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1. |  Taking Your Kindle Fire to the Max By: Mark Rollins Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 24-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Taking Your Kindle Fire to the Max
You've just purchased a Kindle Fire. How do you set it up? How do you secure it? What can you do with it? In Taking Your Kindle Fire to the Max, you'll learn how to set up email, social networking, videos, music, eBooks, contacts, calendar, and navigation.
Once you've discovered how to set up your accounts, check your email, and connect to the internet, you learn advanced moves that will make your Kindle Fire use similar to your laptop or desktop computing, granting you an unlimited mobile life.
What you'll learn
Enjoy watching videos, reading eBooks, and listening to movies with...
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2. |  Pro HTML5 Accessibility: Building an Inclusive Web By: Joshue O Connor Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 21-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro HTML5 Accessibility: Building an Inclusive Web
Pro HTML5 Accessibility helps designers come to grips with building exciting, accessible and usable web sites and applications with HTML5. The book covers how to use HTML5 in order to serve the needs of people with disabilities and older persons using assistive technology (AT). It aims to be a useful 'go-to' guide, providing practical advice. It takes several approaches, including a look at the new semantics of HTML5 and how to combine its use with authoring practices you know from using earlier versions of HTML. It also demonstrates how HTML5 content is currently supported (or not) by...
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3. |  Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development By: Tim Leung; Yann Duran Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 26-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 is a rapid application deployment tool that lets power users and administrators build data-centric business applications for the desktop, cloud, and Web in just a few clicks, with no code required. But more advanced developers and business users will hunger for more: how do you design complex screens? How do you query data using LINQ and other syntax structures? How do you secure your application?
Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development answers these questions and more as authors Tim Leung and Yann Duran—both awarded Microsoft 2011...
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4. |  Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript By: Adam Freeman Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 29-APR-2012 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript
The key features for developing on Microsoft's eagerly anticipated Windows 8 operating system are unveiled in this fast-paced 80-page primer. Windows 8 contains the revolutionary Metro application framework for building dynamic and responsive touch-enabled applications that target both desktops and mobile devices.
With the official release of Windows 8 looming ever closer, experienced author Adam Freeman invites you to take a crash course in Metro development. Using HTML5 and JavaScript, he ensures you understand the changes that are being made to Windows development practices and puts...
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5. |  Beginning iOS 3D Unreal Games Development By: Robert Chin Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 05-APR-2012 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning iOS 3D Unreal Games Development
The Unreal UDK features Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine 3, used to create bestselling games such as Infinity Blade for iOS, and popular console games like Borderlands and Bioshock. Now, you can build your own Unreal game for the iOS platform.
Beginning iOS 3D Unreal Games Development covers using the Unreal UDK game creation system to create 3D games for the iOS platform, which includes the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Specifically, this book covers:
UnrealScript programming language, going beyond the limitations of the visual Kismet scripting language
The Unreal UDK code...
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6. |  Beginning Android Web Apps Development: Develop for Android using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript By: Jon Westfall; Rocco Augusto; Grant Allen Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 09-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning Android Web Apps Development: Develop for Android using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
With Beginning Android Web Apps Development, you'll learn how to apply HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ajax and other Web standards for use on the Android mobile platform, by building a variety of fun and visually stimulating games and other web applications! If you've done some basic web development, and you want to build your skills to create exceptional web apps, you'll find everything you seek in the discussions and examples in this book.
Each application you'll build in Beginning Android Web Application Development will show you solutions that you can apply to many of your own projects....
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7. |  Practical SharePoint 2010 Information Architecture By: Ruven Gotz Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 09-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Practical SharePoint 2010 Information Architecture
Practical SharePoint 2010 Information Architecture is a guide and tool set for planning and documenting the scope, navigational taxonomy, document taxonomy, metadata, page layouts and workflows for a successful SharePoint 2010 project. If you have been tasked with delivering an intranet for collaboration, document management or as a corporate portal, your only chance for success is to get all of these elements right, and then to make sure that you and your stakeholders are all on the same page.
