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Schaum's Outline of Fundamentals of Relational Databases

Book Description

• More than 200 completely solved problems and an equal number of supplementary problems facilitate the understanding of database technology
• Complete scripts allow students to create and populate all databases used in the book
• Syntax and database technology employed by the most important database developers are featured, including Oracle, Microsoft Access, and DB2
• Lab and practice tests similar to the tests currently used in the database certification exams for database developers are included to help students master database problems

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Syntax and database technology employed by the most important database developers are featured, including Oracle, Microsoft Access, and DB2.

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Product Details

* Paperback: 249 pages
* Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (November 15, 2000)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 007136188X
* ISBN-13: 978-0071361880

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Elementary mechanics and thermodynamics

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How to Do Everything with Flash 8

Book Description

Bring new life to your graphics and easily create and publish movies, sound files, presentations, interactive web content, and much more with help from this step-by-step guide. How to Do Everything with Flash 8 shows you how to get the most from this tremendously powerful multimedia design tool through easy-to-follow and well-organized bits of information. Fully updated to cover all the new and existing Flash features--including advanced interactivity with ActionScript--this valuable resource will help you discover why Flash is the world’s most popular web graphics application.

Book Info
Guide to creating and publishing Web content and interactive multimedia. Shows how to animate text, shapes, and images; and import, edit, and animate digital video. Softcover. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

* Paperback: 464 pages
* Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (December 21, 2005)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0072262451
* ISBN-13: 978-0072262452

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Photoshop CS3 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Book Description
Get your picture-perfect guide to using all the cool features of Photoshop CS3.

Whether you're new to Photoshop, want to take your skills up a notch, or want to quickly master the new features and enhancements in Photoshop CS3, you've come to the right place. Nine easy-to-follow minibooks cover Photoshop fundamentals plus the newest tools and techniques. "Putting It Together" exercises give you hands-on experience. This is your one-stop guide to Photoshop. You'll learn to:

* Specify size and resolution.
* Correct contrast, color, and clarity.
* Create top-notch selections.
* Composite images with layers and blending modes.
* Make adjustments with levels and curves.
* Prep graphics for print or the Web.

Order your copy of this 9 books in 1 - with hundreds of examples in full color -- today!

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9 books in 1 — with hundreds of examples in full color!

Your picture-perfect guide to using all the cool features of Photoshop CS3

Whether you're new to Photoshop, want to take your skills up a notch, or want to quickly take advantage of the new features and enhancements in Photoshop CS3, you've come to the right place. Nine easy-to-follow minibooks cover Photoshop fundamentals plus the newest tools and techniques. "Putting It Together" exercises give you hands-on experience. This is your one-stop guide to Photoshop.

* Specify size and resolution
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Correct contrast, color, and clarity
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Create top-notch selections
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Composite images with layers and blending modes
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Make adjustments with levels and curves
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Prep graphics for print or the Web

Product Details

* Paperback: 700 pages
* Publisher: For Dummies; Pap/Onl edition (May 29, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 047011195X
* ISBN-13: 978-0470111956

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Visio 2007 For Dummies

Book Description
Reveal your inner business artist with Visio

Turn your ideas into diagrams and drawings with Visio's stencils and templates

If you have an idea you want to get down on electronic paper, Visio 2007 is for you, and so is this book! They're both flexible and user-friendly. Here's how to use Visio to capture ideas from simple to intricate, update data in a drawing with a single click, add and manipulate text, work with connectors, and more.

Discover how to

* Create business, engineering, software, or network diagrams
* Format an entire drawing using themes
* Analyze "what-if" scenarios with PivotDiagrams
* Produce layered multipage drawings
* Save drawings to publish on the Web

From the Back Cover
Reveal your inner business artist with Visio

Turn your ideas into diagrams and drawings with Visio's stencils and templates

If you have an idea you want to get down on electronic paper, Visio 2007 is for you, and so is this book! They're both flexible and user-friendly. Here's how to use Visio to capture ideas from simple to intricate, update data in a drawing with a single click, add and manipulate text, work with connectors, and more.

Discover how to

* Create business, engineering, software, or network diagrams
* Format an entire drawing using themes
* Analyze "what-if" scenarios with PivotDiagrams
* Produce layered multipage drawings
* Save drawings to publish on the Web

Product Details

* Paperback: 387 pages
* Publisher: For Dummies (December 18, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0470089830
* ISBN-13: 978-0470089835

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Encyclopedia of Multimedia

Book Description

The Encyclopedia of Multimedia provides easily accessible coverage of the important concepts, issues and technology trends in the field of multimedia technologies, systems, techniques, and applications. It is a comprehensive collection of more than 250 entries from hundreds of leading researchers and world experts.

