Guide

Securely deploy iPads and iPhones on corporate networks

Seamlessly integrate iPads and iPhones into your company's IT systems using the detailed instructions contained in this practical book. iPad & iPhone Administrator's Guide shows you how to use iPads and iPhones as business devices and manage them tightly with Apple's enterprise tools. Learn how to connect iPads and iPhones to your organization's wireless network and mail servers, equip users with the apps they need to be productive at work and outside it, and provide access to essential data without compromising security.

• Plan your deployment and choose suitable iPads and iPhones
• Activate iPhones quickly using iTunes' activation-only mode
• Set up iPads and iPhones automatically using iPhone Configuration Utility
• Set up Wi-Fi and VPN connections manually or with configuration profiles
• Connect iPads and iPhones to Microsoft Exchange and other mail servers
• Choose the best third-party apps, install them, and keep them updated
• Install custom enterprise apps using provisioning profiles
• Load and transfer documents via File Sharing and third-party tools
• Give iPad and iPhone users remote access to your network
• Manage Windows or Mac OS X servers from your iPad or iPhone
• Secure iPads and iPhones with strong passcodes--and wipe their contents remotely if they're stolen
• Troubleshoot hardware and software problems

If you are a designer who knows HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you can easily learn how to make native iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps—and distribute them worldwide via the App Store.

When combined with an Objective-C framework, web standards can be used to format and style content for iOS, using native controls and behaviors for an authentic Apple user experience.
 
The Web Designer’s Guide to iOS Apps shows how to create apps using NimbleKit, the Objective-C framework featured on the Apple Development Tools web site. With it you’ll learn how to:

• Download and install the free software for creating iOS apps

• Use Xcode to manage project assets, test apps, and package binary files

• Implement standard iOS elements and behaviors for familiar Apple mobile user experiences

• Enhance your app designs with HTML5 and CSS3

• Build a foundation for designing web apps that can be delivered to other smartphones and mobile devices

 This is the first book of its kind that shows you everything you need to know to create or integrate 3D into your designs using Photoshop CS5 Extended. If you are completely new to 3D, you'll find the great tips and tricks in 3D in Photoshop invaluable as you get started. There is also a wealth of detailed technical insight for those who want more. Written by the true experts - Adobe's own 3D team - and with contributions from some of the best and brightest digital artists working today, this reference guide will help you to create a comprehensive workflow that suits your specific needs. Along the way, you'll pick up troubleshooting tips and advice from the industry experts and you'll be inspired by many examples of full color, original works of 3D art.

If you're already using Photoshop for your digital art and want to learn how to incorporate your 3D components into one workflow, you'll discover new ways of working with Photoshop that you probably never knew existed. Find out how to quickly generate beautiful 3D extrusions from text layers, selections and more. Brush up on your painting, texture creation and editing skills, and learn how to composite 3D to 2D scenes. You'll also discover the secrets to creating Lenticular images. It's all here in this comprehensive guide - the next best thing to sitting side-by-side with an Adobe expert while you create 3D magic.

*Note: 3D functionality discussed in this book is only available in Photoshop CS5 Extended

*Comprehensive coverage of general 3D concepts to get you started if you're new to 3D, or to catch you up to speed with the latest info if you're a seasoned pro *A supplemental website includes images to practice with, third party application plug-ins, and more *Includes step-by-step workflows from some of the industry's best digital artists to inspire and inform your own workflow *Answers to the questions most frequently asked to the Adobe Photoshop 3D team

Take the user experience of your website to a new level with Ext GWT

• Explore the full range of features of the Ext GWT library through practical, step-by-step examples.
• Discover how to combine simple building blocks into powerful components.
• Create powerful Rich Internet Applications with features normally only found in desktop applications.
• Learn how to structure applications using MVC for maximum reliability and maintainability.

In Detail

Ext GWT, also known as GXT, takes Google Web Toolkit one step further by providing a wide range of powerful user interface components. It allows a developer to create powerful web applications that are almost like desktop applications. However to leverage all the features of this powerful Java library for creating desktop-style web applications, you need to learn how and when to use the right user interface component.

