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Learn How To Soup Up and Customize Your PC and Really Make It Your Own
Unimpressed by how the commonplace beige or gray computer looks and performs? Want to apply a personal touch to your PC so it reflects your own sense of style? You can make it glow, fill it with water, paint your favorite emblem on the case, or ultimately transform it into a completely unique work of art. There are myriad ways you can make your PC distinct.
In PC Chop Shop, best-selling author and expert "Modder" David Groth empowers you to create original PC modifications by teaching you the essential modding skills and inspiring you with a showcase of the most imaginative ideas. Through clear, step-by-step instruction, you'll learn a variety of basic-to-advanced modifications, including how to:
- Install lights--from neon to cold cathode to UV
- Make and apply custom decals
- Integrate windows and fan grilles in your case
- Add LED's and lights to your drives
- Modify the cooling systems for your case, memory, hard drive, and CPU
- Experiment with water cooling, Peltier cooling, and phase change cooling
- Enhance performance with CPU and memory overclocking
- Deaden Sound
- Personalize your keyboard, mouse, speakers, and monitor
- Paint creative designs on metal and plastic
- And much, much more!
Customer Reviews:
Very good, but not fantastic.......2005-10-26
There is a lot of great information in this book. I learned loads in the section of lighting, from how to solder LEDs to installing those cool plasma balls and/or plates. The stealthing section was also cool.
My only gripe is the photos. Most are black and white, and don't always clearly illustrate the point, especially when he is talking about the different colors of wire coming from a PSU. Many photos are on different pages than the text describing them, making one flip a page over to see what the author is talking about, and then flip back and try to find your spot. Minor, but annoying.
Besides the issue over photos, I learned loads, and will definatly apply some of the techniques to the project I bought the book for.
Very helpful.......2004-12-24
A great book for the workbench. Photo tutorials are very clear and easy to follow. The Author also restores Classic cars so the chapter on "case painting" is worth the price alone. The book covers all skill levels. Its a great reference guide when you find yourself in garge or workshop w/o internet access.
Modders, buy this book!
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- Excellent. I can't get enough of these bugs.
- ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS
- flies on walls tell all!
- Another winner with more texture than the first...
- Downs Does it Again!!!
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Chop Shop
Tim Downs
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Intern forensic pathologist Dr. Riley McKay has noticed irregularities in autopsies at the Allegheny County Coroner's lab. Suspecting foul play, she seeks help from Dr. Nick Polchak, the "bug man" renowned for his ability to solve murders by analyzing the insects on victim's bodies. Nick and Riley uncover a sinister link between the lab's director and PharmaGen, a start-up drug company specializing in genetic research. They also discover that PharmaGen fronts an underground system to procure transplant organs for wealthy clients by finding and murdering matching donors. But PharmaGen learns of their security breach and orders the couple destroyed. While staying a step ahead of PharmaGen assassins, romantic attraction develops between Nick and Riley. But the attraction is complicated by a tragic secret that Riley hides -- a secret closely tied to one member of PharmaGen's operation which propels the novel to its astonishing conclusion.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent. I can't get enough of these bugs........2006-03-07
What an excellent book! A great improvement over the first in the series "Shoofly Pie" which I liked very much. Not as funny but much more intense. Both books had excellent endings. A lot of thought went into the writing of "Chop Shop" and it shows. Deep character, intelligent plot and sharp wit. Tim Downs is rising on my list of favorite authors. Now for the problem; there's very little that's Christian about it. It's clean, no sex, no cursing and it brings up some good ethical points (absolutes being the big one) but as far as spiritual growth it's not really there. Don't get me wrong this book is excellent but I do miss knowing our God just a little bit better when it's all over.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS.......2005-05-21
TIM DOWNS IS SUCH A GREAT WRITER! HIS BOOKS ARE NOT ONLY FAST-PACED, BUT FUNNY TOO. SHOOFLY PIE IS ANOTHER MUST READ BY DOWNS. I ANXIOUSLY AWAIT MORE BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR!!!
flies on walls tell all!.......2005-02-15
Rebeccasreads recommends BUG MAN2: CHOP SHOP as a lively & informative mystery about corporate doctors intent on securing a steady supply of body parts, & a young pathologist troubled by the autopsies her supervisor is making her sign-off on.
