Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginners Guide E-book

In this book, authors Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser share the knowledge they've gained from their years as multimedia developers/designers and teachers. Learning ActionScript 3.0 gives you a solid foundation in the language of Flash and demonstrates how you can use it for practical, everyday projects. The authors do more than just give you a collection of sample scripts. Written for those of you new to ActionScript 3.0, the book describes how ActionScript and Flash work, giving you a clear look into essential topics such as logic, event handling, displaying content, migrating legacy projects to ActionScript 3.0, classes, and much more. You will learn important techniques through hands-on exercises, and then build on those skills as chapters progress. ActionScript 3.0 represents a significant change for many Flash users, and a steeper learning curve for the uninitiated. This book will help guide you through a variety of scripting scenarios. Rather than relying heavily on prior knowledge of object-oriented programming (OOP), topics are explained in focused examples that originate in the timeline, with optional companion classes for those already comfortable with their use. As chapters progress, the book introduces more and more OOP techniques, allowing you to choose which scripting approach you prefer. Learning ActionScript 3.0 reveals: New ways to harness the power and performance of AS3 Common mistakes that people make with the language Essential coverage of text, sound, video, XML, drawing with code, and more Migration issues from AS1 and AS2 to AS3 Simultaneous development of procedural and object-oriented techniques Tips that go beyond simple script collections, including how toapproach a project and which resources can help you along the way The companion web site contains material for all the exercises in the book, as well as short quizzes to make sure you're up to speed with key concepts. ActionScript 3.0 is a different animal from previous versions, and Learning ActionScript 3.0 teaches everything that web designers, GUI-based Flash developers, and those new to ActionScript need to start using the language.

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Flash Video for Professionals

Now there's a single definitive source for everything Flash developers need to know to integrate cutting-edge video into a website seamlessly. Whether your Flash skills focus on design or programming, this guide helps you with every phase from writing the project proposal to deploying finished applications. A step-by-step workflow directs you through setting up a work environment, designing applications, using ActionScript 2 and 3, FlashÂŽ Media Server 2, and every stage in between. Packed with tried-and-true solutions and detailed code examples, it's exactly what you need to deliver interactive video to your clients.

* Understand your clients' needs and ask the right questions to determine the scope of their projects

* Obtain source video and optimize it for Web-based playback

* Develop a site or Web application that incorporates video

* Create and skin a player with Flash in both ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3

* Explore hosting requirements, server options, and streaming vs. progressive download delivery

* Publish your site and enable the client to update it with automated tools

* Learn how to create full-featured video players with custom-designed skins

* Develop professional interactive video applications that utilize the power of ActionScript 2 and 3

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Flash ActionScript for Designers E-book

This book will teach Flash designers how to create ActionScripts that they'll refer to again and again in their design work. Projects such as Creating a Pop-Up Menu, Creating a Sound Controller, or Creating an Animated Flash Banner can be used as the starting point for readers' own customized projects. All of this is presented with lots of visual examples and a minimum of jargon and "programmer-speak."

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501 Web Site Secrets E-book

501 Web Site Secrets: Unleash the Power of Google, Amazon etc. * Shows Internet users how to get the most out of Internet searches, portals, and commerce sites * Covers using Google to solve mathematical equations, making search engines safe for kids, harnessing the full power of Yahoo!, and getting the best bargains on shopping sites * Explains how to search for street addresses and phone numbers, stock quotes and other financial information, MP3s and other digital music, computer programs and utilities, medical information, legal information, genealogical information, job listings, and more * Reveals the secrets behind directory sites, indexing, and search result rankings CONTENTS Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Secrets of the Internet Portals.

Chapter 1: Yahoo! Secrets.

Chapter 2: MSN Secrets.

Chapter 3: AOL.com Secrets.

Chapter 4: Excite Secrets.

Chapter 5: Lycos Secrets. Part II: Secrets of the Internet Search Engines.

Chapter 6: Google Secrets.

Chapter 7: AllTheWeb Secrets.

Chapter 8: Ask Jeeves Secrets.

Chapter 9: AltaVista Secrets.

Chapter 10: HotBot Secrets. Part III: Secrets of the Online News and Information Sites.

Chapter 11: CNN.com Secrets.

Chapter 12: ESPN.com Secrets.

Chapter 13: CBS MarketWatch Secrets.

Chapter 14: Weather.com Secrets.

Chapter 15: Microsoft.com Secrets. Part IV: Secrets of Online Shopping and Services.

