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Fun with Photoshop Elements 4: Foto Fakery for Everyone Review

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(More customer reviews)Most of the Photoshop Elements books are written using keyboard codes that are only for Windows. This book uses very few shortcut keys and the ones it does use are universal.
In addition it is very well organized into specific projects that teach how to use the Elements features. Rhoda Grossman's style of writing is easy to understand and entertaining. The book does not have a CD but refers you to the web site where you can download images to practice the exercises. It is filled with tips and information that makes Elements behave like Photoshop.

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Fun with Photoshop Elements 4: Foto Fakery for Everyone is a fun, cheeky approach to using Photoshop Elements 4 in exactly the way you want to use it - for fun! You'll be able to get your feet wet and your hands dirty while learning the key tools and tricks through objective-based lessons.You'll be able to quickly complete tasks, andby the end of the book, you will be able to combine elements of two photos into one image, perform "head transplants," makeover your clothes or face, edit people into and out of images, and graft images together to create giant, mystical creatures. Plus, you'll find out how to use these images ongreeting cards, T-shirts, personalized calendars, fake street sign, and more. You can even gain inspiration at the companion website from posted reader creations! The possibilities are endless. Let us help you reel them in!

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Get Backed, Get Big, Get Bought: Plan your start-up with the end in mind Review

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(More customer reviews)Entrepreneurship expert Colin Barrow promises that selling your company is the path to big bucks. The problem is that first you have to start a business and make it successful. Barrow details all the ins and outs of this lucrative practice, from writing your business plan and securing funding to expanding your company and preparing an "exit strategy." He tailors his information to businesses in the U.K., but most of the principles apply universally. Thus, getAbstract recommends Barrow's practical guide as informative, encouraging reading for any entrepreneur with the next great business idea. Heeding his sound advice could help you follow in the footsteps of Bebo founders Michael and Xochi Birch, who in 2008 sold their popular networking site to AOL for £417 million.

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"Bebo sale to AOL nets founders a £290m fortune in 3 years." - March 2008
"Foxtons sale nets founder £370m." - May 2007
"L'Oréal buys Body Shop for £652m." - March 2006
For entrepreneurs and business owners alike, this is your ticket to serious money.
Fact 1: Business is all about making money.
Fact 2: Personal satisfaction is great, but it doesn't pay the bills.
If your main ambition is to make big money from your business, you're already on the right track. Over 4 million people start up businesses in the UK each y ear but only 1% become millionaires. Start with the end in mind and you could be one of them.
Colin Barrow, bestselling start-up author and business investment specialist, shows you how to shape up for a sale right from the world go:
Get Backed - secure big investment
Get Big - create real value and strong growth
Get Bought - dress the business and negotiate a killer deal
With practical advice, tools and stories from those who have done it, you'll find out how to guide your start-up business towards the payday of your dreams.

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Grid Computing: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides) Review

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(More customer reviews)Grid Computing is coming and it's hard to separate the hype from the reality. Not to mention the fact that various companies have co-opted "Grid" to refer to things that are less than Grids.
Make no mistake; this is a technology that's coming, and you, the IT Manager, Engineering Director or CEO of a technical company need to know what it's about.
Enter Richard Wellner and Pavel Plaszczak with "Grid Computing, The Savvy Manager's Guide". This is a very good book to provide the context you need to understand what Grid Computing is, where it came from and what it means to you.
The underlying technologies, such as Web Services, are covered in a lucid and accessible way. Numerous case studies are presented to show how organizations have capitalized on The Grid.
One particularly compelling success story presented is NEESgrid which uses Grid Computing for earthquake research. Massive computing resources are applied to analysis and simulation using pools of computers from around the world and the huge data sets created are made available on The Grid to a widely distributed community of scientists.
Plaszczak and Wellner are well qualified to write this book. Both worked under Dr. Ian Foster at Argonne National Laboratory as developers of the Globus Toolkit and both are now involved in commercial applications of Grid Computing. There is no better mentor than Dr. Foster, who coined the term "The Grid" and is co-author of the seminal theoretical work on the subject with Dr. Karl Kesselman of USC.
If your are looking to come to grips with a powerful new technology that is destined to affect the world of computing profoundly you should get a copy "Grid Computing, The Savvy Manager's Guide".

