2009 Internet Directory or Office 2003 for Dummies

2009 Internet Directory: Web 2.0 Edition

Author: Vince Averello

2009 Internet Directory

Web 2.0 Edition

Vince Averello

Mikal E. Belicove

Nancy Conner

Adrienne Crew

Sherry Kinkoph Gunter

Faithe Wempen

 

The Best of the New “Web 2.0” Internet…at Your Fingertips!

 

A whole new Web’s coming to life: new tools, communities, video, podcasts, everything! You won’t find these exciting “Web 2.0” destinations with old-fashioned Internet directories…and it’ll take forever to find them on search engines. But they’re all at your fingertips, right here! Carefully selected by humans, not algorithms, here are the Net’s 3,000 best Web 2.0 destinations: amazing new sites, tools, and resources for your whole life!

 

They’ll help you…

• Have way more fun!

• Build your business…

• Buy the right stuff, and avoid the junk…

• Stay totally up-to-date on news, politics, science…

• Be a better parent…

• Go “green”…

• Get healthier—and stay healthier…

• Deepen your faith…

• Pursue your hobbies…

• Plan incredible vacations…

• Find the perfect restaurant…

• And more… much more!

Look this: Life After Trauma or Erotic Massage

Office 2003 for Dummies

Author: Wallace Wang

If you have Microsoft Office 2003 For Dummies and just use it to create documents and for e-mail, that’s like having the ultimate gourmet kitchen and only cooking frozen dinners or having a 42” plasma high-definition, sound surround TV and only watching old reruns. This book will help you take control of Office 2003 and use it to take control of your life—at work or at home. It covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access. (Note that not all versions of Office 2003 have Access.) You’ll learn how to create all kinds of documents, set up and use databases, create spreadsheets and do all kinds of numerical calculations and computations, and present your creations in style. With detailed explanations and screen shots, this guide covers:

• Creating, saving, opening, and printing any Office 2003 file

• Getting comfortable with common Office 2003 commands, including using the menus and toolbars, working with the task pane, using multiple windows, and copying and pasting with Office Clipboard

• The basics for working in Word, plus info on formatting your text or document, aligning text, adding headers, footers, or page numbers, adding and editing pictures, and more

• Playing the numbers with Excel, with info on the basics of spreadsheets (numbers, labels, and formatting) and creating and editing formulas

• Creating and manipulating charts—line, area, column, bar, and pie varieties

• Creating PowerPoint presentations using AutoContent Wizard, a template, or from an existing presentation

• Adding color, pictures, and transitions to jazzupyour PowerPoint presentation

• Getting organized with Outlook, including handling e-mail, organizing contact information, managing tasks with a to-do list, and scheduling appointments

• Storing stuff in Access, with the basics on using a database, searching, sorting, and making queries, and creating reports

Microsoft Office 2003 For Dummies was written by Wallace Wang, the popular, bestselling author of more than 20 For Dummies computer books. It gives you a great overview and step-by-step how-to for the most common and most helpful functions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access. It’s a great guide to exploring the incredible powers at your fingertips with Microsoft Office 2003 and enhancing your productivity.  It’s also a great reference to keep handy so you can get a quick review of tasks you don’t often do or figure out more ways to use Office 2003 to make quick work of your work.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Getting to Know Microsoft Office	5
Ch. 1	Playing with Office 2003 Files	7
Ch. 2	Common Office 2003 Commands	21
Ch. 3	Getting Help from Microsoft Office	41
Ch. 4	Sharing Data	55
Pt. II	Working with Word	67
Ch. 5	Manipulating Your Words	69
Ch. 6	Making Your Words Look Pretty	89
Ch. 7	Creating Fancy Pages	119
Pt. III	Playing the Numbers Game with Excel	139
Ch. 8	The Basics of Spreadsheets: Numbers, Labels, and Formatting	141
Ch. 9	Having Fun with Formulas and Functions	161
Ch. 10	Charting Your Numbers	181
Pt. IV	Making Presentations with PowerPoint	193
Ch. 11	Creating a PowerPoint Presentation	195
Ch. 12	Adding Color and Pictures to PowerPoint	215
Ch. 13	Showing Off Your PowerPoint Presentations	227
Pt. V	Getting Organized with Outlook	239
Ch. 14	Organizing Your E-Mail	241
Ch. 15	Setting Tasks and Making Contacts	259
Ch. 16	Scheduling Your Time	273
Pt. VI	Storing Stuff in Access	287
Ch. 17	Using a Database	289
Ch. 18	Searching, Sorting, and Making Queries	319
Ch. 19	Making Reports	333
Pt. VII	The Part of Tens	341
Ch. 20	Ten Tips for Using Office 2003	343
Ch. 21	Ten Common Microsoft Office 2003 Shortcuts	359
	Index	365

Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter X or World of Warcraft

Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter X

Author: Rhoda Grossman

Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter X is an introduction to drawing and painting using a Wacom graphics tablet and the industry standard software for pixel-based art. Each chapter is full of exercises designed to teach basic skills, such as eye-hand coordination. Easy-to-follow projects lead you from a simple, still life sketch to drawing the human figure. Each lesson is designed for novices as well as artists who want to transfer their traditional skills to the computer. You'll learn techniques for imitating natural media such as charcoal, watercolor, and oils. A wide variety of styles and subject matter is covered, ranging from classic landscape to experimental abstract painting as well as mixed media portraits and caricature.

New interesting textbook: Golda or Big Green Purse

World of Warcraft: The Art of The Trading Card Game, Vol. 1

Author: Zoltan Boros

With more than 300 pieces of art, this book is the first collection of the best paintings and drawings created for the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game.

Cheryl Ann Lajos - Library Journal

Consisting of large color reproductions of approximately 300 archival pieces of artwork from the first-year release of the highly popular World of Warcraft® Trading Card Game (TCG), which originated in 2004 as a Blizzard Entertainment online role-playing game before evolving into a card game in 2006, this nicely illustrated 11" × 9" coffee-table book features sketches, paintings, and digital illustrations by more than 90 talented fantasy artists, including Todd McFarlane (Spawn) and Greg Staples (Judge Dredd). Organized into chapters showcasing various heroic and mythological creatures, each captioned piece lists the card name and its deck, number, medium, and artist. Brief forewords by Blizzard Entertainment's Samwise Didier and Glenn Rane and a short introduction by Upper Deck Entertainment's Jeremy Cranford offer insightful information about the images' production environments. Lacking detailed analytical essays, explanatory entries, artist biographies, or bibliographic references, this almost entirely visual book-which also includes artist and card title indexes-clearly was conceived to appeal to individuals who actively play the online and/or the trading card games and who enjoy the games' artworks. While its significance may be elusive to nongamers, it is recommended for public libraries having ample numbers of gaming patrons and aficionados.

Programming Collective Intelligence or Objective C Pocket Reference

Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

Author: Toby Segaran

This fascinating book demonstrates how you can build web applications to mine the enormous amount of data created by people on the Internet. With the sophisticated algorithms in this book, you can write smart programs to access interesting datasets from other web sites, collect data from users of your own applications, and analyze and understand the data once you've found it.

Want to tap the power behind search rankings, product recommendations, social bookmarking, and online matchmaking? This fascinating book demonstrates how you can build Web 2.0 applications to mine the enormous amount of data created by people on the Internet. With the sophisticated algorithms in this book, you can write smart programs to access interesting datasets from other web sites, collect data from users of your own applications, and analyze and understand the data once you've found it.

