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Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual Want to create animated graphics for iPhone, iPad, and the Web, using familiar Adobe features? You've come to the right book. Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual shows you how to build HTML5 graphics with Adobe visual tools. No programming experience? No problem. Adobe Edge Animate writes all of the code for you. With this book, you'll be designing great-looking web elements in no time. "My book is intended for web designers and designers-in-training. It starts off very gently explaining how to create simple animations using Edge's timeline and other tools," notes expert author Chris Grover... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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21st Century C: C Tips from the New School Throw out your old ideas of C, and relearn a programming language that’s substantially outgrown its origins. With 21st Century C, you’ll discover up-to-date techniques that are absent from every other C text available. C isn’t just the foundation of modern programming languages, it is a modern language, ideal for writing efficient, state-of-the-art applications. Learn to dump old habits that made sense on mainframes, and pick up the tools you need to use this evolved and aggressively simple language. No matter what programming language you currently champion, you’ll agree that C rocks... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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TANK! TANK! TANK! for Nintendo Wii U NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. announced the release of TANK! TANK! TANK!™ to retailers in North America exclusively for Nintendo’s Wii U™ console. Based on one of NAMCO BANDAI’s most popular and successful arcade titles, TANK! TANK! TANK! allows up to four players to play together as they wreak havoc destroying giant alien monsters or go head-to-head in matches for tank supremacy bragging rights. Taking full advantage of the camera on the Wii U™ GamePad, players will be able to fully immerse in the game by taking pictures of themselves, their friends or family and have their pictures appear as avatars in the game. TANK! TANK! TANK! delivers a fantastic armament of tanks and assorted weapons, each designed to deal devastating damage to the intended target. Players will... Continue reading: NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. Rolls Out TANK! TANK! TANK! for Nintendo Wii U in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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2K Sports NBA 2K13 for Nintendo Wii U 2K Sports has announced that NBA® 2K13, the latest installment in the top-selling and top-rated NBA video game simulation franchise, is now available in North America for Nintendo’s Wii U™ system, and will be available internationally during the system’s initial launch phase. “We are thrilled that NBA 2K13 is an integral part of Wii U’s launch,” said Greg Thomas, president of product development for 2K Sports. “The game not only includes the same great feature set as the other consoles, but also has several exclusives that utilize the Wii U GamePad technology.” The Wii U version of NBA 2K13 marks the first time the franchise has been available in high definition on a Nintendo console... Continue reading: 2K Sports Announces NBA 2K13 Now Available for Wii U in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Nintendo Wii U Game Console Nintendo’s Wii U™ console – the first new home video game system in six years – arrives on Nov. 18, aiming to change the landscape of games and entertainment with its new Wii U GamePad controller. With more than 30 launch-day games for all types of players, Wii U arrives just in time for the holidays and is poised to be the must-have gift of the season. The Wii U Basic Set will be available at a suggested retail price of $299.99 and includes a white Wii U console with 8 GB of internal storage, one white touch-screen GamePad controller, AC adapters for both the console and controller, a sensor bar and an HDMI™ cable. The Wii U Deluxe Set will be available at a suggested retail price of $349.99 and its components are black. This set includes... Continue reading: Nintendo's Wii U Console Introduces How U Will Play Next in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Funky Barn for Nintendo Wii U It is time for gamers to harvest crops and shear some sheep with the launch of Funky Barn , the wild and wacky farm simulation for Nintendo's new Wii U™ system. Published by 505 Games and developed by Tantalus Media, Funky Barn lets players engage in hands-on farming as they raise and manage animals with quirky personalities, use offbeat farm equipment such as The Shearing Machine and The Egg Collector and manage their open-world farm by balancing a budget, laying down roads, planting trees, protecting the land against natural disasters and more... Continue reading: Funky Barn Brings Frenzied Farm Fun To Nintendo's Wii U in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Titanic: Blood and Steel on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital A hundred years after the fateful maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic comes the thrilling adventure Titanic: Blood & Steel, available December 4 on Blu-ray Disc, DVD and Digital Download from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The 12-part television mini-series chronicles the story behind the construction of the “unsinkable” ship. Starring Kevin Zegers (TV’s “Gossip Girl”), Alessandra Mastronardi (To