Congratulations on your new Droid smartphone! You’re going to be amazed when you discover all the ways it enables you to connect with your contacts and stay in touch with the world. You can communicate via talk, text, email, social networking, and chatting with instant messaging, and on some newer Droid phones, you may even be able to...
Photoshop compositing has really blown up over the last few years. You see composites everywhere
from magazine ads and covers, to movie posters, to athletic portraits, to, well, just about
any kind of portrait. It really is everywhere. Clients and customers are very aware of Photoshop
now and...
Whether you’re shopping for clothes from your computer or mobile
phone, or selling artworks around the globe, you face a dizzying array of
choices and decisions. How do I pay? How do I get paid? What if something
goes wrong?
Android phones are a great platform for developing apps, but sometimes it is nice if those apps go beyond the built-in hardware of the phone and connect to some homemade electronics.
The IOIO board allows you to do just that, and this book will show you how to use the IOIO board and interface it to various different...
A man is walking down Michigan Avenue in Chicago. He shares a sidewalk
with crowds of anonymous people. He sees skyscrapers and signage
extending to the horizon. There is a lot going on – people talking, walking,
playing, fighting, screaming, driving, and smiling. He sees a coffee shop
that excites his interest. He pulls...
Computing is transforming our society in ways that are as profound as the changes wrought
by physics and chemistry in the previous two centuries. Indeed, there is hardly an aspect of
our lives that hasn't already been influenced, or even revolutionized, by digital technology.
Given the importance of computing to modern society,...
The decision to write a book about this content management system was an easy one. At the time of this writing, WordPress powers more than 15 percent of all websites online. That's a considerable bite out of the Internet. Unfortunately, that also meant a lot of books had already been published on WordPress. After a couple of weeks, mulling...
OSX Lion and iOS5 now offer an application memory management mechanism called
Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). In short, ARC makes memory management the
job of the compiler rather than the programmer, which quite often increases
performance significantly.
In Chapters 2 and 3, you see just how powerful ARC is....
Before learning the intricacies of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and JavaScript, it is important that you gain a solid understanding of the technologies that help transform these plaintext files to the rich multimedia displays you see on your computer or handheld device when browsing the World Wide Web. For...
Scott Kelby was honored with Professional Photographer magazine’s highly coveted 2008 Hot One Award for The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers. Here’s what Jeff Kent, the Hot One Editor at Professional Photographer, has to say about the book: “In a how-to published by Peachpit Press, Scott Kelby,...
My first encounter with PHP came about 10 years ago. By that time, I already had plenty of
experience developing websites. I had started out writing HTML in a text editor before settling
on Dreamweaver as my favorite authoring tool. A new project involved publishing more than
30 articles a day. It was a subscription service, so the...
When mobile phones were first introduced in the early 1970s, they were capable of doing
nothing more than placing telephone calls. When the first 1G cellular network was introduced
in 1979, mobile phones hadn’t changed much in features but were beginning to
decrease in size. In 1991, the first 2G network was introduced and...
