InternetWritten by Jaime Restrepo

Organize Your Digital Life by Aimee Baldridge

Organize Your Digital Life How to Store Your Photographs, Music, Videos, and Personal Documents in a Digital WorldWritten by Aimee Baldridge

Organize Your Digital Life by Aimee Baldridge

Organize Your Digital Life How to Store Your Photographs, Music, Videos, and Personal Documents in a Digital WorldWritten by Aimee Baldridge

Internet para todos by Jaime Restrepo

Internet para todos Written by Jaime Restrepo

Windows 98/Me Para Todos by Jaime Restrepo

Windows 98/Me Para Todos Written by Jaime Restrepo

Rapture for the Geeks When AI Outsmarts IQ
Written by Richard Dooling

iPhone Apps Book Vol. 1 The Essential Directory of iPhone and iPod Touch Applications
Written by Joe Funk and Mojo Media

Computadoras para todos
Written by Jaime Restrepo

Say Everything How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
Written by Scott Rosenberg

Say Everything How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
Written by Scott Rosenberg
Read by Lincoln Hoppe

Say Everything How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
Written by Scott Rosenberg

Stealing MySpace The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
Written by Julia Angwin

Stealing MySpace The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
Written by Julia Angwin

Computadoras para todos (3a edici�n) Edici�n ampliada con m�s informaci�n sobre el Internet
Written by Jaime Restrepo

Organize Your Digital Life How to Store Your Photographs, Music, Videos, and Personal Documents in a Digital World
Written by Aimee Baldridge

Organize Your Digital Life How to Store Your Photographs, Music, Videos, and Personal Documents in a Digital World
Written by Aimee Baldridge

Internet para todos
Written by Jaime Restrepo

Windows 98/Me Para Todos
Written by Jaime Restrepo