Publisher: Focal Press
Language: English
ISBN: 024052084X
Paperback: 256 pages
Data: August 13, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: Black and white photography has come a long way in the digital world. Feeling overwhelmed by the endless conversion options in (and around) Photoshop, Lightroom and beyond? If so, youre not alone, and this is definitely the book for you!

In this thoroughly up-to-date book that covers all of the new features of Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom, you'll learn how to use methods within an application or raw converter, scripts, plug-ins, and more. Leslie Alsheimer and Bryan O'Neil Hughes show you everything you need to know to uncover the secrets to successful black and white conversion and printmaking. Let the stunning images (presented in both color and black and white) show you just what is possible when you master these powerful tools.

Publisher: Wrox
Language: English
ISBN: 0470133945
Paperback: 480 pages
Data: October 1, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: Professional Joomla walks the reader through Joomla, an open content management system that is rapidly growing in popularity. Readers will quickly advance from installation, integration, and set-up topics to digging into the underlying PHP and MySQL whose flexibility is driving the growth of the platform. Readers will explore load balancing, log tracking, and even search engine optimization. From a user standpoint, Joomla offers tremendous ease of use and simplicity. The elegant dashboard based upon the KDE interface allows content to be updated in minutes and data to flow freely from outside sources. Administrators and developers have he capability to customize virtually every aspect of the platform. For this reason extra attention is given to topics like plug-ins, the API, design and skinning, and integration with existing databases, websites, and web services.

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0072263660
Paperback: 313 pages
Data: May 11, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: From the #1 Name in Professional Certification
Get on the fast track to becoming CompTIA RFID+ certified with this affordable, portable study tool. Inside, RFID experts guide you on your career path, providing expert tips and sound advice along the way. With an intensive focus on only what you need to know to pass the CompTIA RFID+ exam, this certification passport is your ticket to success on exam day.

Publisher: Wiley; Pap/Onl edition
Language: English
ISBN: 047017501X
Paperback: 336 pages
Data: September 4, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: Site Stats on Steroids
Is your Web site serving its purpose? To find out, you need to analyze factors related to what the site is supposed to do. Site statistics give you raw numbers, but Web analytics are like site stats on steroids. Analytics crunch those raw numbers into meaningful metrics—information you can use.

If you read our first book on Google Analytics, you already know what this tool can do and why that matters. (If you didn't, don't worry; there's an overview here, too.) This edition shows you what's new in version 2.0, helping you uncover specific details and use them like never before.

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Language: English
ISBN: 0470041412
Paperback: 791 pages
Data: September 21, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: This book will provide a comprehensive survey of telecommunications technologies and services, at a reasonable level of technical depth, and in the author’s unique plain-English, commonsense style. Recent developments in technology to be explored will include:
Power Line Carrier (PLC)
Broad over Power Line (BPL)
Passive Optical Network (PON)
802.11g
Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO)
802.16 & WiMAX

Publisher: Academic Press
Language: English
ISBN: 0123738539
Paperback: 368 pages
Data: October 19, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: The advent of video-on-demand and interactive gaming has prompted the deployment of broadband infrastructures. Because of its large bandwidth, Passive Optical Networks (PONs) are seen as the technology to make this happen. However, there are numerous standards and technologies - EPON, BPON, GPON, APON, WDM-PON, TDM-PON - which network providers and device manufacturers need to know of and understand when developing their products. There are no books focused specifically on the technology of PONs. This book will be the definitive reference on PON technology and their application in the future development of broadband devices and systems.

A reference of this nature is ideal for professional internet application developers and those looking to burst on the scene with jobs at key billion dollar PON players such as Lucent, Mitsubishi and Samsung. The information contained in this tightly structured volume about these fun, limitless and amazingly versatile technologies will provide the aspiring entrepeneur with the knowledge and wherewithal they need to get up and running on the road to success as well.

Publisher: Sybex; Pap/Cdr edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0470167408
Paperback: 806 pages
Data: October 15, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: * The perfect desktop guide to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 from a trio of award-winning authors who are Civil 3D experts; their practical tutorials and real-world examples focus squarely on teaching vital Civil 3D tips, tricks, and techniques
* Covers the best methods for creating, editing, displaying, and labeling all of the elements of a civil engineering project
* Features in-depth, detailed coverage of surveying, points, alignments, surfaces, profiles, corridors, grading, LandXML and LDT Project Transfer, cross sections, pipe networks, project management, Vault, and data shortcuts
* Includes a valuable CD with all the tutorial files necessary to complete the book's exercises, as well as useful utilities and plug-ins, and a trial version of the Civil 3D software.

