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Tracker Hacker (Codename: Winger #1)
by Jeff AdamsCodename: Winger OneTheo Reese is just an average high school student with a passion for hockey and an uncanny talent when it comes to computers… at least on the surface. What his teammates, fellow students, and even his boyfriend don’t realize is that Theo leads a double life. When he’s not putting up his facade of normal, Theo is working as an agent for Tactical Operational Support, where his technical genius is more than just a hobby. At sixteen he is responsible for helping agents in the field and keeping the TOS network secure. It’s a secret he has to keep—from everyone. But secrecy becomes even harder when a hacker compromises the system TOS uses to track its agents and Theo’s dad goes missing. Theo must find him and stop the hacker, which means leaving the comfort of his computer screen and venturing into a very real and very deadly world. And if that’s not enough to deal with, all the secrecy is really putting a strain on Theo’s love life.
Amazon Connect: Improve your customer experience by building logical and cost-effective solutions for critical call center systems
by Jeff ArmstrongExplore Amazon Connect, from implementing call flows and creating AI bots to integrating artificial intelligence solutions and analyzing critical customer sentimentKey FeaturesDiscover how to integrate chat with Connect to allow organizations to reduce operations costsLeverage machine learning to perform natural language processing (NLP) for analyzing customer feedback and trendsLearn how to integrate your enterprise application with Amazon ConnectBook DescriptionAmazon Connect is a pay-as-you-go cloud contact center solution that powers Amazon's customer contact system and provides an impressive user experience while reducing costs. Connect's scalability has been especially helpful during COVID-19, helping customers with research, remote work, and other solutions, and has driven adoption rates higher. Amazon Connect: Up and Running will help you develop a foundational understanding of Connect's capabilities and how businesses can effectively estimate the costs and risks associated with migration. Complete with hands-on tutorials, costing profiles, and real-world use cases relating to improving business operations, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you everything you need to get your call center online, interface with critical business systems, and take your customer experience to the next level. As you advance, you'll understand the benefits of using Amazon Connect and cost estimation guidelines for migration and new deployments. Later, the book guides you through creating AI bots, implementing interfaces, and leveraging machine learning for business analytics. By the end of this book, you'll be able to bring a Connect call center online with all its major components and interfaces to significantly reduce personnel overhead and provide your customers with an enhanced user experience (UX).What you will learnBecome well-versed with the capabilities and benefits of Amazon ConnectDetermine cost-effective solutions by integrating Connect with AWSCreate, modify, and connect contact flows to improve efficiencyBuild a conversational interface with Amazon LexFind out how to transfer contact records out of Connect via KinesisGather user insights and improve business operations with Amazon QuickSightAnalyze customer-agent conversations with ML speech analytics capabilitiesDiscover ways to provide superior customer service at a lower costWho this book is forThis Amazon Connect book is for anyone looking to save costs and improve their customer experience through a more advanced call center using Amazon Connect and other AWS capabilities. A technical understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and beginner-level business administration experience are necessary to address cost concerns and risks.
Migrating to AWS: How to Foster Agility, Reduce Costs, and Bring a Competitive Edge to Your Business
by Jeff ArmstrongBring agility, cost savings, and a competitive edge to your business by migrating your IT infrastructure to AWS. With this practical book, executive and senior leadership and engineering and IT managers will examine the advantages, disadvantages, and common pitfalls when moving your company’s operations to the cloud.Author Jeff Armstrong brings years of practical hands-on experience helping dozens of enterprises make this corporate change. You’ll explore real-world examples from many organizations that have made—or attempted to make—this wide-ranging transition. Once you read this guide, you’ll be better prepared to evaluate your migration objectively before, during, and after the process in order to ensure success.Learn the benefits and drawbacks of migrating to AWS, including the risks to your business and technologyBegin the process by discovering the applications and servers in your environmentExamine the value of AWS migration when building your business caseAddress your operational readiness before you migrateDefine your AWS account structure and cloud governance controlsCreate your migration plan in waves of servers and applicationsRefactor applications that will benefit from using more cloud native resources
The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks
by Jon Galloway Phil Haack Wyatt Barnett Scott Allen Jeff AtwoodAn ASP.NET 2.0 book that just helps you get things done!This book contains a collection of 101 best practice, object oriented solutions that you can easily adapt to your own projects.Coverage includes:Working with text, numbers, dates & timesAccessing data with ADO.NETForm validation under multiple sceneriosPage, Session and application state tipsAccess control in web applicationsProducing standards compliant outputEnhancing applications with AJAXWorking with EmailHandling errors and debuggingPerformance tips and pitfallsAnd much more!As a bonus, all book buyers get download access to the code archive which has all the examples in the book in both C# and VB.Back Cover"A comprehensive collection of ready-to-use ASP.NET solutions!"The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a collection of solutions to the most common ASP.NET problems. Let five world-class ASP.NET professionals guide you through countless practical solutions using C# or VB.Learn to:Add interactivity with Ajax and JavaScript.Build a database access layer for improved portability.Sidestep the ASP.NET framework when required.Build data-driven applications quickly with SubSonic.Gracefull handle errors effectively.Work with email: send, parse, & manage attachments.Use component-based development for flexibility.Make your applications search engine friendly.Validate data input on forms.Create a user registration system.Use Master Pages to simplify development.Work with binary content.Improve the speed of your site, decrease bandwidth usage and speed up database queriesAnd lots more...
