There’s Always More To Learn About The Web

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Although I’m far from a tech head, I consider myself a pretty savvy internet user. My browser’s tricked out, I can execute keyboard shortcuts in my sleep, and now that I’ve switched to using dual monitors with my laptop (when I’m not blogging from my treadmill) I’ve become even more of a web-head than ever.

So I really didn’t expect to learn much from Mark Frauenfelder’s book Rule the Web: How to Do Anything and Everything on the Internet—Better, Faster, Easier. But here it is, just a week after I picked up a copy in the hope of providing my husband with a resource (other than me) to answer his never-ending “How do I…?” questions about using the internet.

Before giving it to him, I figured I’d sit down and browse through a few pages and maybe find one or two tips on things I didn’t know. Then one or two became one or two dozen, and soon I’d dog-eared the book so much that I realized I needed my own copy. So, I kept that one and bought a second one for my husband’s use.

Not long after that, we got a call from my mother-in-law which began with “I’m having problems with IE 7.0. How do I…?” and, while my husband walked her through the explanation, I hopped online and ordered her a copy, too.

Sure, there’s plenty of information that’s going to seem rudimentary to some folks: how to use eBay and Google, how to subscribe to RSS feeds, etc. But there’s also plenty of information that even long-time internet users don’t always know (or might have forgotten). Whether it’s personal productivity or system maintenance, finding new sources for news or safe places to download free software, Fraunfelder’s covered it in simple, straight-forward language that even my mother-in-law can understand.

Which means, if I’m very lucky, she might just stop calling here every two days at dinner time in search of free computer help. At $10.17 for her own copy of Rule the Web, I think that’s worth every penny.

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