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Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 9:55am CET by Krenko
This comprehensive guide cuts right to the chase of the Paint Shop Pro tools that are best used when working with photographs, enabling you to make the most of its many features. Learn how you can correct and enhance your photos, making them even better than they appeared out of your camera. Cover the essentials of color, layers, and photo retouching. Discover the secrets behind resolution and learn how it applies to your monitor, your images, and your prints. Have some fun with your photographs as you learn how to put digital picture frames around them, create digital scrapbook pages, and create works of art with the special effects of Paint Shop Pro. Whether you are a digital or traditional film photographer, “Paint Shop Pro 9: Photographers’ Guide” is filled with instructions, tips, and tricks designed to fit your needs.
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Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 9:39am CET by Krenko
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Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 9:05am CET by Krenko
When most people think of word processing, they think of Microsoft Word. After all, it has been around for more than 20 years-practically an eternity in computer time. But Word has also provided its users-nearly everyone on the face of the planet-with an endless supply of annoyances. That is, until now. Word Annoyances offers to the point (and often opinionated) solutions to your most vexing editing, formatting, printing, faxing, and scanning problems. It covers everything from installation and templates to tables, columns, and graphics. For example, learn how to stop Word from searching the Web for help, and how to enter the same text easily in multiple parts of a document-and keep it updated automatically. It also provides a gentle introduction to the power of macros so you can slay your annoyances by the truckload. The fixes will work with most versions of Word, including Word 2000, Word 2002 (also known as Word XP), and Word 2003. Among the topics covered:
Deal with installation issues, crashes, and slowdowns, and dispose of the Office Assistant-either temporarily or forever.
Master templates, numbering, graphics, hyperlinks, tabs, tables, headers, and other everyday annoyances.
Tame some of Word’s wiliest features, such as Smart Cut and Paste, Click and Type, Mail Merge, AutoCorrect, and AutoText.
Printing, Faxing, and Scanning-need we say more?
Learn to output and distribute your documents with confidence.
Need to work with other Microsoft applications or Macs? You’ll find annoyances dealing with Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, as well as a whole chapter just on Mac Word.
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Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 8:16am CET by Krenko
Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers is the practical guide to designing, developing, and implementing Web portals using Microsoft servers and the .NET Framework. James J. Townsend provides portal development teams with a working developer’s overview of the concepts, technologies, and products used in building successful corporate portals. Readers learn how to create a portal architecture based on Microsoft .NET and integrate multiple server technologies and components to create a powerful portal solution. After introducing basic concepts in portal development, Townsend describes the Microsoft portal strategy and the importance of Web services to .NET. Readers become familiar with the .NET portal framework and the roles of Microsoft’s SQL Server, Commerce Server (MCS), SharePoint Portal Server, BizTalk Server, Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server, Content Management Server (MCMS), and related technologies. Key topic coverage includes security feature integration, personalization, content management, enterprise application integration (EAI), collaboration features, providing full search capability, and achieving scalability.A companion Web site features all the source code used in examples throughout the book. This book provides practical development advice in answer to questions commonly faced by portal developers, such as: *When does it make sense to develop or deploy a Web service? Page 87 *Is there a straightforward way to mitigate almost all potential security risks? Page 197 *How do you get the most out of personalization? Page 266 *How can you measure the return on investment for content management? Page 269 *Which is the best online conferencing solution for your organization? Page 403 *When and how should you scale up and/or out? Page 446 Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers shows you how to choose and integrate the right products and build the best portal for your organization.
