Let me get one thing out of the way right from the get-go: I think you’re pretty darn smart for buying a For Dummies book. That says to me that you have the confidence and intelligence to know what you don’t know. The For Dummies franchise is built around the core notion that all of us feel insecure about certain topics when...
Acommon cartoon theme involves a person wearing a sandwich sign or carrying a poster that proclaims, “Repent! The end is near!” What’s implied is that some sudden, violent event is just around the corner and that people need to brace themselves for whatever’s coming. And usually, the end that’s near involves...
In 2008 I was searching for a new programming platform for making websites. This was more than wanting a new language; indeed, the details of the language mattered very little to me. Rather, I was concerned about the ability to program advanced push features into the website like I had seen in Gmail—the ability for the server to push...
In early 1994, Tim Berners-Lee put out an open call for a virtual reality specification for
the Web; Mark Pesce and I answered. Only being able to afford one plane ticket, we sent
Mark to Geneva to present our Labyrinth prototype at the first-ever World Wide Web
Developers’ Conference. With typical bombast,...
iPhoto '11 helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. With iPhoto '11 it's easy to organize and manage the thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of photos on your Mac by Faces, Places, and Events. iPhoto '11 also comes with editing and enhancement tools that rival those in expensive photo software. And finally Share what...
It is Friday afternoon, you are ready to go home but you get a call from your customer telling you that their order will need to be express delivered. The only thing now between you and your weekend is changing the delivery priority in a hundred and sixty-eight order items.
The good news is there is now a resource for you to...
This book has accomplished a feat that’s valuable and rare: it comprehends
design and science fiction. Better yet, it’s found specific areas where they are
of practical use to one another.
This is a design book, and meant for designers. It concerns itself with
science fiction cinema. To my delight, it...
The use of computing technology for entertainment purposes is not a recent phenomenon.
Video game consoles, home computers and other entertainment media
have been used widely for more than three decades, and people of all ages are spending
an increasing amount of time and money on these technologies.
The MintDuino is deceiving—this little tin of electronics is capable of providing
the brains for an unlimited number of devices limited only by your imagination…
and, of course, your bank account.
While the MintDuino is certainly capable of being used during a moment of
inspiration,...
Grammar is a very old field of study. Did you know that the
sentence was first divided into subject and verb by Plato,
the famed philosopher from ancient Greece? That was
about 2,400 years ago! Ever since then, students all over
the world have found it worthwhile to study the structure
of words and sentences. Why? Because...
