To fully take advantage of Flash CS3, it's necessary to have a comprehensive understanding of ActionScript 3.0. From manipulating movie clips and responding to user actions with variables to writing functions and conditional operators, ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS3 Professional Essential Training covers the vital skills necessary to master ActionScript 3.0. Instructor Todd Perkins uses numerous hands-on examples–including two game-building exercises–to explore ActionScript's powerful features. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

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The Best Photoshop video-tutorial ever. You will improve your graphic skills by 75% !!! You will create effects you have never seen before. Over 7 hours of QuickTime videos. Easy to use interface for working side-by-side with Photosop. Videos viewable in 2 sizes: 1024×768 or 800×600.
It will learn you how to make:
Battle Type, Wood, Hot Butter Text, Electrical Wires, Wire F/X, Segmented Pipes, Apply Textures, Plastic Text, eptile Type, Rust & Type, Spaceship Buttons, Plastic Buttons, and Connectors.

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Learn how to create some of the most stunning text effects on the planet! Find the coolest collection of type effects in one place, all explained step-by-step for you to learn quickly and easily. This video picks up where most leave off! You will not only create jaw-dropping text effects, you will also learn how to apply the effects skillfully to almost any surface on any image. From wrapping type around spheres, cylinders to hugging the contours of vechicles and even rough surfaces, you will master it all. This video is jammed full of insider secrets.

Award winning designer and best-selling author, Colin Smith will be your personal coach. You will love his easy to understand, conversational style that will “just make sense”. Learning doesn’t have to be boring, you will have a lot of fun as you tear through these unique tutorials.

This fast loading CD ROM contains over 2 hours of sharp 800 x 600 video.

The advanced interface frees you up, instantly jump to any of the lessons with complete control over the playback. All the image files are included, so you canfollow along at your own pace! Also included are some fonts and brushes.

If you work with text, create packaging, signage, posters or covers this video s one of the best investments you can make.

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Back in the late 60's this book was pulled from all public libraries and store shelves by the government. It was said that the experiments and information contained herin were too dangerous for the general public. Today the book is extremely rare, so decent copies are worth up to  $2,000.
The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments explains how to set up a home laboratory and contains over 200 experiments with high quality  illustrations.

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Visual Basic is the most popular programming language in existence. At the present time, it is estimated that there are over three million programmers using Visual Basic. It is also the most popular introductory programming language at most colleges and universities. This is going to become even more widespread with Visual Basic .NET. From the outset, this book is designed to teach an individual with no prior programming experience the art of object-oriented programming. The reader is carefully led through a thoughtful sequence of chapters that builds a solid foundation of programming knowledge and skills. Whether the reader is seeking general programming knowledge or specific skills in Web or database programming, this book provides the knowledge to gain those expertise.

Obviously, I think you should read this book. Whether you are a seasoned programmer or just beginning to explore computer programming, this book will be helpful to you. Embodied in this text are decades of teaching experience that have helped me to understand the learning process. I understand some of the major stumbling blocks students face while learning computer programming and how to get around them.

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With ADO.NET, you can build database-enabled applications and Web services with more speed, flexibility, and power than ever before. ADO.NET Programming in Visual Basic .NET teaches you all you'll need to know to make the most of ADO.NET - whether you're an experienced Visual Basic database programmer or not. The authors' realistic code examples and practical insights illuminate ADO.NET from its foundations to state-of-the-art data binding and application optimization.

If this book is titled ADO .NET Programming in Visual Basic .NET, why do I keep referring to Visual Studio? Well, in the past, VB (and its variants, VBScript and VB For Applications) was the most natural environment for ADO database programming. The other Visual Studio tools (Visual C++, Visual Interdev, Visual FoxPro) could all use ADO, but since ADO was designed around the COM (Component Object Model) architecture, VB was the easiest way to use the package. With the advent of Visual Studio .NET, this has all changed.

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Many articles have appeared in the press about Visual Basic .NET being radically different from prior versions of Visual Basic. Unfortunately, most of the articles leave you with more questions than answers. What exactly are the changes in Visual Basic .NET? Will it be possible to upgrade existing applications? Why does it break compatibility with Visual Basic 6? Visual Basic .NET includes an Upgrade Wizard, which upgrades up to 95 percent of your project’s code, but what about the other 5 percent? What are the common upgrade issues? How do you resolve them and get your project working in Visual Basic .NET? What about XML Web services and ADO.NET data access—how can existing programs take advantage of these new features?

