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Peter Norton's new "Excel for Windows 95 Tutorial" helps students learn to create, process, and present information using Microsoft Excel. With an emphasis on hands-on instruction, it includes a student data disk to help students apply the skills and techniques they learn in each lesson. ... Read more

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This book contains a DOS Tutorial. ... Read more

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Peter Norton's Windows XP is a stand-alone tutorial that features a strong instructional design. Small blocks of concepts followed by hands on activities and numerous full-screen illustrations result in clear-cut, easy-to-read instruction, making learning easy for students! ... Read more

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The Interactive Computing Series is the Visual, Interactive way to develop and apply software skills.The CD-ROM product for this series offers an interactive environment for students to learn to use software faster and remember it better.The CD-ROM uses the same organization of the text while incorporating sound, multimedia, animation, and graphics to create a memorable lesson. ... Read more

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Along with the other two titles in the series (Pixel Graphics Using Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Digital Layout Using Adobe InDesign CS5), this book has an accompanying DVD that shows step-by-step tutorials in conjunction with in-text projects and also demonstrates characteristics and techniques of Illustrator CS5. The tutorial disc provides the reader with a “how-to” narration, beginning with basic technical skills for using the program, creating illustrations, signs, logos, brochures, diagrams, graphs, charts, and more. The package shows the reader how to conquer the technical aspects of vector-based illustrations as you watch the tutorials and listen to the concepts as they are presented. Learn typographical terms, airbrushing effects, importing/exporting of various file formats, when to use vector vs. pixel art, characteristics of RGB, CMYK, other color models, and more.

Additional project files, tutorials, and lesson plans available to instructors for use as a textbook.

Brief Table of Contents (tentative):
Introduction - vector and line art. 1. The workspace. 2. Custom. 3. Creating and opening documents. 4. Drawing and brushes. 5. Strokes and fills. 6. Shapes and objects. 7. Working with paths. 8. Text. 9. Selections. 10. Groups and layers. 11. Color. 12. Transformation and Positioning. 13. Symbols.14. Live effects. 15. Images. 16. Saving and output. 17. Working with other programs. Conclusion. About the DVD. ... Read more

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Along with the other two titles in the series (Vector Graphics Using Adobe Illustrator CS5 and Digital Layout Using Adobe InDesign CS5), this book has an accompanying DVD that shows step-by-step tutorials in conjunction with in-text projects and also demonstrates characteristics and techniques of Photoshop CS5. The tutorial disc provides the reader with a “how-to” narration, beginning with basic technical skills for using the program, creating images, and editing photographs; then it progresses to various walkthrough techniques for enhancing or modifying images. Learn to size, fix, and retouch new photos, including red-eye and skin color correction. Master the techniques of restoring faded, damaged, or cracked photos.

Project files, additional tutorials, and lesson plans available to instructors for use as a textbook.

Brief Table of Contents (tentative): 1.Introduction . 2.The Workspace. 3.Opening and Creating New Files. 4.Navigation, Views and, Zooms. 5.History, Guides, and Measurements. 6.Layers. 7.Moving, Duplication, Erasing, and Locking. 8.Rotation, Transformation, and Alignment. 9. Selections. 10.Trimming and Cropping. 11.Masks. 12.Color. 13.Fills and Gradients. 14.Layer Blending. 15.Painting and Drawing. 16.Type. 17. Special Effects. 18. Image Retouching. 19. Layer Adjustments. 20. Filters. 21. Image Creation.22. Save and File Formats. About the DVD. ... Read more

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This book is a record of the 1st Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent CAD systems, held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, April 21-24, 1987, but it is not a mere collection of the papers; it includes revisions of all contributions from all over the world, chairpersons` reports for each session and a general report from the editors. The idea of intelligent CAD systems (or knowledge-based CAD or expert CAD systems) in now widely discussed among researchers in the field. However, there seem to be big difficulties in developing them, and these difficulties include both theoretical and implementational issues. The book highlights the theoretical and methological aspects in developing intelligent CAD systems such as: theoretical foundations, new methodology, achitecture of intelligent CAD systems, tools and techniques, design and use. The papers are submitted by authors from computer science, mechanical engineering, electronical engineering, architecture and civil engineering. ... Read more