With over 1000 heavily-illustrated pages, the Encyclopedia of Multimedia presents concise overviews of all aspects of software, systems, web tools and hardware that enable video, audio and developing media to be shared and delivered electronically.

The Editor-in-Chief, Borko Furht, in collaboration with an Editorial Board, surveyed and divided the field of multimedia into specific topics that collectively encompass the foundations, technologies, applications, and emerging elements behind web technologies, wireless information transfer, and audio-visual formatting and storage. Borko Furht is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal, Multimedia Tools and Applications.

This essential reference features:

— Over 250 topics ranging from multimedia servers, to multimedia databases and multimedia networks and communications, to emerging multimedia applications

— Immediate point of entry into field for researchers

— A–Z format

— Many headers for easy skimming and navigation of topic

— New standards

— Cross-referenced entries

— Internationally renowned Editorial Board

— Index

Each peer-reviewed entry includes:

— Broken out definition of terms

— Keywords

— Full overview of the technology

— Key citations to locate further resources in the field

— Illustrations

— Applications

The intended audience of the Encyclopedia of Multimedia is technically diverse and wide; it includes professionals concerned with the internet, websites, telecommunications, multimedia players and technologies. Specifically, this volume serves as a valuable reference for system designers, software engineers, programmers, and business managers who are involved in multimedia system design and their applications. Practitioners in communications and software industries will benefit from this reference, as will advanced-level students in computer science, web design, and electrical engineering.

Product Details

* Hardcover: 989 pages
* Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (December 20, 2005)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 038724395X
* ISBN-13: 978-0387243955

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PowerPoint 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual [ILLUSTRATED]

Book Description
Fast-paced and easy to read, this new book teaches you the basics of PowerPoint 2007 so you can start using the program right away. This concise guide shows readers how to work with PowerPoint's most useful features and its completely redesigned interface. With clear explanations, step-by-step instructions, lots of illustrations, and plenty of timesaving advice, PowerPoint 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual will quickly teach you to:

* Create, save, set up, run, and print a basic bullets-and-background slideshow
* Learn how to add pictures, sound, video, animated effects, and controls (buttons and links) to your slides
* Discover how to incorporate text, spreadsheets, and animations created in other programs

The new PowerPoint is radically different from previous versions. Over the past decade, PowerPoint has grown in complexity, but its once-simple toolbar has been packed with so many features that not even the pros could find them all. For PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft redesigned the user interface completely, adding a tabbed toolbar that makes every feature easy to locate.

Unfortunately, Microsoft's documentation is as scant as ever, so even if you find the features you need, you still may not know what to do with them. But with this book, you can breeze through the new user interface and its timesaving features in no time. PowerPoint 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual is the perfect primer for anyone who needs to create effective presentations.
Product Details

* Paperback: 318 pages
* Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. (January 25, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0596528310
* ISBN-13: 978-0596528317

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Excel 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual [ILLUSTRATED]

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Fast-paced and easy to use, this new book teaches you the basics of Excel 2007 so you can start using the program right away. This concise guide shows readers how to work with Excel's most useful features and its completely redesigned interface. With clear explanations, step-by-step instructions, lots of illustrations, and plenty of timesaving advice, Excel 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual will quickly teach you to:

* Build spreadsheets
* Add and format information
* Print reports
* Create charts and graphics
* Use basic formulas and functions
* and more

The new Excel is radically different from previous versions. Over the years, Excel has grown in power, sophistication and capability, but its once-simple toolbar has been packed with so many features that not even the pros could find them all. For Excel 2007, Microsoft redesigned the user interface completely, adding a tabbed toolbar that makes every feature easy to locate.

Unfortunately, Microsoft's documentation is as scant as ever, so even if you find the features you need, you still may not know what to do with them. But with this book, you can breeze through the new user interface and its timesaving features in no time. Excel 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual is the perfect primer for small businesses with no techie to turn to, as well as those who want to organize household and office information.
Product Details

* Paperback: 348 pages
* Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. (January 23, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0596528329
* ISBN-13: 978-0596528324

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Access 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual [ILLUSTRATED

Book Description
This fast-paced book teaches you the basics of Access 2007 so you can start using this popular database program right away. You'll learn how to work with Access' most useful features to design databases, maintain them, search for valuable nuggets of information, and build attractive forms for quick-and-easy data entry.

