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Get the definitive reference for deploying, configuring, and supporting IIS 7.0 with insights from a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and IIS experts at Microsoft. You get 800 pages of in-depth technical guidance on using IIS 7.0 to help enable users to easily host and manage Web sites, create Web-based business applications, and extend file, print, media, and communication services to the Web. This RESOURCE KIT covers IIS architecture, migrating servers and applications, capacity planning, performance monitoring and tuning, security, top administration and troubleshooting scenarios, and real-world best practices. Complete with scripts, tools, utilities, and an eBook on CD, this is the definitive resource for administering IIS 7.0.

Key Book Benefits:

Delivers detailed technical guidance on IIS 7.0 architecture, migrating servers and applications, capacity planning, security, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting

Describes real-world best practices for IIS 7.0 administration, including scenarios in the dot-com and ISP environments

Features a CD packed with valuable tools and utilities, along with a fully searchable eBook
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #181955 in Books
* Published on: 2008-03-05
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 779 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher
This comprehensive kit is the definitive source of information about IIS 7.0--direct from top IIS MVPs and experts on the Microsoft IIS Team.

Key Book Benefits * Provides definitive product information with insights straight from the Microsoft IIS Team * Delivers a detailed drilldown--from architecture, to everyday administration, to maximizing server performance * Describes real-world best practices for IIS 7.0, including scenarios in intranets and ISP environments * Includes a CD packed with must-have resources and scripts, and a fully searchable version of the entire RESOURCE KIT book

About the Author
Brett Hill is a server evangelist for IIS 7.0 and Web Services at Microsoft Corporation and a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro magazine. He s also the founder of iisanswers.com.

Olga M. Londer, MCSE, MCT, and former Microsoft MVP, is a technology evangelist for Microsoft Corporation and has served as a technical lead on numerous projects for blue-chip clients. She has been involved with Web development, authoring, and infrastructure since 1992 and coauthored Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit among other books. Olga is a frequent speaker at conferences such as Tech Ed, VSLive!, DevWeek, and IT Forum.

Bernard Cheah, MCP+I, MCSE, MCDBA, CCSE, is a Microsoft MVP for IIS. He is a consultant for Internet solutions analysis, design, and implementation, and focuses on online e-commerce system-security and high-availability features. He is currently pursuing his Masters Degree in Strategy Business IT at University of Portsmouth, UK.

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"Exchange experts and Microsoft MVPs Richard Luckett, William Lefkovics, and Bharat Suneja have packed this book with practical guidance, useful information, and years of knowledge and experience. If you’re responsible for one or more aspects of an Exchange 2007-based messaging system, keep this book close, as you’ll be referring to it often!" --Scott Schnoll, Principal Technical Writer, Exchange Server Product Team, Microsoft Corporation
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #218621 in Books
* Published on: 2008-04-07
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 766 pages

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From the Back Cover

Your One-Stop Guide to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Get full details on the powerful features of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 including the new features available with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1. Written by Exchange Server experts Richard Luckett, William Lefkovics, and Bharat Suneja, the book covers everything from installation, configuration, and migration to the latest administration, troubleshooting, and security procedures.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference shows you how to configure a robust messaging environment, manage recipients and servers, set up mailboxes and public folders, and seamlessly integrate with Outlook 2007 and Outlook Web Access 2007. You'll learn to provide a multi-layered defense against spam, create reliable system backups, work with PKI and data encryption, use replication and clustering services, and maintain high availability and optimal efficiency.

* Set up, customize, and manage Exchange Server 2007
* Upgrade from and coexist with previous versions
* Understand the Exchange Server 2007 messaging system architecture
* Implement the significant new features Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 provides
* Administer Mailbox, Transport, Client Access, and Unified Messaging Servers
* Take full advantage of Outlook 2007 and Outlook Web Access 2007
* Secure transactions using PKI, authentication, encryption, and the Forefront suite
* Comply with applicable legal standards and regulations
* Back up and restore Exchange data using DPM and VSS
* Troubleshoot, monitor, and tune Exchange Server using the latest tools

About the Author

Richard Luckett, MCSE, MCITP, MCTS, is the president of SYSTMS of NY, Inc., a leading Microsoft Gold Partner. He is a recipient of the Microsoft Exchange MVP award from Microsoft.

William Lefkovics, MCSE, A+, BSc, works as the technical director for Mojave Media Group. He has been a Microsoft Exchange MVP since 2001.

Bharat Suneja is a principal exchange architect at Zenprise, maker of real-time troubleshooting and monitoring software for Microsoft Exchange and BlackBerry environments. He is a Microsoft Exchange MVP.

Customer Reviews

Excellent comprehensive reference5
Very informative book! It contains not only the technical information I'm looking for, but very insightful real-world examples as well. And don't forget the PowerShell - the authors do a great job of listing not only the console steps, but also the accompanying shell syntax - and in an easy-to-read format, too! Thanks, guys!

Superb Exchange 2007 book5
This is a brilliant book! It's clearly written, is packed with information, and shows real world experience form the authors. I'm always able to find what I want from the excellent index, and I can't believe that all this fits into only around 750 pages. Congratulations guys, this is a winner! Nick P. (Microsoft Trainer)

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #598396 in Books
* Published on: 2008-06-20
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 252 pages

Customer Reviews

Insightful and Useful5
Rommel's book is filled with useful information, presented in an easily accessible format, that could be critical to a business at the worst possible time...highly recommended.

Packed with usable information4
In "Active Directory Disaster Recovery" Author Florian Rommel has created very readable, and usable title devoted to one of the least understood aspects of Microsoft's Active Directory technology. In a familiar and easily readable style, Mr. Rommel presents aspects of a widely used technology that is all to often overlooked even in large companies with competent staff.
Full of practical information and solutions to what can sometimes be very esoteric and difficult to understand concepts you will find yourself returning multiple times to this book to refresh your memory before planning for and testing your disaster recovery plans.
With active directory digging deeper and deeper everyday into the core of every business and data center, this is the information you need to know in order to assure the long term viability of your infrastructure.

Lots of seasoning required...3
A good topic for a book, and this one promises a lot, but read it with at least a few grains of salt while you test, test, test. I'm unsure how this book made it past the editorial reviewers, as the prose is often awkward and dense, with many unnecessary words and rarely flows. The often informal and inexact sentence structure loses the reader when the author attempts to describe more complicated concepts.

The book's first 100 pages are spent going briefly through AD basics (which leaves something to be desired) and making a case for a business continuity plan for AD. I feel the latter is completely unnecessary. I think it would be safe to assume the reader already knows the importance of a disaster recovery plan if they've bothered reading this book in the first place.

There is one glaring conceptual mistake in the book that I cannot let pass concerning sites and services, especially after the author makes statement: "This is the section where a lot of administrators get confused and it is also the section that, if poorly implemented, can cause extremely high network traffic generated by excessive replication."

Unfortunately the author seems to be one of these administrators as he writes on page 86 about setting site replication schedules that:

"The schedule per site actually only allows you to specify how many times per hour and during which window the replications can occur from the site. This does not affect the intra-site replications, which is the replication between the DCs located in the same site."

The section continues with screen shots and text describing how the NTDS Site Settings object under each site affects the way intersite replication takes place. This is completely wrong, as described by Microsoft (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755994.aspx):

"Intrasite connections inherit a default schedule from the schedule attribute of the NTDS Site Settings object. By default, this schedule is always available and has an interval of one hour."

