The Open VMS user's guide

Completely updated and revised, The OpenVMS User's Guide continues to be the prime resource for new and non-technical users on how to use OpenVMS and customize it to their working environment. For more proficient users, the book serves as a quick look-up ...

 Professional java custom UI components

The book leads the developer through an initial example, to whet the reader's appetite, and follows this with an exploration of advanced techniques with an array of detailed and complex examples. Unlike many how-to books, Professional Java Swing Component...

 Web privacy with P3P

For as long as there have been commercial sites on the World Wide Web, there's been a struggle between the needs of Web-based businesses and the in users' right to privacy. Web developers need to collect information about users, but they also need to show...

 Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency

In the years since Jakob Nielsen's classic collection on interface consistency first appeared, much has changed, and much has stayed the same. On the one hand, there's been exponential growth in the opportunities for following or disregarding the principl...

 Exploring Interface Design Proven Techniques for Creating Compelling & Usable Interfaces for Multimedia & the Web

The user interface-the all-important point of contact between people and technology-is the key to unlocking the full potential of multimedia and the Internet. With a balanced blend of theory and practice, this timely new book explores the art and science ...

 User Friendly The comic strip

User Friendly tells the story of Columbia Internet, "the friendliest, hardest-working, and most neurotic little Internet Service Provider in the world." Take three techs, two salespeople, a designer, two executives, a couple of administrative staff, mix i...

 Sharepoint 2007 User's Guide Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is the next generation of Microsoft SharePoint technologies. These products expand on SharePoint's information-sharing and collaboration capabilities, which allow you to create tr...

 Word 2007 for Starters - The Missing Manual

Fast-paced and easy to read, this concise book teaches you the basics of Word 2007 so you can start using the program right away. Not only will you learn how to work with Word's most useful features to create documents, format and edit text, share the res...

 Windows Vista - Security Solutions

The average user has little idea of the severity of security threats to the Windows Vista OS or how those threats could impact their personal privacy; this book educates readers on the simple steps they can take to prepare for potential threats Providi...

 Excel 2007 - The Missing Manual

Microsoft Excel continues to grow in power, sophistication, and capability, but one thing that has changed very little since the early '90s is its user interface. The once-simple toolbar has been packed with so many features over the years that few users ...

 The Mac User's Guide to Living Wirelessly

In much of the technological world, wires are a necessary evil. You have to fight with tangled masses of them that are often either much too long or too short for your setup. The good news is that you can cut the cord on many of the devices you work with....

 The User Is Always Right A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web

How do we ensure that our Web sites actually give users what they need? What are the best ways to understand our users' goals, behaviors, and attitudes, and then turn that understanding into business results? Personas bring user research to life and make ...

 Web Design Before and After Makeovers

Through stunning four-color images that demonstrate how nondescript "before" situations gradually become astonishing "after" results, this book offers readers simple steps to achieve unique outcomes Readers learn how to incorporate the latest Web-build...

 User Mode Linux

With User Mode Linux you can create virtual Linux machines within a Linux computer and use them to safely test and debug applications, network services, and even kernels. You can try out new distributions, experiment with buggy software, and even test sec...

 A Practical Guide to Unix for MAC OS X Users Mac OS X Tiger Edition

The Most Useful UNIX Guide for Mac OS X Users EVER, with Hundreds of High-Quality Examples! Beneath Mac OS X's stunning graphical user interface (GUI) is the most powerful operating system ever created: UNIX With unmatched clarity and insight, this b...

 Pro .Net 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls Learn How to Use and Extend the Windows Forms Toolkit to Create Anything from a Vector-Drawing Program to a Document-View Framework

Renowned author Matthew MacDonald combines careful treatment of the API with detailed user-interface design principles. Further, this book incorporates C# and the final beta of .NET 2.0. The result: thorough coverage of Windows Forms and GDI+ namespaces f...

 Novell GroupWise 7 User's Handbook

Novell GroupWise 7 User's Handbook is ideal for users providing information on the features of the GroupWise 7 client to solve collaboration and communication issues. You will be introduced to the significant new features of the new version of Novell Grou...

 Windows XP Security Solutions Step-by-Step Methods for Evicing Invaders and Keeping Them Out

Aimed at the end user rather than the security professional, this book presents readers with invaluable information on how to eliminate security issues that already exist on their computers Empowers readers by providing step-by-step instructions on the...

 Linux Administration A Beginner's Guide

With coverage of the most recent Linux kernel and multiple Linux platforms including Red Hat Linux Fedora 4, SuSe Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and others, this updated instructional system is designed to show even the most novice user the keys to succ...

 Novell Linux Desktop 9 User's Handbook

Get More Done with Novell Linux Desktop This official Novell Press book is your complete guide to installing and using Novell's exciting new Linux desktop operating system-Novell Linux Desktop. Novell Linux Desktop is the powerful new operating sy...