The new Access is radically different from previous versions, but with this book, you'll breeze through the new interface and its timesaving features in no time with:

* Clear explanations
* Step-by-step instructions
* Lots of illustrations
* Larger type
* Plenty of friendly advice

Ideal for small businesses and households, Access runs on PCs and manages large stores information, including numbers, pages of text, and pictures -- everything from a list of family phone numbers to an enormous product catalog. Unfortunately, each new version of the program crammed in yet another set of features -- so many that even the pros don't know where to find them all. Access 2007 breaks the mold: Microsoft changed the user interface by designing a tabbed toolbar that makes features easy to locate.

One thing that hasn't improved is Microsoft's documentation. Even if you find the features you need, you still may not know what to do with them. Access 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual is the perfect primer for small businesses with no techie to turn to, as well as those who want to organize household and office information.
Product Details

* Paperback: 378 pages
* Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. (January 25, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0596528337
* ISBN-13: 978-0596528331

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Firefox and Thunderbird Garage (The Garage Series)

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Welcome to the next Internet revolution

Enter your Firefox and Thunderbird Garage...where you master the incredible free software that's helping millions of people use the Web and email faster, more efficiently, and more safely. Your guides know Firefox and Thunderbird better than anyone. They're the Mozilla insiders who helped create them—sparking a new Internet revolution, in which real people take back the Internet from monopolists, spammers, and spyware artists!

The basics are just the beginning: this book shows how to customize and extend Firefox and Thunderbird so they'll work exactly the way you want, and do more than you ever thought possible. We're talking better productivity, faster searches, easier downloads, and more fun.

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Discover why Firefox and Thunderbird blow away Internet Explorer and Outlook Express
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Make Firefox even more secure: Manage passwords, clean caches and history, and more
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Trash unwanted popups, ads, and other Web annoyances
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Make the most of Firefox's built-in search tools and shortcuts
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Create "live bookmarks" that update automatically
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Harness tabbed browsing to get more done faster
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Download files more quickly and reliably
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Install today's hottest Firefox and Thunderbird plug-ins
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Set up email, RSS, and newsgroup accounts fast—and manage them efficiently
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Organize the messages you want, and dump the messages you don't want
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Get under the hood! Hack Firefox and Thunderbird configuration files
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Includes quick-references to keyboard/mouse shortcuts, security, and more

With its easy, quick-learning modules, insider tips, rants, and blog entries, Firefox and Thunderbird Garage is far more than a software manual: it's your guide to the new Internet revolution!

About the Author

Chris Hofmann is Director of Engineering at the Mozilla Foundation. For eight years, he worked at Netscape and was involved in every Netscape and Mozilla Browser release since Netscape 3.01. In August 2003 he was hired as the first employee at the Mozilla Foundation and spent the first 18 months in startup mode, working with the small team that has been successful in getting the Mozilla Foundation off the ground and running as a independent and self-sustaining organization and continuing to organize the work of thousands of open source contributors to make great Internet software. In 2004, he contributed a wide variety of management efforts that led to the worldwide release of Firefox 1.0 in November, and is helping to fulfill the Mozilla Foundation's goal of continuing to support open web standards and provide innovation and choice for Internet client software.

Marcia Knous is a Project Manager at the Mozilla Foundation and has been working with the Mozilla Project for five years. She is involved with both the Firefox and Thunderbird projects. In the freelance realm, she is a frequent contributor to a number of online websites, including http://www.fanstop.com, where she writes a weekly NFL column called Monday Night Musings. In addition, she has written dozens of online articles about the historical contributions women have made to the world of sports. Marcia has a Masters in Cinema-Television and enjoys working on films in her spare time. She recently wrapped up cinematography on the documentary Common Hours. Born and raised in the splendid confines of New England, Marcia now resides in the Bay Area.

John Hedtke has written 24 books, close to 100 magazine articles, and hundreds of manuals and online help systems for all kinds of technical and non-technical documentation for all levels of readers. John owns and operates a company that provides writing, consulting, and training services to private and government clients in all fields. He also speaks to professional groups all over the world on subjects such as career planning, time management, and writing books and magazine articles. John is a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication. In his spare time, John writes buttons for a button company in California, donates blood, and sings and plays banjo and guitar (something he's been doing since 1971). He says he gets a lot of requests when he plays the banjo, but he goes ahead and plays it anyhow. A long-time resident of Seattle, John now lives in Eugene, OR, with his amazingly patient wife, Marilyn, where they share four cats. He can be reached through his website, http://www.hedtke.com.

Product Details

* Paperback: 357 pages
* Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (April 8, 2005)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0131870041
* ISBN-13: 978-0131870048

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The Principles of Beautiful Web Design [ILLUSTRATED]

Book Description
Tired of making web sites that work absolutely perfectly but just don't look nice?

