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By chco : Today, 12:46 PM

The following is an excerpt from the book Cooking for Geeks. Below it gives some tips on how to properly calibrate and prepare your oven so that it performs in a reliable manner. One piece of equipmen...

By chco : Today, 11:22 AM

The excerpt from Cooking for Geeks is part of an interview with Brian Wansink. Brian's book, Mindless Eating (Bantam), examines how we make our choices about how much and what kinds of foods we ea...

By chco : Today, 08:33 AM

The following information is from an appendix that didn't make it into the printed version of Office 2010: The Missing Manual. Below the author explores the important features of sorting and filte...

By Doron Katz : 13 July 2010 - 12:31 AM

A quick hint. For those of you who use gmail and in fact use it on your iPhones, you might have had it configured through the normal Gmail option in your settings. There is in fact a much better way o...

By kbnotes : Today, 05:46 AM

Today we continue our serialization of excerpts from the forthcoming eBook, Managing and Implementing Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Projects (Microsoft Press) by Geoff Evelyn. from Chapter 4 All Sh...

By chco : Yesterday, 09:18 PM

The following is an excerpt from an appendix for Office 2010: The Missing Manual that didn't make it into the print version of the book. It covers the AutoNumber (unique ID) field in Access 2010....

By bjepson : 27 May 2010 - 03:31 PM

In the index of Best Android Apps, we included QR Codes for all the apps listed. Open up Barcode Scanner, scan the QR code, and follow the link. However, at the time of the book's writing, some of...

By chco : Yesterday, 02:17 PM

The following is an excerpt from an appendix that didn't make it into the final print version of Office 2010: The Missing Manual. It's a step by step procedure to making your own forms with a ...

By chco : Yesterday, 01:42 PM

The following excerpt is an appendix that didn't make it into the print version of Office 2010: The Missing Manual. It explains how to start blogging with Word 2010.From Word to Blog Blogging has...

By Maximiliano Firtman : Yesterday, 11:17 AM

As the Web has moved onto mobile devices, developers have told themselves a lot of stories about what this means for their work. While some of those stories are true, others are misleading, confusing,...

By chco : Yesterday, 10:28 AM

The following is an excerpt from Office 2010: The Missing Manual that didn't make it into the final print version. It gives a few helpful hints in maintaining a blog and enjoying it.Many people st...

By chco : 28 July 2010 - 02:45 PM

This excerpt from Building the Realtime Experience gives an overview and examination of some of the realtime analytics services that are available.Noticing the gap in time between the actual page view...

By Doron Katz : 28 July 2010 - 01:43 PM

Apple recently released it's Safari Extensions gallery, allowing Safari users to use extensions, similar to how Mozilla Firefox has it's extensions. Extensions allow you to infuse your browser...

By chco : 28 July 2010 - 12:46 PM

The following is an excerpt from Building the Realtime Experience. The author introduces the competing protocols that have been developed to address the issues of realtime syndication.Interacting on t...

By adfm : 05 April 2010 - 04:38 PM

Are you looking for a way to get the O'Reilly ebooks you currently own in ePub format on to your iPad? Follow these three easy steps and you'll be reading your favorite titles with iBooks in n...

By BonnieB : 28 July 2010 - 10:24 AM

The following excerpt from Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual explains how to identify project objectives and get buy-in from the project stakeholders.People often don't know what they wan...

By chco : 28 July 2010 - 09:10 AM

Here is an interesting excerpt from Building the Realtime User Experience that will help you get a handle on exactly what people mean when they're talking about realtime.My wife and I recently had...

By Doron Katz : 27 July 2010 - 08:29 PM

OK guys, a lot of you use twitter, rss feeds and manually monitor Apple's online store to see when the "coming soon" disappears and the product is available. Such as, for those who are w...