Programming Collective Intelligence takes you into the world of machine learning and statistics, and explains how to draw conclusions about user experience, marketing, personal tastes, and human behavior in general -- all from information that you and others collect every day. Each algorithm is described clearly and concisely with code that can immediately be used on your web site, blog, Wiki, or specialized application. This book explains:
-Collaborative filtering techniques that enable online retailers to recommend products or media
-Methods of clustering to detect groups of similar items in a large dataset
-Search engine features -- crawlers, indexers, query engines, and the PageRank algorithm
-Optimization algorithms that search millions of possible solutions to a problem and choose the best one
-Bayesian filtering, used in spam filters for classifying documents based on word types and other features
-Using decision trees not only to make predictions, but to model the way decisions are made -Predicting numerical values rather than classifications to build price models
-Support vector machines to match people in online dating sites
-Non-negative matrix factorization to find the independent features in a dataset
-Evolving intelligence for problem solving -- how a computer develops its skill by improving its own code the more it plays a game

Each chapter includes exercises for extending the algorithms to make them more powerful. Go beyond simple database-backed applications and put the wealth of Internet data to work for you.

New interesting textbook: Following the Money or Poverty and the Underclass

Objective-C Pocket Reference

Author: Andrew M Duncan

Objective-C is an exciting and dynamic approach to C-based object-oriented programming. It's the approach adopted by Apple as the foundation for programming under Mac OS X, a Unix-based operating system gaining wide acceptance among programmers and other technologists. Objective-C is easy to learn and has a simple elegance that is a welcome breath of fresh air after the abstruse and confusing C++. In this pocket reference, Andrew M. Duncan provides a quick and concise introduction to Objective-C for the experienced programmer. In addition to covering the essentials of Objective-C syntax, Andrew also covers important facets of the language such as memory management, the Objective-C runtime, dynamic loading, distributed objects, and exception handling.

Cisco Voice over IP or Virtual Pose 3

Cisco Voice over IP (CVoice)

Author: Wallac

Authorized Self-Study Guide

Cisco Voice over IP (CVOICE)

Third Edition

 

Foundation learning for CVOICE exam 642-436

 

Kevin Wallace, CCIE No. 7945

 

Cisco Voice over IP (CVOICE), Third Edition, is a Cisco-authorized, self-paced learning tool for CCVP foundation learning. This book provides you with the knowledge and skills required to plan, design, and deploy a Cisco voice-over-IP (VoIP) network and to integrate gateways and gatekeepers into an enterprise VoIP network. By reading this book, you will gain a thorough understanding of converged voice and data networks and also the challenges you will face implementing various network technologies.

 

Cisco Voice over IP (CVOICE) presents you with information on the foundational elements of VoIP calls, the description of dial plans, and the implementation of gateways, gatekeepers, and Cisco Unified Border Elements (Cisco UBEs). The book gives you the information needed to implement and support data and voice integration solutions at the network-access level.

 

Whether you are preparing for CCVP certification or simply want to gain a better understanding of VoIP fundamentals, you will benefit from the foundation information presented in this book.

 

Cisco Voice over IP (CVOICE), Third Edition, is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from

Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered byauthorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit http://cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.

 

Kevin Wallace, CCIE No. 7945, is a certified Cisco instructor, and he teaches courses in the Cisco CCSP, CCVP, and CCNP® tracks. With 19 years of Cisco networking experience, Kevin has been a network design specialist for the Walt Disney World Resort and a network manager for Eastern Kentucky University.

 

• Integrate VoIP into an existing data network
• Design a VoIP network for optimal voice quality
• Examine the various call types in a VoIP network
• Configure analog voice interfaces and dial peers
• Perform call signaling over digital voice ports
• Implement H.323, MGCP, and SIP protocols on Cisco IOS® gateways
• Identify dial plan characteristics
• Configure advanced dial plans
• Deploy H.323 gatekeepers
• Implement a Cisco UBE router to provide protocol interworking

 

Companion CD-ROM

The CD-ROM contains a bonus 90 minutes of video demonstrations. Watch the author perform fundamental CVoice configuration tasks in a series of six video-on-demand labs.

 

This volume is in the Certification Self-Study Series offered by Cisco Press. Books in this series provide officially developed self-study solutions to help networking professionals understand technology implementations and prepare for the Cisco Career Certifications examinations.

 

Category: Voice over IP

Covers: CVoice exam 642-436

New interesting textbook: Start Your Own Blogging Business or Moose Petersons Guide to Wildlife Photography

Virtual Pose 3: The Ultimate Visual Reference Series for Drawing the Human Figure

Author: Mario Henri Chakkour

The next best thing to working with a live model, Virtual Pose(r) 3 provides professional and student artists with an accurate and convenient method of viewing the human form--without needing access to a live model and studio sessions.Digital artist Mario Henri Chakkour has created a CD-ROM and companion book that features models in 70 high resolution poses, images which can be zoomed in on and rotated 360 degrees. Painters, sculptors, and other artists will welcome the opportunity to study at length each detail and subtlety of the human form, giving them a deeper understanding of shape, form, and gesture. Mario Henri Chakkour is an internationally established digital artist. He is the author of Painting with Computers and creator of the Visual Pose (r) series. He is also a member of the American Institute of Architects. He lives in Washington, DC.

Crystal Reports 10 for Dummies or How eBay Really Works

Crystal Reports 10 for Dummies

Author: Allen G Taylor

Would you read information presented like this?

No. It’s just not natural. Sometimes presentation is almost as important as content. When you create a report, the goal is to provide information for readers in a format they can readily understand.

Crystal Reports 10 For Dummies, the latest version of the most popular report writer in the world, shows you how to create simple or sophisticated reports, turning data into interactive, actionable reports that convey what’s happening in your business. You can progress cover-to-cover or use the index to find out how to:

• Give your reports more pizzazz by using the correct fonts, color, drop shadows, graphic elements, and more

• Integrate elements from multiple, non-database sources

• Group sort, total result sets, cross-tab reports, and add formulas, charts, or maps

• Print reports

• Use customized Business Views gleaned from the same information to provide each reader with information he or she needs to know without spilling all the beans, sales figures, marketing information, or whatever

• Present multi-dimensional data in OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) cubes

• Get ideas from sample reports on the companion Web site

Written by Allen G. Taylor, nationally known lecturer, teacher, and author of over 20 books, including Database Development for Dummies, Crystal Reports 10 For Dummies makes it crystal clear how to:

• Store your information securely in Crystal Repository

• Use Crystal Analysis 10 to display OLAP data so you and yourreport’s readers can analyze the information in an online environment

• Use Crystal Enterprise to put Crystal Reports online for viewing by hundreds or thousands of people in your organization

Whether you want to dazzle your company’s CEO and shareholders, motivate the sales force, or simply share database information cogently, with Crystal Reports 10 For Dummies you not only make your point, you an impression. When your reports look professional, you look professional.

