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1. Business Law Today: The Essentials (with Online Research Guide)
2. Inside the Index and Search Engines: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (PRO-Developer)
3. Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings
4. Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
5. Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Finding and Using the World's Information (Hacks)
6. Building & Running a Successful Research Business: A Guide for the Independent Information Professional
7. Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games
8. Recruiting on the Web : Smart Strategies for Finding the Perfect Candidate
9. Dos mundos Student Edition with Online Learning Center Bind-in Passcode (McGraw-Hill World Languages)
10. Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (2nd Edition)
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The Pentium Elite, Part 2: 955X versus nForce4 IE In this second article in a two-part series, we complete our comparison test of the best premium motherboards on the market, by examining five high-end boards based on the Intel 955X chipset.
NAND flash-dedicated 300mm line delivers first wafers Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., has announced that it has begun mass producing the highest density NAND flash device yet to take advantage of advanced 70-nanometer process technology - 4-Gigabit (Gb) NAND flash memory . The faster technology offers larger storage...
Intel-powered Macs should be winner over time Everett Herald, WA -... It's Apple's elegant operating system, OS X, which won't see major changes for 18 months, and the company's stylish hardware designs, which it will continue to ...
Live Impressions from the LifeDrive Demo in NYC PalmAddict features palmOne Business Development Manager Stephen McDonnell as he presents the LifeDrive at the NYCDAUG-PALM user group meeting. The presentation notes cover many questions that have cropped up here at 1src.
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Business Law Today: The Essentials (with Online Research Guide)
Authors: Roger LeRoy Miller. Gaylord A. Jentz. Paperback, 928 pagesPublisher: South-Western College/West Publication Date: 2005-02-03 Edition: 7 Reviews :
This text is a briefer paperback version of the widely-adopted Miller/Jentz BUSINESS LAW TODAY: THE STANDARD EDITION. THE ESSENTIALS offers the very same traits that have made that book so successful edition after edition – fundamentally that it provides the legal credibility and authoritativeness of a traditional business law book, while also offering the visual appeal and student friendly features students are used to seeing in books for many of their other courses. Though the text is “fun” for students to read, it does not accomplish this at the expense of important information – it goes into the necessary detail to completely explain law topics. The book truly offers an instructor the best of both worlds – a credible business law source, which students will be motivated to read. Its magic and the cornerstone of its widespread success is in this ability to appeal to both instructors and students without being mutually exclusive. It also offers the most comprehensive teaching and learning support package on the market, with something to fit many different instructional or learning styles – a reflection of West Legal Studies in Business’s ongoing commitment to partnership, leadership, and innovation in providing the highest quality materials available for Business Law instructors and students. This text explicitly meets the AACSB curriculum requirements....
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Inside the Index and Search Engines: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (PRO-Developer)
Authors: Patrick Tisseghem. Lars Fastrup. Paperback, 608 pagesPublisher: Microsoft Press Publication Date: 2008-04-19 Reviews :
Get expert, architectural guidance for optimizing user search with custom SharePoint Server 2007 deployments from a Microsoft MVP. You ll go inside the Index and Search Engines. The authors address the unique challenges presented by a folder-and-file organizational strategy that mimics the computer desktop, and takes into consideration that SharePoint sites are often the result of content contributed from a number of users. This pragmatic resource covers the tools in SharePoint Server 2007 that help make searching more effective. You ll discover how SharePoint Server 2007 handles files and data catalogs, and how to effectively use the SharePoint Business Data Catalog and other tools to structure and search SharePoint files, increasing response time and lessening user frustration. Ideal for working developers in an enterprise environment, this practical book delivers must-have, in-depth information for customizing SharePoint Server deployment to enable effective user search experiences. Includes code samples. Key Book Benefits:
Delivers in-depth, architectural guidance about how SharePoint Server handles files and data catalogs
Provides details about how to effectively use the SharePoint Business Data Catalog and other tools to structure and search SharePoint files, increasing response time and lessening user frustration
Features practical advice from two SharePoint gurus with a deep understanding of how enterprises use search tools
Includes code samples on the Web...
