Dec 06, 2010 |
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Book Description
Almost without realizing it, we have shifted toward an all-digital culture. Future heirlooms like family photos, home movies, and personal letters now exist only in digital form, and in many cases they are stored using popular services like Flickr, YouTube, and Gmail. These digital possessions form a rich collection that chronicles our lives and connects us to each other.
But have you considered what will happen to your treasured digital possessions when you die?
Unfortunately the answer isn’t as certain as we might presume. There are numerous legal, cultural, and technical issues that could prevent access to these assets, and if you don’t take steps to make them available to your heirs, your digital legacy could be lost forever.
Written by the creators of TheDigitalBeyond.com, this book helps you secure your valuable digital assets for your loved ones and perhaps posterity. Whether you’re the casual email user or the hyper-connected digital dweller, you’ll come away with peace of mind knowing that your digital heirlooms won’t be lost in the shuffle.
Review
To be ahead of one’s time usually means stepping to the side of one’s time in order to see it clearly. This book does just that, putting our digital lives and afterlives into sharp focus. Fascinating.
–David Eagleman, neuroscientist and author Download Now »
Nov 30, 2010 |
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Book Description
Almost overnight, EPUB has become the favored standard for displaying digital text on ereaders. The EPUB specification is a powerful method for creating gorgeous ebooks for EPUB-capable readers such as the iPad, Nook, and Kindle. Alas, it is far from perfect, with frustrating limitations, sketchy documentation, and incomplete creation tools. This extensively researched guide to creating EPUB files by best-selling author Elizabeth Castro shows you how to prepare EPUB files, make the files look great on the screen, work around EPUB weaknesses, and fix common errors. In this essential book, Liz shares her hard-earned experience for how to:
- Create EPUB files from existing Microsoft Word or Adobe InDesign files, or from scratch.
- Tweak EPUB files to take full advantage of the power of EPUB in each respective ereader.
- Control spacing, indents, and margins.
- Insert images and sidebars and wrap text around them.
- Create links to external sources and cross-references to internal ones.
- Add video to ebooks for the iPad.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Using Word to Write EPUB Download Now »
Nov 20, 2010 |
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Praise for Crossing the Energy Divide
The Environmentally and Economically Smart Strategy for Solving the Global Energy Crisis–Starting Now
If we continue our highly inefficient, dangerous energy usage, we’re headed for both economic and environmental catastrophe. However, the hard truth is that alternative fuels can’t fully replace fossil fuels for decades. What’s more, new research indicates that energy inefficiencies are retarding economic growth even more than most experts ever realized.
Crossing the Energy Divide is about solving all these problems at once. The authors, two leading experts in energy and environmental economics, show how massive improvements in energy efficiency can bridge the global economy until clean renewables can fully replace fossil fuels.
Robert and Edward Ayres demonstrate how we can radically reform the way we manage our existing energy systems to double the amount of “energy service” we get from every drop of fossil fuel we use.
These techniques require no scientific breakthroughs: Many companies and institutions are applying them right now, but tens of thousands more could. This book offers a strategic guide for using them to solve the energy crisis once and for all—reducing carbon emissions, achieving true energy security, and reigniting economic growth for decades to come. Download Now »
Nov 20, 2010 |
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Get Inside IBM’s Breakthrough FOAK Program for Delivering Profitable Innovation!
- Learn from one of the world’s most successful innovation initiatives
- Align researchers, clients, and partners behind innovation that matters
- Get the right innovations to market fast
How can you promote innovation that delivers real, profitable business value–again and again, year after year? For 14 years, IBM’s FOAK program has done just that. In Innovation Passport, FOAK’s leaders share the powerful lessons they’ve learned. Through actual project examples, you’ll discover how to craft more effective processes for making innovation happen…encourage collaboration…manage innovation portfolios…protect intellectual property…and systematically improve the chances of marketplace adoption. Whatever your role in innovation, this book will help you do it better, faster, and more profitably.
“Finally! A book that lays out a thorough yet workable path to collaborative innovation! With a highly readable style and using great examples, Frederich and Andrews describe the process by which IBM makes collaborative innovation work from a process, company, and customer standpoint. By following the guidelines in this book, those with aspirations of collaborative innovation can learn from the lessons of IBM and maximize their probability of success. A+!”
–Gregory S. Dawson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and former Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers Download Now »
Nov 04, 2010 |
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Book Description
Have you ever had to fill out and sign a PDF-based form? Or change the date on a PDF-based flyer? Comment on a document sent around your workplace as a PDF file? Scan a document to PDF and OCR the text? Smile’s PDFpen 5 can perform these and many other PDF manipulations more easily than Adobe Acrobat, and at a fraction of the price. With clarity and humor, Take Control of PDFpen 5 explains precisely what you can do with PDFs using PDFpen and its big brother, PDFpenPro.
After a whirlwind history and overview of PDF, you’ll take a tour through PDFpen’s tools and navigation. With those basics taken care of, you’ll learn how to:
- Scan a document to PDF and make the text editable with OCR
- Combine pages from multiple files into a single PDF
- Turn a Web site into a multi-page PDF
- Add or remove pages from a PDF
- Add a hand-written signature to a PDF
- Add page and URL links to a PDF
- Make a clickable table of contents for a PDF
- Use professional editing marks on a PDF Download Now »
Oct 14, 2010 |
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Book Description
Quick access to today’s top Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn resources – on business, entertainment, politics, health, sports, and much more!
- A single, up-to-the-minute source for all the best new resources on today’s top social networks
- More than 3,000 entries on parenting, shopping, fashion, sports, travel, religion, and many other topics
- A huge timesaver: helps users instantly uncover hidden “gems” they’d otherwise have to search for, stumble upon, or never find at all!
About the Author
Jeffery A. Riley, President of Box Twelve Communications, Inc. (www.boxtwelve.com), earned a technical journalism degree from Oregon State University in 1989 and is a former staff writer of the Los Angeles Times. A 15-year veteran of the information technology publishing industry, Jeff has had a hand in–as copy editor, production editor, development editor, acquisitions editor, executive editor, and author–hundreds of books covering IT topics.He is the author of Introduction to OpenOffice.org (Prentice Hall) and Picture Yourself Learning Microsoft Excel 2010 (Cengage Learning). As president of Box Twelve, he manages the day-to-day operations of a content solutions firm outside Hilton Head, South Carolina. You can follow his tweets at box12comm and view his LinkedIn profile at www.linkedin.com/in/jefferyriley. Download Now »