SharePoint 2010 can be dangerous to your career: Expectations are often set very high, and not...
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8. |  Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for iOS By: Scott Preston Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 02-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 04-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for iOS
You have a great idea for a simple mobile web app. Or, you have a great idea for a complicated mobile web app. Either way, Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for iOS will help you build, fine-tune, and publish your app for iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Scott Preston will walk you through building a mobile web app from scratch using real-world examples. You'll learn about design considerations, mobile web frameworks, and HTML5 features like animation and graphics using Canvas. You'll also learn how to customize your app for a variety of platforms, and you'll explore testing and performance tips for...
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9. |  Beginning SQL Server 2012 for Developers By: Robin Dewson Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 23-APR-2012 Insert Date: 04-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning SQL Server 2012 for Developers
Beginning SQL Server 2012 for Developers is the perfect book for developers new to SQL Server and planning to create and deploy applications against Microsoft's market-leading database system for the Windows platform. Now in its third edition, the book is enhanced to cover the very latest developments in SQL Server 2012.
Also new in the book is coverage of the no-cost Express Edition. Whether you have no knowledge of databases, or have knowledge of desktop databases such as Microsoft Access, or even come from another brand such as Oracle Database, Beginning SQL Server 2012 for Developers...
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10. |  Beginning Silverlight 5 in C#, Fourth Edition By: Robert Lair Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 18-APR-2012 Insert Date: 04-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning Silverlight 5 in C#, Fourth Edition
The growing popularity of Web 2.0 applications is increasing user expectations for high-quality website design, presentation, and functionality. It is into this climate that Microsoft is releasing Silverlight 5, the latest iteration of its cross-browser web presentation technology.
Beginning Silverlight 5 in C# brings you to the cutting edge of Web 2.0 application design and includes plenty of practical guidance to get you started straight away. Silverlight design tools have important differences compared with those used to create Ajax and JavaScript functionality. Robert Lair takes you...
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11. |  Beginning Windows Phone App Development By: Henry Lee; Eugene Chuvyrov Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 29-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 17-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning Windows Phone App Development
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 handsets have injected a new vibrancy into the smartphone marketplace and provided bold new opportunities for the Microsoft development community.
Take advantage of these opportunities with Beginning Windows Phone App Development, written specifically to help you learn the skills you'll need to develop rich, functional apps for the Windows Phone 7 platform. Authors Henry Lee and Eugene Chuvyrov cover the very latest developments in the field—including the extended APIs offered in the new Mango platform update—so you'll have timely, accurate information at your...
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12. |  By: Clarence Ho; Rob Harrop Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 11-APR-2012 Insert Date: 07-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro Spring 3
The agile, lightweight, open-source Spring Framework continues to be the de facto leading enterprise Java application development framework for today's Java programmers and developers. It works with other leading open-source, agile and lightweight Java technologies like Hibernate, Groovy, MyBatis, and more. Spring now also works with Java EE and JPA 2 as well.
Pro Spring 3 updates the bestselling Pro Spring with the latest that the Spring Framework has to offer: version 3.1. At 1000 pages, this is by far the most comprehensive Spring book available, thoroughly exploring the power of...
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13. |  Beginning Facebook Game Apps Development By: Wayne Graham Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 24-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 04-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning Facebook Game Apps Development
Today's Facebook is emerging to become tomorrow's operating system, according to some. Certainly, a WebOS. Web standards-based apps using HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3 and more are now possible on Facebook. Why not get started with developing and selling Facebook game apps on Facebook's App Store?
Beginning Facebook Game Apps Development gets you started with building your first game apps that run on Facebook. Become your own "Zynga" and create your own "Civilization" or "Farmville" and more. Build rich Web-based apps that you can sell on Facebook's App Store.
Because these apps are built on...