New interesting textbook: MCTS Self Paced Training Kit or Desktop and Portable Systems

How eBay Really Works

Author: Brad Schepp

eBay is a billion-dollar phenomenon. For the millions who want to jump on the bandwagon, here’s the straight scoop on how to get started making the most out of the Web’s greatest marketplace. Based on interviews with successful eBay buyers and sellers, this insider’s guide reveals what everybody wants to know, including: how to avoid rip-offs, find great stuff, bid and set a price, and run auctions. It tackles tough questions that eBay hopes users will forget, such as: Is it safe to buy big-ticket items, and Are listing enhancements really worth it? Quick-Start Guides give ready-to-go newbies a jump-start, and there are informative screenshots, tips on PowerBuying and Selling, and hints on making eBay a full-time job.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     x
Introduction     1
Buying
Quick Start Guide-eBay Buying in 5 Steps     6
What's All This Fuss about eBay?     7
More Than Anything, eBay Is Fun!     9
eBay Explained     12
eBay Is a Community     15
What You'll Need to Get Started     17
My Best eBay Buy     21
How Do I Find the Good Stuff?     23
Browsing eBay's Categories     24
Searching     27
Other Shopping Options     33
My Best eBay Buy     35
How Do I Know Whom to Trust?     37
eBay's System of Feedback     38
The Item Description     43
Seller's Policies     45
Ask a Question     46
Signs You Can Trust     48
About Me Pages     51
Buyer Beware     53
My Best eBay Buy     59
How Do I Place a Bid?     61
How to Place a Bid     61
When Should I Bid?     64
Know Your Competition     69
Special Situations     70
Sniping Software     71
Can I Cancel My Bid?     73
My Best eBay Buy     74
Effectively Communicating with Sellers     77
Effective E-mail Communication     78
Communicate Before You Bid     78
After-the-Sale Correspondence     81
Don't Be Afraid to Call     82
What About Skype?     82
Your About Me Page     83
My Best eBay Buy     85
Paying for Your Items     87
Seven Days to a Successful Sale     87
PayPal: Your Best Option     89
Personal Checks     92
Money Orders     93
Paying for High-Priced Items     93
Wire Transfers     95
Our PayPal Bias     95
My Best eBay Buy     96
Feedback: Love It and Leave It     99
When Should I Leave Feedback?     100
What Should My Feedback Say?     102
Someone Left Me Negative Feedback! Now What?     107
My Best eBay Buy     110
What If Something Goes Wrong?     113
The Realities of Doing Business on eBay     114
An Ounce of Prevention     115
Types of eBay Fraud     116
When Bad Things Happen     119
My Best eBay Buy     127
PowerSearch to PowerBuy: Advanced Searching Techniques     129
Advanced Searching     129
Tips and Tricks     135
My Best eBay Buy     140
Buying Motor Vehicles and Real Estate     143
eBay Motors     144
Buying Real Estate on eBay     153
My Best eBay Buy     157
Selling
Quick Start Guide-eBay Selling in 5 Steps     160
Start Selling on eBay     161
Selling: A Horse of a Different Color, but Still a Horse     162
Thinking Like a Seller     163
Register Yourself in the Eyes of eBay     166
Choosing an Item for Your First Sale     170
My Best eBay Sale     173
Creating Winning Listings     175
Creating a Listing     176
Make Your Listings POP!     191
Timing Your Auctions     196
Managing Your Auctions     197
My Best eBay Sale     199
Making Sure Your Price Is Right     201
Here's to More Research     202
Pricing Strategies for Your Auctions     204
My Best eBay Sale     211
Customer Service Without the Smile     213
You're Already Thinking about Great Customer Service      214
Communication Is the Key, and that Means E-mail!     215
Reach Out and Touch Your Customer     216
Good Customer Service Equals Good Business for You     217
Show Them the Real You!     220
There's No Beginning and No End in Sight     224
My Best eBay Sale     224
Making Sure You're Paid!     227
The Payment Mechanics     228
When Something Goes Wrong     234
My Best eBay Sale     237
Packing and Shipping Without Schlepping     239
Get Organized     240
Packing Your Items     243
How Much Should You Charge?     246
Paying for Your Postage     246
Who's Your Carrier?     247
What about Insurance?     248
A Word about Timing     248
Send It Out Right. It Shows Them You Care     249
My Best eBay Sale     249
Feedback: Your Report Card for All the World to See     251
A Seller's Feedback     251
The Feedback You Leave     254
Responding to a Negative     255
My Best eBay Sale     257
Finding More Stuff to Sell     259
You Profit When You Buy      260
How Do I Decide What to Sell?     261
Researching Sales Trends     273
My Best eBay Sale     276
Ready for an eBay Store?     279
Inside an eBay Store     279
Should You Have an eBay Store?     280
How to Open an eBay Store     284
Your Own Web Store     288
My Best eBay Sale     291
Become a PowerSeller!     293
What Exactly Is a PowerSeller?     294
Ahhh, the Life of a PowerSeller (Hey You, Get Back to Work!)     296
Time for Some Good News     299
You're a Business Owner Now, So Start Thinking Like One     301
It's Been a Great Ride. Now Fasten Your Seatbelts and Off You Go!     306
My Best eBay Sale     307
Selling Vehicles on eBay     309
Our Favorite Resources for eBay Buyers and Sellers     311
Glossary     315
Index     329

Digital Photography or Java Software Solutions

Digital Photography (National Geographic Photo Field Guide Series): Secrets to Making Great Pictures

Author: Rob Sheppard

The world of photography has been transformed by the digital realm—both professionals and amateurs alike are abandoning traditional film cameras for new technology. Now, in the fifth of the acclaimed Photography Field Guide series, National Geographic presents an easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide to this new media with tips on everything from picking the right camera to producing exotic infrared images.

This reference provides all the information necessary to get the most out of new digital technology, including the background and development of digital technology, the ethics of when a photographer should and should not alter images, differences in various file types (JPEG, TIFF, etc.), and tips for producing excellent panoramic images.

Featuring information from one of the field's most revered experts, this guide is the quintessential tool for photographers of all levels of experience who wish to be on the cutting edge of photography's exciting new frontier.

Interesting textbook: Successful Diversity Management Initiatives or Global Inequalities

Java Software Solutions: Foundations of Program Design

Author: John Lewis

Java Software Solutions is the premier text for teaching beginning programmers how to design and implement high-quality software using Java. Instructors trust the book's focus on developing high-quality software using Java. Instructors trust the book's focus on developing problem-solving and design skills alongside solid programming techniques. Students appreciate its clear writing and wealth of realistic programming examples. The Sixth Edition introduces improvements that make this book an even more useful teaching and learning tool.

 

KEY FEATURES

• A measured approach to objects teaches students first how to use objects and then how to write them.
• Fully implemented examples demonstrate specific concepts -- small, readily understandable examples are intertwined with larger, more realistic ones.
• An optional Graphics Track covers graphics and GUIs at the end of each chapter, allowing for flexibility of coverage.
• Extensive review and practice features include end-of-chapter questions, exercises, projects, and new end-of-section exercises.
• NEW! Software Failure vignettes discuss real-world flaws in software design, encouraging students to adopt sound design practices from the beginning.
• The text is completely compatible with Java 6.0.
• NEW! Video Notes, presented by the author, explain topics visually in an easy-to-follow format, giving students the extra help they need to grasp important concepts. Each chapter has multiple Video Notes that walk students through examples and problem solutions. Conveniently accessible on aw.com/lewis or CD-ROM (available separately).

myCodeMate is a Web-based, textbook-specific homework tool and programming resource for an introduction to programming course. It provides a wide range of tools that students can use to help them learn programming concepts, prepare for tests, and earn better grades in the introductory programming course. Students can work on programming problems from this text or homework problems created by their professors and receive guided hints with page references and English explanations of compiler errors. Instructors can assign textbook-specific or self-created homeowrk problems, preset style attributes, view students' code and class compiler error logs, and track homework completion. A complimentary subscription is offered when an access code is ordered packaged with a new copy of this text. Subscriptions may also be purchased online. For more information visit mycodemate.com.

