Experience Skype to the Max
Experience Skype to the Max shows you how to make the most of Skype's full range of features on any device. Discover tips and tricks for saving time, saving money, and fostering better communication at work or in your personal projects.Go beyond simple voice calling and discover Skype as a multimedia cross-platform collaboration tool, wherever you are in the world. Learn how to connect to Skype from your devices whether in the home office, on the road, roaming on your mobile or over Wi-Fi. Discover the best ways to call or message landlines and mobile phones at minimum cost, and how to manage your account and payments, depending on your needs.As a regular Skype user, you'll also benefit from insider tips on choosing hardware and peripherals, integrating your Skype usage with other platforms such as Office and Outlook.com, and preparing for the next developments in internet-based communications.As work and home lives become increasingly intertwined, this book is your essential guide to building and sustaining your important relationships on one reliable platform.
Getting Started With Github
If you're new to GitHub, this concise book shows you just what you need to get started and no more. It's perfect for project and product managers, stakeholders, and other team members who want to collaborate on a development project--whether it's to review and comment on work in progress or to contribute specific changes. It's also great for developers just learning GitHub. GitHub has rapidly become the default platform for software development, but it's also ideal for other text-based documents, from contracts to screenplays. This hands-on book shows you how to use GitHub's web interface to view projects and collaborate effectively with your team. Learn how and why people use GitHub to collaborate View the status of a project--recent changes, outstanding work, and historic changes Create and edit files through GitHub without learning Git Suggest changes to projects you don't have permission to edit directly Use tools like issues, pull requests, and branches to specify and collaborate on changes Create a new GitHub repository to control who has access to your project
Minecraft Mastery
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.SUPERCHARGE YOUR MINECRAFT REDSTONE SKILLSEnhance your Minecraft world by creating innovative devices and elements with Redstone. Minecraft Mastery: Build Your Own Redstone Contraptions and Mods reveals how to maximize the capabilities of this powerful, versatile red ore. Learn how to create logic gates, advanced mechanisms, and much more. You'll also find out how to host a Minecraft server, use the qCraft and Computer-Craft mods, and develop your own custom mods. Exponentially expand the dimensions of your world with help from this hands-on guide--the only limit is your imagination!Use basic Redstone items like levers, buttons, and lamps, and make an automated doorCreate Redstone logic gates, clocks, and T-flip-flopsBuild advanced contraptions--block swappers, concealed doors, a functional seven segment display, and moreUse miscellaneous Redstone items such as rails, minecarts, liquids, hoppers, and command blocksHost a Minecraft server to open your world up to other playersEdit Minecraft worlds offline using MCEditInteract with Minecraft using Python on a Raspberry PiCreate quantum physics-based contraptions and special effects with qCraftBuild ComputerCraft blocks and turtles and program them in LuaSet up a Minecraft modding development environment using Forge and EclipseMake your own block-based mods and item modsAll code and example worlds from the book are available for download.
How to Do Everything: Icloud, Second Edition
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Maximize the latest iCloud capabilitiesThis all-new edition of How To Do Everything: iCloud fully covers iCloud's versatile features and offers step-by-step directions on how to use each one, including Shared Photo Streams, the iWork for iCloud apps, and iCloud Keychain. You'll learn how to set up iCloud, transfer and sync app-specific data, documents, files, photos, music, and other content among your computers and iOS mobile devices. Use iCloud with your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPad mini, and iPod touch Migrate from Apple MobileMe to iCloudLearn new iCloud features, including Shared Photo Streams, iWork for iCloud online apps, iCloud Keychain, and much moreManage your digital music library and iTunes purchases with iCloudUse the Premium iTunes Match serviceStore and manage your digital photos with My Photo StreamShare your digital images with others using iCloud's Shared Photo StreamsSync files and documents among computers and iOS devices Manage and sync your Safari bookmarks, reading list, and passwords using iCloud and iCloud KeychainWork with iWork for iCloudLearn about other cloud-based servicesSync and share apps, app-related data, and eBooks among iOS mobile devices and your computer(s) Back up your iPhone and iPad with iCloudStream Apple TV content to your HD TVLocate a Lost Mac, iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with iCloud's Find My... featureManage your iCloud email accountTroubleshoot iCloud-related problems
Developing B2b Social Communities
Developing B2B Social Communities: Keys to Growth, Innovation, and Customer Loyalty explains why business-to-business companies need a robust online community strategy to survive and flourish in today's changing economy and shows you how to design and execute your company's strategy successfully. Seminars, publications, market research, and customer care centers remain important tools in every B2B firm's toolbox for understanding, attracting, and serving customers while keeping them loyal. But in a world of fierce global price competition, increasing transparency of business practices, and ever-rising complexity, these traditional customer interaction channels are no longer enough for most B2B companies. That's why smart organizations--both large and small--are tapping into online communities to gain a huge competitive advantage: the ability to get much closer to customers and become more valuable to them. Developing B2B Social Communities delves into the generators of business value in online communities: immediate customer access to expert information within the company and from other customers; inexpensive delivery of custom technical help; demonstrations of how customers can to get the most from their products; and forums where customers can share tips, air gripes, reveal unmet needs, and suggest improvements. Three veteran community managers show you how to harness the knowledge of the crowd to help shape your company's strategic direction, develop new products and services, identify trends, sell more, serve customers more efficiently, and provide better product support. Fleshing out precepts with real-world examples and case studies, the authors detail the transformational opportunities--and pitfalls--for creating online communities.