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Red Hat Fedora Core 6 Unleashed Review

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(More customer reviews)Lucky. I use this word in the following sense. If you are using an earlier version of Red Hat Fedora, like perhaps Core 5, then you already will be familiar with many sections of the book. It stands as a pretty complete description of Core 6. The differential with Core 5 is relatively small. Since Core 5 was itself fairly mature and stable.
But what if you are completely new to any linux? Then, if you want to install and learn it, you might as well start with the latest major release, which is covered by the book, at this time of writing. Plus, given the now typical time intervals between major releases of Fedora, Core 6 is likely to remain heavily in use for 2007 and most of 2008. This is the optimal frame of the book.
The book strongly promotes Core 6, and starts off with this remark: "This book provides all the information you need to get up and running with Fedora". Very true. I also certainly recommend you use linux. But there is an ironic counterpoint to that quote, which may be appreciated by some. You do not need all the information in the book in order to start installing and using linux, even if you are completely new to it. The key section on installing linux, be it from the enclosed DVD or downloaded from the web, is thankfully brief. Much effort has been expended in making this as painless as possible, and the brevity of the section attests to this.
Then, when running Core 6, either as a sysadmin or as a user, you can more or less skim various germane sections of the book. Without having to go through most of the narrative. For something like a home computer or a small network of computers, this approach should be adequate. Lessens the formidable length of the book.

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Red Hat® Fedora™ Core 6 Unleashed presents comprehensive coverage of Fedora Core 6, the popular Linux distribution developed by the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project.This book provides detailed information on installing, using, and administering Fedora. You'll learn how to set up a desktop workstation or a high-powered server, and you'll find complete details on Yum, Fedora's easy-to-use desktop and productivity software. Red Hat® Fedora™ Core 6 Unleashed covers a wide range of topics from using the software you need every day for work, such as the OpenOffice.org productivity suite and the Firefox web browser, to configuring your Linux desktop to run smoothly using multiple printers, shell scripts, and more. For the hardcore Linux enthusiast, there is complete coverage of the X Window system, Linux programming (including Mono), web server administration, and network administration.Install and configure Red Hat's Fedora Core 6 Linux distributionManage Linux services and usersRun a printer server with CUPSConnect to a local network and the InternetSet up and administer a web server with ApacheSecure your machine and your network from intrudersRebuild and install a new Linux kernelLearn shell scriptingRun other operating systems on Fedora with XenShare files with Windows users using SambaGet productive with OpenOffice.orgPlay games on LinuxUse Linux multimedia programsUse a database with FedoraSet up a firewallWatch television on your computerSet up a DNS serverAndrew Hudson is a regular freelance contributor to Linux Format magazine, the UK's largest Linux magazine. His particular area of expertise is Fedora Core and the Red Hat Enterprise platform.Paul Hudson is a professional developer and full-time journalist for Future Publishing. His articles have appeared in Mac Format, PC Answers, PC Format, PC Plus, and Linux Format.DVD includesThe full Fedora Core 6 binary distribution, packed with the complete Fedora Core packagesThe complete OpenOffice.org office suiteHundreds of additional programs and utilitiesRegister your book at www.samspublishing.com/register for access to exclusive bonus content and other resources.Category:Operating Systems/LinuxCovers:Fedora Core 6 Linux DistributionUser Level:Intermediate—Advancedwww.samspublishing.com$49.99 USA / $61.99 CAN / £35.99 Net UK (inc. of VAT)

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I'm Stalking Jake Review

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(More customer reviews)I was expecting this book to be a quick read about a young woman chasing after a movie star. I was pleasantly surprised to instead read a thoughtful, engaging, and sometimes heartbreaking story about pop culture, the Internet, and the people we all know (maybe you're one of them) who are a little too invested in both.
The book takes you through the life of the author's blog, starting with Brokeback Mountain and ending with Heath Ledger's death. Despite the title, though, it's not a book about Jake Gyllenhaal and the author doesn't shy away from acknowledging her larger personal interests in writing the blog. The book is laugh-out-loud funny in places and entertaining throughout. It's also brutally honest about the celebrities and the fans involved, though it artfully stays above being a gossipy tell-all.
For anyone who knows anyone (or is someone) who loves pop culture, is part of an online community, or even is just feeling lost about their direction in life, this book has a lot of insight to offer. It's also for any celebrity who has ever turned down a fan for an autograph. This story proves you really never know who's doing the asking (or why). Highly recommended.