 

Booknews

Teaches beginning programmers how to design and implement high quality object-oriented software, updated to encompass the new features of the Java 2 platform as they apply to CS1/Introductory Programming topics. Applets and applications appear throughout the book to demonstrate computing concepts. Includes a new chapter addressing exceptions and I/O streams and expanded coverage of classes and objects, methods and parameter passing, object relationships, and class design, as well as new discussion of Swing components. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Active Directory For Dummies or Photoshop Lightroom Workbook

Active Directory For Dummies

Author: Marcia Loughry

* Playing an integral role in the Windows Server administration, Active Directory (AD) allows users to configure groups, implement network security, create and enforce network policies, and more
* This friendly introduction to AD provides system administrators with the basics of AD and points them in the right direction for setting up a network schema, helping them avoid common AD mistakes that can undermine network security
* New material includes coverage of security improvements, significant user interface changes, and updates to the AD scripting engine, password policies, accidental object deletion protection, and more

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Photoshop Lightroom Workbook: Workflow not Workslow in Lightroom 2

Author: Seth Resnick

Photoshop Lightroom is the new software from Adobe aimed specifically at photographers and it's taking the photography world by storm. This no-nonsense guide to setting up an efficient workflow in Lightroom offers all the advice you need to master Adobe's clever workflow tool and make it work for you.
As co-founders of the renowned and hugely popular photography training and consultancy company D-65 (D-65.com), Seth Resnick and Jamie Spritzer are the perfect guides to lead you through the maze technical problems and practical challenges that stand between you and a seamless digital workflow with Lightroom at the core. Keep the lens cap on until you've read the essential pro tips in this new Lightroom book from Focal Press!

* The essential guide to setting up an efficient workflow with Photoshop Lightroom from two of the industry's most respected photography trainers
* Insider tips and tricks explain not only how to use Lightroom but also how best to work pre-capture to ensure you get the best out of Lightroom post-capture
* Packed with essential advice and stunning images to illustrate and inspire, Seth and Jamie explain technical concepts with ease in a way only pro trainers can--buy the book and see why their workshops sell out in a flash!

Table of Contents:

Introduction; Before you shoot; Shooting in RAW Mode; Color Management, Lightroom's Preferences; Lightroom's Structure; The Library Module; The Develop Module; Synchronizing Settings; The Slideshow Module; The Print Module; The Web Module; Lightroom Workflow; Archiving; Glossary; Index

How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements 7 or Sims 2 Apartment Life

How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements 7: Creating stunning photomontages on a budget

Author: David Asch

Having trouble getting an artistic idea out of your head and onto the screen? Want to produce amazing creations in Elements without reading pages and pages of instructions? How to Cheat in Elements is the can't-miss book with the can-do attitude. Under the expert guidance of Elements masters David Asch and Steve Caplin, you'll get the hands-on experience needed to quickly craft inspired images that captivate the imagination.

Fool your friends by creating montages and manipulations that look like the genuine article. Save time with invaluable shortcuts and tips to cut through unnecessary steps, helping you to work faster and smarter. Work through each section to build up your skills or dip into a project to learn a new technique:
* turn day into night
* add snow, shadows and water to your scenes
* make fire and smoke
* give your car a re-spray
?if you can imagine it, we can show you how to do it in Photoshop Elements!

Covering the latest tools and features in Elements 7, this book contains cutting-edge projects, tips and techniques as well as activities relevant to previous Elements versions. QuickTime movie tutorials and images for all projects in the book are included on the accompanying CD-ROM, with additional support and an active reader forum on the website for the book: howtocheatinphotoshopelements.com.

* Fun and creative, with more than 80 full colour, step-by-step projects, supported by QuickTime movie tutorials and image files
* In-depth coverage of photomontage and image manipulation you won't find in the wealth of Elements books focused on photography post-capture editing
* Part of the successful Focal Press ?How to Cheat in?series, featuring Steve Caplin's best-selling How to Cheat in Photoshop titles

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Sims 2 Apartment Life: Prima Official Game Guide

Author: Prima Games Staff

•Find the perfect roommate and learn how to keep them happy.
•Details on all new objects, socials, and NPCs.
•The roadmap for new objects and socials for kids and toddlers.
•Master the magical arts with our guide to Sim witchcraft.
•Social classes, groups, rewards turn neighborhoods into "communities".

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Community Life
Apartments
Witches
New Objects
New Socials
New NPCs
Build Mode Additions
A Tour of Belladona Cove
Jobs by Career Level
Objects
Socials
Quick Start Guide

PC Basics or C for Dummies

PC Basics (Quamut)

Author: Quamut

Quamut is the fastest, most convenient way to learn how to do almost anything. From tasting wine to managing your retirement accounts, Quamut gives you reliable information in a concise chart format that you can take anywhere. Quamut charts are:

• Authoritative: Written by experts in their field so you have the most reliable information available.
• Clear: Our explanations take you step-by-step through everything from performing CPR to threading a needle.
• Concise: You’ll learn just what you need to know—no more, no less.
• Precise: Quamut charts include detailed text, photos, and illustrations to show you exactly how to do just about anything.
• Portable: Your know-how goes with you wherever your projects lead.

Get with the program.

It’s hard to sail by in today’s high-tech world without at least a basic knowledge of personal computers-how to buy them, how to set them up, and how to put them to effective and productive use. But PCs are a snap once you understand:

• What features to look for when shopping for a personal computer

• How to get your PC and your internet connection up and running

• How to use Microsoft Windows to manage files, surf the web, and more

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C++ for Dummies

Author: Stephen Randy Davis

If you’ve thought of programmers as elite intelligentsia who possess expertise (and perhaps genes) the rest of us will never have, think again. C++ For Dummies, 5^th Edition, debunks the myths, blasts the barriers, shares the secrets, and gets you started. In fact, by the end of Chapter 1, you’ll be able to create a C++ program. OK, it won’t be newest, flashiest video game, but it might be a practical, customized inventory control or record-keeping program.

Most people catch on faster when they actually DO something, so C++ For Dummies includes a CD-ROM that gives you all you need to start programming (except the guidance in the book, of course), including:

• Dev-C, a full-featured, integrated C++ compiler and editor you install to get down to business

• The source code for the programs in the book, including code for BUDGET, programs that demonstrate principles in the book

• Documentation for the Standard Template Library

• Online C++ help files

Written by Stephen Randy Davis, author of C++ Weekend Crash Course, C++ for Dummies, takes you through the programming process step-by-step. You’ll discover how to:

• Generate an executable

• Create source code, commenting it as you go and using consistent code indentation and naming conventions

• Write declarations and name variables, and calculate expressions

• Write and use a function, store sequences in arrays, and declare and use pointer variables

• Understand classes and object-oriented programming

• Work withconstructors and destructors

• Use inheritance to extend classes

• Use stream I/O

• Comment your code as you go, and use consistent code indentation and naming conventions

• Automate programming with the Standard Template Library (STL)

C++ for Dummies 5^th Edition is updated for the newest ANSI standard to make sure you’re up to code.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Library Journal

