The only full-service reference on choosing, setting up, and using the hot new Netbook

Netbooks are the fastest-selling segment of the PC market. These small, lightweight mini-laptops are less expensive and run longer on a battery charge than traditional laptops. This is the first book to cover everything from choosing the right Netbook to adding memory and remote access.

You'll learn to compare various models and identify what best meets your needs, connect to the Internet almost anywhere, choose and use free productivity tools, and much more. Netbooks For Dummies covers both Windows and Linux, since Netbooks are available with either operating system.

• Explains what Netbooks are, what they can do, and the advantages of mobile technology
• Provides criteria to help you decide what you need in a Netbook and descriptions of the available models, so you can choose one which best meets your needs
• Covers both Windows (including Windows 7) and Linux operating systems available on Netbooks
• Walks you through setting up a Netbook and shows you how it can work for you both at home and on the go
• Discusses free online productivity applications, data synchronization services, and social networks
• Covers advanced topics like adding memory and remote access

With Netbooks For Dummies, you'll be ready to make the most of the hottest mobile computing technology on the market today. ]]> http://www.ebooksabouteverything.com/ebooks/item/parent-9780470521236/McNamara,-Joel-Netbooks-For-Dummies-.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT http://www.ebooksabouteverything.com/ebooks/item/parent-9780470521236/McNamara,-Joel-Netbooks-For-Dummies-.html
The explosion of social media blogs, social networking sites, and video sharing sites has ushered in a new era of digital transparency that puts the power to enhance or destroy a reputation in the hands of the consumer. This timely and practical book shows you how to harness the power of social media with crucial, proven tactics and strategies for every phase of online reputation management. Using step-by-step instruction and tested techniques, the expert authors unveil a detailed blueprint for building, managing, monitoring, and repairing your reputation. ]]> http://www.ebooksabouteverything.com/ebooks/item/parent-9780470190821/--Radically-Transparent:-Monitoring-and-Managing-Reputations-Online-.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT http://www.ebooksabouteverything.com/ebooks/item/parent-9780470190821/--Radically-Transparent:-Monitoring-and-Managing-Reputations-Online-.html
UNIX expert Randal K. Michael guides you through every detail of writing shell scripts to automate specific tasks. Each chapter begins with a typical, everyday UNIX challenge, then shows you how to take basic syntax and turn it into a shell scripting solution. Covering Bash, Bourne, and Korn shell scripting, this updated edition provides complete shell scripts plus detailed descriptions of each part. UNIX programmers and system administrators can tailor these to build tools that monitor for specific system events and situations, building solid UNIX shell scripting skills to solve real-world system administration problems. ]]> http://www.ebooksabouteverything.com/ebooks/item/parent-9780471456742/Michael,-Randal-K.-MASTERING-UNIX-SHELL-SCRIPTING-.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT http://www.ebooksabouteverything.com/ebooks/item/parent-9780471456742/Michael,-Randal-K.-MASTERING-UNIX-SHELL-SCRIPTING-.html
"A harrowing guide to where the bad guys hide, and how you can find them." --Dan Kaminsky, Director of Penetration Testing, IOActive"An amazing resource. It is timely, focused, and what we need to better understand and defend against one of the greatest cyber threats we face." --From the Foreword by Lance Spitzner, President of the Honeynet Project Don't let another machine become a zombie in the malware armyDefend against the ongoing wave of malware and rootkit assaults the failsafe Hacking Exposed way. Real-world case studies and examples reveal how today's hackers use readily available tools to infiltrate and hijack systems. Step-by-step countermeasures provide proven prevention techniques. Find out how to detect and eliminate malicious embedded code, block pop-ups and websites, prevent keylogging, and terminate rootkits. The latest intrusion detection, firewall, honeynet, antivirus, anti-rootkit, and anti-spyware technologies are covered in detail. Understand how malware infects, survives, and propagates across an enterpriseLearn how hackers use archivers, encryptors, and packers to obfuscate codeImplement effective intrusion detection and prevention proceduresDefend against keylogging, redirect, click fraud, and identity theft threatsDetect, kill, and remove virtual, user-mode, and kernel-mode rootkits Prevent malicious website, phishing, client-side, and embedded-code exploitsProtect hosts using the latest antivirus, pop-up blocker, and firewall softwareIdentify and terminate malicious processes using HIPS and NIPS ]]> http://www.ebooksabouteverything.com/ebooks/item/parent-9780071591188/Davis,-Michael-A.,-Bodmer,-Sean,-LeMasters,-Aaron-HACKING-EXPOSED-MALWARE-AND-ROOTKITS-.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT http://www.ebooksabouteverything.com/ebooks/item/parent-9780071591188/Davis,-Michael-A.,-Bodmer,-Sean,-LeMasters,-Aaron-HACKING-EXPOSED-MALWARE-AND-ROOTKITS-.html

