| VTC Autodesk AutoCAD Mechanical 2010 Basic Concepts Posted: 22 Jan 2010 05:57 PM PST 
AutoCAD Mechanical 2010, written by software vendor Autodesk, is the world's most widely used 2D mechanical Computer Aided Design (CAD) package. It lets you design, visualize and communicate your ideas with ease and efficiency. Creating mechanical designs in AutoCAD Mechanical 2010 is easy! AutoCAD Mechanical 2010 has many new software features that make plotting, publishing and scaling so much easier and quicker. Its new user interface makes commands easy to find and allows users to be trained easily and quickly. This basic concepts course provides you with the skills needed to develop your AutoCAD knowledge to a competent user level, giving you the ability to plot, publish and scale with ease, impressing your customers and colleagues!.
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| Sams Teach Yourself: Adobe Flash CS4 Professional in 24 Hours Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:51 PM PST 
Product Description In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you can learn how to design, create, and deploy high-impact graphics and animation with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional. Using this book's straightforward, step-by-step approach, you'll master the skills and technologies you need, from creating interactivity and animation to optimizing and publishing your Flash movies on the Web.Each lesson builds on what you've already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!
* Full-color figures and clear step-by-step instructions visually show you how to use Flash.
* Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.
* Notes, Tips, and Cautions provide related information, advice, and warnings. Learn how to…
* Make the most of the updated Flash interface, including its new Motion tools
* Draw and paint original art in Flash
* Use layers and the Library to efficiently organize your content
* Build animations using shape tweening, Flash CS4's new motion tweening, and advanced inverse kinematics
* Create special effects with shapes, filters, and the new Deco Tool
* Add interactivity to your Flash movies
* Integrate a wide spectrum of audio and video content
* Use ready-built components to create sophisticated content without programming
* Get started with ActionScript 3
* Publish your movies to the Web
* Design modular Flash sites that load quickly and perform well
Phillip Kerman is an internationally recognized expert on the use of the Web and multimedia for training and entertainment. He has frequently presented at Macromedia and Adobe user conferences, and has taught Flash and other Adobe Web development technologies to working web professionals worldwide. Lynn Beighley, a freelance web programmer and designer, has written several Flash, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop books and training CDs. She has worked at Los Alamos National Labs, Palm, and Yahoo! Her dynamic Flash advertisements have appeared on Yahoo!'s home page. About the Author Phillip Kerman is an independent programmer, teacher, and writer, who specializes in the Adobe Flash platform. He has trained and made presentations around the world, in such exotic locations as Reykjavik, Iceland; Melbourne, Australia; Amsterdam, Holland; and McAlester, Oklahoma. He has programmed several games on MSN and Messenger Live, including Sudoku Too and Jigsaw Too, as well as the real-time cattle auction site stampedecattle.com. Phillip is also the author of Macromedia Flash @work, Flash MX 2004 for Rich Internet Applications, and ActionScripting in Flash MX from New Riders Publishing. Lynn Beighley is a freelance author, web designer, and web developer. After going back to school to get a Masters in Computer Science, she worked for the acronyms NRL and LANL. Then, she discovered Flash and wrote her first bestseller. A victim of bad timing, she moved to Silicon Valley just before the great crash. She spent several years working for Yahoo! and writing other books and training courses. Upon discovering that technical book writing actually paid real money, she learned to accept and enjoy it. Finally giving in to her creative writing bent, she moved to the New York area to get an MFA in creative writing. She currently creates Flash animations and applications that range from the ridiculous to the sublime. download  |
| The Microsoft Outlook Ideas Book Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:50 PM PST 
Product Description How to Organise and manage yourself, your team, and your activities with Outlook and Exchange - Packed with ideas of how all Outlook users can create useful solutions you never thought possible
- Step by step instructions for storing and extracting information from the Calendar, Contacts and Tasks folders to create integrated business solutions
- Great ideas for business, personal, educational and home users
In Detail Microsoft Outlook, in tandem with Microsoft Exchange Server, provides a powerful environment for sharing information. This book will show you how to take advantage of that to construct solutions for your business or organization from the features of Outlook. This book is a collection of scenarios that incorporate and link many Outlook components to produce surprisingly powerful functionality. Without the need for code or specially-written applications, you will be extracting information from your Outlook Calendar, Contacts and Tasks folders to create solutions like these: - Monitoring staff leave and printing schedules
