Arduino is a family of microcontrollers (tiny computers) and a software creation environment that makes it easy for you to create programs (called sketches) that can interact with the physical world. Things you...

The visual guide to...

My guess is that whichever smartphone you pictured—regardless of the brand or manufacturer—it has a touchscreen, a built-in accelerometer,...

The Python Text Processing Beginner's Guide is intended to provide a gentle, hands-on introduction to processing, understanding, and generating textual data using the Python programming language. Care is taken to ensure the content is example-driven, while still providing enough background information to allow for a solid...

Response to the iPhone, the iPod touch, and now the iPad has been nothing short of overwhelming. The App Store has captured the hobbyist’s imagination like no other platform in recent memory. Hobbyists have made—and will continue to make—money from their creations sold on the App Store. And we aren’t necessarily...

Java is the preferred language for meeting many...

There are many examples of the amazing evolutionary adaptations in the animal kingdom that aid survival, but the ability of animals to hibernate is one of the most incredible. Most vertebrates must keep warm, because hypothermia or loss of body heat is potentially fatal, but some have evolved to withstand a massive drop in...

Congratulations on the purchase of your new BlackBerry Storm2. You’re going to be amazed at how versatile this little device is, how many ways you can use it to stay in touch with others, and how many “apps” are available for you to play and work with. You’ll love GPS, texting, adding participants to a phone...

Do you believe in magic? The iPad has that magical quality of disappearing into your hands as you explore content with it. You have to hold...

Semantic Web and Knowledge Management has been accepted as a critical enabler aiming to increase knowledge-related performance...

The iPad is elegantly designed, easy to use, and amazingly powerful. The iPad is capable of performing many of the tasks that you may require from your MacBook, MacBook Pro, or PC, including surfing the web, exchanging emails, desktop publishing, downloading apps, and playing video games. It is important that you become familiar...

When asked whether I’d be interested in writing a book about the Google phone, I immediately jumped at the offer. Although I’ve been a dyed-in-the-wool iPhone user since June 2007 (the day it came out), the Google phone has piqued my interest from the fi rst day that I heard about it. Since the early rumors of a Google...