By default, intrasite replication happens whenever there are changes, or if there haven't been any in a period of an hour, it will replicate once anyway. Intrasite replication is what the schedule on the NTDS Site Settings object controls.

Product Description

The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): Merging the Internet and the Cellular Worlds, Second Edition is an updated version of the best-selling guide to this exciting technology that will merge the Internet with the cellular world, ensuring the availability of Internet technologies such as the web, email, instant messaging, presence and videoconferencing nearly everywhere. In this thoroughly revised overview of the IMS and its technologies, goals, history, vision, the organizations involved in its standardization and architecture, the authors first describe how each technology works on the Internet and then explain how the same technology is adapted to work in the IMS, enabling readers to take advantage of any current and future Internet service.

Key features of the Second Edition include:

* New chapter on Next Generation Networks, including an overview on standardization, the architecture, and PSTN/ISDN simulation services.
* Fully updated chapter on the Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC) service, covering the standardization in the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), architecture, PoC session types, user plane, and the Talk Burst Control Protocol.
* Several expanded sections, including discussion of the role of the Open Mobile Alliance in the standardization process, IPv4 support in IMS, a description of the IMS Application Layer Gateway and the Transition Gateway, and a description of the presence data model.
* Updated material on the presence service, session-based instant messages with the Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP), and the XML Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP).
* Supported by a companion website on which instructors and lecturers can find electronic versions of the figures.

Engineers, programmers, business managers, marketing representatives, and technically aware users will all find this to be an indispensable guide to IMS and the business model behind it.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #475506 in Books
* Published on: 2006-02-10
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 456 pages

Editorial Reviews

Review
"…a great starting point for those readers who want to learn the IMS and explore it further." (E-STREAMS, September 2005)

From the Back Cover
The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): Merging the Internet and the Cellular Worlds, Second Edition is an updated version of the best-selling guide to this exciting technology that will merge the Internet with the cellular world, ensuring the availability of Internet technologies such as the web, email, instant messaging, presence and videoconferencing nearly everywhere.

In this thoroughly revised overview of the IMS and its technologies, goals, history, vision, the organizations involved in its standardization and architecture, the authors first describe how each technology works on the Internet and then explain how the same technology is adapted to work in the IMS, enabling readers to take advantage of any current and future Internet service.

Key features of the Second Edition include:

* New chapter on Next Generation Networks, including an overview on standardization, the architecture, and PSTN/ISDN simulation services.
* Fully updated chapter on the Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC) service, covering the standardization in the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), architecture, PoC sessions types, user plane, and the Talk Burst Control Protocol
* Several expanded sections, including discussion of the role of the Open Mobile Alliance in the standardization process, IPv4 support in IMS, a description of the IMS Application Layer Gateway and the Transition Gateway, and a description of the presence data model.
* Updated material on the presence service, session-based instant messages with the Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP), and the XML Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP).
* Supported by a companion website on which instructors and lecturers can find electronic versions of the figures.

Engineers, programmers, business managers, marketing representatives, and techncially aware users will all find this to be an indispensable guide to IMS and the business model behind it.



About the Author
Gonzalo Camarillo leads the Advanced Signalling Research Laboratory of Ericsson in Helsinki, Finland. He is an active participant in the IETF, where he has authored and coauthored several specifications used in the IMS. In particular, he is a co-author of themain SIP specification, RFC 3261. In addition, he co-chairs the IETF SIPPING working group, which handles the requirements from 3GPP and 3GPP2 related to SIP, and the IETF HIP (Host Identity Protocol) working group, which deals with lower-layer mobility and security. He is the Ericsson representative in the SIP Forum and is a regular speaker at different industry conferences. During his stay as a visitor researcher at Columbia University in New York, USA, he published a book entitled “SIP Demystified”. Gonzalo received an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, and another M.Sc. degree (also in Electrical Engineering) from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He is currently continuing his studies as a Ph.D. candidate at Helsinki University of Technology, in Finland.

Miguel A. García-Martín is a Principal Research Engineer in the Networking Technologies Laboratory of the Nokia Research Center in Helsinki, Finland. Before joining Nokia Miguel was working for Ericsson in Spain, and then Ericsson in Finland. Miguel is an active participant of the IETF, and for a number of years has been a key contributor in 3GPP. Lately Miguel has also been participating in the specification of NGN in ETSI. In the IETF, he has authored and co-authored several specifications related to the IMS. In 3GPP, he has been a key contributor to the development of the IMS standard. Miguel is also a regular speaker at different industry conferences. Miguel received a B. Eng. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad de Valladolid, Spain.
Customer Reviews

broad and deep, but not quite up to date4
I teach IMS courses for 6 years now. This is my favorite book. It's a good introduction to IMS and covers many topics in suffcient detail.
Still IMS is evolving fast and you have to check with the specs for the latest updates and changes.

A well written, easy to read reference on IMS5
A good and thorough intoduction to IMS and SIP. Easy to read and written in a manner that the book can be re-read over and over again. Has detailed examples on SIP Call flows with sufficient explanations. The book also acts as a bridge for some of us who are unfamiliar with mobile/cellular networks.
Hopefully the book will be updated with each revision of IMS.
Congratulations to the author.

A must have if you start with IMS5
Possibly the best technical book I've ever read.

I work with IMS technology and we use the book in our department to introduce IMS to newcomers. But I also work in European projects on IMS and the book is the main reference for most of the other teams involved.

You just need this book and the 3GPP specifications for anything you want to do with IMS.

Product Description

Webster’s New World Telecom Dictionary, by Ray Horak, is a comprehensive telecommunications dictionary of more than 7,500 terms critical to understanding voice, data, video, and multimedia communications system and network technologies, applications, and regulation. Given the convergence of computing and communications, the book also effectively is a computer dictionary with a telecom focus. It is thoroughly researched, highly objective, absolutely accurate, and includes just about every essential term, abbreviation, acronym, contraction, initialism, and portmanteau you might encounter in the telecom and datacom domains. Although the book is a technical dictionary, Horak’s plain-English, commonsense style yields definitions that are as thoroughly understandable to the business professional or student as they are to the electrical engineer. In fact, many entries are encyclopedic in nature, discussing applications and issues. Horak also injects a bit of his wry sense of humor, sprinkling occasional telecom trivia and marginally related definitions that will have you smiling and chuckling to yourself, but not to the point that they detract from what is an important book on a serious subject. An instant classic, Webster’s New World Telecom Dictionary is the one and only telecom dictionary you will need. It also makes a perfect companion to Horak’s Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook, published by Wiley-Interscience in October 2007.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #202773 in Books
* Published on: 2007-10-29
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 568 pages

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Review
"For anyone who has to work in our field, and particularly for those who must describe it to others, I highly recommend Ray Horak's Telecom Dictionary. It is over 500-pages of thoroughly researched, densely packed, and wonderfully entertaining information for anyone who works in the telecom field."
—Jim Burton, Unified Communications Strategies

Webster’s New World Telecom Dictionary by Ray Horak is comprehensive with more than 4,600 terms essential to a clear and comprehensive understanding of voice, data, video and multimedia communications system and network technologies, applications and regulations. Although the book is a technical dictionary, Horak’s plain-English, commonsense style yields definitions that are as thoroughly researched, objective, accurate, and includes just about every essential term, abbreviation, acronym, contraction, initialism and portmanteau you might encounter in the telecom and datacom domains.
The book is the perfect companion to his Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook, published by Wiley-Interscience in October 2007. Taken together, these two are all you need to get your arms around the essentials of telecom.
—Reviewed by Mark Simon, Founder/CEO of EvinceMedia (Telecom Reseller, May/June 2008 Edition)

