| Learning Android Game Programming Posted: 11 May 2012 09:17 AM PDT 
Book Description Build the Next Great Android Game! Learning Android Game Programming is your hands-on, start-to-finish guide to creating winning games for today's rapidly growing Android mobile device marketplace. If you have even basic Android development experience, Rick Rogers will help you build on your knowledge to quickly create low-budget 2D mobile games that sell. The book starts with an up-to-the-minute overview of today's Android mobile games marketplace, reviews each leading genre, and teaches you the foundational concepts of game development. You'll design a simple game, then master every step of game development with AndEngine—the powerful, open source, free game-development engine. Every chapter teaches with sample code you can actually use, including many examples drawn from the published game, Virgins Versus Vampires (V3). With this book you'll learn how to - Use free Android tools for creating code, artwork, and sound
- Implement the "game loop" that is at the heart of Android games
- Bring your game to life with scene transitions and entity modifiers
- Make the most of bitmap and vector graphics, sprites, and animation
- Integrate user input via touch, multitouch, keyboard, voice recognition, accelerometer, location, and compass
- Build infinite virtual worlds with tile maps
- Create, save, and reuse powerful particle effects
- Find, acquire, modify, and use background music and sound effects
- Implement highly realistic physics effects with Box2D
- Use AI techniques to make your games smarter and more fun
- Build a scoring framework based on collisions between your game elements
Download the free version of Virgins Versus Vampires (V3) from Android Market today, as you learn how to build the game in this book Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Mobile Games
Chapter 2. Game Elements and Tools
Chapter 3. The Game Loop and Menus
Chapter 4. Scenes, Layers, Transitions, and Modifiers
Chapter 5. Drawing and Sprites
Chapter 6. Animation
Chapter 7. Text
Chapter 8. User Input
Chapter 9. Tile Maps
Chapter 10. Particle Systems
Chapter 11. Sound
Chapter 12. Physics
Chapter 13. Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 14. Scoring and Collisions
Chapter 15. Multimedia Extensions
Chapter 16. Game Integration
Chapter 17. Testing and Publishing Book Details - Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (December 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0321769627
- ISBN-13: 978-0321769626
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| Essential Windows Phone 7.5 Posted: 11 May 2012 09:12 AM PDT 
Book Description Essential Windows Phone 7.5is the definitive guide to creating powerful, visually compelling mobile applications that take full advantage of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.5 platform. Nine-time Microsoft MVP Shawn Wildermuth draws on his extensive experience teaching Silverlight and Windows Phone development, helping you to get started fast and master techniques that lead to truly outstanding apps. After introducing the latest version of Windows Phone, Shawn Wildermuth dives directly into the essentials, emphasizing best-practice examples and illustrating with code. You'll build a complete application from start to finish, then build on your skills with increasingly sophisticated techniques. From planning and design through application delivery, Shawn Wildermuth guides you through the entire mobile development lifecycle, showing how to make the most of Windows Phone 7.5's most important new capabilities. Whether you're a .NET or Silverlight developer going mobile, or an experienced mobile developer moving to Windows Phone, Essential Windows Phone 7.5 delivers all the skills you'll need. Coverage includes: - Leveraging Microsoft's breakthrough Metro design language
- Using phone features such as email, calling, search, Web browsing, and the camera
- Designing the look and feel of your user interface with XAML
- Interacting with users via Panorama, Pivot, and other controls
- Mastering the new Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7.5
- Choosing the right application paradigm and functionality for your specific app
- Incorporating touch, vibration, motion, and sound into your interfaces
- Working with Windows Phone 7.5's unique hubs and tiles
- Building location-based services that work with the phone's GPS
- Storing data in Isolated Storage or Windows Phone 7.5's database support
- Multitasking reliably, without compromising performance
- Integrating external data via REST, conventional Web services, and push notifications
- Preparing your application for the Windows Phone Marketplace
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introducing Windows Phone
Chapter 2. Writing Your First Phone Application
Chapter 3. XAML Overview
Chapter 4. Controls
Chapter 5. Designing for the Phone
Chapter 6. Developing for the Phone
Chapter 7. Phone Integration
Chapter 8. Databases and Storage
Chapter 9. Multitasking
Chapter 10. Services
Chapter 11. The Marketplace Book Details - Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (December 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0321752139
- ISBN-13: 978-0321752130
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| Facebook for Grown-Ups, 2nd Edition Posted: 11 May 2012 08:51 AM PDT 
Book Description Facebook started out as a social network for high school and college kids. But now grown-ups like you are getting connected, too — even if you use Facebook much differently than your kids do. If you're a grown-up looking to join the Facebook bandwagon, Facebook for Grown-Ups is just the guide you need. You'll learn how to use Facebook to reconnect with old friends and family members and keep them up-to-date on what's happening in your life. Facebook for Grown-Ups shows you how to open a Facebook account, find new friends, post status updates, and share family photos and videos. You'll learn how to become a fan of your favorite performers, join a business network, and create your own topic-specific groups. And if you're worried about privacy, Facebook for Grown-Ups shows you how to keep your personal information from becoming public knowledge. You'll even learn how to keep track of what your kids are doing on Facebook — without them knowing it. This revised and updated edition shows you how to best use Facebook’s new Timeline profile page. You’ll learn how to customize your Timeline, edit and highlight events, and add your own personal cover image. Table of Contents
Part I: Getting Started with Facebook
Chapter 1. Welcome to Facebook—It's Not Just for Kids Anymore
Chapter 2. Signing Up and Getting Started
Chapter 3. Getting Around the Facebook Site Part II: Facebook for Friends and Family
Chapter 4. How to Find Old Friends—and Make New Ones
Chapter 5. Visiting Friends and Family on Facebook
Chapter 6. Keeping Tabs on Your Kids
