Confused about Google Wave? Now you can read the bleeping manual.

Google Wave is an innovative new communication tool, but part of innovation is that it’s not always intuitive to use. Early adopters have been jumping into Wave with little guidance on how to take advantage of all its features. I guess you could watch the 90-minute Wave video, but that’s not exactly a quick-start guide.

Well, there’s a saying almost as old as computers themselves, and it goes: RTFM. Read the, um, flippin’ manual. Now Google Wave has a flippin’ manual that you can read, but it’s not from Google: it’s from Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani and Adam Pash. Sounds a lot better than “watch the frickin’ 90-minute video,” eh?

Gina and Adam’s guide is quickly making the rounds on the web, being promoted by the likes of Mashable. I’d like to add Download Squad’s endorsement to the list. The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a straightforward, well-organized volume that goes a long way toward demystifying a new and complex tool. It’s available to read online for free, but you’ll be able to buy it as a DRM-free PDF soon, and in print in January.

Still don’t have Wave? Go throw your name in the hat for Download Squad’s Great Google Wave Invite Giveaway.

11 Resources For Learning Guitar On The Web

You can learn to do just about anything on the web, and guitar playing is no different. We’ve got 11 tools to help you start living out your dreams of being a rock legend…

Lessons & Tools

All-Guitar-Chords.com – Quickly look up chords and scales, see them laid out on a virtual fret board, and see progressions of a scale in tab.

ChordBook.com – A Flash-based site that will let you easily look up the fingering for any chord, and then you can click “strum” to hear how it should sound.

GuitarLessonWorld.com – Based around the book of the same name, Guitar Lesson World has numerous free lessons, examples, and MP3s to whet your appetite. You can then move on to Guitar Teacher World that offers up video tutorials and more.

GuitarTricks.com – Thousands of video tutorials for learning to play guitar. Membership is free, and you receive 25 free lessons with that, otherwise it is $10.95 a month.

HowToTuneAGuitar.org – The site features lots of good tips for beginners, like how to pick your first guitar, and features a tune-by-ear tuner that you can set to just about any setting.

LickLibrary.com – Numerous video lessons that you can either subscribe to, or purchase on a per-video basis.

Video-Tabs.com – Video () guitar tutorials split into categories from beginner to requested specific songs.

Tabs & Tools

Guitar World Tabs – Guitar World magazine has partnered with record labels to provide fully legal, ad-supported tabs of well-known songs from the Beatles to Van Halen.

Guitar-Pro – A downloadable program for Windows and Mac that allows you to make multi-track tab for guitar, bass and banjo.

PowerTab – A freeware tab editor for Windows that’s full of features, including print preview and print.

TabBasket.com – An ad-free environment for storing and organizing all of your tab music in many different formats.