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21.	Responsive Design Workflow: Designing in Text By Stephen Hay Apr 15, 2013 In this chapter, Stephen Hay discusses responsive design with text, including marking up plain text and converting plain text to HTML.
22.	Nikita Prokhorov’s Ambigram of the Month: Easy/Hard By Nikita Prokhorov Apr 11, 2013 Nikita Prokhorov, author of Ambigrams Revealed: A Graphic Designer's Guide To Creating Typographic Art Using Optical Illusions, Symmetry, and Visual Perception, takes you through his process of creating an ambigram for easy/hard.
23.	The Canon EOS M Creative Zone By Jeff Carlson Apr 8, 2013 If you really want to take that next step in controlling your photography, it is essential that you understand not only how to control the Creative modes offered in the Canon EOS M, but why you are controlling them. Jeff Carlson walks you through the Creative Zone.
24.	Ambigrams Revealed: "San Diego" by Elwin Gill By Nikita Prokhorov Apr 4, 2013 Elwin Gill describes the inspiration for and process of creating his "San Diego" ambigram; other ambigram artists offer a critique.
25.	Emotional Data Visualization: Periscopic's "U.S. Gun Deaths" and the Challenge of Uncertainty By Alberto Cairo Apr 3, 2013 Alberto Cairo discusses Periscopic's "U.S. Gun Deaths" infographic, which merges the emotional power of visualization with its ability to enhance understanding. In the process, it also prompts you to think about certain challenges that designers will need to address sooner rather than later.
26.	Adobe ColdFusion 10 and SOAP-based Web Services By Ben Forta Apr 1, 2013 A web service is a web-based application or a network-accessible interface that can communicate and exchange data with other such applications over the Internet without regard for application, platform, syntax, or architecture. ColdFusion supports most of the messaging frameworks and protocols required to effectively communicate with different platforms, and web services are no exception.This chapter focuses primarily on using ColdFusion 10 with SOAP-based web services.
27.	Troubleshooting iCloud, Part 1 By Tom Negrino Mar 28, 2013 In part one of a two-part series, Tom Negrino, author of iCloud: Visual QuickStart Guide, 2nd Edition, explains what iCloud is (and isn't) and offers some general troubleshooting techniques that you can use not just with iCloud problems, but with any computing problems you may have.
28.	A Photojournalist's Field Guide: Stacy Pearsall's Shooting Methodology By Stacy Pearsall Mar 27, 2013 Award-winning photojournalist Stacy Pearsall takes you through her shooting methodology, including her "What IFS" technique, mode, metering, light, color and the 10-frame methodology.
29.	How to Get People to Do Stuff: The Power of Stories By Susan Weinschenk Mar 25, 2013 Our stories about ourselves deeply affect how we think and behave. If you can change someone’s story, you can change behavior.
30.	Five Favorite New Features in Adobe Illustrator CS4/CS5/CS6 By Sharon Steuer Mar 22, 2013 Whether you’ve skipped the last couple of upgrades to Adobe Illustrator or just haven’t had a chance to fully explore what these upgrades offer, Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book author Sharon Steuer shares some ways to use five of her favorite new features from Illustrator CS4, CS5 and CS6.
31.	When It Comes to Your Online Startup, Timing Is Everything By Neal Cabage, Sonya Zhang Mar 20, 2013 Today the opportunities are smaller and require greater time and capital to be competitive, but imagine what would be possible if you were in the right place at the right time. The good news is that innovation and opportunity are still happening around us all the time. The key is to find the emerging opportunities and align your startup with those opportunities. This chapter provides a framework that can prove helpful.
32.	Building Touch Interfaces with HTML5: Speeding Up the Next Visit with Browser Cache, LocalStorage, and the Application Cache By Stephen Woods Mar 18, 2013 On mobile, you want to make the best possible use of caching. Stephen Woods looks at normal browser cache, which isn’t as good as it should be; LocalStorage, a newish API for persistent storage that’s an incredibly powerful tool for manual caching; and the application cache.
33.	Light Right: Lighting as Part of Composition By Joe Lavine, Brad Bartholomew Mar 14, 2013 You can have the greatest subject and the best arrangement, but it’s the light that brings life to an image. A good studio photographer needs to be able to guide the viewer through an image. The authors of Light Right show you how to use light to compose your photographs for maximum impact.
34.	Building a Rough Cut in Final Cut Pro X By Diana Weynand Mar 13, 2013 In this lesson you’ll build a rough cut using the source media you’ve imported. To begin, you will create a new project, and mark clips you’ve placed in Keyword Collections. Then, you’ll choose your Favorite clips and edit them into the project to create a primary storyline.
35.	Techniques for Successful Facilitation: Preparing for Personalities By Russ Unger, Brad Nunnally, Dan Willis Mar 11, 2013 The authors of Designing the Conversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation offer advice on how you, as a facilitator, can prepare for and learn to deal with different types of personalities and behavior traits.
36.	Working with Calendars and Reminders in iCloud By Tom Negrino Mar 6, 2013 iCloud lets you keep your calendar events and reminders in the cloud, automatically synchronizing them among all your devices. Tom Negrino shows you how to use iCloud to manage your appointments, your events and your life!
37.	Dialogues with Creative Legends: An Interview with David Calvin Laufer By Peachpit Press, David Calvin Laufer Mar 4, 2013 David Calvin Laufer discusses his many dialogues with influential visual designers and business leaders, such as Paul Rand, Herb Lubalin, and George Nelson.
38.	Five Questions Every Photographer Should Answer Before Clicking the Shutter By Joe Lavine, Brad Bartholomew Feb 28, 2013 Joe Lavine and Brad Bartholomew, authors of Light Right: Learn How to Create Images, Set Up a Studio, and Launch Your Photography Career, discuss the importance of thoroughly understanding your subjects and what you are trying to say about them before actually taking the photograph.
39.	Getting Started with Your Sony NEX-6 Camera By Jerod Foster Feb 27, 2013 Jerod Foster covers a few things you need to know before firing up your Sony NEX-6, including choosing and formatting your memory card, updating NEX-6's firmware, cleaning the sensor, using the right format (RAW or JPEG), choosing lenses and focal lengths, and understanding exposure, motion, and depth of field.
40.	How To Get People To Do Stuff By Susan Weinschenk Feb 25, 2013 If you understand what motivates people, then you can change and modify what you do, what you offer, and how and what you ask of people. Susan Weinschenk explains how you can change your strategies and tactics to get people to do stuff.

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