C++ remains a strong contender among object-oriented programming languages (see Computer Media, LJ 6/1/03), and updated guides are always useful. C++ for Dummies assumes no previous programming experience, befitting the view of C++ as a foundational language. It includes source code, sample program, online help files, and the Dev-C++ compiler/editor on CD-ROM. Coverage ranges from how to enter, compile, and execute a program to using templates, while the "Part of Tens" sections at the end cover the most important optional features of Dev-C++ and ways to avoid adding bugs. A supplemental purchase to more thorough guides; for medium and larger libraries. Eschewing the basics, Art shows intermediate programmers the power of the language and how it applies to a range of programming tasks. Source code for sometimes extensive examples is available online. Extensive background and explanations-as well as an obvious enthusiasm for the language-make this a useful guide for those wanting to delve further. Recommended for larger libraries. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Introduction to C++ programming	7
Ch. 1	Writing your first C++ program	9
Ch. 2	Declaring variables constantly	27
Ch. 3	Performing mathematical operations	39
Ch. 4	Performing logical operations	47
Ch. 5	Controlling program flow	61
Pt. II	Becoming a functional C++ programmer	77
Ch. 6	Creating functions	79
Ch. 7	Storing sequences in arrays	93
Ch. 8	Taking a first look at C++ pointers	109
Ch. 9	Taking a second look at C++ pointers	125
Ch. 10	Debugging C++	139
Pt. III	Introduction to classes	155
Ch. 11	Examining object-oriented programming	157
Ch. 12	Adding class to C++	161
Ch. 13	Making classes work	167
Ch. 14	Point and stare at objects	183
Ch. 15	Protecting members : do not disturb	201
Ch. 16	"Why do you build me up, just to tear me down, baby?"	209
Ch. 17	Making constructive arguments	221
Ch. 18	Copying the copy copy copy constructor	239
Ch. 19	Static members : can fabric softener help?	251
Pt. IV	Inheritance	259
Ch. 20	Inheriting a class	261
Ch. 21	Examining virtual member functions : are they for real?	269
Ch. 22	Factoring classes	279
Pt. V	Optional features	303
Ch. 23	A new assignment operator, should you decide to accept it	305
Ch. 24	Using stream I/O	313
Ch. 25	Handling errors - exceptions	329
Ch. 26	Inheriting multiple inheritance	339
Ch. 27	Tempting C++ templates	351
Ch. 28	Standardizing on the standard template library	363
Pt. VI	The part of Tens	375
Ch. 29	Ten ways to avoid adding bugs to your program	377
Ch. 30	The ten most important optional features of Dev-C++	385
	App: About the CD	393
	Index	407

Affiliate Millions or Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administrators Pocket Consultant

Affiliate Millions: Make a Fortune using Search Marketing on Google and Beyond

Author: Anthony Borelli

Affiliate Millions

For more than a decade, the Internet has allowed people to make substantial amounts of money on both a full-time and part-time basis. Today, with even more online opportunities available than ever before, you can achieve a level of financial success that most people only dream about-and in Affiliate Millions, author Anthony Borelli will show you how.

With the help of coauthor Greg Holden, Borelli will show you how to make thousands, and eventually tens of thousands, of dollars each month through the process of paid search marketing and affiliate advertising. Along the way, they'll also share the secrets to mastering this often-overlooked strategy and provide you with the tools and techniques needed to maximize your potential returns.

Since making one million dollars through paid search marketing and affiliate advertising in his first full year of operations, Anthony Borelli has never looked back. Now, he wants to help you do the same. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, Affiliate Millions will introduce you to this profitable endeavor and show you how to make it work for you.

Table of Contents:

Introduction     xi
About the Authors     xvii
Getting Started
How to Make Millions on Google and Other Search Engines: My 10-Step Approach     3
A Little History
My 10 Steps to Becoming an Affiliate Millionaire
My Message to You: Have Faith in Yourself
Learning about Affiliate Advertising     13
Getting Up to Speed
How Do I Get Started?
Learning about Search Marketing     23
Who Are Search Marketers?
What Is Search Marketing?
What Are Search and Content Networks?
What Are My Search Marketing Options?
Why Use Search Marketing to Promote Affiliate Programs?
Launching Your Advertising Campaign
Joining Affiliate Networks     45
How to Join Affiliate Networks
Joining Affiliate Programs     71
What to Look For in an Affiliate Program
Identifying and Joining the Right Affiliate Programs
Creating Search Marketing Campaigns     89
Steps to Create a Campaign
Join Google AdWords and Create a Campaign
Join MSN adCenter and Create a Campaign
Reporting     131
Affiliate Reporting
Search Reporting
Comparing the Results
Affiliate Advertising for Web Pages     139
Why Create a Web Site?
How Do I Start?
Web Sites That Can Use Affiliate Advertisements
What Types of Ads Can I Place?
Where Can I Get These Advertisements?
Where and When Should I Place These Ads?
Affiliate Ads as Your Primary Web Site Revenue
Designing a Web Site
Using Search EngineOptimization to Market Your Site
Managing Your Advertising Campaign
Performance Monitoring and Tuning     169
Why Monitor Performance?
Performance Monitoring
Performance Tuning
Dealing with Mistakes     195
Common Mistakes
Learning from Mistakes
Growing Your Business: A Call to Action     207
Searching for New Opportunities
Reinvesting Profits to Support Future Growth
The Affiliate Millions Web Site
Working at Home: Legal and Tax Requirements     219
Self-Employment and Owning Your Own Business
Licensing and Legal Considerations
Taxes and Accounting
Finding Space
Affiliate Advertising Resources     233
Glossary     239
Index     243

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Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Administrator's Pocket Consultant

Author: Microsoft Press

Get the practical, pocket-sized guide for IT professionals who need to administer, maintain, and optimize SQL Server 2008. Written by award-winning author William Stanek, this portable reference delivers essential details for using SQL Server 2008 to help protect and manage your company's data—whether automating tasks, creating indexes and views, performing backups and recovery, replicating transactions, tuning performance, managing server activity, importing and exporting data, or performing other key tasks. Featuring quick-reference tables, lists, and step-by-step instructions, this handy, one-stop guide provides fast, accurate answers on the spot—whether you're at your desk or in the field!

Get the practical, pocket-sized guide for IT professionals who need to administer, maintain, and optimize SQL Server 2008. Written by award-winning author William Stanek, this portable reference delivers essential details for using SQL Server 2008 to help protect and manage your company's data—whether automating tasks, creating indexes and views, performing backups and recovery, replicating transactions, tuning performance, managing server activity, importing and exporting data, or performing other key tasks. Featuring quick-reference tables, lists, and step-by-step instructions, this handy, one-stop guide provides fast, accurate answers on the spot—whether you're at your desk or in the field!

The Montefeltro Conspiracy or Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Digital Classroom

The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded

Author: Marcello Simonetta

A brutal murder, a nefarious plot, a coded letter. After five hundred years, the most notorious mystery of the Renaissance is finally solved.

The Italian Renaissance is remembered as much for intrigue as it is for art, with papal politics and infighting among Italy’s many city-states providing the grist for Machiavelli’s classic work on take-no-prisoners politics, The Prince. The attempted assassination of the Medici brothers in the Duomo in Florence in 1478 is one of the best-known examples of the machinations endemic to the age. While the assailants were the Medici’s rivals, the Pazzi family, questions have always lingered about who really orchestrated the attack, which has come to be known as the Pazzi Conspiracy.

