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Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain (Hacks)

Ron Hale-Evans

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Total reviews: 24 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

You're smart. This book can make you smarter.

"Mind Performance Hacks" provides real-life tips and tools for overclocking your brain and becoming a better thinker. In the increasingly frenetic pace of today's information economy, managing your life requires hacking your brain. With this book, you'll cut through the clutter and tune up your brain intentionally, safely, and productively.

Grounded in current research and theory, but offering practical solutions you can apply immediately, Mind Performance Hacks is filled with life hacks that teach you to:

Use mnemonic tricks to remember numbers, names, dates, and other flotsam you need to recall

Put down your calculator and perform complex math in your head, with your fingers, or on the back of a napkin

Spark your creativity with innovative brainstorming methods

Use effective systems to capture new ideas before they get away

Communicate in creative new ways-even using artificial languages

Make better decisions by foreseeing problems and finding surprising solutions

Improve your mental fitness with cool tricks and games

While the hugely successful "Mind Hacks" showed you how your brain works, "Mind Performance Hacks" shows you how to make it work better.

PCs for Dummies

Dan Gookin

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

good reference book 4 out of 5 stars.
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excellent book for reminding you how to do or to show you how to do

A satisfied customer 5 out of 5 stars.
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This publication gives me a good understanding of the basics of using my PC, in words that were very easy to understand.

Editorial Review:

PCs are leaving the stores and landing on desktops faster than ever. Unfortunately, while PC technology has improved, the reference material included with most new PCs has not. Now you can throw away that jargon-filled owner's manual and replace it with PCs For Dummies, 7th Edition. Acclaimed computing author Dan Gookin takes readers by the hand, assures them that the Delete key will not wipe out a computer's memory, and leads them on a journey through Their new toy (uh, I mean tool). PCs For Dummies, 7th Edition, covers all the options new users want to know about, from Internet searching to using suite software and Windows (3.x, 95, and 98). It also explains the topics new users need to know like file management and basic, non-destructive troubleshooting. Readers will also enjoy coverage on using PC extension devices like scanners, digital cameras, handheld and laptop computers, WebTV, and network PCs.

Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts: Troubleshooting PC Hardware Problems from Boot Failure to Poor Performance, Revised Edition

Morris Rosenthal

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Very helpful 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

If you have basic knowledge of computer parts, this book is excellent at helping you track down which part of the computer is most likely causing whatever problems you might be having.

Editorial Review:

A unique visual approach to troubleshooting PC hardware problems. Morris Rosenthal creates a visual expert system for diagnosing component failure and identifying conflicts. The seventeen diagnostic flowcharts at the core of this book are intended for the intermediate to advanced hobbyist, or the beginning technician. Following a structured approach to troubleshooting hardware reduces the false diagnoses and parts wastage typical of the "swap 'till you drop" school of thought. Flowcharts include: Power Supply Failure, Video Failure, Video Performance, Motherboard, CPU, RAM Failure, Motherboard, CPU, RAM Performance, IDE Drive Failure, Hard Drive Boot and Performance, CD or DVD Playback, CD or DVD Recording Problem, Modem Failure, Modem Performance, Sound Failure, Sound and Game Controller Performance, Network Failure, Peripheral Failure, SCSI Failure and Conflict Resolution.

Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)