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14. |  By: Scott Donaldson; Stanley Siegel; Gary Donaldson Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 17-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 04-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CTOs at Work
Scott Donaldson, Stanley Siegel and Gary Donaldson interview many of the world's most influential chief technology officers in CTOs at Work, offering a brand-new companion volume to the highly acclaimed bestseller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston and Peter Seibel's best-selling Coders at Work, both from Apress. As the words "at work" suggest, the authors focus on how their interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of the CTO while revealing much more: how they got there, how they manage and allocate projects, and how they interact with business units and ensure that their companies...
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15. |  By: Jeff Kramer; Nicolas Burrus; Florian Echtler; Daniel Herrera C.; Matt Parker Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 30-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 31-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Hacking the Kinect
Hacking the Kinect is the technogeek's guide to developing software and creating projects involving the groundbreaking volumetric sensor known as the Microsoft Kinect. Microsoft's release of the Kinect in the fall of 2010 startled the technology world by providing a low-cost sensor that can detect and track body movement in three-dimensional space. The Kinect set new records for the fastest-selling gadget of all time. It has been adopted worldwide by hobbyists, robotics enthusiasts, artists, and even some entrepreneurs hoping to build business around the technology.
Hacking the Kinect...
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16. |  Practical Load Balancing: Ride the Performance Tiger By: Peter Membrey; David Hows; Eelco Plugge Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 04-APR-2012 Insert Date: 31-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Practical Load Balancing: Ride the Performance Tiger
The emergence of the cloud and modern, fast corporate networks demands that you perform judicious balancing of computational loads. Practical Load Balancing presents an entire analytical framework to increase performance not just of one machine, but of your entire infrastructure.
Practical Load Balancing starts by introducing key concepts and the tools you'll need to tackle your load-balancing issues. You'll travel through the IP layers and learn how they can create increased network traffic for you. You'll see how to account for persistence and state, and how you can judge the...
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17. |  Beginning Android ADK with Arduino By: Mario Böhmer Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 26-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 31-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning Android ADK with Arduino
Whether you're new to Arduino and Android development, or you've tinkered a bit with either one, this is the book for you. Android has always been a natural fit with Arduino projects, but now that Google has released the Android Open Accessory Development Kit (the Android ADK), combining Android with Arduino to create custom gadgets has become even easier.
Beginning Android ADK with Arduino shows how the ADK works and how it can be used with a variety of Arduino boards to create a variety of fun projects that showcase the abilities of the ADK.
Mario Böhmer will walk you through several...
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18. |  By: Maarten Balliauw; Xavier Decoster Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 07-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 29-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro NuGet
Pro NuGet offers you a solid architectural understanding of how to manage software dependencies using NuGet, an open-source package management tool for the .NET Framework. Providing practical guidance through a multitude of examples and more advanced scenarios, this book shows you how to unleash all the power that NuGet offers. It will help you to streamline your day to day development and even make it more fun to write code.
Authors Maarten Balliauw and Xavier Decoster have been working with NuGet since it was first released, contributing many ideas and practical solutions to the...
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19. |  Taking Your iPhoto '11 to the Max By: Michael Grothaus Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 18-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 27-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Taking Your iPhoto '11 to the Max
Taking Your iPhoto '11 to the Max walks users through Apple's most popular software application in the iLife suite--iPhoto. This book helps people use iPhoto to its fullest to organize and create digital memories and keepsakes of their life.
Learn all about Apple's newest version of iPhoto--iPhoto '11
Explore iPhoto one menu button at a time
Walk-through tutorials guide you step-be-step
What you'll learn:
How to import existing photo libraries from popular Windows applications
How to organize and edit your photos
How to tag and sort your photos using iPhoto's...
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20. |  By: Jon Westfall Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 02-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 27-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Windows Phone 7 Made Simple
With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft has created a completely new smartphone operating system that focuses on allowing users to be productive with their smartphone in new ways, while offering seamless integration and use of Microsoft Office Mobile as well as other productivity apps available in the Microsoft App Store.
Windows Phone 7 Made Simple offers a clear, visual, step-by-step approach to using your Windows Phone 7 smartphone, no matter what the manufacturer. Author Jon Westfall is an expert in mobile devices, recognized by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with experience...
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