This book teaches you how to program your own applications easily on Nokia smartphones based on Symbian OS and the S60 platform. A wide range of smartphone functionalities re covered, including camera, sound and graphics, Bluetooth, Internet, Positioning, messaging and reading of incoming SMS. Over 100 inspiring and fully working application examples are provided that can be instantly executed on your S60 phone.

Mobile Python provides you with a light and engaging hands-on coding style that gets you up and running quickly and increases your ski8ll in a smooth and fast manner.

You will soon reap the benefits and feel inspired through the style and the ready-to-use programs throughout the chapters. The skills learned also help you to enter the path of open innovation, mad experimentation, and community-oriented development.

Mobile Python enables you to take control of your smartphone. Dive in, download, develop, upload and enjoy!

Mobile Python - Rapid Prototyping of Applicants on the Mobile Platform introduces Python, the popular open source programming language, to the mobile space.

About the Author

Jurgen Scheible is a designer, media artist and musician who holds a degree in telecommunications from Karlsruhe, Germany. After graduating, he worked for eight years at Nokia in Finland pursuing various positions such as programmer, product manager and competence transfer manager. Besides his occupation, he performed and produced music as well as media art under the pseudonym Lenin's Godson.

This new work presents the mathematical theory and techniques for analyzing and modeling high-performance global communication networks, with a focus on software employed at the end nodes and intermediate switches.

Topics include, but are not limited to Markov chains and queuing analysis, traffic modeling, interconnection networks, and switch architectures and buffering strategies. Several appendices are provided as a handy reference for material and formulas discussed in the book. The author provides a discussion of the use of MATLAB® in engineering applications.

Over 500 homework problems are included in the text. A separate protected solutions manual will be available to instructors adopting this book as the primary text in courses.

Analysis of Computer and Communication Networks is intended for senior and graduate students, university researchers and practicing engineers in communications, network design and analysis.

Digital image processing is an integral part of microscopy and is increasingly important to the fields of medicine and scientific research. This book provides a unique one-stop reference on the theory, techniques and applications of this technology.

Written by leading experts in the field, the book presents a unique practical perspective of state-of-the-art microscope image processing and the development of specialized algorithms. It contains in-depth analysis of methods coupled with the results of specific real-world experiments, covering topics from image digitization and display, through object measurement and classification, to autofocusing and structured illumination.

Features include:

* Detailed descriptions of many leading-edge methods and algorithms
* Each chapter provides in-depth analysis of the method and experimental results from real-life examples
* Emphasis upon computational and algorithmic aspects of microscope image processing
* Advanced material on geometric, morphological and wavelet image processing; fluorescence, three-dimensional and time-lapse microscopy; microscope image enhancement; MultiSpectral imaging and image data management.

This book will be of interest to all scientists, engineers, clinicians, post-graduate fellows and graduate students working in the fields of biology, medicine, chemistry, pharmacology and related fields, who use microscopes in their work and would like to understand the methodologies and capabilities of the latest digital image processing techniques.

Do you need to secure your network? Here's the book that will help you implement and maintain effective network security, no matter what size your network is or which NOS you're using. Packed with practical advice and indispensable information, this book systematically identifies the threats that your network faces and explains how to eliminate or minimize them. Covers all major network operating systems -- NT, NetWare, and Unix -- and all aspects of network security, from physical security of premises and equipment to anti-hacker countermeasures to setting up your own Virtual Private Networks. The CD includes evaluation and demonstration versions of commercial firewalls, intrusion detection software, and a complete security policy.

The Technology You Need is Out There. The Expertise You Need is in Here.

Expertise is what makes hackers effective. It’s what will make you effective, too, as you fight to keep them at bay. Mastering Network Security has been fully updated to reflect the latest developments in security technology, but it does much more than bring you up to date. More importantly, it gives you a comprehensive understanding of the threats to your organization’s network and teaches you a systematic approach in which you make optimal use of the technologies available to you. Coverage includes:

• Understanding security from a topological perspective
• Configuring Cisco router security features
• Selecting and configuring a firewall
• Configuring Cisco’s PIX firewall
• Configuring an intrusion detection system
• Providing data redundancy
• Configuring a Virtual Private Network
• Securing your wireless network
• Implementing authentication and encryption solutions
• Recognizing hacker attacks
• Detecting and eradicating viruses
• Getting up-to-date security information
• Locking down Windows NT/2000/XP servers
• Securing UNIX, Linux, and FreBSD systems 
  

About the Author

Chris Brenton is the author of several Sybex books, including Mastering Cisco Routers. Brenton is a network consultant specializing in implementing network security and troubleshooting multiprotocol environments. Cameron Hunt is a network consultant and trainer.

Your fun and easy guide to Exam 220-221 and 220-222!

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Here's the A+ certification test-prep guide you've been waiting for &— a For Dummies book-and-software package that actually makes studying fun. Prepared by a CompTIA-certified expert and packed with proven tips and practice exams, it's all you need to master PC troubleshooting and repair — and pass the test!

Discover how to:

• Review the material, objective by objective
• Assess what you know — and don't
• Spot and avoid test traps
• Answer questions quickly
• Hone your skills on top test-prep software
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all this on the bonus CD-ROM

• Dummies Test Engine, our exclusive, fully customizable test-prep software featuring hundreds of sample questions
• Software Diagnostics package demo provided by Eurosoft-USA, Ltd.
• Plus bonus practice-test demos from Super Software, Transcender Corporation, Self Test Software, Boson Software, Vista-Net Publishing, JRK Software, and Dali Design

About the Author

Ron Gilster, A+ (1998, 2001), Server+, Network+, I-Net+, CCNA, is the bestselling author of several books on hardware and software topics, including many For Dummies books on CompTIA certification exams.

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will learn professional techniques to design and build efficient databases and query them to extract useful information. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on the previous one, allowing you to learn the essentials of ANSI SQL from the ground up.

 

Example code demonstrates the authors’ professional techniques, while exercises written for MySQL offer the reader hands-on learning with an open-source database. Included are advanced techniques for using views, managing transactions, database administration, and extending SQL.

 

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common SQL tasks.

Q&As, Quizzes, and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.

Notes and Tips point out shortcuts and solutions.

New terms are clearly defined and explained.

 

Learn how to…

• Use SQL-2003, the latest standard for the Structured Query Language
• Design and deploy efficient, secure databases
• Build advanced queries for information retrieval
• Sort, group, and summarize information for best presentation
• Tune databases and queries for maximum performance
• Understand database administration and security techniques

 

For more than ten years the authors have studied, applied, and documented the SQL standard and its application to critical database systems.

 

Ryan Stephens and Ron Plew are entrepreneurs, speakers, and cofounders of Perpetual Technologies, Inc. (PTI), a fast-growing IT management and consulting firm which specializes in database technologies. They taught database courses for Indiana University—Purdue University in Indianapolis for five years and have authored more than a dozen books on Oracle, SQL, database design, and the high availability of critical systems.

 

Arie D. Jones is Senior SQL Server database administrator and analyst for PTI. He is a regular speaker at technical events and has authored several books and articles.