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Wow! eBook: Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Development - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Development - 5 new eBooks

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Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Development

Posted: 11 Aug 2013 09:53 AM PDT

Book Description

Unity is an incredibly powerful and popular game creation tool, and Unity 4 brings even more great features, including Mechanim animation. Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Development will show you how to use Unity with Xcode to create fun, imaginative 3D games for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. You’ll learn how to optimize your game for both speed and quality, how to test and profile your game, and how to get the most out of your iOS device features, including the gyroscope and accelerometer.

You’ll also learn how to incorporate the latest Game Center improvements in iOS 6 into your game, how to make sure your game gets into the App Store, and even how to promote your app and track revenue.

If you have a great 3D game idea, and you want to make it a reality in the App Store, then Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Development has exactly what you need.

What you'll learn

  • How to build, debug and test a Unity iOS game
  • How to include iAds
  • How to integrate Game Center leaderboards and achievements
  • How to process touch, accelerometer and gyroscope input
  • How to profile and optimize performance
  • How to promote your app and track its revenue

Who this book is for
iOS developers interested in using Unity and Unity developers who want to customize their games for iOS devices.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Getting Started
Chapter 2. A Unity Tour
Chapter 3. Making a Scene
Chapter 4. Making It Move. Scripting the Cube
Chapter 5. Let's Dance! Animation and Sound
Chapter 6. Let's Roll! Physics and Controls
Chapter 7. Let's Bowl! Advanced Physics
Chapter 8. Let's Play! Scripting the Game
Chapter 9. The Game GUI
Chapter 10. Using Unity iOS
Chapter 11. Building for Real. Device Testing and App Submission
Chapter 12. Presentation. Screens and Icons
Chapter 13. Handling Device Input
Chapter 14. Game Center. Leaderboards and Achievements
Chapter 15. iAd. Banner Ads and Interstitial Ads
Chapter 16. Optimization
Chapter 17. Where to Go from Here?

Book Details

  • Paperback: 556 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (June 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430248750
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430248750
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Arduino and LEGO Projects

Posted: 11 Aug 2013 09:50 AM PDT

Book Description

We all know how awesome LEGO is, and more and more people are discovering how many amazing things you can do with Arduino. In Arduino and LEGO Projects, Jon Lazar shows you how to combine two of the coolest things on the planet to make fun gadgets like a Magic Lantern RF reader, a sensor-enabled LEGO music box, and even an Arduino-controlled LEGO train set.

  • Learn that SNOT is actually cool (it means Studs Not on Top)
  • See detailed explanations and images of how everything fits together
  • Learn how Arduino fits into each project, including code and explanations

Whether you want to impress your friends, annoy the cat, or just kick back and bask in the awesomeness of your creations, Arduino and LEGO Projects shows you just what you need and how to put it all together.

What you'll learn

  • LEGO SNOT (Studs Not On Top) technique for smooth-sided LEGO projects
  • How to incorporate sensors into your LEGO projects
  • Using Arduino to control motors in LEGO projects
  • How to make an LEGO pet
  • How to create your own Crystal Ball RF reader
  • How to make an Arduino-animated LEGO TARDIS

Who this book is for
Both LEGO and Arduino enthusiasts, and anyone interested in making fun, unique gadgets with LEGO and Arduino.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. LEGO, Arduino, and The Ultimate Machine
Chapter 2. Using Sensors with the Android
Chapter 3. Twitter Pet
Chapter 4. RFID and the Crystal Ball
Chapter 5. Animating the TARDIS
Chapter 6. Controlling LEGO Trains with Arduino
Chapter 7. Building a Light-Sensitive Box

Appendix A. Parts List

Book Details

  • Paperback: 212 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (June 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430249293
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430249290
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Plan Your Financial Future

Posted: 11 Aug 2013 09:47 AM PDT

Book Description

Implementing a financial plan to manage the future is very important. If you have not assembled such a plan, or even if you have not thought about how best to manage your financial future, the time to do so is now, and the resource you need to walk you through every step of the personal financial planning process is Plan Your Financial Future. Regardless of whether you are a recent college graduate or have spent the past several decades in the working world, Plan Your Financial Future will give you the smart, commonsense advice you need to get your financial life in order.

Written by an expert and long-standing educator in the field of personal financial planning, Plan Your Financial Future is a comprehensive, objective, and pertinent guidebook for readers of all income levels who want to grow their net worth on a steady and increasing basis. Covering all the financial bases you can reasonably expect to confront in your lifetime, like insurance, investing, income tax planning, Social Security, Medicare, and more, this vital resource begins with techniques to protect a consumer’s personal and business assets. It then transitions into the wealth accumulation process and outlines tax management measures, as well as the distribution of wealth for higher education, retirement, and estate planning purposes.

