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Western Digital My Net Home Networking Devices Western Digital, the world's leader in external storage solutions and maker of the popular WD TV® media player family, unveils its first line of wireless home networking products, designed specifically to accelerate movies, video and gaming, delivering a premium high-definition entertainment experience. With the My Net family of powerful and easy-to-use home networking products, WD debuts its exclusive FasTrack™ technology that instantly detects entertainment traffic on the network and fast-forwards it to gaming consoles, media players, smart TVs, tablets, smartphones, computers and other Wi-Fi connected devices... Continue reading: WD Enters Wireless Home Networking Market, Ushers in New Era of Blazing Fast HD Entertainment Streaming in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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PHP and MySQL: Novice to Ninja, 5th Edition SitePoint, the specialist web technology publisher of books (printed and electronic) and training resources publisher for web professionals, has just launched the 5th edition of its best-selling book PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja by Kevin Yank. A whopping 500 pages, it takes readers step by step through the process of building their first database driven website, using 100% free software. PHP is a very popular open-source scripting language, and recent stats from trends.builtwith.com show over 25 million websites using it in their server-side web development... Continue reading: SitePoint Publishes PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja, 5th Edition in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Inside Windows Debugging: A Practical Guide Rethink your use of Windows debugging and tracing tools—and learn how to make them a key part of test-driven software development—with Inside Windows Debugging. Led by Tarik Soulami, a member of the Windows Fundamentals Team at Microsoft, you'll apply expert debugging and tracing techniques—and sharpen your C++ and C# code analysis skills—through practical examples and common scenarios. Learn why experienced developers use debuggers in every step of the development process, and not just when bugs appear. Discover how to: Go behind the scenes to examine how powerful Windows debuggers work; Catch bugs early in the development cycle with static and runtime analysis tools... Continue reading: Microsoft Press Publishes Inside Windows Debugging: A Practical Guide to Debugging and Tracing in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Adobe Edge Preview 5: The Missing Manual The web universe changes constantly with new ideas and technologies," says author Chris Grover. "At the same time, many of us are visiting the web on handhelds and that brings a new set of challenges for web designers. Adobe Edge is a new tool that designers can use to create web animations and interactive pages. Edge uses a combination of standard technologies that work with desktop computers as well as handhelds like iPhones and iPads." Adobe Edge Preview 5: The Missing Manual is intended for web designers and designers-in-training. Grover says, "It starts off very gently explaining how to create simple animations using Edge's timeline and other tools. Moving on, readers learn how to create more complex projects like interactive portfolios or photo galleries... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes Adobe Edge Preview 5: The Missing Manual in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Supernatural: The Complete Seventh Season on Blu-ray and DVD The thrilling and terrifying journey of the Winchester brothers continues as Warner Home Video brings you its seventh season on Blu-ray™ and DVD on September 18, 2012. Supernatural: The Complete Seventh Season contains all 23 gripping episodes of season seven and is packed with over four-and-a-half hours of bonus content – including two featurettes, audio commentaries, deleted scenes, a gag reel and more. Fans that purchase the Blu-ray™ will enjoy even more exclusive bonus features and will also have access to an UltraVioletTM copy of all 23 episodes... Continue reading: Supernatural: The Complete Seventh Season on Blu-ray and DVD September 18th in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
Gossip Girl: The Complete Fifth Season on DVD Everyone’s favorite socialites are back to their wicked ways as Warner Home Video brings you Gossip Girl: The Complete Fifth Season on DVD September 25. Developed for television by Josh Schwartz (The O.C., Chuck) and Stephanie Savage (The O.C.), Gossip Girl stars many of young Hollywood’s hottest talent: Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Kaylee DeFer with Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle. The five-disc set includes all 24 one-hour episodes from the fifth season and nearly an hour of never-before-seen special features, including two all-new featurettes celebrating the show’s 100-episode milestone, unaired scenes and a gag reel.The fifth season opens in Los Angeles, where a suntanned Serena has found the perfect summer job, and Chuck and Nate — who are still on their posh trip around the globe — decide to pay her a visit... Continue reading: Gossip Girl: The Complete Fifth Season on DVD September 25th from Warner Home Video in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