In this book, we answer these questions and more. We provide a complete guide to upgrading, with both technical and conceptual information. To upgrade your applications, you will need to learn some new skills. We teach these skills and discuss the hows, whats, and whys of upgrading: how to recognize the micro-issues that need a one-line fix, what to do about macro-issues that involve redesign of your application, and why MS made the changes to Visual Basic.

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Learn essential security techniques for designing, developing, and deploying applications for MS Windows and the Web. Visual Basic .NET experts Ed Robinson and Michael Bond introduce critical security concepts using straightforward language and step-by-step examples. You get clear, end-to-end guidance—covering application design, coding techniques, testing methods, and deployment strategies, along with direction on how to help secure the operating system and related infrastructure and services.

For many programmers, security has been something to avoid—because they don’t understand security concepts, they shy away from implementing security features for fear of making a mistake. Above all else, we hope this book will spark your interest in security. This is a fascinating and rapidly evolving area of computing, and the techniques we discuss in this book are no longer simply for security specialists; they are essential for every programmer.

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Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.1 combines industry-leading, real-time malware protection for enterprise workstations and network servers with graphical Web-based reporting and centralized management and administration capabilities. The solution automatically detects and repairs the effects of spyware, adware, viruses, and other malicious intrusions to enable enterprise-wide system uptime.

Symantec System Center™ enables centralized configuration, deployment, policy management, alerting and reporting, and allows administrators to audit the network to determine which nodes are vulnerable to virus attacks. Administrators can manage client and server groups logically, and can create, deploy, and lock down security policies and settings to keep systems up-to-date and properly configured.

Key Benefits :
- Ensures that servers and desktops stay updated and properly configured, saving time and cost of traveling from machine to machine.
- Detects and prevents spyware from spreading throughout the company infrastructure.
- Guards product from unauthorized access and attacks through integrated tamper protection.

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Readers will be able to build and program their own 8088 single-board computer by applying the interfacing concepts and techniques presented in this book. Coverage begins with the software architecture of the 80×86 family, including software model, instruction set and flag, and addressing modes. Abundant examples illustrate basic programming concepts such as the use of data structures, numeric conversion, string handling, and arithmetic. Hardware details of the entire 80×86 family are then examined, from pin and signal descriptions to memory and input/output system design. Advanced topics, including protected mode, WIN32 and Linux programming, and MMX technology are also introduced.

FEATURES:

- Robust coverage of hardware and software principles provides readers with good overall exposure to the 80×86 family.

- Features a wide variety of interfacing applications, including a complete microprocessor-based system that can be easily duplicated

- Teaches the relationship between the use of C programming and assembly language  for interfacing and control.

- Coverage of 16-bit and 32-bit programming, exposure to the Windows WIN32 and Linux execution environments, and the process of structured programming provides readers with a strong programming foundation. 

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This book offers Python programmers one place to look when they need help remembering or deciphering the syntax of this open source language and its many powerful but scantily documented modules. This comprehensive reference guide makes it easy to look up the most frequently needed information–not just about the Python language itself, but also the most frequently used parts of the standard library and the most important third-party extensions.

Python in a Nutshell, Second Edition covers more than the language itself; it also deals with the most frequently used parts of the standard library, and the most popular and important third party extensions. Revised and expanded for Python 2.5, this book now contains the gory details of Python's new subprocess module and breaking news about Microsoft's new IronPython project. Our "Nutshell" format fits Python perfectly by presenting the highlights of the most important modules and functions in its standard library, which cover over 90% of your practical programming needs.

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Learning Python is an introduction to the increasingly popular interpreted programming language that's portable, powerful, and remarkably easy to use in both stand-alone and scripting applications. This book thoroughly introduces the elements of Python: types, operators, statements, classes, functions, modules, and exceptions. It also demonstrates how to perform common programming tasks and write real applications.

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Welcome to your no-experience-required, introductory guide to creating animations with Macromedia Flash! Flash Animation for Teens will help you develop the fundamental Flash skills that you need to confidently create your own animations. Covering the basics of Flash animation, this book uses Flash 8 to teach you the techniques you need to create a variety of animation styles, including games, web sites, stand-alone applications, and cartoons. Ideal for readers with little to no Flash experience, this project-based guide will help you conquer the basics and begin creating your own animations.