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Language: English
ISBN: 0123737443
Paperback: 352 pages
Data: June 8, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: In a local area network (LAN) or intranet, there are many pieces of hardare trying to gain access to the network transmission media at the same time (i.e., phone lines, coax, wireless, etc.). However, a network cable or wireless transmission frequency can physically only allow one node to use it at a given time. Therefore, there must be some way to regulate which node has control of the medium (a media access control, or MAC, protocol). Ethernet is a MAC protocol; it is one way to regulate physical access to network tranmission media.

Ethernet networking is used primarily by networks that are contained within a single physical location. If you need to design, install, and manage a network in such an envronment, i.e., home or small business office, then this book will give you an in-depth understanding of the technology involved in an Ethernet network.

Publisher: Wrox
Language: English
ISBN: 0764579169
Paperback: 775 pages
Data: May 6, 2005
Format: PDF
Description: RSS and Atom are specifications that give users the power to subscribe to information they want to receive and give content developers tools to provide continuous subscriptions to willing recipients in a spam-free setting. RSS and Atom are the technical power behind the growing millions of blogs on the Web. Blogs change the Web from a set of static pages or sites requiring programming expertise to update to an ever changing, constantly updated landscape that anyone can contribute to. RSS and Atom syndication provides users an easy way to track new information on as many Web sites as they want. This book offers you insight to understanding the issues facing the user community so you can meet users' needs by writing software and Web sites using RSS and Atom feeds.
Beginning with an introduction to all the current and coming versions of RSS and Atom, you'll go step by step through the process of producing, aggregating, and storing information feeds. When you're finished, you'll be able to produce client software and Web sites that create, manipulate, aggregate, and display information feeds effectively.

Publisher: Newnes; 4 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0750669470
Paperback: 592 pages
Data: August 22, 2006
Format: PDF
Description: This is the third of three volumes of essential reference for those concerned with the installation and servicing of domestic and industrial gas equipment. This volume deals with the various aspects of installing and servicing industrial and commercial appliances and associated equipment.

The revised fourth edition is brought fully up to date with current Standards, in line with requirements of the ACS Certificates of Competence and NVQs, and addresses the radical changes seen in the practice of soundness testing and purging of industrial and commercial gas installations in excess of, and below, 1m3, as well as strength and tightness testing and direct purging of small low pressure industrial and commercial natural gas installations. Also addressed in the new edition are important changes to standards for gas installation pipework, boosters and compressors on industrial and commercial premises; gas installation in educational establishments; LPG cylinders in mobile catering vehicles, service vehicles and similar commercial units; as well as flues and ventilation for larger gas appliances.

Publisher: Springer; 2nd ed. edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0387245588
Paperback: 344 pages
Data: October 7, 2005
Format: PDF
Description: Evaluating the Organizational Impact of Health Care Information Systems, Second Edition, is heavily updated and revised from its First Edition, which is entitled Evaluating Health Care Information Systems: Methods and Applications. The much-needed Second Edition is a guide for evaluating the organizational impacts of computer systems in health care institutions.

It provides a practical guide for determining the appropriate questions to ask based on underlying models of change and the most effective methods available. An introduction to various methods is provided, as well as appendices containing survey instruments usable in research and evaluation, computer programs for data analyses, and other evaluation resources. The book provides a critical overview of current research and evaluation to date with numerous bibliographic references from health care and other fields. The methods and instruments described are applicable to a wide variety of other organizations that utilize information technology and they emphasize the importance of clearly specifying the purpose of the evaluation, recognizing assumptions about organizational change and using a multi-method approach to system evaluation. The material presented is drawn from a variety of social and health science disciplines in order to integrate the study of information system with social science theory and methods. Chapter highlights include Cognitive Approaches to Evaluation, Computer Simulation as an Evaluation Tool, and Research and Evaluation: Future Directions.

Language: English
Paperback: 93 pages
Format: PDF
Size: 12 Mb

Language: English
Paperback: 60 pages
Format: PDF
Size: 28 Mb