Computers

This comprehensive reference by a Microsoft expert covers all aspects of the new Windows release. The much-anticipated release of Windows 7 will have numerous changes, and you'll need a complete guide to take full advantage of all it has to offer. Windows 7 Bible covers navigation changes such as pinning to the task bar, full screen preview with invisible windows, Jump Lists, Home Group, Sticky Notes, and many others. It shows you how to use Internet Explorer 8, including features like Web Slices and Network view changes, and guides you through all the new desktop features. This reference thoroughly examines all three parts of the new platform: Windows 7 Core OS, the Windows Live applications, and Windows Live Services. Windows 7 Bible shows you everything you need to know to make the most of Microsoft's new operating system.: Covers Windows Live Essentials, including Windows Live Family Safety, Mail, Messenger, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery, Toolbar, Writer, and Microsoft Office Outlook Connector; Shows how to use Windows Live Services, including Hotmail and Spaces; Explores new features including Desktop Gadgets Gallery, Desktop Windows manager, updated Fax and DVD Maker, an updated "Devices and Printers" option, and Sticky Notes; Explains new features in the Calculator, ribbon features in applets such as Paint and WordPad, the new Media Center, and searching updates; Fully covers the first complete overhaul of applets in a decade. With Windows 7 Bible at your side, you can learn as much or as little as you need to know for the way you use Windows. more...

Price: $39.99

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming , Second Edition will help the reader understand what programming really is. The reader not only gets an overview of the job of programming, but also learns which specific skills are needed for certain jobs. more...

Price: $19.99

A guide to creating dynamic, data-driven web applications with ASP.NET Orcas. This book is intended for web designers and HTML coders who are ready to take their web site to the next level and begin building web applications on the .NET Platform. It covers HTML, CSS and WYSIWIG page designer tool as well as the enhanced Ajax functionality. more...

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The book is aimed at novice programmers who wish to learn programming with C# and the .NET framework. The book starts with absolute programming basics. It then moves into Web and Windows programming, data access (databases and XML), and more advanced technologies such as graphics programming with GDI+ and basic networking. The book is divided into sections including:.:.; The C# Language: Basic language skills using console application. Content moves from the absolute basics to fairly involved OOP skills.; Windows Vista Programming: Using basic Windows applications, reinforcing earlier OOP and debugging skills.; Web Programming: Putting together basic Web applications, highlighting differences between Web and Windows programming.; Data Access: Accessing all kinds of data sources from Web and Windows applications, including SQL usage, XML, file system data, and Web Services.; Additional Techniques: "The fun stuff", including Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow, Windows Communication Foundation, GDI+, networking, Windows Services, and so on. The book makes complicated subjects seem easy to learn, and it inspires readers to investigate areas further on their own by providing references to additional material, and exercise questions that require significant effort and personal research to complete. more...

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WordPress is an open-source personal publishing platform that is easy to use, flexible, and highly customizable. Although used primarily for publishing blogs, WordPress can easily be used to create and maintain complete Web sites. Taking the average blogger further than blogspot can, WordPress allows bloggers to create more complicated sites with their open-source technology, rather than blogger which is limited by HTML changes to their templates. In this guide WordPress expert Scott McNulty walks readers through the entire process: installation and set-up, dealing with content, tweaking your blog with themes and plug-ins and more. He then provides in-depth coverage of the different types of Blogs available with WordPress (photoblogs, podcasts, group blogs, Tumbleblogs) and finally provides troubleshooting tips for common mistakes, excessive traffic, database issues and backing up. more...

Price: $23.99