In the new edition of this practical guide, master photographer Ellen Anon and digital-imaging expert Tim Grey show you how to capture the beauty of nature by shooting the best possible photos from the start—and then getting the most out of your images at your desktop. You’ll fing eye-opening techniques, workflow ideas, and terrific Photoshop tools, plis a host of valuable tips and stunning examples from some of the most esteemed professional nature photographers working today, including Michael Reichmann, John Shaw, Darrel Gulin, and Joe McDonald.
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Devoted entirely to PivotTables and PivotCharts, this book shows you how to take full advantage of these powerful tools, which enable you to pull meaningful information from masses of seemingly meaningless data. Loaded with illustrations and real-world examples, it takes you step by step through creating a PivotTable; formatting, filtering, and grouping data; creating PivotCharts from those data; and more. You’ll learn to work with multidimensional data, how to create and manipulate PivotTables using VBA, and—most importantly—you’ll discover what these tools can do for you.
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Pro SQL Server 2005 Service Broker, by Klaus Aschenbrenner, an international expert on Service Broker, explains why Microsoft introduced Service Broker and describes its big advantages over prior message technologies.
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In order to build a successful, Java-based application it is important to have a clear understanding of the

principles underlying the various financial models. Those models guide the application designer in choosing the
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That book presented wireless networking as the enabling communications technology of the 1990s and beyond. Now, only a decade later, mobile and portable telephones and wireless data services are a familiar part of our daily lives, as the twenty-first century witnesses widespread deployment of wireless networks, which has revolutionized the concept of communication and information processing for business, professional, and private applications. The field of wireless communications continues to experience unprecedented market growth, as evidenced by over 1.5 billion cellular telephone subscribers worldwide and the rapid increase in the size of the wireless local area network market for office, home, and public access applications.
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The term ’special education’ encompasses dozens of learning challenges: developmental delay, learning and physical disabilities, emotional disturbance, retardation, language impairment, autism, and others. By nature of this diversity, navigating even well-run, well-funded special education programs can be daunting.
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TOP STORY One quick trick prevents AutoRun attacks
AutoRun starts Windows programs automatically
Shutting down AutoPlay is not a fix
Block AutoRun for all devices all the time
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