 Cubase for Macintosh and Windows

These days, when it comes to producing high-quality audio recordings, you have a choice: You can pay a professional studio tens of thousands of dollars, or you can pay Steinberg--the maker of Cubase SX 2--under a thousand dollars for the digital audio seq...

 SharePoint User's Guide

There's nothing like teamwork for making progress on a project, but sharing information and building on each other's successes can be challenging when your team is scattered across the miles. Microsoft's SharePoint helps teams and organizations close the ...

 Beginning InfoPath 2003

InfoPath creates forms for data gathering, analysis, and reporting InfoPath has been adopted by many companies, ranging from Toyota and Hewlett-Packard to M/I Homes and New York Presbyterian Hospital, and recent laws that regulate data collection, such...

 Discover Delphi Programming principles explained

Suitable both for beginners and more experienced programmers, Discover Delphi provides a complete and user-friendly introduction to programming with this accessible, prize-winning language. Supported by a wealth of screen shots, examples, quizzes and exer...

 Developer to Designer GUI Design for the Busy Developer

In a fantasy world, you design and build the core of your application, the parts that do all the heavy lifting. And the graphical user interface? Well, that's the domain of the hot-shot sitting one cube over, who went to school to learn how to give users ...

 Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Unleashed

As an experienced Macromedia Dreamweaver user, you know that it is a powerful web development tool, but you're lacking the knowledge to fully exploit the potential of the Dreamweaver environment. As a skilled website developer and programmer, you have tha...

  Visual Basic.Net for Dummies

Visual Basic.NET For Dummies offers a fun and creative environment for developing programs with Visual Basic.NET. From the fundamentals of writing code to the excitement of building next-generation applications for Microsoft's new .NET Platform, Visual Ba...

 User Interface Design A Software Engineering Perspective

Designing the user interface is a key part in the development of any computer system. The designer needs to ensure that the system has adequate usability- it must do what is required and be easy to use. This book shows you how to design the user interface...

 Seeing Data Designing User Interfaces for Database Sytems Using .NET

"Rebecca provides an invaluable resource to help developers focus on a commonly overlooked but vital part of an application-the user experience." DAVID SCEPPA, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation "Rebecca Riordan takes UI programming and pract...

 Designing software for the mobile context A practitioner's guide

The goal of this book is to provide a useful and timely guide for designing or developing mobile applications, and to get the reader started in the basics of phone, voice, multi-modal, and web-based PDA applications. It provides unique insight into the la...

  A guide to Computer User Support for Helpdesk & Support Specialities

A standard for help desk professionals and those considering becoming support professionals, this text focuses on key information for user support professionals, including decision making, communicating successfully with a client, determining the client's...

 Photoshop Classic Effects The Essential Effects Every User Needs to Know

Learn the tricks of the trade that every Photoshop user should know, taken from the pages of Photoshop User Magazine's Photoshop Classic Effects section. The "Classic effects" aren't "old effects", they're the fundamental building blocks of Photoshop skil...

 How to Do Everything with eBay

Best-selling author, Greg Holden, addresses everything a beginner needs to know to begin buying and selling on eBay, plus extensively covers intermediate- to advanced-level tips for the more experienced user. Get expert advice on bidding to win, how to se...

 The Essential Guide to User Interface Design

Designing a Graphic User Interface (GUI) is difficult and time consuming, especially for novice programmers. Even experienced programmers often don't know the difference between a superior GUI and a mediocre one, and the result can be screens that are too...

 User-centered website development A human-computer interaction approach

For one-quarter to one semester undergraduate courses in Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction courses, Web Design and User Interface Design. This text is the only one of its kind that addresses Human-Computer Interaction as it relates to Web site d...

 Unified Modeling Language user guide

The UML User Guide will provide detailed information about using the Unified Modeling Language. It will cover approximately 80% of the language, illustrating its use by applying UML to a series of increasingly complex modeling problems found across a vari...

 Institutionalization of Usability A Step-by-Step Guide

At one time, computer hardware was the key differentiator in information technology-what gave an organization its competitive edge. Then, as hardware prices fell, software took center stage. Today, software has become a broadly shared commodity, and a new...

 Multiple User Interfaces Cross-Platform Applications and Context-Aware Interfaces

Multiple User Interfaces allow people using mobile phones, lap tops, desk tops, palm tops or PDAs to access and read information from their central server or the internet in a coherent and consistent way and to communicate effectively with other users who...

 Getting Started with OpenVMS A Guide for New Users

OpenVMS professionals have long enjoyed a robust, full-featured operating system running the most mission-critical applications in existence. However, many of today's graduates may not yet have had the opportunity to experience it for themselves. Intended...

 Guide to C# and object orientation

This book shows readers how to get the most out of C# using Object Orientation. The author takes a hands-on approach to learning C# and object orientation, using lots of worked examples. The text provides an ideal base from which to start programming. Aft...