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Macromedia Director MX 2004 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Mark Schaeffer, Andre Persidsky

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FrontPage 2002 Bible

David Elderbrock, David Karlins

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

This "Bible" is missing a few verses! 4 out of 5 stars.
29 of 31 people found this review helpful.

The cover of the book states "100% -COMPREHENSIVE- AUTHORITATIVE- WHAT YOU NEED- ONE HUNDRED PERCENT". Now call me naïve, but to me that statement means this book has everything I could possibly want to know about FrontPage 2002! Unfortunately, that's not the case.

I first attempted to find information in the book about subwebs. I hear them referenced quite a bit and wanted to know what they are, how they're used and how to create one. The book makes some vague references to subwebs, but no detailed descriptions about them anywhere.

Next I wanted to find out how I can assign passwords to certain web pages to restrict the permissions for browsing pages. The only password information in the book pertains to administration of the web in FrontPage itself and nothing about assigning passwords to users.

Lastly I went to the book to learn about SharePoint Team Services. The book has much information about this topic, but under the heading "Administering a SharePoint Site" it reads "Complete coverage of these topics is beyond the scope of this book..." Doesn't 100% include complete coverage?

I suppose with a topic as vast as Web design, and especially with a program as big as FrontPage, it would be rather difficult to include every single bit of information one could possibly want or need. But I thought the information for which I was searching would certainly be covered in a ONE HUNDRED PERCENT, COMPREHENSIVE, WHAT YOU NEED- Bible!

Maybe I need to find a "Bible" with a cover that boasts "ONE HUNDRED TWENTY PERCENT"?!!

Editorial Review:

Learn the tips, tricks and lessons that Web design professionals know, without the years of experience or formal training. Find out how to use FrontPage with other applications such as Flash and Dreamweaver.Protect your site and your customers by getting the latest info on Internet Security. Put your business online and learn how to serve customers, record data and fulfill orders automatically with your FrontPage Web site. Maximize database connections to your Web site.

Made with the do-it-yourself-er in mind, FrontPage 2002 Bible is your 100% complete resource to quickly creating and managing dynamic websites.

Microsoft Windows Vista (Video Training): Mastering the Vista User Experience (LiveLessons)

J. Peter Bruzzese

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You have Microsoft Windows Vista…now get the most out of it, faster and more easily than ever before! J. Peter Bruzzese shows you how to maximize your Vista productivity and fun with 100 quick video lessons.

 

Learn Vista’s most powerful features and techniques visually: just watch! You’ll master Vista at your own pace--and get specific answers and solutions immediately, whenever you need them!

 

These practical videos cover Vista’s new Aero user interface, security, networking, Internet Explorer 7, Windows Media Player 11, Windows Media Center, mobile computing, administration, backup/recovery, troubleshooting, and plenty more!

 

For anyone who wants to master Microsoft Windows Vista fast–from novices to experienced “power users” and administrators!

 

Looking for a better way to master today’s rapidly changing technologies? Want expert help, but don’t have the time or energy to read a book? Can’t find classroom training worth the money? Discover LiveLessons: self-paced, personal video instruction from the world’s leading experts.

• LiveLessons is an eight-hour video course organized into bite-sized, self-contained sessions--you’ll learn key skills in as little as five minutes!
• Each session begins with well-defined learning objectives and ends with comprehensive summaries, which help you track your progress.
• Follow along as your instructor shows exactly how to get great results in your real-world environment.

Expert Windows author and trainer J. Peter Bruzzese presents easy, practical video introductions to Vista’s most powerful new capabilities: everything from Aero to Windows Media Center, security to advanced administration! Click play to follow along as Bruzzese walks you through Vista’s most important new features…all you need to do is watch!

Dan Appleman's Win32 API Puzzle Book and Tutorial for Visual Basic Programmers

Dan Appleman

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

The key to accessing the power of every operating system is its application programming interface (API). Visual Basic can access only part of the Windows API without special help. To write the most powerful possible programs, VB programmers need to work with all of the API. The big problem for VB programmers in trying to do so is that all of the available documentation on the Windows API is written for C++ programmers. In other words, the directions for using the API is written in a language that VB programmers don't understand.