SlickEdit 2012 Multi-Language Code Editor SlickEdit Inc., provider of the most versatile code editors available, announces the release of SlickEdit 2012. This version introduces a new user interface architecture to the powerful editor. Other key features added in this release include beautifier enhancements, improved Objective-C support, and Android SDK project support.SlickEdit 2012 is the premier cross-platform, multi-language code editor that gives programmers the ability to code in over 40 languages on 9 platforms including Windows®, Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X®. In addition to this flexibility, SlickEdit allows developers to smoothly handle large projects of over 40,000 files and to use SlickEdit’s macro language, Slick-C, to extend the editor to their personal style. It also offers 15 strong emulations for anyone who is migrating from another editor, among other powerful features... Continue reading: SlickEdit Inc. Announces Release of SlickEdit 2012 in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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FileMaker 12 Training Series FileMaker, Inc. announced the latest FileMaker Training Series, the definitive series designed to help developers master the essentials of the award-winning FileMaker 12. The FileMaker Training Series consists of 13 self-paced modules that provide the building blocks for successful solution development using the breakthrough new FileMaker platform. The FileMaker Training Series includes an 800-page manual and a DVD with demo files, exercises and videos to help guide developers through the learning process. The training focuses on intermediate and advanced content, but any level of FileMaker developers can use the training material to help improve their skills... Continue reading: FileMaker Unveils New FileMaker 12 Training Series in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Rails Recipes: Rails 3 Edition Thousands of developers have used the first edition of Rails Recipes to solve the hard problems in developing web applications using Ruby on Rails. Now, five years later, it's time for Rails Recipes: Rails 3 Edition, the latest incarnation of this trusted collection of solutions, completely revised by Rails master Chad Fowler. Written for novice to intermediate Rails developers, Rails Recipes: Rails 3 Edition is packed with solutions to 70 of the most vexing problems you're likely to face on the job. From building custom forms and powering pages with jQuery to integrating with legacy databases, it's all here. Each recipe has been updated to reflect the latest features of Rails 3 and each lays out a distinctive solution to a problem you may be facing today or could well encounter tomorrow... Continue reading: Pragmatic Bookshelf Publishes Rails Recipes: Rails 3 Edition in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual The new and improved Photoshop CS6 is truly amazing, but it can also be overwhelming if you're just getting started. Fortunately Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual makes learning the latest edition of this popular photo-editing program a breeze. Expert author Lesa Snider explains things in a friendly, conversational style—without technical jargon. "This edition features all new screen shots, new and updated practical techniques, as well as a new chapter on video editing," notes Snider, founder of the creative tutorial site GraphicReporter. "It's simply the most comprehensive yet conversational, Photoshop book on the market and I'm incredibly proud to have it available upon ship date of the software..." Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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The Rails View: Create a Beautiful User Experience Modern web development involves a lot of moving parts and a lot of different technologies, and it can be hard to get them all just right. In the heat of development, it's particularly easy to neglect the presentation layer until it grows to become an unmanageable mess. Now you can break free from tangles of logic and markup in your Rails views and implement your user interface cleanly and maintainably, with The Rails View: Create a Beautiful and Maintainable User Experience. In this book you'll learn how to build up solid, sustainable layouts and popular interface elements with semantic HTML5 and CSS3. You'll explore ways to make working with forms more manageable, and... Continue reading: Pragmatic Bookshelf Publishes The Rails View: Create a Beautiful and Maintainable User Experience in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Little Shop of Horrors: The Director's Cut on Blu-ray Little Shop of Horrors, nominated for two Academy Awards® in 1986, including Best Music, Original Song and Best Effects, Visual Effects, debuts on Blu-ray Disc™ October 9, 2012 from Warner Home Video. The Blu-ray debut of the film, directed by the inimitable Frank Oz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Dark Crystal, The Muppets Take Manhattan), includes two hi-def versions of the cult classic: the one shown in theaters and The Director’s Cut, featuring a newly restored 20-minute ending from the director’s first cut, now in color, that fans have been waiting to see. The footage of the original ending was previously available only in black & white in the extra content of a limited number of copies of a DVD edition released in 1998. Now... Continue reading: Little Shop of Horrors: