"I’ve learned more from Deke’s Photoshop Bible than any Photoshop book, ever." -- Scott Kelby, President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals
"When someone asks me something I don’t know about Photoshop, I tell them to go read the Photoshop Bible. It does something no other book does -- it...
Computer games are by far the most popular type of software. The market for game software is huge—practically anyone with a PC can use games. If you are like me, you probably play your share of computer games and have your own favorite categories. And because you are a programmer, you might have thought of many ideas that...
Microsoft's Word 2007 rewrites the book on word processing. New to Word? The Word 2007 Bible helps you soar over the hurdles and quickly brings you up to speed. A Word veteran? You'll discover new ways to command legacy features, completely new features to accomplish...
Welcome to Windows Server 2012 Inside Out. As the author of many popular technology books, I’ve been writing professionally about Windows and Windows Server since 1994. Over the years, I’ve gained a unique perspective—the kind of perspective you can gain only after working with technologies for many years. The...
Would you like to create your own games, but never have the time to dig into the details of multimedia programming? Now you don’t have to! XNA makes it simple to create your own games, which will run on your PC and Xbox 360 console. Even if you don’t know how to program at all, Beginning XNA 2.0 Game Programming: From Novice to...
At Facebook, employees are empowered to be bold in the name of innovation.
“Move Fast and Break Things,” “What Would You Do If You Weren’t
Afraid?” and “Done Is Better Than Perfect” are a few of the mottos pasted
on the walls at Facebook...
This book is intended as a companion volume to the original
Computers and Typography, but in no way supercedes it. The first
book discussed many of the traditional typographic guidelines, and
related them to modern technology. It recognised that this
knowledge had not been part of the training or experience of the
earlier...
An essential library of basic commands you can copy and paste into R The powerful and open-source statistical programming language R is rapidly growing in popularity, but it requires that you type in commands at the keyboard rather than use a mouse, so you have to learn the language of R. But there is a shortcut, and that's where this...
Carrying a BlackBerry used to speak volumes about a person. When you saw someone tapping at that wide keyboard with both thumbs, you could safely assume that the owner was a businessperson, and that the person’s time was so valuable that he or she couldn’t afford to be out of touch from the office for even a moment. Today, you can...
Get Started in Computing is for anyone who wants to learn how to make
good use of their PC. It doesn ’ t assume that you are a complete novice –
there are very few of those left! You have probably used a PC a little –
and can steer the mouse and use the keyboard (at least a bit).
The Windows 8 operating system is the newest member of the Microsoft Windows family. It differs from
earlier Windows releases as much for what it does not change as for what it does change. That is, the features
that IT pros loved about Windows 7 are still there in Windows 8—just better. The same keyboard shortcuts,...
Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the newest version of the Mac operating system, with extra power and additional cool features. Mac OS X Snow Leopard Just The Steps For Dummies is the quick step-by-step way to get up and running on this new beast.
This down-to-basics guide features numbered steps and easy-to-follow screen shots that show...