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 - PDF (29 Mb)
 - OR PDF+CD (575 Mb)

Techniques
The latest and greatest techniques;
- Applying Lighting renders
- Integrate Poser renders
- Professional retouching masterclass

Creative Tutorials
Challenging and inspiring Masterclasses including;
- Create a photomontage
- Design a lowlight landscape

Also featured:
- 2007 Graduate Showcase
- Photoshop CS3 and CS3 Extended update
- Win one of three work placements with McFaul

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PDF 150 MB | CD 500 MB

Advanced Photoshop is the perfect magazine for honing already great Photoshop skills.
Each issue is packed full of inspiring interviews and challenging tutorials, tailor-made for the more advanced digital artist. Readers also benefit from an essential CD-ROM each issue. Whether you're a Photoshop professional or simply aspiring to be one. Advanced Photoshop will help you perfect your art.
Techniques:
- How to use the Art History Brush
- Create an Americana-style illustration
- Give your images a screen print look

Tutorials:
- Create an original playing card design
- Head to head: Radim Malinic and David Warner
- Design an original logo

Also featuring:
- Interview with Mike Campau from SeventhStreet
- The ins and out of copyright
- A round-up of perfect chairs for the overworked artist

Cd Content:
- Over 1000 photoshop brushes, 171 royalty-free stock images and 20 freeware fonts, etc.

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Issue highlights
- How to incorporate shadows
- Correctly resize your images
- Comic art in the digital age!

CD + PDF
Included in this issue

Techniques
The latest and greatest techniques;
- How to incorporate shadows
- Correctly resize your images
- Comic art in the digital age

Creative Tutorials
Easy-to-follow creative tutorials;
- Master architectural perspective tricks
- How to create seamless patterns
- Drawing caricatures in CS2

Also featured;
- Interview with Apocryph
- Perfect software partners for Photoshop CS2
- Portfolios from Enrico Casarosa and Mad Monkey

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The field of teaching digital electronics has not changed significantly in the past 20 years. Many of the same books that first became available in the late 1970s and early 1980s are still being used as basic texts. In the 20+ years since these were written, the basic rules have not changed, but they do not provide strong links to modern electronics including CMOS logic, Programmable Logic Devices and microprocessor/microcontroller interfacing. Courses teaching introductory digital electronics will fill in the missing areas of information for students, but neither the instructors nor students have resources to explain modern technology and interfaces. One assumption made by all the standard texts is that experimenting with digital electronics cannot be done easily - in the proposed book, “digital guru” Myke Predko will show how readers can set up their own apparatus for experimenting with digital electronics for less than $10.

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Structured and practical in approach, David Bellamy's guide has amateur painters painting pictures right from the start. The well-known teacher-artist helps students to learn techniques by producing actual sketches, studies and watercolour paintings in this inspiring and practical guide. The book is divided into three main parts. The first section covers all the practical aspects of watercolour painting; the second section is more challenging, requiring students to take a little more initiative and develop their own style; and the third shows how to paint the many different elements of the landscape. The course includes numerous practical exercises which highlight the key points covered in each chapter and there are 12 demonstration pictures with clear, step-by-step instructions.

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More than a quarter of a million copies sold in previous editions! From home desktop to enterprise server, here's all the Linux you need With Fedora Core 6, you get the latest Linux technology and previews of upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux software. Run Fedora Core 6 live (no install required), install it to hard disk when you're ready, and add hundreds of Fedora Extras packages. Everything comes on the DVD and two CDs included with this book. Use the latest Linux desktop, server, and systems administration features as you learn skills that scale up to professional, commercial-quality Linux systems. Configure Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux to: create documents, presentations, and spreadsheets with OpenOffice.org productivity applications; manage and play music (Rythmbox), video (Totem), and digital images (GIMP) on the desktop; communicate over the internet using; evolution e-mail, Firefox Web browser, and GAIM instant messenger; try out cutting edge Fedora 6 features: add 3D eye candy to your Fedora Desktop with AIGLX; install Fedora 6 on an Intel-based Mac to dual boot with Mac OS X; and, run Xen virtualization for multiple systems on your desktop.

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The effective management of risks online is likely to be the greatest business enabler / destroyer of the next decade. Clearly, organizations that do not move to full e-commerce functionality are unlikely to flourish; whereas those that ignore cyber crime and the "dark side" of the Internet are likely to get badly burnt.

This important new book highlights the key issues in online risk management, taking the premise that information security is no longer an issue confined to the IT department but is critical to all operational functions: finance, HR, marketing, production etc.

Nor are its solutions purely technical. With two thirds of security breaches said to be caused by human error, management controls and processes are equally important.

Published in association with the Institute of Directors in England, "The Secure Online Business" draws on the experience of leading firms and their advisers and uses up-to-date case studies to illustrate "best practice" in online risk management.

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