• Now featuring more than 250 color illustrations throughout, this perennially popular guide is a must for novices who want to work with HTML or XHTML, which continue to be the foundation for any Web site
• The new edition features nearly 50 percent new and updated content, including expanded coverage of CSS and scripting, new coverage of syndication and podcasting, and new sample HTML projects, including a personal Web page, an eBay auction page, a company Web site, and an online product catalog
• The companion Web site features an eight-page expanded Cheat Sheet with ready-reference information on commands, syntax, colors, CSS elements, and more
• Covers planning a Web site, formatting Web pages, using CSS, getting creative with colors and fonts, managing layouts, and integrating scripts

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When you write OpenSocial applications for MySpace, you can reach millions of users overnight. Building OpenSocial Apps shows you how, one step at a time. Whether you’re building casual widgets or feature-rich, professional applications, this book will teach you everything you need to know.

 

The authors are the leading experts on OpenSocial and MySpace and have personally helped construct the MySpace platform and OpenSocial standards. In this indispensable book, they walk you through the entire process of building apps, from signing up through building complex apps that can scale to thousands of users and interoperate on more than fifty social networks, such as Hi5, Orkut, and LinkedIn. They demonstrate today’s best practices for building OpenSocial applications and present dozens of tips for leveraging both MySpace and OpenSocial to their fullest. Coverage includes

• Installing and working with the MySpace Developer Platform
• Retrieving, parsing, and displaying user data, friend lists, and photos
• Sending App invitations and notifications
• Building mashups that communicate with third-party web services
• Marketing your App and building your user base
• Designing for performance, scalability, and fault tolerance
• Securing MySpace and OpenSocial apps, and protecting users’ privacy
• Building apps that display ads and accept micropayments

A companion web site (opensocialtictactoe.googlecode.com) includes an extensive library of downloadable source code and other support materials.

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed is the ultimate guide to designing, deploying, managing, troubleshooting, and supporting any Exchange Server 2010 environment, no matter how large or complex.

 

Drawing on their extensive experience with hundreds of enterprise Exchange Server environments--including Exchange Server 2010 early adopters--the authors thoroughly cover every stage of the Exchange Server 2010 lifecycle. They present detailed recommendations, proven tips and tricks, and step-by-step techniques for implementation and migration planning, architecture, installation, administration, security, monitoring, integration, availability, optimization, and much more.

 

Rand Morimoto and his expert colleagues also offer indispensable practical guidance for making the most of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010’s many enhancements--from its improved web access to its enhanced support for Unified Communications and Mobility.

 

• Use proven best practices to plan your Exchange Server 2010 implementation
• Architect higher-performance, lower-cost enterprise Exchange Server environments
• Maximize the security of your Exchange Server infrastructure, transport, and messages
• Migrate smoothly from Exchange Server 2003/2007 and Active Directory 2000/2003 to Exchange Server 2010 and Active Directory 2008
• Utilize Microsoft Operations Manager to monitor Exchange Server 2010
• Use Windows PowerShell to streamline Exchange Server management
• Integrate other Microsoft technologies, including SharePoint 2007 and Office Communication Server 2007
• Leverage the full capabilities of the Outlook Web App (OWA) client
• Provide robust messaging to non-Windows and non-Outlook systems
• Implement Exchange Server’s powerful new Database Availability Group replication feature
• Back up Exchange Server 2010 environments and recover quickly from a disaster
• Systematically optimize Exchange Server 2010 environments, including storage

You know it's essential, and you've heard that it can be tricky — implementing the 802.1x standard. Here is a road map that will steer you safely around the pitfalls, smooth out the rough patches, and guide you to a successful implementation of 802.1x in both wired and wireless networks. Complete with step-by-step instructions, recommendations to help you choose the best solutions, and troubleshooting tips, it lets you benefit from the experience of others who have met the challenge.