The Director's Cut Blooms on Blu-ray October 9th with Alternate Ending in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Lollipop Chainsaw for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and KADOKAWA GAMES announced the release of Lollipop Chainsaw, an over-the-top action game for the PlayStation®3 system and the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Developed by GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE, led by Goichi Suda (SUDA51), Lollipop Chainsaw is the ‘un-deadly’ story of sweet, chainsaw-wielding zombie hunter Juliet Starling. On her 18th birthday, Juliet must uncover the root of a colossal zombie outbreak. She slices and dices her way through hordes of the undead, but soon realizes the horde is only the opening act to a festival of zombie rock lords determined to kill her... Continue reading: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and KADOKAWA GAMES Unleash the Zombie Horde with Lollipop Chainsaw in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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The Artist's Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition As a full-featured, free alternative to Adobe Photoshop, GIMP is likely the world's most popular open source software. Last week's release of GIMP 2.8 is the culmination of three years of work by contributors and introduces many new features, like the long-anticipated single-window mode. Hot on the heels of the program's release, The Artist's Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition is the first full-color guide to GIMP 2.8's extensive capabilities. The Artist's Guide to GIMP shows artists and designers how to create professional-looking advertisements, impressive photographic effects, eye-catching logos and text styles, and much more... Continue reading: No Starch Press Publishes The Artist's Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 High-Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions Apply powerful window functions in T-SQL—and increase the performance and speed of your queries with Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 High-Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions. Optimize your queries—and obtain simple and elegant solutions to a variety of problems—using window functions in Transact-SQL. Led by T-SQL expert Itzik Ben-Gan, you'll learn how to apply calculations against sets of rows in a flexible, clear, and efficient manner. Ideal whether you're a database administrator or developer, this practical guide demonstrates ways to use more than a dozen T-SQL querying solutions to address common business tasks... Continue reading: Microsoft Press Publishes Microsoft SQL Server 2012 High-Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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DiRT Showdown for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC Gamers are set to go fast, take chances and never yield as DiRT® Showdown™ ships to stores across North America on the Codemasters Racing label. To mark the game’s retail release, Codemasters has unleashed a spectacular launch video featuring DiRT Showdown’s new brand of full-throttle, tire-shredding, panel-smashing gameplay. The launch video showcases the maximum-impact racing, bone-rattling destruction game modes, freestyle Hoonigan events and multiplayer party games set to take center stage on DiRT Showdown’s World tour of motorized mayhem. From Miami to LA and San Francisco to Yokohama, the trailer features drivers taking down their rivals, boosting to overtake, hitting jumps, performing stunts and sending Showdown Challenges as they go for the win across DiRT Showdown’s wide range of game modes... Continue reading: DiRT Showdown Crashes onto Retail Shelves with a Dynamite Launch Trailer in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Suburgatory: The Complete First Season on DVD Manicured lawns. Cookie-cutter homes. Big lips. Little nose jobs. Synchronized sprinkler systems that erupt at the exact same time. Forget purgatory – this is Suburgatory. Explore one of TV's quirkiest suburban neighborhoods when Warner Home Video releases Suburgatory: The Complete First Season on DVD September 18, 2012. The three-disc set contains all 22 first season episodes, plus never-before-seen bonus features, including the "Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell: Life in Suburgatory" featurette, unaired scenes and a “Suburban Slip-Ups” gag reel. Created and executive produced by Emily Kapnek (Parks & Recreation, Hung), this satirical comedy series centers on Tessa (Jane Levy -- Shameless, upcoming Fun Size), a witty New York City teenager who... Continue reading: Suburgatory: The Complete First Season coming to Your Neighborhood September 18th in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 50th Anniv. Blu-ray The Bette Davis/Joan Crawford cult classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with a newly remastered Blu-ray release October 9 from Warner Home Video. Starring the two rival divas, the movie will be packaged as a Blu-ray book and includes three documentaries, 36 pages of insightful essays, behind-the-scenes photography, commentary and vintage featurettes. The legendary dispute between the two Oscar®-winning actresses (Crawford and Davis) fueled the fire both on- and off-screen in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) which was directed by Robert Aldrich. Its Grand