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Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 5:04am CET by Krenko
“It’s imperative that everybody working in the field of cyber-security read this book to understand the growing threat of rootkits.” –Mark Russinovich, editor, Windows IT Pro / Windows & .NET Magazine “This material is not only up-to-date, it defines up-to-date. It is truly cutting-edge. As the only book on the subject, Rootkits will be of interest to any Windows security researcher or security programmer. It’s detailed, well researched and the technical information is excellent. The level of technical detail, research, and time invested in developing relevant examples is impressive. In one word: Outstanding.” –Tony Bautts, Security Consultant; CEO, Xtivix, Inc. “This book is an essential read for anyone responsible for Windows security. Security professionals, Windows system administrators, and programmers in general will want to understand the techniques used by rootkit authors. At a time when many IT and security professionals are still worrying about the latest e-mail virus or how to get all of this month’s security patches installed, Mr. Hoglund and Mr. Butler open your eyes to some of the most stealthy and significant threats to the Windows operating system.Only by understanding these offensive techniques can you properly defend the networks and systems for which you are responsible.” –Jennifer Kolde, Security Consultant, Author, and Instructor “What’s worse than being owned? Not knowing it. Find out what it means to be owned by reading Hoglund and Butler’s first-of-a-kind book on rootkits. At the apex the malicious hacker toolset–which includes decompilers, disassemblers, fault-injection engines, kernel debuggers, payload collections, coverage tools, and flow analysis tools–is the rootkit. Beginning where Exploiting Software left off, this book shows how attackers hide in plain sight. “Rootkits are extremely powerful and are the next wave of attack technology. Like other types of malicious code, rootkits thrive on stealthiness. They hide away from standard system observers, employing hooks, trampolines, and patches to get their work done. Sophisticated rootkits run in such a way that other programs that usually monitor machine behavior can’t easily detect them. A rootkit thus provides insider access only to people who know that it is running and available to accept commands.Kernel rootkits can hide files and running processes to provide a backdoor into the target machine. “Understanding the ultimate attacker’s tool provides an important motivator for those of us trying to defend systems. No authors are better suited to give you a detailed hands-on understanding of rootkits than Hoglund and Butler. Better to own this book than to be owned.” –Gary McGraw, Ph.D., CTO, Cigital, coauthor of Exploiting Software (2004) and Building Secure Software (2002), both from Addison-Wesley “Greg and Jamie are unquestionably the go-to experts when it comes to subverting the Windows API and creating rootkits. These two masters come together to pierce the veil of mystery surrounding rootkits, bringing this information out of the shadows. Anyone even remotely interested in security for Windows systems, including forensic analysis, should include this book very high on their must-read list.” –Harlan Carvey, author of Windows Forensics and Incident Recovery (Addison-Wesley, 2005) Rootkits are the ultimate backdoor, giving hackers ongoing and virtually undetectable access to the systems they exploit. Now, two of the world’s leading experts have written the first comprehensive guide to rootkits: what they are, how they work, how to build them, and how to detect them. Rootkit.com’s Greg Hoglund and James Butler created and teach Black Hat’s legendary course in rootkits. In this book, they reveal never-before-told offensive aspects of rootkit technology–learn how attackers can get in and stay in for years, without detection. Hoglund and Butler show exactly how to subvert the Windows XP and Windows 2000 kernels, teaching concepts that are easily applied to virtually any modern operating system, from Windows Server 2003 to Linux and UNIX. Using extensive downloadable examples, they teach rootkit programming techniques that can be used for a wide range of software, from white hat security tools to operating system drivers and debuggers.After reading this book, readers will be able to *Understand the role of rootkits in remote command/control and software eavesdropping *Build kernel rootkits that can make processes, files, and directories invisible *Master key rootkit programming techniques, including hooking, runtime patching, and directly manipulating kernel objects *Work with layered drivers to implement keyboard sniffers and file filters *Detect rootkits and build host-based intrusion prevention software that resists rootkit attacks Visit rootkit. com for code and programs from this book. The site also contains enhancements to the book’s text, such as up-to-the-minute information on rootkits available nowhere else.
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Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 4:57am CET by Krenko
Get your Web site to “show you the money” by using Google to draw more eyes–and wallets–to your content. In this friendly, four-color guide from veteran author and Web developer Eric Giguere, you’ll learn all about Google’s AdSense program and how you can use it to make your Web site or blog more profitable. Written in an easy-to-read, non-technical style, this book follows three average people–Claude, Stef, and Anita–as they learn to create money-making blogs and Web sites. Through their experiences, you’ll learn: basic Web terminology; the Google Adsense nuts and bolts; how to host, build, and publish targeted ads and Google search boxes to your Web site; filter out inappropriate ads; track page performance; drive traffic to your site; and more. A four-part companion Web site features a blog, includes reader resources, and details the techniques discussed in the book.