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Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings
Authors: Amy N. Langville. Carl D. Meyer. Hardcover, 234 pagesPublisher: Princeton University Press Publication Date: 2006-07-03 Reviews :
Why doesn't your home page appear on the first page of search results, even when you query your own name? How do other Web pages always appear at the top? What creates these powerful rankings? And how? The first book ever about the science of Web page rankings, Google's PageRank and Beyond supplies the answers to these and other questions and more. The book serves two very different audiences: the curious science reader and the technical computational reader. The chapters build in mathematical sophistication, so that the first five are accessible to the general academic reader. While other chapters are much more mathematical in nature, each one contains something for both audiences. For example, the authors include entertaining asides such as how search engines make money and how the Great Firewall of China influences research. The book includes an extensive background chapter designed to help readers learn more about the mathematics of search engines, and it contains several MATLAB codes and links to sample Web data sets. The philosophy throughout is to encourage readers to experiment with the ideas and algorithms in the text. Any business seriously interested in improving its rankings in the major search engines can benefit from the clear examples, sample code, and list of resources provided. - Many illustrative examples and entertaining asides
- MATLAB code
- Accessible and informal style
- Complete and self-contained section for mathematics review
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Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
Authors: Mike Kuniavsky. Paperback, 576 pagesPublisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 2003-04-22 Edition: 1 Reviews :
The gap between who designers and developers imagine their users are, and who those users really are can be the biggest problem with product development. Observing the User Experience will help you bridge that gap to understand what your users want and need from your product, and whether they'll be able to use what you've created. Filled with real-world experience and a wealth of practical information, this book presents a complete toolbox of techniques to help designers and developers see through the eyes of their users. It provides in-depth coverage of 13 user experience research techniques that will provide a basis for developing better products, whether they're Web, software or mobile based. In addition, it's written with an understanding of how software is developed in the real world, taking tight budgets, short schedules, and existing processes into account. ·Explains how to create usable products that are still original, creative, and unique ·A valuable resource for designers, developers, project managers-anyone in a position where their work comes in direct contact with the end user. ·Provides a real-world perspective on research and provides advice about how user research can be done cheaply, quickly and how results can be presented persuasively ·Gives readers the tools and confidence to perform user research on their own designs and tune their software user experience to the unique needs of their product and its users...
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Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Finding and Using the World's Information (Hacks)
Authors: Rael Dornfest. Paul Bausch. Tara Calishain. Paperback, 543 pagesPublisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 2006-08-03 Edition: 3rd Reviews :
Everyone knows that Google lets you search billions of web pages. But few people realize that Google also gives you hundreds of cool ways to organize and play with information. Since we released the last edition of this bestselling book, Google has added many new features and services to its expanding universe: Google Earth, Google Talk, Google Maps, Google Blog Search, Video Search, Music Search, Google Base, Google Reader, and Google Desktop among them. We've found ways to get these new services to do even more. The expanded third edition of Google Hacks is a brand-new and infinitely more useful book for this powerful search engine. You'll not only find dozens of hacks for the new Google services, but plenty of updated tips, tricks and scripts for hacking the old ones. Now you can make a Google Earth movie, visualize your web site traffic with Google Analytics, post pictures to your blog with Picasa, or access Gmail in your favorite email client. Industrial strength and real-world tested, this new collection enables you to mine a ton of information within Google's reach. And have a lot of fun while doing it: - Search Google over IM with a Google Talk bot
- Build a customized Google Map and add it to your own web site
- Cover your searching tracks and take back your browsing privacy
- Turn any Google query into an RSS feed that you can monitor in Google Reader or the newsreader of your choice
- Keep tabs on blogs in new, useful ways
- Turn Gmail into an external hard drive for Windows, Mac, or Linux
- Beef up your web pages with search, ads, news feeds, and more
- Program Google with the Google API and language of your choice
For those of you concerned about Google as an emerging Big Brother, this new edition also offers advice and concrete tips for protecting your privacy. Get into the world of Google and bend it to your will! ...