Gregor Hohpe, Bobby Woolf

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*Would you like to use a consistent visual notation for drawing integration solutions? Look inside the front cover. *Do you want to harness the power of asynchronous systems without getting caught in the pitfalls? See "Thinking Asynchronously" in the Introduction. *Do you want to know which style of application integration is best for your purposes? See Chapter 2, Integration Styles. *Do you want to learn techniques for processing messages concurrently? See Chapter 10, Competing Consumers and Message Dispatcher. *Do you want to learn how you can track asynchronous messages as they flow across distributed systems? See Chapter 11, Message History and Message Store. *Do you want to understand how a system designed using integration patterns can be implemented using Java Web services, .NET message queuing, and a TIBCO-based publish-subscribe architecture? See Chapter 9, Interlude: Composed Messaging. Utilizing years of practical experience, seasoned experts Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf show how asynchronous messaging has proven to be the best strategy for enterprise integration success. However, building and deploying messaging solutions presents a number of problems for developers.Enterprise Integration Patterns provides an invaluable catalog of sixty-five patterns, with real-world solutions that demonstrate the formidable of messaging and help you to design effective messaging solutions for your enterprise. The authors also include examples covering a variety of different integration technologies, such as JMS, MSMQ, TIBCO ActiveEnterprise, Microsoft BizTalk, SOAP, and XSL. A case study describing a bond trading system illustrates the patterns in practice, and the book offers a look at emerging standards, as well as insights into what the future of enterprise integration might hold. This book provides a consistent vocabulary and visual notation framework to describe large-scale integration solutions across many technologies. It also explores in detail the advantages and limitations of asynchronous messaging architectures. The authors present practical advice on designing code that connects an application to a messaging system, and provide extensive information to help you determine when to send a message, how to route it to the proper destination, and how to monitor the health of a messaging system.If you want to know how to manage, monitor, and maintain a messaging system once it is in use, get this book. 0321200683B09122003

The Little Mac Book

Robin Williams, Kay Nelson

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Total reviews: 32 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Conquers the Leopard 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I've been a Mac person since 1992 - just bought a MacBookPro and wss chugging along fine...till a couple of applications disappear from the Dock. (If you don't know what a Dock is, you really need this book!)

How do I figure this out? I type half a dozen phrases into the help form...no luck. So I look up this book and there it was. I learn all sorts of other things too.

Well, sometimes the online manuals just don't go far enough or they're too cumbersome to use. Who wants to spend half an hour tracking down a single phrase? When that happens, this book nicely fills the gap.

Easy and fun to read with many clear diagrams and screen shots. A nice companion to your new Mac!

Book 5 out of 5 stars.
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There is so much information in this one little book. It's one of my favorites.

Best basic computer book 5 out of 5 stars.
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Excellent for learning the basics of computers and the MAC. I started with the PC but changed to the MAC and found the book to be an excellent introduction to basic use of the computer as well as MAC in particular. If I could have found a book like this one, I probably wouldn't have gotten the MAC. Written in very understandable language for the beginner.

Editorial Review:

A thoroughly revised edition of the classic Macintosh reference offers readers quick, easy access to the Macintosh environment. Original.

Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out Deluxe, Second Edition (Bpg-Inside Out)

Ed Bott, Carl Siechert, Craig Stinson

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Packed with Deluxe Edition resources and tools, this supremely organized, one-volume reference can help advanced users and system professionals achieve new levels of Windows XP mastery-from the inside out! This thoroughly updated second edition delivers more depth and detail on core and advanced Windows XP topics, along with all-new information on Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition, Microsoft Windows Server(tm) 2003, security auditing, corporate network interoperability, Microsoft Windows Media(r) Player 10, Windows Movie Maker 2, and more. The award-winning INSIDE OUT format makes it easy to find the timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds you need to get the job done. Plus new Reality Check sidebars offer the straight scoop on popular "wisdom" for Windows XP. You also get a Deluxe Edition CD packed with an eBook of the entire text, Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP, bonus content on Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition, Windows XP Expert Zone columns, and eBook versions of Microsoft's latest computer dictionary, networking encyclopedia, and security encyclopedia.

Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition

Tomas Akenine-Moller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman

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Total reviews: 36 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Everything I was looking for 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 5 people found this review helpful.

I acually read this book cover to cover theres alot of information in the book and its a great book to refer back to. Its really good as a companion with OpenGL. theres some directx stuff in it too but there seems to be more with OpenGL references.

how to live without it 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 8 people found this review helpful.

Real-time rendering is a perfect resource to bring always :) with you and read something about this world.

