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Entertainment Apps on the Go with Windows 10
Databases for Small Business
Pro PowerShell for Microsoft Azure
Genetic Algorithms in Java Basics
Digital Electronics for Musicians
Digital Audio Editing Fundamentals

Entertainment Apps on the Go with Windows 10

Posted: 04 May 2016 10:41 AM PDT

Entertainment Apps on the Go with Windows 10: Music, Movies, and TV for PCs, Tablets, and Phones.

This book enables you to unleash the entertainment potential of your Windows 10 PC, tablet, or phone—or any combination of the three! Learn how to stream movies and TV shows, manage your media collection, purchase new media, and upload your music collection to the cloud.

Make your entertainment experience truly mobile by streaming wirelessly between devices in the home, or from cloud services that let you take your content anywhere. Learn to push content from Windows 10 to other devices like TVs, or your Xbox One. Tap into a wide range of popular streaming services, including Netflix, Spotify, and Google Play.

Ian Dixon and Garry Whittaker take the hassle out of managing and enjoying music, TV, and movies from your own collection and beyond. Whether you already have an extensive music and video collection, or are just getting started, this book will help you get the best entertainment from Windows.

What you'll learn

Use music streaming services on a phone, tablet or laptop
Stream from thousands of radio stations to your Windows 10 phone or PC
Purchase and manage music and video collections
Use iTunes with Windows 10 tablets, laptops and phones
Find out what type of media files work with Windows 10
Enjoy your existing music collection on Windows 10 PCs, phones and tablets
Stream movies and TV shows from Netflix, and stream music to Windows, Android, and iOS devices
Use Windows 10's Data Sense app to monitor your phone and PC data usage
Use Windows 10 to wirelessly access media stored on Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 PCs around the home
Use PlayTo to send content to Network Attached (NAS) devices in your home, including Xbox One, TVs and media players
Get started building your personal media cloud so you can access your music and videos from anywhere in the world and on any device

Who this book is for

The book is for home users that are either new to Windows or upgrading from previous versions of the operating system and want to enjoy music, movies and TV shows on their phone, tablet, or laptop.

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Databases for Small Business

Posted: 04 May 2016 10:39 AM PDT

Databases for Small Business: Essentials of Database Management, Data Analysis, and Staff Training for Entrepreneurs and Professionals.

This book covers the practical aspects of database design, data cleansing, data analysis, and data protection, among others. The focus is on what you really need to know to create the right database for your small business and to leverage it most effectively to spur growth and revenue.

Databases for Small Business is a practical handbook for entrepreneurs, managers, staff, and professionals in small organizations who are not IT specialists but who recognize the need to ramp up their small organizations' use of data and to round out their own business expertise and office skills with basic database proficiency.

Anna Manning—a data scientist who has worked on database design and data analysis in a computer science university research lab, her own small business, and a nonprofit—walks you through the progression of steps that will enable you to extract actionable intelligence and maximum value from your business data in terms of marketing, sales, customer relations, decision making, and business strategy.

Dr. Manning illustrates the steps in the book with four running case studies of a small online business, an engineering startup, a small legal firm, and a nonprofit organization.

What you'll learn

Design a small business database from scratch
Extract the maximum profit from your data
Follow guidance on data protection law
Effectively use data collection and data cleansing techniques
Train staff to leverage your data

Who this book is for

Databases for Small Business is a practical handbook for entrepreneurs, managers, staff, and professionals in any small organization who are not IT specialists but who recognize the need to ramp up their small organization’s use of data and to round out their own and their staff’s business expertise and office skills with basic database proficiency.

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Pro PowerShell for Microsoft Azure

Posted: 04 May 2016 10:34 AM PDT

Pro PowerShell for Microsoft Azure.

This book is written for Windows professionals who are familiar with PowerShell and want to learn to build, operate, and administer their Windows workloads in the Microsoft cloud. Pro PowerShell for Microsoft Azure is packed with practical examples and scripts, with easy-to-follow explanations for a wide range of day-to-day needs and essential administration tasks.

Author Sherif Talaat begins by explaining the fundamental concepts behind the Microsoft Azure platform and how to get started configuring it through PowerShell. Readers will find out how to deploy, configure and manage the various components of the Azure platform, from storage and virtual networks to Azure Web Apps, HDInsight clusters and the Azure SQL Database. Workload automation, scheduling and resource management are covered in depth to help build efficiency in everyday tasks, and administrators will gain full control over Azure identity and access rights using Azure Active Directory and Rights Management Services.

Put your PowerShell skills to good use and ensure that your applications and data are available anywhere at any time, with Pro PowerShell for Microsoft Azure.

What you'll learn

Create and manage virtual networks and VPNs using PowerShell.
Configure and maintain Azure Storage accounts, blobs, and containers.
Provision and manage a redundant Windows or Linux server.
Deploy and configure your applications in the cloud using Microsoft Azure Web Apps.
Provision Apache Hadoop clusters in the cloud using Azure HDInsight.
Deploy, configure and manage a Microsoft Azure SQL Database.
Protect and secure identities and resources with Azure Active Directory and Azure Rights Management Services.

Who this book is for

This is book is for the intermediate to advanced Windows professional who is ready to make the leap to the cloud.

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Genetic Algorithms in Java Basics

Posted: 04 May 2016 10:30 AM PDT

Genetic Algorithms in Java Basics.