History Decoded
It's an irresistible combination: Brad Meltzer, a born storyteller, counting down the world's most intriguing unsolved mysteries. And to make this richly illustrated book even richer, each chapter invites the reader along for an interactive experience through the addition of removable facsimile documents--the evidence! It's a treasure trove for conspiracy buffs, a Griffin and Sabine for history lovers. Adapted from Decoded, Meltzer's hit show on the HISTORY network, History Decoded explores fascinating, unexplained questions. Is Fort Knox empty? Why was Hitler so intent on capturing the Roman "Spear of Destiny"? What's the government hiding in Area 51? Where did the Confederacy's $19 million in gold and silver go at the end of the Civil War? And did Lee Harvey Oswald really act alone? Meltzer sifts through the evidence; weighs competing theories; separates what we know to be true with what's still--and perhaps forever--unproved or unprovable; and in the end, decodes the mystery, arriving at the most likely solution. Along the way we meet Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Nazi propagandists, and the real DB Cooper. Bound in at the beginning of each story is a custom-designed envelope--a faux 19th-century leather satchel, a U.S. government classified file--containing facsimiles of relevant evidence: John Wilkes Booth's alleged unsigned will, a map of the Vatican, Kennedy's death certificate. The whole is a riveting, interactive adventure through the compelling world of mysteries and conspiracies.
Best Ipad Apps
What really wows iPad fans is when their touchscreen does what's impossible on other gadgets: the finger-painting app that turns a cross-country flight into a moving art class, the mini music studio (two-dozen instruments strong, each with motion-induced warble effects), and the portable fireworks display that you sculpt by swiping.Problem is, with tens of thousands of apps available for your iPad, who knows what to download? You can try to sort through a gazillion customer reviews with a mix of 5- and 1-star ratings, but that's a head-hurting time-waster. The stakes are getting higher, too: instead of freebies and 99-cent trinkets, the price of iPad apps is steadily creeping up and beyond their iPhone predecessors.Best iPad Apps guides you to the hidden treasures in the App Store's crowded aisles. Author Peter Meyers stress-tested thousands of options to put together this irresistible, page-turner of a catalog. Inside these pages, you'll find apps as magical as the iPad itself.Flip through the book for app suggestions, or head directly to one of several categories we've loaded up with "best of" selections to help you: Get work doneManipulate photosMake moviesCreate comicsBrowse the Web betterTake notesOutline ideasTrack your healthExplore the worldNo matter how you use your iPad, Best iPad Apps will help you find the real gems among the rubble -- so you make the most of your glossy gadget.
Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL
In this comprehensive guide to creating an e-commerce Web site using PHP and MySQL, renowned author Larry Ullman walks you through every step--designing the visual interface, creating the database, presenting content, generating an online catalog, managing the shopping cart, handling the order and the payment process, and fulfilling the order--always with security and best practices emphasized along the way. Even if you're an experienced Web developer, you're guaranteed to learn something new. The book uses two e-commerce site examples--one based on selling physical products that require shipping and delayed payment, and another that sells non-physical products to be purchased and delivered instantly--so you see the widest possible range of e-commerce scenarios. In 11 engaging, easy-to-follow chapters, Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL teaches you how to: - Think of the customer first, in order to maximize sales- Create a safe server environment and database- Use secure transactions and prevent common vulnerabilities- Incorporate different payment gateways- Design scalable sites that are easy to maintain- Build administrative interfaces- Extend both examples to match the needs of your own sites Larry Ullman is the president of Digital Media and Communications Insights, Inc., a firm specializing in information technology (www.dmcinsights.com). He is the author of several bestselling programming and Web development books, including PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide. Larry also writes articles on these subjects and teaches them in small and large group settings. Despite working with computers, programming languages, databases, and such since the early 1980s, Larry still claims he's not a computer geek (but he admits he can speak their language).