Everyone loves Google, and it's the first place many people turn to locate information on the Internet. There's a big gap, though, between knowing that you can use Google to get advance information on your blind date and having a handle on the considerable roster of fact-finding tools that the site makes available. Google Hacks reveals--and documents in considerable detail--a large collection of Google capabilities that many readers won't have even been aware of. Want to find the best price on a pair of leg warmers? Try the Froogle price-searcher that's hidden within the Google site. Interested in finding weblog commentary about a particular subject? Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest call your attention to the special Google syntaxes for that purpose. This book makes it clear that there's lots more to the Google site than typing in a few keywords and trusting the search engine to yield useful results. If you're a programmer--or even just familiar with a HTML or a scripting language--Google opens up even further. A large part of Google Hacks concerns itself with the Google API (the collection of capabilities that Google exposes for use by software) and other programmers' resources. For example, the authors include a simple Perl application that queries the Google engine with terms specified by the user. They also document XooMLe, which delivers Google results in XML form. In brief, this is the best compendium of Google's lesser-known capabilities available anywhere, including the Google site itself. --David Wall Topics covered: How to get the most from the Google search engine by using its Web-accessible features (including product searches, image searches, news searches, and newsgroup searches) and the large collection of desktop-resident toolbars available, as well as its advanced search syntax. Other sections have to do with programming with the Google API and simple "scrapes" of results pages, while further coverage addresses how to get your Web page to feature prominently in Google keyword searches....
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Xbox 360 game prices: rumor wrap-up (Joystiq)
There’s a rumor
going
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that Xbox 360 games are going to cost more
than current-generation Xbox titles.
Out of all news outlets we surveyed in a quick review of this rumor, only IGN
appeared to get it right. In their article, IGN noted
that the collector’s edition of Perfect Dark Zero would retail for $60 and that the regular version of the
game would sell for $50. That’s how much the game would
Round-Up: Comparison Testing of 22 Hard Disk Drives We put 14 SATA and 8 UltraATA models through their paces in the THG test labs. The result is a familiar look and feel for a new product category round-up: hard disks.
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Building & Running a Successful Research Business: A Guide for the Independent Information Professional
Authors: Mary Ellen Bates. Paperback, 472 pagesPublisher: Information Today, Inc. Publication Date: 2003-04-01 Reviews :
In this how-to guide for information brokers, Bates (a business researcher) offers advice for those interested in starting and running an independent research firm. She explains every aspect of the project, from starting the business and attracting clients, to conducting research. Annotation (c) Boo...
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Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games
Authors: Edward Castronova. Paperback, 344 pagesPublisher: University Of Chicago Press Publication Date: 2006-10-15 Reviews :
From EverQuest to World of Warcraft, online games have evolved from the exclusive domain of computer geeks into an extraordinarily lucrative staple of the entertainment industry. People of all ages and from all walks of life now spend thousands of hours—and dollars—partaking in this popular new brand of escapism. But the line between fantasy and reality is starting to blur. Players have created virtual societies with governments and economies of their own whose currencies now trade against the dollar on eBay at rates higher than the yen. And the players who inhabit these synthetic worlds are starting to spend more time online than at their day jobs.
In Synthetic Worlds, Edward Castronova offers the first comprehensive look at the online game industry, exploring its implications for business and culture alike. He starts with the players, giving us a revealing look into the everyday lives of the gamers—outlining what they do in their synthetic worlds and why. He then describes the economies inside these worlds to show how they might dramatically affect real world financial systems, from potential disruptions of markets to new business horizons. Ultimately, he explores the long-term social consequences of online games: If players can inhabit worlds that are more alluring and gratifying than reality, then how can the real world ever compete? Will a day ever come when we spend more time in these synthetic worlds than in our own? Or even more startling, will a day ever come when such questions no longer sound alarmist but instead seem obsolete?
With more than ten million active players worldwide—and with Microsoft and Sony pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into video game development—online games have become too big to ignore. Synthetic Worlds spearheads our efforts to come to terms with this virtual reality and its concrete effects.