Dan Appleman's Win32 API Puzzle Book and Tutorials for Visual BasicProgrammers shows VB programmers how to turbocharge Visual Basic by teaching them how to understand Microsoft's documentation to control the entire Windows API. Appleman's unique puzzle format includes 32 sample programs that almostbut don't quitework. Each puzzle has a solution with an in-depth explanation of the problem, why it occurs, and why the solution works. By avoiding the usual dry "lecture" style so common in technical books, this guide will keep you awakein fact, some of the puzzles may keep you awake nights searching for a solution. And when you've finished, you'll have an understanding of the technology that will qualify you as a true API guru.

With a writing style that combines technical competence, humor, and a bit of "attitude," Appleman proves once again in this long-awaited complement to his previous bestseller, Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API, that learning advanced technology can (and should) be fun.

Windows Vista®: Home Entertainment with Windows® Media Center and Xbox 360(TM) (EPG-Other)

S. E. Slack, Greg Slack

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Discover family entertainment choices like never before! This easy-to-use guide features projects for creating the ultimate home entertainment experience for your family. You'll focus on fun--not technology--as you discover how to use Windows Vista, Windows Media Center, and Xbox 360. Written by a family for your family, this book highlights the features and capabilities that are most important to you. It's organized by activity--setting up your system, creating digital family memories, and healthy gaming for the entire family. You're no longer limited to watching a video on your PC, or keeping your music on your MP3 device. Now, you can extend your entertainment possibilities through the entire house for everyone to enjoy!

Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible

Deke McClelland

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Total reviews: 18 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Looks good but it is trouble 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

All in all, this is a usable book if you take the time to discover essential details that are missing. As you get into more sophisticated topics you find that about 10% of the procedures described in the book do not work. Essential steps, thate could have been spelled out in a line of text, are missing and I have to experiment for close to an hour to discover what they are. The book is too verbose and could be condensed to half its size, with no loss of content. The humor is weak and adds nothing to the book; I never got a chuckle (and I like to laugh). There are no examples of creative use of Photoshop, even though this is why we want to learn the darn thing. I have used computers everyday since 1969, so I don't think that my troubles are caused by my ignorance. Unfortunately, I can't recommend a better book, since I stuck with this one and I managed to learn what I need. It is not a bad book to get you started,but you should look at other books before buying this one.

Editorial Review:

The totally revised update to the classic bestseller (over 40K of the current edition in print), providing everything a Windows user needs to know to learn and become expert with the latest release of Adobe Photoshop. Author and premier Photoshop guru Deke McClelland once again delivers the most comprehensive, informative, and entertaining coverage of Photoshop you'll find anywhere ñ complete with all the insider secrets and tips you need for state-of-the-art graphic design. Includes a CD-ROM packed with utilities, plug-ins, sample images, an artist gallery, video interviews, and more.

PC Magazine Windows XP Digital Media Solutions

Paul Thurrott

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Media Player--now better than ever

In Windows Media Player 10, the Full Mode window is far more resizable and customizable, playlist and queue management is more straightforward, and the sheer number of options has skyrocketed, even while the player itself was made simpler to use.
--From Chapter 2

Digital media is just plain fun.

Now Windows insider Paul Thurrott makes it easy, too

Paul Thurrott wanted to write a book you'd enjoy reading. If you have even a little interest in Windows XP's amazing digital media options, you'll enjoy this one. You'll discover how to play, organize, and record digital audio, make your own DVD movies, install imaging hardware, acquire photos from your digital camera or scanner, even mix in your iPod or Pocket PC. Best of all, you'll find questions answered here!

See how easily you can
* Use the new, better-than-ever My Music folder
* Copy CDs, turn your classic vinyl records into digital, and make custom music mixes
* Work with the Scanner and Camera Wizard
* Turn still photos into a stunning slide show
* Record, edit, and show movies in Windows Media Player
* Shoot terrific home video and get it into your computer
* Extend your digital lifestyle with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005


Companion Web site
Check out www.xpdigitalmedia.com for links to the latest digital media news, information about Windows XP updates, and answers to questions posed by readers like you!

