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Guide to Switching to the Mac for Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Peaxh — 2009-11-05T19:13:26+01:00

MacMost.com Guide to Switching to the Mac

Switching to the Mac? Awesome! You’ve got company—lots of it! And with this book, you’ve got help, too... all the help you’ll ever need!

MacMost.com founder Gary Rosenzweig quickly gets you comfy with your new Mac, demonstrates the ”Mac way” to perform every common Windows task, and shows how to do more with Macs than you ever could in Windows... way more!

It’s all here—everything from choosing the right Mac to creating your own videos and DVDs. Rosenzweig covers the latest Macs and the new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system. Best of all, he focuses on what today’s computer users need to know, including loads of coverage of using your Mac on the Web.

Every Mac switcher needs a friendly Mac expert to show them the ropes. With this book, you’ve got yours!

      •     Discover what’s different about your Mac’s hardware and software—
and what’s similar, too

      •     Navigate the Finder and learn how Mac files are organized

      •     Make the most of the Mac’s built-in applications

      •     Move your stuff from your PC to your new Mac

      •     Use Safari, Mac’s great built-in Web browser

      •     Set up Mac email, instant messaging, and audio and video chatting

      •     Share, back up, and archive your files

      •     Choose and use Mac business and productivity applications

      •     Organize your music and buy new songs with iTunes

      •     Import, manage, edit, and share your photos

      •     Create awesome videos with iMovie, QuickTime, and iDVD

      •     Run Windows on your Mac, if you must

      •     Keep your Mac up to date and running smoothly

Gary Rosenzweig is the producer of MacMost.com and the host of the MacMost Now video podcast. MacMost focuses on teaching people how to get the most from their Macs with tutorials, reviews, and tips. His previous 12 books include ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University and The MacAddict Guide to GarageBand. He also runs several Web-based game websites, including GameScene.com.

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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Computer Basics (5th Edition)

Peaxh — 2009-11-05T19:11:01+01:00

Everything casual users need to know to get the most out of their new Windows 7 PCs, software, and the Internet

# The best-selling beginner's guide, now completely updated for Windows 7 and today's most popular Internet tools - including Facebook, craigslist, Twitter, and Wikipedia
# Easy step-by-step instructions cover setting up a new PC, getting online, working with digital media, using productivity tools, and much more
# By the world's #1 author of beginning technology books, Michael Miller

This year, you may be one of the millions of casual computer users that will buy a new Windows 7 notebook or desktop PC. You'll want to know how to find your way around, get comfortable, and get the job done - without jargon, complexity, or hassle. There's a book for you: Michael Miller's Absolute Beginner's Guide to Computer Basics, Windows 7 Edition. It's the one book that covers everything today's beginners and near-beginners need to know: not just about Windows, but also about software, hardware, and the Internet. Through 90+ books, author Michael Miller has established an unparalleled track record in explaining complicated concepts simply and clearly, and empowering beginners. Now, he's thoroughly updated his best-selling Absolute Beginner's Guide to Computer Basics to cover today's user experience - with Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8, and today's hottest online tools, from craigslist and Facebook to Twitter, Wikipedia, and Google Docs. Miller offers step-by-step instructions and friendly, practical advice for making the most of Windows 7's improvements, including the new taskbar, Action Center, and Aero Snap. He walks through setting up a new computer; connecting to the Internet; working with digital media; burning custom CDs; watching DVD movies; using Microsoft Office and other popular software; managing money online; setting up home networks; keeping PCs running reliably; and protecting them from spam, viruses, and spyware. This is the one indispensable book for today's PC novice.

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VMware Cookbook: A Real-World Guide to Effective VMware Use

Peaxh — 2009-11-05T19:08:52+01:00

If you want to gain insight into the real-world uses of VMware ESX and ESXi, this book provides scores of step-by-step solutions for working with these products in a wide range of network environments. You'll not only learn the basics -- how to pool resources from hardware servers, computer clusters, networks, and storage, and then distribute them among virtual machines -- but also the stumbling blocks you'll encounter when you monitor systems, troubleshoot problems, and deal with security.

In addition to the recipes, VMware Cookbook includes background information to help you determine your virtualization needs. You'll come to view VMware as part of the real environment, alongside operating systems, storage, and logical and physical network components.