“Illuminating. . . . Castronova’s analysis of the economics of fun is intriguing. Virtual-world economies are designed to make the resulting game interesting and enjoyable for their inhabitants. Many games follow a rags-to-riches storyline, for example. But how can all the players end up in the top 10%? Simple: the upwardly mobile human players need only be a subset of the world's population. An underclass of computer-controlled 'bot' citizens, meanwhile, stays poor forever. Mr. Castronova explains all this with clarity, wit, and a merciful lack of academic jargon.”—The Economist
“Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games on the Internet. What Castronova has realized is that these games, where players contribute considerable labor in exchange for things they value, are not merely like real economies, they are real economies, displaying inflation, fraud, Chinese sweatshops, and some surprising in-game innovations.”—Tim Harford, Chronicle of Higher Education
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Recruiting on the Web : Smart Strategies for Finding the Perfect Candidate
Authors: Michael Foster. Paperback, 304 pagesPublisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 2002-12-23 Edition: 1 Reviews :
Recruiting on the Web is the most comprehensive and advanced guide to Internet recruiting available anywhere. Andnbsp;It explains the best practices, creative ideas and recruiting tools used by the most forward-looking companies and professional recruiters to lower their recruiting costs, slash cycle time, and hire the very best candidates via the Web. . . Recruiting on the Web will help recruiters and Human Resources professionals plan a Web-based recruiting campaign to quickly fill a position with the right candidate. It will also help managers, executives, and small-business owners save thousands of dollars in advertising costs by taking charge of their own hiring process, using the power of the Web. . . Readers will learn to: . . - Organize inexpensive but highly effective job posting campaigns .
- Select, evaluate and post to the best niche job boards .
- Work more successfully with Monster.com, HotJobs, CareerBuilder .
- Find candidates hidden in companies, universities, and organizations .
- Build a recruiting Web site .
- Find great diversity candidates using the Web .
- Build a Web-based employee referral system .
- Build a Web-based college recruiting plan .
- And much more .
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Dos mundos Student Edition with Online Learning Center Bind-in Passcode (McGraw-Hill World Languages)
Authors: Tracy Terrell. Magdalena Andrade. Jeanne Egasse. Elas Miguel Muoz. Hardcover, 640 pagesPublisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Publication Date: 2005-06-28 Edition: 6 Reviews :
Based on the Natural Approach, Dos mundos stresses the use of engaging activities and interesting readings in a natural and spontaneous classroom atmosphere. In this comprehension-based approach to learning language, the development of communicative language skills is the central goal, with formal grammar presentation and grammar practice at the service of communication. The text is designed so that class time can be devoted to exposing students to Spanish through creative activities and readings, allowing grammar explanations and exercises to be studied outside the classroom....
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Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (2nd Edition)
Authors: Erik Spiekermann. E.M Ginger. Paperback, 192 pagesPublisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 2002-07-25 Edition: 2 Reviews :
This classic typography book, first published in 1993, is now updated with brand-new typefaces, fonts, and illustrations. Internationally renowned graphic designer Erik Spiekermann explains in everyday terms what typography is and offers design guidance in choosing type for legibility, meaning, and aesthetic appeal. Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works, 2nd Edition guides the reader through all aspects of typography, from the history and mechanics of type, to training the eye to recognize and choose typefaces. Uncover type's roots and placement within society and learn how to use space and layout to improve overall communication. This elegant guide for readers of all levels is revised and updated to discuss the particular design challenges of type on the Internet. Note: This title was originally announced in the October 2000 Pearson Technology Group catalog....
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Kingmax HardCore DDR500 Rated at DDR500, the Kingmax HardCore series lived up to its name for both default and overclocked performance. To add to its appeal, the 512MB RAM modules had very reasonable pricing, so it's no wonder that the Kingmax HardCore DDR500 won our coveted 5 stars award.
Net Reviews: GeForce 7800GTX Of course the big news in hardware this week was the launch of NVIDIA's latest video card based on their G70 graphics core. The Tech Report has a very detailed NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX Preview that looks at the differences...
Nortel issues patch for router VPN flaw (Network World on Security) Nortel is offering a fix for a vulnerability that could let an attacker crash a VPN router with a single malformed packet.
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