Vista is the most radical revamping of Windows since 1995. But along with all the fantastic improvements, there are a couple of things that drive you up the wall. Maybe you're not seeing the performance you expect. Security is better, but boy, is it annoying. And what's with that interface thing that's just in the way? Well, you can fix all that. When you and Steve Sinchak are finished, you'll think Microsoft designed Vista just for you.


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A few of the things you'll learn to do

1. Tweak logon screen settings
3. Build custom Sidebar gadgets
5. Personalize Aero Glass with themes and visual styles
7. Customize Internet Explorer 7
9. Configure BIOS for maximum boot speed
11. Crank up Windows Explorer
13. Turn your PC into an HDTV Media Center
15. Fine-tune your firewall

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# Publisher: Peachpit Press; 6 edition (September 7, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0321430328
# ISBN-13: 978-0321430328


Book Description
Need to learn javascript fast? This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with javascript in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to javascript, leading Web and computing experts Tom Negrino and Dori Smith use crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's javascript essentials. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of Ajax and XML techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), and more.

Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn!

* Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through javascript and show you what to do.
* Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
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* Companion Web site at http://www.javascriptworld.com offers sample scripts, updates, and more!

# Hardcover: 273 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (April 14, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0470241993
# ISBN-13: 978-0470241998

If you are interested in learning about Web 2.0 and the history of its development, Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers contains all the information you need to understand Web 2.0 and its importance.

Publisher: Birkhuser Basel
Language: English
ISBN: 376437991X
Paperback: 310 pages
Data: Jan 2007
Format: PDF
Description: Exciting developments in earthquake science have benefited from new observations, improved computational technologies, and improved modeling capabilities. Designing realistic supercomputer simulation models for the complete earthquake generation process is a grand scientific challenge due to the complexity of phenomena and range of scales involved from microscopic to global.

 

Publisher: Apress
Language: English
ISBN: 1430210095
Paperback: 344 pages
Data: Aug 2008
Format: PDF
Description: “The Java landscape is littered with libraries, tools, and specifications. What’s been lacking is the expertise to fuse them into solutions to real–world problems. These patterns are the intellectual mortar for J2EE software construction.” —John Vlissides, coauthor of Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object–Oriented Software

Pro Java EE Spring Patterns focuses on enterprise patterns, best practices, design strategies, and proven solutions using key Java EE technologies including JSP, servlets, EJB, and JMS APIs.

This Java EE patterns resource, catalog, and guide, with its patterns and numerous strategies, documents and promotes best practices for these technologies, implemented in a very pragmatic way using the Spring Framework and its counters. This title

* Introduces Java EE application design and Spring framework fundamentals
* Describes a catalog of patterns used across the three tiers of a typical JEE application
* Provides implementation details and analyses each pattern with benefits and concerns
* Describes the application of these patterns in a practical application scenario

Publisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 3540852565
Paperback: 312 pages
Data: Sep 2008
Format: PDF
Description: This book represents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2008 held in Catania, Italy during September 18-19, 2008. The 35 contributions in this book address many topics related to intelligent and distributed computing, systems and applications, including: adaptivity and learning; agents and multi-agent systems; argumentation; auctions; case-based reasoning; collaborative systems; data structures; distributed algorithms; formal modeling and verification; genetic and immune algorithms; grid computing; information extraction, annotation and integration; network and security protocols; mobile and ubiquitous computing; ontologies and metadata; P2P computing; planning; recommender systems; rules; semantic Web; services and processes; trust and social computing; virtual organizations; wireless networks; XML technologies.

Publisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 3540859799
Paperback: 278 pages
Data: Oct 2008
Format: PDF
Description: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2008, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in September 2008. The 21 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on speech analysis; ontologies, semantics and anaphora resolution; speech synthesis; machine learning applied to natural language processing; speech recognition and applications; natural language processing tools and applications; posters.

Publisher: Wiley
Language: English
ISBN: 0470027649
Paperback: 294 pages
Data: Sep 2007
Format: PDF
Description: Mechanical properties of composite materials can be improved by tailoring their microstructures. Optimal microstructures of composites, which ensure desired properties of composite materials, can be determined in computational experiments. The subject of this book is the computational analysis of interrelations between mechanical properties (e.g., strength, damage resistance stiffness) and microstructures of composites. The methods of mesomechanics of composites are reviewed, and applied to the modelling of the mechanical behaviour of different groups of composites. Individual chapters are devoted to the computational analysis of the microstructure- mechanical properties relationships of particle reinforced composites, functionally graded and particle clusters reinforced composites, interpenetrating phase and unidirectional fiber reinforced composites, and machining tools materials.