Build your house in 3D, do some remodeling, and share it in Google Earth. Developed with architects and other design gurus in mind, Google SketchUp is the fast, easy way to build 3D models of anything you want — buildings, furniture, or your own unique creations. Best of all, it's free! You don't have to know anything about 3D to use this handy guide — just download SketchUp, fire it up, and you'll be modeling in no time. - Create models from photos
- Master the interface and 3D tools
- Animate a walkthrough of your model
- Arrange furniture and decorate your space
- Try out landscape designs

Knowing everything you can about each click to your Web site can help you make strategic decisions regarding your business. This book is about the why, not just the how, of web analytics and the rules for developing a "culture of analysis" inside your organization. Why you should collect various types of data. Why you need a strategy. Why it must remain flexible. Why your data must generate meaningful action. The authors answer these critical questions—and many more—using their decade of experience in Web analytics.

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.

Excel users. Access users. You're probably among the majority, living in one camp or the other but rarely crossing between the two. Yet Microsoft designed these applications to work together. In this book, you'll discover how Access benefits from Excel's flexible presentation layer and versatile analysis capabilities, while Access's relational database structure and robust querying tools enhance Excel. Once you learn to make the team work, you'll find that your team's productivity is the real winner.

* Move data easily between Excel and Access
* Store Excel data in a structured relational database
* Create Excel PivotTables with Access data
* Report Access data using Excel's presentation layer
* Use VBA, ADO, and SQL to move data from one application to the other
* Save time and increase productivity by automating redundant processes with VBA
* Simplify integration tasks using XML
* Integrate Excel data into other Office applications 

Packed with the latest InDesign tips and techniquesThe secrets of InDesign page layout - explained in plain English!

New to InDesign? Making the switch from QuarkXPress®? No worries - this easy-to-follow guide shows you how to master this electronic publishing tool, customize the interface, work with objects and graphics, calibrate color, create PDF files, and more. From pages, panels, and pictures to text, tabs, and tables, you'll design and output like a pro every time!

- Set up a new publication
- Create and use master pages
- Add frames, lines, and colors
- Manage chapters and books
- Output your files
- Import and place pictures

The leading Microsoft Office application experts together in one book! Here's the best of the best on Office 2007. Microsoft designed Office 2007 to be used as a package. We designed this Bible as a package that combines the best from the Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access Bibles with chapters covering Publisher, OneNote, and InfoPath, as well as Groove and SharePoint. It's a veritable buffet of information from some of the leading Office application experts. You'll learn to take advantage of every new feature and how they all work together to help you work better.

A dirty little secret that vendors don't want you to know is that good computer security doesn't cost a thing. Any solution you can buy is guaranteed to fail. Malicious hackers use this fact to their advantage. Real security is gained by understanding the enemy's tactics and offsetting them with appropriate and consistently applied Windows settings. These expert authors realize that an effective strategy is two parts technology and one part psychology. Along with learning about Vista's new security features (such as UAC, integrity controls, BitLocker, Protected Mode, and IIS 7), learn common-sense recommendations that will immediately provide reliable value.

The Microsoft Windows Vista operating system offers several changes and improvements over its predecessors. It not only brings a new and redesigned interface, but also improves on many administrative utilities and management consoles. It also enhances the systems reliability, performance, and problem-solving tools. As administrators, Vista will sometimes look like its predecessor, Windows XP, and at other times, look like an all-new operating system. How to Cheat will help you get Vista up and running as quickly and safely as possible and provide you with a solid idea of all the important changes and improvements the new Microsoft Vista OS has to offer

Vista is the most radical revamping of Windows since 1995. However, along with all the fantastic improvements, there are a couple of things that likely drive you up the wall. Don't worry, though-just join forces with author Steve Sinchak and you'll end up feeling as though Microsoft designed Vista just for you! He shows you how to tweak logon screen settings, build custom Sidebar gadgets, personalize Aero Glass with themes and visual styles, turn your PC into an HDTV media center, fine-tune your firewall, and more.

Written by networking veteran with 20 years of experience, Network Warrior provides a thorough and practical introduction to the entire network infrastructure, from cabling to the routers. What you need to learn to pass a Cisco certification exam such as CCNA and what you need to know to survive in the real world are two very different things. The strategies that this book offers weren 't on the exam, but they 're exactly what you need to do your job well.

Network Warrior takes you step by step through the world of hubs, switches, firewalls, and more, including ways to troubleshoot a congested network, and when to upgrade and why. Along the way, you 'll gain an historical perspective of various networking features, such as the way Ethernet evolved. Based on the author 's own experience as well as those he worked for and with, Network Warrior is a Cisco-centric book, focused primarily on the TCP/IP protocol and Ethernet networks — the realm that Cisco Systems now dominates.