Avid Xpress Pro for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide

James Monohan

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Editorial Review:

Now that Avid Xpress Pro (in combination with the Avid Mojo hardware accelerator) makes true real-time video, film, and audio editing possible from virtually any location in the world, Hollywood¿s video editing software of choice is being adopted far beyond Hollywood as well. To get up to speed on both it and Avid XPress DV quickly and efficiently, you¿ll want this easy, task-based volume. The entire video-editing process¿from getting a DV project rolling to advanced editing and distribution methods¿is covered here. Video guru James Monohan leaves no stone unturned as he shows you how to set up and customize your desktop; record and import files; integrate audio; create titles, dissolves, and transitions; correct color; add special effects; use plug-ins; render real-time effects; output to disc and the Web; and more. Along the way you¿ll learn about all of XPress DV¿s and XPress Pro¿s most exciting newer features: automatic expert color correction, advanced filtering and effects, powerful film support, high-quality output, and more.

Graphics Gems III (Graphics Gems)

David Kirk

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A book for graphics programmers, students, researchers, and professionals. This sequel to "Graphic Gems" (Academic Press, 1990) and "Graphic Gems II" (Academic Press, 1991) is a practical collection of computer graphics programming tools and techniques. "Graphics Gems III" contains a larger percentage of gems related to modelling and rendering, particularly lighting and shading. This new edition also covers image processing, numerical and programming techniques, modeling and transformations, 2D and 3D geometry and algorithms, ray tracing and radiosity, rendering, and more clever new tools and tricks for graphics programming. Author David Kirk lends his expertise to the "Graphics Gems Series" in this new volume with his knowledge of modelling and rendering, specifically focusing on the areas of lighting and shading. "Graphics Gems I, II, III" are sourcebooks of ideas for graphics programmers. They also serve as toolboxes full of useful tricks and techniques for novice programmers and graphics experts alike. Features include a disk containing source codes for both the IBM and Mac versions. It features all new graphics gems, explains techniques for making computer graphics implementations more efficient, emphasizes physically based modelling, rendering, radiosity, and ray tracing, and presents techniques for making computer graphics implementations more efficient.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 QuickSteps (Quicksteps)

Carole Matthews

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Great for my users 5 out of 5 stars.
11 of 12 people found this review helpful.

I manage a medium-sized network and support a large number of fairly savvy users. That is, most users know how to do their specific tasks very well and are willing to learn new things. But they are not willing to sit down with a book full of dense text. This is where the "Quick Steps" books come in handy. I keep a number of these books on hand and when a user requests assistance, I give them one of the books with the appropriate page bookmarked. Steps are outlined in full color with lots of pictures and pointers and tips. Additional information is set off in side boxes so users can learn more if they choose. What I have found is that once a user completes a task successfully, they get fairly excited about the experience and browse the book to learn more. The books really stimulate users to experiment with things they would not normally bother to learn. And that is where this book excels. It is a "browser." Users don't feel like they need to start at the beginning and read through to the end. I get lots of grumbles when I ask for the book back so I can pass it on to others.

This book is also great for new users. I tell them to spend a few hours working through the steps, which are easy to follow and can be done at a fairly fast pace. Most users think the full color layout is fun to work through. The down-side is that like any book, space is limited, especially with the fully-illustrated format, so you're obviously not going to find everything in these books, but I do feel they contain a good balance of material and are appropriate for corporate libraries.

Marty and I are fellow writers and that is how I learned about these books. I must say that it has helped my users enormously and relieved my support task. Hey, it's the 21st century. Anyone working in an office should know how to work with operating systems and common applications. Most people can do that if they have easily accessible references and refresher material like these books. Thanks to Marty for developing the "Quick Steps" concept and to McGraw-Hill for publishing this series.

Editorial Review:

Brace youself, because here comes QuickSteps: The fast, easy, accessible information on PowerPoint 2003 in a full-color cookbook-style format. Provides answers to all of your How-do-I questions in a concise and meaningful way. Lengthwise page layout allows for easy page viewing. Useful tips and cautions are displayed in the margins so that they don't break the flow of the quick steps themselves.