Paul McFedries' Books - All Comments

re: New Book: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Website

jesscampaign — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:02:58 GMT

If you can type, you can make a webpage using this book. I have designed a couple of sites using it and cannot recommend it highly enough. And best of all is you do not need to spend a fortune on fancy software that you then find you don't understand.

If you have Notepad you can do it! I have also used it in FrontPage HTML mode.

And if a wee 46year old mother of 3 can do it, then honestly so can you!

re: New Book: Microsoft Office Access 2007 Forms, Reports, and Queries

sarwarsitara — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:40:19 GMT

sir,

i visit your web site. it is a perfect. i found good informitions from it but there is a problem that its downloading files is in accdb format. it is not open in any software. please guide me that from which format this downwload files will open. my e-mail address is:

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re: New Book: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins

johnbutcher — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:12:52 GMT

Symposium: I had thought that this came from the Greek word for drinking party and was the name of a Socratic Discourse by Plato which was set at such a party. The meaning as a Philosophical Conference is said to have been derived from this particular Symposium

re: New Book: iPhone 3G Portable Genius

Steve MacDonald — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:45:23 GMT

Yeah, I saw that myself, but that didn't ruin my day as the book for me is very useful. One thing I looked for and didn't see is if there is a way to sync / create various folders within a POP mail account and sync them to the iphone? I've never been able to sync a "saved" folder to the iphone. I think an Apple genius told me you could only do that with a .mac account?

re: New Book: iPhone 3G Portable Genius

Steve MacDonald — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:21:36 GMT

Just wanted to Thank you for an excellent book.

The cover photo alone is worth the price of this book. Now that's one good looking genius!!

re: New Book: iPhone 3G Portable Genius

John Carter United Kingdom) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:33:04 GMT

I have just received my copy of the book, and was very dissapointed to find an error on page 4.At the bottom of the page, highlighted in blue it states "Unfortunately, you can't replace the menu bar icons with ant other Home screen icons' You certainly can do, I have replced the iPod icon, with the SMS icon. TRy it yourself.