PDF | 92 pages | English | 121.74 MB

Electronic House serves discriminating consumers who enjoy the elegance, simplicity and fun afforded by integrated home technology. Ultra-elaborate home theaters and automation systems are featured, as are their more modest counterparts. EH helps homeowners understand the variety of technology-related products and services available today-in terms that make sense even to non-techy readers. That means there's something for everyone, whether you're looking to add some lighting and thermostat controls to your modest home, or planning to build a mansion with all the bells and whistles.

English | 61 pages | True PDF | 14.64 MB

2013 | 404 Pages | ISBN: 1849687900 | EPUB + PDF | 10 MB + 4 MB

What you will learn from this book 

Implement Data Guard best practices 

Set up physical and logical standby databases to build Data Guard configurations 

Configure and use Data Guard Broker for an easier and more comprehensive management of Data Guard 

Design configurations with different data protection levels 

Perform switchover and failover operations 

Use Active Data Guard and Snapshot Standby features to access standby databases in read-only and read-write modes 

Integrate Data Guard with RAC, RMAN, and Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control 

Patch Oracle Databases in a Data Guard environment 

Deal with the most common Data Guard issues 

Configure cascade standby databases, compression, and cross-platform implementation 

In Detail 

2013 | 310 Pages | ISBN: 1782162089 | EPUB + PDF | 22 MB + 6 MB

What you will learn from this book 

Set-up and install a fully-functioning eCommerce store 

Configure tax, shipping and orders 

Administrate your shop day-to-day 

Customize the look and feel of your store 

English | PDF | 164 Pages | 108.00 Mb

It’s hard to imagine the web without Google. Services such as Google Maps and YouTube are becoming smarter, faster and more useful all the time. Ultimate guide to Google's Hidden Tools MagBook reveals more than 400 secret tricks to help you get the most from the Google sites and software you use every day. Discover the best Chrome add-ons for speeding up online tasks, find out how to customise Gmail and Google Drive to make them look and behave the way you want. This guide also explains how to regain control of your personal information if you’re worries about your privacy. If you want to become a Google expert, then this is the guide for you.

2013 | 290 Pages | ISBN: 1782179739 | EPUB + PDF | 9 MB + 4 MB

What you will learn from this book 

Use QlikView charts to create more advanced visualizations 

Layout your screen and use different color schemes 

Get to grips with set analysis 

Use Total and AGGR for advanced aggregations 

Use macros to perform advanced tasks 

Overcome data modelling challenges 

Use some of the most useful functions in QlikView 

Write great script 

Improve the performance of your application 

Secure your application 

2013 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1849696829 | PDF | 4 MB

What you will learn from this book 

Draw in SDL and build the SDL_image extension 

Develop reusable classes 

Get to grips with game related object-oriented programming 

Integrate a variety of user inputs into your games, such as joysticks or keyboards 

Use factories that enable us to create objects dynamically at runtime 

Create 2D maps through the use of tiles 

Easily apply the framework to different game genres 

Understand the scrolling of a tile map using the position of the player and collision detection 

2013 | 326 Pages | ISBN: 1782161341 | EPUB + PDF | 12 MB + 5 MB

What you will learn from this book 

JBoss AS 7 essentials: the new file system structure, the new configuration, and what the difference is between standalone servers and domain servers, as well as introducing new management instruments 

Move from the EJB Paradigm to CDI Beans and create a web application using CDI Beans 

Set up the Arquillian environment and test your application from inside the container and outside 

Discover the JBoss messaging provider and add Queues and Topics to your example. Advanced JMS: Consume messages from an external JMS Provider 

ISBN: 1905814739 | 2009 | EPUB | 192 pages | 37 MB

Whether on a weekend city break or a month-long trekking vacation, more and more of us are travelling with the hope of taking striking photos that capture the essence of our time away. Often these are more than just photos for our friends and family to enjoy, with an increasing number of talented amateurs uploading their images to photo agencies and earning extra income from selling rights. So whether you're a keen amateur photographer travelling for business or pleasure, or a budding professional with a specific assignment, The Photographer's Field Guide has all the information you need to help you successfully capture the many photographic opportunities that await. Divided into five sections, the book will help you to prepare for the trip, provide invaluable practical advice for when you're travelling and offer—through superb images from one of the world's most respected travel photographers—guidance on how, what and when to photograph.