Chapter 16: eBay Secrets.

Chapter 17: Amazon.com Secrets.

Chapter 18: Napster 2.0 Secrets.

Chapter 19: Expedia Secrets.

Chapter 20: MapQuest Secrets.

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Search Engine Optimization An Hour a Day E-book

Search Engine Optimization An Hour a Day is an excellent primer for the beginner do it yourself search engine marketer. It covers the baisc essential of earch engine optimization and offers a comprehensive SEO plan with metrics for tracking your success that can be achieved conveniently in "an hour a day". Influence search engine results and bring targeted traffic to your Web site with an hour a day of search engine optimization (SEO). Drawing on years of experience as successful SEO consultants, Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin provide detailed, practical, and often surprisingly simple techniques for improving results. Their simple strategies include setting SEO goals, site optimization, developing and implementing a strategy that might include both free and paid efforts, and tools for monitoring trends, measuring the competition, and tracking results.

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Mastering Maya 8.5 E-book

eBOOK Details Publisher Sybex Release Date April 9, 2007 ISBN 0470128453 eBOOK Description Take your Maya skills to new levels with the sophisticated coverage you'll find in this authoritative Autodesk Maya Press reference and tutorial. From key basics through advanced techniques, our Maya experts provide the very latest professional-level instruction on Maya Complete and Maya Unlimited. Early chapters offer a practical overview of Maya's interface. A "Quick Start" exercise lets novices create an animation the first day and covers the basics of node structure, keyframes, and basic lighting. Advanced users will broaden their skills with pertinent coverage for nCloth, mental ray integration, volume Fur rendering, advanced texturing tools, and enhanced MEL scripting. Practical tutorials reinforce learning with hands-on practice. If you've been looking for a professional-quality and complete Maya resource to turn to again and again, this is the book

* Render and store stills through the Render View window

* Learn techniques with nCloth's powerful cloth simulation

* Tweak and add drag-and-drop Fluid Effects for real-world effects

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The Adobe Photoshop Layers Book Jul 2007 E-book

Create, correct, and control with layers, the most powerful tool in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements Imagine yourself in total control of every adjustment to your photos. You've seen the illustrations in glossy magazines, the fine art reproductions in museum catalogs, the award-winning pictures of professional photographers. To produce this kind of magic, understanding how to use layers for your entire breadth of image correction is key. Discover the best ways to showcase your talent with the full power of layers from best-selling author/digital image specialist Richard Lynch. Learn what layers can do for you as an integral part of organizing image development, creating and storing image versions with nondestructive editing, and promoting a positive workflow. Timeless, not version specific, this book will help you take layers to a new level to increase your efficiency and produce better end results, whatever release of the software you use. Step-by-step instructions and practical examples illustrate how to? Don?t make your work harder than it needs to be when you can use layers to control any adjustment using multiple forms of blending concurrently - transparency, clipping, opacity/fill, masking, modes, channel targeting, Blend If, and styles. Author Richard Lynch is a photographer, designer, editor, web developer, and author of the popular ?Hidden Powers? series on Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. He also writes for PCPhoto, Popular Photography, Digital Photographer, and Digital Photography Techniques. The World of Image Layers

- The Basics of Layers: Layer Functions and Creation;

- Layer Management: Concepts of a Layer-Based Workflow

- Object and Image Area Isolation; Masking: Enhanced Area Isolation; Applying Layer Effects

- Exploring Layer Modes; Advanced Blending with Blend if

- Breaking Out Components; Taking an Image Through the Process

- Making Layered Collage and Composite Images;

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Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills E-book

Review " A must for any photographer, whether an absolute beginner or one in advanced mode memorise every other word and you will be the king of your camera club." - Amateur Photographer, praise for CS2 edition Review " A must for any photographer, whether an absolute beginner or one in advanced mode memorise every other word and you will be the king of your camera club." - Amateur Photographer, praise for CS2 edition.
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50 Fast Photoshop 7 Techniques E-book

50 Fast Photoshop "X" Techniques for is an immensely useful book for anyone wanting to take advantage of the very latest release of the world's top digital imaging tool, Adobe Photoshop. The techniques are valuable to both pros and hobbyists alike - they enable everyone to enjoy successful creation of fine art images and prints! The step-by-step and richly illustrated collection of awesome techniques are easily accessible and understandable to users on every level. This is a new kind of Photoshop book-one that can help both casual users through professional users save time while creating professional quality images and effects!

