Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Google Rolls Out a New Cloud Storage For Your Entertainment Needs

March 07, 2012
Google unveils Google Play - a cloud based service that unifies all its entertainment offering into a single entity. Earlier you had Google Music to store your music files, Google eBook store to buy books, Android Market to buy/download apps for your device running Android and so on.

Get Free Printed Copies Of The Book - Version Control By Example

August 13, 2011
Eric Sink the founder of SourceGear - a company that has developed a slew of products revolving around Version Control has published his book named - "Version Control by Example".

And guess what, he is offering a printed copy of the book for free to whoever asks for it.

Google Releases A Free, Interactive Book On Browsers and The Web

November 19, 2010
Google, in its pursuit of bringing awareness about Internet among the masses has executed a unique project in the form of an interactive book on web browsers and the Internet.

How to self publish your own book

November 07, 2009
If you have decided to write a book, then you must be wondering about the different publishing options at your disposal. In most cases, you typically approach a publishing house with your idea of the book. However, there is an interesting alternative, which is to self-publish your book.

Free Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference

January 27, 2009
Ubuntu neophytes and gurus alike have cause to rejoice. Here is a gem of a deal - a free ebook on Ubuntu authored by none other than Kier Thomas. The book is divided into seven chapters spanning 170 pages. And it contain a wealth of information right from an introduction to Ubuntu, to installing and configuring it on your machine, coming to grips with the desktop, a lucid explanation of the various system administration tasks you should carry out to maintain your system, and of course the security aspects of Ubuntu which is dealt with in the seventh chapter of this book.

This is a wonderful book which is sure to be a ready pocket reference to all Linux users running Ubuntu on their machine. And true to Keir's class, the language is lucid and to the point. The sapient advice he belts out in this book to many of the common problems faced by Ubuntu users puts this book on a singular level of its own.

While the author has been gracious in providing the ebook as a free download, the real value of this book lies in buying a print edition of the book. As owing to its pocket size (8 x 5.2 x 0.4), it is ideal to carry the book where ever you go without much hassle. You can order a print copy of this book from Amazon for a nominal price of $9.94.

Free Software Sticker Book - free download

August 10, 2007 10 comments
Are you looking for that exact sticker to stick on your machine, on your car's windshield or anywhere you fancy, in order to proclaim to the world that you support GNU Free software ? Then look no further because a group of three people have compiled a book featuring hundreds of stickers of various hues and shapes and which is made available for free download as a PDF document.

So all you have to do is to download the book and print out your favorite sticker from the lot. And then you are ready to advertise your personal preferences as far as computing is concerned. For all you know, you might even be able to persuade people close to you to try out the Free software in the process. Here is a screenshot of a subset of the collection of stickers you will find in this very beautifully compiled book.

Fig: A sample of the variety of stickers you will find in this book.

You can download the book of stickers from the following link.