- A Tour of Dashcode in Mac OS X Leopard
- Jan 4, 2008
- Dashboard widgets have been a great feature of Mac OS X since Tiger was released. With Leopard, Apple has introduced Dashcode, an intuitive tool for creating widgets that is both easy and fun to use. Ryan Faas tells you how easy it can be to create a news/headline widget, for example, in just a few minutes.
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- A Tour of Maya
- Oct 11, 2002
- This sample chapter introduces you to Maya's structure and design. You'll learn all the interface elements and start to get a feel for getting around in the panels. You'll also look at playing back animation and the Shaded and Wireframe modes of viewing objects.
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- A Usability Review of Drugstore.com's Homepage
- Nov 9, 2001
- Jakob Nielsen and Marie Tahir analyze and critique Drugstore.com's homepage.
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- A User's Look at the Cocoon Architecture
- Nov 15, 2002
- Examine Cocoon components and learn concepts that you can use to build more advanced applications. Matthew Langham and Carsten Ziegeler discuss how to manage your site map, and give practical tips on how to tune an installation for maximum performance.
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- A UX Professional's 5-Step Guide to Selling Your Design
- May 7, 2015
- If you can’t effectively convince stakeholders to use your designs, you can’t succeed. In this article, Robert Hoekman, Jr. walks you through five steps to follow in order to successfully sell your designs.
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- A Visit from the Email Doctor
- Feb 1, 2001
- by Adam Engst, author of Eudora 4.2 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
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- A Windows User’s Intro to the Mac Mini
- Sep 16, 2005
- If the Apple Mac Mini has you curious about adding this to your setup or switching from a PC, you'll want to read up on Paul Ferrill's journey back into the world of Apple after a long hiatus. Here you'll get a personal tour of some features of OS X Tiger, to compare them to similar Windows functions.
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- A World in HDR: The Perspective of Light
- Dec 24, 2009
- Trey Ratcliff implores you to throw off the shackles of existing camera technology and realize that we no longer need to live with the light limitations of a camera.
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- A World of Meaningful Experiences
- May 15, 2006
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- Aaack!! HELP!
- Jul 1, 2001
- Peachpit art
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- Abduzeedo Inspiration Guide for Designers: An Interview with James White
- Aug 16, 2011
- Fábio Sasso interviews James White, a graphic designer and digital artist from Halifax, Nova Scotia, about how he got started, how he developed his style, and his favorite part of the creative process, in this excerpt from Abduzeedo Inspiration Guide for Designers.
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- Abduzeedo Inspiration Guide for Designers: Photo Manipulation
- Jun 9, 2011
- In this age of digitization, photo manipulation has become a widespread phenomenon, but it remains a commonly misunderstood and misrepresented topic, associated primarily with the practice of altering images for deceptive purposes. Fabio Sasso takes a look at the art and inspiration of photo manipulation, including a tutorial that shows you how to create a bride with a wedding dress made out of milk.
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- About ActionScript
- Nov 7, 2005
- ActionScript 2.0 for Macromedia Flash 8 allows you to specify data types, classes, and subclasses in Flash. This chapter provides an introduction to ActionScript, and to the new features in ActionScript 2.0 in particular.
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- About Selecting and Selection Tools in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 11, 2010
- This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to choose best of the four available selection tools for a specific area, which often depends on the characteristics of that area, such as shape or color.
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- Absolutely the Last Article You Need To Read About Absolute References in Excel
- Jan 7, 2005
- Ever copy a formula you think is perfect and have surprising (and incorrect) results in the destination cells? You might be missing out on a feature of Excel that can make your spreadsheet work easier.
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- Accessibility for All
- Feb 21, 2003
- In this article, New Riders author Lynda Weinman helps you follow government guidelines and practical guidelines to make your sites usable for everyone who visits.
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- Accessing an Active Directory Service with OS X Directory Services v10.5
- Oct 22, 2008
- It's easy to integrate Mac OS X into an Active Directory environment. This chapter shows you how.
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- Accessing Mac OS X Server Directory Services
- Jan 16, 2006
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- Achieving and Enhancing Gameplay in Game Design
- Jan 23, 2004
- In this excerpt from their book, "Game Architecture and Design," Andrew Rollings and Dave Morris examine gameplay—what it means, how to achieve it, and how to enhance it.
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- Acquiring Digital Images
- Aug 21, 2006
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