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Everyday Computing with Windows 8.1
by Kevin WilsonGet the most out of Windows 8. 1 for your every day computing tasks, with no jargon. Clear, concise and to the point. This brief book, Everyday Computing With Windows 8. 1 provides the essentials of using a desktop or laptop running Windows 8 or 8. 1, providing a fast read for the beginner and the enthusiast. Windows 8 can give new users fits with options that are well hidden; this book uncovers those so that the user can be relieved of frustration. Techniques are illustrated step-by-step using photography and screen prints throughout, together with concise, easy to follow explanations from an established expert in the field. Whether you have just bought your first computer or laptop or are a computer user who needs a better understanding of the basics, this book will provide you with a firm grasp of the underpinning foundations and equip you with the skills needed to take command of your computer.
Everyday Data Structures
by William SmithA practical guide to learning data structures simply and easily About This Book • This book is a very practical, friendly, and useful guide that will help you analyze problems and choose the right data structures for your solution • Learn to recognize data patterns for determining which structures apply to a given problem • Explore the unique rules or "gotchas" that will help you become an excellent programmer Who This Book Is For If you're self-taught programmers in any language who wants to gain a solid understanding of data structures and how to use them to solve real-world problems in your day-to-day development work, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn • A rapid overview of data types, applications for each type, best practices and high-level variations between platforms • Review the most common data structures and build working examples in the languages used for mobile platform software development • Understand advanced data structure concepts such as generic collections, searching and sorting algorithms, and recursion • Learn to use Stacks (LIFO) and queues (FIFO) in your daily application • Add/remove objects and nest arrays and dictionaries within another dictionary and understand why such architecture is often preferred or necessary • Get acquainted with the tree structures such as heap, binary, and graphs, apply them to work • Unleash the power of different sorting techniques such as bubble sort, quick sort, merge sort, insertion sort, and radix sort • Perform searching operations on arrays, heaps, graphs, and binary trees in different languages In Detail If you want to learn different data structures and their real-world applications quickly through practical examples, then Everyday Data Structures is for you. This book can introduce you to new data structures and their potential applications through examples in languages common to mobile software development on the most popular platforms. The examples are presented with real-world concepts using language that everyone will understand. This book is logically divided into two parts; the first one covers the basic data structures that are built into most languages such as Objective-C, C#, Java, and Swift. It will cover detailed analysis of the common data structures such as arrays, lists, stacks, Queues, and heaps, typical applications, and specific concerns for each language. Each chapter will provide in-depth examples in several popular languages based on real-world applications. The second part will cover more advanced data structures such as generic collections, sorting, searching, and recursion and ways to use those structures in everyday applications. Style and approach This is a practical, result-focused guide, which is easy to follow, but also fast-paced and really satisfying with full of examples.
Everyday Data Visualization: Design effective charts and dashboards
by Desireé AbbottRadically improve the quality of your data visualizations by employing core principles of color, typography, chart types, data storytelling, and more.Everyday Data Visualization is a field guide for design techniques that will improve the charts, reports, and data dashboards you build every day. Everything you learn is tool-agnostic, with universal principles you can apply to any data stack. In Everyday Data Visualization you&’ll learn important design principles for the most common data visualizations: Harness the power of perception to guide a user&’s attention Bring data to life with color and typography Choose the best chart types for your data story Design for interactive visualizations Keep the user&’s needs first throughout your projects This book gives you the tools you need to bring your data to life with clarity, precision, and flair. You&’ll learn how human brains perceive and process information, wield modern accessibility standards, get the basics of color theory and typography, and more. About the technology Even mundane presentations like charts, dashboards, and infographics can become engaging and inspiring data stories! This book shows you how to upgrade the visualizations you create every day by improving the layout, typography, color, and accessibility. You&’ll discover timeless principles of design that help you highlight important features, compensate for missing information, and interact with live data flows. About the book Everyday Data Visualization guides you through basic graphic design for the most common types of data visualization. You&’ll learn how to enhance charts with color, encourage users to interact and explore data and create visualizations accessible to everyone. Along the way, you&’ll practice each new skill as you take a dashboard project from research to publication. What's inside Bring data to life with color and typography Choose the best chart types for your data story Design interactive visualizations About the reader For readers experienced with data analysis tools. About the author Desireé Abbott has over a decade of experience in product analytics, business intelligence, science, design, and software engineering. The technical editor on this book was Michael Petrey. Table of Contents PART 1 1 Hello, data viz! 2 How we perceive information 3 It&’s all about the data PART 2 4 Choosing colors 5 Typography 6 Creating a good chart 7 Designing for interactivity PART 3 8 Research, design, and development 9 Troubleshooting Appendix
Everyday Enterprise Architecture: Sense-making, Strategy, Structures, and Solutions
by Tom GravesDiscover what needs to happen in enterprise-architecture practice—and not just its outcomes, but also the activities from which those outcomes would arise. This book reveals how business and enterprise architects can deliver fast solutions to an always-on-the-go business world.To begin, you'll review a new technique called "context-space mapping," which provides a structured method for sense-making across the entire context of an enterprise. Throughout the book, you'll concentrate on the routine practices that underpin each of the architecture disciplines. Working step-by-step through a real 10-day architecture project, this book explores the activities that underpin the strategy, structures and solutions in the real-time turmoil of an enterprise architect’s everyday work. You'll explore how and why and when the various documents, artefacts and items of ‘theory-stuff’ come into the practice – all those mainstream methods, frameworks, models, metamodels and other information sources. In the end, Everyday Enterprise Architecture will help you develop the skills, judgment, and awareness to keep enhancing the value of your architectural projects. What You'll LearnWork on architectures at "business-speed"Adapt architectures for different tasksGather, use, and manage architectural informationWho This Book Is ForEnterprise and business architects.
