Digital Buying Guide 2005

The experts at Consumer Reports provide this essential guide to everything for and about home computing and network needs.

Smart shopping advice on all your buying needs from the source you trust. Whatever your shopping style - diligent researchers, casual browser, or determined time saver - the current shopping scene holds new and expanding options.

Do your homework to determine the best value with this annually updated buying guide from "Consumer Reports." Includes information on what's new in home entertainment, vehicles, appliances, and home office equipment. Ratings, charts and index.

"This is an important book that fills an important niche: a careful and comprehensive report to the field on the development and possibilities of online history."—Stephen Brier, Associate Provost and Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY

This concise, easy-to-use guide is overflowing with the techniques readers need to know to create great movies. Story builds the solid foundation that helps to better understand the camera.

The digital camera has revolutionized photography. Sporting events, breathtaking landscapes, the mood of the sea, or a child's eyes as a present is opened-capture whatever fascinates you. Learn touse your images in ways only highly skilled professionals could manage a mere decade ago. With this practical guide in your camera bag, you'll have professional advice at your fingertips to help you get great shots, use all your camera's features, download and enhance your photos, and share them in dozens of creative ways. * Understand digital camera basics * Learn the secrets for getting a good close-up * Find out when and why to use RAW format * Explore dozens of formulas for shooting a variety of scenes, including suggested lenses, settings, and lighting options * Rid your pictures of red-eye and other imperfections * Create a slide show, prints, or e-mail- and Web-ready images * Make the most of your camera's abilities with filters and other accessories

This updated guide for 2003 will help readers shop smart with ratings of desktops, laptops, PDAs, monitors, printers, scanners, camcorders, digital cameras, CD players/recorders, MP3 players, cell phones and more.