NEW WINDOWS MISSING MANUALS TITLES

Title:

QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual

By:

Bonnie Biafore

Publisher:

O'Reilly Media / Pogue Press

Print Release:

October 2009

Pages:

704

Print ISBN:

978-0-596-80402-2

Dealer-$17.97/List-$29.95

Description

QuickBooks 2010 has impressive features, like financial and tax reporting, invoicing, payroll, time and mileage tracking, and online banking. So how do you avoid spending more time learning the software than using it? This Missing Manual takes you beyond QuickBooks' help resources: you not only learn how the program works, but why and when to use specific features. You also get basic accounting advice so that everything makes sense.

QuickBooks can handle many of the financial tasks small companies face. QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual helps you handle QuickBooks with easy step-by-step instructions.

• Set up your QuickBooks files and preferences to fit your company
• Track inventory, control spending, run a payroll, and manage income
• Follow the money all the way from customer invoices to year-end tasks
• Export key snapshots in the convenient new Report Center
• Streamline your workflow with the new Online Banking Center
• Build and monitor budgets to keep your company financially fit
• Share information with your accountant quickly and easily
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Title:

Premiere Elements 8: The Missing Manual

By:

Chris Grover

Publisher:

O'Reilly Media / Pogue Press

Print Release:

October 2009

Pages:

480

Print ISBN:

978-0-596-80336-0

Dealer-$20.97/List-$34.95

Description

Whether you're aiming for YouTube videos or Hollywood-style epics, you need what Premiere Elements can't provide: crystal-clear guidance and real world know-how. This Missing Manual delivers. Packed with great ideas on how to spiff up your footage, this book helps you avoid the dreaded Help! I Never Do Anything With My Video syndrome.

With this book, you'll learn how to use Premiere's two approaches to filmmaking: The quick-and-easy InstantMovie technique, and the classic, handcrafted approach for frame-by-frame editing with fine-tuned transitions, effects, and more. Premiere expert Chris Grover combines a touch of humor with insights, tips, and tricks culled from years of moviemaking experience to help you release your inner Scorsese.

• Create movies from start to finish with hands-on, step-by-step instructions
• Use InstantMovie to whip up a video ready for prime time
• Learn frame-by-frame editing to handcraft your story like the pros do
• Share your movie by saving it to disc, uploading it, or emailing it
• Add video effects that dazzle
• Use keyframes to precisely control cuts, special effects, and sound
• Tap Premiere's automated tools to analyze, organize, and rate your clips
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Title:

Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows: The Missing Manual

By:

Barbara Brundage

Publisher:

O'Reilly Media / Pogue Press

Print Release:

September 2009

Pages:

640

Print ISBN:

978-0-596-80347-6

Dealer-$26.97/List-$44.95

Description

Ideal for scrapbookers, serious and casual photographers, and budding graphic artists alike, Photoshop Elements 8 is more powerful and easier to use than previous versions. But figuring out how and when to use the program's tools is still tricky. With this book, you'll learn not only what each tool does, but also when it makes the most sense to use it and why. You get easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for everything from importing photos to organizing, editing, sharing, and storing your images. And if a feature isn't all that it's cracked up to be, we'll tell you.

How do you use the Photomerge Exposure? How do Quick Fix previews work? With a gentle introduction to get you started quickly, and advanced tips to help you produce really creative work, this Missing Manual provides the answers you need.

• Get crystal-clear and jargon-free explanations of every feature
• Learn to import, organize, back up, and fix photos quickly and easily
• Repair and restore old and damaged photos, and retouch any image
• Jazz up your pictures with dozens of filters, frames, and special effects
• Remove unwanted objects from images with the new Recompose tool
• Learn advanced techniques like working with layers and applying blend modes
• Download practice images and try new tricks right away
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Title:

FileMaker Pro 10: The Missing Manual

By:

Susan Prosser, Geoff Coffey

Publisher:

O'Reilly Media / Pogue Press

Print Release:

January 2009

Pages:

832

Print ISBN:

978-0-596-15423-3

Dealer-$23.97/List-$39.95

Description

The FileMaker Pro 10 desktop database lets you do almost anything with the information you give it -- especially with this book as your guide. Clear, thorough, and accessible, FileMaker Pro 10: The Missing Manual helps you get in, build your database, and get the results you need, whether you're running a business, pursuing a hobby, or planning your retirement. It's the ideal guide for non-technical and experienced folks alike.

Each chapter in this fully updated edition covers the latest timesaving features of FileMaker Pro 10, including saved finds and a redesigned toolbar that reveals information and features more clearly than ever. You'll learn how to import information from the new Bento consumer database (Mac only), write scripts to make your database even easier to use, and send email without leaving FileMaker.

With this book, you will:

• Get your first database running in minutes and perform basic tasks right away
• Catalog people, processes, and things with streamlined data entry and sorting tools
• Use your data to generate reports, correspondence, and other documents with ease
• Create, connect, and manage multiple tables and set up complex relationships that display just the data you need
• Crunch numbers, search text, or pin down dates and times with dozens of built-in formulas
• Outfit your database for the Web, and import and export data to other formats

You'll also get objective advice on which features are really useful, and which aren't. To make the most of this database, you need FileMaker Pro 10: The Missing Manual -- the book that should have been in the box.

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