Dr. McKay finds Nick Pollack, the Bug Man of SHOO FLY PIE, in his greenhouse, & shows him some juicy maggots she's extracted from the latest corpse to cross her table. Together they set out on a trail of clues that will lead them to a firey & fatal finale.
Tim Downs has a hilarious way with words, poking fun of the pomposity of academia & financial tycoons, all the while spinning a gripping yarn. & if the ending, the real ending, leaves a bit to be desired, well, isn't that just like life?
Another winner with more texture than the first..........2005-02-13
After reading his debut Bug Man novel Shoofly Pie, I knew I had to get ahold of Tim Downs' second (and latest) installment of the Bug Man series - Chop Shop. Once again, Downs pulls off a definite winner, with even more texture than the first.
Dr. Nick Polchak is once again censured from the university for "dissecting" a sleeping student in his class. No matter to him, as it just gives him time to work on his forensic entomology studies... in other words, the effect of bugs on dead bodies. He gets sidetracked when he's approached by Dr. Riley McKay, a budding pathologist in the fellowship study program of a local coroner office. She wants Polchak to offer some opinions on some anomalies she's seeing in the cases of the head pathologist, and she's willing to pay him out of her own pocket to answer the questions. This all leads to the door of a cutting-edge pharmaceutical company looking to manufacture custom genetically tailored medicines. The concept is great, but there appears to be a side business going on involving the black market sale of organ transplants. Polchak and McKay have uncovered a lot of the truth, but they really don't know who to trust to stop it all, or even if they'll survive long enough to get to that point.
Downs' first Polchak novel was very good, but it was really just a vanilla murder mystery. You knew there were some incidents in Polchak's life that had caused him to treat other humans with a fair amount of disdain, but none of that was really revealed. Chop Shop starts to cover some of that ground, as well as introducing some real medical ethics that have varying degrees of right and wrong. You meet Polchak's mother and learn a bit about his childhood that caused his withdrawal. You also see him struggle to come to terms with the affection he feels for McKay and how that can (or should) play out in his life. Polchak now is more than just a quirky intelligent scientist. He's a person with feelings and a history. This bodes well for future installments of the series.
The only bad thing I have to say is this... How much longer do I have to wait for #3???
Downs Does it Again!!!.......2005-01-01
What can I say? It was hard for me to imagine Tim Downs could top the first Bug Man novel, "Shoofly Pie" that had me alternatingly laughing and biting my nails the entire time I read it. But, he has done it again. This time he managed to interject, with the humor, mystery and forensic detail of the previous novel, a quirky, but definite, romance and some poignantly soul-searching ethical questions about the value of human life. How on earth does he do it? I'm not sure, but I hope he continues to do it again and again for a long time. Two thumbs WAY UP!!!
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Comes with an audio CD.
In this book, New York-based studio musician and in-demand clinician Matt Smith opens his bag of tricks and tells all. Matt demystifies topics such as chord progressions, "cool notes" in solos, harp scales, harmonics, improvisation, alternate tunings and much more. His unique and creative approaches to composition, soloing and mastering the fretboard will inspire and motivate you to reach new levels of musicianship and self-confidence in your playing. Matt Smith gives you the tools you need to improve your guitar chops in this fun-to-read and easy-to-use book-a must for all guitarists.
