Written by CompTIA certification and training expert Mike Meyers, this instructive, full-color guide will help you pass the CompTIA A+ exams and become an expert hardware technician. Mike Meyers' CompTIA A+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting PCs, Third Edition is...

You don't have to be a genius to use Mac OS X Leopard. But if you want to get the very most out of it, put this savvy Portable Genius guide to work and start ramping up the pace. Want to discover Leopard's applications and utilities? Automate repetitive tasks? Use UNIX commands? Install Windows? You'll find cool and useful...

THE INFORMATIONAL DELUGE shows no signs of abating. We are inundated with data from the TV, from the Internet, and from advertisements stuffed in our mail boxes, virtual and otherwise. Unfortunately, as the quantity of information increased, its quality declined dramatically: Books were replaced by journals; then magazines; then newspapers;...

• Creating and formatting high-impact charts for business, science, and education
• Selecting the correct chart for your data
• Customizing your charts with pictures, graphics, and shapes
• Understanding the tricks of the trade that enable you to create...

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are computer systems for storing, displaying and analyzing spatial data. The past twenty years have seen a rapid growth in their use in government, commerce and academia, and they can be used for managing a network of utilities, from handling census data through to planning the location of a new...