• Get an overview of port-based authentication and network architecture concepts

• Examine EAPOL, RADIUS, and EAP-Methods protocols

• Understand 802.1x protocol packet structure and operation

• Explore and evaluate complete 802.1x-based security solutions for various needs

• Learn what parts are necessary to construct a complete network access-control system

• Configure your system and assure that all aspects of it work together

• Follow step-by-step instructions and screen shots to successfully set up 802.1x-based security solutions and make them work

You're ready to see through the misconceptions and misinformation about NAP/NAC that might come your way. Here is an excellent resource for uncovering the actual vulnerabilities and exploits that the various NAP/NAC types can address. You'll find real-world hacking scenarios, along with complete implementation guidance for the right NAP/NAC solution. This guide will help you determine what type of solution makes the most sense, based upon the most prevalent risks in your environment.

• Follow the actual steps hackers take to perform specific exploits
• Determine which security solutions will stop the exploits from happening
• Gain a strong understanding of the various NAP/NAC terms, standards, and organizations
• Learn all about the standard components of any NAP/NAC solution
• Analyze a security posture, set policies for device analysis, communicate to the device, and take action
• Explore NAP and NAC solutions from different vendors, including Cisco(r) NAC, Microsoft(r) NAP, Mobile NAC, and Fiberlink Mobile NAC

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Learn, prepare, and practice for exam success

• Master every topic on both new 2009 A+ exams.
• Assess your knowledge and focus your learning.
• Get the practical workplace knowledge you need!

DVD Features 2 Complete Sample Exams

Start-to-finish A+ preparation from the world’s #1 PC hardware expert, Scott Mueller!

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Test your knowledge, build your confidence, and succeed!

• Packed with visuals to help you learn fast
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DVD Features 2 Complete Sample Exams

• Detailed explanations of correct and incorrect answers
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In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with Dynamics CRM 4. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, this book offers a quick way for you to get started with Dynamics CRM by leveraging real business examples, practice exercises, and big picture theory. In addition to learning how to use the core application, you will develop a deeper understanding of how Dynamics CRM fits into today’s business needs.

 

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the questions, issues, and tasks most common to Dynamics CRM.

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you build and test your knowledge.

By the Way notes present interesting pieces of information related to the discussion.

Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

 

Learn how to…

• Orchestrate a successful CRM project
• Identify building blocks of Dynamics CRM
• Automate processes
• Create and manage your business units and users
• Use and maintain security roles
• Redefine an account
• Import new contacts and distribute leads
• Create marketing campaigns and capture the results
• Convert a lead to an account and contact
• Configure your display
• Capture contact and activity details
• Email directly from Dynamics CRM
• Master scheduling
• Integrate Dynamics CRM with Microsoft Excel and other applications
• Create simple workflows
• Customize and add utilities

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• What makes a good presentation or a bad one
• How to plan, organize, and outline your presentation
• Four principles of designing effective presentations
• Four principles for designing beautiful slides that communicate clearly
• An exhaustive list of timeless presentation rules...that you should totally ignore

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Code samples are syntax highlighted as in Xcode!!

 

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build powerful mobile applications with Apple’s Cocoa Touch technology for the iPhone and iPod touch! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master every skill and technology you need, from handling user interaction and building effective user interfaces to accessing the Internet, playing media, and using the iPhone and iPod touch’s incredible sensing capabilities. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!

 

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Cocoa Touch programming tasks.

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.

By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

 

 

• Write simple, efficient code that reflects a clear understanding of how Cocoa Touch works and why it works that way
• Build great iPhone/iPod touch user interfaces from the ground up
• Display tables and provide for clear navigation
• Access the Internet and networks and show web pages
• Save and retrieve data, including user preferences
• Understand how the Cocoa Touch runtime loop interacts with your application
• Draw and manipulate images
• Create complex animations such as Cover Flow
• Build applications that play and record media
• Use the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer, GPS capabilities, and WiFi support
• Share data via custom URLs, emails, and other techniques
• Find and fix common Cocoa Touch software bugs, fast
• Avoid the performance bottlenecks that affect Cocoa Touch code

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The Complete Developer's Guide to Python

