Book Description
Nikon’s new D3000 is a perfect entry-level DSLR. This book is for anyone who upgrades from their point-and-shoot, or for anyone who wants to jump into photography with the control and capabilities of a DSLR but without the high price. There’s the manual, of course, as well as competing books, and while they all explain, often in 400+ pages, what the camera can do, none of them shows exactly how to use the camera to create great images!

This book has one goal: to teach D3000 owners how to make great shots using their Nikon camera. It teaches how to use the D3000 to create the type of photos that inspired users to buy the camera in the first place. Everything in the book is in service of creating a great image. Starting with the top ten things needed to know about the camera, photographer Jeff Revell then carefully guides readers through the modes of the camera. Users get practical advice from a pro on which settings to use when, great shooting tips, and even end-of-chapter assignments.

About the Author
Jeff Revell has been shooting professionally for more than 25 years, and has a wide range of expertise in everything from landscape photography to travel and urban photography. As an early adopter of digital technology, he has been on the leading edge of digital imaging technology, education and instruction. Perhaps best known as the photographer behind the popular “PhotoWalk Pro” blog, each weekday Jeff shares step-by-step tutorials on digital photography technique and editing of digital images. The worldwide appeal of Jeff’s site, along with his live PhotoWalks have made him one of the most sought-after and trusted sources for digital photography training and education. (continue reading…)

Book Description

This book has one goal: to teach Canon 7D owners how to make great shots using your camera. Starting with the top ten things you need to know about the 7D — charging your battery, setting your ISO, reviewing your photos, and more — professional photographer Nicole S. Young then carefully guides you through the modes of the camera, offering practical advice on choosing your settings, expert shooting tips, and end-of-chapter “challenges” to get you up and running with your 7D. This book is for anyone who has upgraded from a point-and-shoot, or who wants to jump right into photography with the control and capabilities of a powerful DSLR.

Canon 7D: From Snapshots to Great Shots shows not only what makes a great shot work — but how to get that shot using your 7D. Follow along with your friendly and knowledgeable guide, photographer and author Nicole S. Young, and you will:

• Learn the top ten things you need to know about shooting with the 7D
• Use the 7D’s advanced camera settings to gain full control over the look and feel of your images
• Master the photographic basics of composition, focus, depth of field, and much more
• Learn all the best tricks and techniques for getting great action shots, landscapes, and portraits
• Find out how to get great shots in low light
• Learn the basics behind shooting video with your 7D and start making movies of your own
• Fully grasp all the concepts and techniques as you go, with challenges at the end of every chapter

And once you’ve got the shot, show it off! Join the book’s Flickr group, share your photos, and discuss how you use your 7D to get great shots at flickr.com/groups/canon7dfromsnapshotstogreatshots. (continue reading…)

Here are some Twitter tools that are very useful I want to share with you. These Twitter tools will keep track of those that monitor, measure, and analyze Twitterer’s and their traffic.

