Book Description

Use FileMaker® technologies to create powerful mobile data apps for iPhone®, iPod® touch, and iPad™

Apple’s FileMaker technologies make it easy to create powerful, data-driven apps for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and any mobile device’s web browser. In this book, leading FileMaker and iOS expert Jesse Feiler teaches you all the skills and techniques you’ll need, whether you’re a developer, knowledge worker, or manager.

Feiler thoroughly reviews each strategy for delivering mobile data using FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Server, FileMaker Go, and Bento. You’ll learn how mobile data-driven apps are different from traditional desktop-driven apps, and how to create highly usable interfaces for them. Step by step, Feiler demonstrates how to extend existing databases to mobile devices and the web, and how to create and optimize brand-new databases for iPad and iPhone.

This book brings together core principles, practical development techniques, and proven tips and shortcuts. You’ll discover the best ways to incorporate printing, touch interface elements, and location-based features into your apps; integrate data from multiple FileMaker and non-FileMaker sources; and much more.

• Use FileMaker Go apps to access FileMaker databases hosted on FileMaker Server or FileMaker Pro, or databases resident on a mobile device
• Move FileMaker Pro databases, scripts, and layouts to mobile environments Download Now »

Book Description

Taking Your iPhoto ’11 to the Max walks users through Apple’s most popular software application in the iLife suite—iPhoto. This book helps people use iPhoto to its fullest to organize and create digital memories and keepsakes of their life.

• Learn all about Apple’s newest version of iPhoto—iPhoto ‘11
• Explore iPhoto one menu button at a time
• Walk-through tutorials guide you step-be-step

What you’ll learn

• How to import existing photo libraries from popular Windows applications
• How to organize and edit your photos
• How to tag your photos using iPhoto’s Faces and Places features Create Events, albums, and smart photo albums
• Create books, cards, and slideshows
• Share your photos via MobileMe, Flickr, and Facebook…all without leaving the iPhoto app!

Who this book is for
This book’s primary audience is people who are completely new to the Mac. Most of these readers would be Windows users who have switched to the Mac Download Now »

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Apple’s iPod still has the world hooked on portable music, pictures, videos, movies, and more, but one thing it doesn’t have is a manual that helps you can get the most out this amazing device. That’s where this book comes in. Get the complete scoop on the latest line of iPods and the latest version of iTunes with the guide that outshines them all — iPod: The Missing Manual.

The 9th edition is as useful, satisfying, and reliable as its subject. Teeming with high-quality color graphics, each page helps you accomplish a specific task — everything from managing your media and installing and browsing iTunes to keeping calendars and contacts. Whether you have a brand-new iPod or an old favorite, this book provides crystal-clear explanations and expert guidance on all of the things you can do:

• Fill ‘er up. Load your Nano, Touch, Classic, or Shuffle with music, movies, and photos, and learn how to play it all back.
• Tour the Touch. Surf the Web, use web-based email, collect iPhone apps, play games, and more.
• Share music and movies. Copy music between computers with Home Sharing, beam playlists around the house, and whisk your Nano’s videos to YouTube.
• iTunes, tuned up. Pick-and-choose which music, movies, and photos to sync; create instant playlists with Genius Mix; and auto-rename “Untitled” tracks.
• iPod power. Create Genius playlists on your iPod, shoot movies on your Nano, use the Nano’s FM radio and pedometer, and add voice memos to your Touch. Download Now »

Book Description

Step-by-step instructions with callouts to iPhone images that show you exactly what to do.
Help when you run into iPhone 4 problems or limitations.
Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your iPhone.

Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your iPhone working just the way you want. The tasks include how to:

• Connect to the Internet, Bluetooth devices, Wi-Fi networks, other iPhones, iPods, and iPads
• Manage your apps with the iPhone’s new multitasking capabilities
• Customize your iPhone with folders, wallpaper, ringtones, and much more
• Configure and sync your information, and efficiently manage contacts and calendars
• Communicate via FaceTime videoconferences, conference calls, text, email, and more
• Make the most of Safari to browse the Web and Mail to manage all of your email from one inbox
• Listen to music, subscribe to podcasts, and watch video–including movies and TV shows
• Capture photos and HD video
• Use your photos in slideshows, for wallpaper, and your contacts or share them via email, MobileMe, and texts
• Find, download, install, and use iPhone apps, including the amazing iBooks to read ebooks Download Now »

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s an iPad, and while it may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, the iPad is a lean, mean, media machine for reading books, listening to music, watching videos, viewing photos, controlling iTunes and your Apple TV, and more. Jeff Carlson, our most media-savvy author, explains how to purchase or acquire ebooks to read in iBooks and helps you understand the subtleties of iBooks. After that, you’ll find advice and steps for listening to audio in the iPod app, including how to control the playback interface and complex tasks like creating smart playlists. Then it’s on to figuring out how put videos on your iPad, using the Videos app, and streaming video from the Web. Next up are photos—learning how to store photos on the iPad, use the Photos app, set up the iPad as a digital picture frame, and sharing photos and videos. The ebook also covers how to use an iPad as a remote control for iTunes, an Apple TV, and other consumer electronics.

You’ll learn how to:
Mind your media: Get an overview of options for moving media to your iPad.

Read ebooks: Find free and commercial ebooks to read in iBooks, transfer ebooks from a desktop computer to iBooks, and learn how to use iBooks so you can go beyond flipping pages. And, if iBooks isn’t your cup of tea or if you want to include multiple ebook-reading apps in your repertoire, or read magazines or comics, you’ll find ideas for a few third-party options. Download Now »

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Beginning Mac Programming takes you through concrete, working examples, giving you the core concepts and principles of development in context so you will be ready to build the applications you’ve been imagining. It introduces you to Objective-C and the Cocoa framework in clear, easy-to-understand lessons, and demonstrates how you can use them together to write for the Mac, as well as the iPhone and iPod.

You’ll explore crucial developer tools like Xcode and Interface Builder, and learn the principles of object-oriented programming, and how memory, data, and storage work to help you build your software.

If you’ve ever wanted to develop software for the Mac, this book is for you.

About the Author
Tim Isted has been writing software for Macintosh computers since 1995. He also builds Web applications using Ruby on Rails, PHP, and .NET, and has been known to develop for Windows machines, too. He blogs on Core Data at www.timisted.net, and is currently co-organizing NSConference, a conference for Mac developers. Download Now »