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New and recently updated titles you might especially want to check out include:
* Joe Kissell’s “Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac”
* Steve Sande’s “Take Control of iWeb: iLife ‘08 Edition”
* Ted Landau’s “Take Control of Your iPhone”
* Brian Tanaka’s “Take Control of Permissions in Leopard”
* Joe Kissell’s “Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard”
* Matt Neuburg’s “Take Control of Customizing Leopard”
Also be sure to check out the latest ebooks from Macworld:
* “Macworld Mac OS X Hints Superguide, Leopard Edition”
* “Macworld Total Leopard Superguide”
Although print versions of our books are not included in the sale,
print copies ordered from within an existing ebook are still
discounted at the cover price, not the price you pay during the sale.
So, if you buy a copy of “Take Control of Switching to the Mac” for
$5 during the sale, clicking the Print link at the top of the first
page will still save you $10 off the normal print price. (For older
ebooks that predate the Print link, just click the Check for Updates
button and then click the Order Print Copy tab in the Web page that
appears.)
]]>Agenda for FlexCamp Cleveland:
8:15 – 9:00 / Registration & coffee/bagels
9:00 – 9:50 / Keynote Presentation - Ben Forta (Adobe)
10:00 – 10:50 / Building Your First Flex App - Mike Krotscheck
11:00 – 11:50 / Creating Flex Components - Doug Pierce & Curtis Gayheart
11:50 – 12:50 / Lunch (provided)
1:00 – 1:50 / Flash, Flex and the Prepaid Gift Card - Scott Andrews
2:00 – 2:50 / Intro to OOP for Flex Developers - Kris Schultz
3:00 – 3:50 / Intro to AIR - Adam Lehman (Adobe)
4:00 – 5:00 / Open Q&A with presenters
The iRizer’s sleek, interlocking design adjusts to 4 different heights – helping to prevent neck and wrist pain by raising your laptop’s keyboard and screen to a more comfortable angle. Perfect for home, office, or travel.
Ideal for home, office, or travel, the iRizer helps prevent neck & wrist pain by raising your laptop’s keyboard & screen to a more comfortable angle.
Whether you’re tall or petite, whether your desk is too high or too low, the iRizer’s sleek interlocking design lets you adjust your laptop to the height/angle that’s most comfortable for you – 20°, 30°, 40°, or 50°.
For maximum comfort, use the iRizer together with a separate keyboard & mouse, and turn your laptop into a more comfortable desktop computer. The Matias Folding Keyboard is a great addition to the iRizer.
For those times when you’re without an external keyboard (on the road, on a plane) the iRizer puts your laptop’s keyboard at a more comfortable angle for typing, allowing you to lean back in your chair and straighten your wrists, as recommended by leading
ergonomists.
The iRizer allows air to circulate freely under your laptop, so it runs
cooler and quieter. Your battery will last longer and it may even extend
the lifespan of your computer.
Increased productivity and streamlined workflows—Photoshop CS3 comes with a wide array of new features and improvements to existing ones, but if there’s one thing you will notice immediately, it is this: Compared to previous versions of the software, Photoshop CS3 is just faster. As of December 1, 2006, beta versions of Photoshop CS3 are performing 40% faster than Photoshop CS2 on Intel-based Macs. The new Photoshop also gets you there faster with streamlined workflows stemming from new preset capabilities, redesigned palette management, and compatibility with the newest systems—including native Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) on PowerPC and Intel processors, and Microsoft® Windows® Vista™.
Unrivaled editing—How do you improve on the kind of editing power and performance that are the professional standard in digital imaging? By going the extra mile in protecting the ultimate quality every step of the way, and by making even more of the features professionals rely upon live and re-editable. With Photoshop CS3, you can now apply, adjust, add, and remove filters at will, without starting over. Enhancements to color correction include easier, more powerful monochrome conversion, an improved Curves adjustment, and cloning and healing tools that now feature preview overlays and multiple source points.
Breakthrough compositing—Whether it’s a peak-to-shore panorama or creating that one perfect shot from a series of images, Photoshop CS3 makes compositing faster, easier, and better. Speed compositing by automatically aligning and blending layers. Make an image selection with one stroke of a brush. Perfect any selection edge in a easy-to-use, intuitive dialog box.
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]]>First off the appearance and purpose of the unit is to safeguard data without using a dedicated computer to reformat disks. I’ve actually got a G4 setup in the basement for just this purpose. It’s appropriately named “LabRAT” and is used for little else!
Why? Over the last few years, I’ve accumulated 3 different removable drive systems, two of which use (P)ATA drives. One of these the BayDock 800 was offered by Weibe and reviewed earlier. (It appears to be offline, the review may have been posted prior to the adoption of Expression Engine as our content management system, I’ll see if I can republish it later.)
Parallel-ATA drives MUST be formatted before installing in the Macintosh, the older OS would simply not mount an unformatted drive. No explanation was offered to the user.
(The Serial-ATA (SATA) drives are less of an issue because you are asked after installing and rebooting if you’d like to format the drive. Some of this functionality coincides with the release of Leopard, the lastest version of Mac OS X.)
However, with the Drive eRazora new drive can be prepared without a dedicated computer, and dropped into a tray ready to mount and use!
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]]>You can now click the Check for Updates link (or red starburst) on your pre-order PDFs to download the full versions. If you haven’t yet ordered, we have three options for you:
1. Buy just the ebooks you want individually. They’re all $10, except for the 217-page “Take Control of Fonts in Leopard,” which is $15. If you’ve bought the Tiger or Panther versions of any of these ebooks,
click the Check for Updates button in your copy to save 20%. MUG members can - as always - save 10% with the links in this message, but the bundles are a better deal.
2. Buy our core “Take Control of Upgrading to Leopard” and “Take Control of Customizing Leopard” titles for $15, saving 25%. This bundle is linked on the left side of these books’ pages on our Web site.
3. Buy our “I Love Leopard” bundle of all five ebooks - over 650 pages in all! - for only $38.50, saving 30% off the cover price. Again, the bundle is accessible from the left side of each book’s Web page.
You can read more about each of the ebooks on our Web site, but if you really want to know…
]]>Save 10% off the $10 list price right now with the MUG discount embedded in the link above.
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