Learn IT - Books tags amazing

Spotify For Dummies

For Dummies, 2011

T here’s no denying it: A revolution in how people consume music is well underway, and Spotify’s at the center of all the action. Just a decade ago, it was normal for people to wander into a music store and buy an artist’s CD after hearing a few catchy tracks on the radio or reading a few good newspaper...

Teach Yourself VISUALLY iPad 2 (Tech)

Visual, 2011

See your iPad 2 in a whole new way!

As the amazing iPad continues to evolve, so does this feature-rich book. As, colorful, and accessible as your new iPad 2, this book is the iPad's perfect companion. Open it and find over a hundred tasks succinctly explained using easy-to-follow, side-by-side, full-color screenshots....

Emerging Wireless Technologies and the Future Mobile Internet

Cambridge University Press, 2011

The current Internet is an outgrowth of the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) that was initiated four decades ago. The TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) designed by Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn in 1973 did not anticipate, quite understandably, such extensive use of wireless channels and...

iPhoto 11 Portable Genius

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Technology is at its best when it enables you to focus more on what you are doing rather than how you are doing it. iPhoto is definitely technology at its best. It does so many things that it takes a whole book to describe them to you — this book, in fact. iPhoto ’11 Portable Genius is your companion: It helps you get going with...

Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2010

One could say that motion capture technology hasn’t evolved much in the past twenty years. It still relies mostly on cameras, electromagnetics, or mechanics. Of course, the components are much better and we are now able to obtain superior measurements. Data that took weeks to process in the early days can now be...

Photoshop Compositing Secrets: Unlocking the Key to Perfect Selections and Amazing Photoshop Effects for Totally Realistic Composites

Peachpit Press, 2011

Photoshop compositing has really blown up over the last few years. You see composites everywhere from magazine ads and covers, to movie posters, to athletic portraits, to, well, just about any kind of portrait. It really is everywhere. Clients and customers are very aware of Photoshop now and...

App Inventor for Android: Build Your Own Apps - No Experience Required!

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

When Android was first introduced by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, my first thought was of how awesome it would be to have a free open-source application environment for the growing smart phone revolution. The harsh reality hit when I tried to apply my rusty programming skills to the Java and Android software development kit (SDK)....

Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide

Packt Publishing, 2012

Penetration testers are faced with a combination of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, host-based protection, hardened systems, and teams of knowledgeable analysts that pour over data collected by their security information management systems. In an environment such as this, simply running automated tools will typically...

Scala in Depth

Manning Publications, 2012

In fall 2010 Michael Stephens from Manning contacted me about writing a Scala Book. I was working for a small virtualization/security startup where I had been learning Scala and applying it to our codebase. During that first conversation Michael and I discussed the Scala ecosystem and what kind of a book would best...

iPad and iPhone Tips and Tricks: For iOS 5 on iPad 2 and iPhone 4/4s

Que, 2011

Whether you’re a new iPhone or iPad user who just purchased an Apple mobile device that runs iOS 5, or you’re a veteran iPhone and/or iPad user who has upgraded your device to run the latest and greatest of Apple’s mobile device operating systems, you’re in for an...

Taking Your iPad to the Max, iOS 5 Edition: Maximize iCloud, Newsstand, Reminders, FaceTime, and iMessage

Apress, 2011

Taking Your iPad to the Max, iOS 5 Edition is written so that anyone can quickly get up to speed on Apple’s latest hit. As bloggers at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW.com), the authors have the happy privilege of working with Apple products every day, and they'll guide you through all of the perks of being an iPad owner...

Meet the Kinect: An Introduction to Programming Natural User Interfaces (Technology in Action)

Apress, 2011

In this chapter you’ll unbox a new Kinect—or if you have one already, you’ll disconnect it from your Xbox. Then you’ll install some software, plug the Kinect into a computer, and take a look at what all of the fuss is about with this unique device. You’ll learn what the different components of the Kinect are and...

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