    * Follow best practices for installing VMware in your environment
    * Discover how to secure and monitor your network
    * Understand disk storage implementation and configuration
    * Learn resource management using the distributed resource scheduler, shares, and resource pools
    * Configure logical and physical networks
    * Learn how to clone and migrate servers
    * Gain valuable tips for configuration and fine-tuning

Many resources can teach you about virtualization and the basics of VMware. This book is for system administrators who are ready to go beyond an introduction.

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Relational Database Design and Implementation, Third Edition: Clearly Explained 3e

Peaxh — 2009-11-05T19:06:45+01:00

Fully revised, updated, and expanded, Relational Database Design and Implementation, Third Edition is the most lucid and effective introduction to the subject available for IT/IS professionals interested in honing their skills in database design, implementation, and administration. This book provides the conceptual and practical information necessary to develop a design and management scheme that ensures data accuracy and user satisfaction while optimizing performance, regardless of experience level or choice of DBMS.
The book begins by reviewing basic concepts of databases and database design, then briefly reviews the SQL one would use to create databases. Topics such as the relational data model, normalization, data entities and Codd's Rules (and why they are important) are covered clearly and concisely but without resorting to "Dummies"-style talking down to the reader.
Supporting the book's step-by-step instruction are three NEW case studies illustrating database planning, analysis, design, and management practices. In addition to these real-world examples, which include object-relational design techniques, an entirely NEW section consisting of three chapters is devoted to database implementation and management issues.

* Principles needed to understand the basis of good relational database design and implementation practices.
* Examples to illustrate core concepts for enhanced comprehension and to put the book's practical instruction to work.
* Methods for tailoring DB design to the environment in which the database will run and the uses to which it will be put.
* Design approaches that ensure data accuracy and consistency.
* Examples of how design can inhibit or boost database application performance.
* Object-relational design techniques, benefits, and examples.
* Instructions on how to choose and use a normalization technique.
* Guidelines for understanding and applying Codd's rules.
* Tools to implement a relational design using SQL.
* Techniques for using CASE tools for database design.

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Developing Virtual Reality Applications: Foundations of Effective Design

Peaxh — 2009-11-05T19:04:24+01:00

Virtual Reality has turned the corner from being a mere laboratory novelty to become a valuable tool with practical applications in many fields. From best-selling VR guru Bill Sherman comes Developing Virtual Reality Applications - a comprehensive compendium that examines over 50 unique and foundational VR applications in Business, Science, Medicine, Education, Spatial Studies, Public Safety, and Entertainment industries. Each chapter contains one or more key applications that are explored in depth, as well as examples of these applications in their most recent form and the most current research being conducted. The book also cross-references techniques between different application areas, synthesizing the data into a coherent whole that describes overall VR trends and fundamental best practices. Such synergy gives you a hands-on guide for developing your own applications, and provides an enhanced, longitudinal view of VR development. By promoting mobility across disciplines, Developing Virtual Reality Applications becomes an indispensable one-stop reference for anyone working in this burgeoning field.

    * Presents a wide variety of detailed application descriptions across ALL areas of industry, providing you with practical ideas for VR development in ANY area of interest!

    * Cross references development techniques between different application areas, supplying you with fundamental best practices across disciplines!

    * Includes an online and media-rich companion site with hours of footage from application demonstrations, which puts you in the middle of the action!

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Oracle PL/SQL Programming

Peaxh — 2009-10-15T21:46:09+01:00

This book is the definitive reference on PL/SQL, considered throughout the database community to be the best Oracle programming book available. Like its predecessors, this fifth edition of Oracle PL/SQL Programming covers language fundamentals, advanced coding techniques, and best practices for using Oracle's powerful procedural language. Thoroughly updated for Oracle Database 11g Release 2, this edition reveals new PL/SQL features and provides extensive code samples, ranging from simple examples to complex and complete applications, in the book and on the companion website.

