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81. |  Android UI Fundamentals: Develop and Design By: Jason Ostrander Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 24-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 01-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Android UI Fundamentals: Develop and Design Author Jason Ostrander walks developers through the different
choices available on their way to creating a well-designed
application for Android. While building a simple application, Jason
works through the basics of Android UI development including
layout, event handling, menus and notifications. The author then
shows the proper way to load and display images, create advanced
dialogs and progress indicators, add animation, and how to build
custom UI elements. Jason discusses the proper way of adding
interaction through gestures and the advanced graphical options
available using Canvas,...
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82. |  The iPhone Book: Covers iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS, Fifth Edition By: Scott Kelby; Terry White Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 16-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 28-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The iPhone Book: Covers iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS, Fifth Edition If you’re looking for a book that focuses on just
the most important, most useful, and most fun stuff about your
iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, or iPhone 3GS–you’ve found
it.
There are basically two types of iPhone books out
there: (1) The “tell-me-all-about-it” kind, which
includes in-depth discussions on everything from wireless network
protocols to advanced compression codes. (2) Then there’s
this book, which instead is a “show-me-how-to-do-it”
book that skips all the confusing techno-jargon and just tells you,
in plain, simple English, exactly how to use the iPhone features
you want to use...
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83. |  jQuery Mobile: Develop and Design By: Kris Hadlock Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 11-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 18-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: jQuery Mobile: Develop and Design Covering the latest version of the jQuery
Mobile Framework, jQuery Mobile: Develop and Design teaches
readers step-by-step how to get started, how to write code, and
ultimately how to create mobile websites using the jQuery Mobile
framework. The book is hands-on, with code examples (with
corresponding on-line demos) and activities throughout....
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84. |  By: Sean Adams; Peter Dawson; John Foster; Tony Seddon Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 01-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 17-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Ask any graphic designer the world over
about their preferred approach to setting type, choosing a color,
or beginning a new layout, and you will rarely get exactly the same
answer twice. All designers have their own way of working and their
own combinations of the thousands of techniques one can apply when
planning a new design project. But there are some dos and don'ts
that always figure in any heated debate about what one should or
should not accept as the right way to create the best graphic
design.
This book looks at key dos and don'ts, bringing them together in
the form of a...
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85. | 
By: Peachpit Press Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 10-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 11-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Meet iBooks Author This hands-on guide steers you through how to lay out your
Multi-Touch ebook. Starting with picking a template, you learn how
to add and use text, import from Pages and Word, and create a table
of contents. You discover how to work with objects, widgets,
photos, images, and shapes, and how to insert and format tables.
This practical, approachable guide will quickly help you start
creating Multi-Touch ebooks!
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Setting Up Your Book
Adding and Formatting Text
Inserting Media, Images, and Shapes
Inserting and Formatting Tables
Inserting and Formatting...
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86. |  iOS 5 Core Frameworks: Develop and Design: Working with graphics, location, iCloud, and more By: Shawn Welch Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 13-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 28-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: iOS 5 Core Frameworks: Develop and Design: Working with graphics, location, iCloud, and more Apple has made it easy to get started
developing for iOS out of the box. To access the true power of iOS,
however, you need to go beyond these simple tools and APIs.
Experienced app developer Shawn Welch teaches you how to tap into
the true potential of iOS by incorporating some of the most
powerful technologies it has to offer.
Using Core Data and iCloud, you'll learn how to store information
locally and sync seamlessly across multiple devices and platforms.
Leverage iOS 5's new Twitter APIs, which provide painless Twitter
and OAuth support using the new Accounts framework. Use...
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87. | 
Best Practices for Desktop Publishing By: Sandee Cohen Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 12-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 25-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Best Practices for Desktop Publishing Best Practices for Desktop Publishing: A
guide for working with InDesign, QuarkXPress, and other page-layout
programs
Why do some documents look better, more
readable, more professional than others? Because some people know
the small (and not so small) but important rules to follow when
laying out a document. This guide covers all of the rules about
dealing with text, images, colors, and files, so your documents
will always look slick, inviting, and well put together.
You'll learn how to treat your fonts right,
how to set up styles for paragraphs and characters, how to flow
text around...