Filled with in-depth insight and invaluable financial planning advice, this unique guide explains how to:

  • Insure yourself, your family, and your property against the possibility of significant loss;
  • Invest in financial or real assets—or both;
  • Practice effective tax planning and management techniques;
  • Distribute your estate at death to your intended beneficiaries in a tax-efficient manner;
  • And much more.

With its no-nonsense, straightforward style and holistic view of the financial planning process, Plan Your Financial Future is the one resource you need to become a more knowledgeable saver and translate those savings into the accumulation of future wealth.

What you'll learn
Readers of Plan Your Financial Future will learn:

  • How to take advantage of benefits that are offered to them by their employer
  • The importance of minimizing the effects of inflation on their portfolios as much as possible
  • Financial strategies for preparing for their children’s higher education
  • Rock-solid advice for planning for the financial aspects of their retirement years
  • Whether or not they would benefit from the hiring of a professional financial planner
  • How to create and maintain a personal financial plan that protects them and their families into the future

Who this book is for
Plan Your Financial Future is designed for readers of all income levels who would like grow their net worth on a steady and increasing basis by implementing and sticking to a personal financial plan. Everyone from recent college graduates to those who have been in the working world for many years will benefit from the insightful, actionable advice offered up in Plan Your Financial Future.

Table of Contents
Part I: The Financial Planning Process
Chapter 1. Understanding the Challenge. The Need to Begin
Chapter 2. Do You Need a Financial Planner?
Chapter 3. Elements of Personal Financial Planning and the Wealth Management Process

Part II: Protecting Yourself, Your Family, and Your Property
Chapter 4. Insuring Yourself and Your Family
Chapter 5. Insuring Your Health and Long-term Care
Chapter 6. Insuring Your Earning Power
Chapter 7. Insuring Your Property
Chapter 8. Optimizing Your Employment Benefits

Part III: Accumulating Wealth
Chapter 9. Investing in Financial Assets
Chapter 10. Investing in Real Assets
Chapter 11. Investing in Use Assets

Part IV: Defending Wealth
Chapter 12. Income Tax Planning and Management
Chapter 13. Transfer Tax Planning and Management
Chapter 14. Life Events that Endanger Wealth

Part V: Distributing Wealth During Your Lifetime
Chapter 15. Planning for Your Child's Higher Education
Chapter 16. Planning for the Financial Aspects of Retirement
Chapter 17. Planning for the Lifestyle Needs of Retirement
Chapter 18. Planning for Other Lifetime Financial Goals

Part VI: Distributing Wealth at Death
Chapter 19. Estate Planning
Chapter 20. Philanthropy

Part VII: Summarizing the Personal Financial Planning Process
Chapter 21. Reaping the Rewards

Appendix A. Sample Data-Gathering Form
Appendix B. Sample Budget
Appendix C. Power of Attorney
Appendix D. Declaration as to Medical or Surgical Treatment and Medical Durable Power of Attorney
Appendix E. Sample Personal Letter of Instruction

Book Details

  • Paperback: 372 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (July 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430260645
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430260646
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Plan to Turn Your Company Around in 90 Days

Posted: 11 Aug 2013 09:43 AM PDT

Book Description

More than half of all businesses in the U.S. don't make it to their fifth birthday, and nearly 70 percent are gone by year ten. How do businesses get into trouble? A hundred different ways. Poor cash flow, undercapitalization, lax financial controls, poor worker productivity, boneheaded mistakes, inefficient processes, failure to adapt, loss of enthusiasm . . . the list goes on and on.

The fact is, many businesses that face life-threatening challenges, or are just stuck in the doldrums, can turn their fortunes around. And Jonathan Lack is the expert who can show you how. Lack is a turnaround specialist—the guy called in to reinvigorate a stalled company or revamp the poor practices that reduce sales and decimate profits. Once he's done, the company is again on the road to growth and profitability.

Plan to Turn Your Company Around in 90 Days is a pragmatic, step-by-step guide to helping your company not only survive but begin to grow again. Among other things, this book will teach you how to improve your company's cash flow, how to better manage your payroll and employee productivity, and how to get better results from your marketing and sales efforts. Turn Your Company Around in 90 Days will help you develop a framework to create a strategic plan that will move your company in the right direction and breathe new life into tired or worn-out operations and products.