1. Twitter Search – This, obviously, is Twitter’s own search function. You can subscribe to a search via RSS.
2. TweetBeep – TweetBeep is a “Google Alerts” for Twitter
3. Tweetscan – Schedule Twitter searches to be sent to your email.
4. Twist – Like Google Trends for Twitter
5. TwitScoop – TwitScoop is a real-time tag cloud of Twitter buzz that also allows you to create graphs based on keyword tracking.
6. MicroBlogBuzz – MicroBlogBuzz tracks the most popular links shared on microblogging services, including Twitter, Jaiku and Identica
7. Twit(url)y – Tracks popular links and displays them in Digg-like fashion.
8. Hashtags.org – Hashtags tracks the most popular Twitter posts that include a #hashtag. You can subscribe to an individual hashtag using RSS.
9. Twemes – Tracks Twitter memes.
10. TweetGrid – TweetGrid creates a Twitter search dashboard that updates in real time.
11. monitter – monittor is a real-time keyword-based monitoring service that lets you watch three columns of keyword streams side-by-side. You can subscribe to them using RSS.
12. ReTweetist – Tracks the most popular retweets.
13. minn.citytweets.net – Real-time tweets from and/or about Minneapolis.
14. Qwitter – Qwitter notifies you when someone unfollows you.
15. Spy – Spy tracks real-time keyword mentions in Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr, Blog Comments, Yahoo News, Blogs and Google Reader and allows you to subscribe via RSS.
16. TweetWheel – Finds out which of your Twitter friends know each other.
17. Twitter Charts – Twitter Charts gives you a visualization of when a particular Twitter user is most active. This is an excellent tool to determine the most opportune time to engage a given person.
18. twInfluence – Ranks Twitter users’ influence.
19. TwitterGrader – Grades a given Twitter user according to influence. Includes power users by geographic location; suggests who to follow and allows you to check if someone is following you.
20. TwitterSheep – Creates a tag cloud of all the words in the bios of a given Twitter user’s followers.
21. TwitterCounter – Provides stats on a given Twitter user and lets you compare that user to two others.
22. Twellow – Twellow is a Twitter directory.
23. TweetBoards – Compare Twitter users side-by-side.
24. TweetStats – Gives you Twitter statistics about a given user.
25. TwitterMeter – Twitter Meter allows you to enter a word to graph its use on Twitter’s public feed.
26. TwitterLocal – Twitter Local is a desktop app that finds Twitter users within a fixed radius of a city or zip code.
27. Twitter Analyzer – The best Twitter analytics tool I have found to date. Offers a ton of statistics.
28. Mr. Tweet – A recommendation engine that also provides statistics on your Twitter usage.
29. Localtweeps – Find Tweeps near you.
30. Retail Twitter Aggregator – Aggregates the Twitter feeds of a handful of bricks & mortar retailers.
31. retweetradar – Tag clouds and trends of retweets.
32. Twubs – Find hashtags.
33. What The Trend? – Find hashtags that are rising in popularity.
34. Tagalus – A hashtag dictionary.
35. Twitclicks – Shortens URLs and tracks clicks.
36. Bit.ly – Shortens URLs, counts clicks, shows who else shortened a URL and provides metadata about that URL from across the Web.
37. Tweetburner – Shortens URLs and tracks clicks on Twitter & FriendFeed.
38. Twittervision – Real-time geographic posts to Twitter.
39. TweetChannel – Create Twitter channels.
40. Twitterfall – Real-time monitoring.
41. Twendz – Real-time Twitter search engine coupled with related keywords & word clouds.
42. Tweetzi – Advanced Twitter search engine.
43. Twistory – Pumps your Twitter feed into a calendar application so you can visualize your Tweeting history.
44. Twitlinks – Tracks most popular tech links from most popular tech Twitterers.
45. Twitturls – Tracks popular links.
46. OneRiot – Twitter search engine.
47. twopopular – Tracks hashtags and keywors in real time or by time intervals.
48. Tweet Volume – See how often words and phrases are mentioned on Twitter.
49. TweetEffect – Find out which tweets gained and which tweets lost you followers.
50. Tweetmeme – Tweetmeme tracks the most popular links on twitter every 5 minutes, categorized by types of content: Blogs, images, video or audio.
51. Tinker – Aggregates Twitter conversations around topics.
52. Splitweet – Multi account manager & brand monitor.
53. Tweetizen – Lets you categorize your followers and then follow only that feed.
54. Who Should I Follow? – Find new Twitter friends.
55. FriendOrFollow.com – Find Twitterers you follow that don’t follow you back.
56. Twitter Friends – Compare your tweeting behavior with other.
57. Who Follows Who? – Find out the common Twitterers up to five Twitter users have in common.
58. Socialoomph – Let’s you schedule Tweets and vet followers.
59. CoTweet – Let’s multiple people manage a single Twitter account in a rational fashion.
60. TweetDeck – An Adobe Air desktop application for Twitter. I actually use this. It should’ve been on the original list.

Book Description
SEE IT DONE. DO IT YOURSELF. It’s that Easy! Easy Microsoft Word 2010 teaches you all the fundamentals of working with Microsoft’s newest version of Word. Fully illustrated steps with simple instructions guide you through every task, building the skills you need to learn Word 2010 with ease. No need to feel intimidated–we’ll hold your hand every step of the way.

Learn how to…
• Make the most of Word 2010’s best new features
• Find the right Word tool for the job—instantly!
• Enter and format text faster and more efficiently
• Create great-looking documents with new layouts and themes
• Use tables to quickly organize your content
• Insert automated footnotes, captions, references, and tables of contents
• Easily manage changes from everyone who reviews your documents
• Print documents and create easy-to-share PDFs
• Store, work with, and share your documents on the Web (continue reading…)

Book Description

Templates in Joomla! provide a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want either using a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. Although it sounds like an easy task to build and maintain templates, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and customize templates to meet your needs perfectly.

Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook consists of a series of self-contained step-by-step recipes that cover everything from common tasks such as changing your site’s logo or favicon and altering color schemes, to custom error pages and template overrides. It starts off with the basics of template design and then digs deep into more complex concepts. It will help you make your site more attractive and user-friendly. You will integrate your site with various social media such as Twitter and YouTube; make your site mobile-friendly with the help of recipes for creating and customizing mobile spreadsheets; and use miscellaneous tricks and tips to get the most out of your website. You get all of this in a simple recipe format that guides you quickly through the steps and explains how it all happened. (continue reading…)

Book Description

Portable and precise, this pocket-sized guide delivers ready answers for the day-to-day administration of SharePoint 2010. Featuring easy-to-scan tables, step-by-step instructions, and handy lists, this book offers the streamlined, straightforward information you need to solve problems and get the job done-whether at your desk or in the field! Topics include deployment, site configuration, enterprise content management, search and indexing, workflows, shared service providers, information management policies, scalability, availability, security, logging and processing analysis, and backup and recovery. (continue reading…)

Book Description
Can Science and Religion Work Together, After All?

It’s time for science and religion to stop shouting at each other and start talking with each other. This book leads the way. It is the result of an extraordinary ongoing conversation among a group of highly respected scientists, physicians, philosophers, and theologians. Together, they share profound insights into the deepest questions humans ask and explore the invisible forces and powerful beliefs that shape our lives. Their insights reflect both humanity’s latest science and its most enduring wisdom. Their answers and questions will challenge you–and reward you with a richer understanding of who we are, what we share, and what it means.

What do we really know about human nature?
How do we see what we see, know what we know, feel what we feel?
How do people come to believe in God?
Where does empathy come from?
What can evolutionary psychology and neuroscience teach us about ethics?
What are the health benefits of faith?
Where do you end, and others begin?
What do marriage, family, and friendship mean?
How can people repair the broken connections that keep them lonely? (continue reading…)

Book Description

Educators use the Moodle web application to create effective online learning sites. Creating such learning environments that suit Design and Technology subjects requires understanding and implementation of both basic and advanced Moodle features.This book takes a detailed look at Moodle features with examples of how to fully support the Design and Technology curricula using Moodle. It will guide you to incorporate specific modules and blocks to enhance learning as well as allow detailed tracking of performance by using formative and summative assessment tools with ease.

We start with setting up a very basic Moodle course for Design and Technology, and then set up some basic resources and some interactive material. You will customize your own courses and create a course for each of the key areas of the DT subjects and add material to them. We will create some basic reporting and assessment tools and enhance the look of the course. We will use Moodle’s detailed and sophisticated gradebook to assess your student s ‘ learning progress in activities from an assignment to an offline activity. Then we will support students in designing a product or trying a new recipe in food technology in market research to find out exactly what the public wants in relation to their product, by designing a questionnaire. We will allow product design or resistant material students use the HTML features of the questionnaire module to incorporate images into the questions to make it clearer to respondents what it is they are trying to make and sell. (continue reading…)

Description

Dynamics NAV 2009 is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software product from Microsoft that can be used for variety of business needs. It is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family, and intended to assist with finance, manufacturing, Customer Relationship Management, supply chains, analytics, and electronic commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises.

This book is a focused tutorial on Microsoft Dynamics NAV application development, so you can develop complete applications and not just application outlines. It will show NAV developers how to create different kinds of applications. Different kinds of application are vital in different industries like fashion, automobile, retail, books (education), and other industries. It starts off by introducing the supply chain that you will be using throughout the book. You will implement the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP suite and learn how it is set up and customized for various industries.

You will be able to customize Dynamics NAV to suit the different aspects of a business such as Financial Management, Relationship Management, Production, Jobs, Trade, Storage, Logistics, and so on. The book will take you through these Microsoft-designed application features and show you how to customize and extend them safely. Thus, you will be able to create a structure of your own in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. (continue reading…)

You don’t need to play dirty just to make more people link to your website and consequently generate more traffic. All you need to do is become more selective and creative with your content while exerting more effort in research. It may be easier said than done, but at least you don’t have to shell out a lot of money for it. Here are a couple of suggestions to get you started on your bid for link popularity stakes.

• How to generate social traffic

• How to grab forum traffic

• How to create back links to generate traffic

• How to generate traffic from articles

• How to use newsletter to generate traffic

• How to use exchanges to generate traffic

(continue reading…)