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It was a standard-issue celebrity crush.It was 2006, Brokeback Mountain was inspiring critical acclaim and late night talk show jokes alike--and there was Becky Heineke, thinking Jake Gyllenhaal was looking pretty good.She was twenty-four, two years out of college, and had nothing better to do ... which is how she wound up joining a girl she'd never met to write a blog called Jake Watch.Over the blog's nineteen-month run, there were movie premieres, a movie script, a legitimately stupid Internet rumor (accidental), one highly unsuccessful presidential campaign, a lost puggle, and a T-shirt business that may or may not have violated international copyright laws.But Jake Watch also aged its two writers more than its life span might suggest. While countless books have been written about celebrities, blogs, and the impact of the Internet on our changing culture, there hasn't, until now, been a book that exemplifies their influence on the first generation to grow up obsessed with all three.I'm Stalking Jake! is a memoir unique to the age in which it was written, a comedy about the drama of growing up and reaching out in the era of Internet addiction and celebrity infatuation.

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Web Application Design Patterns (Interactive Technologies) Review

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(More customer reviews)User experience experts, information architects, and the like will want
to have a copy of "Web Application Design Patterns" as an important
addition to their knowledge base. Web developers and companies feeling
they can "handle it themselves in-house" will find this book an
absolutely critical must-have. It is obvious that years of experience
and research have gone into the production of this valuable reference.
Written at a college / professional level, Vora's style remains,
however, as user-friendly as his design solutions. Presented in a
straightforward PROBLEM --> SOLUTION --> WHY --> HOW format, this 429
page volume skips the editorializing and pontificating; instead, it provides
concrete examples and explanations of underlying concepts. This
book is a veritable encyclopedia of solutions to today's software
interface design issues.
Colorful screen shots grace almost every page, helping the reader
quickly understand problems and resolutions with real-world examples.
Along with the expected discussions of everyday mechanisms such as
forms, user authentication, and navigation schemes, "Web Application
Design Patterns" forges on with detailed examinations of rapidly
evolving areas such as Rich Internet Applications (RIA), social
networking sites and more.

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Ever notice that-in spite of their pervasiveness-designing web applications is still challenging? While their benefits motivate their creation, there are no well-established guidelines for design. This often results in inconsistent behaviors and appearances, even among web applications created by the same company. Design patterns for web applications, similar in concept to those for web sites and software design, offer an effective solution. In Web Application Design Patterns, Pawan Vora documents design patterns for web applications by not only identifying design solutions for user interaction problems, but also by examining the rationale for their effectiveness, and by presenting how they should be applied.. Design interfaces faster, with a better rationale for the solutions you choose.. Learn from over more than 100 patterns, with extensive annotation on use and extension.. Take a short-cut into understanding the industry with more than 500 full-color screenshots and a web site for help, discussion, and a collection of additional patterns.

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Going Digital Wedding and Portrait Photography Review

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(More customer reviews)Was a good book for the time but way out dated. I grew up in the film/digital industry from 2000-2008 and i can say it was fun. Know this, the most expensive camera doesn't always make for the best pictures and the author misses this sometimes. I would sneak into weddings weeks before my job and take shots like my client wanted. this gave me time to work out new cameras, lens, settings, etc. It is very important to know your gear in your sleep. Weddings are too fast a pace to fiddle with your camera. Expierence is better sometimes to book smarts.

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A guide for professional photographers working the traditional way who wish to explore the possibilities of converting to digital technology, "Wedding and Portrait Photography" provides a brief overview of the pros and cons of going digital, giving an explanation of what is required. A series of case studies features photographers describing why they converted to digital; the problems and benefits they encountered; tips for others who are thinking of doing the same and more. Each photographer also presents a number of images that were either shot or processed digitally, along with an explanation of how digital imaging made that shot possible, better, easier or more cost-effective. Each of the images is accompanied by details of the client, the brief and the equipment used.

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