The Mosaic Navigator: The Essential Guide to the Internet Interface - Softcover

Gilster, Paul

9780471113362: The Mosaic Navigator: The Essential Guide to the Internet Interface

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471113360 ISBN 13: 9780471113362

Publisher: Wiley, 1995

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Customize your connection to the Internet!

Mosaic is more than just an easy-to-use graphical interface—it's a whole new way of getting information from the Internet. You can browse through documents that are linked with hypertext. You can download brilliant graphics and sound files. And with the right equipment, you can even access and play back full-motion video clips! What makes Mosaic really special, though, is that it lets you set up your Internet connection just the way you want it—with built-in links to other Internet sites, with colorful graphics, and with as much on-line multimedia as your hardware can handle. Let bestselling author Paul Gilster show you just how amazing this new Internet tool can be:

Where to get hold of Mosaic—either free from NCSA, or from the growing number of companies selling commercial versions
How to install the program and tailor your hardware and system setup on either Windows-based PCs or Macs
Customizing Mosaic to suit your needs, including the fundamentals you have to master to build your own Home Page
The best and brightest World Wide Web sites, including sources of brilliant images, dazzling sound files, and full-motion video clips
Using related programs, including Lview (to view GIF and JPEG images), WHAM (for audio files), GhostScript (to read PostScript documents), and MPEGPLAY (to play back video)

With a detailed explanation of the World Wide Web, the underlying communications system on which Mosaic is based, as well as descriptions of the standard Internet tools now available via Mosaic (including Telnet, FTP, Gopher, and Veronica), this book shows you just how to unlock the power of this amazing new Internet tool.

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From the Publisher:

An introductory tour of Mosaic's capabilities and difficulties emphasizing how the program can be used to browse the Internet, link your local computer to a distant computer's host program (via Telnet) and transfer files from remote sites to your computer (via FTP). Distributed free by NCSA, Mosaic does not have online help or a corporate help desk for users so an extensive portion of the book demonstrates what to do if you run into a snag or dead end with the program. Describes how to install Mosaic on a PC and provides information regarding hardware and software prerequisites.

About the Author:

Paul Gilster is the author of two bestselling books: The Internet Navigator and Finding It on the Internet. In addition to writing "Computer Focus," a regularly syndicated column on computers and business, he is the Internet columnist for Connect magazine and a frequent contributor to CompuServe magazine. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, and can be reached on the Internet at gilster&atsign;interpath.net.

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