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Make lights dance to music, play with radio remote control, or build your own metal detector

Who says the Science Fair has to end? If you love building gadgets, this book belongs on your radar. Here are complete directions for building ten cool creations that involve light, sound, or vibrations — a weird microphone, remote control gizmos, talking toys, and more, with full parts and tools lists, safety guidelines, and wiring schematics.

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How to perform over 600 card tricks, devised by the world's greatest magicians. 66 illustrations.

Great starter for Street Magic tricks. Impress your friends and family with these great magic tricks/illusions/slights of hand!

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"Anyone who can dial a telephone can learn to play popular piano quickly and easily."

So says Norman Monath, author of How to Play Popular Piano in 10 Easy Lessons. His no-frills, no-drills method will have you playing simple tunes within 30 minutes — even if you don't know one note from another.

For everyone from rank beginner to experienced virtuoso, this step-by-step, uncomplicated guidebook makes learning to play popular piano the easy and enjoyable experience it should be.

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The King in Jeopardy: The Best Techniques for Attack and Defense is the highly praised best-selling fourth book in Grandmaster Lev Alburt's six-volume Comprehensive Chess Course. The King in Jeopardy's predecessor, Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player, was acclaimed by legendary former Chess Life Editor Larry Parr as "the best thing ever written for achieving quick improvement in tactical play!"

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This video series consists of over two hours of content focused on solving the common questions developers are facing every day with ASP.NET 2.0.
1. Learn the Tips and Tricks of Experts?
View tips and tricks including encrypting sensitive information stored in the web.config file, posting content to a different page, simplifying complex URLs using URL remapping, and much, much more.
Duration: 18 minutes, 46 seconds
2. Create a Multi-Lingual Site with Localization?
Learn how to create culture-aware and locale-specific web content with no additional code. Use the Resource Editor to create page-level and application-level resources.
Duration: 13 minutes, 37 seconds
3. Make Greater use of Caching?
Watch a demonstration of Partial-Page Output Caching, followed by an overview of the Cache API that demonstrates how to efficiently bind a data presentation control to an XML file.
Duration: 15 minutes, 36 seconds
4. Make use of Caching?
Watch a demonstration of Page Output Caching followed by an overview of the new Database Caching support for SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005.
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Get expert, pragmatic guidance on how to design and build smart client solutions that combine the benefits of traditional, rich-client applications with the manageability of thin clients. Software architects and developers will learn how to evaluate whether a smart client solution is appropriate for their client architecture, and get practical recommendations on how to deal with the design and technical challenges associated with building smart clients solutions using Microsoft® Windows® Forms technology in the Microsoft .NET Framework. Topics include handling data, connecting to the back end, offline functionality, security features, multithreading, deployment, and performance. PATTERNS & PRACTICES guides are reviewed and approved by Microsoft engineering teams, consultants, partners, and customers—delivering accurate, real-world information that’s been technically validated and tested.

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Beyond cutting edge, Scott Mueller goes where no computer book author has gone before–right past all the warranty stickers, the hidden screws, and the fear factor to produce a real owner's manual that every laptop owner should have on his desk. This book shows the upgrades users can perform, the ones that are better left to the manufacturer, and how to use add-on peripherals to make the most of a laptop. The CD contains one-of-a-kind video showing just what's inside a portable PC. For readers who have ever wondered what goes on inside their portable PC, how to upgrade/repair the portable PC or how to live on the road with it, this is the one must-have book of the year!

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Developers will discover how to unleash the full power of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with this developer’s guide by best-selling author, Michael Otey. Completely rewritten and reengineered, this book will focus on the new programming models and will provide readers with all the information they need to produce top-quality commercial applications.

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100 Linux Tips And Tricks A Press Hardening Linux

Building Embedded Linux Systems
Complete Idiot's Guide To Linux
Cramsession Red Hat Certified Engineer
Debugging Linux Kernel Problems
Designing And Implementing Linux Firewalls And Qos
Embedded Linux Primer - A Practical, Real-World Approach
Embedded Linux System Design And Development
EnterpriseOpen Source Magazine
Getting Started - Creating Fedora Objects And UsingDisseminators

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Programmers and software architects don't really make a conscious decision to design an application (particularly one with online exposure) around the three-tier model-view-controller design pattern anymore. Three-tier, largely because of its adaptability and stability, is the norm. All of which means you need a database to underpin each of your applications. Designing your databases correctly can make the difference between slow-running, complicated code and software that's speedy, modular, and easy to work with. Database Design for Mere Mortals prepares someone with only a passing familiarity with databases for the important job of building the persistence layer (also called the data model) for software.

Michael Hernandez explains database design in tradesman's terms. That is, he shows his readers how to identify the business problems that have to be satisfied by a database, then proceeds to explain how to build a solid solution to them. Hernandez's approach combines procedural guidelines (first identify critical facts, then apply a certain logic to yield tables, then establish cross-references, and so on) with practical definitions that clear up much of the rich trove of jargon surrounding databases. He walks through numerous examples, and doesn't shy away from the complexities that always exist in real customers' requirements. If you're not familiar with database design, and want to be, this is the book you need.

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