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

Gilster, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471113360 ISBN 13: 9780471113362

Publisher: Wiley, 1995

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

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.

Reviews

Gilster, author of The Internet Navigator (Wiley, 1993) and Finding It on the Internet (Wiley, 1994), has done it again with this tour using Mosaic. Ten chapters take you quickly around the Web and the Internet. Right in the beginning, Gilster describes what you'll need to use Mosaic on a Mac or with MS Windows. Confused over file transfer? Want to reach your favorite Gopher? Gilster explains all, with plenty of examples and illustrations. When you're ready, he describes how you can customize your interface or how to use agents to do your bidding. Mosaic Navigator is an excellent place to begin your Internet trekking; with Gilster within reach, you have little to fear on your digital journeys.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0471113360
• ISBN 13: 9780471113362
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 243