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Essential Digital Photography shows you, in easy-to-follow tutorials, how to use your digital camera, it’s a practical guide to choosing a digital camera, picture-taking technique, downloading and printing. The magazine is also ideal for existing snappers who want to get more out of their digital camera.

This new publication has 164 full colour pages of photography information. This issue carries a free bound-in beginners guide. The rest of the book is packed with easy to follow guides from beginner to expert.

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!

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!

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. We’ve added a large reviews section in comparison to other issues; combining commercial and free sources of software as well as hardware.Of course we’ve not forgotten what we’re about. We have a 20 page section dedicated to Windows 7; providing practical advice for those looking to get their hands on the next generation operating system; elsewhere we take you in detail through the process of installing Windows Vista Service Pack 2 as well as security issues. We’ve got a selection of projects located towards the rear of the issue, to take you through complicated subjects in an easy to understand way. Richard Hallas shows some of the considerations when buying a digital camera; whereas John Taylor shows how to create a website in 14 simple steps. We’ve adopted a slightly different style; reflecting perhaps the forthcoming impact of Windows 7 - it’s much the same as Windows Vista; but it has been designed for improved performance on your computer hardware.

e-Magazines

Website Creator issue 1:

Due to High demand for back issue of our magazine. Some have sold out. We have now made the these issues available as e-Magazines. Each magazine is supplied on one CD.

The e-Magazines are the same format as our samlpe magazines found on this site, However all features are enabled such as full zooming for easy access reading and page printout.

Website Creator issue 2:

Website Creator issue 3:

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Website creator issue 1 is the beginners reference magazine. It is packed with everything you may need to know enabling you to create your first website.
Perhaps you want your own web page, or an entire website. Perhaps you’re setting up a website for your business or organisation. You’ve come to the right place. You do not need any prior experience in making web pages as this guide shows you how to get up and running fast. (Sorry Sold Out)

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Website creator issue 2 When it comes to developing your own website, there are a number of ways to approach the subject. You can either go for a ground-up route and develop your own look and feel from scratch (which itself is very time consuming and can complicate the final production, but can be very rewarding) or use an online template-based solution to remove an aspect of the work.
In this issue of Essential Website Creator, we will show you how to create websites in a matter of clicks and also offer some guidance for more expert web masters.
Our Free disc has three full programs and a great collection of utilities to accompany your web building, and we think you've got everything you need. (Sorry Sold Out)

Website Creator Issue 3

Much like the way in which PCs have evolved over the last twenty years, so has the worldwide web and hence the things you can do with it. Gone are the days when you were limited to having mainly text-based sites; it is now practical and reasonable to expect that people will have access to a fast Internet connection and hence be able to use video, graphics and streaming audio at a reasonable speed.
Despite this, some designers seem to forget the origins of web design; something which simply does not make sense - if you forget the origins of web design, you lose many advantages. A simple text-based website, for instance, will be easy to optimise for the benefit of search engines; whereas a website that is Flash based in its entirety has no text basis upon which to perform optimisation.
That said, the techniques you make use of for design should always consider what your intended final product will be. Adobe is aiming to stay at the forefront of such design evolution - on page 12 of this issue we have taken a look at some preview versions of new Creative Suite 4 applications; Furthermore, they suitable impress us.
On page 28 we introduce you to FreeSpace, an online site builder that offers much for the design beginner and professional. You can start by using the template-based system provided, then evolve to uploading your own web site design.
A good starting point is, of course, the next page. We hope you enjoy the issue.

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Website Creator Issue 4
There’s no such thing as a free ride. In this day and age it’s never been more important to have a way of earning your keep: whether in your day job or in something you may do for enjoyment. But would things not be better if you could earn from your hobby? This issue of Essential Website Creator has taken to eCommerce in a very real way: we’ve got practical tutorials showing how; with help from the likes of eBay and Amazon and tools such as Actinic; you can build a business online.
Of course the other major announcement of late has been the release of Adobe’s Creative Suite 4. We touched on two of the new tools in the last issue: in this issue we’ve got eight pages pulling apart the release version. We take a different approach to other web design magazines - within our feature we include a number of mini tutorials giving you a head-start for when you decide to upgrade.
Our reviews section includes a group test of mobile broadband devices; allowing you to make the most of your laptop and the Internet while on a train for example. This is an emerging technology and one we expect to be of considerable importance over the next few years - and it’s a good time to get started with many retailers offering free laptops when you subscribe.
We’ve got the usual mix of practical hints, tips and tricks over the pages that follow. If you do have any comments or questions, please feel free to email me and we’ll always do our best to answer or address them. (Sorry Sold Out)

eBay Advisor Issue 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. (Sorry Sold Out)

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. (Sorry Sold Out)

eBay Advisor issue 3 (Sorry Sold Out)

eBay Advisor issue 4 (Sorry Sold Out)

Home Energy issue 1

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.

