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With iPhone Hacks, you can make your iPhone do all you'd expect of a mobile smartphone -- and more. Learn tips and techniques to unleash little-known features, find and create innovative applications for both the iPhone and iPod touch, and unshackle these devices to run everything from network utilities to video game emulators. This book will teach you how to: Import your entire movie collection, sync with multiple computers, and save YouTube videos Remotely access your home network, audio, and video, and even control your desktop Develop native applications for the iPhone and iPod touch on Linux, Windows, or Mac Check email, receive MMS messages, use IRC, and record full-motion video Run any application in the iPhone's background, and mirror its di...

Develop smaller, lighter web apps that are simple to create and easy to test, extend, and maintain as they grow. This hands-on guide introduces you to AngularJS, the open source JavaScript framework that uses Modelviewcontroller (MVC) architecture, data binding, client-side templates, and dependency injection to create a much-needed structure for building web apps.Guided by two engineers who worked on AngularJS at Google, you'll walk through the framework's key features, and then build a working AngularJS app-from layout to testing, compiling, and debugging. If you have JavaScript experience, you'll learn how AngularJS helps reduce the complexity of your web app.Dive deep into Angular's building blocks and learn how they work togetherGain maximum fle...

Getting started with MongoDB is easy, but once you begin building applications with it, you'll face some complex issues. What are the tradeoffs between normalized and denormalized data? How do you handle replica set failure and failover? This collection of MongoDB tips, tricks, and hacks helps you resolve issues with everything from application design and implementation to data safety and monitoring.You get specific guidance in five topic areas directly from engineers at 10gen, the company that develops and supports this open source database:Application Design Tips: What to keep in mind when designing your schemaImplementation Tips: Programming applications against MongoDBOptimization Tips: Speeding up your applicationsData Safety Tips: Using replica...

Take advantage of JavaScript's power to build robust web-scale or enterprise applications that are easy to extend and maintain. By applying the design patterns outlined in this practical book, experienced JavaScript developers will learn how to write flexible and resilient code that's easier-yes, easier-to work with as your code base grows.JavaScript may be the most essential web programming language, but in the real world, JavaScript applications often break when you make changes. With this book, author Eric Elliott shows you how to add client- and server-side features to a large JavaScript application without negatively affecting the rest of your code.Examine the anatomy of a large-scale JavaScript applicationBuild modern web apps with the capabili...

Mastering Bitcoin tells you everything you need to know about joining one of the most exciting revolutions since the invention of the web: digital money. Bitcoin is the first successful digital currency. It's instant, global, frictionless and it is changing money forever. Bitcoin is still in its infancy, and yet it has already spawned an economy valued at nearly $2 billion that is growing exponentially. Established companies like PayPal are considering adding bitcoin as a payment method, and investors are funding a flurry of new startups aiming to stake claims in a new industry that may rival the Internet in terms of scale and impact on daily life.If you're interested in learning more about the technical operation of bitcoin, or if you're building th...