• New to Python? The definitive guide to Python development for experienced programmers
• Covers core language features thoroughly, including those found in the latest Python releases—learn more than just the syntax!
• Learn advanced topics such as regular expressions, networking, multithreading, GUI, Web/CGI, and Python extensions
• Includes brand-new material on databases, Internet clients, Java/Jython, and Microsoft Office, plus Python 2.6 and 3
• Presents hundreds of code snippets, interactive examples, and practical exercises to strengthen your Python skills

Python is an agile, robust, expressive, fully object-oriented, extensible, and scalable programming language. It combines the power of compiled languages with the simplicity and rapid development of scripting languages. In Core Python Programming, Second Edition, leading Python developer and trainer Wesley Chun helps you learn Python quickly and comprehensively so that you can immediately succeed with any Python project.

 

Using practical code examples, Chun introduces all the fundamentals of Python programming: syntax, objects and memory management, data types, operators, files and I/O, functions, generators, error handling and exceptions, loops, iterators, functional programming, object-oriented programming and more. After you learn the core fundamentals of Python, he shows you what you can do with your new skills, delving into advanced topics, such as regular expressions, networking programming with sockets, multithreading, GUI development, Web/CGI programming and extending Python in C.

 

This edition reflects major enhancements in the Python 2.x series, including 2.6 and tips for migrating to 3. It contains new chapters on database and Internet client programming, plus coverage of many new topics, including new-style classes, Java and Jython, Microsoft Office (Win32 COM Client) programming, and much more.

• Learn professional Python style, best practices, and good programming habits
• Gain a deep understanding of Python's objects and memory model as well as its OOP features, including those found in Python's new-style classes
• Build more effective Web, CGI, Internet, and network and other client/server applications
• Learn how to develop your own GUI applications using Tkinter and other toolkits available for Python
• Improve the performance of your Python applications by writing extensions in C and other languages, or enhance I/O-bound applications by using multithreading
• Learn about Python's database API and how to use a variety of database systems with Python, including MySQL, Postgres, and SQLite
• Features appendices on Python 2.6 & 3, including tips on migrating to the next generation! 

Core Python Programming delivers

• Systematic, expert coverage of Python's core features
• Powerful insights for developing complex applications
• Easy-to-use tables and charts detailing Python modules, operators, functions, and methods
• Dozens of professional-quality code examples, from quick snippets to full-fledged applications

With the worldwide surge in the demand for IT Professional skills, the CCSE is one of the hottest certifications today. To pass the CCSE exam, you need a no-gimmicks, no-nonsense book on the exam objectives. This is that book.

Employers know certified professionals are more efficient, productive, and deliver lower total cost of ownership. Companies hire Check Point Certified Professionals to ensure maximum security and availability of valuable business assets.

As one of over 50,000 Check Point Certified Professionals worldwide, you'll get immediate recognition of your experience, knowledge, and abilities while investing in your professional development and security career.

This book HELPS you a great deal in passing the exam. The questions are realistic, very realistic. Let me put it this way. When you take the exam, most of the questions will ring bells. And most of them will connect to the questions in this book. You can save hundreds of dollars by using this book along with your study guide.

Best-selling author William Manning offers concise yet comprehensive coverage of each topic included in the CCSE exam. With a laser sharp focus on the exam objectives, this study guide goes beyond being a simple exam cram. It includes numerous questions and detailed answers modeled after the actual exam. Maximize your learning and minimize your study time!

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What makes this book a must-have? Is it the authors years of experience? The endless hours of ongoing research? The interviews with those who failed the exam, to identify gaps in their knowledge? Or is it the razor-sharp focus on making sure you don't waste a single minute of your time studying any more than you absolutely have to? Actually, it's all of the above.

This book includes new exercises and sample questions never before in print. Offering numerous sample questions, critical time-saving tips plus information available nowhere else, this book will help you pass the CCSE exam on your FIRST try.

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Today, enterprises are required to respond ever more rapidly to unpredictable and asynchronous environments. This book explains, step-by-step, how to design, deploy, and use event-processing (EP) systems to detect and respond to business anomalies, threats, and opportunities.Event Processing first explains how this methodology compares and contrasts to the IT architectural styles used in conventional business applications. The book then discusses the types of software needed to develop and run EP applications, helping you form a deployment plan and purchase the appropriate tools. Real-world examples illustrate successful EP implementations.