Data Democratization with Domo: Bring together every component of your business to make better data-driven decisions using Domo
by Jeff BurtenshawOvercome data challenges at record speed and cloud-scale that optimize businesses by transforming raw data into dashboards and apps which democratize data consumption, supercharging results with the cloud-based solution, DomoKey FeaturesAcquire data and automate data pipelines quickly for any data volume, variety, and velocityPresent relevant stories in dashboards and custom apps that drive favorable outcomes using DomoShare information securely and govern content including Domo content embedded in other toolsBook DescriptionDomo is a power-packed business intelligence (BI) platform that empowers organizations to track, analyze, and activate data in record time at cloud scale and performance. Data Democratization with Domo begins with an overview of the Domo ecosystem. You'll learn how to get data into the cloud with Domo data connectors and Workbench; profile datasets; use Magic ETL to transform data; work with in-memory data sculpting tools (Data Views and Beast Modes); create, edit, and link card visualizations; and create card drill paths using Domo Analyzer. Next, you'll discover options to distribute content with real-time updates using Domo Embed and digital wallboards. As you advance, you'll understand how to use alerts and webhooks to drive automated actions. You'll also build and deploy a custom app to the Domo Appstore and find out how to code Python apps, use Jupyter Notebooks, and insert R custom models. Furthermore, you'll learn how to use Auto ML to automatically evaluate dozens of models for the best fit using SageMaker and produce a predictive model as well as use Python and the Domo Command Line Interface tool to extend Domo. Finally, you'll learn how to govern and secure the entire Domo platform. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the skills you need to become a successful Domo master.What you will learnUnderstand the Domo cloud data warehouse architecture and platformAcquire data with Connectors, Workbench, and Federated QueriesSculpt data using no-code Magic ETL, Data Views, and Beast ModesProfile data with the Data Dictionary, Data Profile, and Usage toolsUse a storytelling pattern to create dashboards with Domo StoriesCreate, share, and monitor custom alerts activated using webhooksCreate custom Domo apps, use the Domo CLI, and code with the Python APIAutomate model operations with Python programming and R scriptingWho this book is forThis book is for BI developers, ETL developers, and Domo users looking for a comprehensive, end-to-end guide to exploring Domo features for BI. Chief data officers, data strategists, architects, and BI managers interested in a new paradigm for integrated cloud data storage, data transformation, storytelling, content distribution, custom app development, governance, and security will find this book useful. Business analysts seeking new ways to tell relevant stories to shape business performance will also benefit from this book. A basic understanding of Domo will be helpful.