Many folks who entered the telecom trade during the 1980s and the go-go years of the 1990s came to rely on Newton’s Telecom Dictionary, from long-time BCR columnist Harry Newton, as their guide to the wild and wooly world of telecom.
Unfortunately, those of us in the trade didn’t think very highly of Harry’s contribution. While it did not lack for wit, Newton’s Dictionary was woefully short on quality information. In fact, one of the ways the veterans identified the rookies was by the latter’s dependence on what we looked at as a rather lame source.
For those who are entering the field today (and even for those who have been around for a while) there is a new dictionary that is worth the investment. Ray Horak, President of The Context Corporation, has written the Webster’s New World Telecom Dictionary, and it’s a gem. It’s 559 pages of well-written, insightful information on everything from "A" (for Ampere) to "Zero-Water Peak Fiber", not to mention symbols like Octothorpe (i.e. the "#" sign) and all those terms we have that begin with numbers starting like "0B + D".
Mr. Horak’s book is thoroughly researched, and contains an unfathomable wealth of detail. I have taught data networking for over 25-years and pride myself on precision- this book is precise. Where you might think you know the definition of that term, here you’ll find that definition expressed with absolute precision and find three other definitions you weren’t even aware of.
Ours is a challenging field, and good sources of information are few and far between. The Webster’s New World Telecom Dictionary is a source you can count on. If they have a Jeopardy category on "Telecom Trivia", my money’s on Ray Horak.
—Reviewed by Michael Finneran, dBrn Associates (NoJitter.com, May 29, 2008)

What’s remarkable about this work is it defines over 4,600 telecom terms and, scanning through it, it appears there are more TLAs (three-letter acronyms) involved than the mind can comfortably encompass. I’ve found the dictionary incredibly useful when researching, and every now and then I find an interesting snippet of trivia (did you know Bob Metcalfe’s middle name is "Melancton"?).
—Reviewed by Mark Gibbs (Network World, 4/30/08)

Books about telecom subjects generally fall into one of two categories: Very Basic or Incomprehensible. For the vast majority of us that fall between these two extremes, there is a new dictionary of telecom terms that is neither too technical, nor condescending.
The standard text, and one of the most widely read books in telecom, has been Newton’s Telecom Dictionary, now in its 23rd edition. But, the man who edited Newton’s for much of its history, has now published his own version of a telecom dictionary. Webster’s New World Telecom Dictionary (Wiley, 2008, ISBN 978-0-471-77457-0) is written by Ray Horak.
A dictionary is one of the most difficult books to write. Just coming up with a comprehensive list of terms is onerous enough in itself. But, to define each of these terms in a way that is understandable by the unwashed masses, is mind boggling.
Horak has done an admirable job, and created a work that can be used where Newton’s can cause problems. For example, in the expert witness work I sometimes perform, Newton’s funny or flippant definitions can be used to impugn the credibility of the source itself. You will not have this problem with Webster’s; it is a work that will never cause you a red face if you use it in a hostile environment.
In all, I will continue to keep both on my bookshelf, and value them both, cognizant of the differences.
—Reviewed by Gene Retske (The Prepaid Press, April 2008)

I found a lot to like about Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary. First, it is indeed very easy to read, and contains a lot of detail, as well as good cross referencing in the entries where needed. Second, it provides good illustrations and diagrams that get the point across. Finally, while touted as a dictionary, it feels more like an encyclopedia in that it does not have that dry dictionary form—but rather a more inviting feel that makes you want to come explore. Whether you are a telecom or IT professional, do yourself a favor and get Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary as it is highly recommended.
—T. Michael Testi (BC Books, October 31, 2007)

From the Back Cover
Authoritative, complete, and user-friendly

The telecommunications field is exploding. Wired and wireless telecommunications networks today support data and video transmission as well as voice, and new terminology is constantly evolving.

Whether you're a telecommunications professional, technician, service provider, or student, this comprehensive reference offers you appropriate technical depth in commonsense plain-English style with an occasional dash of Ray Horak's unique sense of humor. You'll find it easy to locate terms, place them in context, and understand the latest developments, including:

* Power Line Carrier (PLC)
*

Passive Optical Network (PON)
*

802.11, 802.16, Bluetooth and WiMAX
*

Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO)
*

Storage Area Networks (SANs)
*

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
*

DenseWavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
*

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) vs. H.323
*

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

About the Author
Ray Horak is an independent consultant who has written more than 100 articles, technical white papers, case studies, and solutions briefs, as well as the bestselling Communications Systems and Networks and the recently published Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook.
Customer Reviews

A must-have for your technical library5
Ray Horak's "Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary" is an invaluable reference for anyone studying or working in the telecommunications and/or computer fields. These disciplines are well-known for their excessive use of acronyms, but Horak's clear, explanatory prose makes sense of the alphabet soup. The book is actually fun to read as well, which is remarkable for what is ostensibly a dictionary. His writing is spot-on for technical accuracy and detail, yet engaging and accessible. A very useful feature of this Dictionary is its extensive use of cross-references for entries, prompting the reader to engage on a journey of learning from one related topic to another. An excellent companion reference for this dictionary is Horak's "Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook".

A Better Source than the Internet!5
Review by Vladimir Kaminsky

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary by Ray Horak is a comprehensive telecommunications dictionary of more than 4,600 terms essential to a clear understanding of voice, data, video, and multimedia communications system and network topologies, technologies, applications, and regulations. The book encompasses numerous volumes of materials in the area of telecommunications that can be only compared with information from the Internet.

Horak's background and experience allowed him to be an expert in many telecommunications areas. The book is the witness to this fact: it covers such simple technologies as twisted pair, such complex techniques as Passive Optical Networks, Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing; and such evolving technologies as WiMAX and MIMO.

It is interesting to note that Horak presents dry facts of telecommunications reality with humor and historical references, making it easy to read and more attractive to readers. The book can amaze a reader by its thoroughness to cover various topics, provide references, describe symbols; and it reveals Horak's deep knowledge of the topics and ability to work with huge amount of sources. For an encyclopedic treatment of the subject and a perfect companion to this work, see Horak's Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook, also published by Wiley in 2007.

Horak is an independent telecom consultant. He is active in litigation support as a consulting expert and testifying expert, often in cases involving intellectual property such as patent, copyright, and trademark and service infringement. He has authored five telecom books and written of hundreds of technical articles, white papers, case studies, and solution briefs.

Vladimir Kaminsky, PhD is a President of Practel, Inc, a consulting company that is specializing in advanced communications technologies and network design.

A valuable addition to your Telecom Library5
I review books in my role as a VoIP & SIP trainer for TrainingCity.com. When students ask me what to buy, I always recommend that they have a technical dictionary close at hand.

I am now recommending they have two, the old one and "Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary". I know it seems like overkill, but in fact these two books are both on my list of "must haves" for 2008. Webster's dictionary is focused, includes diagrams, and provides timely, accurate information.

Buying two or more books is never easy, so I often suggest students speak with their managers and discuss buying a "team library" of books that can be shared by everyone in the group. Often companies have a book budget, it can't hurt to ask!

