In 2008, Adobe Photoshop pro and best-selling author Matt Kloskowski broke new ground teaching Photoshop by focusing on the one thing that makes Photoshop the amazing (and sometimes difficult to understand) program it is: layers. Now, Matt returns with a major update that covers layers in Photoshop CS5 in the same concise, easy to understand...

Learning new concepts is easier when you can see the solution. Book Yourself Solid Illustrated, a remarkable, one-of-a-kind work of art, transforms the Book Yourself Solid system into a more compelling and...

Learn the fundamentals of Java 2 programming from master programmer and best-selling author Herb Schildt. Fully updated to cover Java 2 version 1.4, this step-by-step guide will have you programming in no time. You'll start at the beginning, learning why Java is the preeminent language of the Internet, how it...

Seeking relief from mouse mishaps or memory malfunctions? Take the cure and achieve peak performance with Mac OS X and OS X 10.2 Jaguar. In this valuable resource, Mac guru and best-selling author Curt Simmons covers...

The iPhone is the hottest gadget of our generation, and much of its success has been fueled by the App Store, Apple’s online marketplace for iPhone applications. Over 1 billion apps have been downloaded in the 9 months the App Store has been open, ranging from the simplest games to the most complex business apps. Everyone has an idea...

All Windows users know that their PCs slowly develop problems—nasty gunk build-up that plagues their PCs. Here are some of the common symptoms: your PC starts to run slower, your applications will crash without warning, you can’t easily find your files and folders, you start getting tons of spam, and you encounter a host of other...

The first part of the book provides an introduction to style sheets--the history of their...