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After you’ve uncovered the basics in Lion, Mac Kung Fu is your next step. You’ll learn how to master everyday tools such as the Dock, Spotlight, Mission Control, Launchpad, and Dashboard. You’ll discover other amazingly useful tools and built-in add-ons that you never knew existed. You’ll customize the OS X interface, refine your workflow, learn valuable security tricks, work better with photos, movies and documents, and test your Mac hardware. You’ll wow friends with your insanely great Mac knowledge!

Mac Kung Fu details things even Mac Geniuses don’t know. And why should they? Many of the tips in this book exploit settings or experimental features never officially made public.

Each tip in this unique book is deliberately short and readable, and you can dip in and out whenever you want. Most take less than a minute to complete, yet the results last for a lifetime of better computing.

What You Need: Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) and above.

About the Author
Keir Thomas is a Linux Journal award-winning author who has been writing about Linux, operating systems and computer hardware for over a decade. Formerly a computer magazine journalist and editor, working on titles such as Linux User and Developer, Linux Magazine and PC Utilities, his other book titles include Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Third Edition Download Now »

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iOS Recipes begins with a tour of UIKit. Former Apple Evangelist Matt Drance and expert graphical-systems programmer Paul Warren show you how to write splash screens and embedded web browsers that are easily dropped into any project. You’ll explore techniques for building complex table views without losing yourself in a sea of code, and see how to add some unique visual touches to any table–even the ones you’ve already built.

Next you’ll explore Quartz and Core Animation, and you’ll walk through a number of fills, transforms, and animations that will breathe life into any app or game. You’ll also learn about gestures, transitions, and custom controls to take your user interactions to the next level.

You’ll tackle networking with a few basic techniques to prevent unnecessary repetition in your codebases, and address some more complex problems like uploading large files to a web server. Finally, you’ll see some simple disciplines and ideas that will make architecting, debugging, maintaining, and ultimately shipping your application easier every single time.

By the end of this book, you’ll have expanded your iPhone and iPad development knowledge and be well on your way to building elegant solutions that are ready for whatever project you take on next.

About the Author
Matt Drance founded Bookhouse Software, an iOS development and consulting company, after an eight-year career at Apple. He also trains new iOS developers for the Pragmatic Studio, and shares his thoughts on the industry at Apple Outsider Download Now »

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A collection of tips, tricks, and hacks to help MongoDB developers get the most out of the software. The tips cover everything from application design to data safety and monitoring.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Application Design Tips
Tip #1: Duplicate data for speed, reference data for integrity
Tip #2: Normalize if you need to future-proof data
Tip #3: Try to fetch data in a single query
Tip #4: Embed dependent fields
Tip #5: Embed “point-in-time” data
Tip #6: Do not embed fields that have unbound growth
Tip #7: Pre-populate anything you can
Tip #8: Preallocate space, whenever possible
Tip #9: Store embedded information in arrays for anonymous access
Tip #10: Design documents to be self-sufficient
Tip #11: Prefer $-operators to JavaScript
Tip #12: Compute aggregations as you go
Tip #13: Write code to handle data integrity issues
Chapter 2 Implementation Tips
Tip #14: Use the correct types
Tip #15: Override _id when you have your own simple, unique id
Tip #16: Avoid using a document for _id Download Now »

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Build robust Excel 2010 apps quickly and efficientlyKnown as “Mr. Spreadsheet,” John Walkenbach’s name is synonymous with excellence in computer books that explain the complexities of various topics. With this collection of favorite Excel tips and tricks, you get a unique look at ways to make Excel 2010 more efficient than you ever imagined.

Packed with easy-to-understand advice regarding all aspects of Excel, this book shares improved ways of speeding up application development with Excel and maximizing the power of Excel to create robust applications.

• Addresses the extensive changes to the 2010 version of Excel and shares tricks and shortcuts for making your Excel experience as successful and efficient as possible
• Reveals ways to deal with function arguments, create “impossible” charts, and tame the Ribbon bar
• Discusses absolute vs. relative references, change data entry orientation, and sort more than three columns
• Demonstrates ways to enter fake data for testing purposes

With John Walkenbach’s Favorite Excel 2010 Tips and Tricks, you’ll get a jump start on mastering the extensive changes to the 2010 version of Excel.

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Book Description

One of the toughest challenges novice CSS developers face is when seemingly perfect code doesn’t translate into a perfectly rendered browser page—and with all the different browsers available today, this happens all too often. The CSS Detective Guide aims to help, by teaching real world troubleshooting skills. You’ll learn how to track clues, analyze the evidence, and get to the truth behind CSS mysteries. These aren’t pat solutions, but rather strategies for thinking about CSS. Author Denise Jacobs begins by going over the basics of CSS with a special emphasis on common causes of problems. Then she shows you methods for giving your code the third degree. Then you’ll take a look at the line-up of usual suspects, the common problems and persistent bugs that are often encountered in CSS.

Finally, you’ll have the chance to play detective and find the guilty culprit in:

• The Case of the Devilish Details
• The Case of the Mistaken Identity
• The Case of the Single White Space
• The Case of the Float with a Mind of Its Own
• The Case of the Browser Who Hated Me
• The Case of the LOL Layout

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Book Description

Using a cookbook approach, The JavaScript Anthology will show you how to apply JavaScript to solve over 101 common Web Development challenges. You’ll discover how-to:

# Optimize your code so that it runs faster
# Create Ajax applications with the XmlHttpRequest object
# Validate web forms to improve usability
# Take control of your web pages with the DOM
# Ensure that your JavaScript code is accessible
# Create slick drop-down menu systems

Included in this book is extensive coverage of DHTML and Ajax, including how-to create and customize advanced effects such as draggable elements, dynamically sorting data in a Web Browser, advanced menu systems, retrieving data from a Web Server using XMLHttpRequest and more.

The JavaScript Anthology also includes extensive coverage of object oriented coding, efficient script design, accessibility, and cross-browser issues. Best of all, you’ll get download access to all the code used in the book, so you can put the scripts to use instantly. Download Now »