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961. | 
By: Ted Landau Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 15-JAN-2008 Insert Date: 07-FEB-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Take Control of Your iPhone This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.Get the most out of your iPhone! Avoid trouble, solve
problems, discover hidden tricks, and use your iPhone like a
pro.The iPhone shoehorns a lot of snazzy features into a shiny
package, but if you want to feel more in control
of core features like syncing to your computer, setting up Mail
accounts, and connecting to wireless networks, Take Control
of Your iPhone explains what's happening under the hood so
you can use your iPhone more effectively and with
less hassle. If, for instance, you have questions about activating
your iPhone, the...
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962. | 
By: Skip Matheny; R. Allen Wyke Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 29-JAN-2008 Insert Date: 01-FEB-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Up and Running with Joomla
Need to launch a feature-rich web site quickly where you have one
or more people authoring the content? Want to use a powerful
Content Management System (CMS)? This Short Cut will get you up and
running with Joomla, a freely available open source CMS. Learn how
to install, configure, customize, and extend your Joomla
installation. Also learn the tricks of the trade in how to set up
and manage both your content and your users. Joomla can be a
challenge to understand at first, so drastically cut your "get up
to speed" time by taking the Short Cut!
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Mail and Data Merges Using Word 2003 By: Faithe Wempen Publisher: Que Publication Date: 08-JAN-2008 Insert Date: 10-JAN-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mail and Data Merges Using Word 2003 Learn the ins and outs of Mail Merge in Word
2003, including how to select and prepare a data file and a main
document, how to manually or automatically set up field codes, and
how to print, save, and manage merged letters, envelopes, labels,
and catalogs.
Contents:
What Is a Mail Merge?
Performing a Letter Merge with the Mail
Merge Wizard
Selecting a Main Document Type
Selecting a Data Source
Preparing the Main Document
Inserting Merge Fields
Filtering and Sorting the Data
Previewing and Printing the Merge
Creating Custom Merges with Word Fields
Faithe Wempen, M.A., is...
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964. | 
Mail and Data Merges Using Word 2007 By: Faithe Wempen Publisher: Que Publication Date: 08-JAN-2008 Insert Date: 10-JAN-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mail and Data Merges Using Word 2007 Learn the ins and outs of Mail Merge in Word
2007, including how to select and prepare a data file and a main
document, how to manually or automatically set up field codes, and
how to print, save, and manage merged letters, envelopes, labels,
and catalogs.
Contents:
What Is a Mail Merge?
Performing a Letter Merge with the Mail
Merge Wizard
Selecting a Main Document Type
Selecting a Data Source
Preparing the Main Document
Inserting Merge Fields
Filtering and Sorting the Data
Previewing and Printing the Merge
Creating Custom Merges with Word Fields
Faithe Wempen, M.A., is...
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965. | 
Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Extreme Network By: Glenn Fleishman Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 19-OCT-2007 Insert Date: 20-DEC-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Extreme Network This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.This title begins with a quick look at useful terminology and
then walks readers through setting up a new AirPort Extreme Base
Station: hooking it up, connecting to it with AirPort Utility, and
setting up a new wireless network that can either connect to the
Internet or to another network segment.
You will learn how 802.11n fits with older networking standards
like 802.11a, b, and g; find help with band and channel choices for
the AirPort Extreme; and learn how to extend your network's
coverage and range. The book also helps you...
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966. | 
CCSP SNRS Quick Reference Sheets By: Brandon James Carroll Publisher: Cisco Press Publication Date: 05-DEC-2007 Insert Date: 19-DEC-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CCSP SNRS Quick Reference Sheets As a final exam preparation tool, the
CCSP SNRS Quick Reference provides a concise review of all
objectives on the new CCSP SNRS exam (642-503). This digital Short
Cut provides you with detailed, graphical-based information,
highlighting only the key topics in cram-style format.
With this document as your guide, you will
review topics on securing networks using routers and switches.
These fact-filled Quick Reference Sheets allow you to get
all-important information at a glance, helping you focus your study
on areas of weakness and to enhance memory retention of essential
exam concepts....
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967. | 
Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series Writing Efficient Ruby Code By: Dr. Stefan Kaes Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 08-NOV-2007 Insert Date: 22-NOV-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series Writing Efficient Ruby Code This short cut focuses on a number of coding patterns that are
useful when trying to get maximum speed out of performance-critical
sections of Ruby code. Anti-patterns, that is, coding idioms, which
should be avoided in performance-sensitive code sections are
discussed, including details on how to transform such code to make
it more efficient. Most patterns were extracted from Stefan Kaes'
work on improving performance of the Rails core and his regular
Rails performance consulting work. These patterns are largely
non-algorithmic, detailing local code transformations to achieve
identical...
