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Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You?

Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You?

By: Greg Conti

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 10-OCT-2008

Insert Date: 09-AUG-2008

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What Does Google Know about You? And Who Are They Telling? When you use Google’s “free” services, you pay, big time–with personal information about yourself. Google is making a fortune on what it knows about you…and you may be shocked by just how much Google does know. Googling Security is the first book to reveal how Google’s vast information stockpiles could be used against you or your business–and what you can do to protect yourself. Unlike other books on Google hacking, this book covers information you disclose when using all of Google’s top applications, not just what savvy users...

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The KML Handbook: Geographic Visualization for the Web

The KML Handbook: Geographic Visualization for the Web

By: Josie Wernecke

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 27-OCT-2008

Insert Date: 08-AUG-2008

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“The way the information is presented appeals to teachers, hobbyists, web designers—anyone looking for a way to enhance their content by using customized maps.” —Warren Kelly, Pastor “It could become the de-facto tutorial volume for the subject, as well as the classic reference guide.” —Thomas Duff, Lead Developer “This book is written so well and is so easy to follow it’s a joy to go through.” — Daniel McKinnon, Software Engineer KML began as the file format for Google Earth, but it has evolved into a full-fledged international standard for describing any geographic...

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GWT in Action: Easy Ajax with the Google Web Toolkit

GWT in Action: Easy Ajax with the Google Web Toolkit

By: Robert Hanson; Adam Tacy

Publisher: Manning Publications

Publication Date: 05-JUN-2007

Insert Date: 24-JUN-2008

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The Google Web Toolkit is a new technology that automatically translates Java into JavaScript, making Ajax applications easier to code and deploy. GWT in Action is a comprehensive tutorial for Java developers interested in building the next generation of rich, web-based applications. This book was written by Robert Hanson, creator of the popular GWT Widget Library and Adam Tacy a major contributor to the GWT Widget Library. There is a new emphasis on building rich, web-based applications. These applications can be difficult to build because they rely on JavaScript, which lacks the...

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YouTube® for Business: Online Video Marketing for Any Business

YouTube® for Business: Online Video Marketing for Any Business

By: Michael Miller

Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 19-AUG-2008

Insert Date: 15-JUN-2008

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To any businessperson or marketing professional, YouTube’s 20 million viewers are a tempting target. How can you tap into the potential of YouTube to promote your business and sell your products or services? The answers in YouTube for Business show you how to make YouTube part of your online marketing plan–and drive traffic to your company’s website. In this book you’ll learn how to: • Develop a YouTube marketing strategy • Decide what types of videos to produce • Shoot great-looking YouTube videos–on a budget • Edit and enhance your videos • Create a presence on the...

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Google Apps: The Missing Manual

Google Apps: The Missing Manual

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 27-MAY-2008

Insert Date: 20-MAY-2008

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Among its many amazing applications, Google now has web-based alternatives to many of the applications in Microsoft Office. This comprehensive and easy-to-follow new book enables you to explore Google's new office applications in detail. Once you do, you'll be in good company -- more than 100,000 small businesses and some corporations are already looking to take advantage of these free Google offerings. Google Apps: The Missing Manual teaches you how to use three relatively new applications from Google: "Docs and Spreadsheets", which provide many of the same core tools that you find in Word...

186. 

Google Apps Hacks

Google Apps Hacks

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 17-APR-2008

Insert Date: 17-APR-2008

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Can Google applications really become an alternative to the venerable Microsoft Office suite? Conventional wisdom may say no, but practical wisdom says otherwise. Right now, 100,000 small businesses are currently running trials of Google office applications. So are large corporations such as General Electric and Proctor & Gamble. Google Apps Hacks gets you in on the action with several ingenious ways to push Google's web, mobile, and desktop apps to the limit. The scores of clever hacks and workarounds in this book help you get more than the obvious out of a whole host of Google's...

