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Start creating dynamite presentations with PowerPoint 2010PowerPoint, the number one presentation software, has been revised and improved with the introduction of Microsoft Office 2010. More than 120 million people are using PowerPoint to create business and educational presentations worldwide.Both new and veteran PowerPoint users will improve their skills with the fun and friendly advice in PowerPoint 2010 For Dummies. Bestselling author Doug Lowe makes it easy to grasp the new features and shows you how to create presentations with pizzazz.PowerPoint is used in more than 60 countries to create visual presentations for business and educational settingsThe newest revision to PowerPoint adds new features, an online version of the software, and improve...

A thorough discussion of the present and future of digital gamingPeople play digital games for many reasons, from entertainment to professional training, but all games share the same basic characteristics. From those basic parameters, gaming professionals manage to create the enormous variety of games on the market today. The Handbook of Digital Games explores the many considerations and variables involved in game creation, including gaming techniques and tools, game play, and game design and development.A team of recognized gaming experts from around the world shares their thoughts on the different aspects of game creation, providing readers with a deep understanding and insider perspective on the cross-disciplinary aspects of the industry. The fund...

Learn to make more efficient apps, with just one language!Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere equips you with the necessary tools to understand Node.js and its uses in developing efficient web apps. With more traditional web servers becoming obsolete, having knowledge on servers that achieve high scalability and optimal resource consumption using Node.js is the key to your app development success. Teaching you the essentials to making event-driven server-side apps, this book demonstrates how you can use less space and take less time for communication between web client and server.Contains numerous hands-on examplesExplains implementation of real-time apps including Socket.IO and HTML5, and WebSocketsAddresses practical Node.js advantages from spe...

The ultimate guide to UX from the world's most popular resource for web designers and developersSmashing Magazineis the worlds most popular resource for web designers and developers and with this book the authors provide the ideal resource for mastering User Experience Design (UX).The authors provide an overview of UX and User Centred Design and examine in detail sixteen of the most common UX design and research tools and techniques foryour web projects.The authors share their top tips from their collective 30 years ofworking inUXincluding:Guides to when and how to use the most appropriate UX research and design techniques such as usability testing, prototyping, wire framing, sketching, information architecture running workshopsHow to plan UX projec...

'Ultimately, this is a remarkable book, a practical testimonial, and a comprehensive bibliography rolled into one. It is a single, bright sword cut across the various murky green IT topics. And if my mistakes and lessons learned through the green IT journey are any indication, this book will be used every day by folks interested in greening IT.'-Simon Y. Liu, Ph.D. Ed.D., Editor-in-Chief,IT ProfessionalMagazine, IEEE Computer Society, Director, U.S. National Agricultural LibraryThis book presents a holistic perspective on Green IT by discussing its various facets and showing how to strategically embrace itHarnessing Green IT: Principles and Practicesexamines various ways of making computing and information systems greener environmentally sustainabl...