ISBN: 0811876497 | 2011 | PDF | 168 pages | 31 MB

Sewing is as easy as 1-2-3! In this creative teaching book, craft blogger Ellen Luckett Baker offers a wholly unique approach to sewing: she presents projects in groups of three, each building on the techniques used in the project before. Baker shows, for example, how to sew a glasses case, then build on those skills to create a zippered pouch, and from there, make a more advanced cosmetics bag. There are 33 delightful projects in all, ranging from clothing to dcor and accessories. With easy-to-follow instructions, how-to illustrations, and 12 patterns tucked into an enclosed envelope, 1, 2, 3 Sew is an essential resource for beginning and intermediate sewers alike.

2013 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 1782162704 | PDF | 26 MB

Magento is one of the most powerful, flexible, and customizable e-commerce systems. It offers you the ability to create and manage a profitable online store. As your online store grows, you can be sure that this robust e-commerce system can handle your needs. However, getting started with Magento can be difficult without the right guidance. 

Magento Beginner’s Guide - Second Edition provides guidance in the form of a step-by-step approach to building a simple, effective online store. The book covers the key features of Magento that will help you get your store up and running. It guides you through installation, configuration, populating your store with products, accepting payments, maintaining relationships with your customers, and fulfilling orders.

2013 | 372 Pages | ISBN: 1849685843 | EPUB + PDF | 33 MB + 13 MB

Google Adwords is one of the most effective ways to advertise today with unprecedented reach and potential to show your ads to millions of Internet users instantly. It helps in bringing highly relevant ads to customers who are searching for you in real-time, resulting in highly accountable and cost-effective campaigns that even the smallest advertisers can take advantage of. 

Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook is a step-by-step guide with practical tips and everyday examples that will arm you with the tools necessary to run effective Adwords campaigns.

2013 | 444 Pages | ISBN: 178216314X | EPUB + PDF | 13 MB + 6 MB

To build interesting, interactive sites, developers are turning to javascript libraries such as jQuery to automate common tasks and simplify complicated ones. Because many web developers have more experience with HTML and CSS than with javascript, the library's design lends itself to a quick start for designers with little programming experience. Experienced programmers will also be aided by its conceptual consistency. 

LearningjQuery - Fourth Edition is revised and updated version of jQuery. You will learn the basics of jQuery for adding interactions and animations to your pages. Even if previous attempts at writing javascript have left you baffled, this book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced javascript language features.

2013 | 206 Pages | ISBN: 1782161228 | EPUB + PDF | 21 MB + 9 MB

Get to grips with Drupal Commerce, the new ecommerce framework based on the Drupal CMS , one of the most popular and powerful open source content management systems available. 

"Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook" takes you through the installation, configuration, and customisation of your Drupal Commerce store. With clear, practical recipes with plenty of screenshots and tips this book will help you build attractive and profitable eCommerce sites.

2013 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 1782161309 | PDF | 10 MB

Cycles is Blender’s new, powerful rendering engine. Using practical examples, this book will show you how to create a vast array of realistic and stunning materials and texture effects using the Cycles rendering engine. 

Blender 2.6 Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook is a practical journey into the new and exciting Cycles rendering engine for Blender. In this book you will learn how to create a vast array of materials and textures in Cycles, including glass, ice, snow, rock, metal and water. If you want to take your 3D models to the next level, but don’t know how, then this cookbook is for you!

