Last week I threw down the gauntlet to any readers who might want to write your own Windows 8 book with a couple of posts here and here offering a quick guide to getting started.  One of the biggest problems though is your competition and I thought I’d follow these up with a little information [...]

Categories: Advice

Yesterday I threw down the gauntlet to any gHacks reader who might want to write a Windows 8 book, perhaps with the long term goal of signing your own book deal with a big name tech publisher.  You can read my article here.  Lee Whittington made a very interesting comment… I have been turning the [...]

Categories: ghacks

Three years ago this month I began doing some very serious planning.  Back when Windows Vista was released I wrote a 68 page “Vista Power Users Guide”.  It wasn’t very in depth but was intended as a getting started eBook and was primarily written to help stop friends and family from calling me with tech [...]

Categories: ghacks

It’s been a top secret project I’ve been working on with several people including veteran author and ZD Net blogger Ed Bott.  But today my new eBook, “Need to Know: Office 365 Security Essentials” has gone on sale for the paltry price of $11.45 (£7.42) on Amazon US and UK or just $9.95 direct from [...]

Categories: ghacks

Over the weekend Martin here reported that Facebook had released their own Guide to Facebook Security “aimed at young adults, parents and educators to educate them about security concepts on the social networking site.”  It’s a 14 page, fairly academic piece that doesn’t address the fundamental issue that Facebook need to get their own house [...]

Categories: Facebook, Tutorials Basic

Grab my Books is a handy Firefox add-on for users who want to convert multiple web pages into the EPub ebook format. The add-on offers functionality to add the active page, a linked page or a selection on a page to the ebook. Everything else is handled more or less automatically, even though there are [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

I’m delighted to announce that my 170 page Windows 7 Power Users Guide is now completely FREE to download and own as an eBook. The book is for people of all technical ability from complete novices to IT Pros. UPDATE : In the first day of it’s release as a free eBook, the Windows 7 [...]

Categories: ghacks, Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic

EPUB, which stands for Electronic Publication is an open ebook standard. It offers features such as css styling, word wrap or vector images, and its files – the ebooks – have the extension epub. A lot of ebook related sites on the Internet offer their books in epub format. The format is especially popular on [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

I’m usually pretty cautious when it comes to publicly stating that a software or service is the best there is. Martview on the other hand has a lot going for it, and for me, it is currently the best pdf ebook reader for Windows. Having said that, it may not be the best for you, [...]

Categories: Software, Windows