The Everyday Life of an Algorithm
by Daniel NeylandThis open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three years, charting its everyday life. Questions of ethics, transparency, accountability and market value must be grasped by the algorithm in a series of ever more demanding forms of experimentation. Here the algorithm must prove its ability to get a grip on everyday life if it is to become an ordinary feature of the settings where it is being put to work. Through investigating the everyday life of the algorithm, the book opens a conversation with existing social science research that tends to focus on the power and opacity of algorithms. In this book we have unique access to the algorithm’s design, development and testing, but can also bear witness to its fragility and dependency on others.
Everyday Virtual and Augmented Reality (Human–Computer Interaction Series)
by Adalberto Simeone Benjamin Weyers Svetlana Bialkova Robert W. LindemanThis edited book introduces readers to the area of “Everyday Virtual and Augmented Reality”. With Virtual and Augmented Reality technologies, becoming more pervasive in our homes and workplaces, new use cases and scenarios emerge together with new challenges that need to be addressed. These challenges encompass the design and implementation of appropriate VR/AR applications for ordinary environments that were not built with the explicit intention of supporting VR systems. The everyday/domestic environments present a range of issues that are usually not present in the physical locations purposed for VR and AR use in academic or professional environments, such as constrained spaces, presence of obstacles, absence of instrumentation, social and organizational restrictions etc. To address the above challenges, we collect the latest work from the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality research community, by combining the presentation of general definitions and characterization of the field, of interaction concepts and techniques, of a variety of use cases and areas. The constellation of different environment examples (from education, sport to consumer and marketing), from across the globe and platforms, provide a comprehensive discussion on scientific and engineering methods, which enable the development of VR/AR systems in everyday context.
Everyone Else Must Fail: The Unvarnished Truth About Oracle and Larry Ellison
by null Karen SouthwickKaren Southwick’s unauthorized account provides the full story of Larry Ellison’s brilliant, controversial career. Ellison’s drive and fierce ambition created Oracle out of the dust and built it into one of America’s great technology companies, but his unpredictable management style keeps it constantly on the edge of both success and disaster. The hostile bid for PeopleSoft is just the most recent example. With one clever strategic move, Larry Ellison threw much of the business software field into play.The saying “It’s not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail” has been so often used by or associated with Ellison that most people think it originated with him. It’s actually attributed to Genghis Khan, but it’s a dead-on way to describe not only the way Ellison thinks about competitors but the way he runs Oracle. His weapons are not marauding hordes, but Oracle’s possession of database technology that is crucial for keeping mission-critical information flows working at thousands of organizations, corporations, nonprofits, and government agencies. Inside Oracle, Ellison has time and again systematically purged key operating, sales, and marketing people who got too powerful for his comfort. Most notable was Ray Lane, Oracle’s president for nine years, who was widely credited with bringing order out of the chaos that was Oracle in the early nineties and growing it into a ten billion dollar company. Ellison got rid of the one key person who was building confidence with Wall Street, business partners, and customers that Oracle was no longer flying by the seat of its pants and had its act together. Ellison’s mania for absolute control and his inability to coexist with the very lieutenants who bring much-needed stability to the company have brought Oracle to the brink of collapse before, and may well do it again. Ellison is a throwback to an earlier, much more freewheeling version of capitalism, the kind practiced by the nineteenth-century robber barons who ran their companies as private fiefdoms. Larry Ellison is one of the most intriguing and dominant leaders of a major twenty-first-century corporation, and Everyone Else Must Fail raises the question of whether Oracle’s products and the reliance placed in them by so many are too important to be subject to the whims of one man. While giving credit to Ellison’s brilliance and devotion, the book sounds a warning about an ingenious man’s tendency to be his own company’s worst enemy.