If so, then The Principles of Beautiful Web Design is for you. A simple, easy-to-follow guide, illustrated with plenty of full-color examples, this book will lead you through the process of creating great designs from start to finish. Good design principles are not rocket science, and using the information contained in this book will help you create stunning web sites.

# Understand the design process, from discovery to implementation
# Understand what makes "good design"
# Developing pleasing layouts using grids, the rule of thirds, balance and symmetry
# Use color effectively, develop color schemes and create a palette
# Use textures, lines, points, shapes, volumes and depth
# Learn how good typography can make ordinary designs look great
# Effective imagery: choosing, editing and placing images
# And much more

Throughout the book, you'll follow an example design, from concept to completion, learning along the way.
Product Details

* Paperback: 180 pages
* Publisher: SitePoint (January 31, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0975841963
* ISBN-13: 978-0975841969

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VBA for the 2007 Microsoft(R) Office System (Business Solutions)

Book Description

“VBA for the 2007 Microsoft Office System is jam-packed with code samples that you’ll be able to reuse right away in your VBA projects.”

—Guy Barrette, Microsoft MVP & Regional Director, .NET Expertise



Develop your VBA expertise instantly with proven techniques

VBA for the 2007 Microsoft® Office System shows you how to take full advantage of the 2007 Microsoft Office suite by automating routine Office tasks. No matter which Office application you’re using, there are some tasks you perform dozens of times, such as typing a section of text, running a series of menu commands, or formatting a document in a particular way.This book shows you how to accomplish the same tasks by incorporating them into a macro that you can run with just a few mouse clicks or keystrokes. This book shows you the basics of VBA programming from the ground up. Even if you’ve never programmed before, VBA for the 2007 Microsoft® Office System will have you up to speed with VBA in no time.You’ll learn how to write programs that control Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access databases, and even Outlook email.You get dozens of example macros that not only illustrate the concepts in the book but also provide you with practical, business-oriented tools that you can use right away to improve your productivity.

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Practical, real-world examples for anyone who uses Office applications—not just power users.
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Automate or streamline all your repetitive Word, Excel, and PowerPoint chores.
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Create custom dialog boxes and custom Ribbon tabs, groups, and buttons to make Office look and work the way you want it to—no program experience required!
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Easy-to-understand instructions that make learning VBA fast and fun.
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All code examples and documents are available online so you can get started with VBA with a minimum of fuss.

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Automate Routine Tasks
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Control Word, Excel,
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and PowerPoint
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Program Access Databases
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Automate Document Backups
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Create Advanced Email Rules
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Build Custom Dialog Boxes
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Customize the Office 2007
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Ribbon
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Access the Registry
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Troubleshoot Macro Problems
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Control Macro Security

Introduction

I Getting Started with VBA

1 Creating and Running Recorded Macros

2 Writing Your Own Macros

3 Understanding Program Variables

4 Building VBA Expressions

5 Working with Objects

6 Controlling Your VBA Code

II Putting VBA to Work

7 Programming Word

8 Programming Excel

9 Programming PowerPoint

10 Programming Access Databases

11 Programming Outlook Email

III Getting the Most Out of VBA

12 Creating Custom VBA Dialog Boxes

13 Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon

14 VBA Tips and Techniques

15 Trapping Program Errors

16 Debugging VBA Procedures

IV Appendixes

A VBA Statements

B VBA Functions

Index

About the Author

Paul McFedries is well-known as a teacher of Office, Windows, and programming, particularly VBA. He is the president of Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company. Paul started programming when he was a teenager in the mid-1970s and has worked with everything from mainframes to desktops to bar code scanners. He has programmed in many different languages, including Fortran, assembly language, C++, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic, and VBScript. He has been writing programs for PCs for more than 25 years, and has been developing VBA applications since Microsoft first added VBA to the Office suite in 1994. Now primarily a writer, Paul has written more than 50 books that have sold more than three million copies worldwide. These books include Access 2007 Forms, Reports, and Queries (Que, 2007), Formulas and Functions with Excel 2007 (Que, 2007), Tricks of the Office 2007 Gurus (Que, 2007), and Windows Vista Unleashed (Sams, 2006).
Product Details

* Paperback: 432 pages
* Publisher: Que; 1 edition (March 30, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0789736675
* ISBN-13: 978-0789736673

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Tricks of the Microsoft Office 2007 Gurus (Business Solutions)

Book Description
&>Paul McFedries, an Office "insider," that will help you learn the Office applications inside and out. Designed to bridge the gap between your expectation and reality, you will go beyond the basics and learn newly discovered techniques, shortcuts, and best practices. Through real-world examples that showcase how the tips and tricks can be used in everyday business tasks, Tricks of the Microsoft Office 2007 Gurus will help you get the most out of Office 2007.

