IT’S NOT ENOUGH these days to have a website. As a business or individual in today’s technology
landscape, you must be able to adapt and change with new emerging technologies that seemingly
pop up every day. There are thousands of solutions and implementation to consider, but only a
select few are worth your precious time....
This is an invaluable five-volume reference on the very broad and highly significant subject of computer aided and integrated manufacturing systems. It is a set of distinctly titled and well-harmonized volumes by leading experts on the international scene.
The techniques and technologies used in computer aided and integrated...
This is a book for business analysts about modeling. A model is a simplified
representation of a situation or problem, and modeling is the process of building,
refining, and analyzing that representation for greater insight and improved decision
making. Some models are so common that they are thought of as routine instruments
rather...
As we began to plan this book, we worried that it would become lost in the
hundreds—no, thousands—of volumes that have been written on “Web design,”
HTML, Java, XML, or any of the myriad technologies that must be understood
to build successful Web-based systems and applications (WebApps). To our surprise,
we...
Before the invention of the Internet and the creation of the Web, the vast majority of human
conversations were in spoken form, with the only notable, but extremely limited, exception being
epistolary exchanges. Some important spoken conversations, such as criminal trials and political
debates (e.g., Hansard, the transcripts of...
Welcome to GoogleTM—Illustrated Essentials. If
this is your first experience with the Illustrated
series, you’ll see that this book has a unique
design: each skill is presented on two facing
pages, with steps on the left and screens on
the right. The layout makes it easy to digest a
skill without having to read a lot...
Ad hoc and sensor networks continue to have a growing impact
on communication. These cost-effective wireless networks provide
location independent computing in environments ranging from
military battlefields to in-home patient monitoring systems. However,
having real-time connectivity to critical information over an open...
If you’re like me, you use Google every day to find things—news, technical support,
events, tips, research documents, and more. Were you to master Google’s powerful
search refinement operators and lesser-known features, over a year’s time you could
save days scouring over irrelevant results.
This book breaks new ground by doing something for digital photographers that’s never been done before—it cuts through the bull and shows you exactly “how to do it.” It’s not a bunch of theory; it doesn’t challenge you to come up with your own settings or figure things out on your own. Instead, it does...
When I fi rst started using Photoshop, it was a much simpler program
to get to grips with compared with what we see today. Since then
Adobe Photoshop CS5 has evolved to supply photographers with
all the tools they need. My aim is to provide you with a working
photographer’s perspective of what Photoshop CS5 can do and how to...
Layout concerns the placement of text and image elements within a design.
How these elements are positioned, both in relation to one another and within
the overall design scheme, will affect how the content is viewed and received
by the readers, as well as their emotional reaction towards it. Layout can help or
hinder the receipt of...
