If you are a designer who knows HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you can easily learn how to make native iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps—and distribute them worldwide via the App Store. When combined with an Objective-C framework, web standards can be used to format and style content for iOS, using native controls and behaviors for an...

Adobe® Acrobat® X is an essential tool in today’s electronic workflow. As in earlier versions, you can use Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Pro to convert virtually any document to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), preserving the exact look and content of the original, complete with fonts and graphics. Additionally,...

In UNIX there are many ways to accomplish the same task. Given a problem to solve, we may be able to get to a solution in any number of ways. Of course, some techniques will be more efficient, use fewer system resources, and may or may not give the user feedback on what is going on or give more accurate details and more precision to the...

For 10 years, iTunes has brought listening pleasure to people’s computers. Originally introduced in January 2001, the first version of iTunes worked only with Mac OS 9 operating systems, but later that year, Apple added support for OS X and for iPods—and that’s when iTunes really took off. Subsequent versions of the...

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Alfresco provides a robust, easy to use, and scalable web content framework for managing multiple websites leveraging a common web infrastructure. If you are interested in configuring and building a new website quickly, determined to create a scalable infrastructure to stage multiple websites, and want to secure and control the content being...

With SharePoint 2010, developers finally have the powerful, end-to-end development tools they need to build outstanding solutions quickly and painlessly. What’s more, those tools are built directly into the latest version of Visual Studio, the development platform most Microsoft developers already know. In this book, the Microsoft...

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Cutting-edge computer games rival the best that Hollywood has to offer in visual effects, musical score, and pure adrenaline rush. But games are a form of entertainment unlike any other; they can keep players glued to their monitors for hours on end. What sets games apart and makes them so engrossing is interactivity. In a computer game, you...

Bridging the gap between the palm-sized iPod touch and a full-sized computer, Apple's iPad offers enough screen area and horsepower to perform the day-to-day tasks most people want to do. Packed with practical knowledge, this book will walk readers through how to manage their most common projects, from the simple (setting up a calendar...