Let’s just look it right in the eye and call it out. We in the IT industries have been barraged with the buzzwords over and over again since we rolled into the new millennium: the transition to utility computing, or grid computing, or cloud computing (depending on the source/exact month/position of the stars in the sky). We’ve...
Digital identity can be defined as the digital representation of the information known about a specific individual or organization. Digital identity management technology is an essential function in customizing and enhancing the network user experience, protecting privacy, underpinning accountability in transactions and interactions, and...
For many scientists and clinicians, obesity has at last come of age. When the editors were going through medical school and even specialist training in diabetes and endocrinology, obesity was a nonentity that fell out of the mainstream of ‘real’ diseases and was notable for being dull and unrewarding to treat. Admittedly, this was...
Given the fiercely competitive state of the iPhone app landscape, it has become increasingly challenging for app designers and developers to differentiate their apps. The days are long gone when it was possible to crank out an app over the weekend and refine it after receiving a few not so flattering user reviews....
C# 4.0 Unleashed is a practical reference focusing on the C# language and the .NET platform as a whole. While covering the language in lots of detail, it also provides enough coverage of various popular .NET technologies and techniques (such as debugging) for the reader to be successful on the .NET platform. The...
Creating web pages was fairly straight-forward—in the early 1990's. Today, there are many, often competing technologies available for creating a web experience. Remarkably, all these differing technologies and strategies interoperate in a relatively seamless way to serve the billions of people who use the World Wide Web and the...
The word "render" isn't unique to the vocabulary of computer graphics. We can talk about a "watercolor rendering," a "musical rendering" or a "poetic rendering." In each of these, there is a transformation from one domain to another: from the landscape before the painter to color on paper, from...
Over the years as power costs have soared and data center space has become scarce and expensive
to acquire, enterprises and small businesses have been looking for ways to decrease their data center
footprints as well as reduce the overall costs of operating an IT infrastructure. As the number of
different applications being deployed in...
Welcome to the official Apple Pro Training course for Aperture, the
powerful photo editing and management software from Apple. This
book includes a variety of real-world photography projects, which are
used as clear examples of the way Aperture works, from import and
organization to image editing and output.
SketchUp is both simple and intuitive; there is no doubt about that. It usually
takes a couple of hours to get grips on it and to create your first 3D models.
But when you are using it for a professional project – with all the attendant
time and quality constraints – you have to get a few things straight first to
avoid the...
The release of InDesign CS5 is nothing short of revolutionary. Now you can apply all the tools that have made InDesign the industry standard for print, to design for interactive electronic media too. With the release of Creative Suite 5, InDesign has evolved from print to “printeractive!” Designers expected to meet the demands of...
Storage technologies have fundamentally changed the landscape
of digital media in a profound way. Gone are the days of using
a single hard disk drive on a workstation as the sole means to
store digital content. Nearly vanished is the practice of capturing
video and audio only on videotape. The practice of transferring
videotape...
