Upgrading and Repairing Laptops (2nd Edition)

Scott Mueller has gone where no computer book author has gone before right past all the warranty stickers, the hidden screws, and the fear factor to produce a real owner's manual that every laptop owner should have on his desk. Upgrading and Repairing Laptops, Second Edition shows the upgrades users can perform, the ones that are better left to the manufacturer, and how to use add-on peripherals to make the most of a laptop. This second edition has been updated to include:

• The latest processors and motherboards
• Complete assembly and disassembly information
• Updated memory standards
• Upgrading your hard drive to increase performance
• Changes in networking and firewalls

The included DVD contains one-of-a-kind video showing just what's inside a portable PC. If you have ever wondered what goes on inside your portable PC, how to upgrade/repair it, or how to live on the road with it, this is the one must-have book of the year!


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XML For Dummies®, 4th Edition

Wiley Publishing, Inc.
by Lucinda Dykes
365 Pages




Content

Welcome to the latest frontier of Web technology. In XML For Dummies,
4th Edition, we introduce you to the mysteries of eXtensible Markup
Language (XML). XML is helping developers capture, manipulate, and exchange
all kinds of documents and data, ranging from news feeds to financial transactions.
In fact, many experts believe XML represents a kind of “lingua franca”
that can represent information in just about any imaginable form, more accessibly
than ever before — not only to human readers, but also to all kinds of computer
applications and services.
We take a practical and straightforward approach to telling you about XML
and what it can do for your data and document capture, management, and
exchange efforts. We try to keep the amount of technobabble to a minimum
and stick to plain English as much as possible. We also try to keep the focus
on practical applications of XML technology, including desktop applications
such as Office 2003. We have carefully chosen what we feel are the most relevant
XML technologies for developers today. Besides plain talk about XML —
and the many special-purpose applications that XML supports for document
designers and authors, graphics developers, and many other communities of
technical and business interests — we include lots of sample markup to help
you put XML to work in your organization, business, or personal life. (No personal
life is quite complete without a little XML.)

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Networks Reference Modeling May 2008 eBook-DDU

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TiTLE : Collaborative Networks:Reference Modeling

AUTHOR : Luis Camarinha-Matos , Hamideh Afsarmanesh

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Collaborative Networks: Reference Modeling works to establish a
theoretical foundation for Collaborative Networks. Particular
emphasis is put on modeling multiple facets of collaborative
networks and establishing a comprehensive modeling framework that
captures and structures diverse perspectives of these complex
entities. Further, this book introduces a contribution to the
definition of reference models for Collaborative Networks.
Collaborative Networks: Reference Modeling provides valuable
elements for researchers, PhD students, engineers, managers, and
leading practitioners interested in collaborative systems and
networked society
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Modeling Semantic Web Services The Web Service Modeling Language Jul 2008 eBook

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AUTHOR : Jos de Bruijn , Dieter Fensel , Mick Kerrigan , Uwe
Keller , Holger Lausen , James Scicluna

PUBLISHER : Springer

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Semantic Web services promise to automate tasks such as discovery,
mediation, selection, composition, and invocation of services,
enabling fully flexible automated e-business. Their usage, however,
still requires a significant amount of human intervention due to
the lack of support for a machine-processable description.

In this book, Jos de Bruijn and his coauthors lay the foundations
for understanding the requirements that shape the description of
the various aspects related to Semantic Web services, such as the
static background knowledge in the form of ontologies, the
functional description of the service, and the behavioral
description of the service. They introduce the Web Service Modeling
Language (WSML), which provides means for describing the
functionality and behavior of Web services, as well as the
underlying business knowledge, in the form of ontologies, with a
conceptual grounding in the Web Service Modeling Ontology.

Academic and industrial researchers as well as professionals will
find a comprehensive overview of the concepts and challenges in the
area of Semantic Web services, the Web Services Modeling Language
and its relation to the Web Services Modeling Ontology, and an in-
depth treatment of both enabling technologies and theoretical
foundations.

