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Author Greg Hoglund , Gary McGraw
This digital Short Cut, delivered in Adobe PDF format for quick and easy access, is an introduction to issues with cheating and anti-cheating countermeasures in the online gaming industry.At present, the online game World of Warcraft has approximately six million su....
Release Date 2006/07 -
Adobe Acrobat 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual Quickstart Guide
Author John Deubert
Adobe Acrobat 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide uses a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals to teach beginning and intermediate users how to be more productive with Adobe Acrobat. Author John Deubert takes readers step by step ....
Release Date 2006/12 -
Adobe Acrobat 8 How-Tos: 125 Essential Techniques
Author Donna L. Baker
Increase your productivity with Acrobat, one technique at a time. Now that PDF has become the ubiquitous electronic document format, it’s important to recognize that there’s much more to Adobe Acrobat than just managing your documents and improving workflow. With th....
Release Date 2007/02 -
Author Scott Kel
Scott Kelby, the man who changed the "digital darkroom" forever with his groundbreaking, #1 bestselling, award-winning book The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, now tackles the most important side of digital photography--how to take pro-quality shots using ....
Release Date 2006/08 -
Apple Pro Training Series Compressor Quick-Reference Guide
Author Brian Gary
Whether you’re distributing dailies, authoring a commercial DVD, or prepping video clips for the Web, Compressor is essential for creating quality digital content. In this quick-reference guide, professional filmmaker Brian Gary reveals essential techniques for audi....
Release Date 2006/12 -
The Photoshop Elements 5 Book for Digital Photographers
Author Scott Kel
Best-selling author Scott Kelby is well known for his plain-English style, his humorous tone, and his unparalleled ability to cut through all the technical jargon that other authors use when writing about image-editing programs. Here, Scott delivers great techniques....
Release Date 2006/11 -
Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web
Author Tara Calishain
How many times have you run a Google search that resulted in thousands of results? With over 8 billion pages online and more posted every day, the Web more than likely contains the information you’re looking for — if only you could find it. In Information Trapping: ....
Release Date 2006/12 -
The Digital SLR Guide: Beyond Point-and-Shoot Digital Photography
Author Jon Canfield
Have you stepped up to a digital single-lens-reflex (dSLR) camera only to find the range of capabilities daunting? Combining features traditionally found on 35mm film cameras — precise shutter speed and exposure settings, interchangeable lenses and accessories, supe....
Release Date 2006/11 -
Author Matthew Gast
If you haven't worked with T1 before, you could be in for an unpleasant surprise. If you have, you'll already know that T1, the current network standard for business and professional Internet access, is neither efficient, easy to use, nor particularly well-suited....
Release Date 2001/08 -
Photoshop Elements 3: The Missing Manual
Author Barbara Brundage
The recent boom in digital camera sales has created a tremendous demand for simple yet powerful photo-editing software. This is because experienced users, as well as amateurs, are quickly outgrowing the program that was originally bundled with their cameras.Fortuna....
Release Date 2005/03 -
Author Derrick Story
Your digital camera is more than new incarnation of your old film camera. Yes, it still produces photos, but it also offers new outlets for creativity, including instant gratification of seeing your photos now, the ability to experiment without worrying about expen....
Release Date 2004/05 -
Author Jenifer Tidwell
Designing a good interface isn't easy. Users demand software that is well-behaved, good-looking, and easy to use. Your clients or managers demand originality and a short time to market. Your UI technology -- web applications, desktop software, even mobile device....
Release Date 2005/11 -
Author Simson Garfinkel , Lorrie Faith Cranor
Human factors and usability issues have traditionally played a limited role in security research and secure systems development. Security experts have largely ignored usability issues--both because they often failed to recognize the importance of human factors and b....
Release Date 2005/08 -
Digital Photography: The Missing Manual
Author Barbara Brundage , Chris Grover
Digital Photography: The Missing Manual helps you to take beautiful digital pictures -- of your baby, your trip to Paris, your new pet iguana--and then share the stunning results with your friends and family. Spiked with the advice and humor that are trademarks of t....
Release Date 2006/06 -
Author Ian David Aronson
Thanks to the digital revolution, film artists now have a spectacular array of powerful, new, inexpensive tools for creative expression through digital film. The once powerful studios can no longer stifle an artist's creativity. With the power of the Internet, fil....