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968. | 
Troubleshooting Ruby Processes: Leveraging System Tools when the Usual Ruby Tricks Stop Working Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 29-OCT-2007 Insert Date: 04-NOV-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Troubleshooting Ruby Processes: Leveraging System Tools when the Usual Ruby Tricks Stop Working This
short cut introduces key system diagnostic tools to Ruby developers
creating and deploying web applications. When programmers develop a
Ruby application they commonly experience complex problems which
require some understanding of the underlying operating system to be
solved. Difficult to diagnose, these problems can make the
difference between a project's failure or success. This short cut
demonstrates how to leverage system tools available on Mac OS X,
Linux, Solaris, BSD or any other Unix flavor. You will learn how to
leverage the raw power of tools such as lsof, strace or gdb...
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Optimizing Your Website for Mobile Safari: Ensuring Your Website Works on the iPhone and iPod touch By: August Trometer Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 29-OCT-2007 Insert Date: 04-NOV-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Optimizing Your Website for Mobile Safari: Ensuring Your Website Works on the iPhone and iPod touch Optimizing Your Website for Mobile
Safari (Digital Short Cut)
By August Trometer
When Apple announced the iPhone, they also
ushered in yet another mobile browser for web developers to contend
with: Mobile Safari. While Safari is built on the typical web
standards supported by other browsers, Mobile Safari brings in an
entirely new paradigm of web browsing. With its touch-screen
display, users tap and “pinch” on web pages to bring
the content into view. And while most web sites
“should” work normally on the iPhone and iPod
touch’s Mobile Safari, there are some additional tweaks...
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970. | 
Moving Your Career Up the Value Chain: Building Specialized Development Skills in a Global Economy By: Stephen B. Morris Publisher: InformIT Publication Date: 29-OCT-2007 Insert Date: 03-NOV-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Moving Your Career Up the Value Chain: Building Specialized Development Skills in a Global Economy Moving Your Career Up the Value Chain:
Building Specialized Development Skills in a Global
Economy
Stephen B. Morris
ISBN-10: 0-76867-931-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-76867-931-1
IT complexity is growing fast in most jobs.
Jobs that traditionally required few skills now demand an
increasingly broad range of abilities. This reflects the
requirement for broader skill sets and increased worker
flexibility. Surviving as a worker today is all about managing
extra responsibilities and an ever-increasing range of day-to-day
duties.
You can earn more, learn more, and go
further in life by moving up the...
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971. | 
By: Kevin Wallace; Michael Watkins Publisher: Cisco Press Publication Date: 26-OCT-2007 Insert Date: 31-OCT-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CCDP ARCH Quick Reference As a final exam preparation tool, the
CCDP ARCH Quick Reference provides a concise review of all
objectives on the new CCDP ARCH exam (642-873). This digital Short
Cut provides you with detailed, graphical-based information,
highlighting only the key topics in cram-style format.
With this document as your guide, you will
review topics on campus and data center design, addressing and
routing, advanced WAN services, SAN design, VPN design, IP
multicast design, voice over WLAN design, secure designs, designing
an e-commerce module, and network management with Cisco IOS
Software. This...
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972. | 
Dojo Fundamentals: Creating Object-Oriented Widgets Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 24-OCT-2007 Insert Date: 25-OCT-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Dojo Fundamentals: Creating Object-Oriented Widgets
This Short Cut was formally titled "Get Up and Running with Dojo."
This updated version has been updated and re-titled.
In this exciting era of Web 2.0 development, Dojo pushes the
boundaries of the possible with snazzy user interfaces that can be
quickly implemented and easily maintained.This comprehensive overview to creating object-oriented widgets
with Dojo 1.0 tackles the most foundational Dojo design
concepts-leaving you poised for productivity and efficiency, and
ready to achieve superior results. Read on to explore the depths of
inheritance and encapsulation, learn the most common...
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973. | 
By: Peter Kahrel Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 15-OCT-2007 Insert Date: 17-OCT-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: GREP in InDesign CS3
GREP (short for "General Regular-Expression Print") is a powerful
tool that lets you use wildcards ("jokers") to search and replace
text. InDesign CS3's GREP implementation can be used for text and
also for formatting codes, finding patterns in text as well as
literal text.