HTML5 Hacks: Tips & Tools for Creating Interactive Web Applications
by Jeff Burtoft Jesse CravensWith 90 detailed hacks, expert web developers Jesse Cravens and Jeff Burtoft demonstrate intriguing uses of HTML5-related technologies. Each recipe provides a clear explanation, screenshots, and complete code examples for specifications that include Canvas, SVG, CSS3, multimedia, data storage, web workers, WebSockets, and geolocation.You’ll also find hacks for HTML5 markup elements and attributes that will give you a solid foundation for creative recipes that follow. The last chapter walks you through everything you need to know to get your HTML5 app off the ground, from Node.js to deploying your server to the cloud.Here are just a few of the hacks you’ll find in this book:Make iOS-style card flips with CSS transforms and transitionsReplace the background of your video with the Canvas tagUse Canvas to create high-res Retina Display-ready mediaMake elements on your page user-customizable with editable contentCache media resources locally with the filesystem APIReverse-geocode the location of your web app userProcess image data with pixel manipulation in a dedicated web workerPush notifications to the browser with Server-Sent Events
Apple Watch: A Take Control Crash Course
by Jeff CarlsonExplore all the Apple Watch's capabilities and possibilities!You'll like your Apple Watch as much as author Jeff Carlson does after you've read this book and used its advice to integrate the Apple Watch into your life, taking advantage of its many features for helping you focus on what you care about the most. That could mean not missing notifications to help you keep up with co-workers, being free to stash your iPhone so you can enjoy the sunset without worrying that your sitter is trying to reach you, making sure you move enough to fill your activity rings for the day, or any other of a million things that make the watch right for you.Jeff walks you through getting to know the Apple Watch, complete with a chapter on picking one out if you haven't already, along with topics that teach you how to navigate among the watch's screens with the physical controls, taps on the screen, and the Siri voice assistant. You'll also find advice on customizing watch faces and their complications, getting the notifications you want, handling text and voice communications, and using Apple's core apps. A final chapter discusses taking care of your Apple Watch, including recharging, restarting, resetting, and restoring.Read this ebook to Take Control of:Picking out your own Apple WatchMaking watch face complications work for youKey settings that most people will want to know aboutUnderstanding how the watch interacts with your iPhonePlacing and receiving phone calls on the watchSending default (and customized) text messagesSeeing email from only certain peopleAdding events to your calendar with SiriGlancing at what's next in your daily scheduleManaging reminders on your wristLoading your watch with photosUsing the watch as a button for your iPhone cameraUsing Apple Pay from your watchPutting tickets in your watchTaking the Apple Watch out for exerciseSending sketches and heartbeats to other Apple Watch ownersGetting navigation directionsControlling an Apple TV or iTunes on the Mac with the Remote appResetting a messed-up Apple Watch and force-quitting an app
Take Control of Apple Watch
by Jeff CarlsonGet to know your Apple Watch and customize it to help you focus on what you care about most. Tech expert Jeff Carlson helps you understand the watch mindset, pick the watch model that’s right for you, set up its faces and their complications, get the notifications you want, handle communications, and learn how the controls and core apps work.
Take Control of Apple Watch
by Jeff CarlsonGet to know your Apple Watch and customize it to help you focus on what you care about most. Tech expert Jeff Carlson helps you understand the watch mindset, pick the watch model that’s right for you, set up and share its faces and their complications, get the notifications you want, handle communications, and learn how the controls and core apps work.
Take Control of Apple Watch
by Jeff CarlsonGet to know your Apple Watch and customize it to help you focus on what you care about most. Tech expert Jeff Carlson helps you understand the watch mindset, pick the watch model that’s right for you, set up and share its faces and their complications, get the notifications you want, handle communications, and learn how the controls and core apps work.
Take Control of Apple Watch
by Jeff CarlsonGet to know your Apple Watch and customize it to help you focus on what you care about most. Tech expert Jeff Carlson helps you understand the watch mindset, pick the watch model that’s right for you, set up and share its faces and their complications, get the notifications you want, handle communications, and learn how the controls and core apps work.
Take Control of Apple Watch
by Jeff CarlsonGet to know your Apple Watch and customize it to help you focus on what you care about most. Tech expert Jeff Carlson helps you understand the watch mindset, pick the watch model that’s right for you, set up and share its faces and their complications, get the notifications you want, handle communications, and learn how the controls and core apps work.
Take Control of Apple Watch
by Jeff CarlsonGet to know your Apple Watch and customize it to help you focus on what you care about most. Tech expert Jeff Carlson helps you understand the watch mindset, pick the watch model that’s right for you, set up and share its faces and their complications, get the notifications you want, handle communications, and learn how the controls and core apps work.