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Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 4:55am CET by Krenko
The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) is a new class library for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in Java. Created as part of the Eclipse project, SWT allows developers to build efficient, portable applications that directly access the user-interface facilities of the operating systems it is implemented on. This revolutionary technology makes it possible to create Java-based applications that are indistinguishable from a platform’s native applications. SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit, Volume 1, will show you how to:
Get SWT, install it, and invoke it from your programs. Understand widgets–the building blocks of GUI–and how they interact with users and compose a GUI. Use graphics routines to configure the appearance of native widgets and draw application-specific graphics. Apply best practices from real-world uses of SWT. Appreciate what makes a quality SWT program. In this book–the first definitive guide to SWT–two of the technology’s lead designers and implementers show you how to break the task of building a GUI-based application into components. They then show how these components are modeled in SWT and provide a series of graded examples. The result is a guided tour of the essential aspects of this exciting toolkit, ranging from mouse and keyboard handling to user-interface controls for native operating systems.
If you want to build modern GUI-based application, SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit, Volume 1, will prove an invaluable guide and reference.
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Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 4:09am CET by Krenko
Chances are good that if you use the Web or work with documents on your computer, you’ve come across a PDF file at least once or twice in your life. Over 500 million people have already downloaded Adobe’s free Adobe Reader software and we‚re betting you‚re one of them, which is why we think you’ll enjoy this new book on how to get the most out of the little program that‚s conquering the Web.
In the first-ever book on this wildly popular PDF viewer, best-selling author Ted Padova shows you that there’s a lot more to Adobe Reader than you may have known. Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional enables document creators to turn on the familiar Acrobat commenting tools for Adobe Reader 7.0 users who are included in a document review. This means that if you have Adobe Reader 7.0, you can view, search, and print Adobe PDF files that look just like the original documents, with all formatting intact. You can also copy text and images, download and read Adobe Digital Editions (eBooks), fill in intelligent Adobe PDF forms, and view Adobe Photoshop Album slide shows and eCards.
This book offers clear explanations of Adobe Reader features and fully illustrated step-by-step tasks to show you how to maximize your efficiency with this newly boosted productivity tool. So why keep wasting time? If Adobe’s going to give you a free lunch, you might as well enjoy it!
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Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 4:07am CET by Krenko
Whatever you call it–an online auction house, the world’s largest flea market, or a vast social experiment–no metaphor completely describes the huge trading community that is eBay. Underneath it all, eBay is also a computer program and a complex socio-economic system, requiring experience, finesse, and the right tools to master.
eBay Hacks, 2nd Edition has been completely revised and updated to make use of an array of new tools and features, as well as to reflect the changes in the eBay API, eBay’s policies, and general practices of its increasingly sophisticated users. In all, the new edition of eBay Hacks sports 30 brand-new hacks plus dozens of hacks that have been expanded, deepened, or otherwise completely rewritten.
eBay Hacks shows you how to become a more efficient buyer and seller with clever tricks and shortcuts that will surprise even the most experienced eBayers. The book’s wide range of topics covers all aspects of using eBay, such as advanced searching techniques, sniping tools, selling strategies, photography tips, and even research techniques for PowerSellers. But eBay Hacks doesn’t just cover the basics; you’ll learn how to write scripts to automate tedious tasks, take better photos, and tap into the eBay API to develop your own custom tools. Unlike any other book, eBay Hacks, 2nd Edition also provides insight into the social aspects of the eBay community, with diplomatic tools to help to get what you want with the least hassle and risk of negative feedback.
This bestseller supplies you with the tools you need to master eBay, whether as a buyer or seller, casual surfer or serious collector, novice or seasoned expert. With this guide, you will become a savvy power user who trades smarter and safer, makes more money, enjoys successes, and has fun doing it.
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Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 4:05am CET by cutehash
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