Part I MICROSOFT WORD TRICKS

Chapter 1 Text Tricks

Chapter 2 Formatting Tricks

Chapter 3 Document Tricks

Chapter 4 Page Layout Tricks

Part II MICROSOFT EXCEL TRICKS

Chapter 5 Formula and Function Tricks

Chapter 6 Workbook and Worksheet Tricks

Chapter 7 Data Analysis Tricks

Chapter 8 Chart Tricks

III MICROSOFT POWERPOINT TRICKS

Chapter 9 Slide and Presentation Tricks

Chapter 10 Animation Tricks

Chapter 11 Slide Show Tricks

IV MICROSOFT OUTLOOK TRICKS

Chapter 12 Email Tricks

Chapter 13 Calendar and Contacts Tricks

V MICROSOFT ACCESS TRICKS

14 Table and Query Tricks

Chapter 15 Form and Report Tricks

Author Bio

Paul McFedries is well-known as a teacher of Office, Windows, and programming, particularly VBA. He is the president of Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company. Paul has been writing programs for PCs for more than 25 years and has been developing VBA applications since Microsoft first added VBA to the Office suite in 1994. Now primarily a writer, Paul has written more than 50 books that have sold more than three million copies worldwide. These books include Access 2007 Forms, Reports, and Queries (Que, 2007), Formulas and Functions with Excel 2007 (Que, 2007), VBA for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Que, 2007), and Windows Vista Unleashed (Sams, 2006).

About the Author

Paul McFedries is the president of Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company.

Now primarily a writer, Paul has worked as a programmer, consultant, spreadsheet developer,

and Web site developer. He has written more than 50 books that have sold more than

three million copies worldwide. These books include Access 2007 Forms, Reports, and Queries

(Que, 2007), Formulas and Functions with Excel 2007 (Que, 2007), VBA for the 2007

Microsoft Office System (Que, 2007), and Windows Vista Unleashed (Sams, 2006).
Product Details

* Paperback: 504 pages
* Publisher: Que; 2Rev Ed edition (May 16, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0789736667
* ISBN-13: 978-0789736666

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Pluggable Authentication Modules: The Definitive Guide to PAM for Linux SysAdmins and C Developers

Book Description
A comprehensive and practical guide to PAM for Linux: how modules work and how to implement them, covering 11 common modules, and installation of third-party offerings. Also covers developing your own modules in C. First this book explains how Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) simplify and standardize authentication in Linux. It shows in detail how PAM works and how it is configured. Then 11 common modules used across UNIX/Linux distributions are examined and explained, including all their parameters. Installation of third-party modules is discussed, and the development of new modules and PAM-aware applications is outlined PAM-aware applications reduce the complexity of authentication. With PAM you can use the same user database for every login process. PAM also supports different authentication processes as required. Moreover, PAM is a well-defined API, and PAM-aware applications will not break if you change the underlying authentication configuration. The PAM framework is widely used by most Linux distributions for authentication purposes. Originating from Solaris 2.6 ten years ago, PAM is used today by most proprietary and free UNIX operating systems including GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, following both the design concept and the practical details. PAM is thus a unifying technology for authentication mechanisms in UNIX. PAM is a modular and flexible authentication management layer that sits between Linux applications and the native underlying authentication system. PAM can be implemented with various applications without having to recompile the applications to specifically support PAM. This book provides a practical approach to UNIX/Linux authentication. The design principles are explained thoroughly, then illustrated through the examination of popular modules. It is intended as a one-stop introduction and reference to PAM. This book is for experienced system administrators and developers working with multiple Linux/UNIX servers or with both UNIX and Windows servers. It assumes a good level of admin knowledge, and that developers are competent in C development on UNIX-based systems.
Product Details

* Paperback: 124 pages
* Publisher: Packt Publishing (December 22, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1904811329
* ISBN-13: 978-1904811329

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MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide: Install, manage, and customize your MediaWiki installation

