| MacBook All-in-One For Dummies Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:33 PM PST 
Product Description MacBook All-in-one for Dummies Makes Everything Easier! With a MacBook, you can work and play anywhere. With 9 books in 1, MacBook All-in-one for Dummies shows you how! You’ll find coverage of: - Getting started — choose the MacBook that suits your needs, set it up, customize your preferences, and organize files and folders.
- Using Mac OS X — learn your way around Snow Leopard, get to know the Dock, find things with Spotlight, and back up your system with Time Machine.
- Customizing and Sharing.
- Going Mobile With iLife — explore iLife, where photos, movies, music, and your very own Web site all hang out.
- iWork For the Road Warrior — do it the Mac way with Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, the iWork productivity applications.
- Typical Internet Stuff — browse with Safari, store your stuff on iDisk, use Apple Mail, and iChat with friends.
- Networking in Mac OS X — set up a network, go wireless, and use AirPort Extreme.
- Expanding Your System — see how to add memory and connect hard drives and printers using USB and FireWire.
- Advanced Mac OS X.
Learn the basics about using and maintaining your MacBook, how to work with Mac OS X, use the iWork productivity suite, enjoy the iLife, and cruise the Web from anywhere. Plus, you’ll go under the hood and explore custom scripts and tweaks to help you get more from your MacBook and troubleshoot solutions. download  |
| Human Ear Recognition by Computer (Advances in Pattern Recognition) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:31 PM PST 
Product Description Biometrics deals with recognition of individuals based on their physiological or behavioral characteristics. The human ear is a new feature in biometrics that has several merits over the more common face, fingerprint and iris biometrics. Unlike the fingerprint and iris, it can be easily captured from a distance without a fully cooperative subject, although sometimes it may be hidden with hair, scarf and jewellery. Also, unlike a face, the ear is a relatively stable structure that does not change much with the age and facial expressions. Human Ear Recognition by Computer is the first book on the automatic recognition of human ears. It presents an entire range of computational algorithms for recognition of humans by their ears. These algorithms have been tested and validated on the largest databases that are available today. Specific algorithms addressed include: • Ear helix/anti-helix based representation • Global-to-local registration • Ear recognition using helix/anti-helix representation • Ear recognition using a new local surface patch representation • Efficient ear indexing and recognition • Performance prediction for 3D ear recognition • Generality and applications in computer vision and pattern recognition This state-of-the-art research reference explores all aspects of 3D ear recognition, including representation, detection, recognition, indexing and performance prediction. It has been written for a professional audience of both researchers and practitioners within industry, and is also ideal as an informative text for graduate students in computer science and engineering. Professor Bir Bhanu has been director of the Visualization and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (at the University of California at Riverside) since 1991 and serves as the founding Director for the Center for Research in Intelligent Systems. He also has considerable experience working within industry and is the successful author of several books. He is a Fellow of IEEE, AAAS, IAPR, SPIE and was a Senior Fellow at Honeywell Inc. Dr. Hui Chen works alongside Professor Bhanu and has worked for Siemens Medical solutions and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. download  |
| Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language (2nd Edition) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:30 PM PST 
Product Description A Fully Revised Edition Featuring New Material on Coroutines, Debugging, Testing, Parsing, String Formatting, and More Python 3 is the best version of the language yet: It is more powerful, convenient, consistent, and expressive than ever before. Now, leading Python programmer Mark Summerfield demonstrates how to write code that takes full advantage of Python 3's features and idioms. Programming in Python 3, Second Edition, brings together all the knowledge you need to write any program, use any standard or third-party Python 3 library, and create new library modules of your own.
