Real-world solutions for real-world production environments!
Luis Cataldi, BlueSky Studios
Maya is a very powerful application. Before artists can create and share their ideas and visions, they must understand its complicated tools and learn to harness its power. Inside Maya 5 can help develop a functional understanding of Maya's many tools through solid examples and production-proven methods.
From the back cover
Are you familiar with the basic Maya tools? Can you complete most tasks with little or no reliance on the help files? Do your questions about Maya center on how to put all the pieces together and use the software in a production setting? If so, Inside Maya 5 is just what you want and need. Industry professionals who have worked for such houses as Digital Domain, ILM, PDI/DreamWorks, and Pixar provide insights into making great production decisions that take advantage of the power of Maya without compromising production quality - real-world solutions to real-world challenges!

Use this step-by-step guide to achieve amazing effects with the hundreds of Flash components available from Macromedia and various third parties, from avoiding pitfalls to building games and more.
You don't have to be a programmer to achieve amazing effects with the hundreds of Flash components available from Macromedia and various third parties. Step by step, The Hidden Power of Flash Components shows you how.
For those of you with just a little programming experience, this book also demonstrates how to build your own components to use and share with other developers. Whatever your aims, and regardless of your experience, soon all the power of this incredible Flash feature will be within your reach. Coverage includes: Determining the most effective ways to leverage components Avoiding component pitfalls Customizing external resources for use with components
Building your own components Building a custom UI, Live Preview, and MXP file for a component Customizing component artwork...

FreePBX is an easy-to-use GUI that controls and manages Asterisk. It gives you pre-programmed functionality accessible through user-friendly web interfaces that allows you to have a fully functional PBX pretty much straight away with no programming. With this book it's easy to master the many features of FreePBX, which will help you to save time and money as you set up your enterprise-class network.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, ICCPOL 2009, held in Hong Kong, in March 2009.
The 25 revised full papers and 15 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers address a variety of topics in natural language processing and its applications, including word segmentation, phrase and term extraction, chunking and parsing, semantic labelling, opinion mining, ontology construction, machine translation, information extraction, document summarization, and so on.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the newest version of the Mac operating system, with extra power and additional cool features. Mac OS X Snow Leopard Just The Steps For Dummies is the quick step-by-step way to get up and running on this new beast.

This down-to-basics guide features numbered steps and easy-to-follow screen shots that show you exactly how to accomplish more than 150 tasks with Snow Leopard. You’ll learn to:

* Modify the look of the desktop and customize keyboard shortcuts
* Create and manage user accounts
* Save energy by adjusting power settings
* Install and use the iWork productivity suite
* Browse the Internet with Safari or Firefox
* Design and publish a blog or a Web page with iWeb
* Configure iChat for use with GoogleTalk
* Set up iTunes and export songs to your iPod
* Make movies with iMovie and burn them to DVDs
* Download photos from your camera and organize them in iPhoto
* Connect your Mac to a Windows network
* Encrypt your files, safeguard against viruses, and install a firewall

The only continuous, step-by-step tutorial on the essentials of this manufacturing software

If you want to get up and running quickly on the industry-leading 3D mechanical design software, Autodesk Inventor 2010: No Experience Required is your perfect resource. It quickly teaches the essential skills and demonstrates the software using a continuous, real-world tutorial project.

It can be easy to be green! Follow these suggestions and help save the planet

Get on board the green machine! Here's how to assess your technology's green factor and make small changes with big impact. You'll also find tips for using technology in green ways and advice on getting rid of old devices in an environmentally friendly way. Learn what to buy, when to upgrade, where to find green ideas, and much more.
Watch your step — calculate the size of your carbon footprint and see how much your electronics contribute to it
Do your home work — find great advice to help you make the case to your employer for telecommuting options
You have the power — to use less energy, and you'll find lots of ways to do that
Green upgrades — discover how to give your current computer a green makeover
Buying green — learn what to look for when shopping for a new computer and peripherals
When it's time to retire your electronic devices — uncover earth-friendly ways to recycle your old computer and be sure you don't give away your personal data
Sharing is good — see how home networks, device sharing, and Windows Home Server can protect the planet
The green cloud — find out why cloud computing makes green sense

A unified treatment of the vulnerabilities that exist in real-world network systems—with tools to identify synergies for mergers and acquisitions

Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World presents a comprehensive study of network systems and the roles these systems play in our everyday lives. This book successfully conceptualizes, defines, and constructs mathematically rigorous, computer-based tools for the assessment of network performance and efficiency, along with robustness and vulnerability analysis. The result is a thorough exploration that promotes an understanding of the critical infrastructure of today's network systems, from congested urban transportation networks and supply chain networks under disruption to financial networks and the Internet.