Product Description

IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the future of Internet telephony. And this book is your guide to that future.

IPv6 is the replacement for the currently used IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4). IPv6 will offer increased IP addresses (full 128-bit addresses, compared to the 32-bit addresses of IPv4), enhanced security, and greater robustness. It will also be fully "backwards compatible" with existing IPv4 systems. These capabilities will finally make Internet telephony a viable competitor to conventional switched telephone networks. In this book, Dan Minoli clearly explains IPv6 and how telephone networks can be built on its foundations.

This is not just another IPv6 book; instead, it focuses on those aspects of IPv6 relevant to Internet telephony systems and voice networks. Minoli uses a compare/contrast approach, exploring where IPv6 is similar to IPv4 and where it differs, to let you quickly grasp the essence of IPv6 and the similarities (and differences) between current IPv4-based systems and IPv6-based systems.

If you will be designing, implementing, or maintaining the next generation of Internet telephony systems, then you need the information in this book!

*Explains the essential concepts of IPv6 and how they relate to Internet telephony
*Describes how Internet telephony systems using IPv6 are different from, and better than, Internet telephony systems based on the older IPv4 standard
*Discusses how to transition existing IPv4 Internet telephony systems and conventional switched systems to IPv6-based systems
*Extensive treatment of security issues, including IP layer encryption and authentication methods
*Explains connection techniques, including "plug and play" approaches, for equipment used in IPv6 systems

* The first title describing how the next generation Internet protocol-IPv6-can be used for Internet telephony
* Explains IPv6 as it applies to Internet telephony (VoIP)
* Shows how IPv6 gives better security, QoS, and signal integrity in Internet telephony
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #1107581 in Books
* Published on: 2006-04-11
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 384 pages

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Review
"What I really liked about this book is that is has excellent complete coverage of VoIP itself and IPv6. You can use the book to learn these from scratch or just get a refresher." - Electronic Design, Louis E. Frenzel, July 2006

From the Back Cover
IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the future of Internet telephony. And this book is your guide to that future.

IPv6 is the replacement for the currently used IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4). IPv6 will offer increased IP addresses (full 128-bit addresses, compared to the 32-bit addresses of IPv4), enhanced security, and greater robustness. It will also be fully "backwards compatible" with existing IPv4 systems. These capabilities will finally make Internet telephony a viable competitor to conventional switched telephone networks. In this book, Dan Minoli clearly explains IPv6 and how telephone networks can be built on its foundations.

This is not just another IPv6 book; instead, it focuses on those aspects of IPv6 relevant to Internet telephony systems and voice networks. Minoli uses a compare/contrast approach, exploring where IPv6 is similar to IPv4 and where it differs, to let you quickly grasp the essence of IPv6 and the similarities (and differences) between current IPv4-based systems and IPv6-based systems.

If you will be designing, implementing, or maintaining the next generation of Internet telephony systems, then you need the information in this book!

*Explains the essential concepts of IPv6 and how they relate to Internet telephony
*Describes how Internet telephony systems using IPv6 are different from, and better than, Internet telephony systems based on the older IPv4 standard
*Discusses how to transition existing IPv4 Internet telephony systems and conventional switched systems to IPv6-based systems
*Extensive treatment of security issues, including IP layer encryption and authentication methods
*Explains connection techniques-including "plug and play" approaches-for equipment used in IPv6 systems

Product Description

When you pick out something to wear in the morning, you choose the clothes that best fit your mood and personality that day. Same with the music we listen to and even the cars we drive. We instinctively surround ourselves with the things that are reflective of our personalities, so why not our computers? Skinning Windows XP will show you how to take the Microsoft Windows Graphical User Interface to a whole new visual and functional level. Through step-by-step instructions, you will learn how to customize your Windows XP theme, icons and backgrounds using skinning software. Not sure what skinning software is or where to find it? You'll learn about that, too. You will become familiar with the Windows desktop structure and components and learn how to alter the elements to create a personalized desktop experience. Along with a 16-page, full-color insert with before and after shots of skins for inspiration, Skinning Windows XP will help you technologically express yourself.

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #1634065 in Books
* Published on: 2005-04-25
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 336 pages

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About the Author

Skinning Microsoft Windows XPAbout the Authors

Joe Habraken is a best-selling author, information technology professional, and educator. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of New England, where he teaches a variety of information technology classes introducing undergraduate students to computer basics, software applications, web design, and the use of personal computers in business settings. His books include Microsoft Office 2003 All in 1; Absolute Beginner's Guide to Networking, Fourth Edition; and Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Server 2003 in 24 Hours.

© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Introduction

With the release of Windows XP, Microsoft provided a radically different approach to the customization of the Windows graphical user interface (GUI) by providing a built-in visual style engine. A visual style controls the color scheme and the bitmap graphics that are used for such Windows interface elements as the Start menu, the taskbar, and the objects we find on a typical window (such as the title bar and control buttons). Although Windows XP shipped with only one visual style—the XP style—the fact that the visual style engine exists makes it possible for any user to radically alter the look and feel of the Windows interface.

Through the manipulation of Windows themes (the icons, mouse pointers, desktop background, and other GUI elements we interface with when we use Windows) and visual styles, we can actually "skin" the Windows interface (a skin being the combination of modified theme elements and visual style items). This means you can create a custom interface, and the limits on the possibilities are really up to you and your artistic inclinations.

Theme elements can be easily modified using tools built in to the Windows XP environment. For more radical interface modification, a number of third-party software packages make it easy to create any number of extremely unique "looks" for the interface.

Skinning Windows XP provides both a primer and an advanced user guide to creating your own Windows themes, visual styles, and skins (whether you are using Windows XP Home or Windows XP Profesisonal). Although this book is designed for the novice as well as the more advanced Windows user, its logical step-by-step approach provides a learning environment ideal for the novice and provides the more experienced user with a breadth of details because more advanced skinning topics are discussed.

Although this book takes its subject matter very seriously, the material itself is approached in a straightforward, conversational manner that should help you digest the information without dozing off or developing a horrible migraine headache. It will also provide you with the knowledge base you need to further explore the concept of skinning Windows and enable you to advance your own creative sensibilities when you have set the book down after reading the last chapter.
Conventions Used in This Book

Certain conventions have been followed in this book to help you digest all the material. At the beginning of each chapter, you'll find a list of the major topics covered in that chapter. And because this book explores the visual aspects of skinning Windows XP, ample screen captures have been provided to ground you in each process as you create themes, visual styles, and skins. You will also find several icons used throughout this book. These icons denote additional information on a subject, supply asides that provide useful insight, or give warnings that can help you steer clear of problem areas related to Windows themes, visual styles, and skins. These icons are as follows:
How This Book Is Organized

This book has been organized so that a novice user can explore basic to intermediate to advanced subject matter as each chapter is read. However, the chapters have been written to be primarily self-contained so the intermediate or advanced user can pick up the book and jump to a particular chapter and take full advantage of the topics covered in that chapter.

The book has been configured so the reader can first explore Windows themes (the simplest way to modify the Windows XP interface) and learn how to modify default themes as well as download themes available on the Web. Information is also provided on the various types of skinning software and how to acquire that software. Skins and visual styles can then be downloaded from the Web, making skinning Windows a matter of installing a simple application and then downloading any number of premade skins.

For users with a more artistic bent, you learn how to create your own skins and looks and the software options that are available. Finally, an appendix includes an introduction to software that enables a very advanced user to actually hack Windows resources and create skins without the use of additional skinning software.

