Title: iPod: The Missing Manual, 11th Edition
By: J.D. BiersdorferWith:David Pogue
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: December 2012
Ebook: December 2012
Pages: 352
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-1619-8| ISBN 10:1-4493-1619-0
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-4429-0| ISBN 10:1-4493-4429-1
Apple’s iPods continue to set the bar for media players, with bold new features like the Touch’s supersized screen and Siri voice control. But iPods still lack a guide to all their features. That’s where this full-color book comes in. It shows you how to play music, movies, and slideshows; shoot photos and videos; and navigate Apple’s redesigned iTunes media-management program.
The important stuff you need to know:
Fill it up. Load your iPod with music, photos, movies, TV shows, games, ebooks, and podcasts.
Manage your stuff. Download media and apps from the iTunes and App Stores, then organize your collection.
Tackle the Touch. Send email and instant messages, make FaceTime calls, and shoot photos and HD video with the Touch’s 5-megapixel camera.
Go wireless. Use the Touch’s new iOS 6 software to sync content wirelessly.
Relish the Nano. Enjoy video and photos on the Nano’s new big screen, and chart your workouts with the Nike+ pedometer.
Master the Shuffle and Classic. Get mucho music on the little Shuffle, and use the Classic’s giant hard drive to tote around your audio and video collections.
Pump it up. Blast iPod tunes through your home and car stereo.
J.D. Biersdorfer
J.D. Biersdorfer is the best-selling author of iPad: The Missing Manual, Best iPhone Apps (Second Edition), Netbooks: The Missing Maunal, and The iPod Shuffle Fan Book. She is the co-author of iPod: The Missing Manual, Google: The Missing Manual (Second Edition), iPhoto ’09: The Missing Manual, and The Internet: The Missing Manual. She has authored the weekly technology column “Q&A” for the New York Times since 1998 and often writes about art, books, and design for other sections of The Times. J.D. also co-hosts the independent Pop Tech Jam audio podcast, which explores current events in the world of technology and geek culture.
Title: Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
By: Lee Holmes
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: December 2012
Ebook: December 2012
Pages: 208
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-2096-6| ISBN 10:1-4493-2096-1
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-2095-9| ISBN 10:1-4493-2095-3
This portable reference to Windows PowerShell 3.0 summarizes the command shell and scripting language, and provides a concise reference to the many tasks that make PowerShell so useful. If you’re a busy Windows administrator, and don’t have time to plow through huge books or search online, this is the ideal on-the-job tool.
Written by Microsoft PowerShell team member Lee Holmes, and excerpted from his Windows PowerShell Cookbook, this edition offers up-to-date coverage of PowerShell 3.0. You’ll find information on the .NET classes and legacy tools you need to manage your system, along with chapters on how to write scripts, manage errors, and format output.
Beginning with a guided tour of Windows PowerShell, this handy guide covers:
PowerShell language and environment
Regular expression reference
XPath quick reference
.NET string formatting
.NET DateTime formatting
Selected .NET classes and their uses
WMI reference
Selected COM objects and their uses
Selected events and their uses
Standard PowerShell verbs
Lee Holmes
Lee Holmes is a developer on the Microsoft Windows PowerShell team, and has been an authoritative source of information about PowerShell since its earliest betas. His vast experience with Windows PowerShell enables him to integrate both the ‘how’ and the ‘why’ into discussions. Lee’s involvement with the PowerShell and administration community (via newsgroups, mailing lists, and blogs) gives him a great deal of insight into the problems faced by all levels of administrators and PowerShell users alike.
Welcome to Network Security in Virtualized Data Centers For Dummies. Virtualization is one of the hottest trends of the past decade and a key enabling technology in the transition towards cloud computing. However, virtualization also introduces new security challenges at the hypervisor and virtual machine level. In order for organizations to realize the benefits of virtualization, they must adapt their security architectures to address these challenges, and the new application and threat landscape.
In this book, you will understand how virtualization delivers operational benefits, the security challenges introduced by the virtualization infrastructure, and how applications and threats have evolved. You will also learn why traditional security controls are not effective in the data center, and how next-generation firewalls safely enable applications by user, application and content.
Title: Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 3rd Edition
By: Paris Buttfield-Addison, Jonathon Manning
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: December 2012
Ebook: December 2012
Pages: 322
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-1849-9| ISBN 10:1-4493-1849-5
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-1878-9| ISBN 10:1-4493-1878-9
Get up to speed on Cocoa and Objective-C, and start developing applications on the iOS and OS X platforms. If you don’t have experience with Apple’s developer tools, no problem! From object-oriented programming to storing app data in iCloud, this book covers everything you need to build apps for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
You’ll learn how to work with the Xcode IDE, Objective-C’s Foundation library, and other developer tools such as Event Kit framework and Core Animation. Along the way, you’ll build example projects, including a simple Objective-C application, a custom view, a simple video player application, and an app that displays calendar events for the user.
Learn the application life cycle on OS X and iOS
Work with the user-interface system in Cocoa and Cocoa Touch
Use AV Foundation to display video and audio
Build apps that let users create, edit, and work with documents
Store data locally with the file system, or on the network with iCloud
Display lists or collections of data with table views and collection views
Interact with the outside world with Core Location and Core Motion
Use blocks and operation queues for multiprocessing
Paris Buttfield-Addison
Paris Buttfield-Addison is a mobile app engineer, game designer and researcher with a passion for making technology simpler and as engaging as possible.He has written two books on game development and currently spends his time designing mobile products for millions upon millions of users while drinking too much coffee.
Paris has coded for everything from Qt to 6502 assembly to iOS and thinks digital watches are a pretty neat idea. He claims he will soon have a PhD.
Jon Manning is the co-founder of Secret Lab, an independent game development studio based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He’s worked on apps of all sorts, ranging from iPad games for children to instant messenging clients. He’s a Core Animation demigod, and frequently finds himself gesticulating wildly in front of classes full of eager-to-learn iOS developers. Jon is the world’s biggest Horse_ebooks fan (https://twitter.com/Horse_ebooks), and can be found on Twitter as @desplesda.
