Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 368 pages
- Published by: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
- Edition: 1st Edition December 26, 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0072253428
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0072253429
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
- Weighs: 2 pounds
Product Description
Discover the power of Windows XP to turn digital content into CDs, create movies, archive old albums and cassettes on CD, and much more! Windows XP guru Curt Simmons patiently explains everything from Digital PowerToys to a radio tuner, alarm clock, digital photography, a juke box, and tools such as Media Player, Movie Maker, and more.
Back Cover Copy
Learn to use the great digital tools already built in to Windows XP to burn CDs, make movies, edit and organize photographs, and much more. Explore projects and ideas for using Windows Media Player 9, Windows Movie Maker 2, and digital photos. Follow along as author Curt Simmons takes you through the details of implementing each project from start to finish. There are dozens of fantastic ideas in this book, and hundreds of ways you can expand upon them to create gorgeous, artistic, moving, or just plain fun projects with XP’s digital media tools and additional
Microsoft Plus! packs.
- Take advantage of Windows XP’s built-in digital tools
- Edit and produce movies--from party video to training films or movies
- Archive old albums and cassettes on CD
- Turn your computer into an alarm clock
- Store, edit, print, and publish digital photographs
- Make CDs for friends and put your face on the label
- Become an Internet radio DJ
- Turn your favorite photographs into a slideshow
- Monitor your house with a Web cam
- Make a video screen saver with vacation footage
About the author: Curt Simmons is a technical trainer and author who has written more than thirty computing and technology books, including
How To Do Everything with Windows XP. He also teaches several Internet courses on computing and digital photography.
Reader ReviewsI am certain this would be a useful book. Unfortunately, I have been sent a defective book two times in a row. The cover presents itself as a guide to Windows XP Media Player for a pc, but inside it applies to the apple version. I have sent both back.