Sams Teach Yourself Gmail in 10 Minutes
Sams Teach Yourself Gmail in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you'll learn how to take complete control over your email-and communicate with anyone, anywhere-quickly and easily! Tips point out shortcuts and solutions Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls Notes provide additional information 10 minutes is all you need to learn how to... Create, format, send, read, and manage messages Save time with Gmail's best productivity shortcuts Organize all your email with a few clicks Quickly find any message with Google's powerful search tools Instantly create contacts and quickly send messages to them Deliver mass mailings to groups of contacts Stay connected with friends using built-in Google Buzz social networking Have instant online conversations with built-in Google Chat Improve email efficiency with automatic forwarding and vacation autoresponder Use Gmail even when you're not connected to the Internet
Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Marketing
The complete guide to a winning pay-per-click marketing campaign Pay-per-click advertising-the "sponsored results" on search engine results pages-is increasingly being used to drive traffic to websites. Marketing and advertising professionals looking for a hands-on, task-based guide to every stage of creating and managing a winning PPC campaign will get the step-by-step instruction they need in this detailed guide. Using the popular An Hour A Day format, this book helps you avoid the pitfalls and plan, develop, implement, manage, and monitor a PPC campaign that gets results. Successful pay-per-click campaigns are a key component of online marketing This guide breaks the project down into manageable tasks, valuable for the small-business owner as well as for marketing officers and consultants Explains core PPC concepts, industry trends, and the mechanics that make a campaign work Shows how to perform keyword research, structure campaigns, and understand campaign settings and various pricing models Discusses how to write ads, develop and test landing pages, use ad groups, and leverage Google's content network Covers launching a campaign, bidding for position, monitoring, gathering results, and interpreting and acting on the data collected Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Marketing: An Hour a Day provides the tools to make the most of this important marketing method.
Google Advertising Tools
With this book, you'll learn how to take full advantage of Google AdWords and AdSense, the sophisticated online advertising tools used by thousands of large and small businesses. This new edition provides a substantially updated guide to advertising on the Web, including how it works in general, and how Google's advertising programs in particular help you make money. You'll find everything you need to work with AdWords, which lets you generate text ads to accompany specific search term results, and AdSense, which automatically delivers precisely targeted text and image ads to your website. Google Advertising Tools focuses on best practices, with several case studies that demonstrate which approaches work well, which don't, and why. Google's ad programs can help any business with a web presence, and this guide explains precisely how to use them. Learn how to create effective campaign plans for your website Understand the PageRank algorithm, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Drive traffic to your website and make money as an advertising host Add AdSense code and Google search to your site Learn how content, search, and referral ads perform Create and edit AdWord campaigns Monitor AdWords activity and improve your campaign's performance
Dont Spend a Dime
Stop paying for software. A world full of high-quality software is out there that you don't have to spend a dime for. If you've just spent your entire computing budget on a PC only to find that you need software to do anything interesting, this is the book that will show you how to get what you need without wreaking havoc on your finances. Install the right software to make a great work computer for no extra cost. Packed with the practical, hands-on guidance and technical know-how that you've come to expect from Apress, Don't Spend A Dime: The Path to Low-Cost Computing takes you on a tour of the very best zero-cost software in each of the many categories that matter to the typical PC user. Learn to edit photos on the Internet without having to install any software at all. Find out where to get a free office suite for word processing and spreadsheet work. Whatever your need, James Kelly, best-selling technology author, guides you through the exciting and often confusing world of zero-cost computing. This book Tells you what you need to install to have a fantastic work computer without spending a dime Saves you money by showing you how to meet your computing needs Saves you time by pointing you directly to the best free software Saves you work by illustrating the most commonly performed tasks with each zero-cost software Gives you choices and the ability to make your own decisions for your own needs and requirements Before you go buy that $400.00 office suite--or worse, before you "borrow" it from work--stop! Let this book show you how to save hundreds of dollars in expensive software. Learn all about the free tools that the digerati use to make their lives better, and stop paying out the nose for software. Don't spend a dime!