Summerfield draws on his many years of Python experience to share deep insights into Python 3 development you won't find anywhere else. He begins by illuminating Python's "beautiful heart": the eight key elements of Python you need to write robust, high-performance programs. Building on these core elements, he introduces new topics designed to strengthen your practical expertise–one concept and hands-on example at a time. Coverage includes - Developing in Python using procedural, objectoriented, and functional programming paradigms
- Creating custom packages and modules
- Writing and reading binary, text, and XML files, including optional compression, random access, and text and XML parsing
- Leveraging advanced data types, collections, control structures, and functions
- Spreading program workloads across multiple processes and threads
- Programming SQL databases and key—value DBM files
- Debugging techniques–and using Test Driven Development to avoid bugs in the first place
- Utilizing Python's regular expression mini-language and module
- Parsing techniques, including how to use the third-party PyParsing and PLY modules
- Building usable, efficient, GUI-based applications
- Advanced programming techniques, including generators, function and class decorators, context managers, descriptors, abstract base classes, metaclasses, coroutines, and more
Programming in Python 3, Second Edition, serves as both tutorial and language reference. It assumes some prior programming experience, and it is accompanied by extensive downloadable example code–all of it tested with Python 3 on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. download  |
| Professional Live Communications Server Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:29 PM PST 
Product Description - Live Communications Server is an emerging technology that will be an important component of Microsoft’s business solutions in the coming years; this book is the ultimate guide to LCS
- The expert authors cover audio and video conferencing and explain how to integrate VoIP and other telephone systems
- Shows readers how to secure instant messaging both within and outside of a company
- Explains how LCS integrates comfortably with products such as
- Office, Exchange Server, and Active Directory, a factor that makes LCS a must-know technology
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| Facebook For Dummies® Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:27 PM PST 
Product Description The eagerly anticipated update to the bestselling first edition is here! Facebook’s popularity is seemingly unstoppable. The site experienced a huge boom in registered users in the latter half of 2008. It was at that time that Facebook also underwent a radical facelift and introduced numerous changes. Packed with hundreds of screen shots, this anxiously awaited new edition presents you with a thorough update on all the exciting changes to Facebook’s interface since the first edition hit the shelves a mere one year ago. Authored by two Facebook employees, Facebook For Dummies, 2nd Edition, features unique insight and insider knowledge of Facebook that can’t be found anywhere else. You’ll explore optimum ways to get familiar with Facebook, tips for representing yourself online, best practices for keeping connected, how to run a business on Facebook, and more. - Walks you through creating a profile, navigating the interface, and setting up privacy features
- Explains how to find and add friends, fill out your profile, add applications, and upload photos
- Discusses ways to join a network or group or use Facebook as a scheduler
- Addresses using Facebook to promote your business and buy ad space on Facebook
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| Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server For Dummies Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:25 PM PST 
Product Description Making Everything Easier! Mac OS® X Snow Leopard Server for Dummies Learn to: - Set up and configure a Mac network with Snow Leopard Server
- Administer, secure, and troubleshoot the network
- Incorporate a Mac subnet into a Windows Active Directory® domain
- Take advantage of Unix® power and security
John Rizzo Want to set up and administer a network even if you don’t have an IT department? Read on! Like everything Mac, Snow Leopard Server was designed to be easy to set up and use. Still, there are so many options and features that this book will save you heaps of time and effort. It walks you through installation, set-up on a virtual machine, directory services, managing clients, security, and everything necessary to keep your users happy. - Choose your hardware — get all the details on the best hardware for your specific needs
- It does Windows too — manage Active Directory and Open Directory for a network with both Windows® and Mac® clients
- Maintain control — create and maintain your User Directory and authenticate clients
- Files, printers, and stuff — set up user categories and permissions, handle file sharing protocols, and configure client machines
- Let’s get together — help users collaborate with shared contacts and calendars, Podcast Producer, and iChat® instant messaging
- The Web world — configure Web services, set up Wiki Server, and enable blogging
- Out of the office — create mobile accounts for notebook users and configure VPN access
- Safety first — manage security with firewalls, encryption, and proxies
Open the book and find: - Various options for installation
- The pros and cons of Dual Boot
- How to set up and run an e-mail server
- Tips on getting Macs and Windows to share files
- How group accounts can simplify management
- The advantages of different permission types
- How to manage Podcast Producer
- Special stuff in Snow Leopard Server
About the Author John Rizzo is an expert on Macintosh and cross-platform topics and a frequent speaker and panelist at MacWorld. He created www.MacWindows.com, which addresses Mac and Windows integration issues, and his blog gets 250,000 visits per month. download  |
| Professional DevExpress ASP.NET Controls Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:24 PM PST 
