For Windows(r) users, 7 might just be their lucky number
This guide offers a smoother transition for users moving from an older version to Windows(r) 7. Along with simple step-by-step instructions and numerous useful examples, readers will learn how to: use new tools; find applications and files instantly;...
You are about to embark on a fantastic journey! System Center 2012 Configuration
Manager is an exciting, new version of the Configuration Manager product line. While
each release of Configuration Manager, or the predecessor product—Systems Management
Server—has been a great improvement over the previous version, we...
Rich client development remains one of the most popular forms of application
development, both from a user and a developer point of view. While nobody denies
the importance of thin-client interface technologies such as HTML(5), it is clear
that consumers and enterprises alike enjoy using applications that provide a rich,...
Penetration testing is one of the core aspects of network security in today's scenario. It involves a complete analysis of the system by implementing real-life security tests. It helps in identifying potential weaknesses in the system's major components which can occur either in its hardware or software. The reason which makes...
Many moons ago (circa 2001), I was given the opportunity to write a book on a forthcoming Microsoft
technology that was, at the time, dubbed NGWS (Next Generation Windows Software). As I began to
examine the source code provided by Microsoft, I noticed numerous code comments referring to the
“COOL” (Common Object...
Certification is the first big step towards getting yourself recognized in the extremely large developer community. It demonstrates that you have a working knowledge, and gives you an edge in the market space and employment space. It helps you to get a better salary through promotions or increments in a few cases.
Edge is an all-new tool from Adobe (currently in pre-release) that seeks to enable the authoring of motion and interactive experiences through HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in a manner consistent with other Creative Suite applications. The Edge application shares many features with other Adobe products, particularly Flash Professional, After...
Synchronicity. It’s all about students and instructors tuning in to each other.
And technology makes it possible. In a world of networks, e-mail, webinars, and
social networking sites, technology can certainly strengthen the link between
instructors and students.
Data clustering is a highly interdisciplinary field whose goal is to divide a
set of objects into homogeneous groups such that objects in the same group
are similar and objects in different groups are quite distinct. Thousands of
papers and a number of books on data clustering have been published over
the past 50 years....
Technology is at its best when it enables you to focus more on what you are doing rather than how you are doing it. iPhoto is definitely technology at its best. It does so many things that it takes a whole book to describe them to you — this book, in fact. iPhoto ’11 Portable Genius is your companion: It helps you get going with...
In less than half a decade, the iOS platform has changed the way that we, the public, think about our mobile computing devices. Only a few years ago, we were thrilled by phones with postage-stamp-sized screens, tinny audio, built-in tip calculators, and text-based web browsing. Times have indeed...
One of the consequences of the information revolution is the ever-growing amount of
information we are surrounded with and the need to process this information
efficiently and extract meaningful knowledge. This phenomenon was termed “digital
obesity” or “information obesity” by Toshiba Ltd. One...