This indispensable reference for both novices and experienced Oracle programmers will help you:

    * Get PL/SQL programs up and running quickly, with clear instructions for executing, tracing, testing, debugging, and managing PL/SQL code
    * Optimize PL/SQL performance with the aid of a brand-new chapter in the fifth edition
    * Explore datatypes, conditional and sequential control statements, loops, exception handling, security features, globalization and localization issues, and the PL/SQL architecture
    * Understand and use new Oracle Database 11g features, including the edition-based redefinition capability, the function result cache, the new CONTINUE statement, fine-grained dependency tracking, sequences in PL/SQL expressions, supertype invocation from subtypes, and enhancements to native compilation, triggers, and dynamic SQL
    * Use new Oracle Database 11g tools and techniques such as PL/Scope, the PL/SQL hierarchical profiler, and the SecureFiles technology for large objects
    * Build modular PL/SQL applications using procedures, functions, triggers, and packages

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SQL The Complete Reference, 3rd Edition

Peaxh — 2009-10-15T21:43:29+01:00

Get comprehensive coverage of every aspect of SQL from three leading industry experts. Revised with coverage of the latest RDBMS software versions, this one-stop guide explains how to build, populate, and administer high-performance databases and develop robust SQL-based applications. 

SQL: The Complete Reference, Third Edition shows you how to work with SQL commands and statements, set up relational databases, load and modify database objects, perform powerful queries, tune performance, and implement reliable security policies. Learn how to employ DDL statements and APIs, integrate XML and Java scripts, use SQL objects, build web servers, handle remote access, and perform distributed transactions. Techniques for managing in-memory, stream, and embedded databases that run on today's mobile, handheld, and wireless devices are included in this in-depth volume.

    *      Build SQL-based relational databases and applications
    *      Create, load, and modify database objects using SQL
    *      Construct and execute simple, multitable, and summary queries
    *      Implement security measures with authentication, privileges, roles, and views
    *      Handle database optimization, backup, recovery, and replication
    *      Work with stored procedures, functions, extensions, triggers, and objects
    *      Extend functionality using APIs, dynamic SQL, and embedded SQL
    *      Explore advanced topics such as DBMS transactions, locking mechanisms, materialized views, and two-phase commit protocol
    *      Understand the latest market trends and the future of SQL

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SCJA Sun Certified Java Associate Study Guide (Exam CX-310-019)

Peaxh — 2009-10-15T21:40:21+01:00

The best fully integrated study system available for Exam CX-310-019

With hundreds of practice questions and hands-on exercises, SCJA Sun Certified Java Associate Study Guide covers what you need to know--and shows you how to prepare--for this challenging exam.

    *      100% complete coverage of all objectives for SCJA Exam CX-310-019
    *      Exam Readiness checklist--you're ready for the exam when all objectives on the list are checked off
    *      Inside the Exam sections highlight key exam topics covered
    *      Two-Minute Drills for quick review
    *      Simulated exam questions match the format, tone, topics, and difficulty of the real exam

Covers all the exam topics, including:

Packaging, Compiling, and Interpreting Java Code * Java Statements * Java Operators and Strings * Classes and Variables * Variable Scope and Class Construction * Classes and their Relationships * Class Inheritance * Object-oriented Principles * Representing Object-oriented Concepts with UML * Platforms and Integration Technologies * Client-side Technologies * Server-side Technologies

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Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V

Peaxh — 2009-10-15T21:36:55+01:00

Implement a Hyper-V virtualization solution

Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V shows you how to deploy Microsoft's next-generation hypervisor-based server virtualization technology in a corporate environment. You'll get step-by-step guidelines for getting Hyper-V up and running, followed by best practices for building a larger, fault-tolerant solution using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. This hands-on guide explains how to migrate physical systems to the virtual environment; use System Center Operations Manager; and secure, back up, and restore your Hyper-V solution.

    *      Plan and implement a Hyper-V installation
    *      Configure Hyper-V components
    *      Install and configure System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
    *      Create and manage virtual machines
    *      Back up and restore virtual machines
    *      Monitor, back up, and restore the virtual solution
    *      Secure your Hyper-V environment
    *      Understand the virtual desktop infrastructure
    *      Use third-party virtualization tools for Hyper-V

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iPhone SDK Programming, A Beginner's Guide

Peaxh — 2009-10-15T21:32:52+01:00

Develop your own iPhone applications

Ideal for non-Mac programmers, this introductory guide shows developers how to create applications for the world's most popular smart phone. You will learn how to use a modified version of the Mac development environment, the Objective-C programming language, and the Xcode development tools.

Nearly every chapter of iPhone SDK Programming: A Beginner's Guide consists of a self-contained project, with the corresponding Xcode available for download and modification. The book is designed around the concept of accomplishing specific, discrete programming tasks for deployment on the iPhone.

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