Guignol story of an aging ex-vaudeville child star (Davis) waging a psychotic reign of terror over her crippled ex-movie-star sister... Continue reading: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 50th Anniversary Blu-ray Debuts October 9th in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Cherry Bomb on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Julin Jean (Killer School Girls from Outer Space, TV’s “Friday Night Lights”), Nick Manning (Crank: High Voltage, TV’s “Beach Heat Miami”) and John Rodriguez (Blind Turns, Johnny’s Gone) star in Cherry Bomb, debuting on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital July 10th from Well Go USA Entertainment. In the vein of the classic revenge movie I Spit On Your Grave, Director Kyle Day’s explosive homage Grindhouse and B-sexplotation movies features an exotic dancer (Jean) seeking bloody revenge on the five men who assaulted her. In homage to the action films of the early 1980s, the beautiful Cherry is an exotic dancer who is attacked by a group of sleazy men in the club where she works. The men escape justice and she vows revenge... Continue reading: Cherry Bomb - Homage to Early 80s Action Films, Debuting on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital July 10th in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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The Vampire Diaries: The Complete Third Season on Blu-ray and DVD The CW’s #1 series delivers another thrilling season to home video on September 11, as Warner Home Video releases The Vampire Diaries: The Complete Third Season on DVD and the all-new Blu-ray™ Combo Pack. Sink your teeth into 22 one-hour episodes from season three, plus thrilling extras — including two brand-new featurettes, deleted scenes and a gag reel. The Blu-ray Combo Pack includes even more behind-the-scenes exclusive content. Based on the best-selling book series, The Vampire Diaries is the story of two vampire brothers — Stefan and Damon Salvatore — obsessed with the same gorgeous girl — Elena Gilbert — who are battling to control the fate of an entire town... Continue reading: The Vampire Diaries: The Complete Third Season Available on DVD and Blu-ray on September 11th in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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The Mentalist: The Complete Fourth Season on DVD Red John is dead. Or is he? Following last season’s shocking finale, Patrick Jane returns for season four of The Mentalist, which will be released on DVD September 18, 2012 from Warner Home Video. Averaging nearly 15 million weekly viewers and returning for a fifth season on CBS this fall in its new Sunday 10/9c time period, The Mentalist continues to be a solid hit among fans. The Mentalist: The Complete Fourth Season stars Emmy® and Golden Globe nominee Simon Baker as Patrick Jane, the California Bureau of Investigation consultant and former faux-psychic obsessed with finding Red John, the serial killer who murdered his family... Continue reading: The Mentalist: The Complete Fourth Season Available on DVD September 18th in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars on Blu-ray and DVD A talented young gymnast turns trials into triumphs in the inspiring new feature-length movie, An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars™, coming to Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, DVD, and Digital Download on July 3, 2012, from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Inspired by the beloved American Girl® line of dolls and featuring the celebrated 2012 Girl of the Year®, the film stars Oscar® nominee Nia Vardalos (My Life In Ruins, My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Jade Pettyjohn (“The United States of Tara”) as McKenna™, Ian Ziering (“Beverly Hills 90210”), Kerris Dorsey (Moneyball, “Brothers & Sisters”) and former Olympic gymnast Cathy Rigby (Broadway’s “Peter Pan”)... Continue reading: An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars on Blu-ray, DVD, and Download July 3rd in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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2 Broke Girls: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray and DVD Start saving your money because on September 4, 2012, Warner Home Video brings you 2 Broke Girls: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray and DVD. In its debut season on CBS, 2 Broke Girls delivered an average of over 11 million viewers weekly and was TV’s #1 new series of the 2011-2012 season among Adults 18–49 and the #1 new comedy among Total Viewers. The Blu-ray and DVD releases include all 24 half-hour episodes from the first season, plus never-before-seen extras including a behind-the-scenes featurette. The Blu-ray will be released in 1080p Full HD Video and will feature DTS-HD Master Audio for English 5.1. 