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Google® Power Tools Bible

Google® Power Tools Bible

By: Ted Coombs; Roderico DeLeon

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication Date: 12-MAR-2007

Insert Date: 14-JAN-2008

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Get the most thorough and comprehensive guide to Google. Expand your world with the dozens of Google tools, applications, and services you'll find in this comprehensive book. Going well beyond the basics of search, this in-depth resource shows you how to access and apply every one of Google's features -- things like Gmail, Google Maps, and SketchUp -- while also explaining how to program Google, become a Froogle merchant, and much more. With thorough coverage, step-by-step instructions, and hundreds of tips and workarounds, you'll find what you need to succeed with Google. Review the...

188. 

Actionable Web Analytics: Using Data To Make Smart Business Decisions

Actionable Web Analytics: Using Data To Make Smart Business Decisions

By: Jason Burby; Shane Atchison; Jim Sterne

Publisher: Sybex

Publication Date: 29-MAY-2007

Insert Date: 07-DEC-2007

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Knowing everything you can about each click to your Web site can help you make strategic decisions regarding your business. This book is about the why, not just the how, of web analytics and the rules for developing a "culture of analysis" inside your organization. Why you should collect various types of data. Why you need a strategy. Why it must remain flexible. Why your data must generate meaningful action. The authors answer these critical questions—and many more—using their decade of experience in Web analytics....

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Google™ Web Toolkit Applications

Google™ Web Toolkit Applications

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Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 05-DEC-2007

Insert Date: 21-NOV-2007

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“Ryan clearly understands the GWT value proposition and how GWT integrates into a diverse web technology stack–and not just in a theoretical way. With the popularity of gpokr.com and kdice.com, Ryan can speak with the authority of concrete success.” –Bruce Johnson, creator of Google Web Toolkit “This book distinguishes itself from other books on GWT in that it walks through the entire process of building several nontrivial GWT applications, not the toy applications that most books present.” –R. Mark Volkmann, Object Computing, Inc. “Google™ Web Toolkit Applications is an excellent...

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Google Ajax Search API

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Google Ajax Search API

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 17-SEP-2007

Insert Date: 15-SEP-2007

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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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Google Analytics

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Google Analytics

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 30-AUG-2007

Insert Date: 06-SEP-2007

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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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Google in Education

Google in Education

By: ; Andrew William Lawrence

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 15-AUG-2007

Insert Date: 17-AUG-2007

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Google technologies can pull far-flung places into your classroom and make historical events come alive for your students. Students can express themselves through blogs, collaborative writing, and slideshows. Google provides the necessary tools to bring your classroom or educational institution into the 21st century, while also giving you the means to protect users' privacy. As a teacher, you can leverage these technologies to share lesson plans and other resources throughout your institution. This Short Cut is a companion to the Setting Up Google Apps Standard Edition Short Cut, and...

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Google™pedia: The Ultimate Google Resource, Second Edition

Google™pedia: The Ultimate Google Resource, Second Edition

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Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 10-SEP-2007

Insert Date: 27-JUN-2007

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A new edition of this title is available, ISBN-10: 0789738201 ISBN-13: 9780789738202 The all-encompassing book about everything Google. Not only will you learn advanced search techniques, but you also will learn how to master Google’s web and software tools. It’s all inside! Blogger-create your own personal blog Gmail-Google’s web-based email service Google Web Search-the most popular search on the Internet Google AdSense-put profit-making ads on their own website Google AdWords-buy keyword advertising on the Google site Google Product Search-find hot deals without ever leaving your...

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Google™ Web Toolkit Solutions: More Cool & Useful Stuff

Google™ Web Toolkit Solutions: More Cool & Useful Stuff

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 07-NOV-2007

Insert Date: 09-JUN-2007

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Cu> Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java development framework for building Ajax-enabled web applications. Instead of the hodgepodge of technologies that developers typically use for Ajax–JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and XMLHttpRequest–GWT lets developers implement rich client applications with pure Java, using familiar idioms from the AWT, Swing, and SWT. GWT goes beyond most Ajax frameworks by making it easy to build desktop-like applications that run in the ubiquitous browser, where the richness of the user interface is limited only by the developer’s imagination. This book...