English | ISBN: 0124157963 | 2012 | PDF | 768 pages | 17,4 MB

Each edition of Introduction to Data Compression has widely been considered the best introduction and reference text on the art and science of data compression, and the fourth edition continues in this tradition. Data compression techniques and technology are ever-evolving with new applications in image, speech, text, audio, and video. The fourth edition includes all the cutting edge updates the reader will need during the work day and in class.

English | ISBN: 1939563046 | 2013 | EPUB | 200 pages | 22 MB

How amazing would it be if eating great tasting food helped you to lose fat, boost your energy levels and made you look awesome?! Thanks to Paleo Primer, this is now possible and-more to the point-sustainable. Paleo Primer is a great resource to help readers get quickly acquainted with the principles of Primal/paleo/evolutionary health living and eating. The first half of the book lays out the basics, with humorous and memorable cartoons to convey the key messages and lay the foundation for an effective daily routine.

ISBN: 1589237501 | 2013 | EPUB | 128 pages | 46 MB

Learn how to sew simple, clever things that organize your home and help with daily tasks with Zakka Handmades! These incredibly useful projects include pouches and bags, small toys and baby items, and handy kitchen accessories. Some of the author’s sewn items also incorporate simple crochet. In Japanese, zakka means “household goods,” referring to items for domestic use—tableware, kitchenware, containers of various kinds, even simple clothing. What all the items have in common is a simple, fresh, handmade aesthetic; a subtle, clever wit; and absolute usefulness and practicality.

2012 | ISBN: 111821658X | English | 288 pages | PDF | 4.45 MB

Rules for developing talent with disciplined, deliberate, intelligent practice

We live in a competition loving culture. We love the performance, the big win, the ticking seconds of the clock as the game comes down to the wire. We watch games and cheer, sometimes to the point of obsession, but if we really wanted to see greatness—wanted to cheer for it, see it happen, understand what made it happen—we’d spend our time watching, obsessing on, and maybe even cheering the practices instead. This book puts practice on the front burner of all who seek to instill talent and achievement in others as well as in themselves. This is a journey to understand that practice, not games, makes champions.

2013 | ISBN: 1612120164 | English | 288 Pages | PDF | 18.90 MB

Are you looking for creative ways to lower your energy costs, use renewable energy, generate more of your own power, or become less reliant on the grid? Energy expert Paul Scheckel offers practical advice for taking matters into your own hands. Understand the fundamentals of solar, wind, water, and biofuel energy production as you make your home ready for renewables. Each chapter of Homeowner's Energy Handbook provides a comprehensive discussion of renewable energy sources along with "green guides" for building your own energy-saving -- and energy-producing -- equipment. Step-by-step instructions show you how to build a bicycle-powered generator, a biodiesel processor, a thermosiphon solar hot-water collector, a biogas generator, a smokeless wood-gas camp stove, and more. Whether you want to button up your house to be more energy-efficient, find deep energy savings, or take your home entirely off the grid, this guide has the knowledge and skills you need to reduce your use, then produce!

2005 | ISBN-10: 030010720X, 1588391655 | 380 pages | PDF | 91 MB

Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heugten and Marije Vellekoop Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) believed that drawing was 'the root of everything'. A self-taught artist, he succeeded, between 1881 and 1890, in developing an inimitable graphic style. 

English | 100 pages | True PDF | 37.00 Mb

The magazine for Adobe Photoshop professionals and enthusiasts 

Advanced Photoshop is the perfect magazine for honing already great Photoshop skills. Each issue is packed full of inspiring interviews and challenging tutorials, tailor-made for the more advanced digital artist. Whether you’re a Photoshop professional or simply aspiring to be one, Advanced Photoshop will help you perfect your art.

English | 116 pages | True PDF | 25.00 Mb

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PC & Tech Authority is Australia's premier computer magazine and the ultimate monthly technology buyer’s guide. Every issue is packed with the latest products, reviewed by an expert team of technical writers and guarantees more Aussie exclusives and first looks than any other Australian PC magazine. Delivering expert reviews, group tests and in-depth features we cut through the hype so you know that you’re getting the best tech for your money.