Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers details the features of Photoshop CS3
and is geared toward print facilities, mainly screen printers and
similar types of graphic artists. Features important to these industries
include creating a personalized interface, acquiring images from
clients’ disks, acquiring images by scanning existing artwork, importing
and exporting images, and creating new images. Color separations also
play a big role in these industries, as does printing on specialty films
and papers. The Photoshop interface is also discussed, including the
toolbox, the palettes, the menu and options bars, and the Adobe Bridge. (more…)

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This book is not about the minutia of RSS and Atom programming. It’s about doing cool stuff with syndication feeds-making the technology give you exactly what you want the way you want. It’s about building a feed aggregator and routing feeds to your e-mail or iPod, producing and hosting feeds, filtering, sifting, and blending them, and much more. Tan-talizing loose ends beg you to create more hacks the author hasn’t thought up yet. Because if you can’t have fun with the technology, what’s the point? (more…)

This knowledge is necessary for improving the support experience and application installation and maintenance steps at the Vista client level. The self-paced Supporting the Windows Vista Operating System and Applications CBT teaches you how to prepare for applying desktop images, support computers with desktop images, restore and validate user state, prepare to install an application package, create and deploy application packages, and troubleshoot application installations.

If you are a desktop support technician or an IT professional who needs this information, the Supporting the Windows Vista Operating System and (more…)

Computing hardware would have no value without software; software tells hardware what to do. Software therefore must have special authority within computing systems. All computer security problems stem from that fact, and Exploiting Software: How to Break Code shows you how to design your software so it’s as resistant as possible to attack. Sure, everything’s phrased in offensive terms (as instructions for the attacker, that is), but this book has at least as much value in showing designers what sorts of attacks their software will face (the book could serve as a checklist for part of a pre-release testing regimen). Plus, the clever reverse-engineering strategies that Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw teach will be useful in many legitimate software projects. (more…)

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Mike Schiffman has hit upon a great formula for Hacker’s Challenge. Rather than try to research, fully understand, and adequately explain attacks that have taken place on other people’s networks–the approach taken by too many writers of books about computer security–Schiffman lets network administrators and security experts tell their stories first-hand. This is good. What’s better is that Schiffman has edited each of their war stories into two sections: one that presents the observations the sysadmin or security consultant made at the time of the attack, and another (in a separate part of the book) that ties the clues together and explains (more…)

Video 01 - Welcome to Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Administrator

Video 02 - To Virtualize or Not To Virtualize

Video 03 - Active Directory Forest Design and Functional Levels

Video 04 - Designing Trusts Between Forests and Domains

Video 05 - Active Directory Group and Group Policy Strategy (more…)

Security is one of the most significant components in wireless systems to ensure the integrity of communications among terminals, networks, and services. As the field of wireless communications expands and inundates personal and professional lives worldwide, up-to-date wireless security research and knowledge becomes increasingly more vital to society.

The Handbook of Research on Wireless Security combines research from esteemed experts on security issues in various wireless communications, recent advances in wireless security, the wireless security model, and future directions in wireless security. As an innovative and current reference source for students, (more…)

M!cr0$0ft® .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise
304 pages | Microsoft Press (October 15, 2008) | 073562609X | CHM | 2 Mb
Make the right architectural decisions up front and improve the quality and reliability of your results. Led by two enterprise programming experts, you ll learn how to apply the patterns and techniques that help control project complexity and make systems easier to build, support, and upgrade right from the start. Get pragmatic architectural guidance on how to: Build testability, maintainability, and security into your system early in the design Expose business logic through a service-oriented interface Choose the best (more…)

Managing Very Large It Projects in Businesses and Organizations
358 pages | Information Science Reference (September 30, 2008) | 159904546X | PDF | 4 Mb
Successful management of very large IT projects is increasingly becoming vital to corporations worldwide. Driven mainly by the demands of global competition, rapid technological growth, and faster time to market, these projects often result in un-integrated systems, and are thus incapable of supporting coordination to meet organizational goals. (more…)

Pro Oracle Application Express 700 pages | Apress; 1 edition (September 16, 2008) | 159059827X | PDF | 10 Mb Application Express, or APEX, is one of the most innovative products to come out of Oracle in years. APEX is an application development framework for developing database–backed applications. It’s easy enough to get started in that power users can quit storing data in random spreadsheets and instead centralize their data in the powerful Oracle database, all without developer help. Developers arent left out, however. Those who choose to can go deep and leverage the full power and flexibility of Oracles database engine. (more…)