Get your Web site to "show you the money" by using Google to draw more eyes--and wallets--to your content. In this friendly, four-color guide from veteran author and Web developer Eric Giguere, you'll learn all about Google's AdSense program and how you can use it to make your Web site or blog more profitable. Written in an easy-to-read, non-technical style, this book follows three average people--Claude, Stef, and Anita--as they learn to create money-making blogs and Web sites. Through their experiences, you'll learn: basic Web terminology; the Google Adsense nuts and bolts; how to host, build, and publish targeted ads and Google search boxes to your Web site; filter out inappropriate ads; track page performance; drive traffic to your site; and more. A four-part companion Web site features a blog, includes reader resources, and details the techniques discussed in the book.

Online marketers agree that AdSense is one of the best tools you can use to draw dollars to your site. Let Giguere show you how to make the most of Google and have fun doing it!

So you fancy yourself a filmmaker? Here to ensure that you truly are is a simple, to-the-point guide that leads you through the process of creating your very first digital video project with Adobe's brand-new consumer-level video editing software, Premiere Elements ($99). In these pages veteran author and PC Magazine contributing editor Jan Ozer gets right to the point: Rather than explore every option and feature of Premiere Elements, Jan uses project-based instruction and big, colorful screen shots to demonstrates the quickest, easiest, and smartest route to cinematic success. Each short lesson builds on the last as you learn how to capture and import video; add transitions, titles and effects; take advantage of the program's stunning templates; use the program with Photoshop Elements to edit and incorporate still images; and output your finished video to DVD. The book's small size and even smaller price ($12.99) make it the perfect entry point into the world of digital filmmaking as well as the ideal jumping-off point for further exploration.

Sure, you were happy when the first Mac OS X-compatible version of Word arrived (after all, it's the one software program you can't live without). But this is the version you've really been waiting for. In contrast to Word for Mac OS X-which gelled nicely with the new OS but didn't offer much compelling additional functionality-Word 2004 offers a slew of usability improvements. To start taking advantage of them immediately, you need this task-based guide from popular Mac teacher Maria Langer! Using simple step-by-step instructions, loads of visual aids, and plenty of well-placed tips, Maria gets you up and running fast on the basics before moving on to cover more advanced techniques (formatting, inserting objects, creating outlines, and more). If you're a veteran user, you can go directly to the new material (for example, learning how to record audio notes and link them to your Word docs). And if you're a beginner, you'll appreciate the thorough coverage of all the most common Word tasks.

You tried to resist it, but the palm-size, cotton candy-­colored iPod Mini proved too alluring to live without! Knowing that you'll want to learn all of its secrets--plus those of its big-sibling iPod and the newly updated iTunes 4.7 as well--trusted Mac teacher Christopher Breen has thoroughly updated his best- selling guide to the world's most popular digital music player. You'll learn the all-important basics of downloading, storing, and indexing your music plus all that's new in iTunes 4.7: the iMix feature, which lets you upload playlists to the iTunes Music Store (where other users can browse and even rate them); jewel-case printing; additional iTunes Music Store features (such as radio charts and a dedicated music video section); and more. You'll also find guidance for accessorizing and protecting your iPod and iPod Mini, tips for making the most of your storage capabilities, and troubleshooting advice for those moments when the diminutive device is uncooperative.

If you've signed up for Apple's $99 .Mac service, you're in good company--over 500,000 users have signed up for this terrific collection of online services and software. But if you don't have a lot of time to learn all of .Mac's features, this slim, task-based volume will show you just what you need to get started. This book leads you along the quickest, easiest route to setting up and using .Mac: how to use iDisk to store, share, and back up files; how to create a Web site with HomePage; how to post iPhoto photos and iMovie videos to your Web site; how to use iSync to keep your calendar and address books synched across your devices and Macs; how to protect your computer from viruses with Virex; how to share iCal calendars with others, and how to use .Mac's Web mail feature. Each task is illustrated with large, colorful screen shots and clear, step-by-step instructions.

Adobe Acrobat is nearly ubiquitous in today's office. The IRS uses Acrobat to make tax forms available for download as PDFs, and colleagues use it to share, edit, and review documents and create electronic signatures. It's not a difficult tool to use, but Acrobat's powers are largely untapped by most users. This slim, concise, four-color book is built around a simple, practical project that you can complete using your own content. Each short lesson builds a component of a basic Acrobat project. Along the way, readers will learn how to use Acrobat's editing and reviewing tools, add digital signatures to electronic documents, assemble a PDF slideshow, create a zippy presentation, and more. This bright, accessible guide is a perfect guide for anyone starting out with Acrobat.