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Setting Up Google Apps Standard Edition

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Setting Up Google Apps Standard Edition

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 30-MAY-2007

Insert Date: 05-JUN-2007

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With Google Apps, you can have your own private network without buying server hardware, knowing how to set up servers, or worrying about maintenance. Google provides all of the expensive infrastructure, IT management, mail servers, chat system, administrative tools, etc., to create an extranet at no cost to you. Well, almost no cost; it does require that you have your own domain name for your web site. This Short Cut explains how to acquire, configure and administer your own domain using Google Apps. It discusses configuration options that are both domain- wide and user specific. It...

196. 

YouTube 4 You

YouTube 4 You

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Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 26-APR-2007

Insert Date: 11-APR-2007

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<>VIEW. UPLOAD. SHARE. That's what YouTube is all about–viewing, uploading, and sharing your favorite videos. And the book you hold in your hands will help you get the most out of this hot website. You'll learn how to find the latest viral videos, share your favorite videos with friends and the YouTube community, and shoot and upload your own videos to the YouTube website. YouTube 4 You is the first book to take you inside YouTube, show you how the site works, and provide tips and tricks for becoming a more successful YouTuber! You’ll Learn How To • Find and watch the latest videos •...

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Google Web Toolkit for Ajax

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Google Web Toolkit for Ajax

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 02-JAN-2007

Insert Date: 02-FEB-2007

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<div><p>The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a nifty framework that Java programmers can use to create Ajax applications. The GWT allows you to create an Ajax application in your favorite IDE, such as IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse, using paradigms and mechanisms similar to programming a Java Swing application. After you code the application in Java, the GWT's tools generate the JavaScript code the application needs.</p><p>You can also use typical Java project tools such as JUnit and Ant when creating GWT applications. The GWT is a free download, and you can freely distribute the client- and...

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Google™ Web Toolkit Solutions: Cool & Useful Stuff

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Google™ Web Toolkit Solutions: Cool & Useful Stuff

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 18-JAN-2007

Insert Date: 23-JAN-2007

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The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a cutting-edge UI framework for Java developers, which lets you create rich, interactive user interfaces using familiar idioms from Java’s Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), Swing, and the Eclipse Foundation’s SWT. If you’ve used any of those frameworks in the past, you’re already halfway up the GWT learning curve. This short cut assumes that you have already installed GWT and have experimented with its basic features. It also assumes that you’re comfortable with techniques like implementing event listeners as anonymous inner classes and know how to construct...

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Google Hacking for Penetration Testers

Google Hacking for Penetration Testers

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Publisher: Syngress

Publication Date: 01-JUL-2004

Insert Date: 23-JAN-2007

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Google Hacking for Penetration Testers explores the explosive growth of a technique known as "Google Hacking." This simple tool can be bent by hackers and those with malicious intents to find hidden information, break into sites, and access supposedly secure information. Borrowing the techniques pioneered by malicious "Google hackers," this book aims to show security practitioners how to properly protect clients from this often overlooked and dangerous form of information leakage. The sophistication and functionality of Google searches has resulted in several publications boasting...

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Blogging with the New Google™ Blogger

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Blogging with the New Google™ Blogger

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Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 19-OCT-2006

Insert Date: 21-OCT-2006

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Blogging with the New Google Blogger is a digital short cut that covers Google's newest version of Blogger, their free software for creating a website from which to post thoughts, interact with people, and more. This short cut serves as an introduction to the world of blogging and to the Blogger application, as well as a guide to the new version of Blogger. Readers will learn how the new version of Blogger differs from the original version and how to create a Blogger blog. Advanced users will appreciate the information on customizing blog templates, using HTML, hosting their own Blogger blog,...