Ext GWT 2.0: Beginner's Guide is a practical book that teaches you how to use the EXT GWT library to its full potential. It provides a thorough and no-nonsense explanation of the Ext GWT library, what it offers and how to use it through practical examples. This book provides clear, step-by-step instructions for getting the most out of Ext GWT and offers practical examples and techniques that can be used for building your own applications in EXT GWT.

This book gets you up and running instantly to build powerful Rich Internet Applications (RIA) with Ext GWT. It then takes you through all the interface-building widgets and components of Ext GWT using practical examples to demonstrate when, where, and how to use each of them. Layouts, forms, panels, grids, trees, toolbars, menus, and many other components are covered in the many examples packed in this book. You will also learn to present your data in a better way with templates and use some of the most sought-after features of Ext GWT in your web applications such as drag-and-drop and charts. Throughout the book a real application is built step by step using Ext GWT and deployed to Google App Engine.

Imagine how great you'll feel when you're able to create great-looking desktop-style user interfaces for your web applications with Ext GWT!

A comprehensive beginner's guide to building powerful rich internet applications using the Ext GWT library.

What you will learn from this book

• Get a development environment up and running quickly
• Understand the working of Ext GWT and avoid common pitfalls
• Make web applications behave like desktop applications by using the many UI widgets of Ext GWT
• Design powerful, flexible forms to capture data
• Easily load and manipulate data in the browser from multiple sources
• Present information elegantly using templates
• Structure larger applications using the Model-View-Controller pattern to ensure that different components are independent of each other
• Create intuitive interfaces using drag and drop: a feature usually found only in desktop applications
• Display plenty of information in a very simple way with the wide range of charts available in EXT GWT
• Deploy applications to the world using Google App Engine

Approach

This is a hands-on beginner's guide that builds a complete Ext GWT application through the book visiting a new set of features in each chapter. You will learn the entire range of features available in the Ext GWT library. At every point you will be given practical examples and techniques that can easily be adapted for your own applications.

Who this book is written for

If you are a Java developer aspiring to build intuitive web applications with Ext GWT, then this book is for you. It assumes that you are familiar with HTML and CSS. Developers who wish to add an RIA look to their existing GWT applications with Ext GWT will find this book extremely useful.

This book is a step by step guide packed with interesting examples and screenshots that cover lot of support options to help you achieve the superior quality documents. This books is divided into 11 chapters, each chapter dealing with a precise aspect of the software to help you have the best overview and make the best design choices for your document. This book is for people who want to create professional-looking documents with Scribus. If you want a great looking brochure, newsletter, or poster, this is the book for you. No experience of desktop publishing software is required – only creativity and enthusiasm for creating great documents!

This book presents the basic procedures for utilizing SAS Enterprise Guide to analyze statistical data. SAS Enterprise Guide is a graphical user interface (point and click) to the main SAS application. Each chapter contains a brief conceptual overview and then guides the reader through concrete step-by-step examples to complete the analyses. The eleven sections of the book cover a wide range of statistical procedures including descriptive statistics, correlation and simple regression, t tests, one-way chi square, data transformations, multiple regression, analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, multivariate analysis of variance, factor analysis, and canonical correlation analysis. Designed to be used either as a stand-alone resource or as an accompaniment to a statistics course, the book offers a smooth path to statistical analysis with SAS Enterprise Guide for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, as well as professionals in psychology, education, business, health, social work, sociology, and many other fields.

CSS3 adds powerful new functionality to the web’s visual style language to help you create beautiful and engaging designs more easily than ever. With CSS3, you can create eye-catching visual effects such as semitransparent backgrounds, gradients, and drop shadows without using images; display text in beautiful, unique, non-web-safe fonts; create animations without Flash; and customize a design to the user’s unique device or screen size without JavaScript.