Book Description
This book covers the open-source MediaWiki wiki engine from installation and getting started through structuring your collaborative website, advanced formatting, images, multimedia, security, and managing users to backing up, restoring, and migrating your installation and creating new MediWiki templates. The author, Mizanur Rahman, is a Senior Software Engineer at ReliSource Technologies (http://www.relisource.com). The book has a fast-paced, friendly tutorial style and uses a fun example to teach all of MediaWiki's key features. Run your own MediaWiki collaborative website with this fast-paced, friendly tutorial, which is full of information and advice for creating powerful MediaWiki sites, and filling them with varied and useful collaborative content. Whether you are creating a public wiki for completely open contributions, a private wiki for collaborating within your work team or group of friends, or even a wiki for personal use, this book will show you all the essential steps. You will see the various ways of organizing and managing content, and preventing collaboration from getting out of control. You'll learn how to incorporate images and other media into your pages, as well as becoming a wiki markup wizard to produce intricately formatted pages with tables, lists, and more. On the technical side, the book covers how to administer users, back up and restore content safely, migrate your installation to another server or database, and even make hacks to the code. The power that makes MediaWiki so popular also makes it daunting for many would-be administrators. This book puts MediaWiki in the hands of busy administrators with no time for trial and error, enabling them to get their site up and running quickly and easily. A fun example that runs through the book holds everything together as you see how a real site develops and improves as more and more features of MediaWiki are used. This book is for competent computer users who want to run MediaWiki. They should have some knowledge of HTML and have used a wiki before. No PHP knowledge is required for most of the book, although some chapters at the end include some PHP code. Table Of Contents: 1 Introducing MediaWiki 2 Installation and Configuration 3 Creating Your First Wiki 4 Advanced Formatting and Multimedia Content 5 Organizing Content with MediaWiki 6 Managing Multiple Users 7 Administration Essentials 8 Templates and Themes 9 Customizing MediaWiki 10 Backing Up and Moving a MediaWiki 11 Cool Hacks
Product Details

* Paperback: 284 pages
* Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 22, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1904811590
* ISBN-13: 978-1904811596

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Building Websites with TYPO3

Book Description
Follow a clear path through the power and complexity of TYPO3 to get started, and build your own TYPO3 website This book is a fast paced tutorial to creating a website using TYPO3. If you have never used TYPO3, or even any web content management system before, then you need not look further than this book as it walks you through each step to create your own TYPO3 site. From installation, to initial set up and content entry and on to customization and adding plug-ins, this book will get you a stable and working TYPO3 based website fast. The book has 8 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of TYPO3 and by the end you can genuinely claim to have tamed the beast that is TYPO3. TYPO3 is a popular, free, feature-rich open source content management system. It has the flexibility and scalability to more than match commercial systems and allow you to build a powerful and complex website. Because of its complex system and numerous extensions, TYPO3 can be daunting on first approach and the initial learning curve can be steep. However the nature of its advanced features will reward an extra investment in learning. Written in a clear, easy-to-read style, the book provides a tutorial for setting up a TYPO3 website. Each topic is tackled in a practical way with many examples and tasks to develop your skills. This book is aimed at anyone who would like to quickly build a TYPO3 website. This book is written for first-time users of TYPO3 and has been specifically created so that you do not require detailed knowledge of programming or web development. TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY Chapter 1 introduces content management systems and TYPO3, along with an overview of the TYPO3 community. You will also learn about the sample site which will be developed during the course of this book. Chapter 2 covers setup and installation of TYPO3. We look at the installers bundled with TYPO3 provides, and tweak the settings of TYPO3 using the install tool. In Chapter 3 we explore the many features within the TYPO3 backend. We learn how to create and manage pages and their content, how to use the Rich Text Editor, and why we need templates to make our pages work. Additionally, you will understand the features of the Task Center by using the TYPO3 Extension Manager. In Chapter 4 we apply our knowledge of the TYPO3 administration features to create our website. This chapter shows you how pages fit together, how to display content and customize the design. By the end of this chapter you will know how to manage different versions of your website content. Chapter 5 explores the features available in TYPO3 frontend, in particular the front-end editing features. You will see how these features work, what they do, and how you can edit and create content for our website directly from the website, without needing to navigate through the backend. In Chapter 6 we explore TYPO3's user management features. You will set up specific user groups and create users to work on your site's content. Chapter 7 takes a look at the types of tasks that you must perform regularly to manage your TYPO3 site. It walks you through backing up your site and restoring it back whenever needed. We also cover the powerful Workflow and Workspace features and learn how they can be useful to us for collaboration. In Chapter 8 we look at the TYPO3 extension manager, and install four extensions, set them up, and link them to our site. We extend our site by adding extensions to rate pages on our site, and one that allows the administrator to look up hit statistics of his site. The message board and shop system extensions let you monetize your TYPO3 site by adding in ecommerce functionalities.
Product Details

* Paperback: 208 pages
* Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 15, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1847191118
* ISBN-13: 978-1847191113

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PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy (Solutions)

Book Description
In this book you'll learn how to:

* Create dynamic websites with design and usability in mind, as well as functionality
* Understand how PHP scripts work, giving you confidence to adapt them to your own needs
* Bring online forms to life, check required fields, and ensure user input is safe to process
* Upload files and automatically create thumbnails from larger images
* Manage website content with a searchable database