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88. |  iCloud: Visual QuickStart Guide By: Tom Negrino Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 08-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 25-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: iCloud: Visual QuickStart Guide Learn how to use Apple's iCloud service to share your content
across all your Apple devices. This indispensable guide to Apple's
iCloud service walks readers how to share their iTunes songs,
photos, books, apps, files, email, contacts, and calendars across
their PC, Mac, and iOS devices. Readers will learn how to create
documents in iWork apps--Pages, Keynote, and Numbers--and edit them
on any device, with iCloud keeping the files up to date. Readers
will also learn how to back up important information via the
cloud....
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89. |  The iPad for Photographers: Master the Newest Tool in Your Camera Bag By: Jeff Carlson Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 20-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The iPad for Photographers: Master the Newest Tool in Your Camera Bag The iPad Has Earned a Place in Your Camera Bag!
Apple's popular iPad tablet is an incredibly useful tool for
photographers on the go. Instead of hauling a laptop on the road or
to a photo shoot, you can tuck the lightweight iPad in your camera
bag and take advantage of its large screen, third-party apps, and
online access to effectively complete and share your work.
Novice to pro shooters will discover everything that the iPad has
to offer with simple step-by-step instructions and real-world
advice for:
Importing and copying photos from memory cards using the iPad
Camera Connection...
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90. |  The Photoshop® Elements 10 Book for Digital Photographers By: Scott Kelby; Matt Kloskowski Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 21-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Photoshop® Elements 10 Book for Digital Photographers This book breaks new ground by doing something for digital
photographers that’s never been done before—it cuts
through the bull and shows you exactly “how to do it.”
It’s not a bunch of theory; it doesn’t challenge you to
come up with your own settings or figure things out on your own.
Instead, it does something that virtually no other Elements book
has ever done—it tells you flat-out which settings to use,
when to use them, and why. If you’re looking for one of those
“tell-me-everything-about-the-Unsharp-Mask-filter”
books, this isn’t it. You can grab any other Elements book on
the shelf,...
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91. |  Creating Android Applications: Develop and Design By: Chris Haseman Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 15-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 12-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Creating Android Applications: Develop and Design Capturing more than half of the global smartphone market,
Google’s Android mobile platform offers a vibrant and growing
marketplace for developers. In this book, Android programming
expert Chris Haseman shows you how to use the powerful set of
Android tools to begin writing the next generation of Android
applications. Chris provides a complete introduction to developing
for Google’s mobile OS, offering tons of insights and
hard-earned advice. After a tour of how to install and configure
the Android SDK and Eclipse IDE, you jump right in, building your
first Android project. Chris starts off...
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92. |  The Non-Designer’s InDesign Book: Essential design techniques for print projects By: Robin Williams Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 28-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 12-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Non-Designer’s InDesign Book: Essential design techniques for print projects Many designers and photographers own the
entire suite of Adobe’s creative products, but they manage to
learn only one or two of the applications really well. If Adobe
InDesign is the one app in the suite that makes you feel like
you’re entering a foreign country where you don’t speak
the language, Robin Williams provides the perfect travel
guide and translator in this new edition to the best-selling
Non-Designer’s series.
This fun, straight-forward, four-color book includes many
individual exercises designed specifically to teach InDesign to
beginners in such a way that you can jump in at...
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93. | 
Apple Pro Training Series: Keying and Compositing in Final Cut Pro X By: Mark Spencer Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 16-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Apple Pro Training Series: Keying and Compositing in Final Cut Pro X Go beyond the powerful editing capabilities of Final Cut
Pro X to create multilayered compositions. This eBook, which will
be published as a chapter in the upcoming book Apple Pro
Training Series: Final Cut Pro X Advanced Editing will help you
build a foundation for keying green screen footage, modifying and
animating effects, and compositing elements in your projects.
Specifically, you'll learn to retime video clips, time clips to
music, key a green screen shot, and combine layers of video and
graphics to create a composite image.
Although this eBook does not include media and project...
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94. |  By: Scott McNulty Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 06-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 04-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Kindle Fire Pocket Guide This affordable and engaging guide is
packed with practical information to you help you get the most from
your Kindle Fire. Amazon Kindle expert Scott McNulty offers plenty
of tips and pointers for using Amazon's trim tablet, including how
to download apps, read books, take advantage of the Amazon cloud,
and browse the web with Silk. With this essential companion, you'll
learn how to make your way through Amazon's rich content ecosystem.