Our range of bookazines concentrating on the worlds favourite Office suite

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! (Sorry Sold Out)

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 Word issue 1

Covers so many useful topics, from the starter to the more advanced. Learn about templates, toolbars, shading, speech, mail merge and macros. There are exercises to test what you've learnt and projects you can try like creating a newsletter using Word as a DTP package. Whatever you’re level of experience with MS Office there is bound to be something for you in Essential Word- the second instalment in this best selling series.
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Essential PowerPoint is part of The Essential Series of bookazines.
Concentrating on one of the underrated parts of the Microsoft Office Suite, Essential PowerPoint aims to bring the tools required to produce stunning slide shows and presentations within the grasp of anyone with a computer and a copy of Office. Starting from templates and master slides and going up to adding multimedia experiences to your presentations and even making them interactive, Essential PowerPoint is exactly what it says on the tin, Essential PowerPoint! (Sorry Sold Out

Essential Access, the long awaited final instalment of the essential series covering all aspects of the world’s most used office suite. From simple beginnings right up to full blown customised databases with security and user access rights, whether you want to keep track of your tie collection, or keep an eye on your stock and customers, Essential Access and Microsoft can do it with you. (eBook now available)
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Essential DVD Maker issue 1

It seems like everyone is buying a DVD recorder at this point in time, and as all PC's sold today have DVD burner drives, copying and burning DVDs is a hot topic. However, how do you copy a DVD? What software do you need? Can you use your' DVD recorder? There seems to be more questions than answers. What's more, looking for the answers on the Internet is fraught with dangers as you could well end up at some dodgy crack site that’s ready to fill your' PC with Spyware. Therefore, we have gathered together everything you need to know about the subject and the result is DVD Maker.
Please use the information found in this magazine to make personal backups only. If you don't own the DVD's that you are backing up, it is illegal to copy them, and we do not condone this practice in any way. (Sorry Sold Out)

Essential DVD Maker issue 2 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 Slide show DVDs and film 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. (Sorry Sold Out)

Issue 3 DVD is dead some industry experts will tell you, well don’t believe them! DVD disc is now widely available even in your local super market for know down prices. There are key trends happening from High Definition becoming truly accessible for video consumers, the proliferation of user generated content on the web like U Tube We have also seen the introduction of new operating systems like Windows Vista, Blue Ray, HD DVD and Duel layer DVD disc burning and one-click publishing to the web are among the new capabilities we will be looking at in this issue as well as what Windows Vista has to offer the DVD maker and user.

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!

Issue 1 The essential beginners guide to Windows Vista.

The magazines aim is to make learning Vista easy, but we don't stop there. Unlike other Vista guides, we explain why you need to do things in a certain way and how to save time by planning ahead. We start at the very beginning and walk you through the features of Vista, saving you hours of trial and error. Essential Windows Vista will get you up and running fast! (Sorry Sold Out)

Issue 2 The essential guide to Microsoft Vista aims to make learning Vista child’s play. Our step-by-step guides will make learning Vista easy, but we don't stop there. Unlike other Vista guides, we will explain why you need to do things in a certain way and how to save time by planning ahead. We start at the very beginning and walk you through the features of Vista, saving you hours of trial and error. So, why not try the book that gets you up and running fast! (Sorry Sold Out)

Issue 3 The essential guide to Microsoft Vista

Issue 4 The essential guide to Microsoft Vista

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 Volume 1

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 Volume 2

OpenOffice.org - is a very capable 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!

Microsoft Office Issue 2

A superb suite of software programs. It's used in many offices across the country, and it's very difficult to fault the capabilities of the suite as a whole - except one way. It's not free.Enter OpenOffice.org - a very capable 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!

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 Issue 1

A basic guide to using a digital camera. We will help digital beginners understand their cameras, the differences between point and shoot and more up-market models, so they can decide which digital camera is most appropriate for them.
We also give a solid grounding in the basics of photography by answering questions on subjects like the 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 photographs, drawings and step-by-step guides to show you exactly what you need to know.
Our mission is to keep technical concepts simple and easy to understand.

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Essential Digital Photography Issue 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.

Introducing Steam Spirit our latest bookazine. The overwhelming majority of pictures contained within this book have never been published before and appear as a result of painstaking research and careful digital restoration. Most were taken by or sourced from railway expert Phil Marsh’s collection. The gaps were kindly filled by the following contributing photographers and their collections: Ron Bailes, David Baxter, Thomas Brewer, Duncan Chandler, Tom Curry, Bob Gwynne, Colin Harsley, Michael Medd (From the Scarborough Railway Society collection), Adrian Scales, Roger Scanlon.