Skinning Windows is fun and allows you to take the Windows environment to a whole new visual level. Whatever your current knowledge level is related to Windows, you will be able to use this book to personalize the look and feel of the XP interface. I hope you enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed writing it.

© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

Customer Reviews

The ideal introduction and continuing reference to utilizing Windows XP5
In just 336 pages, Skinning Windows XP by Windows expert Joe Habraken provides even the most novice user with all of the information necessary to take the Microsoft Windows Graphical User Interface to a whole new visual and functional level. Readers of the book will be provided with an understanding of how the Windows desktop and its various components are actually represented on the computer screen and how through the use of add-on software and other special design tools a whole new visual environment can be created. Skinning Windows XP is the ideal introduction and continuing reference to utilizing Windows XP.

Product Description

Windows XP powers millions of PCs and is without a doubt the most widely used operating system in the world today. This rock solid operating system offers dozens of features for consumers, plus powerful applications and integrated networking tools all blended into an elegant interface. But working your way through all of these features and applications can be complicated. Whether you use this software at home or at work, sometimes you just want to learn the most commonly used features, not every option and nuance.

For anyone interested in zeroing in and learning just the information they need without all the complicated jargon, Windows XP for Starters: The Missing Manual provides just the solution.

Author David Pogue delivers an accessible and much needed guide with his trademark humor and friendly style. Windows XP for Starters: The Missing Manual provides clear explanations, with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, and plenty of illustrations that make for a refreshingly simple approach to XP.

Far more than a skimpy introduction but much less daunting than a weighty tech book, Windows XP For Starters: The Missing Manual unveils easy tips and tricks for making the most of the XP experience.

Whether you're a first-time user who just wants the basics, or an experienced user who simply needs a quick overview, our new Windows XP For Starters: The Missing Manual is designed from the ground up to save you time and deliver what you need to know. Find out why this book is exactly what you need.

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #421391 in Books
* Published on: 2005-11-10
* Format: Illustrated
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 404 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
David Pogue is the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times. With nearly 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how-to authors, having written or co-written seven books in the "for Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music), along with several computer-humor books and a technothriller, "Hard Drive" (a New York Times "notable book of the year").
Customer Reviews

No one should run XP without this help!5
Belive This one contains a lot of info and instructions for Win XP
Shold be a inluded manual with the program!
Shame on Windows for not including it!
George

Only For The Most Novice Of Windows Users4
After writing 2 glowing reviews for other books in the Pogue Press series I knew that the only way to go was down. Well, that might be a little harsh. I don't have any problems with this book by David Pogue himself, it's just I don't know how useful this book is. Microsoft really outdid themselves when they released Windows XP, and it was developed with the most novice of users in mind. Even at the low retail price that this book lists at, I just don't know how necessary it really is. Nicely written, good content, but only the greenest of computer users would probably find this book useful.

Product Description

The Keys to Your Productivity Are Right There, Inside Windows

Windows XP is packed with utilities and other features that can help you work smarter and faster. The trick is knowing what they are and how and when to use them. Microsoft Windows XP Power Productivity teaches you how to leverage these tools to automate, customize, and troubleshoot your system, and to harness its power most effectively. This is a must-read book for power users and system administrators; it also offers a path that ambitious beginners can follow to achieve expertise. Coverage includes:

* Performing network, automated, and unattended installations
* Controlling Windows XP startup and shutdown
* Managing printing
* Auditing the system
* Adding and removing OS components
* Understanding and managing the Registry
* Working with Device Manager
* Setting up and troubleshooting incoming and outgoing connections
* Hosting FTP sites
* Performing backups and recovering from disasters
* Managing users and groups
* Setting up, monitoring, and managing remote access
* Configuring and optimizing TCP/IP
* Managing certificates
* Configuring VPN connections
* Encrypting your files

Is Your PC Holding You Back?
Don't settle for making yourself more productive; do the same for your PC. Microsoft Windows XP Power Optimization, also from Sybex, shows you how to get more speed and power out of your current equipment, simply by tuning your Windows setup.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #998199 in Books
* Published on: 2005-02-11
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 637 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover
The Keys to Your Productivity Are Right There, Inside Windows

Windows XP is packed with utilities and other features that can help you work smarter and faster. The trick is knowing what they are and how and when to use them. Microsoft Windows XP Power Productivity teaches you how to leverage these tools to automate, customize, and troubleshoot your system, and to harness its power most effectively. This is a must-read book for power users and system administrators; it also offers a path that ambitious beginners can follow to achieve expertise. Coverage includes:

* Performing network, automated, and unattended installations
* Controlling Windows XP startup and shutdown
* Managing printing
* Auditing the system
* Adding and removing OS components
* Understanding and managing the Registry
* Working with Device Manager
* Setting up and troubleshooting incoming and outgoing connections
* Hosting FTP sites
* Performing backups and recovering from disasters
* Managing users and groups
* Setting up, monitoring, and managing remote access
* Configuring and optimizing TCP/IP
* Managing certificates
* Configuring VPN connections
* Encrypting your files

Is Your PC Holding You Back?
Don't settle for making yourself more productive; do the same for your PC. Microsoft Windows XP Power Optimization, also from Sybex, shows you how to get more speed and power out of your current equipment, simply by tuning your Windows setup.

About the Author
Jim Boyce has written and co-written over 40 computer books, many of which are for Windows power users. Jim has been a contributing editor for Windows Magazine and WinMag.com, and continues to write numerous articles for such publications as Tech Republic, PC Mag, and InfoWorld. Jim has been working with computers since the late 1970s.

Product Description

The future looks bright for Web developers! With Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium, you now have fantastic tools that enable you to create a wide array of content and graphics to deploy on a Web site that is dynamic and easy to maintain.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies is a hands-on, easy-to-understand guide to the main features in all the CS3 Web development products. The no-nonsense approach is designed to help you build Web sites by covering the basics of each program—Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, Flash, Contribute, and Acrobat—as well as the new features in a clear and concise minibook. You get all the expert guidance you need to:

* Choose the right tools for the job
* Create basic HTML Web pages
* Punch up your pages with forms and frames in Dreamweaver
* Save Photoshop images for print and the Web
* Work with text, shapes, and images in Fireworks
* Understand page layout
* Use layers, filters, and effects in Illustrator
* Work with animation, sound, and video in Flash
* Add interactivity to PDF files in Acrobat
* Integrate Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, and Contribute with other Adobe products
* Tackle advanced concepts
* And much, much more!

This friendly guide doesn’t just cover all the new tools in the Suite; it also offers you a primer on Web design as well as insight into how the Suite influences design. Complete with helpful hints on securing your work, Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies is your one-stop guide to making the most of the Suite and developing for the Web quickly and easily!
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #30947 in Books
* Published on: 2007-08-20
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 882 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover
7 books in 1
your key to success with Web Premium

Your one-stop guide to creating a dynamic Web site with today's hottest design tools

Want to build a Web site that wows? Seven handy minibooks give you expert guidance in all the cutting-edge Web development products that are packed in Adobe's Creative Suite. You'll format text, import images, lay out pages, liven up illustrations with color, retouch photos, publish movies, add interactivity to PDF files, and much more!

* Create basic HTML Web pages
*

Work with graphics, text, and fonts
*

Use layers, filters, and effects
*

Punch up pages with forms and frames
*

Add animation, video, and sound

About the Author
Damon Dean is an experienced Web producer and developer.