Rome With Love), Derek Jacobi (The Kings Speech), Neve Campbell (The Scream Franchise), and with Chris Noth (TV’s “The Good Wife”), Titanic: Blood & Steel is directed by Ciarán Donnelly (Showtime’s “The Tudors”). The 3-disc Blu-ray and 3-disc DVD sets both include two extensive featurettes: a “making of” plus a behind-the-scenes look into the visual effects... Continue reading: Titanic: Blood & Steel on Blu-ray Disc, DVD and Digital Download December 4th in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Eye Candy 7 Graphic Effects Plug-In for Photoshop Alien Skin Software has announced Eye Candy® 7, the new version of its graphic design effects plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop® and Photoshop Elements. Eye Candy 7 renders realistic effects that are difficult or impossible to achieve in Photoshop alone, such as Fire, Chrome, and the new Lightning. The completely redesigned user interface lets you quickly browse all of Eye Candy’s effects through icons and instant previews. Eye Candy 7 contains the spectacular new Lightning, Electrify, and Cloud effects. There are over 1,000 presets that handle every design situation elegantly, from slick Web interfaces (Chrome, Glass, Perspective Shadow) to tasteful logos (Bevel, Brushed Metal, Extrude) to spectacular titles (Chrome, Corona, Fire)... Continue reading: Alien Skin Software Announces Eye Candy 7 Graphic Design Effects Plug-In for Photoshop in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Assassin's Creed III for Nintendo Wii U Ubisoft has announced that the record-breaking blockbuster, Assassin’s Creed® III, will be available on store shelves across North America on November 18 as a Wii U™ launch title. Assassin’s Creed III will be available for $59.99 and is rated M for Mature. For the first time ever, the Assassin’s Creed franchise comes to the Nintendo console, providing a gaming experience optimized for the Wii U. Assassin’s Creed III on Wii U gives gamers new, unique features as they journey from the perilous frontier to the stormy high seas, including playing the game solely on the Wii U GamePad. The Wii U GamePad provides a wider, more expansive map that gamers can use to easily identify targets and waypoints or switch deadly weapons intuitively... Continue reading: Ubisoft Brings the Revolution to the Wii U with the Launch of Assassin's Creed III in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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ClojureScript: Up and Running Learn how to build complete client-side applications with ClojureScript, the Clojure language variant that compiles to optimized JavaScript. This hands-on introduction shows you how ClojureScript not only has similarities to JavaScript—without the flaws—but also supports the full semantics of its parent language. You’ll delve into ClojureScript’s immutable data structures, lazy sequences, first-class functions, macros, and support for JavaScript libraries. No previous experience with Clojure or ClojureScript is necessary. If you’re familiar with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and the DOM, you’ll quickly discover that ClojureScript has the same reach as JavaScript, but with more power... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes ClojureScript: Up and Running - Functional Programming for the Web in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
HTML5 and JavaScript Web Apps This hands-on book shows you how to work with HTML5, JavaScript MVC frameworks, and the latest W3C specifications to build mobile and desktop web apps that are widely supported across all browsers and devices. You’ll quickly master building client-side applications with a loosely coupled backend infrastructure that supports offline clients.Learn how to incorporate web storage, web workers, geolocation, Device Orientation, and WebSockets into your application architecture, using real-world examples. If you’re familiar with server-side programming and understand the basics of HTML5, this book is for you... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes HTML5 and JavaScript Web Apps - Building Apps for the Open Web in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
Dart: Up and Running Get up to speed on Dart, the web development language that not only matches the dynamic nature of JavaScript, but addresses its problems as well. This practical book gets you up to speed on the language, libraries, and tools for developing structured, fast, and maintainable web apps that run in most browsers.Google designed the Dart platform to scale from simple scripts to complex apps, running on both the client and the server. With this book, you’ll learn how Dart can help you architect and develop HTML5 apps for the modern Web. Build web apps with the class-based, object-oriented Dart language, and compile your code to JavaScript. Learn how to use Dart features, from variables to operators to... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes Dart: Up and Running - A New, Tool-Friendly Language for Structured Web Apps in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Gossip Girl: The Complete Sixth and Final Season on DVD After six incredible seasons, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group marks the end of an era with its final installment of the scandalous and seductive series Gossip Girl. The Gossip Girl: The Complete Sixth and Final Season DVD will be released on February 19, 2013. The three-disc set includes all 10 one-hour episodes from the sixth and final season and all-new bonus features including a featurette, audiobook, deleted scenes and a gag reel! Six years after the first anonymous blogpost rocked New York society, Season Six opens with the Upper East Siders working together to find Serena, who’s gone off the grid. Blair and Chuck reunite with a bang, but can her love help him win back his empire... Continue reading: Gossip Girl: The Complete Sixth and Final Season Released On DVD February 19th in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - Adventures in the Crystal Empire My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic – Adventures in the Crystal Empire is coming to DVD December 4th from Shout! Factory Kids in collaboration with Hasbro Studios! Adventures in the Crystal Empire includes 5 episodes from the beloved Friendship Is Magic series. Bonus features include a sing-along and coloring sheet. In Adventures in the Crystal Empire, a magical empire has suddenly appeared in the arctic north of Equestria, and PRINCESS CELESTIA needs TWILIGHT SPARKLE and her friends to find a way to protect it. While her friends try to keep the Crystal Ponies occupied at the Crystal Faire, TWILIGHT SPARKLE searches for the hidden Crystal Heart that is the key to keeping their empire safe from harm... Continue reading: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - Adventures in the Crystal Empire on DVD December 4th in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Kingston SSDNow V300 Solid-State Drives Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, has announced it is shipping the next generation of its most cost-effective SSDNow V Series solid-state drive. The Kingston® SSDNow V300 is a powerful upgrade solution for cost-conscious consumers looking to upgrade their existing desktop or notebook PC. The new SSDNow V300 is 10x faster than a 7200RPM hard-disk drive. It is powered by an LSI® SandForce® Flash Storage Processor (FSP) solution customized for Kingston, and optimized for industry-leading 19nm NAND Flash memory to deliver sequential read and write speeds of up to 450MB/s. Using best-in-class components, SSDNow V300 combines quality, performance and... Continue reading: Kingston Digital Ships Next-Gen SSDNow V Series - New SSDNow V300 Solid-state Drive in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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D-Link Wireless AC1200 Dual Band USB Adapter D-Link has announced the availability of its latest Wireless AC1200 Dual Band USB Adapter (DWA-182), enabling consumers to upgrade their existing laptops and desktop computers with powerful wireless AC technology. Offering next-generation wireless speeds and broader coverage, the Wireless AC1200 Dual Band USB Adapter is ideal for today's high-bandwidth gaming and HD streaming applications, providing intelligent, versatile, interference-free bandwidth that is perfect for any current wireless network and even better when combined with an 802.11ac router. Delivering the next generation of Wi-Fi to your notebook or desktop computer for today's demanding networking applications, the D-Link ® Wireless AC1200 Dual Band USB Adapter provides... Continue reading: D-Link 802.11ac Dual Band Wireless Adapter Now Available in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Make an Arduino-Controlled Robot Building robots that sense and interact with their environment used to be tricky. Now, Arduino makes it easy. With this book and an Arduino microcontroller and software creation environment, you’ll learn how to build and program a robot that can roam around, sense its environment, and perform a wide variety of tasks. All you to get started with the fun projects is a little programming experience and a keen interest in electronics. Make a robot that obeys your every command—or runs on its own. Maybe you’re a teacher who wants to show students how to build devices that can move, sense, respond, and interact with the physical world. Or perhaps you’re a hobbyist looking for a robot... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes Make an Arduino-Controlled Robot: Autonomous and Remote-Controlled Bots on Wheels in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Wonderbook: Book of Spells for PlayStation 3 Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (SCEA) has announced the launch of Wonderbook™: Book of Spells, a first-of-its-kind experience for the PlayStation®3 (PS3™) system, from SCE London Studios in collaboration with J.K. Rowling. The first title to utilize the revolutionary new PS3 peripheral, Wonderbook™, Book of Spells is a highly-immersive storytelling title unlike any other, which brings a world of magic to life on-screen using the latest augmented reality technology via the PlayStation®Eye camera and PlayStation®Move motion controller. It is also the first product to result from Sony's partnership with Pottermore, Rowling's unique and free-to-use website that builds an exciting online experience around the reading of her best-selling Harry Potter™ books... Continue reading: Wonderbook: Book of Spells From J.K. Rowling Brings Wizardry to Life This Holiday, Exclusively On PlayStation 3 in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Rabbids Rumble for Nintendo 3DS Ubisoft has announced that Rabbids Rumble is now available at retailers across North America, exclusively for Nintendo 3DS. The wacky Rabbids have been let loose throughout seven different worlds and players must battle it out in-game to capture over 100 delirious Rabbids and complete their collection. Rabbids Rumble is full of interactive mini games that fully utilize the 3DS hardware, most notably with the 3D and Augmented Rabbidity where players will interact with the Rabbids like never before. This