Take Control of Lightroom CC
by Jeff CarlsonImport, manage and edit your photos expertly with Lightroom CC!As more and more of us access and edit photos on many different devices--laptops, desktops, tablets, and phones--we increasingly expect a seamless experience, with our images and edits showing up on all our devices, immediately. To accommodate this shift, Adobe has released a new version of its Lightroom application, Lightroom CC, that is specifically designed for cloud interaction. Lightroom CC is streamlined and simplified, meant to appeal to those who want to do more than the basics with their photos, but who are intimidated by Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop.In Take Control of Lightroom CC, photography expert Jeff Carlson gives a thorough, but accessible, guide to the new Lightroom CC. He explains where it fits in the Lightroom ecosystem, then moves on to detail how to import, manage, and professionally edit your photos using Lightroom CC. For those who want to keep using Lightroom Classic CC, he also looks at how the two programs can work together.With this book, you'll:Get the big picture: See how Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic (as well as Lightroom Mobile and Lightroom for Web) work together Build your photo library: Learn how to import photos from cameras, memory cards, and locations on your hard disk; automatically add mobile photos; and sync photos, taking advantage of Lightroom CC's cloud-focused features. Organize your photos: Organize your photo library with rating and tagging, find photos using Adobe Sensei, manage your storage options, and back up your library.Edit your photos: Get a handle on essential editing basics (like working in the Edit panel); use crop, straighten, rotate and flip to re-orient photos; adjust lighting, color, and appearance; and apply presets.Share your photos: Post images directly to your friends online in Facebook, export them to disk in order to share them elsewhere, or make an entire album public for people to view and, optionally, to download.Work with Lightroom Classic CC: Learn how to migrate a Classic catalog, or discover how to run both programs together.
Take Control of Lightroom CC
by Jeff CarlsonThis book gives you all the information you need to use Lightroom CC, Adobe’s all-new desktop photo editor and organizer, from understanding where it fits in the Lightroom ecosystem (alongside Lightroom Classic, the rebranded and updated version of the traditional Lightroom application), to importing, managing, and professionally editing your photos.
Take Control of Managing Your Files
by Jeff CarlsonYour Apple devices contain an overwhelming number of files and folders, and as these items accumulate, they create more work for you. Does your file management system involve throwing everything on the desktop and then pawing through it laboriously when you need to find something? Do you even have a system? There’s a better way. This book helps you organize, search, and clean up the files on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad, providing practical steps and realistic strategies to save time, reduce clutter, and decrease stress.
Take Control of Your Digital Photos
by Jeff CarlsonThis book gives photographers using Mac or Windows computers the information they need to build and maintain a digital photo workflow that makes it easy to import, rate, tag, and store photos to find them quickly and easily later. It helps you spend more time on the enjoyable aspects of photography—shooting and viewing your photos—and less on the mundane but essential task of managing all your photos.
Take Control of Your Digital Photos
by Jeff CarlsonThis book gives you the information you need to build and maintain a digital photo workflow that makes it easy to import, rate, tag, and store photos to find them quickly and easily later. It helps you spend more time on the enjoyable aspects of photography—capturing and viewing your photos—and less on the mundane but essential task of managing all your photos.
Take Control of Your Digital Photos (1.0)
by Jeff CarlsonThis book gives photographers using Mac or Windows computers the information they need to build and maintain a digital photo workflow that makes it easy to import, tag, rate, and store photos to find them quickly and easily later. It primarily covers macOS 10.12 Sierra or later, Windows 10, and iOS 10 or later. It helps you spend more time on the enjoyable aspects of photography—shooting and viewing your photos—and less on the mundane but essential task of managing all your photos.
Take Control of Your Digital Photos on a Mac
by Jeff CarlsonBuild a digital workflow to import, tag, rate, and organize your photos!Why bother taking photos if you can't find them later? If you want to be able to lay your hands on any given photo in your ever-expanding library, digital photography expert Jeff Carlson has developed a simple system you can use to make your photo collection browsable, searchable, and generally navigable!Jeff leads off by helping you understand the strengths and weaknesses of the four most popular photo-management applications: iPhoto and Aperture from Apple, and Lightroom and Photoshop Elements from Adobe. Once you've picked the app that's right for you (and there's a chapter on migrating photos), you'll learn how to create a custom workflow for importing, evaluating, keywording, and tagging your photos so they are quickly sorted into logical groups. For each of these essential aspects of your workflow, Jeff provides step-by-step instructions for each of the four covered applications. And since it's all too easy to lose everything if you don't have backups, Jeff discusses the best way to back up and archive your photos to protect your irreplaceable photographic memories.In the process of creating your custom digital photo workflow, you'll find expert advice about each of these photo-management topics:Shooting smarter: Make sure your camera is set to the correct time (and time zone), choose a file format, and think about capturing geolocation data while you're out taking photos.Choosing the right app: Learn about the pros and cons of the most popular photo-management applications--iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom, and Photoshop Elements--and find directions for how to migrate your photos from iPhoto to Aperture or Lightroom, or from Aperture to Lightroom.Importing photos: Make your Mac apply keywords and other tags in a batch during import, and make sure you're storing files in a place that makes sense going forward.Judging photos: Get time-tested tips for rating individual photos and learn how to deal with bad photos, whether you want to delete them, hide them, or leave them be.Assigning metadata: Once your camera and your computer have assigned as much metadata as possible automatically, you'll need to do the final bits yourself. Jeff describes how to think about this process, and he gives you specific steps for how to proceed efficiently.Putting photos in albums: With your metadata successfully applied, it's time to enjoy the fruits of your labor! Learn how to set up smart albums to collect and display your photos automatically.Planning for the future: Digital photos can't be damaged by water or tossed accidentally when cleaning house, but at the same time, a hard disk failure could destroy every photo you own. And what about preserving them for your kids? Jeff discusses how you can back up your precious photos and archive them for future generations.Bonus! Includes a 20% off coupon for SizzlPix!, high-def photographic prints infused onto an aluminum base. These hand-crafted prints are largely free of glare, are waterproof (some are installed in showers and pools), and have an ultra-hard coating that renders them virtually scratch-proof.
