Yes, as a matter of fact, is IS rocket science! And because this book is written for the popular Evil Genius format, it means you can learn about this fascinating and growing hobby while having run creating 50 great projects. You will find a detailed list of...

But there’s another side to Photoshop. In my work as an illustrator for...

Brimming with beautiful pictures, this successful book guides you through a project-based, progressive curriculum so that you can build all the essential skills to enhance photographs creatively and professionally with Photoshop CS3. If you are an aspiring professional, enthusiastic amateur photographer, or a student learning photography,...

Mac users, you don’t have to give up one ounce of cool to use Office 2011 on your Mac. Here’s the hip guide you need to get the most out of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Get started with Office 2011, find out what features are shared between apps, and start creating...

Welcome to the official Mac OS X Server Essentials training course offered by Apple Computer. This book serves as a self-paced guide and is designed to help you build the basic skills you need to effectively administer Mac OS X Server. Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Server Essentials details the graphical tools that Apple provides to...

Don’t be fooled: Just because the Droid 2 is a smartphone doesn’t mean that it’s harboring some form of insidious intelligence. There’s no alien brain in the device. It isn’t going to take over the world, though it can intimidate you — that is, until you understand and accept that it’s your...

Trying to find the perfect networking resource or textbook can be a real challenge. Sometimes they are extremely focused on one technology, and thus miss the mark. Or they are extremely broad, covering every networking idea known to man. This book is about something that all networks have in common—the core protocols. Networks...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a customer relationship management tool. At its very core, Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a database. It’s the place where you can enter information about your customers: Who works at the company, what are their roles, who at your company has communicated with them, what have they purchased, and have they...

This book provides an overview of steganography and digital watermarking, two areas of research which are generally referred to as "information hiding." Steganography studies ways to make communication invisible by hiding secrets in innocuous messages, whereas watermarking originated from the need for copyright protection of...

This book will teach you how to create games with the awesome Java language. Previous editions emphasized the casual game market with chapter projects designed to run in AppletViewer or in a web browser. While still relevant, the code in this new edition is a bit simpler, using a JFrame more often instead of an applet, so that...

Welcome to the world of Excel. Okay, that’s a bit cheesy. But if you look around the business world, the fi nancial world, the manufacturing world, and any other industry you can of, you will see people using Excel. Excel is everywhere. It is by far the most used program in the history of business applications. So...