new experience causes Rabbids to surge from the floor, fly around and even battle it out atop the kitchen table. Rabbids Rumble also features multiple game modes including the solo campaign and multiplayer battles... Continue reading: Ubisoft Announces Rabbids Rumble Now Available Only on Nintendo 3DS in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition for Wii U Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment announced that Batman: Arkham City™ Armored Edition for the Wii U™ system from Nintendo will begin shipping to North American retailers. Developed for Wii U by WB Games Montréal, the game builds upon the critically acclaimed, award-winning action game of 2011 created by Rocksteady Studios and makes its first appearance on any Nintendo platform as a launch title for the revolutionary new home console that hits stores beginning November 18. Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition brings gamers back to Arkham like never before with enhanced gameplay features for the Wii U and the Wii U™ GamePad. Packed with the same intense action and powerful story telling as the original, the game includes all available downloadable content, plus... Continue reading: Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition for Wii U Now Available in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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LEGO The Lord of the Rings Video Game Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games and the LEGO Group announced the launch of LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™ for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the Wii™ system and Windows PC. Based on The Lord of the Rings motion picture trilogy, LEGO The Lord of the Rings takes players on an epic journey through Middle-earth as they take the form of their favorite members of the Fellowship and relive momentous events from the films. Family members of all ages will enjoy playing together in easy drop-in, drop-out co-op gameplay, as they partake in the iconic Helms Deep Battle, explore The Shire, escape the fiery pits of Mount Doom, and battle against Shelob, the Nazgûl, and the Ringwraiths, all while solving puzzles, and... Continue reading: LEGO The Lord of the Rings for Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, DS, 3DS, PS Vita, and PC Now Available in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Scribblenauts Unlimited for Wii U, 3DS and PC Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announces the North American launch of Scribblenauts Unlimited, a new game expanding upon the award-winning, video game franchise that challenges players to imagine anything and bring it to life in the game. The popular Scribblenauts series has sold more than five million units to date – making it one of the most successful video game franchises. Created and developed by 5TH Cell, Scribblenauts Unlimited is available today for the Wii U™ system and Nintendo 3DS™ hand-held system and will be available for PC both physically and digitally via Steam and other digital portals on November 20. Scribblenauts Unlimited fosters unlimited creativity, unbounded exploration and fun, social elements that... Continue reading: Scribblenauts Unlimited - Wildly Inventive Franchise Reimagined for Wii U, Nintendo 3DS and PC in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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F1 Race Stars for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC Codemasters® announced that F1 RACE STARS, the game that takes FORMULA ONE racing over the top, has shipped to stores in North America for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and for Steam for Windows PC. F1 Race Stars, from Codemasters Racing, features the full cast of FORMULA ONE stars as you’ve never seen them before in a chaotic sprint for the checkered flag on circuits littered with power-ups and featuring jumps, loop-the-loops and barrel-rolls! Designed to share the fun with four-player split-screen racing, which can be combined with 12 player-online play, racing fans of all ages will experience a new world of FORMULA ONE fun... Continue reading: Formula One Gets Powered-Up This Week as F1 Race Stars ships to Stores in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Assassin's Creed Ezio Trilogy for PlayStation 3 Ubisoft released the Assassin’s Creed® Ezio Trilogy, a bundle that delivers the storyline of Ezio Auditore de Firenze, an Assassin empowered by vengeance. Featuring Assassin’s Creed II, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood and Assassin’s Creed Revelations, this bundle will give gamers the opportunity to step into the animus and venture through an epic trilogy that takes them from the bustling streets of renaissance Italy to the diverse city of Constantinople. Available exclusively for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, gamers will be able to pick up the bundle and play all three of the titles on one Blu-ray disc. The Assassin's Creed Ezio Trilogy gives gamers an opportunity to venture into the life of Ezio Auditore de Firenze – an Assassin driven by vengeance... Continue reading: Assassin's Creed Ezio Trilogy Now Available in Stores in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Call of Duty Black Ops II Video Game The wait is over. The groundbreaking Call of Duty®: Black Ops II is now available at retail locations across the globe. The highly-anticipated sequel to the best-selling Xbox 360® and PlayStation ® 3 console game in history has been called "the most ambitious Call of Duty® ever," pushing the boundaries of the blockbuster