GREP moves beyond the restrictions that hampered earlier InDesign
search features, but unfortunately, it does have the reputation of
being difficult to master. As with many things, it can be
challenging to learn, but, fortunately, a lot can be done with
surprisingly simple expressions. The aim of this Short Cut is...
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974. | 
By: Todd Anglin Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 03-OCT-2007 Insert Date: 10-OCT-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introducing Silverlight 1.1
In this Short Cut, we'll take a close look at Silverlight 1.1 and
bring clarity to this bleeding-edge technology. First we'll take a
broad look at the new concept of Rich Internet Applications and how
Silverlight fits into that picture. Then we'll examine how you work
with Silverlight 1.1, highlighting tools, concepts, and code that
you will need to build these interactive applications. Finally,
we'll take a practical look at using Silverlight 1.1 to build a
custom control, pulling all of the concepts and tools together.
Join ASP.NET Master and Telerik Chief Technical Evangelist Todd
Anglin...
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975. | 
Getting Started with Pyparsing By: Paul McGuire Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 05-OCT-2007 Insert Date: 10-OCT-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Getting Started with Pyparsing
Need to extract data from a text file or a web page? Or do you want
to make your application more flexible with user-defined commands
or search strings? Do regular expressions and lex/yacc make your
eyes blur and your brain hurt?
Pyparsing could be the solution. Pyparsing is a pure-Python
class library that makes it easy to build recursive-descent parsers
quickly. There is no need to handcraft your own parsing state
machine. With pyparsing, you can quickly create HTML page scrapers,
logfile data extractors, or complex data structure or command
processors. This Short Cut shows you how!...
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976. | 
By: Andy Flesner Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 18-SEP-2007 Insert Date: 28-SEP-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: AutoIt v3: Your Quick Guide
AutoIt is becoming increasingly popular in the system
administration field as a tool for automating administrative tasks.
Although this is one of its more popular uses, you can use AutoIt
to automate anything in a Windows environment. This powerful
scripting language can run any program and manipulate keyboard and
mouse input. With its RunAs support, administrators can perform
unattended installations and configuration changes using embedded
administrative privileges.
This guide teaches you the foundations of the AutoIt v3
language. You will learn about variables and includes, graphical
user...
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977. | 
By: Michael Fitzgerald; Ali Pasha Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 17-SEP-2007 Insert Date: 15-SEP-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Google Ajax Search API
Use the Google Ajax Search API to integrate web search, image
search, local search, and other types of search into your web site
by embedding a simple, dynamic search box to display search results
in your own web pages using a few lines of JavaScript.
For those who do not want to write code, the search wizards and
solutions built with the Google Ajax Search API generate code to
accomplish common tasks like adding local search results to a
Google Maps API mashup, adding video search thumbnails to your web
site, or adding a news reel with the latest up to date stories to
your blog.More...
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Darkstar: The Java Game Server By: Brendan Burns Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 30-AUG-2007 Insert Date: 06-SEP-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Darkstar: The Java Game Server
So, you have a great idea for the next big multiplayer game. Maybe
it's a virtual world based on your favorite sci-fi television show.
Or maybe it's an online bowling league for you and your friends.
Regardless, the challenge of building a networked multiplayer
computer game goes far beyond having a great idea. It can be so
significant that it prevents great games from becoming
reality.
Darkstar breaks down this barrier of complexity. It provides an
easy-to-use library of functions that handles the challenging
aspects of networked game development for you. Further, it provides
a robust,...
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979. | 
By: Justin Cutroni Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 30-AUG-2007 Insert Date: 06-SEP-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Google Analytics
Web analytics is the process of measuring your web site, analyzing
the data, and making changes based on the analysis. Many businesses
are just starting to learn how they can increase the performance of
their web site by using web analytics. For many people, their first
exposure to web analytics is Google Analytics, a free tool
available to everyone.
Although analysis is vital to web analytics, you can't do analysis
without good data. Configuring Google Analytics correctly is the
key to collecting good data.
This Short Cut provides a thorough description of how the Google
Analytics system...
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Building Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation: Extended Workflow Example By: Michael Stiefel Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 14-AUG-2007 Insert Date: 22-AUG-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Building Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation: Extended Workflow Example Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is Microsoft's programming
model for building workflow-enabled applications in the Windows
operating system. It includes a set of classes, a workflow engine,
and design tools that can be used with Visual Studio .NET. Workflow
is an extremely important type of application that has been
difficult to build on the Microsoft platform. Workflow Foundation
is a major element of the .NET Framework 3.0 platform that enables
application developers to build these types of applications.
In Building Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation:
Extended Workflow...
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