More than five hundred years later, Marcello Simonetta, working in a private archive in Italy, stumbled upon a coded letter written by Federico da Montefeltro, the Duke of Urbino, to Pope Sixtus IV. Using a codebook written by his own ancestor to crack its secrets, Simonetta unearthed proof of an all-out power grab by the Pope for control of Florence. Montefeltro, long believed to be a close friend of Lorenzo de Medici, was in fact conspiring with the Pope to unseat the Medici and put the more malleable Pazzi in their place.

In The Montefeltro Conspiracy, Simonetta unravels this plot, showing not only how the plot came together but how its failure (only one of the Medici brothers, Giuliano, was killed; Lorenzo survived) changed the course of Italian and papal history for generations. In the course of his gripping narrative, we encounter the period’s most colorful characters, relive its tumultuouspolitics, and discover that two famous paintings, including one in the Sistine Chapel, contain the Medici’s astounding revenge.

The Washington Post - David I. Kertzer

This is a fascinating tale of historical detective work

David Keymer. Modesto - Library Journal

These books offer two different approaches to the regime of Lorenzo de Medici, de facto ruler of Florence in the late 1400s. Unger's Magnificois a popularly written yet scrupulous biography, while Simonetta's Montefeltro Conspiracyis new historical detection about a violent episode in Lorenzo's life. Unger (contributing writer, New York Times) uses contemporary narratives and current scholarship to detail the life of a man initiated into politics at 16 and who consolidated his power against rivals, the Pazzis, after they famously tried to kill him (and did assassinate his brother) in the Duomo in 1478. Thenceforth, Lorenzo strengthened his hold over Florence. Facing an alliance between Pope Sixtus VI and Ferrante, king of Naples, he gambled everything, traveled to Naples, and threw himself on Ferrante's mercy, splitting the alliance and forcing his rivals to come to terms. By the time of his death, he was rightly hailed as the most sagacious politician in Italy, architect of the balance of power among the five principal realms of the Italian peninsula. Unger's comments on Lorenzo's shaky management of the family bank and misuse of the Florentine treasury are sage though hardly original. He also conveys the value of Lorenzo's vernacular poetry and famous patronage of the arts and letters.

The work by Simonetta (Italian & medieval studies, Wesleyan Univ.) is a bird of another feather, more brightly plumed. In a previously closed archive, he unearthed a ciphered letter from Federigo de Montefeltro, the famed humanist and condotierre duke of Urbino, to Pope Sixtus, written shortly before the Pazzi conspiracy of 1478. Drawing on a contemporary book on cipherswritten by his own ancestor, Simonetta broke the letter's code. In a stunning act of historical sleuthing (moving the topic into greater depth and focus than Lauro Martines's April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici), he has unearthed solid evidence linking Montefeltro and the pope directly to the conspirators in a plot to assassinate the Medicis and end their rule of Florence. Simonetta concludes with intriguing speculation on why Botticelli, though a Medici loyalist, accepted a commission from Sixtus to paint the interior walls of the Sistine chapel in Rome, and he speculates on the political significance of Botticelli's most famous paintings, The Birth of Venusand Primavera. Both books are warmly recommended for large public libraries, and academic collections will want Simonetta. [For Magnifico, see Prepub Alert, LJ1/08.]

Kirkus Reviews

Italian historian Simonetta revisits the Pazzi conspiracy of 1478. During Ascension Sunday Mass in the Duomo, the two powerful leaders of the Florentine state, Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici, were attacked. Stabbed 19 times, Giuliano died; Lorenzo escaped. Members of the rival Pazzi family were subsequently inculcated and variously disposed of. Simonetta delves further back to explain how the balance of power among the Italian city-states was first upset. Two years before, the Medicis' close ally, the Duke of Milan, Galeazzo Sforza, had been assassinated, leaving his scheming counselor Cicco Simonetta (a distant relative of the author) to block Florence's future need for defense. With the revelation of the Pazzi conspiracy, Lorenzo was indeed isolated, especially in light of new evidence pointing to the collusion of the Duke of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro. An encrypted letter written by Federico was unearthed from a private archive in Urbino and fell into the author's hands in 2001; he painstakingly decoded it with the help of Cicco's Rules for Extracting Ciphered Letters Without a Sample. The letter reveals a ruthless Machiavellian intent to seize Florence. However, when the plot failed, and Cicco fell to usurpers of the Milanese state, Lorenzo had to scramble for support by groveling to the kingdom of Naples and patching things up with Rome. Lorenzo would later extract his revenge with his protege Botticelli's allusion to the murder and conspiracy in works such as Primavera, as delineated narrowly by the author. Dense and specialized, Simonetta's study requires significant knowledge of the era and characters involved. A work so microscopically focused that it fails to convey alarger significance. Agent: Elizabeth Sheinkman/Curtis Brown UK

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Digital Classroom

Author: Jeremy Osborn

Dreamweaver CS4 Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding readers through each lesson, while they work at their own pace. This book includes 13 self-paced lessons that let readers discover essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. Each lesson is presented in full color with step-by-step instructions. Learning is reinforced with video tutorials and lesson files on a companion DVD that were developed by the same team of Adobe Certified Instructors and Dreamweaver experts who have created many of the official training titles for Adobe Systems. Each video tutorial is approximately five minutes long and demonstrates and explains the concepts and features covered in the lesson. This training package demonstrates how to design, develop, and maintain a fully functioning Web site. Coverage includes applying style sheets, using dynamic HTML, adding style with images and multimedia, publishing and maintaining a web site, using hyperlinks to navigate throughout a website or link to other sites on the Internet, and using databases to create dynamic websites. Jam-packed with information, this book takes users from the basics through intermediate level topics and helps readers find the information they need in a clear, approachable manner.

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Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

Author: Jim Elferdink

Still the top-selling software suite for Mac users, Microsoft Office has been improved and enhanced to take advantage of the latest Mac OS X features. You'll find lots of new features in Office 2008 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, but not a page of printed instructions to guide you through the changes. Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual gives you the friendly, thorough introduction you need, whether you're a beginner who can't do more than point and click, or a power user who's ready to tackle a few advanced techniques. To cover Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, this guide gives you four superb books in one -- a separate section each for program! You can manage your day and create professional-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in no time. Office 2008 has been redesigned so that the windows, toolbars, and icons blend in better with your other Mac applications. But there are still plenty of oddities. That's why this Missing Manual isn't shy about pointing out which features are gems in the rough -- and which are duds. With it, you'll learn how to: Navigate the new user interface with its bigger and more graphic toolbars Use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage separately or together Keep track of appointments and manage daily priorities with the My Day feature Create newsletters, flyers, brochures, and more with Word's Publishing Layout View Build financial documents like budgets and invoices with Excel's Ledger Sheets Get quick access to all document templates and graphics with the Elements Gallery Organize all of your Office projects using Entourage's Project Center Scan or import digital camera images directly into any of theprogramsCustomize each program with power-user techniques With Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual, you get objective and entertaining instruction to help you tap into all of the features of this powerful suite, so you can get more done in less time.

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Guitar Hero

Author: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation

We're proud to present the one and only sanctioned songbook for Guitar Hero(TM), the wildly popular video game phenomenon. Our book features notes and tab for 40 hit songs from from Guitar Hero 1 and 2, plus cool character artwork. Includes: Bark at the Moon * Carry On Wayward Son * Cherry Pie * Crazy on You * Frankenstein * Free Bird * Godzilla * Higher Ground * Iron Man * Jessica * Killing in the Name * Monkey Wrench * Rock This Town * Sharp Dressed Man * Smoke on the Water * Strutter * Sweet Child O' Mine * Texas Flood * Ziggy Stardust * and dozens more tunes familiar to the millions who love this game!