franchise to new heights by propelling players into a world full of advanced weaponry, robotics and drone technology in the year 2025. Call of Duty: Black Ops II, which has shattered pre-order records set last year by Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3, is on its way to a historic launch, and is poised to usher in a new era for the 30-million Call of Duty fans worldwide with a host of new innovations to deliver the complete gaming experience. Providing great value to the Call of Duty community, starting today Activision's Call of Duty® Elite services for Call of Duty: Black Ops II are free, providing fans with deeply integrated features, including Clan Operations, Zombies Leaderboards and more... Continue reading: Call of Duty Black Ops II - Most Anticipated Entertainment Release of the Year, Now Available Worldwide in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Master Your Mac: Tweak, Customize, and Secure OS X Macs are great for beginners, because the basics are easy. The challenge comes when you want OS X to do things your way. For Mac users who want to travel beyond the basics, Master Your Mac is here to help. "The great thing about OS X is that a complete beginner can turn on a new Mac and start surfing the web in less than five minutes," says author Matt Cone. "But things get tricky after that. How do you connect another monitor or create new trackpad gestures? I wrote Master Your Mac to teach people how to do things in OS X that they didn't even know were possible." Master Your Mac takes users to the next level with tutorials on how to change hidden defaults, enable undocumented features, repair disk permissions to improve performance, monitor their systems, and... Continue reading: No Starch Press Publishes Master Your Mac: Simple Ways to Tweak, Customize, and Secure OS X in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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WD My Net Wi-Fi Range Extender WD ®, a subsidiary of Western Digital, and a world leader in external storage and solutions for today's connected life, unveils its My Net™ Wi-Fi™ Range Extender to expand wireless home networks into out-of-reach areas of the home. Following the introduction of its first line of wireless home networking products, the acclaimed My Net family of HD dual-band routers, the selectable dual-band My Net Wi-Fi Range Extender provides faster, stronger and more reliable wireless network coverage to computers, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, media players, smart TVs and other Wi-Fi connected devices that suffer from a weak Wi-Fi signal within the home... Continue reading: New WD My Net Wi-Fi Range Extender Instantly Boosts Home Wireless Coverage in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Programming C# 5.0: Building Apps for the .NET 4.5 Framework After a dozen years of incremental changes, C# has become one of the most versatile programming languages available. With this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn just how powerful the combination of C# 5.0 and .NET 4.5 can be. Author Ian Griffiths guides you through C# 5.0 fundamentals and teaches you techniques for building web and desktop applications, including Windows 8-style apps. Completely rewritten for experienced programmers, this book provides many code examples to help you work with the nuts and bolts of C# code, such as generics, dynamic typing, and the new asynchronous programming features. You’ll also get up to speed on XAML, ASP.NET, LINQ, and other .NET tools... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes Programming C# 5.0: Building Windows 8, Web, and Desktop Applications for the .NET 4.5 Framework in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 1 Want to know how to use an electronic component? This first book of a three-volume set includes key information on electronics parts for your projects—complete with photographs, schematics, and diagrams. You'll learn what each one does, how it works, why it's useful, and what variants exist. No matter how much you know about electronics, you'll find fascinating details you've never come across before. Perfect for teachers, hobbyists, engineers, and students of all ages, Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 1 puts reliable, fact-checked information right at your fingertips—whether you're refreshing your memory or exploring a component for the first time. Beginners will quickly grasp important concepts, and more experienced users will find the specific details their projects require... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 1 in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Natural Language Annotation for Machine Learning Create your own natural language training corpus for machine learning with Natural Language Annotation for Machine Learning. Whether you're working with English, Chinese, or any other natural language, this hands-on book guides you through a proven annotation development cycle—the process of adding metadata to your training corpus to help ML algorithms work more efficiently. You don't need any programming or linguistics experience to get started. Using detailed examples at every step, you'll learn how the MATTER Annotation Development Process helps you Model, Annotate, Train, Test, Evaluate, and Revise your training corpus. You also get a complete walkthrough of a real-world annotation project... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes Natural Language Annotation for Machine Learning in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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