Andy Cowitt is a professional Web developer.

Jennifer Smith is a designer and the founder of American Graphics Institute Training.

Christopher Smith is an Adobe Certified Expert.
Customer Reviews

Other ways to learn 2
The tutorials that come with the creative suite are not only sufficient but also easy to understand and follow, use them first and if you still have questions consider wasting your money on the book for dummies.

An excellent collection choice.5
Libraries seeking computer reference books promising lasting value would do well to look at this one-stop guide to creating a dynamic web site using Adobe's Creative Suite program. Damon Dean is an experienced web producer and developer who works with other equally talented to pack in over 800 pages of details, from formatting text and importing images to laying out pages and using PDF files. It's packed with plenty of detail, yet very accessible to relative newcomers, making it an excellent collection choice.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Product Description

Mastering InDesign for Print Design and Production shows how experienced professionals with deadlines and billable hours use InDesign efficiently and effectively. Through the case studies and interviews, readers will find inspired to look beyond the over-emphasized basic features and into the depths of InDesign's utility for real-world print design.

Most InDesign books are written for beginners, and experienced users are frustrated by them. When you already know how to make, fill, and thread a text box, the entire first half of most InDesign books is useless. But this one doesn't dwell on the basics. Mastering InDesign for Print Design and Production fulfills the promise of the Mastering series, to provide real-world skills to professionals and students. Like all Mastering books, this one includes:

* A "by pros for pros" approach: The author is an active professional working in the field of graphic arts, layout, and design, writing for professionals who want to improve their skills or learn new skills.
* Real-world examples: Running throughout the text are examples of how the various skills are applied in real scenarios, described throughout the book in the form of examples and case studies from the author's own design and consulting work, as well as interviews with other designers using InDesign on the job.
* Skill-based teaching and hands-on exercises

Although the book has a comprehensive glossary, page one begins right away speaking to the core market—print professionals—in industry terms about industry challenges. This immediately lets experienced InDesign users know the book is about them. The approach is humorous, making the digestion and retention of complicated information easier for the reader through quips, anecdotes, and design- and print-geek humor. But at all times the book is true to its mission: Helping a professional do their job in InDesign without frustration, confusion, or aesthetic compromise.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #284963 in Books
* Published on: 2007-08-13
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 492 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover
Take Control of Your Designs and Production Workflow Using InDesign

Adobe's InDesign gives you more creative freedom than you've ever experienced in the world of professional layout and design. The problem is that learning how to work with this powerful software can be a difficult and frustrating process.

This comprehensive book goes beyond the basics, clearly showing you how to effectively use InDesign to meet your printing and prepress needs. It guides you through the new features and functionality of InDesign CS3 and helps you develop sophisticated solutions. With a solid focus on improving your efficiency and creative freedom, this book provides the expert guidance you need to master collaboration within workgroups; work efficiently with text, objects, and variable text; perfect your printed output; harness the power of InDesign transparency and effects tools, and much more.

Along with invaluable hands-on lessons and a healthy dose of advice from his 20 years in graphic arts, publishing, and print production, author Pariah S. Burke also provides you with numerous examples and case studies that will help you apply the skills you've learned to real-world situations.

Coverage includes:

* Setting up press-ready pages and spreads with bleed, slug, and live areas
*

Placing and fitting images rapidly and accurately
*

Working with attribute-level transparency and new Photoshop-like effects for eye-popping results
*

Utilizing layers, guides, grids, templates, and libraries to speed the design process
*

Ensuring that image color settings and proof colors match
*

Maximizing productivity through reusable settings and assets
*

Collaborating with editorial through InCopy assignments
*

Collaborating with design peers through the Placed Pages Workflow
*

Utilizing dynamic text and variables
*

Handling common drawing tasks without Illustrator® or Photoshop®
*

Trying out new design techniques using sample files from the companion Web site, www.sybex.com/go/MasteringInDesign

Learn How to Achieve Outstanding Design Results with InDesign CS3

Download Sample Files from Companion Web Site to Put Your Skills into Practice

Enhance Your Designs with Tables, Images, Objects, and More

Gain the Skills to Better Manage Color Creativity and Output

Find Answers to Your Complex Printing Challenges

About the Author
Pariah S. Burke is a creative and publishing workflow consultant, trainer, publisher, writer, speaker, and freelance graphic designer. He is the former InDesign and InCopy Technical Lead to Adobe's technical support team. Burke is also the author of Adobe Illustrator CS2 @Work: Projects You Can Use On the Job and more than 250 articles covering the business of design and the tools of the trade. His Web sites, QuarkVSInDesign.com and Designorati.com, are highly acclaimed in the industry.
Customer Reviews

The facts about this BOOK!!!!2
I bought this book thinking i would learn more about InDesign then i knew. Although i feel it has brought some knowledge to the table, i do NOT feel this book is worth the review of stars others have given and the price. The maker of the book, i give him two thumbs up if he really designed this whole book in InDesign, BUT, he should have used spell check!!! For a book that is telling you that it will help you master InDesign, he has not and this is the worst representation of a typesetter. I feel if someone is telling me i would master something he would of atleast spell checked it. Thats why im giving this book a two. There is sooooooooo much grammer errors, type spelling, and run-ons going to left field that if i didnt know what i was doing, i would throw this book away!!!!! So for any of you that know how spelling, grammer and punctuation is a must for any typsetter, the author gives a bad name to us. Though, this book can be a great intro or a way to freshen your skills, but i would NOT recommend this book for anyone that hasn't touched InDesign. It does not have any hands-on or come with a CD in lamens terms. Its for a moderate typesetter. Hope that helps you.

Not for the beginner5
I've used InDesign for three years, watched all the [...] videos, attend the local ID user group regularly, read MOGO, InDesignSecrets and the other weblogs on ID and... I still learned a lot of new things from this book. I'm studying to take the ID certification exam and I'm sure that this book will put me over the top for the print production stuff. It is an excellent resource for folks who have a good foundation in InDesign already. This is really not a beginner's book - grab this one after you know your way around ID fairly well.

a fine book for print pros5
I'm a sometimes InDesign user trying to hone my skills on real projects. This book is useful for me because it speaks to us print production and design people specifically. One gets the sense that the author has really spent time in the trenches using these tools under deadline, so he doesn't waste your time. It also has humor and a nice personal writing style that makes it bearable to actually read, (which is generally the exception and not the norm in technical books). To me there's nothing worse than a software book that bores ... it is an insult to the reader and thus the ultimate failure of any software title. this book also practices what it preaches: the page design is elegant and adheres to the rules of good design espoused in the text. This looks to be a well-edited series, I will definitely seek out other SYBEX Serious Skills titles. Hopefully they'll be as solid as this gem.

Product Description

Unlike the early days of Photoshop, for several years now most Photoshop books have been aimed at photographers; there is a big hole on the bookstore shelf that needs to be filled by a Photoshop book that is geared specifically towards graphic design professionals and production artists. This core audience should not have to wade through useless chapters of content geared towards other users of the application, namely professional photographers, web designers, and video editors.

Mastering Photoshop for Print Design and Production sets graphic designers and production artists in the right direction when implementing the latest version of Photoshop into their everyday workflow. It demonstrates how to use Photoshop for all aspects of print, from simpler tasks such as basic color correction and masking, to more advanced tasks such as color management, utilizing layer comps, and troubleshooting and automating RGB-to-CMYK color conversion.

