Book and Product Reviews

Every year, thousands of new items flood the market for the computer user. One can't help but ask: What software best fits my needs? What book will help me get more out of my computer? What manufacturer builds the best product and provides the best service? Is it worth the price?

These answers and more are found in reviews performed by TCS Members and published in the members only TCS eJournal. As a service to all computer users, some of the past Book and Product Reviews are presented below .. in pdf format.

January 2008

Book Reviews

• Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers

Product Reviews

• Amazon Kindle

December 2007

Book Reviews

• Beginning Unix (Programmer to Programmer)
• Composition Photo Workshop
• Dreamweaver CS3 Bible
• High Performance Web Sites
• Painter X WOW! Book
• Photoshop LAB Color
• Photos That Inspire Photo Workshop
• Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3

Product Reviews

• AKVIS Sketch V5.5/Frame Suite V2.5
• Dell-Ubuntu 1420n Laptop Computer

November 2007

Book Reviews

• Adobe InDesign CS3 Classroom in a Book
• Digital Photo Projects for Dummies
• Dynamic Learning Photoshop CS3
• Macro Photography Photo Workshop
• Painter X for Photographers
• Photoshop CS3 All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies
• Rootkits for Dummies
• Special Edition: Using Microsoft Office 2007

Product Reviews

• Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
• Adobe InDesign CS3
• Smart Resize - a Photoshop plug-in

October 2007

Book Reviews

• Photoshop CS3 Channels and Masks
• Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-on-One
• Linux Bible 2007 Edition: Boot Up Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, SUSE, and 11 Other Distributions
• Photoshop Masking & Compositing
• The Art & Science of CSS

Product Reviews

• Norton Antivirus 2007

September 2007

Book Reviews

• Fix Your Own PC

Product Reviews

• Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
• Wacom Intuos3 Pen Tablet w/ Stylus, & 6D Art Pen
• Xara XtremePro 3.2

August 2007

Book Reviews

• Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 / Adobe Premiere Elements 3 CIB
• Quickbooks 2007 for Dummies
• Teach Yourself Visually Photoshop CS3
• UNIX: Second Edition
• Word 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies

Product Reviews

• A Celebration of Art! Paint Like a Master
• Adobe Photoshop CS3
• Corel Painter X
• PortraitPro Max 6

July 2007

Book Reviews

• Nikon D-80 Manual Supplements
• Photoshop CS / CS2 WOW! Book
• Photoshop Elements 5.0 Classroom In A Book
• Adobe Photoshop Unmasked:The Art and Science of Selections, Layers, and Paths

Product Reviews

• Panorama Composer 3 2007

June 2007

Book Reviews

• 40 Digital Photography Techniques, 3rd Edition
• Excel 2007 for Starters, The Missing Manual
• Color Management in Digital Photography:
  Ten Easy Steps to True Colors in Photoshop
• The Book of JAVASCRIPT, 2nd Edition
  A Practical Guide to Interactive Web Pages
• Using Samba, 3rd Edition 2007

May 2007

Book Reviews

• 40 Digital Photography Techniques, 3rd Edition
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
• Mastering Landscape Photography - The Luminous-Landscape Essays
• O'Reilly Short Cuts: Introduction to Neogeography

Product Reviews

• TightVNC

April 2007

Book Reviews

• CSS Web Site Design Hands-On Training
• Digital Photography Expert Techniques
• Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 4
• Linux Kernel in a Nutshell
• QuickBooks 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies
• Scanning Negatives and Slides
• Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archive

Product Reviews

• DiskDeleter Pro 2.2.0
• Norton Confidential

March 2007

Book Reviews

• Fine Art Printing for Photographers: Exhibition Quality Prints with Inkjet Printers
• In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters
• Photoshop Elements 5 - The Missing Manual
• Upgrading and Repairing PCs, 17th edition
• Windows Vista: The Missing Manual 2007

Product Reviews

• Adobe Photoshop Elements 5
• Xara XtremePro 3.0

February 2007

Book Reviews

• CSS The Missing Manual 2007
• GIMP 2 for Photographers: Image Editing with Open Source Software
• The Digital SLR Guide