The Book of CSS 3 A Developer's Guide to the Future of Web Design

CSS3 is the technology behind most of the eye-catching visuals on the Web today, but the official documentation can be dry and hard to follow and browser implementations are scattershot at best. The Book of CSS3 distills the dense technical language of...

 Eloquent Javascript A Modern Introduction to Programming

JavaScript is at the heart of almost every modern Web application, whether it's Google Apps, Twitter, or the newest browser-based game. Though it's simple for beginners to pick up and play with, JavaScript is not a toy-it's a flexible and complex language...

  The Official Blender 2.3 Guide Free 3D creation suite for modeling, animation, and rendering

Blender is the first and only fully-integrated 3D graphics creation suite allowing modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, and realtime interactive 3D with cross-platform compatibility - all for free. Originally developed by Not a Number (NaN) as...

 Hacking the Cable Modem What Cable Companies Don't Want You to Know

Warning: The practice of modifying a cable modem violates service agreements, and hackers risk being banned for life by service providers. This book is not intended to be used for stealing Internet service or any other illegal activity. In the beginnin...

 The Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects Creative Techniques for Photographers, Artists, and Designers

The GIMP, an image editor whose power and ease-of-use rivals that of Adobe Photoshop, is one of the world's most popular free software projects. Artists and designers have relied on the GIMP since 1995 to retouch photographs, composite multiple images, an...

  Ubuntu Linux for Non-geeks A Pain-Free, Project-Based Get-Things-Done Guidebook

Ubuntu has been hailed as the distribution that will really get newbies feeling comfortable and confident using Linux. Even the name is user-friendly-it's a South African term that translates roughly as "humanity toward others," which could also describe ...

 The Book of Nero 7 Cd and DVD Burning Made Easy

Nero 7 Ultra Edition is one of the most powerful CD and DVD burning programs on the market and if you've installed a CD/DVD drive recently, chances are that Nero came with it. But, while Nero is quite an impressive suite of tools, those tools aren't alway...

 Code Craft The practice of writing excellent code

You know how to write code that works, but what about code that's well written and easy to understand? And robust and bug-free? If other programmers looked at your handiwork, would they be able to figure out the code's logic and purpose? Exceptional progr...

 The Book of Javascript A Practical Guide to Interactive Web Pages

With JavaScript, you can add interactivity, animation, and other tricks to your web pages quickly. But this isn't just a book of scripts for you to cut and paste into your HTML, only to find out later that nothing works as you'd expected. Using real-world...

 The Art of RAW Conversion How to Produce Art-Quality Photos with Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Leading RAW Converters

Ansel Adams never would have surrendered his negatives, but countless digital photographers surrender their images to their cameras built-in image converters. The Art of RAW Conversion, written by an expert in RAW photography, will show you how to regain ...

 Creative Computer Crafts 50 Fun and Useful Projects You Can Make with Any Inkjet Printer

Step-by-step instructions for making crafts at home with an inkjet printer. Absolutely no experience necessary! You don't have to be a computer scientist to apply technology to your crafting projects. In Creative Computer Crafts, you'll discover how ea...

 Object Oriented PHP Concepts, techniques, and code

It can be tough to learn the concepts of object-oriented programming with a language like C++. Fortunately, PHP's simple object model makes it an ideal language for learning about object-oriented programming. For the uninitiated, this guide to the late...

 It's Never Done That Before! A Guide to Troubleshooting Windows XP

Do some Windows XP problems make you scratch your head in wonder? Has an application suddenly chosen not to start or a piece of hardware simply stopped working? Ever had the Internet "disappear" or been faced with a Blue or Black Screen of Death? Do the n...

 The Book of Visual Basic 2005 .NET Insight for Classic VB Developers

From the author of the highly acclaimed Book of VB .NET comes this comprehensive introduction to Visual Basic 2005, the newest version of Microsoft's popular programming language. If you're a developer who is new to the language, you will learn to use VB ...

 Write Great Code - Volume 2 Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level

It's a critical lesson that today's computer science students aren't always being taught: How to carefully choose their high-level language statements to produce efficient code. Write Great Code, Volume 2: Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level shows soft...