Plan to Turn Your Company Around in 90 Days will immediately help your firm in the following areas:

  • How to get to "cash flow positive" and then grow
  • How to manage technology better
  • How to manage your payroll and employee productivity
  • How to improve marketing and increase sales
  • How to restore profitability
  • How to manage your board of directors and investors

If you're at all fearful that your company may not last the next couple of years, this book is for you.

What you'll learn

  • How to manage and preserve cash
  • How to reduce your expenses
  • How to increase your margins
  • How to increase employee productivity and improve operations
  • How to assess the strength of your products and services
  • How to increase sales and marketing efficiency
  • How to create a strategic plan to turn your company around
  • How to restore enthusiasm and become a desirable employer again

Who this book is for
This book is written for CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and CMOs of large companies, midcaps, and small businesses. It's also for angel investors, board directors, private equity firms, and venture capitalists. It is intended to give readers the confidence that, by developing a basic plan, they can turn their company around and give it new life.

Table of Contents
Part I: Managing and Preserving Cash Flow
Chapter 1. How to Manage Cash Flow Better
Chapter 2. How to Manage Accounts Payables Better
Chapter 3. How to Manage Accounts Receivables Better

Part II: Improving Operations Management
Chapter 4. How to Manage Employee Productivity Better
Chapter 5. How to Manage Technology, Facilities, and Manufacturing Better
Chapter 6. How to Manage Process Flows Better

Part III: Increasing Marketing and Sales Efficiency
Chapter 7. How to Understand Your Customers, Competitors, and Key Trends Better
Chapter 8. How to Develop a More Effective Marketing Strategy
Chapter 9. How to Develop a More Effective Sales Strategy

Part IV: Managing from the Top Down
Chapter 10. How to Manage Investors and the Board of Directors Better
Chapter 11. How to Hire and Manage Your Turnaround Consultant
Chapter 12. How to Manage Yourself and Your Staff Better

Appendix A. Sample Consulting Proposal

Book Details

  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (July 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430246685
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430246688
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Common Sense

Posted: 11 Aug 2013 09:39 AM PDT

Book Description

"He may have an MBA, but he's got no common sense." Assessments like that by a boss can stop a career dead in its tracks. Unfortunately, many believe that common sense is a trait you are either born with or you are not. This book dispels that myth. Through the pages of Common Sense: Get It, Use It, and Teach It in the Workplace readers will learn not only what common sense is, but how to acquire it and use it to enhance their careers, increase their confidence, and take better advantage of business opportunities.

Common Sense explores the use—and non-use—of common sense in the workplace and the world around us. It shows how you can become a person of great wisdom and good judgment by simply learning about all the ways people stumble in the thought process. Author Ken Tanner, a seasoned manager, consultant, and former regional vice president for two major U.S. restaurant chains, shows readers how to make better decisions, how to spot and avoid fallacious thinking, how to better assess ambiguous situations, and how to become a mature thinker with a knack for making the right move at just the right time.

Best of all, Common Sense shows how to teach this trait to others, especially subordinates and co-workers who can and will do nonsensical things unless you help them learn to reason through their decisions and actions quickly and confidently. The payoff? Your staff will make you look good, greasing the way for greater responsibility and opportunity. This book:

  • Takes you through an understanding of the term “common sense”—what it means and what it doesn't mean.
  • Shows how fallacies create barriers to using common sense.
  • Provides dozens of examples of the application (as well as rejection) of common sense in the business world and elsewhere.
  • Shows how to teach common sense to others.

What you'll learn

  • What common sense is and is not How common sense affects your daily life
  • How and why common sense leads to career advancement and opportunity
  • How to instantly improve your image of having good common sense
  • The many fallacies in thinking that can destroy common-sense thinking
  • How to teach common sense to the people you manage and work with

Who this book is for
Common Sense: Get It, Use It, and Teach It in the Workplace is for managers and employees who want to capitalize on opportunities, make the most of their personnel, and become more valuable to their employers. You can't get a degree in common sense, but you can still learn the discipline and teach it to others. Common Sense is an excellent choice for those who want to grab an advantage in the workplace through clear, rational thinking and a mature thought process.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. What Is Common Sense, Anyway?
Chapter 2. Perception Is Reality
Chapter 3. Common Nonsense Based on Faulty Appeals
Chapter 4. Common Nonsense Based on Muddled Logic
Chapter 5. Urban Legends, Conspiracies, and Other Perversions of the Truth
Chapter 6. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Chapter 7. Commonsense Behavior in the Office
Chapter 8. Teaching Common Sense in the Workplace
Chapter 9. Understanding People
Chapter 10. When Common Sense Fails
Chapter 11. Coda

Book Details

  • Paperback: 180 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (June 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430241527
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430241522
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