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 A-Z

The book provides a visual representation of various features within Photoshop accompanied by succinct, punchy text, which enables you to learn fast and efficiently. Whilst many Photoshop books are tomes difficult to read and understand, this book, with its easy and intuitive layout makes learning a breeze... Overall, this book is an invaluable reference tool that should adorn every desktop when working in Photoshop. Highly recommended.

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Mastering Photoshop CS3 for Print Design and Production E-book

Unlock Your Creativity with Photoshop and Design More Powerful Images Photoshop has always been an essential tool for design professionals. Now the newest release adds even more power with new productivity and workflow enhancements, editing tools, and compositing capabilities. This comprehensive guide shows you how to work with all of the new features of Photoshop CS3 and effectively integrate them into your everyday print design and production workflow. Photoshop expert Ted LoCascio clearly demonstrates how to maximize the software for optimum printing quality. He walks you step-by-step through everything from simple tasks such as basic color correction and masking to more advanced steps including managing color and building layer comps. With pages of full-color examples that show you how to apply your new Photoshop skills to real-world situations, this in-depth reference will improve your overall workflow and help you enhance and prepare images more effectively than ever before. Coverage includes: Selecting the right brushes and manipulating specific areas of an image Adding color to bring your graphics to life Retouching like a pro and preparing for print Combining image layers to create dynamic print graphics Enhancing the details of your image using sharpening tools Choosing the right layer styles and filter effects Editing Raw files, TIFFs, and JPEGs with Camera Raw Discover How to Take Your Photoshop CS3 Skills to the Next Level Modify Images with Fully Customizable Brushes and Drawing Tools Take Advantage of the New Nondestructive Smart Filters Gain Control over Print Quality to Produce the Richest Images Put Your Skills into Practice Using Sample Images from the Enclosed CD

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BitDefender Total Security 2009 (x86)+Patch-HeartBug

BitDefender Total Security 2009 provides comprehensive proactive protection against all Internet security threats, along with system maintenance and backup, without slowing down your PCs.Confidently download, share and open files from friends, family, co-workers – and even total strangers!

- Improved: Scans all web, e-mail and instant messaging traffic for viruses and spyware, in real-time

- Proactively protects against new virus outbreaks using advanced heuristics

Protect your identity: shop, bank, listen, watch privately and securely

- Blocks attempted identity theft (phishing)

- Improved: Prevents personal information from leaking via e-mail, web or instant messaging

Guard your conversations with top-of-the line encryption

-Instant Messaging Encryption

-File Vault securely stores personal information or sensitive files Backs up files and folders locally

-Provides secure on-line storage

Connect securely to any network at home, in the office or away

-Automatically modifies firewall protection settings to suit location

-Wi-Fi monitor helps prevent unauthorized access to your Wi-Fi network Protect your family and their computers!

-Blocks access to inappropriate websites and e-mail

-Schedules and limits kids’ access to Internet and to applications Play safe, play seamlessly!

System Requirements
-Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (32/64 bit) or higher 800 MHz or higher processor 256 MB of RAM Memory (1GB recommended) 210 MB available hard disk space (250 recommended)
-Windows Vista (32/64 bit) or Windows Vista SP1 800 MHz or higher processor 512 MB of RAM Memory (1 GB recommended) 210 MB available hard disk space (250 recommended)
-Windows Home Server 800 MHz or higher processor 512 MB of RAM Memory (1 GB recommended) 210 MB available hard disk space (250 recommended

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Applied Software Risk Management

Few software projects are completed on time, on budget, and to their original specification. Research supports that projects usually fail due to management, rather than technical, mistakes. Focusing on what practitioners need to know about risk in the pursuit of delivering software projects, Applied Software Risk Management: A Guide for Software Project Managers covers key components of the risk management process, current processes, and best practices for software risk identification, risk planning, and techniques of risk analysis. This book brings together concepts across software engineering with a project management perspective, presenting examples of the scientific method in risk perception, analysis, and resolution.