I find it really useful and elegant and complete

No source code. This makes this book absolutely meaningless. 1 out of 5 stars.
1 of 32 people found this review helpful.

The primarily reason to buy that book was reviews. There is no CD and no examples. So if you are a developer and want to see some code or examples, do not waste money on it. I think I am the only one who gave this book 1 star. This makes this book absolutely meaningless.

Editorial Review:

Thoroughly revised, this third edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent or programmable shaders, a wide variety of new algorithms have arisen and evolved over the past few years.

This edition discusses current, practical rendering methods used in games and other applications. It also presents a solid theoretical framework and relevant mathematics for the field of interactive computer graphics, all in an approachable style.

Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual

Bonnie Biafore

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Schedules, budgets, communications, resources. Projects big and small include them all, and Microsoft Project 2007 can help you control these variables -- not be controlled by them. But Project is complex software, and learning it is, well, a project in itself. Get up to speed fast with Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual. Written by project management expert Bonnie Biafore, this book teaches you how to do everything from setting budgets and tracking schedules to testing scenarios and recognizing trouble spots before your project breaks down. Find out what's new in Project 2007 from previous versions, and get help choosing the right edition, whether it's Project Standard, Project Professional, or Enterprise Project Management Solution. With Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual, you get more than a simple software how-to. You also get a rundown on project management basics and plenty of solid advice on how to use Project to: Define your project and plan your approach Estimate your project, set up a budget, define tasks, and break the work into manageable chunks Create a schedule, define the sequence of work, and learn the right way to use date constraints and deadlines Build a project team and assign resources to tasks: "who does what" Refine the project to satisfy objectives by building reality into the schedule, and learn to keep project costs under control Track progress and communicate with team members via reports, information sharing, and meetings that work Close out your project and take away valuable lessons for the future Microsoft Project 2007 is the flagship of all project management programs, and this Missing Manual is the book that should have been in the box.No project manager should be without it.

FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual

Susan Prosser, Geoff Coffey

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The FileMaker Pro 9 desktop database lets you do almost anything with the information you give it -- especially with this book as your guide. Clear, thorough, and accessible, FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual helps you get in, build your database, and get the results you need, whether you're running a business, pursuing a hobby, or planning your retirement. It's the ideal guide for non-technical and experienced folks alike.

Each chapter in this updated edition covers the latest timesaving features of FileMaker Pro, and includes downloadable tutorials to help you learn the all of topics covered. With this book, you will:

• Get your first database running in minutes and perform basic tasks right away
• Catalog people, processes, and things with streamlined data entry and sorting tools
• Use your data to generate reports, correspondence, and other documents with ease
• Create, connect, and manage multiple tables and set up complex relationships that display just the data you need
• Crunch numbers, search text, or pin down dates and times with dozens of built-in formulas
• Outfit your database for the Web, and import and export data to other formats

You'll also get objective advice on which features are really useful, and which aren't. To make the most of this database, you need FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual -- the book that should have been in the box.

HTML 4 for Dummies (with CD-ROM)

Ed Tittel, Natanya Pitts, Chelsea Valentine

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and I always thought dummies books were for complete beginners... 1 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Caveat emptor to the absolute beginner. This book is not written for the beginning web page creator. It is not written in a tutorial style. It is good as a reference source as you study a true tutorial type book. It discusses tags and their attributes one at a time without showing you how they fit into your web page code. The beginning chapters throw lots of advanced features at you and tell you they will be discussed in chapter 19 etc.
I was completely overwhelmed after 20 min of reading. So what's a beginner to do? I recommend Create Your First Web Page in a Weekend. By the time you get half way through that book then you can use this dummies book as a reference.
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Editorial Review:

This friendly guide delivers the most recent updates to HTML tags and scripting so you can start publishing Web-savvy documents -- fast! Whether you want to create simple or complex Web pages, these easy-to-follow explanations will help you plan your content and carry your concept through to get the results you want.