Take Control of Your Digital Storage
by Jeff CarlsonThe Mac user's guide to mass storageAs the amount of data we store continues to grow, figuring out where to put it and how to access it becomes more complicated. It's not just that we need to find space for our increasingly large collections of photos, videos, music, and apps--we want it to be available whenever we need it, and be sure that it's safe from hackers and thieves.Every Mac includes internal storage in the form of a hard drive, SSD, or Fusion drive. But you may also have one or more external devices (such as hard drives, flash drives, SD cards, or RAID devices), not to mention network-attached storage (NAS) devices or cloud storage (like Dropbox or iCloud Drive). Making sense of all your options, managing your stored data, choosing new devices or services when you're running out of space, or even just figuring out what's where can drive anyone to distraction.Fortunately, Jeff Carlson has a book with all the answers! After decades of working with Macs and accumulating massive collections of photos and videos, Jeff has pulled together a wide-ranging book about Mac storage that contains just the help you're looking for. Among many other topics, this book covers:How to choose a new (internal or external) hard drive, SSD, or hybrid driveDetermining how much storage space you needWhat you need to know about APFS, Apple's new filesystemFormatting and partitioning disks using Disk UtilityHow to repair a misbehaving diskRAIDs: what they are and how different types compareWhat to do with a hard drive when it has outlived its usefulnessWhen to use a flash drive or SD cardHow to create and use disk imagesDeciding among local, network, and cloud storage for various types of filesWhat a personal cloud is and why you might consider using oneStrategies for freeing up extra disk spaceNAS devices get special coverage, including:How to choose a NAS--and when it's a better idea than an external hard driveUsing a NAS with your Mac for a wide variety of purposesSpecial considerations when using a NAS for digital photosJeff also digs into details about numerous storage-related technologies:How to tell if your third-party SSD needs to have TRIM enabled (and what to do if the answer is yes)How to create a software RAID using Disk Utility or SoftRAIDWhat you need to know about filesystems--and how to choose among APFS, Mac OS Extended, FAT, and ExFATWhy and how to encrypt a disk using FileVault or the FinderUsing iCloud Drive's Optimized Mac Storage featureIf you've ever been stumped at the difference between a volume and a partition, need help figuring out whether to buy a big external hard drive or a NAS for extra storage, or wonder whether Apple's new APFS filesystem is right for your needs, this book will tell you what you need to know.
Take Control of Your Digital Storage
by Jeff CarlsonThis book demystifies storage on the Mac, from mechanical hard drives to solid-state disks, and covering topics such as network-attached storage (NAS), cloud storage, repairing and managing disks, encryption, filesystems (including APFS), and managing data.
Take Control of Your Digital Storage
by Jeff CarlsonThis book demystifies storage on the Mac, from mechanical hard drives to solid-state disks, and covering topics such as network-attached storage (NAS), cloud storage, repairing and managing disks, encryption, filesystems (including APFS), and managing data.
Take Control of Your Digital Storage
by Jeff CarlsonThis book demystifies storage on the Mac, from mechanical hard drives to solid-state disks, and covering topics such as network-attached storage (NAS), cloud storage, repairing and managing disks, encryption, filesystems (including APFS), and managing data.
Take Control of iPhone Photography
by Jeff CarlsonWould you like to unlock the powerful features of your iPhone's cameras and create better photos and videos? This book is the friendly, step-by-step guide to capturing great photos using the iPhone, the camera that’s always with you, taught by an author and professional photographer who has been taking mobile photos on iPhones since the first model.