2 Broke Girls: The Complete First Season is... Continue reading: 2 Broke Girls: The Complete First Season Available on Blu-ray and DVD on September 4th in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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MY WAY - World War II Epic on Blu-ray and DVD The critically-acclaimed, powerful war film My Way, Korea’s most expensive film to date, debuts on Blu-ray™ and DVD July 24th from Well Go USA Entertainment. Jang Dong-Gun (The Warrior’s Way, The Brotherhood of War), Joe Odagiri (Shinobi, Bright Future) and Fan Bingbing (Shaolin, Bodyguards & Assassins) star in Director Kang Je-Gyu’s (Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War) story of two rival Olympic marathon runners who fight for Japan at the start of World War II. Captured by the Soviets and Germans, they eventually escape and meet on the beaches of Normandy in 1944. Bonus features include a new optional English language dub and behind-the-scenes interviews and footage from the making of the film... Continue reading: MY WAY - Critically-Acclaimed World War II Epic Debuting on Blu-ray and DVD July 24th in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Samsung's 830 Series Solid State Drives Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, announced that its SSD 830 Series advanced internal solid state drives (SSDs) will include a downloadable version of the highly anticipated game Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™ with purchase of the 128 GB, 256 GB or 512 GB models (while supplies last) in the U.S. and Canada. For a limited time, consumers that purchase those drives will find a code inside the box to enable a download of the full PC version of the newly released game from Ubisoft... Continue reading: Samsung's 830 Series Solid State Drive includes free Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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LEGO Heavy Weapons: Build LEGO Guns Jack Streat is an accomplished LEGO weapons builder whose YouTube videos have over 16 million views. Now he's the author of a new book about building LEGO weapons, and he's only 17 years old. In LEGO® Heavy Weapons, Streat offers a collection of building instructions for four truly impressive, 1:1-scale LEGO replicas of the world's most iconic firearms. LEGO builders will learn to create a massive Desert Eagle handgun with blowback action, plus three accurate brick-shooting marvels: an AKS-74U assault rifle with folding stock, a bolt-action Lee Enfield sniper rifle (aka. Jungle Carbine), and a pump-action SPAS 12 combat shotgun... Continue reading: No Starch Press Publishes LEGO Heavy Weapons: Build LEGO Versions of World's Most Impressive Guns in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Programming Clojure, 2nd Edition Clojure is a powerful, dynamic programming language that runs on the Java VM. Now updated to Clojure 1.3, Programming Clojure, 2nd Ed. is here to help you keep up with the significant changes in this important language. Rich Hickey, creator of the Clojure language, says, "A lot has changed since the first edition of the book. Yes, the language has had some enhancements, such as protocols and records. Most significant, though, is that Clojure has seen adoption across a wide variety of domains. People are building start-ups, analyzing large data sets, and doing communications, financial, web, and database work in Clojure..." Continue reading: Pragmatic Bookshelf Publishes Programming Clojure, 2nd Edition in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Toshiba Canvio 3.0 Portable Hard Drives Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., announced its Canvio® 3.0 portable hard disk drive (HDD) line featuring cloud-based backup capabilities. With storage capacities of 500 gigabytes (GB), 750GB or one terabyte (TB), the new Canvio 3.0 line also features simple plug-and-play operation, pre-loaded backup software, and is compatible with personal computers and other devices equipped with USB 3.0 or USB 2.0 ports. Designed to meet the needs of consumers who increasingly rely on the cloud for digital storage, the Canvio 3.0 drives are pre-loaded with Windows™-based NTI® BackupNow EZ™ software... Continue reading: Toshiba Unveils Cloud-Based Backup Capability for Canvio 3.0 Portable Hard Drives in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Working with Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Deliver powerful search tools to your clients—using Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. Led by three search experts, you'll learn how to deliver advanced intranet search capabilities and build custom, search-driven applications for your business. Use your skills as a SharePoint architect or developer to configure and program this server for different search scenarios, based on real-world examples. Discover how to: Integrate FAST Search Server for SharePoint into your existing SharePoint architecture. Use best practices to develop solutions specific to your business... Continue reading: Microsoft Press Publishes Working with Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Madagascar 3: The Video Game D3Publisher (D3P), a publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software, announced Madagascar 3: The Video Game based on the DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. animated film, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, is now available on Nintendo’s Wii™ system, Nintendo 3DS™ hand-held system, Nintendo DS™ hand-held system, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted comes to theaters in 3D on Friday, June 8, 2012. Madagascar 3: The Video Game brings the circus to life, featuring your favorite Madagascar friends: Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Gloria the Hippo and Melman the Giraffe... Continue reading: D3Publisher Presents Big-Top Circus Fun in Madagascar 3: The Video Game in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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