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Optic Nerve comics

I collected several 1000's comicbooks in the last years and i am planning to put them on a reguraly basis on this forum.
I only collected them and made them less big in bites with advanced jpeg compressing so the quality is still good and they take lesser space on the disk and are easier ro download, in stead of 1 by 1 the most downloads consist of 10 or more issues in one.
So the credits goes to the scanners and original uploaders.

Do a search on my nick to see my other Comic uploads

This is Optic Nerve


Optic Nerve is a comic book series by graphic novelist Adrian Tomine. Originally self-published by Tomine as a series of mini-comics (which have later been collected in a single volume, 32 Stories), the series has been published by Drawn and Quarterly since 1995.

Tomine's style and subject matter are restrained and realistic. Many are set in Northern California. Several of his stories for Optic Nerve feature Asian American characters, including "Hawaiian Getaway," "Six-Day Cold" and "Layover." Adrian Tomine is Asian American and lives in Berkeley, California. Many topics of his stories are at least partly autobiographical.

In the initial self-published issues, as well as the first eight Drawn & Quarterly issues (1995-2001), Optic Nerve was typically a collection of short stories. After an extended hiatus, Tomine resumed the comic in fall of 2004 and began his first multi-issue storyline with #9. The most recent issue, #11, was published in early 2007

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Beautifull Frames For Adobe Photoshop

Just 20MB Per Part

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Soil Engineering: Testing, Design, and Remediation

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Soil Engineering: Testing, Design, and Remediation
by Fu Hua Chen


ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0849322944

ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780849322945

Publisher: CRC

Number Of Pages: 304

Publication Date: 1999-09-28



In the last forty years, at least fifty books have been written on the subject of soil mechanics, most of them textbooks. Only a few touch on practical applications. Soil Engineering: Testing, Design, and Remediation supplies the information needed to fill the gap between textbook learning and practical know-how.When engineers deal with major projects, such as the Teton Dam or the Leaning Tower of Pisa, they need high-tech solutions. More often than not, however, they deal with the foundations for warehouses, schools, medium-rise buildings, and residential structures, projects that need low-tech solutions. Ninety percent of the time consulting engineers don't require mathematical treatment or computer analysis, they require experience.Soil engineering problems cannot be resolved with textbook information alone. This book provides the practical meaning of the different aspects of soil mechanics, the use of unconfined compression test data, the meaning of consolidated tests, the practical value of lateral pressure, and more. In addition to the technical aspects of foundation investigation, in the real world the shadow of litigation looms over every consultant's head. The author covers legal issues in detail.After several years in foundation investigation most consultants realize that soil engineering is a combination of art and science. Soil Engineering: Testing, Design and Remediation demystifies this connection and supplies real-world examples of practical applications. This hands-on, ready reference will be essential tool for any consultant working in the field.

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101 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home

101 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home
384 pages | Maximum Press; 3rd edition (October 1, 2008) | ISBN: 1931644675 | PDF | 2 Mb

In a freshly-updated third edition, this invaluable resource takes an in-depth look into the new American dream—running one’s own e-business from home. Starting with a guide to defining what is most important—time with family, a flexible schedule, financial freedom, and risk levels—this study moves into an investigation of how online business works, followed by profiles of 101 proven ideas guaranteed to fuel entrepreneurial thinking. From getting started in online and offline promotion, this handbook is sure to accommodate all needs and interests. The guidebook also includes a password that provides access to the companion website, offering the latest internet business news, expanded information, and additional online resources.

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vHow To Draw - Anatomy for Fantasy Artists

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69. 3D Offset (After Effects Video Tutorials )

69. 3D Offset (After Effects Video Tutorials )



• Learn powerful expressions for animating objects
• Animate a cellphone in 3D space and custom space

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The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web

Proving once and for all that standards-compliant design does not equal dull design, this inspiring tome uses examples from the landmark CSS Zen Garden site as the foundation for discussions on how to create beautiful, progressive CSS-based Web sites. By using the Zen Garden sites as examples of how CSS design techniques and approaches can be applied to specific Web challenges, authors Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag provide an eye-opening look at the range of design methods made possible by CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). By the time you've finished perusing the volume, you'll have a new understanding of the graphically rich, fully accessible sites that CSS design facilitates. In sections on design, layout, imagery, typography, effects, and themes, Dave and Molly take you through every phase of the design process--from striking a sensible balance between text and graphics to creating eye-popping special effects (no scripting required).