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Photoshop CS3 For Dummies Ebook

Loaded with the latest Photoshop tips and techniques The secrets of digital image editing - explained in plain English! Photoshop CS3 is a powerhouse, and here’s the fast and easy way to get up to speed on all the coolest features. This friendly guide helps you get images into Photoshop - and then turn them into dazzling works of art. You’ll see how to work in the right file formats, master the Brushes palette, get creative with filters, convert color to grayscale, and more! Adjust brightness, improve color, and fix flaws Take advantage of the Raw file format Composite images with layers and blending modes Automate your tasks with scripts and Actions Apply the new Smart Filters to Smart Objects
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Photoshop CS3 Restoration and Retouching Bible Ebook

The Photoshop CS3 Restoration and Retouching Bible is a full-color comprehensive reference to retouching and restoring photographs using Adobe Photoshop CS3. Written by an Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop CS & CS2, Mark Fitzgerald, the Photoshop CS3 Restoration and Retouching Bible provides training, tips, and techniques for amateur to professional photographers who want to complete expert quality photo restorations and retouchings. The book begins by reviewing the fundamentals of working with digital images - covering adjusting image brightness and contrast, working with color, understanding RAW and high-bit files, working with layers, and getting organized. Fitzgerald guides readers through all of the relevant Photoshop tools and techniques including a full chapter on creating flexibility with layer masks. A robust four-chapter section on rescuing damaged photos enables readers to bring their damaged images back to life. The final section of the book focuses on adding the final touches to images - retouching, with hands-on examples of retouching portraits and architectural projects.

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Adobe Photoshop CS3: Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks E-book

Book Description PhotoshopÂŽ: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks provides adventurous Photoshop users with a visual reference on how to use the bells and whistles found in the latest version of Photoshop. Broken out in 10 chapters, with 10 tasks per chapter, PhotoshopÂŽ: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks covers 100 cool and useful tips and tricks that can be performed in the newest release of Photoshop. Full-color screen shots and numbered, step-by-step instructions show you how to take their Photoshop skills to new heights. Order the latest edition today and make your pictures pop. Password default: netbks.com

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Introducing AutoCAD 2008 E-book

Quickly Master AutoCAD 2008 Essentials This practical guide helps users of all skill levels learn the basics of AutoCAD 2008 and AutoCAD LT 2008 easily and efficiently. In this fresh new take on the popular Just Enough AutoCAD, bestselling AutoCAD author and expert George Omura offers clear explanations, a task-based approach, and pages of real-world examples and exercises to make this thorough book more valuable and useful than ever. Whether you're new to AutoCAD or just looking for a quick refresher, you'll find the fast, focused introduction to AutoCAD you need to get quickly up to speed.

* Discover what's new in AutoCADÂŽ 2008 and AutoCAD LTÂŽ 2008

* Master the basics of drawing and editing

* Add and edit notes and dimensions

* Learn the fundamentals of 2D drawings and 3D models

* Understand layers, blocks, groups, and external references

* Find areas and distances quickly

* Extract hidden data

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Introducing 3ds Max 9: 3D for Beginners E-book

Let Your Imagination Run Wild Video game and feature-film artists have used 3ds Max to create Halo 2, King Kong, Myst V, and more. Now you can harness this popular animation software with the clear, step-by-step instruction in this easy-to-follow guide. Introducing 3ds Max 9: 3D for Beginners breaks down the complexities of 3D modeling, texturing, animating, and visual effects. You'll jump right into the pipeline from preproduction to production to postproduction with clear-cut explanations, tutorials, and hands-on projects to build your skills. A special color insert includes real-world examples from talented 3ds Max beginners. From immediately creating your first animation to tackling poly modeling, rendering, and particles, you'll get a solid grounding in 3ds Max 9.

* Build the knowledge you need for game, film, and TV production

* Master modelingกชfrom simple and complex polygon mechanical models to organic character modeling

* Assign textures effects and UV texture mapping

* Create walk cycles and simple character animations with Character Studio

* Explore lighting, rendering, and raytracing concepts

* Render through mental ray and raytracing

* Discover simple rigid body dynamics and Max's particle systems

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Smart Structures: Innovative Systems for Seismic Response Control E-book

An innovative concept, smart structural systems have proven to be extremely effective in absorbing damaging energy and/or counteracting potentially devastating force, thus limiting structural collapse and subsequent injury. As this technology rapidly evolves, there is an ever-increasing need for an authoritative reference that will allow those in the field to stay abreast of the very latest advances. Smart Structures: Innovative Systems for Seismic Response organizes current research and technology to provide researchers and practicing engineers, as well as advanced students, with the means to learn about and apply the very latest smart structure innovations. Key features include Complete mathematical formulations and numerical procedures for topics presented New technologies Design guidelines and examples based on current official codes Consideration of smart structures on a variety of foundations Discussion of the use of smart structures with passive or semi-active devices Extensive references Designed for self-teaching, the text emphasizes essential information on structural formulations, mechanism of control systems, and numerical algorithms. It also provides step-by-step numerical examples to illustrate mathematical formulations and interpret physical representations, enabling readers to understand the forumulae vis-ĂƒÂ -vis their applications. Each chapter comprehensively explores a specific topic, from smart structure systems currently in use, to case studies utilizing simulated earthquake data.