Photoshop CS3 for Windows and Macintosh or Head First HTML with CSS XHTML

Photoshop CS3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Author: Elaine Weinmann

This Visual QuickStart Guide uses a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals to teach beginning and intermediate users how to create great-looking images with Photoshop. Best-selling authors Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas take readers step by step through all of today's Photoshop essentials: from importing digital photos through basic color manipulation and image correction to painting, masking, using filters, and more. Hot topics like working with Camera Raw, using the improved Photomerge command (that aligns and blends layers automatically) to stitch together images, making selections using the new Quick Selection tool and Refine Edge feature, and Smart Filters are all covered.

Both beginning users, who want a thorough introduction to the topic, and more advanced users, who are looking for a handy reference, will find what they need here. In this edition, using a fresh new design and now illustrated in full color, the authors have streamlined the text by focusing on the most efficient means of accomplishing a task, rather than explaining all possible methods. By the end of the book, users will have a solid foundation for working in Photoshop CS3. Additional intermediate topics can be found in the author's follow-on book: Photoshop CS3: Visual QuickPro Guide.

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Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML

Author: Eric Freeman

Tired of reading HTML books that only make sense after you're an expert? Then it's about time you picked up "Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML" and really learned HTML. You want to learn HTML so you can finally create those web pages you've always wanted, so you can communicate more effectively with friends, family, fans, and fanatic customers. You also want to do it right so you can actually maintain and expand your Web pages over time, and so your web pages work in all the browsers and mobile devices out there. Oh, and if you've never heard of CSS, that's okay - we won't tell anyone you're still partying like it's 1999 - but if you're going to create Web pages in the 21st century then you'll want to know and understand CSS.

Learn the real secrets of creating Web pages, and why everything your boss told you about HTML tables is probably wrong (and what to do instead). Most importantly, hold your own with your co-worker (and impress cocktail party guests) when he casually mentions how his HTML is now strict, and his CSS is in an external style sheet.

With "Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML," you'll avoid the embarrassment of thinking web-safe colors still matter, and the foolishness of slipping a font tag into your pages. Best of all, you'll learn HTML and CSS in a way that won't put you to sleep. If you've read a Head First book, you know what to expect: a visually-rich format designed for the way your brain works. Using the latest research in neurobiology, cognitive science, and learning theory, this book will load HTML, CSS, and XHTML into your brain in a way that sticks.

So what are you waiting for? Leave those other dusty books behind and come join us in Webville.Yourtour is about to begin.

"Elegant design is at the core of every chapter here, each concept conveyed with equal doses of pragmatism and wit." --Ken Goldstein, Executive Vice President, Disney Online

"This book is a thoroughly modern introduction to forward-looking practices in web page markup and presentation." --Danny Goodman, author of "Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Guide"

"What used to be a long trial and error learning process has now been reduced neatly into an engaging paperback." --Mike Davidson, CEO, Newsvine, Inc.

"I love "Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML"--it teaches you everything you need to learn in a 'fun coated' format!" --Sally Applin, UI Designer and Artist

"I haven't had as much fun reading a book (other than Harry Potter) in years. And your book finally helped me break out of my hapless so-last-century way of creating web pages." --Professor David M. Arnow, Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College

"If you've ever had a family member who wanted you to design a website for them, buy them Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML. If you've ever asked a family member to design you a web site, buy this book. If you've ever bought an HTML book and ended up using it to level your desk, or for kindling on a cold winter day, buy this book. This is the book you've been waiting for. This is the learning system you've been waiting for." --Warren Kelly, Blogcritics.org

Table of Contents:

1	The language of the Web : getting to know HTML	1
2	Meet the 'HT' in HTML : going further, with hypertext	43
3	Web page construction : building blocks	77
4	A trip to Webville : getting connected	125
5	Meeting the media : adding images to your pages	165
6	Serious HTML : standards, compliance, and all that jazz	223
7	Putting 'X' into HTML : moving to XHTML	265
8	Adding a little style : getting started with CSS	285
9	Expanding your vocabulary : styling with fonts and colors	341
10	Getting intimate with elements : the box model	385
11	Advanced Web construction : divs and spans	429
12	Arranging elements : layout and positioning	487
13	Getting tabular : tables and lists	549
14	Getting interactive : XHTML forms	591
App	The top ten topics (we didn't cover) : leftovers	639

Wikinomics or Pro C 2008 and the NET 35 Platform Fourth Edition

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

Author: Don Tapscott

In just the last few years, traditional collaboration—in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center—has been superseded by collaborations on an astronomical scale.

Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics proves this fear is folly. Smart firms can harness collective capability and genius to spur innovation, growth, and success.

A brilliant guide to one of the most profound changes of our time, Wikinomics challenges our most deeply-rooted assumptions about business and will prove indispensable to anyone who wants to understand competitiveness in the twenty-first century.

Based on a $9 million research project led by bestselling author Don Tapscott, Wikinomics shows how masses of people can participate in the economy like never before. They are creating TV news stories, sequencing the human genome, remixing their favorite music, designing software, finding a cure for disease, editing school texts, inventing new cosmetics, or even building motorcycles. You'll read about:
• Rob McEwen, the Goldcorp, Inc. CEO who used open source tactics and an online competition to save his company and breathe new life into an old-fashioned industry.
• Flickr, Second Life, YouTube, and other thriving online communities that transcend social networking to pioneer a new form of collaborative production.
• Mature companies like Procter & Gamble that cultivate nimble, trust-based relationships with external collaboratorsto form vibrant business ecosystems.

An important look into the future, Wikinomics will be your road map for doing business in the twenty-first century.

What People Are Saying

Tom Peters
I am very willing to proclaim that Wikinomics is undoubtedly the best picture so far of the new world of enterprise, collaboration, innovation, and value creation. This is a breathtaking piece of work.

Warren Bennis
Not only a superb book, but an essential one for anyone who wants to understand the major forces that will revolutionize the way organizations perform and the way they are led. (Warren Bennis, Professor of Management, Univ. of Southern California)

Eric Schmidt
Wikinomics heralds the biggest change in collaboration to date. Thanks to the Internet, masses of people outside the boundaries of traditional hierarchies can innovate to produce content, goods and services. In order to understand the opportunities this presents for companies, read this book. (Eric Schmidt, CEO Google)

Ross Mayfield
I love this book. Mass collaboration is most disruptive development in business in a long time. Consider Wikinomics your survival kit. (Ross Mayfield, CEO, Socialtext)

Gordon Nixon
Wikinomics will help you understand the changes, why they should be good news for businesses, and how to win in this new world. (Gordon Nixon, CEO, Royal Bank of Canada)

A.G. Lafley
No company today, no matter how large or how global, can innovate fast enough or big enough by itself. Wikinomics reveals the next historic step - the art and science of mass collaboration where companies open up to the world. It is an important book. (A. G. Lafley, CEO, Procter & Gamble)

Eric Schmidt, CEO Google
Wikinomics heralds the biggest change in collaboration to date. Thanks to the Internet, masses of people outside the boundaries of traditional hierarchies can innovate to produce content, goods and services. In order to understand the opportunities this presents for companies, read this book.