The Everything Blogging Book
by Aliza RisdahlIf you have access to a computer, you can start your own online journal, or blog--if you know how to do it right. With your own blog, you'll have a voice in the exciting world of the Internet. This one-stop resource shows you how to publish your ideas, get feedback, and create your own worldwide network!With this book you'll learn how to: Create buzz marketing for your business Get amateur poetry, short stories, and prose published Create a worldwide network of people Share unique hobby ideas with thousands of other hobbyists This easy-to-use guide will help you to create and maintain a creative and unique blog that readers the world over can enjoy. With The Everything Blogging Book, you'll learn how to make your mark on the World Wide Web--and beyond!
The Everything Blogging Book: Publish Your Ideas, Get Feedback, And Create Your Own Worldwide Network
by Aliza RisdahlIf you have access to a computer, you can start your own online journal, or blog--if you know how to do it right. With your own blog, you'll have a voice in the exciting world of the Internet. This one-stop resource shows you how to publish your ideas, get feedback, and create your own worldwide network!With this book you'll learn how to:Create buzz marketing for your business.Get amateur poetry, short stories, and prose published.Create a worldwide network of people.Share unique hobby ideas with thousands of other hobbyists. This easy-to-use guide will help you to create and maintain a creative and unique blog that readers the world over can enjoy. With The Everything Blogging Book, you'll learn how to make your mark on the World Wide Web—and beyond!
The Everything Blogging Book
by Aliza Sherman RisdahlIf you have access to a computer, you can start your own online journal, or blog'if you know how to do it right. With your own blog, you'll have a voice in the exciting world of the Internet. This one-stop resource shows you how to publish your ideas, get feedback, and create your own worldwide network! With this book you'll learn how to: Create buzz marketing for your business Get amateur poetry, short stories, and prose published Create a worldwide network of people Share unique hobby ideas with thousands of other hobbyists This easy-to-use guide will help you to create and maintain a creative and unique blog that readers the world over can enjoy. WithThe Everything Blogging Book, you'll learn how to make your mark on the World Wide Web'and beyond!
The Everything Guide to Day Trading (The Everything®)
by David BormanDay trading can be perilous or profitable--depending upon the expertise of the trader. In this no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners guide, you learn how the market works and how to make it work for you. From screening stocks to conducting technical analyses, you learn everything active traders need to succeed in this tumultuous world, including:What goes on behind the scenes in the marketHow things can go wrong and how to reduce riskWhich kind of technical analyses work--and whyThe best research and trading services to turn to for helpThe ins and outs of chart patterns, like Candlesticks, Triangles, and Head and Shoulders With real-life examples that illustrate the ups and downs inherent in this high-risk, high-profit business, this guide is all you need to trade wisely, quickly, and lucratively, no matter how new you are to the challenging game of day trading.
The Everything Guide to Selling Arts & Crafts Online
by Kim SolgaYour guide to online success! Here's all you need to realize your dreams of turning your handiwork into cash--online! With the popularity of Etsy and Pinterest, serious art and craft buyers and sellers are turning to the online world to buy, sell, and promote beautiful, homemade creations...but where to start? This A-Z guide provides expert advice on building an online presence and getting your creations into the hands of buyers, including: Tips on creating a sound business plan. Techniques for writing effective copy and taking professional-level photographs. Help with creating a comprehensive marketing strategy. Ways to increase sales through online networking and social media. Best practices for accounting, packing, shipping, and customer service. You'll learn about the pros and cons of all the major art and craft sites, as well as tips for creating your own store online. With The Everything Guide to Selling Arts & Crafts Online, your online business can be up and running in no time!
The Everything Guide to Selling Arts & Crafts Online: How to sell on Etsy, eBay, your storefront, and everywhere else online
by Kim SolgaYour guide to online success!Here's all you need to realize your dreams of turning your handiwork into cash--online! With the popularity of Etsy and Pinterest, serious art and craft buyers and sellers are turning to the online world to buy, sell, and promote beautiful, homemade creations...but where to start? This A-Z guide provides expert advice on building an online presence and getting your creations into the hands of buyers, including:Tips on creating a sound business plan.Techniques for writing effective copy and taking professional-level photographs.Help with creating a comprehensive marketing strategy.Ways to increase sales through online networking and social media.Best practices for accounting, packing, shipping, and customer service. You'll learn about the pros and cons of all the major art and craft sites, as well as tips for creating your own store online. With The Everything Guide to Selling Arts & Crafts Online, your online business can be up and running in no time!