- Managing meeting rooms and printing invoices
- Managing fleet vehicles, their records, and servicing
- Managing a school class calendar, student records, attendance, assignments, and reports
What you will learn from this book? - How to apply the features of Outlook to avoid transferring and duplicating data into other programs
- How to expand your view of Outlook and its capabilities
- Techniques that will enable you to create your own solutions that are relevant to your situation and environment
- The confidence and vision to explore and use existing software to develop your own solutions
Approach This book takes a practical, hands-on approach to working with Microsoft Outlook. Carefully structured to lead you through all the steps of each examples, this book will help you to use Outlook in ways you never imagined possible. Who this book is written for? This book is for users who are comfortable with the basic functions of Outlook, but who want inspiration and direction on manipulating its features to produce powerful methods of viewing, presenting and reporting the wealth of information that it can hold.
Users of Microsoft Access and Excel will recognize the functions and constructs used in some of the examples.
The techniques in this book are applicable to all versions of Outlook from 2000 upwards. Where there are functional differences between the versions, these have been noted.
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| Upgrading to Lotus Notes And Domino 7 Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:49 PM PST 
Product Description Upgrade your company to the latest version of Lotus Notes and Domino. - Understand the new features and put them to work in your business
- Appreciate the implications of changes and new features
- Learn how to integrate Lotus Notes/Domino 7 with WebSphere and Microsoft Outlook
- A real-life case study of how Lotus upgraded its own developerWorks site to Lotus Notes/Domino 7
In Detail Do you administer a Lotus Notes/Domino system? Do you want to get the most of the new features in the latest Notes/Domino 7.0 release of the software? If you want to introduce these new features to a large business, quickly and efficiently, then this book is for you. Written by Lotus insiders, the book provides a practical guide to each of the important features and enhancements introduced in Notes/Domino 7. These experienced experts use their own experiences to map out the benefits you could gain, and the dangers you may face, as you implement these features in your business.Written by specific experts, edited and overseen by Lotus content generator Dick McCarrick, this book is the definitive guide to all Lotus Notes/Domino 7 upgrading issues. Technology
Lotus Notes/Domino version 7 is the latest version of Lotus’ complete client-server email and collaboration solution. Notes/Domino 7 of this proven suite of products delivers many useful new features that promise to improve effectiveness in all areas of business. But as with all upgrades, there will be time and work involved in getting these new features really working for the benefit of your business. What you will learn from this book? Upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 7 does exactly what it says on the cover. You will: - Get to grips with all of the major new features
- Understand the new Domino Domain Monitoring (DDM), as well as new event monitoring and the automatic diagnostic collection process
- Learn the new server features, including AdminP,new server tasks, and updates to administration tools
- A complete look at policy management, including the new mail policy and enhancements to security and archiving policies
- Work with Smart Upgrade, improve performance, and understand the new and improved features of the Notes/Domino 7 clients
- See how to use the significant enhancements of Domino Web Access 7, and then see how to integrate Domino with the popular and powerful WebSphere Portal, or the ubiquitous Microsoft Outlook
- Comprehensive coverage of DB2, programming and security
- Learn how Notes/Domino 7 uses the various types of Directories for messaging, DNS, data, application directories, and more, and what new features Lotus has packed into the latest release
- A chapter on troubleshooting, followed by a real life case study of how the developerWorks Lotus site upgraded to Lotus Domino 7
Approach Established Lotus experts provide you with a systematic tour of the essential new Lotus features, and how to get maximum use from them. Who this book is written for? Administrators and developers working with any version of Lotus Notes/Domino, and needing the low-down on how to successfully make the most of the 7.0 upgrade. Another benefit is you can use this book to help you pass the 190-702 Update exam. This book covers the important exam topics. download  |
| Red Hat Fedora 5 Unleashed Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:47 PM PST 
Product Description Continuing with the tradition of offering the best and most comprehensive coverage of Red Hat Linux on the market, Red Hat Fedora 5 Unleashed includes new and additional material based on the latest release of Red Hat’s Fedora Core Linux distribution. Incorporating an advanced approach to presenting information about Fedora, the book aims to provide the best and latest information that intermediate to advanced Linux users need to know about installation, configuration, system administration, server operations, and security.