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HTML XHTML and CSS Bible 6th Edition

Book Description:
Whether hand-coded or created by a visual editor, static or dynamic, most Web pages rely on HTML. The more you know about this language and its companion technologies, XHTML and CSS, the more flexible, creative, and effective your Web site will be. This all-new reference covers the latest updates and dramatic improvements in all three. Youll learn which tools help you achieve specific results, how CSS enables consistent formatting, the most efficient way to code and use HTML, and so much more.



Inside, youll find complete coverage of HTML, XHTML, and CSS

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Get Your Site to the Top of the GOOGLE Search Engine Rank

Get to the Top on Google: Tips and Techniques to Get Your Site to the Top of the Search Engine Rank
Nicholas Brealey Publishing | ISBN: 1857885023 | 2008-05-01 | PDF | 240 pages | 2.2 Mb

Written in a clear, non-technical, style by a leading expert in SEO (search engine optimization), GTTTOG explains techniques and strategies proven to return higher search engine rankings and sales. It addresses all aspects of search engine marketing and includes an assessment of the impact of Web 2.0 on Internet search strategies.


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PHP by Example - Que

PHP by Example - Que

PHP By Example will provide web-publishing oriented individuals the opportunity to learn a new, flexible Internet scripting language, PHP. This book will take the reader through step-by-step examples that will help them gain an understanding of PHP. PHP By Example will:

* Explain concepts in simple, understandable tasks with multiple approaches to concepts that need clarification.
* Encourage and train the reader to break problems down into logical steps.

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E.E. Knight - Age of Fire Books 1-3

E.E. Knight - Age of Fire Books 1-3

Dragon Champion
(The first book in the Age of Fire series)
(2005)
E.E. Knight

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Born without scales or the hunger for gold, the gray dragon Auron escapes the catastrophe that kills his parents and his siblings. Trying to make his way in the Upper World, Auron finds unusual friends in a dwarven child and an elusive green female dragon who falls captive to a power-hungry mage seeking to enslave all dragons to his will. Auron's destiny leads him to a confrontation with the mage and a new beginning for dragons. The author of the "Vampire Earth" series has crafted a series opener with a refreshingly new protagonist who views the world from a draconic, rather than a human, perspective.




Dragon Avenger
(The second book in the Age of Fire series)
(2006)
E.E. Knight

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Knight chronicles the gritty coming-of-age story of the dragon Wistala (sister to Auron, from 2005's Dragon Champion) in the second Age of Fire novel. When her young family is betrayed and decimated by a clan of dwarfs while father AuRel is away, Wistala must carry the awful news north to him. But she finds AuRel badly wounded after running afoul of the very same dwarfs, and before she can nurse him back to health, a hunter called the Dragonblade kills him. Once again, Wistala must run for her life, vowing vengeance, even though she knows a year must pass before she's grown enough to carry out her revenge plan. Befriended by the elf Rainfall of Hypatia, she matures and gains the wisdom to temper her plans.




Dragon Outcast
(The third book in the Age of Fire series)
(2007)
E.E. Knight

	Quote: The third book in the Age of Fire cycle concerns Copper, the dragon hatchling maimed and expelled from the nest at the beginning of Dragon Champion. The events from the first part of that book are played out from Copper’s point of view, including his betrayal of his family to a dwarf raid. When the dwarves betray him in turn, Copper flees further into the subterranean world. Accompanied by a colony of bats, he makes his way to the Lavadome, where he is welcomed and adopted by the Tyr, the ruling dragon. Given the name of Rugaard, the Copper enters into a whole new life as a resident of the Lavadome and member of the Drakwatch. His new home is a place of political intrigue and power plays, but he does well for himself, gaining rank and respect. As in his previous books, Knight makes his characters unique and appealing. Downloading..... |

Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs Information
Author : Richard A. Spears Published by McGraw-Hill Publication date September 2003 ISBN : 0071408584
PDF Format, 1098 pages Original File Size : 18714 KB Compressed File Size : 11659 KB
Overview : The most in-depth, comprehensive book of common idioms and phraseology available From proverbial expressions (”the best things in life are free”) to idiomatic expressions (”the best of both worlds”) to the all-too-familiar clichйs (”the best-case scenario”), idioms are not only embedded in our language, but they are also a colorful reflection of our American culture. McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Idioms embraces the fullest breadth of these idioms in one comprehensive reference that is a must-have for both ESL learners and native speakers. Providing the most comprehensive treatment of American phraseology available, particularly in the area of verbal expressions, McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Idioms features: * More than 24,000 entries * Concise definitions of each entry and sense, followed by one or two example sentences * Idiomatic phrases, proverbial expressions, and cliches * Guidance on the tone appropriate for a select phrase as well as its origin * Thorough treatment of variation, of particular help to ESL learners * A comprehensive Phrase-Finder Index


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Perl Hacks

Perl Hacks taps into the collective wisdom of the world's most creative Perl gurus, so you can learn from their experiences. It's the perfect book for experienced developers looking for time-saving practical tips or dabblers who are simply curious about Perl's many cool capabilities. Topics include user interaction, data munging, working with modules, object hacks, and debugging
Title: Perl Hacks
Subtitle: Tips & Tools for Programming, Debugging, and Surviving
First Edition: May 2006
ISBN: 0-596-52674-1
Pages: 296

With more than a million dedicated programmers, Perl has proven to be the best computing language for the latest trends in computing and business. While other languages have stagnated, Perl remains fresh, thanks to its community-based development model, which encourages the sharing of information among users. This tradition of knowledge-sharing allows developers to find answers to almost any Perl question they can dream up.

And you can find many of those answers right here in Perl Hacks. Like all books in O'Reilly's Hacks Series, Perl Hacks appeals to a variety of programmers, whether you're an experienced developer or a dabbler who simply enjoys exploring technology. Each hack is a short lesson--some are practical exercises that teach you essential skills, while others merely illustrate some of the fun things that Perl can do. Most hacks have two parts: a direct answer to the immediate problem you need to solve right now and a deeper, subtler technique that you can adapt to other situations. Learn how to add CPAN shortcuts to the Firefox web browser, read files backwards, write graphical games in Perl, and much more.

For your convenience, Perl Hacks is divided by topic--not according to any sense of relative difficulty--so you can skip around and stop at any hack you like. Chapters include:

* Productivity Hacks
* User Interaction
* Data Munging
* Working with Modules
* Object Hacks
* Debugging

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101 American English Idioms (Audio + E-Books)

101 American English Idioms (book + audio) | 60MB

101 American English Idioms By Harry Collis
* Publisher: McGraw-Hill
* Number Of Pages: 235
* Publication Date: 2007-02-12
* Format: PDF + MP3

This book makes American English phrases “duck soup.”

101 American English Idioms takes the mystery out of these common U.S. expressions and explains their meanings in context. On the audio CD, native speakers read each of the 101 idioms, so you can hear how American English sounds and practice what you have learned.
What Americans really mean when they say...

* Drive someone up a wall--annoy someone greatly
* Raise a stink--protest strongly
* Pull someone's leg--fool someone
* All thumbs--clumsy
* Shoot the breeze--chat informally
* Feel like a million dollars--feel wonderful
* Duck soup--easy, effortless

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Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills

Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills
Brimming with beautiful pictures, this successful book guides you through a project-based, progressive curriculum so that you can build all the essential skills to enhance photographs creatively and professionally with Photoshop CS3.
If you are an aspiring professional, enthusiastic amateur photographer, or a student learning photography, digital imaging, art and design, or design graphics, you’ll be amazed at the stunning results you can achieve!
The perfect companion guide for Photoshop users of multiple levels.” Photoshop Creative Magazine “This book provides excellent coverage of Photoshop as a digital darkroom tool, as well as covering a truly amazing amount of background information. It is very readable and is truly a gem.” Mark Lewis, Director, Mount Saint Mary College, USA The Essential Skills Photography Series from Focal Press uniquely offers a structured learning experience for photographers of all ages, with both the underlying theory and loads of invaluable ‘how to’ and real-life practice projects - all from the most talented photography practitioners/educators in the world.


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