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How to Cheat in Photoshop CS3: The art of creating photorealistic montages Ebook

With his in-depth knowledge of the little-known secrets used by the pros to produce awardwinning illustrations, Steve is THE go-to guru for professional designers, graphic artists, illustrators, retouchers and students of design media and illustration who want to create photorealistic effects using Photoshop. Updated for Photoshop CS3, this must-have resource unlocks your creativity and helps you save time in the software so you can spend more time creatively. The book is also relevant to any version of Photoshop.

* Create convincing smoke effects and make effective explosions the simple way

* Take years off someone's appearance

* Turn a photograph of someone looking straight into the camera into a different perspective with the entire head (not just the eyes)

* Modify a statue so it looks like a living person or paint hair directly on any surface

* Produce the perfect cutout in the shortest time with Photoshop CS3's new Quick Selection tool and more
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Zenoss Core Network and System Monitoring E-book

Zenoss Core Network and System Monitoring (Paperback) AUTHOR : by Michael Badger (Author) PUBLISHER : Packt Publishing publisher ISBN : 1847194281 EDITION : 1st PUB DATE : June 20, 2008 LANGUAGE : English RLS DATE : 06/15/2008 Step-by-step guide to configuring, using, and adapting this free Open Source network monitoring system - with a Foreword by Mark R. Hinkle, VP of Community Zenoss Inc.

* Discover, manage, and monitor IT resources

* Build custom event processing and alerting rules

* Configure Zenoss Core via an easy to use web interface

* Drag and drop dashboard portlets with Google Maps integration

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Learning JQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple Javascript Techniques Ebook

jQuery is a powerful JavaScript library that can enhance your websites regardless of your background. In this book, creators of the popular jQuery learning resource, learningquery.com, share their knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm about jQuery to help you get the most from the library and to make your web applications shine. For designers, jQuery leverages existing CSS and HTML skills, allowing you to dynamically find and change any aspect of a page. This book provides a gentle introduction to jQuery concepts, allowing you to add interactions and animations to your pages-even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled. For programmers, jQuery offers an open -source, standards-compliant, unobtrusive approach to writing complex JavaScript applications. This book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features, as well as provide you with a reference to the jQuery library to return to again and again. This book begins with a tutorial to jQuery, followed by an examination of common, real-world client-side problems, and solutions for each of them. A detailed reference rounds off the book, making it an invaluable resource for answers to all your jQuery questions. Who this book is written for This book is for web designers who want to create interactive elements for their designs, and for developers who want to create the best user interface for their web applications. The reader will need the basics of HTML and CSS, and should be comfortable with the syntax of JavaScript. No knowledge

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3 Steps to Search Engine Success Ebook

Here's what you'll get: A fresh keyword report from Wordtracker. This report is regularly generated by me to ensure that the data is fresh. It contains over a thousand keyword phrases related to home business, internet marketing, work from home etc. For each keyword phrase there is information about the number of searches per day in Google and the number of competing web pages that already contain this phrase (as ranked by Google). In addition to using this report to choose keywords for your website, you can also use it on an ongoing basis to help you choose keywords for your pay per click campaigns and for writing articles. I will supply this report in two formats - As an MS Excel Spreadsheet and a PDF File. A step by step guide to getting your site ranked. You'll receive an Ebook called "Three Steps To Search Engine Success" explaining exactly what you need to do to get ranked for these keywords. This is a special edition of my Ebook specifically for Plug-In Profit site owners.
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BSD UNIX Toolbox: 1000+ Commands for FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD Ebook

This handy, compact guide teaches you to use BSD UNIX systems as the experts do: from the command line. Try out more than 1,000 commands to find and get software, monitor system health and security, and access network resources. Apply the skills you learn from this book to use and administer servers and desktops running FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or any other BSD flavor. Expand your BSD UNIX expertise in these and other areas: Using the shell Finding online software Working with files Playing with music and images Administering file systems Backing up data Checking and managing running processes Accessing network resources Handling remote system administration Locking down security

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Professional ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Ebook