Red Hat Fedora 5 Unleashed thoroughly covers all of Fedora’s software packages, including up-to-date material on new applications, Web development, peripherals, and programming languages. It also includes updated discussion of the architecture of the Linux kernel 2.6, USB, KDE, GNOME, Broadband access issues, routing, gateways, firewalls, disk tuning, GCC, Perl, Python, printing services (CUPS), and security. Red Hat Linux Fedora 5 Unleashed is the most trusted and comprehensive guide to the latest version of Fedora Linux. About the Author Paul Hudson is a recognized expert in open source technologies. He is a professional developer and full-time journalist for Future Publishing. His articles have appeared in Internet Works, Mac Format, PC Answers, PC Format and Linux Format, one of the most prestigious linux magazines. Paul is very passionate about the free software movement, and uses Linux exclusively at work and at home. Paul’s book, Practical PHP Programming, is an industry-standard in the PHP community. download  |
| Professional SQL Server 2005 Administration (Wrox Professional Guides) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:45 PM PST 
Product Description SQL Server 2005 is the largest leap forward for SQL Server since its inception. With this update comes new features that will challenge even the most experienced SQL Server DBAs. Written by a team of some of the best SQL Server experts in the industry, this comprehensive tutorial shows you how to navigate the vastly changed landscape of the SQL Server administration. Drawing on their own first-hand experiences to offer you best practices, unique tips and tricks, and useful workarounds, the authors help you handle even the most difficult SQL Server 2005 administration issues, including blocking and locking. You’ll learn how to fine-tune queries you’ve already written, automate redundant monitoring and maintenance tasks, and use hidden tools so that you can quickly get over the learning curve of how to configure and administer SQL Server 2005. What you will learn from this book - How to use some of the more advanced concepts of installation
- Techniques for properly administering development features such as SQL CLR
- Ways to secure your SQL Server from common threats
- How to choose the right hardware configuration
- Best practices for backing up and recovering your database
- Step-by-step guidelines for clustering your SQL Server
Who this book is for This book is for experienced developers and database administrators who plan to administer or are already administering an SQL Server 2005 system and its business intelligence features. Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working technologists to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job. download  |
| Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed (MOM): With A Preview of Operations Manager 2007 Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:44 PM PST 
Product Description This book is your most complete source for in-depth information about Microsoft Operations Manager 2005! Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed provides a comprehensive guide to Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. MOM is a tool that helps implement operations management, but it is not a piece of software that you can simply install and instantly have working.
