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Overcome the vexing issues you're likely to face when creating apps for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. With new and thoroughly revised recipes in this updated cookbook, you'll quickly learn the steps necessary to work with the iOS 7 SDK, including solutions for bringing real-world physics and movement to your apps with UIKit Dynamics APIs. You'll learn hundreds of techniques for storing and protecting data, sending and receiving notifications, enhancing and animating graphics, managing files and folders, and many other options. Each recipe includes sample code you can use right away. Create vibrant and lifelike user interfaces with UIKit Dynamics Use the Keychain to protect your app's data Develop location-aware and multitasking-aware apps Work wi...

Increase your productivity as a DBA, developer, or IT Pro, by using PowerShell with SQL Server to simplify database management and automate repetitive, mundane tasks. Provides over a hundred practical recipes that utilize PowerShell to automate, integrate and simplify SQL Server tasks Offers easy to follow, step-by-step guide to getting the most out of SQL Server and PowerShell Covers numerous guidelines, tips, and explanations on how and when to use PowerShell cmdlets, WMI, SMO, .NET classes or other components Builds a strong foundation that gets you comfortable using PowerShell with SQL Server--empowering you to create more complex scripts that you need in your day-to-day job In Detail PowerShell is Microsoft's new command-line shell and scripti...

Over 80 great recipes to create life-like Blender objects Overview Master techniques to create believable natural surface materials Take your models to the next level of realism or artistic development by using the material and texture settings within Blender 2.5. Take the hassle out of material simulation by applying faster and more efficient material and texture strategies Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Each recipe is a logically organized according to the surface types with clear instructions and explanations on how these recipes can be applied across a range of materials including complex materials such as oceans, smoke, fire and explosions. In Detail Blender 2.5 is one of the most usable 3D suites available. Its material and texture function...

Over 40 recipes to help you create stunning materials and textures using the Cycles rendering engine with Blender Overview Create naturalistic materials and textures - such as rock, snow, and ice - using Cycles Learn Cycles node-based material system Get to grips with the powerful Cycles rendering engine In Detail Cycles is Blenders 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 C...