Entirely four-color throughout, Mastering Photoshop for Print Design and Production fulfills the promise of the Mastering series, to provide real-world skills to professionals and students. Like all Mastering books, this one includes:

* A "by pros for pros" approach: The author is an active professional working in graphic arts, layout, and design, writing for professionals who want to improve their skills or learn new skills.
* Real-world examples: Running throughout the text are examples of how the various skills are applied in scenarios faced by real practitioners.
* Skill-based teaching and hands-on exercises.
* Companion files for tutorials and projects are provided on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #103651 in Books
* Published on: 2007-07-17
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 573 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover
Unlock Your Creativity with Photoshop and Design More Powerful Images

Photoshop has always been an essential tool for design professionals. Now the newest release adds even more power with new productivity and workflow enhancements, editing tools, and compositing capabilities.

This comprehensive guide shows you how to work with all of the new features of Photoshop CS3 and effectively integrate them into your everyday print design and production workflow. Photoshop expert Ted LoCascio clearly demonstrates how to maximize the software for optimum printing quality. He walks you step-by-step through everything from simple tasks such as basic color correction and masking to more advanced steps including managing color and building layer comps.

With pages of full-color examples that show you how to apply your new Photoshop skills to real-world situations, this in-depth reference will improve your overall workflow and help you enhance and prepare images more effectively than ever before.

Coverage includes:

* Selecting the right brushes and manipulating specific areas of an image
*

Adding color to bring your graphics to life
*

Retouching like a pro and preparing for print
*

Combining image layers to create dynamic print graphics
*

Enhancing the details of your image using sharpening tools
*

Choosing the right layer styles and filter effects
*

Editing Raw files, TIFFs, and JPEGs with Camera Raw

Discover How to Take Your Photoshop CS3 Skills to the Next Level

Modify Images with Fully Customizable Brushes and Drawing Tools

Take Advantage of the New Nondestructive Smart Filters

Gain Control over Print Quality to Produce the Richest Images

Put Your Skills into Practice Using Sample Images from the Enclosed CD

About the Author
Ted LoCascio is a professional graphic designer, an instructor in digital graphics, and an expert in InDesign, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Illustrator, and QuarkXPress. He served as senior designer at KW Media and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), and has created layouts and designs for many successful books, videos, and magazines. LoCascio is also the author of several books on digital imaging and desktop publishing, including The InDesign Effects Book and Combining Images with Photoshop Elements (both from Sybex), and many video training titles available from Lynda.com.
Customer Reviews

Mastering Photoshop CS35
The booking has all the information about applying spot color to repairing image. The big plus is the CD that come with the book.

A guide for any Photoshop would-be professional.5
Design professionals seeking a clear Photoshop guide learn how to take introductory skills in the program to the next level with Mastering Photoshop CS3 for Print Design and Production. All the latest, new features of CS3 are presented by a Photoshop expert who covers everything from selecting brushes to manipulate specific image areas to combining image layers for more effective graphics results. Any who have either an older version of Photoshop under their belt or who want more applied skills will appreciate the author's professional expertise in graphic design, which translates well to a guide for any Photoshop would-be professional.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #177456 in Books
* Published on: 2007-07-30
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 252 pages
Customer Reviews

Best Photoshop Book Ever!5
Photoshop CS3 for Forensic Professionals is by far the most informative course book for photoshop users. As a college student working towards a criminal justice degree with a concentration in criminal investigations, I highly recommend this book for any professional or student that needs to improve their digital imaging skills. The instructions are easy to understand and the step by step instructions on the companion CD are detailed. After reading Photoshop CS3 for Forensic Professionals and taking the CD course I can honestly say that my imaging skills have been greatly enhanced. This book is an excellent student resource and an invaluable tool for the forensic professional.

Should be on the shelf of every forensic imaging professional!5
Part 1, "The Essentials", is comprised of six chapters. The first two chapters are not specific to Photoshop, and are a must read for anyone interested or involved in the use of digital images within a legal setting. The remaining four chapters provide an important foundation for analysts and investigators using Photoshop.

Part 2, "The Digital Darkroom", and Part 3, "Image Analysis and Enhancement", are detailed instructions regarding Photoshop's settings, filters, and the multitude of related processes to achieve optimum imaging results. Included with the book is a CD-ROM contianing sample images to work with when going through the tutorials, as well as some free scripts and trial plugin's.

I've been using Photoshop for several years now in my Forensic Video workflow, as well as personally for Graphic and Web design projects. This book has already proven to be the single most valuable reference for me pertaining to the use of Photoshop in either setting. It's also probably the smartest investment I've made in quite some time.

Photoshop CS3 for Forensics Professionals5
As a former Forensic Video Analyst for a law enforcement agency, I can attest that not only is this the most thorough and easy to understand FVA "Course" book that I have ever read and gained the most from, the author is one of the top Forensic Video Analysts in the country, and even the world.
Any one who is interested in this profession, law enforcement and private, must have this book. Even if you already are an FVA professional, this book is an excellant reference source.

Product Description

Take your Maya skills to new levels with the sophisticated coverage in this authoritative Autodesk Maya Press reference and tutorial. From key basics through advanced techniques, a team of Maya experts provides you with the very latest professional-level instruction on Maya Complete and Maya Unlimited through tutorials and hands-on practice. Whether a novice or an advanced user of Maya, you’ll find everything from key basics through advanced techniques.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #148870 in Books
* Published on: 2007-04-09
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 880 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover
The Ultimate Maya Resource for Intermediate to Advanced Users

Take your Maya skills to new levels with the sophisticated coverage you'll find in this authoritative Autodesk Maya Press reference and tutorial. From key basics through advanced techniques, our Maya experts provide the very latest professional-level instruction on Maya Complete and Maya Unlimited.

Early chapters offer a practical overview of Maya's interface. A "Quick Start" exercise lets novices create an animation the first day and covers the basics of node structure, keyframes, and basic lighting. Advanced users will broaden their skills with pertinent coverage for nCloth, mental ray integration, volume Fur rendering, advanced texturing tools, and enhanced MEL scripting. Practical tutorials reinforce learning with hands-on practice.

If you've been looking for a professional-quality and complete Maya resource to turn to again and again, this is the book.

* Render and store stills through the Render View window
* Learn techniques with nCloth's powerful cloth simulation
* Tweak and add drag-and-drop Fluid Effects for real-world effects

The CD provides tutorial files, images, and scene files that let you complete the hands-on exercises and compare your work to the pros. See the Introduction for details and complete system requirements.

About the Author
John Kundert-Gibbs is Associate Professor of Animation in the Theatre & Film Studies Department at the University of Georgia and an accomplished author.

Mick Larkins is the Technical Art Lead at Hi-Rez Studios in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dariush Derakhshani is an award-winning Maya animator, author, and educator who has worked on everything from movies to the South Park TV series to commercials and music videos.

Eric Kunzendorf is a Digital Fine Arts faculty member at the New Hampshire Institute of Art.

Eric Keller is a high-end animator for film, television, and scientific visualization.

Boaz Livny owns Vision Animations Inc. studio and teaches advanced Maya and mental ray courses at the NY Film Academy.

Mark E. A. de Sousa is a Computer Graphics Supervisor for Cloth and Hair at Sony Pictures Imageworks.