Chapter 7. Organizing Groups of Friends Part III: Keeping in Touch with Facebook
Chapter 8. Updating Your Friends on What You're Doing
Chapter 9. Exchanging Private Messages
Chapter 10. Chatting with Family and Friends—Live Part IV: Sharing Your Life on Facebook
Chapter 11. Sharing Family Pictures
Chapter 12. Sharing Home Movies
Chapter 13. Sharing Birthdays and Events Part V: Managing and Protecting Your Facebook Account
Chapter 14. Managing Your Facebook Account
Chapter 15. Keeping Some Things Private: Managing Facebook's Privacy Settings
Chapter 16. What to Say—and What Not to Say—Online Part VI: Doing More with Facebook
Chapter 17. Personalizing Your Profile Page
Chapter 18. Liking Public Pages
Chapter 19. Networking for Business—and for Jobs
Chapter 20. Finding Fun Games and Applications
Chapter 21. Buying and Selling in the Facebook Marketplace
Chapter 22. Using Facebook on the Go
Chapter 23. Exploring Twitter, LinkedIn, and Other Social Networks
Chapter 24. Connecting Facebook to Other Sites and Services Book Details - Paperback: 408 pages
- Publisher: Que; 2nd Edition (December 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0789749025
- ISBN-13: 978-0789749024
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| Facebook Marketing, 3rd Edition Posted: 11 May 2012 08:38 AM PDT 
Book Description The Easy, Step-by-Step Guide to Facebook Marketing—100% Updated for Facebook's Newest Features & Best Practices Your best customers and prospects are on Facebook: more than 800,000,000 of them. Your business needs to be there, too: not just with a generic "page," but with a smart, low-cost marketing program that works. Facebook Marketing, Third Edition will help you plan that program, execute it, measure it, and optimize it. Two world-class social media marketers show you how to make the most of Facebook's most valuable new business features—including Facebook Messages, Deals, Places, Credits, Connect, mobile apps, and much more. This completely revamped new edition offers dozens of new tips and best practices for everything from advertising and analytics to promotion and privacy. Whether you're an entrepreneur, marketer, or PR pro, it will help you find and profit from your customers where they are right now: on Facebook! You'll Learn How To: - Get started fast with Facebook, even if you're new to it
- Develop winning Facebook marketing strategies
- Master new best practices for creating "best in class" Facebook pages
- Design Facebook ads that drive more clickthroughs at lower cost
- Reach customers outside Facebook with Facebook Connect and social plugins
- Use images and other media to personalize your presence and engage visitors
- Build thriving Facebook communities that promote loyalty and innovation
- Market to customers on the move via Facebook mobile apps
- Monitor what your customers are saying in real-time
- Protect your privacy—and your customers' privacy, too
- Use Facebook Credits social currency to attract new customers and promote product sampling
- Track your performance with Facebook Analytics
- Prepare to profit from tomorrow's Facebook trends and innovations
Book Details - Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Que; 3rd Edition (December 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 078974113X
- ISBN-13: 978-0789741134
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| Google+ for Business Posted: 11 May 2012 08:34 AM PDT 
Book Description The Complete Business Guide to Google+, Today's Hottest New Social Network! Every week, millions more people sign up for Google+: Suddenly, it's today's hottest new social network. Google+ for Business reveals why Google+ offers business opportunities available nowhere else–and helps you grab those opportunities now, before your competitors do. Top social media professional speaker and business advisor Chris Brogan shows how to get great results fast, without wasting time–and without wasting a dime. Brogan guides you through using Google+ for promotion, customer service, community building, referrals, collaboration, and a whole lot more. You won't just master innovative new tools like Circles and Hangouts: You'll use them to generate more customers and more cash! - Make the right first moves after you've signed up for Google+
- Take advantage of links between Google+ and Google search
- Define the best Google+ strategy and tactics for your business
- Create a business page that attracts new paying customers
- Integrate Google+ into your current online/digital strategies
- Learn how your customers are using Google+–and give them what they're looking for
- Use Circles to organize your contacts and interactions more effectively
- Create Google+ posts that draw attention and spark conversations
- Master warm selling on Google+
- Build a simple, low-cost content strategy around Google+
- Grow your audience and share others' valuable content
- Discover new ways to derive even more value from Google+
Book Details - Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Que (December 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0789749149
- ISBN-13: 978-0789749147
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| My Windows Phone 7 Posted: 11 May 2012 08:29 AM PDT 
Book Description Step-by-step instructions with callouts to Windows Phone 7 photos so that you can see exactly what to do Help when you run into Windows Phone 7 problems or limitations Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your Windows Phone 7 device Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your Windows Phone 7 working just the way you want. Learn how to: - Get started fast! Covers Windows Phone 7.5 Mango release.
- Master Windows Phone 7's elegant interface and powerful shortcuts
- Quickly set up ringtones, voicemail, Airplane Mode, wallpaper, accessibility, and more
- Connect to the Internet, Wi-Fi networks, and Bluetooth devices
- Get and send messages easily via Outlook, Windows Live, and Google accounts
- Find almost anything with content search, contact search, and Bing web search
- Work seamlessly with OneNote, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SharePoint documents
- Use Zune and Marketplace to import media content and download applications
- Discover your phone's built-in apps, and easily pin them to your Start screen
- Store content in the cloud, with Microsoft SkyDrive
- Reach your destination faster with Maps, GPS, and turn-by-turn voice directions
- Use Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn social networking via the People Hub
- Capture, store, and share photos
- Track your calendar—including events stored on Microsoft Exchange
- Use the Xbox LIVE Hub to transform your Windows Phone into a great mobile gaming system
Book Details - Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Que (December 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0789748258
- ISBN-13: 978-0789748256
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