Selling Online 2.0
REMEMBER WHEN eBay USED TO BE A GREAT PLACE FOR SMALL SELLERS TO BECOME BIG SELLERS? Unfortunately, recent changes at eBay have made online auctions less reliable and profitable. So where can you sell when you can't sell on eBay? Online auctions are the past; fixed-price selling is the future. It's time to move beyond eBay and first-generation online selling and start Selling Online 2.0. Second generation online selling means migrating from eBay to other online marketplaces, including craigslist, Amazon, and your own e-commerce website. You'll need to make some new plans, learn some new skills, and change some of the things you do--but you'll find that there's more money to be made on your own than relying on traditional eBay online auction sales. Put together a plan to maintain your sales level and profitability--to counteract eBay's changes Discover how to shift from auction sales to fixed-priced listings on the eBay marketplace Find out if running an eBay Store or selling on Half.com makes sense for your business Learn out how to sell locally on craigslist and other online classifieds sites Discover how to sell fixed-price merchandise on the Amazon marketplace Find out how to launch your own e-commerce website--and promote your online store Learn how to sell products across multiple channels--and manage multichannel conflicts Introduction 1 What's in This Book 2 Who Can Use This Book 3 How to Use This Book 3 There's More Online... 4 Making the Move 4 I BEYOND ONLINE AUCTIONS: CREATING A SUCCESSFUL ONLINE BUSINESS 5 1 The Problem with Online Auctions 7 What eBay Used to Be Like... 7 Why Is eBay Abandoning Smaller Sellers? 10 Changes Are Afoot--and You Probably Won't Like Them 12 Emphasizing Fixed-Price Sales over Auction Sales 12 Changes to the Fee Structure 12 Changes to the Payment System 14 Changes to the Feedback System 15 Changes to Search Results 15 eBay's Deal with Buy.com 16 How Do eBay's Changes Affect You? 16 2 Planning for Selling Success 19 Planning for Life Beyond eBay Auctions 19 Asking--and Answering--Key Questions 20 What Type of Merchandise Do You Want to Sell? 20 How Much Money Do You Want to Make? 21 How Do You Intend to Manage Your Business? 23 Where Do You Want to Sell? 25 Conceiving a Business Plan 26 Understanding the Components of a Useful Business Plan 28 Mission 29 Opportunity 30 Strategy 30 Organization and Operations 31 Strengths and Weaknesses 31 Financials 31 Writing Your Business Plan 32 Implementing Your Business Plan 33 II FIXED-PRICE SELLING ON EBAY 35 3 Migrating to Fixed-Price Listings 37 Why Fixed-Priced Sales Are the Way to Go 37 Comparing Fees 38 Comparing Listing Lengths 40 Factoring in Customer Demand 41 Different Ways to Sell at a Fixed Pric 42 Understanding eBay's Fixed-Price Listings 43 Understanding eBay's Buy It Now Auctions 44 Understanding eBay Stores 46 Understanding Half.com 47 Creating an eBay Fixed-Price Listing 50 Creating an Auction Listing with a Buy It Now Price 51 Managing Fixed-Price Sales 52 Before the Sale: Setting the Price 53 After the Sale: Payment and Shipping 53 4 Fixed-Price Selling in an eBay Store 57 What Is an eBay Store? 57 Benefits of Opening Your Own eBay Store 59 Challenges of eBay Store Selling 60 Understanding eBay Store Subscription Levels 61 Understanding Insertion Fees and FVFs 63 How to Open an eBay Store 63 Further Customizing Your eBay Store 67 Managing Your eBay Store 68 Listing Merchandise for Sale in Your eBay Store 70 Handling eBay Store Sales 71 Marking Down Your Merchandise 72 Viewing eBay Store Reports 73 5 Fixed-Price Selling on Half.com 77 Getting to Know Half.com 77 Understanding the Half.com Shopping Experience 79 Understanding Half.com Fees 80 Listing on Half.com 81 Pricing Your Half.com Items 83 Calculating Shipping and Handling Charges 84 Managing Half.com Sales 85 6 Promoting Your F
Absolute Beginner’s Guide to eBay
Absolute Beginner's Guide to eBay(R) Fifth Edition Michael Miller No prior eBay experience necessary! Absolute Beginner's Guide to eBay will show you how to successfully bid and sell on eBay, the world's largest online auction site. eBay expert Michael Miller walks you through the process of buying and selling any type of item on eBay. You'll learn how to safely place bids, win auctions with last-minute snipes, buy fixed-priced items in eBay Stores and Half.com, and use My eBay to track all your auction activity. His eBay tips and tricks will also show you how to create great-looking item listings and safely collect credit card payments via PayPal. Absolute Beginner's Guide to eBay reveals all the secrets necessary to become a thriving eBay user-whether you bid or auction one item a month or a thousand! Who knew how simple eBay can be? Absolute Beginner's Guide to eBay will have you bidding and selling in online auctions in no time! Here's a small sample of what you'll find inside: Learn how to place a last-second "snipe" bid-and win the auction without paying too much Discover how to buy fixed-price items on eBay without bidding Find out how to create