This book took a huge amount of effort and contributions by people other than myself. Firstly, I must acknowledge the persistence, gentle guidance, and eagle eye of my original editor, Dorothy Cox, and also, the rest of  the staff at Focal Press, especially Dennis McGonagle; Mónica Gonzálezde Mendoza and Paul Temme, who...

This book uses simple step-by-step instructions, loads of screen shots, and an array of time-saving tips and tricks, serving both as the quickest route to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 mastery for new users, and a handy reference for more experienced digital photographers.
 
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 was designed from the...

This is a book about making 3D games in Macromedia Director Shockwave Studio. Expect it to be a book about code, interface tricks, and wacky game ideas. Along the way, I will share my experiences, life, and attitudes about games and game development. I have always tended to swim upstream, so I doubt that much of this will seem comfortable or...

Mint.com is a free Web-based personal financial management service that helps you set up your day-to-day finances and track bank, credit card, investment, and loan transactions through a single Web site that is accessible anytime, anywhere in the world...

One thing at a time. Whenever you’re out riding, concentrate on one skill or...

Ableton Live 8 Power! is the all-inclusive guide to making music with Ableton's revolutionary live performance and studio software, Live 8. Written for all Live users, from digital audio beginners to seasoned pros, this book explores each fundamental feature in Live. The book provides power-user tips and insider tricks for integrating...

Today , there aremany services out there providing news feeds, and there are plenty of code libraries that can parse this data. So, with the proliferation of web services and public APIs, why is web scraping still so important to the future of the Web? It is important because of the rise ofmicroformats, Semantic Web technologies, theW3C...

Social Networking has quickly become a very popular activity on the Internet, particularly with the emergence of sites like Facebook and MySpace. PHP is a flexible web development language used on a wide variety of sites, including Facebook and Yahoo! But building a social networking site from scratch using PHP involves some complex logic,...

Almost without realizing it, we have shifted toward an all-digital culture. Future heirlooms like family photos, home movies, and personal letters now exist only in digital form, and in many cases they are stored using popular services like Flickr, YouTube, and Gmail. These digital possessions form a rich collection that chronicles our lives...

This book is designed to cover all of the aspects of InfoPath 2010 within a SharePoint 2010 environment in regards to creating and developing business solutions. It is geared toward both technical and semi-technical professionals and does not require a degree in computer programming to utilize.

The scenario-based...

The purpose of Top-Down Network Design, Third Edition, is to help you design networks that meet a customer’s business and technical goals. Whether your customer is another department within your own company or an external client, this book provides you with tested processes and tools to help you understand traffic...