Rule the Web: How to Do Anything and Everything on the Internet---Better, Faster, Easier | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Frauenfelder
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 57280
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 1
ISBN: 0312363338
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.678
EAN: 9780312363338
ASIN: 0312363338
Publication Date: June 12, 2007
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Product Description
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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 10 Times Worth it's Price October 11, 2008
After reading some of the previous reviews, I was a little hesitant about buying this book, but how glad I am I did. This book is packed with all kinds of useful information. I've been an "cyberspacer" for about 10 years, so I'm pretty good on the web. But I found some golden nuggets that I have never seen anywhere else and most of it was ways to save money on things that I have previously paid for. If anyone is considering buying this book, I pray that you read my review. It is worth every penny and then some. t either gave me options to save money or pointed me to another site that would. It linked me to other sites that are just as power packed as the book is. For those reviews that said that it could be found on the internet if you took the time to look for it, I definitely challenge that. I even tried to google some of the things and it didn't come up. So to me you would have to be a real "techy" to know where to find this kind of stuff. These are definitely secrets worth having! Five stars are not enough for this great tool!
Rule the Web - I'm gonna buy it! September 19, 2008
Excellent book. Really excellent. Doesn't make you feel like an idiot for not knowing much about Gmail
VERY highly recommended
Indispensible Reference For Novices and Web Heads Alike June 6, 2008
I'd originally purchased this to give to my husband who's constantly pestering me to look things up on the internet because he doesn't know how to find them easily. After thumbing through a few chapters, I realized that it's not just for novices at all.
I'm a blogger, and I'm online almost constantly. Even so, I found plenty of information here that has made my online time more efficient, just as the title promised.
Not only did I wind up getting another copy for my husband (because I'd dog-eared the first one for my own use), but I gave one to a relative who's driven me nuts with her "How do I...?" phone calls (which almost without fail come right as we sit down to dinner).
Awesome resource.
 Rule the Web May 15, 2008
Mark Frauenfelder certainly covers a lot of ground and isn't kidding with the books subtitle "How to do anything and everything on the Internet - better, faster, easier.
This is the kind of book that you will want to keep on a shelf right by your computer for handy reference. Read the book from front to back cover or skip around and sample the chapters that interest you the most. Whichever way you do it you will learn some handy new things about surfing the web.
You may also want to keep paper, pencil, and a highlighter handy for noting all the web site addresses in the book. I was disappointed there wasn't an appendix of them or at least some method of highlighting them when the book was printed.
If you can't learn from this book, you're some kind of god January 18, 2008
One site described in the book made the whole purchase price worthwhile. A gold mine of information. The claim on the cover that you can "raze you old home page and build a modern Web masterpiece" is unfounded. Otherwise spectacular.
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