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Essential Movie Maker

Digital Movie Maker is 164 colour pages dedicated to helping you create great movies, and get the best out of your digital camcorder. We will show you how to produce films you will be proud of. This guide is brimming with tutorials, projects, step by step guides and expert advice. We will help you through every stage of the process, showing you how to direct, edit and produce like a professional. We also tell you the insider secrets giving you a leg up the learning curve. This guide does not take anything for granted, our tutorials are clear and easy-to-follow.

Essential Home Security

Welcome to a new crime-fighting magazine! We’re no super hero, but it’s our mission to help you know everything about keeping your home, your family and your pets safe.
Home security should be important to everyone, whether you live in a house or an apartment.
Knowing your home is protected provides peace of mind both when you are away and when you are at home. We explain the basics of home security and help you build and maintain your own home security system from wireless alarm kits to internet connected CCTV – you can monitor from anywhere.
We also have reviews to help you become more informed about our featured products and decide what is right for you. With Essential Home Security Magazine, you can rest assured that we give expert, dependable advice.
When people think of protecting their homes, they often think of state-of-the-art expensive security systems, and if you want to go that route we will show you how. We will also show simple steps you can take today that won’t break the bank!

Web Site Creator 05

Your website is intrinsically linked to you as part of your life or business and is an extension of both. It is important that you spend some time getting to know the basics of building a website, and Website Creator will definitely help you with that. When building a site you need to think about the future as well as the present. When you have built your site you need to consider how easy it is to change or move your website. You may want to add new pages, remove a section and add or delete products. If you learn to build your site yourself, you will understand how its works and therefore you won’t be reliant on anyone else. Knowing where to start is the biggest hurdle to jump. Website Creator will help you take those first steps to overcome any beginner’s fears, and you will find that our step-by-step guides will help you to achieve your goal before you know it! If you are determined to take control of your own website then there is no time like the present to start!

Essential Microsoft Windows

The fifth issue of the definitive guide to Microsoft Windows. In each issue, we take apart the current operating system, and guide you - in a simple step-by-step fashion - through the essentials of making the most out of it. In this issue, we’ve dropped the ‘Vista’ part of our title - we are now just Essential Windows magazine - but our focus remains the same. Helping you to make the most out of windows, with friendly step-by-step guides; informative features and practical hints and tips.

Open Office 3

This magazine is dedicated to the latest version of OpenOffice. With this magazine, you not only get great step-by-step tutorials you get a great suite of office programs free for you to use and give to your friends. OpenOffice 3 is Open Source software, meaning it's free to anyone! It's able to read and write Microsoft Office files so you can open and save Word, Excel and PowerPoint files . OpenOffice 3 Writer is a full-featured word processor. It features unique tools such as the Navigator and Stylist. These make changing the formatting throughout a large document easy as 1-2-3. OpenOffice 3 Calc is a full-featured spreadsheet. It has a vast number of statistical and scientific functions. It can create pivot tables, charts and more. OpenOffice 3 Impress is a full-featured presentation tool that allows the user to create and modify diagrams and pictures right within the application. OpenOffice 3 Draw is a powerful drawing tool. It has support for both vector and bitmap images allowing you to create plan, diagrams and pictures.

Essential Digital Photography 2

Essential Digital Photography is a beginners guide to using a digital camera. We will help you understand your camera. We explain the different types of camera available and how to use each of the features found on common digital cameras. We also give a solid grounding in the basics of photography by answering questions on subjects like, what is an f-stop? We won’t write long-winded explanations full of mathematical equations that you need to be Einstein to understand, but use full colour diagrams, photographs, drawings and step-by-step guides to show you exactly what you need to know. Finally, we will show you exactly how the professionals take photographs for subjects ranging from portraits to the fastest sports. Our mission is to keep technical concepts simple and easy to understand.

Excel 2007

Revision 2 All New Excel 2007 edition.

Divided into three sections-Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced, Essential Excel covers topics such as formatting data for dates or currency, automating numbers, Smart tags, functions, labels, filters, forms and using Excel as a database and much more. If you use excel at all, this bookazine will help you to use it to the full!

Essential DVD Maker Issue 3

ssential DVD Maker is part of The Essential Series of bookazines. This time concentrating on what you can do with your DVD drive and how to do it.
In easy to follow step by step tutorials this publication will show you how to do such things as backup precious DVDs, make your own Slideshow DVDs and Movie discs in a variety of formats. Essential DVD Maker also shows you what software is available out there and how to use it, including the software on the supplied disc. Buy it at W H Smiths or direct from us.