Product Description Learn to use Devexpress ASP.NET controls, and get $250 worth of controls included with the book Devexpress is a leading supplier of ASP.NET controls – the addins used in ASP.NET sites. Not only does this book show you how to make the most of them with Silverlight and Ajax, reporting, calendars, editors, and charts, but you also get actual controls worth $250 on the CD-ROM included with the book. Regardless of your level of ASP.NET expertise, this complete reference will show you how to implement many award-winning and useful controls into your ASP.NET applications. Controls save time and effort as well as adding functionality, and this book helps you take full advantage of what they offer. - Devexpress is a leading vendor for ASP.NET controls that developers can use to add features, accomplish difficult tasks, and save development and testing time
- This book addresses the all-important use of controls for Silverlight and Ajax, as well as classic essentials like reporting, editors, calendars, and charts
- Covered controls include reports and charts, HTML editors, menus and treeviews, gridview, and many more
- Explains when and where to use controls and how to add functionality without additional development
- CD-ROM includes $250 worth of Devexpress controls ready for you to use right away
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| Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:23 PM PST
Product Description Adeptly address today's business challenges with this powerful new book from web analytics thought leader Avinash Kaushik. Web Analytics 2.0 presents a new framework that will permanently change how you think about analytics. It provides specific recommendations for creating an actionable strategy, applying analytical techniques correctly, solving challenges such as measuring social media and multichannel campaigns, achieving optimal success by leveraging experimentation, and employing tactics for truly listening to your customers. The book will help your organization become more data driven while you become a super analysis ninja!
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| PC Today – March 2010 Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:22 PM PST 
PC Today Magazine is a monthly publication that delivers information about your operating system. Each issue includes the latest computing news, the lowdown on current Windows Updates, hardware previews, and software reviews.
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| Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner’s Guide Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:18 PM PST 
Product Description Create and host educational and professional e-portfolios and personalized learning communities - Create, customize, and maintain an impressive personal digital portfolio with a simple point-and-click interface
- Set customized access to share your text files, images, and videos with your family, friends, and others
- Create online learning communities and social networks through groups, blogs, and forums
- A step-by-step approach that takes you through examples with ample screenshots and clear explanations
In Detail Mahara is a user-centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. These views helps you display your artefacts – text files, spreadsheets, images, and videos – in a way you choose and to the people you want. You can also create online communities and social networks through groups, blogs, and forums. Being a novice, you will need a quick and easy implementation guide to set up your feature-rich digital portfolio. This book is your step-by-step guide to building an impressive professional e-portfolio using Mahara. It covers the key features of Mahara that will help you set up your customized digital portfolio and display the artefacts in your preferred way allowing contribution from selected users only. This book will introduce to the exciting features of Mahara framework and help you develop a feature-rich e-portfolio for yourself. You will see how easily you can create folders, upload multiple files like journals, project documents, pictures, and videos and share them with your friends. You will learn to set up views of these files, making these visible to your chosen friends only. And then, you will allow people to give their inputs. You will learn to create blogs and forums and get connected to the rest of the world. Customization and administration of your Mahara site will become easy after you have gone through this book. Imagine how good you will feel when you will see your knowledge, success, and ideas going live and available to your chosen audiences for their inputs. What you will learn from this book You will learn to: - Create folders in Mahara – just like on your own computer – with an easy file search facility
- Upload multiple files – journals, reports, presentations, videos, and sound clips – easily and set permissions for your group to view, edit, and delete them
- Create a blog in Mahara and get connected to the rest of the world
- Make an impressive profile using Mahara profile fields and tailor your own profile view
- Create a new web page entirely from scratch and customize it to allow much more flexibility and control over who sees what and when
- Set an environment to receive public or private feedback on your pictures, videos, and articles
- Connect with other Mahara users and get social: discuss topics of common interest in forums and share views with each other
- Customize and administer your Mahara site to our own preferences using a number of configuration settings for easy administration
Approach This book will provide you with step-by-step instructions to get started with Mahara and create an impressive electronic portfolio. The book is packed with many useful examples and screenshots for easy and quick learning. Who this book is written for Pick this book up if you want to get started with Mahara. This book is for you if: - You are a student/learner wanting to maintain online documentation of your projects and share it with a particular teacher/trainer for feedback
- You are a teacher wanting to set up an e-portfolio for your students in order to encourage and advance personalized and reflective learning
- You are a professional wanting to share your journals and project documents with your team by sharing your existing knowledge and creating new knowledge in communities of professional practice
- No previous experience of Mahara is required.
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