Every new PC sold comes installed with Windows XP, so there are millions of  XP users out there, so why not make your Windows XP machine work and look the way you want it to and stand out from the rest? Customizing Windows XP: Visual QuickProject Guide shows you how to customize you machine so you can work the way you want to. Each chapter uses large, four-color screenshots and focused instructions to lead you through common customizing tasks. This guide will help you learn the hidden productivity tricks, inside tips, and little known shortcuts to navigating and customizing your windows; changing backgrounds and screensavers; altering icons and mouse pointers; customizing and arranging folders; configuring for multiple users; and much more!

The problem: Your boss has demanded a database, and you don't know how to create one. It doesn't matter that it's just a simple one (for tracking invoices, inventory, and contacts), or that flexible, powerful software (FileMaker Pro 7) has already been purchased. If you've never created a database before, the task can be daunting. The solution: This low-priced, compact guide! Recognizing that you don't necessarily want or need to know about every FileMaker Pro 7 feature, this focused, four-color volume demonstrates the quickest route to creating a functional, organized database-nothing more and certainly nothing less. Using large color illustrations and a minimum of verbiage, it provides the basics you need to get going without bogging you down with detailed explanations of all of FileMaker's intricacies. It also serves as the perfect jumping-off point for more extensive database exploration-for example, through FileMaker Pro 7: Visual QuickStart Guide.

 If you're like many users, you may have a digital camera, plenty of
 snapshots, and a copy of Photoshop Elements, Adobe's consumer-level image
 editing software. But as anyone who's just come back from vacation with
 hundreds of digital photos knows, getting all those photos printed and
 organized is another matter altogether. Many users find that printing photos
 on a home printer and assembling them into a traditional photo album can be
 a tedious and painstaking chore.
 
 With Adobe Photoshop Elements for Windows, all this has changed. Using this
 software, you can easily organize your digital photos into an album and then
 order a hardcover, professionally bound book printed from your album pages.
 
 Best-selling author Katherine Ulrich cuts straight to the chase in this
 compact, low-priced volume, using simple project-based instruction and big,
 colorful screen shots to guide you through the process of assembling your
 digital photos into an album using Photoshop Elements for Windows. By
 focusing on a single goal (organizing your photos into an album) rather than
 exploring every option and feature of the software, Katherine demonstrates
 the quickest, easiest, smartest route to photographic success. Each short
 builds on the last as you learn how to import photos from your
 digital camera to your PC, add captions and notes, fix image flaws, position
 your photos, create albums, choose your styles, fine-tune your layouts, and
 order your stunning book of photos online (or print your own).

 This book's friendly, colorful layout and ultra-affordable price makes it
 ideal for anyone who wants to quickly learn how to create beautiful, printed
 photo books to share with family and friends.

Scott Kelby and Felix Nelson (the creative team behind Photoshop User magazine) take their best-selling Photoshop Killer Tips books to a whole new level with their update for Photoshop CS2.

Okay, why a book of nothing but tips? Because that's where all the really slick, really useful, and really fun stuff is. It's true! If we're looking through a book and we see the word "Tip" we're all immediately drawn to it, because we know we're about to learn something great.  Maybe it's an undocumented keyboard shortcut, a hidden inside secret, or just a faster, better way to do something we do every day. The only problem with the tips in these books is that there are never enough of 'em.  That is, until now.

That's because this book is packed cover-to-cover, wall-to-wall with nothing but those cool Photoshop CS2 sidebar tips. Every tip is designed to make you work faster, smarter, and have more fun using Photoshop CS2. There are no detailed descriptions of CMYK separation set-ups, or long boring discussions on color management theory. It's just tips--short, sweet, and to the point.

But we've done the "tip" idea one better, because every tip has a full-color graphic to make the tips even more accessible, even more fun, and even easier to use. Most importantly, to get in this book they've got to be "Killer Tips." The kind of tip that makes you smile, nod, and then call all your friends and "tune them up" with your new  status as Photoshop guru.

If you've wondered how the pros get twice the work done in half the time, it's because they know all the tips, and all the tricks. Now with this book, so will you.