From Still to Motion
by James Ball, PhD, Robbie Carman, and Matt Gottshalk
Professional photographers are evolving and adding video to their list of offerings to clients. Driving the evolution is the need for competitive advantage and creative exploration. With the addition of high definition video capabilities to the latest batch of DSLR cameras, photographers have a convenient and familiar tool to fully embrace the new world of video. But video is very different than photography, with new challenges and technology to master. Here to guide digital photography stude...
Introduction to Text Visualization (Atlantis Briefs in Artificial Intelligence, #1)
by Nan Cao and Weiwei Cui
This book provides a systematic review of many advanced techniques to support the analysis of large collections of documents, ranging from the elementary to the profound, covering all the aspects of the visualization of text documents. Particularly, we start by introducing the fundamental concept of information visualization and visual analysis, followed by a brief survey of the field of text visualization and commonly used data models for converting document into a structured form for visualiza...
Multimodal User Interfaces: From Signals to Interaction (Signals and Communication Technology (eBook))
Rapid Web Applications with Turbogears
by Mark Ramm, Kevin Dangoor, and Gigi Sayfan
>"Dear PHP,It's over between us. You can keep the kitchen sink, but I want my MVC.With TurboGears, I was able to shed the most heinous FileMaker Pro legacy 'solu tion' imaginable. It has relationships based on fields that change frequently, causing 'disappearing data.' I replaced it with an easy to maintain TurboGears application. Defunkifying and normalizing many years worth of munged data took twice as long as developing the TurboGears's application itself. TurboGears's excellent set of tools...
If you're serious about making music on your Mac OS X machine, you need the most comprehensive collection of music creation and production tools available today - Logic Pro 7! This no-nonsense guide provides the key to using the software effectively and efficiently! In these pages author David Leishman uses the popular Visual Quick Pro format-task-based instructions, straightforward prose, and loads of illustrations - to illuminate all of Logic Pro 7's features. From configuring the Logic 7 envi...
Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 Expert Cookbook
by Balaji Kithiganahalli
This book follows a step-by-step approach to learning the building blocks of SharePoint application development. This book focuses on SharePoint 2010 development using Visual studio 2010. The book provides a hands-on approach to solving problems and creating business solutions for enhancing SharePoint 2010 environment. This book is for .NET developers to understand the building blocks for SharePoint 2010. Although the book can be used by beginners, it is recommended to have understanding of the...
Multimedia Systems and Applications IX (Proceedings of SPIE)
Proceedings of SPIE present the original research papers presented at SPIE conferences and other high-quality conferences in the broad-ranging fields of optics and photonics. These books provide prompt access to the latest innovations in research and technology in their respective fields. Proceedings of SPIE are among the most cited references in patent literature.
iTunes Music: Produce Great Sounding Music with Mastered for iTunes
by Bob Katz
The Education of Henry Adams (Modern Library) (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)
by Henry Adams
Adams was a historian, an intellectual born into the fourth generation of a family of distinguished politicians, diplomats and statesmen that included two presidents of the United States. His "Education" is thus steeped in history, that of his family and of the American politics, culture and identity they helped to shape. At the same time he elaborates his own 'dynamic theory of history' as the product of what he calls the conflict between the Virgin and the Dynamo: 'All the steam in the world c...
Pen-and-Paper User Interfaces (Human-Computer Interaction)
by Jurgen Steimle
Even at the beginning of the 21st century, we are far from becoming paperless. Pen and paper is still the only truly ubiquitous information processing technology. Pen-and-paper user interfaces bridge the gap between paper and the digital world. Rather than replacing paper with electronic media, they seamlessly integrate both worlds in a hybrid user interface. Classical paper documents become interactive. This opens up a huge field of novel computer applications at our workplaces and in our homes...
Emotional Feedback for Mobile Devices (T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services)
by Julia Seebode
This book investigates the functional adequacy as well as the affective impression made by feedback messages on mobile devices. It presents an easily adoptable experimental setup to examine context effects on various feedback messages and applies it to auditory, tactile and auditory-tactile feedback messages. This approach provides insights into the relationship between the affective impression and functional applicability of these messages as well as an understanding of the influence of unimoda...
Not your typical computer tutorial, this book aspires to discuss more than how to simply use the software it targets the uses of blogging, specifically among teen users, and how this technology is used in the definition of an online personality. In other words, this book doesn't just show readers how to build a blog; this title focuses on how to effectively use a blog, all under the auspices of, again, a younger audience. Teens account for the majority of blogs currently in use on the Web. Th...
Digital Photos, Movies, & Music Gigabookfor Dummies
by Mark L Chambers, Tony Bove, David D Busch, Martin Doucette, David Kushner, Andy Rathbone, Cheryl Rhodes, Todd Staufer, and Keith Underdahl
Written by the creators of Macromedia's Shockwave web site, this is the authoritative, hands-on guide to creating movies for the Internet using Shockwave. Includes detailed case studies, step-by-step design examples, Lingo tips and tricks, and techniques for integrating Shockwave with Java. The CD-ROM contains case studies, tutorials, template files, setup software, and more.
Ready to start your Mom blog or enhance your existing one? This book is for you! The population of mom bloggers is growing at a stunning pace and they boast an audience of more than 23 million women reading, posting, or commenting on blogs every week. This fun and friendly guide targets moms who are looking to become a savvier blogger, build a personal brand, earn free products to review or give away, or make some extra cash through ad revenue. Named by Nielsen as one of the most influential mo...
Focusing on the computer graphics required to create digital media this book discusses the concepts and provides hundreds of solved examples and unsolved problems for practice. Pseudo codes are included where appropriate but these coding examples do not rely on specific languages. The aim is to get readers to understand the ideas and how concepts and algorithms work, through practicing numeric examples.Topics covered include: 2D Graphics3D Solid ModellingMapping Techniques Transformations in 2D...