This book provides reference material that will guide you through the steps to design, deploy, and configure MOM within your environment. You learn how to tune your MOM environment and tackle common challenges, such as managing your Microsoft operating systems, directory services, messaging platforms, and databases. Inside you will find comprehensive information on how to develop your own reports and management packs for your MOM environment as well as practical real-world examples, based on hands-on MOM experience. · Plan your MOM deployment · Architect MOM for performance, redundancy, and security · Install or upgrade to MOM 2005 · Back up important MOM components · Implement, troubleshoot, deploy, and manage management packs · Work with rules and tune them · Manage different aspects of your environment, including the Windows operating system, directory services, Exchange email, and SQL Server · Extend MOM using connectors and third-party management packs · Develop management packs, reports, and scripts · Prepare for the next version of Operations Manager download  |
| Macromedia Studio 8: Training from the Source Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:43 PM PST 
Product Description Learn by doing! Macromedia Studio 8: Training from the Source provides a comprehensive, working introduction to the most powerful Web design and development suite available. Starting from the ground up, you'll build two Web sites. In the first half of the book, you'll combine the strengths of Macromedia Flash, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver to create an attractive, yet maintainable site. In the second half of the book, you'll focus on building a powerful and dynamic user experience by combining Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, Contribute, FlashPaper, and ColdFusion. The enclosed CD-ROM contains all the files you need to complete the projects, plus completed files for you to compare with your results and use as models for future projects. You learn how to: - Optimize graphics in Fireworks, balancing quality and file size
- Design in a standards-compliant, all XHTML-CSS workflow
- Insert and format text, images, and CSS layers in Dreamweaver
- Master multimedia concepts, such as timelines, libraries, and file architecture
- Create Flash animations, using frame-by-frame and tweened animation techniques
- Create functional buttons using Flash symbols and ActionScript
- Integrate video into Flash projects
- Use ColdFusion to display live database data on a Web page
- Send data in and out of Flash movies to server scripts and databases
- Leverage the power of Contribute to maintain, distribute, and control Web content and FlashPaper to create, share, distribute, and use documents in a secure, universal format
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| Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children’s Software Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:42 PM PST 
Product Description Today, computers are part of kids’ everyday lives, used both for play and for learning. We envy children’s natural affinity for computers, the ease with which they click in and out of digital worlds. Thirty years ago, however, the computer belonged almost exclusively to business, the military, and academia. In Engineering Play, Mizuko Ito describes the transformation of the computer from a tool associated with adults and work to one linked to children, learning, and play. Ito gives an account of a pivotal period in the 1980s and 1990s, which saw the rise of a new category of consumer software designed specifically for elementary school aged children. “Edutainment” software sought to blend various educational philosophies with interactive gaming and entertainment, and included such titles as Number Munchers, Oregon Trail, KidPix, and Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?. Drawing from observations of kids’ play, interviews with software developers, and advertising and industry materials, Ito identifies three educational philosophies and genres in children’s software that connect players in software production, distribution, and consumption: instruction, focused on transmission of academic content; exploration, tied to open-ended play; and construction, aimed at empowering young users to create and manipulate digital media. The children’s software boom (and the bust that followed), says Ito, can be seen as a microcosm of the negotiations surrounding new technology, children, and education. The story she tells is both a testimonial to the transformative power of innovation and a cautionary tale about its limitations. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning download  |
| Balanced Website Design: Optimising Aesthetics, Usability and Purpose Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:41 PM PST 
Product Description Balanced Website Design (BWD) is a new methodology that fuses the strengths of traditional structured, stepped, and iterative approaches and a sharp focus on defining and achieving the desired characteristics of purpose, usability and aesthetics – absolutely essential requirements for any website. The book includes discussions of new perspectives on usability and aesthetics in the special context of website design. BWD is suitable for all types of websites, for individual and/or team projects, and should prove to be of significant value for even the most experienced of website designers. BWD provides guidance, structure and detailed documentation/process support for the activity of designing and implementing your next website – helping you maximise its effectiveness and relevance. Features: - A stepped, iterative, comprehensively structured, and easy to follow approach to website design
- An approach that identifies and balances design needs with specific design ideas across each of aesthetics, usability and purpose components
- New perspectives on usability and aesthetics
- Specially designed documentation provided to facilitate and support each process step
- A methodology that is applicable to all types of website, and to all project scenarios
- Resource based support via the book's website (www.springer.com/1-84628-518-6)
Dr. Dave Lawrence is a Senior Lecturer in multimedia web technology at Middlesex University, and has been researching in this field for over a decade. The BWD concept and material have been progressively tested in classes over the past five years. Soheyla Tavakol comes from a freelance graphic design background and has been teaching at university level in desktop publishing and digital media for many years. download  |
