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With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft has created a completely new smartphone operating system that focuses on allowing users to be productive with their smartphone in new ways, while offering seamless integration and use of Microsoft Office Mobile as well as other productivity apps available in the Microsoft App Store.

Windows Phone 7 Made Simple offers a clear, visual, step-by-step approach to using your Windows Phone 7 smartphone, no matter what the manufacturer. Author Jon Westfall is an expert in mobile devices, recognized by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with experience teaching both businesses and consumers. This book will get you started with the basics and then teach you tricks and shortcuts that will save you time and help you maximize your productivity.

What you’ll learn

• How to Set up your  Windows Phone 7 smartphone
• Understand the features that set Windows Phone 7 apart from others, such as Live Tiles
• Explore and download apps from the Windows Phone 7 App Store
• Navigate and use Windows Office Mobile on your Windows Phone 7
• Migrate files to/from your smartphone and your desktop
• Connect your Windows Phone 7 to your desktop using Microsoft’s Zune software. Download Now »

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Unleash the full power of your Windows Phone 7!

Windows Phone 7 is the new and improved mobile platform for all Windows smartphones. The new platform has been completely rebuilt from the ground up and this guide walks you through everything that’s new, from the look and feel to the underlying code to the revamped home screen and user interface experience. Placing special focus on the features and functionality that is shared across all Windows Phone 7 series models, this fun and friendly book covers a wide range of how-to topics on everything from making simple calls to using your handheld device as a mobile computer.

• Explores the exciting new Windows Phone 7 and the completely revamped platform that will revolutionize the way you experience mobile phone use
• Shows you how to personalize your interface and exchange and sync information with your Windows PC
• Covers how to download, install, and use Mobile Office applications
• Demonstrates creating, downloading, exchanging, and sharing digital media, such as photos, videos, sound, and music files with other mobile device and PC users

Windows Phone 7 For Dummies takes your Windows Phone 7 experience to a whole new level! Download Now »

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You can take control of iPhone basics (and beyond) with former Apple writer Karen G. Anderson. Join Karen as she helps you decide which iPhone – including the Verizon iPhone 4 – to purchase, discusses common accessories, and explains how to handle basic startup tasks. You’ll learn about power management, and how to connect to the Internet, set up a Bluetooth headset, transfer songs and other media from a computer, create a security passcode, and make folders to hold an expanding app collection. You’ll also receive help with syncing calendar events and contacts, and buying apps.

Karen takes you on a tour of the important default apps that come from Apple, so whether you want to understand the mechanics of receiving and placing a phone call, check for voicemail from your boss, run a FaceTime call with your cousin, take a photo and send it to your Mom, play Game Center games with your friends, listen to a podcast, map a route to your next appointment, or match certain contacts to specific ringtones, you’ll find help and advice.

This ebook covers the iPhone 3G, 3GS, and 4, including the Verizon iPhone 4.

Find answers to these basic questions:

• What is the purpose of the slots and buttons on my iPhone?
• How do I connect my iPhone to a computer, and why would I want to? Download Now »

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The advent of multicore processors has renewed interest in the idea of incorporating transactions into the programming model used to write parallel programs. This approach, known as transactional memory, offers an alternative, and hopefully better, way to coordinate concurrent threads. The ACI (atomicity, consistency, isolation) properties of transactions provide a foundation to ensure that concurrent reads and writes of shared data do not produce inconsistent or incorrect results. At a higher level, a computation wrapped in a transaction executes atomically – either it completes successfully and commits its result in its entirety or it aborts. In addition, isolation ensures the transaction produces the same result as if no other transactions were executing concurrently. Although transactions are not a parallel programming panacea, they shift much of the burden of synchronizing and coordinating parallel computations from a programmer to a compiler, to a language runtime system, or to hardware. The challenge for the system implementers is to build an efficient transactional memory infrastructure. This book presents an overview of the state of the art in the design and implementation of transactional memory systems, as of early spring 2010.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Basic Transactions
3. Building on Basic Transactions Download Now »

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Assembly is a low-level programming language that’s one step above a computer’s native machine language. Although assembly language is commonly used for writing device drivers, emulators, and video games, many programmers find its somewhat unfriendly syntax intimidating to learn and use.

Since 1996, Randall Hyde’s The Art of Assembly Language has provided a comprehensive, plain-English, and patient introduction to assembly for non-assembly programmers. Hyde’s primary teaching tool, High Level Assembler (or HLA), incorporates many of the features found in high-level languages (like C, C++, and Java) to help you quickly grasp basic assembly concepts. HLA lets you write true low-level code while enjoying the benefits of high-level language programming.

As you read The Art of Assembly Language, you’ll learn the low-level theory fundamental to computer science and turn that understanding into real, functional code. You’ll learn how to:

• Edit, compile, and run an HLA program
• Declare and use constants, scalar variables, pointers, arrays, structures, unions, and namespaces
• Translate arithmetic expressions (integer and floating point)
• Convert high-level control structures

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Get the most from your Droid X right away with this entertaining Missing Manual. Veteran tech author Preston Gralla offers a guided tour of every feature, with lots of expert tips and tricks along the way. You’ll learn how to use calling and texting features, take and share photos, enjoy streaming music and video, and much more.

Packed with full-color illustrations, this engaging book covers everything from getting started to advanced features and troubleshooting. Unleash the power of Motorola’s hot new device with Droid X: The Missing Manual.

• Get organized. Import your contacts and sync with Google Calendar and Microsoft Exchange.
• Go online. Get your phone to act as a portable hotspot or as a modem to get your laptop online.
• Play music. Purchase music from Amazon and sync your Droid X with Windows Media Player and iTunes.
• Shoot photos and video. Edit and share your photos, and use them as desktop or icon images. Record video and share it with your friends.
• Connect to Google Maps. Use geotagging and get turn-by-turn directions.

About the Author
Preston Gralla is the editor of WindowsDevCenter.com and OnDotNet. Download Now »