The Everything Guide to Social Media
by John K Waters John LesterDon't know a tweet from a tweep? Wondering how to get a Second Life? Curious about creating a Facebook profile? Join the social media movement! With The Everything® Guide to Social Media, you'll master the lingo, tools, and techniques you need to use all forms of social media. Written in friendly, nontechnical language by acclaimed reporter John K. Waters, this highly accessible handbook covers the full range of social media services, including: Messaging and communication (Blogger, Twitter); Communities and social groups (Facebook, MySpace, Friendster); Location-based social networking (Foursquare); News and tagging (Digg, StumbleUpon); Collaboration and cooperation (Wikipedia, Wikispaces); Photos and video sharing (Flickr, YouTube); Opinion and reviews (Yelp, Epinions). With this guide, you'll become comfortable with social media--and learn how to expand your presence online. With a special section on leveraging the power of social networks to build or grow a business, this up-to-the-minute guide is everything you need to walk the talk online--one wiki at a time!
The Everything Guide to Social Media (The Everything®)
by John K Waters John LesterThe ultimate user's guide to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and more!Don't know a tweet from a tweep? Wondering how to get a Second Life? Curious about creating a Facebook profile? Join the social media movement! With The Everything Guide to Social Media, you'll master the lingo, tools, and techniques you need to use all forms of social media. Written in friendly, non-technical language by acclaimed reporter John K. Waters, this highly accessible handbook covers the full range of social media services, including:Messaging and communication (Blogger, Twitter)Communities and social groups (Facebook, MySpace, Friendster)Location-based social networking (Foursquare)News and tagging (Digg, StumbleUpon)Collaboration and cooperation (Wikipedia, Wikispaces)Photos and video sharing (Flickr, YouTube)Opinion and reviews (Yelp, Epinions) With this guide, you'll become comfortable with social media--and learn how to expand your presence online. With a special section on leveraging the power of social networks to build or grow a business, this up-to-the-minute guide is everything you need to walk the talk online--one wiki at a time!
Everything is Fine: The funny, feel-good and uplifting page-turner you won't be able to put down!
by Gillian Harvey'Just the escapism we need right now' EVENING STANDARD'Hilarious and relatable' WOMAN'A perfect weekend read' GRAZIAJessica Bradley has it all: the perfect boyfriend; influential healthy-eating blog; successful PR company and wonderful daughter, Anna. Or at least that is what her thousands of followers believe.The truth is, her boyfriend just broke up with her in four words on a post-it; her zest for healthy-eating has all but disappeared; her PR success is all reliant on her now not-so-honest online-life and she just got caught eating her daughter's Coco-Pops. So as they say: fake it 'til you make it. A few little white lies and phoney smiling selfies and Jess can keep up appearances. But when her real-life starts to spiral out of control how can Jess tell the truth from the lies? And will she be able to seize real happiness when it is right in front of her?Hilarious, heart-warming and oh-so relatable, Everything Is Fine is perfect for fans of Louise Pentland, Anna Bell and Lindsey Kelk.'Funny and uplifting' BELLA'Hilarious, heartwarming and relatable' NEW! Magazine'Made me laugh out loud so many times!' Lucy Vine'Feel-good, funny, and very relatable' Anna Bell'Funny and honest' Elizabeth Buchan
Everything is Fine: The funny, feel-good and uplifting page-turner you won't be able to put down!
