“…Apple's .Mac service provides oodles of features, but are you making the most of your membership? In this 193-page book by Macintosh expert Joe Kissell, you'll find help with all the features, whether you are just getting started and want to customize your .Mac preferences or you've been using .Mac for years but have never tried to use .Mac's advanced capabilities. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cluster Continuous ReplicationStandby Continuous Replication; Network Bandwidth and Latency Requirements for CCR and SCR; Comparison of SCC/LCR/CCR/SCR; Chapter 8 Backup; Important Terms; Why Do You Run Backups?; What Data Do You Have to Back Up?…”

“…The step-by-step instructions will demystify the entire process, from constructing an A/B test to breaking down the decision factors to build an engineering platform. When you're ready to run the A/B test of your dreams, you'll have the perfect blueprint. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction 5 Joined the Military 6 Set Backs 8 A Navy SEAL and Beyond 11 Formal Education 13 Carrier Change 15 Fail Between the Lines 17 What to Expect 17 1 Remove the Dead Weight 20 Creating a Masterpiece 20 Assets and Liabilities 22 The Backpack 23 Evaluate the Weight 25 2 No More Excuses 28 Fall from Perfect 29 Take Action 30 Find Your Optimal Performance 31 Inverted U and Stress Control 31 Find Peace in Admitting Your Fear 33 The Potential of Failure is Not an Excuse 34 3 Take Control of Your Thoughts 36 The Confidence Dial 36 Insecurity 37 Replace Negative Thoughts with Positive Thoughts 40 Put things into Perspective 41 Levity 43 Make Big things Small 44 Arrogance 46 Be Confident, Not Arrogant 47 Humility 48 4 Be Mentally Tough 51 Climbing High 51 Humble Beginnings 52 A Long Way to Go 53 The Assent 54 In Over Our Heads 56 Final Stretch 57 Lessons Learned 58 Crawl Walk Run 59 5 Choosing the Warrior Mentality 62 Marathon is Half the Word 62 Be Better Today than Yesterday 66 Almost a Victim 67 Look Forward, not back. 69 My Accelerator Moment 70 6 Be Self Aware 74 What is your personality type? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Appear within the in-store catalogues -- Chapter 29 Culture will prevail -- The Celebrate Life Foundation ball -- The Colour Run -- Cutting the cost of goods -- Sometimes you need to be irrational -- Backed by science -- Chapter 30 A PR challenge -- When The Checkout checked out -- Chapter 31 Losing patience ... -- I could go bankrupt -- Finally, the turnaround kicks in -- Chapter 32 For Sale! …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…To-Do's: Focus on the Biggest Issue in Big BusinessDrive Trust to Build Genuine Engagement; Learn from Others' Mistakes, but Be Willing to Make Your Own; Your Role: Trusted Colleague; Part III: How: Using the Failure Value Cycle to Advance Your Organization; Chapter 9: The Failure Value Cycle: Seven Stages Where You Can Leverage or Flunk Failure; Chapter 10: Stage One-Respect: Acknowledge the Gravity of Failure; Back to the Darkroom: Kodak Loses Focus; The ""Aretha Challenge"": Can Your Organization Spell R-E-S-P-E-C-T?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Know the Difference Between Luck and TalentIdentify Your Strengths and Weaknesses; Be Ready to Leap; Play the Players, Not the Game; Time to Move On; Chapter 9: Easy Dot Come; Start with What and Who You Know; A Dot-Com Is Born; My VCs Wanted Their Money Back; Investors Can Come from Unlikely Places; Know Your Limits; Big-Time Marketing on a Small-Time Budget; My Most Expensive Mistake Ever; The Deal That Got Away; We Didn't Know We Were Getting Rich; A Hollywood Ending; A Time to Celebrate; Chapter 10: Easy Dot Go; Find a Mission for Your Venture; Don't Forget the Bottom Line…”

“…Step-by-step instructions and corresponding step number callouts on photos show you exactly what to do Help when you run into problems or limitations of your iPad or its apps and you need to figure out what to do Tips and Notes to help you get the most out of your iPad and its apps Costello Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through learning how to use your iPad for home, school, and just for fun! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding the draw method and the SurfaceView class -- The game loop -- Threads -- Problems with threads -- Java try, catch exception handling -- Implementing the game loop with a thread -- Implementing Runnable and providing the run method -- Coding the thread -- Starting and stopping the thread -- Activity lifecycle -- A simplified explanation of the Android lifecycle -- Lifecycle phases: What we need to know -- Lifecycle phases: What we need to do -- Using the Activity lifecycle to start and stop the thread -- Coding the run method -- Running the game -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Coding the Bat and Ball -- The Ball Class -- Communicating with the game engine -- Representing rectangles and squares with RectF -- Coding the variables -- Coding the Ball constructor -- Coding the RectF getter method -- Coding the Ball update method -- Coding the Ball helper methods -- Coding a realistic-ish bounce -- Using the Ball class -- The Bat class -- Coding the Bat variables -- Coding the Bat constructor -- Coding the Bat helper methods -- Coding the Bat's update method -- Using the Bat Class -- Coding the Bat input handling -- Running the game -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Collisions, Sound Effects and Supporting Different Versions of Android -- Handling collisions -- Collision detection options -- Rectangle intersection -- Radius overlapping -- Crossing number algorithm -- Optimizations -- Multiple hitboxes -- Neighbour checking -- Best options for Pong -- The RectF intersects method -- Handling different versions of Android -- Detecting the current Android version -- The Soundpool class -- Initializing SoundPool the new way -- Java Method chaining explained -- Back to initializing SoundPool (the new way) -- Initializing SoundPool the old way -- Loading sound files into memory -- Playing a sound -- Stopping a sound -- Generating sound effects…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover; The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook: Workflow not Workslow in Lightroom 2; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Requirements to Run Lightroom; Chapter 1 Before You Shoot; Memory Cards; Memory Card Speed; Choosing the Right Size Memory Card; How Long Will My Memory Card Last?…”

“…Learn the basics, from mastering the Dock and customizing OS X, to iCloud syncing and backing up with Time Machine. You'll suddenly find your computer fun again as you make FaceTime calls and explore iLife. …”

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“…You have a home-run startup idea and a whip-smart team to execute it. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- ChromeOS hardware-based encryption -- ChromeOS software-based encryption -- Data backup strategies for ChromeOS -- Backup basics -- Backing up to Google Drive -- Backing up to external storage -- OS and app recovery -- When should you recover ChromeOS? …”