You’ll learn how to accomplish these effects and more by working through a series of practical yet cutting-edge projects. Each chapter walks you through standalone exercises that you can integrate into projects you’re working on, or use as inspiration. You’ll learn all of the most popular, useful, and well-supported CSS3 techniques, plus:

• How to use CSS3 to enhance your pages, not just in terms of looks, but also in terms of usability, accessibility, and efficiency

• When and how to provide workarounds and fallbacks for older, non-supporting browsers

• How to create stunning designs with unique typography and beautiful graphic details

• Advanced new selectors to streamline your markup and make it less prone to human errors

• New methods for creating multiple-column layouts

• How to quickly and easily create mobile-optimized web designs without using scripting

Everything you need to immediately get the most from Windows 7

This essential and unique book delves into the various elements that Microsoft fixed from Vista and investigates the new features that Microsoft added in response to user requests. Veteran author John Paul Mueller shows you how to work with security policies as well as manage the Windows Firewall in every way conceivable—both of which are topics you won't find anywhere else. In addition, he presents a clear, procedural approach to working with trigger-start services, details how to make the User Account Control part of an application, and shows how to use Group Policy Objects to work with the Windows Firewall. Ultimately, you'll discover how Windows 7 provides practical, usable functionality, just waiting for you to exploit.

Professional Windows 7 Development Guide:

• Walks you through picking files directly from pinned applications, checking on application status, and more, simply by viewing the Taskbar

• Discusses the new Ribbon functionality and shows how to use it effectively

• Examines libraries and looks at how they provide a centralized method of managing data

• Includes complete Windows PowerShell coverage with all of the Windows 7 updates

• Offers an in-depth look at 64-bit programming and parallel programming

• Addresses working with power management

• Reviews how you can create applications that automatically restart and recover lost data when there is a crash

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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Build and deploy powerful, useful, and professional Java mobile applications for BlackBerry smartphones, the fast and easy way.

• Develop professional, rich, and smart Java applications using BlackBerry SDK
• Discover the powerful components provided by the SDK to build a powerful user interface with a common look and feel
• Explore the complex, but important, topic of network communications
• Integrate with the standard applications on all BlackBerry Smartphone to make your application even more useful
• Packed with hands-on examples and clear explanations for better understanding

In Detail

BlackBerry Smartphone was once the domain of jet-setting business users with power suits. Now you can hardly go anywhere without seeing someone using a BlackBerry to check their messages or make a call. It's this kind of explosive growth that makes the BlackBerry ecosystem a great place to develop and market applications through the BlackBerry App World store-this book shows you how to do just that!

This step-by-step guide gives you a hands-on experience of developing innovative Java applications for your BlackBerry. With the help of this book, you will learn to build your own applications to illustrate the platform, and the various capabilities that developers can use in their programs. It explores the powers of Blackberry and helps you develop professional and impressive Java applications.

The book teaches how to write rich, interactive, and smart BlackBerry applications in Java. It expects the readers to know Java but not Java Mobile or the BlackBerry APIs. We will learn to build rich, interactive, and smart Java applications for the BlackBerry. The book will cover UI programming, data storage, programming network, and internet API apps. As we move on, we will learn more about the BlackBerry's device features, such as messaging, GPS, multimedia, contacts and calendar, and so on. This book also helps you build your own applications to illustrate the platform, and the various capabilities that developers can use in their programs.

This step-by-step guide to building rich, interactive, and smart Java applications helps you get the most out of BlackBerry smartphones.

What you will learn from this book

• Learn about the two approaches to develop BlackBerry applications
• Understand how the SDK version relates to target devices and learn about the BlackBerry Developer Zone
• Install the Java SDK, which is the foundation using the development environment
• Install Eclipse with the BlackBerry Component Package and configure it with other Component Package versions
• Import the existing HelloWorldDemo supplied with the software and compile and debug the application
• Study PIM, create new PIM Items, and assign values to their fields
• Set up a Screen with fields and create and use menus
• Learn the usage of the Field styles and classes to the fullest
• Study about a Layout Manager and create custom Dialogs on the fly to collect discrete pieces of information
• Get to know the pros and cons for each record-based approach and pick the one that best meets your needs
• Create new Personal Information Management (PIM) items and assign values to their fields
• Understand the basics of HTTP and the correct usage of GET or POST
• Learn the working of Global Position System and the three methods by which a BlackBerry handheld can get location information

Approach

Written with a fast-paced but friendly and engaging approach, this Packt Beginner's Guide is designed to be placed alongside the computer as your guide and mentor. Step-by-step tutorials are boosted by explanations of the reasoning behind what you are doing. You will quickly pick up the necessary skills, tips, and tricks for building BlackBerry applications with Java with practical.

Who this book is written for

If you are a Java programmer who wants to build BlackBerry applications with Java, this book is for you.