by Gillian Harvey'Just the escapism we need right now' EVENING STANDARD'Hilarious and relatable' WOMAN'A perfect weekend read' GRAZIAJessica Bradley has it all: the perfect boyfriend; influential healthy-eating blog; successful PR company and wonderful daughter, Anna. Or at least that is what her thousands of followers believe.The truth is, her boyfriend just broke up with her in four words on a post-it; her zest for healthy-eating has all but disappeared; her PR success is all reliant on her now not-so-honest online-life and she just got caught eating her daughter's Coco-Pops. So as they say: fake it 'til you make it. A few little white lies and phoney smiling selfies and Jess can keep up appearances. But when her real-life starts to spiral out of control how can Jess tell the truth from the lies? And will she be able to seize real happiness when it is right in front of her?Hilarious, heart-warming and oh-so relatable, Everything Is Fine is perfect for fans of Louise Pentland, Anna Bell and Lindsey Kelk.'Funny and uplifting' BELLA'Hilarious, heartwarming and relatable' NEW! Magazine'Made me laugh out loud so many times!' Lucy Vine'Feel-good, funny, and very relatable' Anna Bell'Funny and honest' Elizabeth Buchan
Everything is Great: The Weird, Wild and Wonderful World of Modern Britain
by No Context BritsGreat Britain is great, innit?To celebrate Britain achieving peak greatness - we don't seem to be getting any better, let's face it - the internet's favourite meme account No Context Brits is here to tell us that Everything is Great, despite the sneaking suspicion it isn't. Luckily, we've got the greatest cuisine, weather, drivers, graffiti artists (and vandals), police, language and citizens in the world to help us keep calm enough to carry on. Right?This hilarious meme-moir of modern Britain shines a light on all that is tasty and true about being British, without getting all weird and nationalistic about it.'Whilst the biggest political figures and finest historians have struggled for over a century to truly define what "being British" is, No Context Brits manages to do it five times a week, easily, on Twitter' CAITLIN MORAN
Everything is Great: The Weird, Wild and Wonderful World of Modern Britain
by No Context BritsGreat Britain is great, innit?To celebrate Britain achieving peak greatness - we don't seem to be getting any better, let's face it - the internet's favourite meme account No Context Brits is here to tell us that Everything is Great, despite the sneaking suspicion it isn't. Luckily, we've got the greatest cuisine, weather, drivers, graffiti artists (and vandals), police, language and citizens in the world to help us keep calm enough to carry on. Right?This hilarious meme-moir of modern Britain shines a light on all that is tasty and true about being British, without getting all weird and nationalistic about it.'Whilst the biggest political figures and finest historians have struggled for over a century to truly define what "being British" is, No Context Brits manages to do it five times a week, easily, on Twitter' CAITLIN MORAN
Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
by David WeinbergerIn Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger charts the new principles of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and culture. In his rollicking tour of the rise of the miscellaneous, he examines why the Dewey decimal system is stretched to the breaking point, how Rand McNally decides what information not to include in a physical map (and why Google Earth is winning that battle), how Staples stores emulate online shopping to increase sales, why your children's teachers will stop having them memorize facts, and how the shift to digital music stands as the model for the future in virtually every industry. Finally, he shows how by "going miscellaneous," anyone can reap rewards from the deluge of information in modern work and life.
The Everything Kids' Scratch Coding Book: Learn to Code and Create Your Own Cool Games! (Everything® Kids)
by Jason RukmanTeach kids the concepts of coding in easy-to-understand language and help them develop games of their own with The Everything Kids’ Scratch Coding Book!Understanding computer science is becoming a necessity in the modern age. As our world shifts towards becoming increasingly more technical and automated, the ability to code and understand computers has become one of the most valuable skills any child can have on the road to a successful life. More and more schools are recognizing this importance and have started to implement computer science and coding as core elements in their curriculums, right alongside math and history. The Everything Kids’ Scratch Coding Book helps children get a head start on this new essential skill, with Scratch coding—a language designed by MIT specifically to help a younger audience learn to code. In no time, children will learn basic coding concepts, build fun games, and get a competitive edge on their classmates. This book encourages children to think analytically and problem-solve, while helping them develop an essential skill that will last them a lifetime.
The Everything Online Auctions Book
by Si Dunn Steve EncellThe Everything Online Auctions Book is an inside look at how to buy or sell anything on eBay and other notable online auction sites. Steve Encell, one of the most successful dealers in the field of online auctions, gives readers the real low down on the online marketplace.Includes:Finding the right sites to buy or sellTips on how to avoid scams, fraud, and identity theftTaking advantage of perks and promotionsOrganizing and maximizing business earning potential50-plus screenshots for step-by-step instruction
The Everything Online Auctions Book: All You Need to Buy and Sell with Success--on eBay and Beyond
by Steve EncellThe Everything Online Auctions Book is an inside look at how to buy or sell anything on eBay and other notable online auction sites. Steve Encell, one of the most successful dealers in the field of online auctions, gives readers the real low down on the online marketplace.Includes:Finding the right sites to buy or sellTips on how to avoid scams, fraud, and identity theftTaking advantage of perks and promotionsOrganizing and maximizing business earning potential50-plus screenshots for step-by-step instruction
The Everything® Online Auctions Book
by Steve Encell Si DunnThe Everything Online Auctions Book is an inside look at how to buy or sell anything on eBay and other notable online auction sites.
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
by Brad StoneThe definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now. Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, giving readers the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. Compared to tech's other elite innovators--Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg--Bezos is a private man. But he stands out for his restless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing.THE EVERYTHING STORE will be the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read.