Scott shows you how to
Purchase or rent movies and TV shows
Find and download popular apps and games
Buy and read books found in the...
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95. |  Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It: Learn Step by Step How to Go from Empty Studio to Finished Image By: Scott Kelby Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 01-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 04-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It: Learn Step by Step How to Go from Empty Studio to Finished Image FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, YOU’LL LEARN ALL THREE
ASPECTS OF WHAT IT TAKES TO CREATE STUNNING PORTRAITS
(HINT: IT’S NOT JUST THE LIGHTING)
Scott Kelby, the world’s #1 best-selling author of
photography books, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Photoshop
User magazine, and Publisher of the just-released Light
It magazine, has reinvented how lighting books are written by
finally revealing the entire process from start to finish. You see
everything from the complete lighting setup (and all the gear
used), to the shoot (including all the camera settings and a
contact sheet of the progression of the...
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96. |  iOS 5 in the Enterprise: A hands-on guide to managing iPhones and iPads By: John Welch Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 14-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 03-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: iOS 5 in the Enterprise: A hands-on guide to managing iPhones and iPads The iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad are not
just consumer devices. Apple's popular iOS devices are rapidly
spreading through the business market in increasing numbers. In
this thorough reference guide, IT professionals will learn from
seasoned IT veteran John Welch how to deploy and manage iOS devices
in the enterprise.
John uses a refreshing, straightforward approach to teach you how
to manage iOS devices. And he covers a wide range of methods, from
managing just a handful of devices to dealing with hundreds. You'll
find out when using iTunes for management is good enough and how to
get the...
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97. |  This is Strobist Info: Your Setup Guide to Flash Photography By: Dustin Diaz Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 15-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 02-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: This is Strobist Info: Your Setup Guide to Flash Photography In 2009, photographer Dustin Diaz began a “365
project,” the goal of which is to shoot and share one picture
per day for a year. Not only did Diaz actually complete the
project–an achievement in and of itself–he consistently
shared both the final image and the behind-the-scenes setup shot
for that image, allowing the viewer to see how the shot was
arranged. He also included information about exposure, flash power,
distance, and light modifiers. The project was a huge hit that
attracted thousands of followers. This Is Strobist® Info
recreates and expands upon this approach by featuring an...
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98. |  Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X Advanced Editing By: Michael Wohl; Alexis Van Hurkman; Mark Spencer Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 09-APR-2012 Insert Date: 30-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X Advanced Editing In this Apple-authorized guide, director
and filmmaker Michael Wohl teaches the advanced skills that editing
professionals need to know most. Using compelling professional
footage, Wohl delivers a comprehensive course on the
groundbreaking, entirely new Final Cut Pro X.
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DVD-ROM includes lesson and media files
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Focused lessons take you step-by-step through professional,
real-world projects
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Accessible writing style puts an expert instructor at your side
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Ample illustrations and keyboard shortcuts help you master
techniques fast
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Lesson goals and...
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99. |  HTML5 and CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide, Seventh Edition By: Elizabeth Castro; Bruce Hyslop Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 21-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 30-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: HTML5 and CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide, Seventh Edition Want to learn how to build Web sites fast? This best-selling
guide’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based
instructions will have you up and running with HTML5 and CSS3 in no
time. This Seventh Edition is a major revision, with approximately
125 pages added and substantial updates to (or complete rewrites
of) nearly every page from the preceding edition. Authors Elizabeth
Castro and Bruce Hyslop use clear instructions, friendly prose, and
real-world code samples to teach you HTML and CSS from the ground
up. Over the course of 21 chapters you will learn how to:
Write semantic HTML,...
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My iPhone and Me: For iPhone 4S and iOS 5 By: Simone Ochsenkuehn; Michael Krimmer Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 16-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 25-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: My iPhone and Me: For iPhone 4S and iOS 5 This extensive hands-on guide covers all of
the new features of the iPhone 4S, including Siri, iCloud, iOS 5,
the most useful apps, as well as the indispensable tools.
You'll learn how to use your iPhone to
connect to the Internet using a Wi-Fi or 3G network, shoot photos
using the built-in camera, make FaceTime calls, sync files and
content with iCloud, use the message and notification features, and
search using Spotlight. Hundreds of full-color images illustrate
every point along the way.
This practical, approachable guide by
experienced iPhone guides Anton Ochsenkuhn and Michael...
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