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...
This book is an intermediate-level introduction to Xcode 4, Apple’s integrated
development environment. It assumes you have some development experience
and are familiar with the Cocoa API. It won’t teach you how to write code or much
at all about Cocoa. There are other books for that. This one is strictly focused on...
This no-nonsense, highly affordable, and inspiring guide walks photographers new to Photoshop through the end to end Photoshop workflow. Starting from the moment you download your images off your memory card, photographer Corey Hilz guides you through importing and organizing your photos in Bridge, demonstrating how to give each photo ratings...
Intelligent techniques are used since several years in various research areas using
computer programs. The purpose of using intelligent techniques is generally to optimise
the processing time, to find more accurate solutions, for a lot of problems,
than with traditional methods, or simply to find solutions in problems where...
Welcome to Hacking the Kinect. This book will introduce you to the Kinect hardware and help you
master using the device in your own programs. We’re going to be covering a large amount of ground—
everything you’ll need to get a 3-D application running—with an eye toward killer algorithms, with no
unusable...
Android devices are stealing market share from the iPhone with dramatic speed, and you have a killer app idea. Where to begin? Head First Android Development will help you get your first application up and running in no time with the Android SDK and Eclipse plug-in. You'll learn how to design for devices with a variety of...
If you are a developer who is interested in developing games for the iOS platform and want
to leverage the Unity platform, this book will provide the core knowledge that you need
to get started. If you are a Unity developer looking to port an existing application to the
mobile platform, this book will give you an overview of the...
New Apple iPhone 4S users will want to start using their devices as soon as they get their hands on them, and The iPhone Pocket Guide shows them how. Trusted gadget teacher Christopher Breen reveals the quickest way to learn iPhone 4S features. Everything is covered including the basics such as making calls and navigating through your music,...
iOS 5 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is your guide to developing solutions on iPad, iPhone, and other iOS 5 devices and platforms. This book provides in-depth code samples and discussions for scenarios that developers face every day. You'll find numerous examples of real-world cases that will enable you to build...
A dobe Photoshop is one of the most important computer programs of our age. It’s made photo editing a commonplace thing, something for the everyperson. Still, Photoshop can be a scary thing (especially that first purchase price!), comprising a jungle of menus and panels and tools and options and shortcuts as well as a bewildering...
Silently, and without warning, the Android operating system has quickly dominated the mobile
ecosystem. This operating system exists in many forms, across many devices, and offers a rich
selection of powerful features that could completely change how you accomplish tasks
throughout your day. If you’re looking for a tablet or...
As a graduate student at Ohio State in the mid-1970s, I inherited a unique computer
vision laboratory from the doctoral research of previous students. They had
designed and built an early frame-grabber to deliver digitized color video from a
(very large) electronic video camera on a tripod to a mini-computer (sic) with a...