Customer Reviews:
Superb advanced intermediate instruction!.......2005-03-24
I've been playing guitar for more than 25 years, and in that time I have never come across an instructor that can explain complex topics in simple understandable terms like Matt Smith does. Whether it's for explaining the modes, double stops, tritone substitutions, playing "outside", or whatever, Matt's book is a tremendous tool for taking your playing to the next level. A perfect integration of theory and practical application.
i love this book.......2002-12-04
you must get this book it makes it easy to learn what you need to know to master the guitar ,beginners and pros welcome ...albert carey ,deja blue records
The guitar book we've longed for.......2001-09-25
There are many guitar books in the world, the majority of them being very useful to the aspiring guitarist's adventures. But Matt Smith's Chop Shop easily is placed in the top 5 guitar books. He has successfully made the most complex ideas for the guitar easy for us!! From understanding the key signature, to pentatonic scale control on the whole fretboard, to learning modes--everything is explained in a manner that instantly hooks you. He also expresses the importance of behaving like a professional, which is something you don't find in other books. I highly recommend all intermediate to advanced guitarists to put this in their collection within arms' reach.
Priceless.......2001-09-23
This book is Awesome! It contains sooo many gems of information essential to expanding one's playing. This IS the Ultimate guitar players handbook. Literally, within minutes of having picked up the book I was coming up with more interesting chord progressions. I have been in a rut with my playing, can't really afford weekly lessons at this point, and found this book to be the perfect solution. It's about 20 lessons for less than 1/2 the price of one. It's very straightforward AND it comes with a cd so that you can hear the examples. Buy this book and quit your day job!
Matt finally opens his bag of tricks of all guitarists!.......2001-09-14
I have had the oppertunity to meet, study, and play with Matt at the National Guitar Workshop at the Nashville site and was blown away by his knowledge of the art of music. I came home and as soon as i sat down, i forgot almost half of the information he gave me and i would try to understand the scribbles written on the sheets of paper that was given to me during my week in Nashville. I took the course again this last summer and i still needed more guidence. Thankfully, his book is out and it's like having him here in my own home! He covers everything you could imagine! I thank him for writting this excellent book and for the publishers who let him do it his way. Good luck to you Matt!
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I was a victim of David Sconce, but this book is only part!.......2004-11-19
I am one of David Sconce's victims. I had entered into a business relationship with him and got burned (figuratively!). We first found out about him when we saw him arrested on the local news!
Having been involved in part of the situation, the book is accurate for the most part, however the writing is uneven. Given what I saw and heard I doubt none of the other gruesome details the author presents.
David Sconce appeared to be a nice, well mannered businessman that was too good to be true! That he was a ghoal of the worst kind still chills me to the bone. I am lucky he didn't come after me and my family.
Disturbing!.......2004-02-28
Most people take the funeral services provided to their dearly departed for granted. They assume that the remains of their loved one will be properly cared for. After reading this book, I can not make that assumption any longer.
The Lamb Funeral Home was a part of the California landscape for generations. When the most recent generation began working there, the business was corrupted. The problem only begins with him cremating more than one body at once. David Sconce sold the gold teeth and organs of bodies for profits. In addition to this scandal, Sconce is accused of multiple assaults and murdering others in the funeral industry. While the hot-tempered Sconce has not been convicted of murder, there are reasons to believe he is guilty of murdering the competition.
This is a fast-paced easy read that I had trouble putting down. I was anticipating the ending. My only disappointment was finding out Sconce was never convicted of murder.
I have stereotyped in my mind what a funeral director should look like. Sconce does not meet that description. As a result, I can never look at the funeral industry without wondering if an honest business is being run.
Disrespectful.......2003-06-01
This book was so good that I literally could not put it down for more than an hour at a time. Kathy Braidhill has an amazing gift for storytelling. She presents all the facts to you without stating her opinion. Also, all of her facts are taken from records that you can look up. The mass cremations were so direspectful to the families of the deceased and "popping chops" to remove dental gold was just horrendous. Paints a sick story of a family wrenched with greed and arrogance.