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DVD Maker

In issue 4 we show you several different ways to make your own DVDs. We'll also look at what tools you will need to copy DVDs. Why would you copy a DVD? I hope the answer is to backup and protect your investment and not to rip off the film makers. We all know DVDs are vulnerable to scratches and scuffs. Therefore, what if the unthinkable happens to your favourite movie, well if you made a backup DVD then all is well, but if you didn't you will need to fork out for the film all over again. This doesn't seem fair but this is the way it is. Our guides will help you keep the movies you have paid good money for safe!

eBay Advisor 1

Over the last couple of years, eBay has grown from a relatively small online
auction site into a community with its own form of cash, a telephone system and much more.
The concept was so simple. Provide a simple means for people to communicate across to globe with a view to selling their own products. In conjunction with that, the buying side of things needs to be easy to complete to ensure that any sale problems are minimal.
The result is an ever-evolving auction experience that adapts to the current trends and essentially grows with you.
If you want to sell something, the listing process takes very little to follow (even less with our detailed step-by-step guides); and with many categories available in which to sell it's straightforward enough to ensure your item is visible.
When you're looking to buy something, you can either browse through the site or enter a search to see if something matching that description is available.
Paying for an item is easy enough, whether by traditional means or through the PayPal site and if you have a query that needs answering you can do so either through the comment forms or via SkyPE.

eBay Advisor Issue 2

If you haven't heard of eBay, you must be from Mars or even Milton Keynes!
The biggest thing since the dawn of time, eBay has taken over the net and the lives of countless individuals the world over. Find out what all the fuss is about and maybe become a star seller yourself.

eBay Advisor Issue 3

Home Energy Magazine

Home Energy Magazine will give you the information you need to make the right choices for your future and your children’s future. Find out if wind power is suitable for you or if solar power will fit the bill better. What equipment you will need to use a heat pump and which appliances you can run from batteries.

eBay Advisor Issue 4

If you haven't heard of eBay, you must be from Mars or even Milton Keynes!
The biggest thing since the dawn of time, eBay has taken over the net and the lives of countless individuals the world over. Find out what all the fuss is about and maybe become a star seller yourself.

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The essential guide to Microsoft Vista Issue 3

Issue 3

Essential Windows Vista Issue 4

The guides presented in this issue of Essential Windows Vista explain a range of features in a friendly yet informative manner, clearly detailing any terminology along the way. A combination of simple step-by-step guides and tutorials means that whether we are presenting a beginners guide or an expert one, anyone will be able to follow them. We take nothing for granted and explain each step in detail. Our aim is to help you get more out of your computer.

Essential PC First Aid Issue 1

Essential PC First Aid targets Windows Vista and shows you how to fix many of the most common problems home users have with their PCs. Despite being a big improvement over Windows XP, Vista isn't perfect and you'll still find you'll run into the odd error, program crash or system slowdown from time to time. We show you how to reduce the chance of this happening, as well as how to recover and get your system back up and running when it does. With easy to follow step-by-step guides, handy diagnostic software on the disc and informative features, you'll find everything you need here to keep your computer in great condition.

Essential PC First Aid Issue 2

Essential PC First Aid targets Windows Vista and shows you how to fix many of the most common problems home users have with their PCs. Despite being a big improvement over Windows XP, Vista isn't perfect and you'll still find you'll run into the odd error, program crash or system slowdown from time to time. We show you how to reduce the chance of this happening, as well as how to recover and get your system back up and running when it does. With easy to follow step-by-step guides, handy diagnostic software on the disc and informative features, you'll find everything you need here to keep your computer in great condition.

Essential Open Office issue 1

Microsoft Office is a superb suite of software programs. It's used in many offices across the country and it's very difficult to fault the capabilites of the suite as a whole - except one way. It's not free.Enter OpenOffice.org - a very caperble suite of software programs. Offering the same programs and Microsoft office compatibility. This magazine has a free disc with the whole suite and the magazines guides you step-by-step help you learn to use them fast!

Essential Open Office Issue 2

Microsoft Office is a superb suite of software programs. It's used in many offices across the country and it's very difficult to fault the capabilites of the suite as a whole - except one way. It's not free.Enter OpenOffice.org - a very caperble suite of software programs. Offering the same programs and Microsoft office compatibility. This magazine has a free disc with the whole suite and the magazines guides you step-by-step help you learn to use them fast!