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Our books have a reputation for clear, easy-to-follow writing. We believe it’s the reason the In Easy Steps series has become one of the most successful in the world.
So we’ve asked some of our best-selling authors to share more of their wisdom in this selection of articles.
Planning for Windows 8
Posted by In Easy Steps Team on Mar 30, 2012 in Article, News | Comments Off
Windows 8 is the next version of Windows. Microsoft have already released a Developer Preview and the initial Beta version is due shortly. Windows 8 features the new Start Screen which replaces the Start menu and displays active tiles with the new Metro Apps that are being. You will be familiar with this type of interface if you use a Smartphone such as Windows Phone (which incidentally is also a member of the Windows 8 family). If you are currently running Windows Vista or Windows 7, or planning to upgrade your existing system to Windows 7,...
read moreDeveloping Apps for Android phones
Posted by In Easy Steps Team on Feb 10, 2012 in Article | Comments Off
App Inventor for Android lets people create apps for Android phones by manipulating programming blocks in a web browser. Since July 2010, Google has run App Inventor as a large-scale public web service as a part of its Google Labs suite. With the wind down of Google Labs, as of December 31, 2011, Google ended support of App Inventor. In order to ensure the future success of App Inventor, Google Research has funded the establishment of the Center for Mobile Learning at the MIT Media Lab. Sometime in the first quarter of 2012, the...
read moreFighting Spam
Posted by In Easy Steps Team on Dec 10, 2011 in Article | Comments Off
By Stuart Yarnold Some interesting statistics on spam: Currently, some 80 % of email traffic is estimated to be spam 30 billion spam emails are sent every day 78 % of PC users receive spam on a daily basis 4 % of recipients make a purchase as a result of a received spam email Worldwide, the cost of dealing with spam is estimated to be 50 billion dollars annually If the spammers have you in their sights, what can you do about it? The first and most obvious step is to simply delete your account and open a new one with a different address....
read moreOnline Poker – An Overview
Posted by In Easy Steps Team on Dec 9, 2011 in Article | Comments Off
By Stuart Yarnold Quite apart from being an invaluable information resource, the Internet provides many means of recreation, one of the most popular of which is gambling. This comes in various forms: spread betting, casino games such as blackjack and roulette, stocks and shares, etc. The one we are going to look at here is poker. Currently, there are four to five hundred poker sites and the first step is to choose one, download and install the software, and then open an account. Making sure you use a reputable poker room is important as...
read moreUnderstanding Camera Raw
Posted by In Easy Steps Team on Dec 7, 2011 in Article | Comments Off
By Robert Shufflebotham With the relentless advance of digital camera technology, many pro-level and some mid-range digital cameras now allow you to record images as “raw” files. But, do you need camera raw, and what are the advantages and implications if you decide to use it? Most digital cameras use either CCD (charge-coupled device) or CMOS (complimentary metal oxide semiconductor) sensor technology to capture image data. Raw image files record the precise data captured by the photosensitive sensors of the camera without...
read moreUnderstanding Regular Expressions By Mike McGrath
Posted by In Easy Steps Team on Dec 7, 2011 in Article | Comments Off
A “Regular Expression” is simply a pattern describing a particular string of characters. Regular Expressions are often referred to as “regex” or “regexp” and are supported by most programming languages, such as C++, and scripting languages such as JavaScript. Regular Expressions are useful for text validation and for search-and-replace operations within text by matching their specified pattern to a section of the text. A Regular Expression pattern may consist entirely of “literal characters”...
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