Warren Bennis, distinguished professor of Management, University of Southern California and author, On Becoming a Leader
Not only a superb book, but an essential one for anyone who wants to understand the major forces that will revolutionize the way organizations perform and the way they are led.

Brian Fetherstonhaugh, chairman and CEO, OgilvyOne Worldwide
Wikinomics illuminates the truth we are seeing in markets around the globe: the more you share, the more you win. Wikinomics sheds light on the many faces of business collaboration and presents a powerful new strategy for business leaders in a world where customers, employees, and low-cost producers are seizing control.

Tony Scott, senior vice president and chief information officer, The Walt Disney Company
A MapQuest-like guide to the emerging business-to-consumer relationship. This book should be invaluable to any manager—helping us chart our way in an increasingly digital world.

Noel Tichy, professor, University of Michigan and author of Cycle of Leadership
Knowledge creation happens in social networks where people learn and teach each other. Wikinomics shows where this phenomenon is headed when turbo charged to engage the ideas and energy of customers, suppliers, and producers in mass collaboration. It's a must read for those who want a map of where the world is headed.

Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman, World Economic Forum
A deeply profound and hopeful book. Wikinomics provides compelling evidence that the emerging ‘creative commons’ can be a boon, not a threat to business. Every CEO should read this book and heed its wise counsel if they want to succeed in emerging global economy.

John Chambers, president and CEO Cisco Systems
Wikinomics captures and explains the essential nature of the next generation of the Internet—how collaboration and communication technologies are democratizing the creation of value. An insightful and engaging book.

Table of Contents:

Subtitles 5

1 Wikinomics 7

2 The Perfect Storm 34

3 The Peer Pioneers 65

4 Ideagoras 97

5 The Prosumers 124

6 The New Alexandrians 151

7 Platforms for Participation 183

8 The Global Plant Floor 213

9 The Wiki Workplace 239

10 Collaborative Minds 268

11 Enterprise 2.0 288

Acknowledgments 317

Notes 321

Index 341

Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition

Author: Andrew Troelsen

Released at the Microsoft Tech-Ed conference in Atlanta, Georgia, back in 2001, the first edition of this book coincided with the beta .NET platform and, in many ways, the manuscript was in beta too. Its fresh approach won a place as a 2002 Jolt Award finalist, and it won the 2003 Referenceware Excellence Award in the programming book category. Following the successful earlier editions, author Andrew Troelsen is pleased to announce completion of the fourth edition of his acclaimed book:

“Over the years that I’ve spent working with the common language runtime (CLR), I’ve gained a deeper understanding of the .NET platform and the subtleties of the C# programming language. I’m happy to say that this fourth edition of Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 platform is as close to a ‘final release’ as I’ve come yet!”

Whether you’re moving to .NET for the first time or you’re already writing applications on .NET 2.0 or .NET 3.0, Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition will provide you with a solid grounding in this new technology and serve as a comprehensive reference throughout your coding career:

• Explore five new chapters of content—including the grammar of the common intermediate language (CIL), .NET generics, and object serialization services.
• Discover all the new .NET 3.5 features—nullable types, delegate covariance, ASP.NET 2.0 master pages, the new Windows Forms &lquo;Strip” controls, and much more.
• Get a professional foothold—targeted to appeal to experienced software professionals and/or graduate students of computer science (sodon’t expect three chapters on iteration or decision constructs!).
• Gain a rock-solid foundation in programming using C#.
• Get comfortable with all the core aspects of the .NET platform—including assemblies, remoting, Windows Forms, Web Forms, ADO.NET, XML web services, and much more.

Once you’ve digested the information contained in the 25 chapters of this 1000+ page book, you'll be ready to apply this knowledge to your specific programming assignments and well equipped to explore the .NET universe on your own.
What you’ll learn

• Everything you need to put .NET 3.5 and C# 2008 to use in your professional work--before anyone else!
• Insights and techniques from the author's experience since .NET 1.0
• Complete coverage of .NET 3.5—WPF, WCF, and WF

Who is this book for?

Anyone with some software development experience interested in the new .NET 3.5 Platformand the C# language. Whether you’re moving to .NET for the first time or you're already writing applications on .NET 2.0 or .NET 3.0, this book will provide you with a solid grounding in this new technology and serve as a comprehensive reference throughout your coding career.
About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

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Digital Photography Masterclass or Office 2007 For Dummies

Digital Photography Masterclass

Author: Tom Ang

It's easy to see why digital photography has overtaken analog in popularity-it's affordable, convenient, versatile, and, above all, it makes photography more fun than ever before. Tom Ang's latest book is an in-depth, inspirational, and uniquely practical guide to every aspect of digital photography. There are assignments and analysis spreads, and step-by-step tutorials to help you hone your skills. He teaches you to look at the world with a photographer's "eye" and shows you how to get great shots every time. In short, this book shows you how to master your camera to ensure the best results in every situation and how to push the computer to keep up with your vision.

Daniel Lombardo - Library Journal

One of Britain's best-known photographers, Ang has hosted a popular BBC TV series called A Digital Picture of Britain and won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. In this comprehensive, personal volume, Ang revels in digital photography, the medium that brought in, he writes, "the most exuberant growth and vigorous expansion ever seen in the history of photography." He teaches how to look at the world with a photographer's eye and offers tutorials, photographic assignments, and step-by-step image-manipulation exercises. Combining technical and artistic aspects of photography, Ang completes the volume with sections on travel, documentary, portrait, nature, sports, and architecture photography. Each of these can be supplemented with monographs, such as the second edition of G. Newman Lowrance's Digital Sports Photography. A fine selection for all libraries.

Office 2007 For Dummies

Author: Wallace Wang

Find and use the features you need right away

Create great documents, Excel charts, and slide shows, and organize your e-mail

What's new at the Office? A lot, and this book takes you through all the cool changes and enhancements so you can rev up and go. Find your way around the new interface, dress up your documents, create spreadsheets that actually make sense, give presentations that wow your audience, and organize your life.

Discover how to

• Locate commands on the Ribbon

• Use Live Preview

• Stop spam with Outlook(r)

• Format and enhance Word documents

• Work with Excel(r) formulas

• Store and find data in Access

Table of Contents:

Introduction.

Part I: Getting to Know Microsoft Office 2007.

Chapter 1: Getting to Know Microsoft Office 2007.

Chapter 2: Editing Data.

Chapter 3: Getting Help from Office 2007.

Part II: Working with Word.

Chapter 4: Typing Text in Word.

Chapter 5: Formatting Text.

Chapter 6: Designing Your Pages.

Part III: Playing the Numbers with Excel.

Chapter 7: The Basics of Spreadsheets: Numbers, Labels, and Formulas.

Chapter 8: Playing with Formulas.

Chapter 9: Charting and Analyzing Data.

Part IV: Making Presentations with PowerPoint.

Chapter 10: Creating a PowerPoint Presentation.

Chapter 11: Adding Color and Pictures to a Presentation.

Chapter 12: Showing Off a Presentation.

Part V: Getting Organized with Outlook.

Chapter 13: Organizing E-Mail with Outlook.

Chapter 14: Storing Contacts and Organizing Tasks.

Chapter 15: Scheduling Your Time.

Part VI: Storing Stuff in Access.

Chapter 16: Using a Database.

Chapter 17: Searching, Sorting, and Querying a Database.

Chapter 18: Creating a Database Report.

Part VII: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Using Office 2007.

Chapter 20: Ten Keystroke Shortcuts for Office 2007.

Index.