Release Date 2006/01 -
Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio
Author Glenn Honiball
For both Mac and Windows PC users, Photoshop CS2 is the market leader and industry standard for commercial bitmap image manipulation. Also known as the "digital dark room," Photoshop is the unparalleled tool of choice among graphics professionals and hobby photograp....
Release Date 2005/08 -
AppleScript: The Missing Manual
Author Adam Goldstein
From newspapers to NASA, Mac users around the world use AppleScript to automate their daily computing routines. Famed for its similarity to English and its ease of integration with other programs, AppleScript is the perfect programming language for time-squeezed Mac....
Release Date 2005/01 -
Author Mikkel Aaland
The RAW file format is the uncompressed data file captured by a digital camera's electronic sensor. When your camera saves an image in RAW format, settings like white balance, sharpening, contrast and saturation are not applied to the image but are saved instead i....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Author Joseph Adler
Baseball Hacks isn't your typical baseball book--it's a book about how to watch, research, and understand baseball. It's an instruction manual for the free baseball databases. It's a cookbook for baseball research. Every part of this book is designed to teach ba....
Release Date 2006/01 -
Author Michael Juntao Yuan
Nokia's smartphones pack a powerful computer into a very small space. Unlike your desktop or laptop, your smallest computer can be connected to the Internet all the time, and can interact with the world around it through its camera, voice recognition, and its tradi....
Release Date 2005/07 -
GarageBand 2: The Missing Manual
Author David Pogue
Whether you're a professional musician or a mere novice, Apple's GarageBand software has everything you need to produce commercial-quality recordings entirely on your own. Just imagine how many thousands of singers and instrumentalists remain undiscovered because....
Release Date 2005/08 -
Author David A. Karp , Andy Rathbone
Your vacuum comes with one. Even your blender comes with one. But your PC--something that costs a whole lot more and is likely to be used daily and for tasks of far greater importance and complexity--doesn't come with a printed manual. Thankfully, that's not a pro....
Release Date 2005/12 -
Quicken 2006 for Starters: The Missing Manual
Author Bonnie Biafore
Intuit's Quicken is one of today's most popular and convenient ways to keep track of personal finances, and Quicken 2006 For Starters: The Missing Manual for Windows is the indispensable guide to using the program to simplify your finances and make the most of you....
Release Date 2005/11 -
Photoshop Elements 4: The Missing Manual
Author Barbara Brundage
The popularity of digital cameras continues to grow exponentially. They are now more powerful, feature rich, and affordable--turning digital photography into a mainstream interest. And with Photoshop Elements, Adobe has created the most popular photo-editing progra....
Release Date 2005/10 -
iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
Author David Pogue
While the last version of iMovie gave moviemakers the ability to capture and edit widescreen High Definition Video (HDV) from the new generation of camcorders, iMovie 6 is all about the ease of moviemaking itself. iMovie 6 includes five professionally designed them....
Release Date 2006/05 -
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 3rd Edition
Author Louis Rosenfeld , Peter Morville
The post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups makes well-planned information architecture even more essential. How do you present large volumes of information to people who need to find what they're looking for quickly? This classic primer sho....
Release Date 2006/11 -
Author Nancy Conner
Ready to put Intuit's QuickBase to work? Our new Missing Manual shows you how to capture, modify, share, and manage data and documents with this web-based data-sharing program quickly and easily. No longer do you have to coordinate your team through a blizzard of e....
Release Date 2007/03 -
Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia® Fireworks® MX in 24 Hours
Author Lon Coley , Jackson West
Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Fireworks X in 24 Hours is written for Web designers who are looking for a book to quickly and easily get up to speed with Fireworks.The reader most likely has some experience creating Web pages and designing Web graphics, and probably....
Release Date 2002/12 -
Sams Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 Hours
Author Porter Glendinning , Molly E. Holzschlag
Movable Type, a low-cost, distributed publishing software solution is helping thousands of Web site developers organize and automate the Web content management process.In 24 well-paced chapters, the authors of Sams Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 Hours show reader....
Release Date 2004/05 -
SAMS Teach Yourself Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 in 24 Hours
Author Kate Binder , Carla Rose
Create works of art using your computer, Adobe Photoshop CS 2 and Sams Teach Yourself Photoshop CS 2 in 24 Hours. Learn the basics of Photoshop with a minimum of jargon from market-leading author, Carla Rose. Her conversational, friendly approach will make Photoshop....
Release Date 2005/05