Ed Siomacco is a Cloth/Hair Technical Director at Sony Pictures Imageworks.
Customer Reviews

Great Book4
I bought this book to help understand nCloth in Maya and it was very helpful with explaining the different properties and how to create different effects. I can't speak for the other sections in the book but the chapters on cloth were very helpful for me.

Bent corners3
I was actualy surprised at the way my items where packaged. Mastering Maya8.5 is a pretty big book and it ended up being shrink wrapped with another item and these items weren't boxed. In putting these two items together and packaging them the way they were the book ended up with horrible corner damage. This is the first time I have ever been dissapointed with Amazon.

This book is excellent!5
I highly encourage anyone who wants to learn 3D animation with Maya 8.5 to get this book. It comes with a CD ROM that has many helpful source files that go along with the chapter. Each chapter gives you a thorough lesson in the many powerful features that Maya 8.5 offers.

Product Description

Beb Hart's letters have generated more than $500 million during the last 20 years.


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Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #697993 in Books
* Published on: 2006-01-12
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 236 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Ben Hart's letters have generated more than $500,000,000 in sales and donations for scores of businesses and non-profit organizations during the past 20 years. Hart is the author of five books.
Customer Reviews

All Bow Down And Hail Ben Hart...5
This brilliant book is destined to become a literary classic of the higest regards. This is deep psychological marketing at its best. How would you like to know what emotion to tap in your sales copy that will double your sales? Or what about the most effective way to start your sales letter? How about a money phrase that I have personally used to increase my sales by 20%? It's all packed into this power house of a book.

This book goes far beyond just direct mail marketing, which frankly I have little interest in, and taps into something much deeper: the human. Ben shows you how the basic marketing principles on how to exploit human nature go all the way back to Jesus Christ and the Bible. He goes on to make the point that the basic laws of marketing have existed for over 2,000 years and that they will never change because they are based on needs and desires of humans.

This flies in the face of college courses that teach culture diversity and that we are all different. Nonsense! Ben shows the doorway to what we all have in common, and then drives a Mac truck right through it with the sample sales copy he provides you. You simply adapt his sales copy to your needs and be prepared to start handling all the orders that come rolling in. Every master marketer needs to have this book.

Product Description

Ideal for writing a short story, essay, review, or report, this guide provides beginning writers with the hands-on direction they need to improve their writing techniques and ability. Using a six-step approach to writing, this resource covers brainstorming ideas, choosing a topic, outlining, drafting, revising, and editing. The tone is casual, the advice is straightforward, and the whole approach makes writing a skill that anyone can learn. Illustrations reinforce the ideas visually and help to break up the text into bite-sized chunks. An example section with worked examples of two kinds of writing—a creative writing piece and an essay—takes readers through the six steps, so they can watch writing develop from a blank page to a finished piece. Ideal for high school students but also appropriate for writers of all ages, this book also includes tips on user-friendly grammar, a table of different types of text, and a quick night-before-the-exam summary.

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #1179650 in Books
* Published on: 2002-04-01
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 224 pages

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Review
"Can help you knock out writers block" -- Boston Herald

About the Author
Kate Grenville is the author of The Writing Book and six acclaimed novels, including Lilian’s Story, Joan Makes History, and The Idea of Perfection, winner of the Orange Prize.
Customer Reviews

She ripped off the title1
I will get around to checking this out of the library out of simple curiousity, though I have never been helped by any "# step guides." The "process approach" to writing leads to stultifying boredom. Writing cannot be disected into steps. But I am suspicious of the product for a far more important reason: the author appears to have ripped off the title of a much better book, Writing from Start to Finish: The "Story Workshop" Basic Forms Rhetoric-Reader.

The older book, by John Schultz, makes great sense. If you are to writing what a gardener is to gardening, i.e. you like the ink under your nails and you like to nurture images and ideas and help them to grow into writings, then scrounge for a copy of Writing from Start to Finish: The "Story Workshop" Basic Forms Rhetoric-Reader.

Ideal for aspiring writers4
Whenever you write, whatever you write, getting started is generally the hardest part of the process.

Most established writers develop a routine - it may be a ritual they complete before settling into their work, it may be a certain literary approach to their writing. Whatever it is, it has usually evolved after spending an inordinate amount of time staring at a blank screen.

For many newcomers, however, writing remains a mysterious process that inexplicably occurs.

Fortunately for these writers, help is at hand in the form of a new how-to book from Kate Grenville, an award-winning novelist who has run writing workshops in universities in the US and Australia since 1981.

Grenville's approach to writing, as detailed in `Writing From Start to Finish', is different from many others. Instead of thinking ahead of writing, she prefers to reverse the process, by allowing the mind to "roam around the topic in a free-form way".

This is the time, she says, to explore the topic, making a few notes as you go. Once you have enough literary titbits, you can begin placing them in some kind of order, expanding upon some and deleting others. By this time, "the process of creating and the process of judging" are separate.

So, once the writer has written, the internal editor is free to edit. Too often, as Grenville argues, the situation is reversed by thinking before writing.

`Writing From Start to Finish' simplifies the process of writing and presents it as six steps that can be applied to a novel, essay or report. They are:

* Getting ideas (in no particular order)
* Choosing (selecting the most useful ideas)
* Outlining (putting these ideas into order - making a plan)
* Drafting (writing a first draft, from beginning to end, without going back)
* Revising (cutting, adding or moving parts of this draft where necessary)
* Editing (proof-reading for grammar, spelling and meaning)

Each step is demonstrated by two sample pieces of writing - a story and an essay - which evolve through the course of the book. At the end of the book, the reader will have achieved a polished piece of writing.

There are many writing books available, but if you're looking for a user-friendly introduction to the craft, Grenville's book will ease you in gently and guide you along the way.

-- Michael Meanwell, author of the critically-acclaimed 'The Enterprising Writer' and 'Writers on Writing'. For more book reviews and prescriptive articles for writers, visit www.enterprisingwriter.com

Product Description

This collection of new training tricks from master magician and trainer of trainers Dave Arch contains proven magic tricks, brainteasers and puzzlers that will amaze your audience, get and hold your audience's attention, energize, retain learning, and much more. Covers: teamwork, quality, customer service, goal-setting, leadership, motivation, and creative problem-solving.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #975522 in Books
* Published on: 1999-02
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 153 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Dave Arch, best-selling author and trainer of trainers, has written seven resource books for the training industry. His ideas can be found in Tricks

For Trainers books and videos, as well as in his popular monthly column in the Creative Training Techniques Newsletter. Drawing upon twenty-five years of training experience, Dave travels for Creative Training Techniques, customizing and presenting four different participant-centered Train-the-Trainer seminars and keynotes (including the cutting-edge seminar entitled Creative Training Techniques for Distance Learning). Dave's clients include the Internal Revenue Service, Kimberly-Clark, the National Education Association, Canada Postal Service, and the Untied States Central Intelligence Agency.
Customer Reviews

Different Approach5
I can sum it up in 3 letters...W-O-W! I could not believe the impact that some of the techniques had on the participants. Dave's tricks can be used to "spice-up" what would be a boring, uninteresting topic. Although a lot of the material is geared toward the buisness world, the tricks presented in the book can be used in a variety of settings.

I am an instructor in the public safety field. Believe me when I say that we have several "routine" topics that are taught over and over and over. You should have seen the look on their faces when I told them that we were going to write "love letters" to emphasize the importance of punctuation.

If you are a trainer/instructor, you have got to get this book!!