In today's digital world, images and videos are everywhere, and with the advent of powerful and affordable computing devices, it has never been easier to create sophisticated imaging applications. Plentiful software tools and libraries manipulating images and videos are offered, but for anyone who wishes to develop his/her own...

Milwaukee -not New York, Chicago or Los Angeles- was the scene of a number of television firsts: Here the very first application for a commercial TV license was filed with the FCC in 1938. The first female program director and news director in a major market were both at Milwaukee stations. Milwaukee was a major battleground in the VHF...

This book provides an in-depth look at how to build web-based applications (web apps) for Google TV, a new platform that integrates the open web with traditional TV. This powerful and versatile new platform includes Google Chrome, a modern web browser that enables developers to deliver rich and sophisticated web apps to Google TV...

Calling all developers: Windows Phone 7 is starting to gain...

Android is everywhere. Phones. Tablets. TVs and set-top boxes powered by Google TV. Soon, Android will be in cars and all sort of other places as well. However, the general theme of Android devices will be smaller screens and/or no hardware keyboard. And, by the numbers, Android will probably be associated mostly with smartphones for...

In the spring of 2004, at the Annecy International Animation Festival in France, a dear friend and I had a conversation about animation books. Interesting, we noted, that there is not a single book dedicated to classical hand-drawn special effects animation, even though it is an enormously important aspect of the animation business,...

Gaining access to the interactive learning activities on this Online Companion is easy—all you need to do is create a user profile. This simple, one-time process establishes you as a user in the CoursePort authentication system. By utilizing the Online Companion, students and instructors can reinforce the concepts they’re...

C# Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design requires no previous introduction to programming and only a mathematical background of high school algebra. The book uses C# as the programming language for software development; however, the basic programming concepts presented can be applied to a number of other languages....

Welcome to the Brief Version of Starting Out with C++: From Control Structures through Objects, 6th edition. This book is intended for use in a one or two-semester C++ programming course. Students new to programming, as well as those with prior course work in other languages, will find this text beneficial. The fundamentals of...

Too often I hear people say ‘ South Korea ’ and ‘ emerging market ’ in the same sentence, ” said Rich Wickham, the global head of Microsoft ’ s Windows games business. “ When it comes to gaming, Korea is the developed market, and it ’ s the rest of the world that ’ s playing...

Our goal in developing the New Perspectives Series was to create books that give students the software concepts...

Service Manager 2010 is without a doubt the most customizable and extensible product in the System Center suite. The ability to customize and extend the product is enabled by the common technology platform born in Operations Manager that now underlies other Microsoft products such as System Center Essentials, Windows InTune, Virtual...