You want to make your websites more dynamic by adding a feedback form, creating a private area where members can upload images that are automatically resized, or perhaps storing all your content in a database. The problem is, you're not a programmer and the thought of writing code sends a chill up your spine. Or maybe you've dabbled a bit in PHP and MySQL, but you can't get past baby steps. If this describes you, then you've just found the right book. PHP and the MySQL database are deservedly the most popular combination for creating dynamic websites. They're free, easy to use, and provided by many web hosting companies in their standard packages. Unfortunately, most PHP books either expect you to be an expert already or force you to go through endless exercises of little practical value. In contrast, this book gives you real value right away through a series of practical examples that you can incorporate directly into your sites, optimizing performance and adding functionality such as file uploading, email feedback forms, image galleries, content management systems, and much more. Each solution is created with not only functionality in mind, but also visual design. But this book doesn't just provide a collection of ready-made scripts: each PHP Solution builds on what's gone before, teaching you the basics of PHP and database design quickly and painlessly. By the end of the book, you'll have the confidence to start writing your own scripts or&8212;if you prefer to leave that task to othersto adapt existing scripts to your own requirements. Right from the start, you're shown how easy it is to protect your sites by adopting secure coding practices. The book has been written with an eye on forward and backward compatibilityrecommending the latest PHP 5 techniques, but providing alternative solutions for servers still running PHP 4.3. All database examples demonstrate how to use the original MySQL extension, MySQL Improved, or the PHP Data Objects (PDO) introduced in PHP 5.1, letting you choose the most suitable option for your setup. Summary of Contents:

* Chapter 1: What Is PHPAnd Why Should I Care?
* Chapter 2: Getting Ready to Work with PHP
* Chapter 3: How to Write PHP Scripts
* Chapter 4: Lightening Your Workload with Includes
* Chapter 5: Bringing Forms to Life
* Chapter 6: Uploading Files
* Chapter 7: Using PHP to Manage Files
* Chapter 8: Generating Thumbnail Images
* Chapter 9: Pages That Remember: Simple Login and Multipage Forms
* Chapter 10: Setting Up MySQL and phpMyAdmin
* Chapter 11: Getting Started with a Database
* Chapter 12: Creating a Dynamic Online Gallery
* Chapter 13: Managing Content
* Chapter 14: Solutions to Common PHP/MySQL Problems
* Chapter 15: Keeping Intruders at Bay

About the Author
David Powers is an Adobe Community Expert for Dreamweaver and author of a series of highly successful books on PHP, including PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy (friends of ED, ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-731-6) and Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8 (friends of ED, ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-569-5). As a professional writer, he has been involved in electronic media for more than 30 years, first with BBC radio and television and more recently with the Internet. His clear writing style is valued not only in the English-speaking world; several of his books have been translated into Spanish and Polish.

What started as a mild interest in computing was transformed almost overnight into a passion, when David was posted to Japan in 1987 as BBC correspondent in Tokyo. With no corporate IT department just down the hallway, he was forced to learn how to fix everything himself. When not tinkering with the innards of his computer, he was reporting for BBC TV and radio on the rise and collapse of the Japanese bubble economy. Since leaving the BBC to work independently, he has built up an online bilingual database of economic and political analysis for Japanese clients of an international consultancy.

When not pounding the keyboard writing books or dreaming of new ways of using PHP and other programming languages, David enjoys nothing better than visiting his favorite sushi restaurant. He has also translated several plays from Japanese.
Product Details

* Paperback: 488 pages
* Publisher: friends of ED (November 20, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1590597311
* ISBN-13: 978-1590597316

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Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications [ILLUSTRATED]

Book Description
Want to learn all about Ruby on Rails, the web application framework that is inspiring developers around the world?

This practical hands-on guide for first-time Ruby on Rails programmers will walk you through installing the required software on a Windows, Mac or Linux computer. And before you get coding, an entire chapter is devoted to object oriented programming in Ruby, so you'll be completely confident with the Ruby language before you begin working with Rails.

The example application that the book builds - a user-generated news web site - is built upon with each following chapter, and concepts such as sessions, cookies and basic AJAX usage are gradually introduced. Different aspects of Rails, such as ActiveRecord, migrations and automated testing are explored with each feature that is added to the application.

The book finishes with chapters on debugging, benchmarking and deployment to a live web server.

By the end of the book, you'll have built a fully-featured Web 2.0 application and deployed it to the Web. And all code is up-to-date for Rails 1.2, so you can begin coding immediately with the latest version of Rails.
Product Details

* Paperback: 447 pages
* Publisher: SitePoint (January 30, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0975841955
* ISBN-13: 978-0975841952

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Foundation Flash 8 (Foundation)

Book Description
Foundation Flash 8 is the book you need if you're looking for a solid foundation in Flash 8 Basic and Flash 8 Professional.