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This book presents the tutorial notes of the EUROGRAPHICS '89 conference held in Hamburg in September 1989. Recognized experts of the field have contributed excellent overviews of main stream areas of computer graphics. Especially written for this book the articles give an up-to-date survey of the topics selected. The contents includes chapters about visualization of scientific data, color, solid modeling, computational geometry, object-oriented graphics, page description languages, and standards for computer graphics and product model data. This book will be a source of state-of-the-art knowledge in the areas covered for system designers and application programmers as well as for researchers. ... Read more

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This sixth edition of Donald Reifer's popular, bestselling tutorial summarizes what software project managers need to be successful. The text provides pointers to the current issues, challenges and experiences that shape their jobs. It explores recent advances in such dissimilar fields as management theory, distance education, knowledge management, motivation theory, process improvement, organization dynamics, and technology transfer.

Software Management, Sixth Edition provides software executives and corporate officers with the knowledge they need to develop their software engineering management strategies for the future. It also gives the software project manager insight into the tools and techniques that they can use to improve their ability to deliver high quality software products on time and within budget obligations. The book also provides sufficient instructional material to serve as a text for a course on software management.

Reifer's goal is to achieve a balance between theory and practical experience. He systematically addresses the skills, knowledge and abilities that software managers, at any level of experience, need to have to practice their profession effectively.

This book contains fourteen original articles by leaders in the field specifically written for this sixth edition, as well as a collection of reprints. About 40 percent of the material in this edition has been produced specifically for this volume. Only about half of the papers from the previous edition appear in this revision. ... Read more

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Somewhat dated, but mostly valid collection of papers
This collection of IEEE and ACM papers written by an all star case of industry experts is showing its age in many areas.For example Barry Boehm's "A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement", while valid for high-risk projects that push the technical envelope, is too risk-adverse for rapid or incremental development projects that are in increasing use.

However, some papers that you may be tempted to reject out-of-hand, such as TRW's Ada Process Model for Incremental Development of Large Software Systems is actually worth reading for organizations that have committed to the Rational Unified Process.

Overall, the range of papers covers every aspect of software engineering project management.The applicability of the papers collected in this book to contemporary practices is uneven.Some practices are either thoroughly documented and accepted best practices (the entire section of papers on project management), or are transitioning to newer models (the material on the CMM).On the other hand, some papers in this collection are gems and make this book worthwhile despite its age (planning and estimation papers).

One final note - the layout and design of this book could be greatly improved.Despite the age and some of the shortcomings I noted this is still a worthwhile resource for software engineering professionals who are working in a CMM Level 2 or above organization. ... Read more

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This video package is focused on Google s Gmail & MozillaFirefox. The reason I themed the videos around Firefox isthat I personally make a good amount of money promotingFirefox using Google?s Firefox Adsense Referral program.So there is one great use for these videos.

Learn some great tips and tricks to make the most out ofGmail & Firefox by adding many much needed options andtime saving features, you will wonder how you lived withoutthem!

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Better Gmail video shows how you can supercharge your Gmailby adding functions such as Folders, Cleaner Interface byremoving clutter, adding message previews and more.

Dragdropupload video will show the user how to add dragand drop attachment function to Gmail. Incredibly usefuladdition to Gmail and so simple to add.

Gmail Filestorage shows the user how to turn any Gmailaccount into a off-site backup storage bin. Using Gmailto backup your files is as easy as drag and drop.

Gmailskins video shows how to change Gmail?s colors tosuite your news. This gives Gmail a total makeover and anice fresh look.

Google Bookmarks video shows how to take your bookmarkswith you to any computer and web browser. So useful thatyou will wonder how you ever lived with out it.

Speedup Firefox video shows how to reduce Firefoxe s loadtime, web browsing and memory requirements. Greatinformation for the avid Firefox user. ... Read more