Genetic Algorithms in Java Basics is a brief introduction to solving problems using genetic algorithms, with working projects and solutions written in the Java programming language. This brief book will guide you step-by-step through various implementations of genetic algorithms and some of their common applications, with the aim to give you a practical understanding allowing you to solve your own unique, individual problems. After reading this book you will be comfortable with the language specific issues and concepts involved with genetic algorithms and you’ll have everything you need to start building your own.

Genetic algorithms are frequently used to solve highly complex real world problems and with this book you too can harness their problem solving capabilities. Understanding how to utilize and implement genetic algorithms is an essential tool in any respected software developers toolkit. So step into this intriguing topic and learn how you too can improve your software with genetic algorithms, and see real Java code at work which you can develop further for your own projects and research.

Guides you through the theory behind genetic algorithms
Explains how genetic algorithms can be used for software developers trying to solve a range of problems
Provides a step-by-step guide to implementing genetic algorithms in Java

What you'll learn

How to construct genetic algorithms in Java which you can extend for your own projects and research
What genetic algorithms are and the biological inspiration behind them
How genetic algorithms can be implemented to solve problems
Solving a traveling salesman problem and how to apply a genetic algorithm to it
How to use a genetic algorithm to solve timetabling problems
How a genetic algorithm can be used to build a robotic controller
Applying optimization techniques to genetic algorithms

Who this book is for

Genetic Algorithms in Java Basics is perfect for developers, researchers and students who are working on problems where genetic algorithms may be a solution and need to program real, working code in Java. It’s also suitable for all Java developers who are curious about genetic algorithms who would like a practical, hands-on introduction to genetic algorithms using Java.

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Digital Electronics for Musicians

Posted: 04 May 2016 10:24 AM PDT

Digital Electronics for Musicians: Build Intuitive Electronic and Electroacoustic Music Interfaces.

Digital Electronics for Musicians is the perfect book for musicians who want to dive into the world of computer music and physical computing. This book is aimed at adventurous musicians who want to learn about music programming with Arduino, sensors, and Pure Data, and how to make new interfaces and even new instruments with that knowledge.

You'll learn the basics of the Pure Data and Arduino languages, how to incorporate sensors into your musical projects, and how to use embedded computers, like the Raspberry Pi, to create stand-alone projects. Along the way, you'll learn how to create a variety of innovative (Mark, Michelle, I guess they are innovative, but not 100% sure) musical projects, including an interactive bow for stringed instruments, a MIDI clavier synthesizer, an interactive drum set, a patch-bay matrix synthesizer, a guitar looper, and even a DIY theremin.

If you are a musician or tinkerer who wants to explore the world of electronic and electroacoustic music and musical interfaces with Arduino, sensors, and Pure Data, Digital Electronics for Musicians is the book for you.

What you'll learn

Learn the basics of the Pure Data and the Arduino languages
Learn more about the available sensors on the market, and how you can incorporate them into your musical projects
Focus on physical computing by combining Arduino and Pure Data, bringing the physical world to the world of the computers
Make use of additional libraries that extend the capabilities of the Arduino
Make use of external objects in Pure Data that help achieve certain goals, depending on the project
Learn how a Pure Data patch functions and be able to modify other people’s work that fits your needs
Learn how the Arduino language works, enabling the modification of already existing code, according to your needs
Get insight on the serial communication between the Arduino and Pure Data
Learn how to approach various programming challenges in different ways

Who this book is for

Musicians who want to explore the world of electronic and electroacoustic music and musical interfaces with Arduino, sensors, and Pure Data.

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Digital Audio Editing Fundamentals

Posted: 04 May 2016 10:22 AM PDT

Digital Audio Editing Fundamentals.

This concise book builds upon the foundational concepts of MIDI, synthesis, and sampled waveforms. It also covers key factors regarding the data footprint optimization work process, streaming versus captive digital audio new media assets, digital audio programming and publishing platforms, and why data footprint optimization is important for modern day new media content development and distribution.

Digital Audio Editing Fundamentals is a new media mini-book covering concepts central to digital audio editing using the Audacity open source software package which also apply to all of the professional audio editing packages. The book gets more advanced as chapters progress, and covers key concepts for new media producers such as how to maximize audio quality and which digital audio new media formats are best for use with Kindle, Android Studio, Java, JavaFX, iOS, Blackberry, Tizen, Firefox OS, Chrome OS, Opera OS, Ubuntu Touch and HTML5.

What you'll learn

Industry terminology involved in digital audio editing, synthesis, sampling, analysis and processing
The work process which comprises a fundamental digital audio editing, analysis, and effects pipeline
The foundational audio waveform sampling concepts that are behind modern digital audio publishing
How to install, and utilize, the professional, open source Audacity digital audio editing software
Concepts behind digital audio sample resolution and sampling frequency and how to select settings
How to select the best digital audio data codec and format for your digital audio content application
How to go about data footprint optimization, to ascertain which audio formats give the best results
Using digital audio assets in computer programming languages and content publishing platforms

Who this book is for

Primary Audience: Podcasters, Bloggers, Composers, Musicians, Sound Designers, Digital Signage Content Producers, e-Learning Content Creators. Secondary Audience: Website Developers, Android Developers, iOS Developers, Multimedia Producers, Rich Internet Application (RIA) Programmers, Game Designers, User Interface Designers, User Experience Designers, Teachers, Broadcasters, Digital Content Publishers.

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