Are you ready to build more responsive web applications with richer UI elements? This detailed guide to the Microsoft AJAX Library shows you how to bring together ASP.NET 2.0 with an object-oriented approach to JavaScript development using this new framework from Microsoft. You'll gain an in-depth understanding of the ASP.NET AJAX architecture, including the server controls, client-side JavaScript library, and runtime environment. By following the numerous examples, you'll see how much your users benefit from this new class of web applications that manipulate the browser's DOM and communicate with the server to update the user's view of a page without waiting for the entire page to be refreshed. Written by Microsoft's lead ASP.NET AJAX developer together with an in-the-field Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), this book guides you through the core of the Microsoft AJAX Library and the controls you will use to leverage AJAX. It provides you with code samples to take advantage of some of the popular shared-source ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit controls and extensions. And you'll work through debugging functionality in Visual StudioÂŽ and the browser as well as methods for effective testing.
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Ethernet Networking for the Small Office and Professional Home Office Ebook

In a local area network (LAN) or intranet, there are many pieces of hardare trying to gain access to the network transmission media at the same time (i.e., phone lines, coax, wireless, etc.). However, a network cable or wireless transmission frequency can physically only allow one node to use it at a given time. Therefore, there must be some way to regulate which node has control of the medium (a media access control, or MAC, protocol). Ethernet is a MAC protocol; it is one way to regulate physical access to network tranmission media. Ethernet networking is used primarily by networks that are contained within a single physical location. If you need to design, install, and manage a network in such an envronment, i.e., home or small business office, then this book will give you an in-depth understanding of the technology involved in an Ethernet network. One of the major goals of this book is to demystify the jargon of networks so that the reader gains a working familiarity with common networking terminology and acronyms. In addition, this books explains not only how to choose and configure network hardware but also provides practical information about the types of network devices and software needed to make it all work. Tips and direction on how to manage an Ethernet network are also provided. This book therefore goes beyond the hardware aspects of Ethernet to look at the entire network from bottom to top, along with enough technical detail to enable the reader to make intelligent choices about what types of transmission media are used and the way in which the various parts of the network are interconnected.

*Explains how the Ethernet works, with emphasis on current technologies and emerging trends in gigabit and fast Ethernet, WiFi, routers, and security issues

*Teaches how to design and select complementary components of Ethernet networks with a focus on home and small business applications

*Discuses the various types of cables, software, and hardware involved in constructing, connecting, operating and monitoring Ethernet networks

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Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks: Compression Networking and Systems E-book

This all-inclusive, expertly structured contributed volume will serve as an indispensable guide for professionals or researchers working in areas like networking, communications, data compression, multimedia processing, streaming architectures, and computer graphics. Beginning with a concise overview of the fundamental principles and challenges of multimedia communication and networking, this book then branches off organically to tackle compression and networking next before moving on to systems, wireless multimedia and more advanced topics. The Compression section advises on the best means and methodology to ensure multimedia signal (images, text, audio and data) integrity for transmissions on wireless and wired systems. The Networking section addresses channel protection and performance. In the Systems section the focus is on streaming media on demand, live broadcast and video and voice's role in real-time communication. Wireless multimedia transmission and Quality of Service issues are discussed in the Wireless Multimedia section. An Advanced Topics section concludes the book with an assortment of topics including Peer-to-Peer multimedia communication and multipath networks.

* Up-to-date coverage of existing standards for multimedia networking

* Synergistic tutorial approach reinforces knowledge gained in previous chapters

* Balanced treatment of audio and video with coverage of end-to-end systems

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Google Analytics E-book

This e-book you know you need to analyze the success of your Web site, but how? Do you even know what to look for? Is there a tool powerful enough to help you evaluate your marketing efforts, products, and services, but simple enough to use if you're not a propeller-head? Google Analytics is that tool, and this is the handbook you need to make it work for you. Learn to set up Google Analytics, understand the reports it generates, and use the information to make your Web site a real asset to your business.

* Get familiar with the concept of analytics, what Google Analytics offers, and how it compares to popular site statistics programs.

* Learn to set up the program, navigate the interface, understand filters, and use goal-setting features.

* Integrate Google Analytics with Google AdWords.

* Make the most of reporting dashboards.

* Find out how to use analytics for marketing and content optimization.

* Understand what each type of report means and how to interpret it.

* Explore how other companies have used analytics to improve site performance.

* Investigate how to use Google Analytics for complete e-commerce analysis
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