It's good but sensationalistic.......2003-02-23
It's a good book. Not the best it could have been. The Sconce Family is suitably demonized but I am left wondering about the other side of this story. Their crimes are portrayed as terrible, but they seem to be misdemeanors? Maybe they threatned to kill the DA, he seems like a blow hard who was taken too seriously. Maybe they sold organs to colleges, does that seem all that terrible? Doctors will be trained and they would have been cremated. Yes, they should have had a choice, but..... it's done. Stealing dental gold, I've read that the figures given are a bit inflated and that dental gold isn't that valuable. I think the worst thing they did was have people beaten up. I tend to think the big guy died of natural causes. Hum..... an overweight man had a heart attack, the blow hard said he did it. It doesn't make it so. It's a good read, take it with a grain of salt and remember it's written by a party who is obviously in favor of the proscectution. I also want more information.... what happened later? It just ends.
Great fun, no guilt!.......2001-03-18
This is the perfect true crime alternative, all of the gory details and excitement, but none of the guilt of being entertained by the suffering of others. Braidhill is a gifted storyteller - you won't be able to put this one down!
Book Description
As a self-taught chef and creator of The Amateur Gourmet website, Adam Roberts knows the challenges you face in bringing fresh, creative homemade meals to the table without burning down the house or bruising your self-esteem. But as he shows in this exciting new book, the effort is worth it and good eating doesn’t have to be difficult. To prove his point, Roberts has assembled a five-star lineup of some of the food world’s most eminent authorities for your culinary education.
In this illuminating and hilarious “Kitchen 101,” Adam Roberts teaches you how to bring good food into your life. Learn the “Ten Commandments of Dining Out” courtesy of Ruth Reichl, editor in chief of Gourmet magazine. Discover why the New York Times’s Amanda Hesser urges you never to bring a grocery list to the market. Get knife lessons from a top sous-chef at Manhattan’s famous Union Square Cafe, and accompany the intrepid author as he dines alone at L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon in Paris.
From how to chop an onion to how to cook a seven-course meal that dazzles your friends, Roberts shares the skills you need to overcome your food phobias, impress your parents, woo a date, and create sophisticated dishes with everyday ease.
Packed with recipes, menus plans, shopping tips, and anecdotes,
The Amateur Gourmet provides you with all the ingredients for the foodie lifestyle. All you need is a healthy appetite and a taste for adventure!
Customer Reviews:
Very cute funny book!.......2007-09-29
Only a few easy recipes, but a whole lot of fun. Adam has a great style and if you've heard him in one of the short clips he's made, you can just hear his voice as you read. Warning, careful where you read it, I was on a trip in an airliner, and when you short and giggle to yourself people look at you strangely.
The Amateur Gourmet Captures the Intersection Between Life and Food.......2007-09-16
Occasionally, a book comes along that is so familiar, so comfortable, so easy to read, that you keep going back to it again and again. The Amateur Gourmet by Adam Roberts is such a book. The book -- which is about cooking for yourself and others, eating out at fine restaurants and neighborhood dives, and personal relationships centered around the theme of food -- contains hilarious anecdotes, liberally sprinkled with good advice, leavened with light philosophical thoughts about the intersection between life and food. This is a book that you will read yourself, and then share with others.
Coming of Age, Through the World of Food.......2007-09-02
Adam Roberts' "The Amateur Gourmet" is a funny, witty, eminently readable coming of age guide that can be appreciated on a number of different levels. The ostensible purpose of the book is as a guide to assist young people navigate the world of gourmet cooking, expensive restaurants, and daunting wine lists. But it's so much more. Roberts, a law school graduate who shunned the law to chase his dream of becoming a writer, invites the reader along for his journey from torts to tarts. Along the way we meet his family, his friends, his phobias and anxieties, and his passions. As Roberts discovers himself, we discover him, and perhaps a little about ourselves, in a book that will make you smile often, and occasionally even laugh out loud.