eye-catching auction listings, complete with pictures Learn how to use PayPal to accept credit card payments Discover how to pack different types of items-and ship them out cheaply and safely Learn how to design cool-looking listings with eBayTurbo Lister-and track all your auctions with eBay Selling Manager Find out how to find a Trading Assistant to sell your items for you Uncover the secrets of successful eBay buyers and sellers Michael Miller is a top eBay seller and a successful and prolific author. He has a reputation for practical, real-world advice and an unerring empathy for the needs of his readers. Miller has written more than 75 nonfiction books over the past two decades, including Easy eBay, eBay Auction Templates Starter Kit, Tricks of the eBay Masters, and Making a Living from Your eBay Business. He has been interviewed about eBay by Family Circle magazine, Black Enterprise magazine, and numerous radio stations across the country. Miller's eBay user ID is trapperjohn2000. Category: Collectibles Covers: eBay User Level: Beginning
Don't Get Burned On eBay
Lots of books tell you how to buy and sell on eBay. But what if something goes horribly awry? Do you have to chalk it up to a "lesson learned," lick your wounds and move on? Not a chance. Don't Get Burned on eBay offers relevant lessons based on real-life stories posted on eBay's Answer Center. With sharp, witty rhetoric, veteran eBay user Shauna Wright (co-founder of the popular web site WhoWouldBuyThat.com, shows eBay veterans and newcomers alike how to avoid those nasty scenarios, and how to pull themselves out of the muck if they've already fallen in. Six entertaining (and hair-raising) chapters cover real problems that people have encountered with bidding, payment, shipping, packaging, dealing with other eBayers, and coping with the eBay system. This book is for anyone who's ever used eBay, because even veteran buyers and sellers often don't know the intricacies of eBay's and PayPal's rules. Don't Get Burned on eBay will leave you well-informed and better protected from potential pitfalls. The book's extensive glossary and numerous in-depth sidebars also make the book useful to people who haven't yet taken the plunge into eBay.
Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, And WordPress
Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress is authored by a team of experts, including Jared Smith, a long time support team member of the phpBBHacks.com web site who has been building sites with phpBB since the first beta releases, and Mike Little, the founder and a contributing developer of the WordPress project.
Tax Loopholes for Ebay Sellers
Hundreds of Legal Deductions for eBay Sellers!If you're an online seller, take note: now you can reduce--or even eliminate--the taxes you pay using the insider tips in Tax Loopholes for eBay Sellers. You'll discover hundreds of little-known, completely legal tax deductions and reporting tips that are unique to eBay and designed to benefit small business owners. Learn what the IRS is looking for when sorting out a real business from a hobby and why it matters.You'll get step-by-step advice on everything from setting up your business and getting a business license to creating a bookkeeping system. Use the power of eBay and the tax strategies in this book to increase your wealth, protect your assets--and lower your tax bill.How much can you fit into your eBay tax loophole? Learn what the best tax-advantaged business structures are for your type of eBay business Get the free "The 9 Steps to Business Test" to see if your business measures up against IRS guidelines Identify and take advantage of hundreds of legal deductions for eBay business owners Determine how often you will prepare a sales and use tax report based on volume Set up a payroll system with the proper withholding deductions for all employees including yourself Create an accounting system to pay bills, input transactions, record sales, keep track of PayPal fees, and balance your business checkbook
Pro .NET 2.0 Graphics Programming
The book is aimed at a business applications audience, and presents designs and techniques useful in that environment. The provided information about the semantics of GDI+ ("Graphics Device Interface") is language agnostic, and the examples are written in C#. A good working knowledge of C# syntax and of the .NET Framework is assumed.
Paypal For Dummies
Here's how PayPal can help your business succeed E-mail money, save money, make money, and enhance your Web site PayPal's a practical partner, and this handy handbook introduces you to its many identities. It can act as your banker, charge card, cashier, shipping clerk, and a whole lot more. Here's how to set up and use your account, plus tips on adding PayPal to your business Web site and even exploring its PayPal Web Services. Discover how to * Establish the account you need * Use PayPal like an ATM * Set up multi-user access * Accept payments in multiple currencies * Ship merchandise using PayPal * Create a shopping cart and buttons
