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...
Whether you’re shopping for clothes from your computer or mobile
phone, or selling artworks around the globe, you face a dizzying array of
choices and decisions. How do I pay? How do I get paid? What if something
goes wrong?
Computer graphics involves simulating the distribution of light in a 3D
environment. There are only a few fundamentally different algorithms that
have survived the test of time. They can be loosely classified into projective
algorithms and image-space algorithms. The former class projects each geo
metric primitive onto the...
It’s a visual world these days. Want your Facebook friends to see what you’re having
for lunch? Post a picture. Need an extra whatchamacallit from the hardware
store? Just show them a photo. It’s just so much easier than trying to describe
such things with words. Everybody has a digital camera now....
This is the second of three “Best of the Perl Journal” O’Reilly
books, containing the crème de la crème of the 247 articles
published during the Perl Journal’s 5-year existence as a
standalone magazine. This particular book contains 39 articles
covering the web, graphics,...
This is the third of three “Best of The Perl Journal” O’Reilly books, containing the créme de la créme of the 247 articles published during The Perl Journal ’s five-year existence as a standalone magazine. This particular book contains 47 articles about the leisure pursuits of Perl programmers....
This book is an essential tool for second-year undergraduate students and above, providing clear and concise explanations of the basic concepts of computer graphics, and enabling the reader to immediately implement these concepts in Java 2D and/or 3D with only elementary knowledge of the programming language. Features: provides an ideal,...
With multicore processors now in every computer, server, and embedded device, the need for cost-effective, reliable parallel software has never been greater. By explaining key aspects of multicore programming, Fundamentals of Multicore Software Development helps software engineers understand parallel programming and master...
"The authors offer a timely, important, and practical personal guidance system that anyone in the business world would do well to adopt. The world of business would be vastly improved if Moral Intelligence became required reading.”
The foreign-exchange market is often referred to as the Slaughterhouse where novice traders go to get 'chopped up'. It is one of egos and money, where millions of dollars are won and lost every day and phones are routinely thrown across hectic trading desks. This palpable excitement has led to the explosion of the retail FX market,...
The Raspberry Pi is deceptively simple. Plug it in, boot it up, and use it as a personal computer, or attach a million gizmos and modules and invent something new and amazing. Either way, what it can actually do is not simple, and you should know exactly what the Raspberry Pi hardware is all about. Raspberry Pi Hardware Reference,...
Easy English Grammar is a clear and concise grammar reference series designed for young English language learners. Easy English Grammar blends concrete grammar explanations and exercises with engaging activities to help students acquire a solid foundation of basic, high-frequency structures. The communicative picture-based activities in each...