Less like a Cookbook, More like Life Lessons - and an Enjoyable Read Either Way.......2007-08-31
Adam D. Roberts writes each chapter of The Amateur Gourmet in the form of a short story which reveals separate lessons in planning, creating, executing, sharing, and savoring a meal. The stories explain how Roberts overcame common anxieties that keep reluctant gourmets out of the kitchen and continuing to make reservations or microwave frozen dinners. While the book contains recipes and gives some instruction on shopping for and creating the suggested dishes, I found that the most important lesson was one of encouragement to take on new challenges that bring excitement into your life.
Roberts made me understand how the culinary experience - at each stage from the selection of ingredients to cleaning your plate - enhances life by encouraging an open mind, knowledge of oneself, a healthy affinity for risk taking, and a passion for your work. I will have to go elsewhere for step-by-step cooking instructions, but this book was a welcome introduction to "good eating and good living."
If you enjoy this book, I would also recommend Keith Ferrazzi's Never Eat Alone, which is about personal and professional networking and not about cooking. However, the chapters also read like short stories, the lessons stay with you, and both books encourage immediate action by exciting the reader with possibilities for the future.
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Chop Shop
Stephanie Taylor
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Chop Shop chronicles, in full color, Los Angeles artist Stephanie Taylor's interdisciplinary, site-specific installation of sculpture, photography, rhyme and song. With an introduction by Vanessa Place, a conversation with Juli Carson, an essay (in German) by Susanne Prinz, and additional visual art by Danielle Adair, experience "a lusty, rusty, busty in full titular view, this voom-va-va-voom makes a gal leery, like the peek-a-boo of a cutie museum nudie. Still, she has the gall to leer at the gal on the go, the va-va which would be the ooh-la-la version of go-go, ergo, we re the Go-Go-Girls, as in vroom-vroom, as in warum-warum, the why-why?"
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Guitar Chop Shop
Matt Smith
Manufacturer: National Guitar Workshop
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- At least one good chapter and CD track
- Dont Buy It
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- It has some awsome licks!
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How to Play Rock Guitar: Lethal Licks & Lessons! : From the Guitar Player Chop Shop
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Customer Reviews:
At least one good chapter and CD track.......2002-07-09
A collection of classic tutorials from Guitar Player magazine. This is probably a 2.5 really -- there are a couple of very good bits and the price, especially on Amazon now [price], is quite reasonable. Like the other reviewers, I found most of the articles dry and unhelpful. However the first chapter -- Eddie Van Halen basically giving a beginner guitar class -- is excellent. It encouraged me to push my guitar teacher to start blues improvisation -- with very encouraging results. There is a interesting exercise later on the CD where somebody plays pentatonic scales over different chords to show how the overall sound changes, quite dramatically -- that was very interesting. I have many guitar tutorial and this is the only place I have come across this very useful exercise. Ear training is important. For some reason the CD scratched up very quickly (soft plastic/bumpy roads?). If you want a better, more contempory tutorial in a similar vein I would suggest that you check out Guitar Techniques magazine (which will cost about [price] a copy with CD -- the same as the Amazon price for this book).
I am not sure why they picked NSU of all the tracks in the world to cover -- seems pretty random. The short wah-wah chapter was reasonably interesting although it could have been better. The second chapter "the power of 5" contains useful scale chord information in a very concise form -- although the accompany text is disappointing. I haven't put much time into the other chapters -- perhaps my fault but they don't inspire. Like many guitar books, this one seems a little dated now, although the content is pretty timeless for the most part.
Dont Buy It.......2000-03-10
First, in the cover of the book is written "Complete song transcriptions" well if you don't know how to read music, you don't have a point of reference to know how the music is, rhythm, tempo, etc, because the songs aren't in the cd. Second this book is too easy and boring, it's not worth while buyng it, take my word, the book is too compact.
AWFUL.......1999-06-07
This is your typical waste of time read
It has some awsome licks!.......1999-02-25
It's very easy to learn with it, one month after I started reading this book I was rockin' some serious riffs.
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Title: The chop shop: dead computers give life to CompuTel, a business that's healthy when its parts are worth more than the whole. (Feature).
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