Thousands upon thousands of designers have already learned from its previous editions and it's easy to understand why.

The fourth edition of friends of ED's legendary beginner Flash book, Foundation Flash 8 uses a series of structured exercises and detailed discussions to help you start your exploration of Flash. The detailed tutorial style will ensure that you retain the knowledge you gain and are able to draw upon it throughout your Flash career. Foundation Flash 8 features a running case study that evolves into a fully functional Flash website as you work through the tutorials, so you'll immediately see everything that you learn being used in a practical project.

This book focuses on the core skills that you need to get started working with Flash 8: understanding the interface, becoming familiar with the creative tools and their capabilities, grasping the relationships between the different components that make up a Flash movie, and getting insight into how to put all the pieces together to create your own Flash-based website.

Summary of Contents

* Chapter 1: Flash Movie Essentials
* Chapter 2: The Flash Tools Panel
* Chapter 3: Flash Symbols and Libraries
* Chapter 4: Managing Content
* Chapter 5: Working with Color and Images
* Chapter 6: Motion Tweening
* Chapter 7 Shape Tweening
* Chapter 8: Masks and Masking
* Chapter 9: Advanced Animation, Effects, and Commands
* Chapter 10: Actions and Interactions
* Chapter 11: Intelligent Actions
* Chapter 12: Multimedia: Sound and Video
* Chapter 13: Optimizing
* Chapter 14: Publishing
* Chapter 15: Intermediate ActionScript, Part 1
* Chapter 16: Intermediate ActionScript, Part 2
* Chapter 17: High-Level Site Design
* Chapter 18: Futurescape

About the Author
Sham Bhangal has worked on books in new media for 3 years, in which time he has authored and coauthored numerous friends of ED books, including critically acclaimed, award-winning, and bestselling titles such as Foundation Flash, New Masters of Flash, Flash MX Upgrade Essentials, Flash MX Most Wanted, and Flash MX Designer's ActionScript Reference,

Bhangal has considerable experience working with Macromedia and Adobe products, as well as other general web design technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.). In addition to speaking appearances at FlashForward (the largest Macromedia Flash developer conference), Bhangal has long been a beta tester for Macromedia and Discreet products. Kristian Besley currently works as a freelance author and Flash/web developer, specializing in interactivity and dynamic-driven content. He has written a number of books on Flash, including Foundation Flash MX, Flash MX Video, and Learn Design with Flash MX. He is also a contributor to Computer Arts magazine. In 2002, his website, www.graphci.com, hosted the first ever worldwide competition on HTML-based TableArt, which Kristian himself describes as "pictures, designs, or creations made with the fantasmagorical technology of tables in HTML." The entries of last year's competition are viewable at www.graphci.com/tableart. Kristian can be reached at [email protected].
Product Details

* Paperback: 576 pages
* Publisher: friends of ED (October 31, 2005)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1590595424
* ISBN-13: 978-1590595428

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Manual of Engineering Drawing, Second Edition: to British and International Standards

Book Description
The Manual of Engineering Drawing has long been recognised as the student and practising engineer's guide to producing engineering drawings that comply with ISO and British Standards. The information in this book is equally applicable to any CAD application or manual drawing. The second edition is fully in line with the requirements of the new British Standard BS8888: 2002, and will help engineers, lecturers and students with the transition to the new standards.

BS8888 is fully based on the relevant ISO standards, so this book is also ideal for an international readership. The comprehensive scope of this book encompasses topics including orthographic, isometric and oblique projections, electric and hydraulic diagrams, welding and adhesive symbols, and guidance on tolerancing.

Written by a member of the ISO committee and a former college lecturer, the Manual of Engineering Drawing combines up-to-the-minute technical accuracy with clear, readable explanations and numerous diagrams. This approach makes this an ideal student text for vocational courses in engineering drawing and undergraduates studying engineering design / product design.

Colin Simmons is a member of the BSI and ISO Draughting Committees and an Engineering Standards Consultant. He was formerly Standards Engineer at Lucas CAV.

* Fully in line with the latest ISO Standards
* A textbook and reference guide for students and engineers involved in design engineering and product design
* Written by a former lecturer and a current member of the relevant standards committees

From the Publisher
Covering all the aspects of engineering drawing that students and professionals need to know, this text shows how the various recommendations should be interpreted in actual drawings and describes how a correct representation can be achieved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

* Paperback: 320 pages
* Publisher: Newnes; 2 edition (January 8, 2004)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0750651202
* ISBN-13: 978-0750651202

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