Dwight Spivey eBooks

The easy way to control your home appliances Do you want to control common household appliances and amenities from your smartphone or tablet, wherever you happen to be? Home Automation For Dummies guides you through installing and setting up app-controlled devices in your home, such as heating and air conditioning, lighting, multimedia systems, game consoles, and security and monitoring devices-and even suggests popular products to consider. The saturation of the mobile market with smart devices has led to an upsurge in domestic devices, such as thermostats, refrigerators, smoke detectors, security systems, among others, that can be controlled by those devices. Both Google and Apple offer fully-integrated solutions for connecting mobile devices to ho...

A savvy guide to Office 2011 for Mac usersMac users, you don't have to give up one ounce of cool to use Office 2011 on your Mac. Here's the hip guide you need to get the most out of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Get started with Office 2011, find out what features are shared between apps, and start creating stylish Word docs, lively PowerPoint presentations, awesome Excel reports, and totally organized Outlook lists and calendars. And you'll love the portable sizejust perfect for keeping this guide on hand while you work.Features facts, tips, and secrets to help you get the most of out of Office 2011 for MacProvides the key tools and shortcuts you need to accomplish tasks, without bogging you down in too much detailCovers how to get started w...

Hip help on how to make Apple's new Mac OS X Snow Leopard purrFull-color, 400 pages, and packed with information, this savvy guide gives readers the essential information they need on Mac OS X Snow LeopardWhether novices or serious Mac fans, readers will find that this book answers the questions they have most, without overwhelming them with detailTopics include troubleshooting and maintaining Mac OS X, customizing the computer and workspace, automating repetitive tasks, using Unix, manipulating images and multimedia, listening to music and podcasts, connecting peripherals, copying music to an iPod, syncing Macs to other devices, and moreAs with all books in the Portable Genius series, this book is fun but straightforward; it comes in a handy portabl...

Mac OS X Portable Genius is always at the ready for you with facts, tips, and secrets to give you the most from your favorite OS. This genius teaches you to customize your computer and workspace, troubleshoot and maintain Mac OS X, and just have fun. Browse and manipulate images and multimedia, listen to music and Podcasts, copy music to an iPod, add a printer, sync your Mac to other devices, and take control of Leopard to make it work for you.From the introduction:"Some of you may be rolling your eyes right now; all computers use the file and folder concept and some sort of colorful user interface, so there couldn't be that much difference between Mac OS X and its competitors, right? Wrong. I don't just say this because of some blind devotion t...