Get connected, get clicking, and get what you need from the Internet, whether that’s answers from Google, bargains from E-bay, music from iTunes, or merchandise from the thousands of shopping sites. The Internet Gigabook For Dummies has almost 900 pages jam-packed with information, how-tos, tips, techniques, advice, and short-cuts to help you use the Internet for all it’s worth! Whether you’re an experienced Web surfer or just daring to get your feet wet for the first time, you’ll discover how to get the most from the Internet and its most popular sites with information.

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InnerWorkings .NET Training provides practical, self-paced training for .NET  developers. Using hands-on coding challenges, you learn about key .NET techniques in a realistic learning environment.

With this sample, you get one hour of FREE hands-on learning material on the LINQ to SQL functionality available in .NET Framework 3.5.  You will learn to generate strongly typed LINQ to SQL data context and entity classes using the ORM designer, and use them to retrieve data from a database. You’ll also learn to create, retrieve, update, and delete (CRUD) database data through a strongly typed LINQ to SQL data context and its associated entity classes.

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Learn to create interactive Web sites using the PHP programming language.

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InnerWorkings .NET Training provides practical, self-paced training for .NET  developers. Using hands-on coding challenges, you learn and practice key .NET techniques in a realistic learning environment. With this sample, you get 2 hours of FREE hands-on learning material on VS 2008 and .NET 3.5.  It's fully integrated with Visual Studio 2008 and covers the important new features in C# 3.0 and VB 9.0.  

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The Windows XP registry is behind almost every great feature in the operating system. Discover how to customize the registry—and how to take care of it—with this no-nonsense primer. Written for IT professionals and desktop power users, this eye-opening guide reveals little-known registry techniques, tricks, tips, and secrets to make your tasks easier. You’ll learn exactly how the registry works, why it works that way, and how to use it to customize Windows XP so that it runs the way you want—on one PC or on hundreds. You’ll also find best practices for how to hack, back up, restore, and maintain registry settings with confidence.

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LinuxCBT | UnixCBT are the most comprehensive and cost-effective GNU/Linux, Unix, and Open Source training solutions available!

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Provides poker strategies for every phase of tournament play, covering the early phase where the stakes are small to later tactics such as bluffing, flops, scare cards, playing shorthanded, loose games, and endgame play.

In the first volume of this series, Harrington on Hold 'em: Volume I: Strategic Play, Dan Harrington explained the basics of the game, and how to play in the early stages of tournaments, where the players have deep stacks and the blinds and antes are small. In the second volume, Harrington on Hold 'em: Volume II: The Endgame, he explained how to play the later stages of tournaments, when the prize money was within sight. In this book, Dan gives you problems to test how well you grasped the principles of the first two volumes. In addition, many of the problems focus on the key area that causes difficulties for so many aspiring players: how to play after the flop.

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A poorly performing database application not only costs users time, but also has an impact on other applications running on the same computer or the same network. SQL Tuning provides an essential next step for SQL developers and database administrators who want to extend their SQL tuning expertise and get the most from their database applications. There are two basic issues to focus on when tuning SQL: how to find and interpret the execution plan of an SQL statement and how to change SQL to get a specific alternate execution plan. SQL Tuning provides answers to these questions and addresses a third issue that's even more important: how to find the optimal execution plan for the query to use. Author Dan Tow outlines a timesaving method he's developed for finding the optimum execution plan–rapidly and systematically–regardless of the complexity of the SQL or the database platform being used. You'll learn how to understand and control SQL execution plans and how to diagram SQL queries to deduce the best execution plan for a query. Key chapters in the book include exercises to reinforce the concepts you've learned. SQL Tuning concludes by addressing special concerns and unique solutions to "unsolvable problems." Whether you are a programmer who develops SQL-based applications or a database administrator or other who troubleshoots poorly tuned applications, SQL Tuning will arm you with a reliable and deterministic method for tuning your SQL queries to gain optimal performance.

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Here is your essential companion to the best-selling Wii game console. The Nintendo Wii Pocket Guide steers you through how to

 -Set up your Wii and connect it to your network.
 -Make your way around the Wii Channels.
 -Pick and use Wii controllers,including the Wii Remote, Nunchuk, and Classic and GameCube controllers.
 -Create and edit your own Mii—using Wii software or third-party tools—and take charge of other Miis.
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 -Choose the best Wii games and play older Nintendo games on the Wii.
 -Find handy accessories.
 -Tinker with your Wii to get the most out of the game console.

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If you develop your own commercial software or computer games, this should be high on your list. It tells how to better protect software from illegal copying. The author states there is no ultimate protection from determined crackers, but you can provide deterrents that delay the process or make it not worthwhile. When a cracker learns to remove a protection, it is not long before it appears on specialized websites. Developers may then suffer having their protection removed in minutes. The book covers the basics, cracking tools, types of software protection, CD protection, compression and encoding: freeware and software, commercial software protection programs, anti-debugging and anti-disassembling, detecting breakpoints, tracers and debuggers, structures in Windows and suggestions for better software protection. The CD contains compression and encoding programs, debuggers, and other information including examples and demonstrations. (more…)