How to Do Everything Mac 2/e

How to Do Everything Mac 2/e
Dwight Spivey
Imprint: OSBORNE
Parents, students, artists, musicians, writers.
Pub Date: Feb-10
ISBN: 9780071639989
Previous Edition ISBN:
9780071502726
Format: Paperback
Subject Area: Consumer
Pages: 528
Trim: 18.7cm x 23.5cm
Price: AUS $39.95/NZ $45.00
Description
Have more fun and get more done with your Mac!
This bestselling guide to getting the most out of Apple's consumer
line of computers including the iMac, MacBook, MacBook Air, and
Mac Mini is written in a breezy, easy-to-follow style. How to Do
Everything: Mac, Second Edition explains how to use the many
powerful features of the new version of the operating system, Mac
OS X Snow Leopard, as well as iLife '09, Safari 4, iTunes, iWork '09,
and the latest versions of other tools.
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Market
The Mac is the flagship topic for the bestselling How to Do
Everything series
Market Share reports the Mac's rising share of the overall
operating system market at around 6.38 percent
Macs are more prevalent as personal home and student
computers and as computers used by artists, musicians, and
writers
Table of Contents
Part I: Get Started with Your Mac
Part II: Making Your Mac Earn it's Keep
Part III: Pictures, Music and Movies Oh My!
Part IV: Time to Geek Out! Digging Deeper Into Your Mac
Part V: Making Your Mac Even Better: Adding Windows and
Hardware
Part VII: Let's Get Serious a Moment: Troubleshooting, Maintaining
and Getting Further Help When You Need It
Part VIII: Change the Silicon Every Three Thousand Miles:
Maintaining Your Mac
Author Biography
Dwight Spivey is a Level III Software Engineer for Konica Minolta.
He handles the company's Mac maintenance and troubleshooting
and is a Mac OS X beta tester for Apple.
Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL Programming
Workbook
McLaughlin, Michael ; Harper, John M.;
Imprint: McGraw-Hill
Pub Date: Feb-10
ISBN: 9780071493697
Format: Softcover
Subject Area: Database Management /
General
Pages: 560
Trim: 18.7cm x 23.2cm
Price: AUS $95.00/NZ $105.00
Description
This book teaches all the Oracle PL/SQL skills needed through hands
on, real-world labs, extensive examples, exercises, and projects. The
workbook provides detailed examples and problems that supplement
and leverage material presented in Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL
Programming, and uses the same video store example throughout.
The book can be used as a stand-alone learning tool filled with
practical examples or in combination with the programming title.
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Michael McLaughlin has been working with PL/SQL
since release 1. While working at Oracle, Michael mentored
many beginning PL/SQL developers and currently teaches on
the topic at the BYU-Idaho.
Based on his teaching experience, the author will provide
exercises, problems, and solutions that reinforce PL/SQL
concepts and give practical experience.
Experienced Oracle professionals can use the workbook
format to help prepare for certifications.
Market
PL/SQL is Oracle’s proprietary language for manipulating databases.
Whether DBA or developer, every Oracle professional must be
proficient in PL/SQL. PL/SQL is going through enhancements and
improvements with the release of Oracle Database 11g. Even
experienced Oracle professionals will need to keep up-to-date with
the latest enhancements to this language.
Table of Contents
Part I. PL/SQL Fundamentals
Ch 1. Oracle Development Overview
Ch 2. PL/SQL Basics
Ch 3. Transaction Scope
Ch 4. Error Management
Part II. PL/SQL Programming
Ch 5. Functions
Ch 6. Procedures
Ch 7. Collections
Ch 8. Packages
Ch 9. Triggers
Author Biography
Michael McLaughlin (Rexburg, ID) is a professor at BYU – Idaho
in the Computer Information Technology Department of the Business
and Communication School. He is founder of Techtinker.com, a
company focused on application development and development
technologies. McLaughlin worked at Oracle Corporation for over eight
years in consulting, development, and support. He worked with the
core technology stack and release engineering for the Oracle EBusiness Suite. Prior to his tenure at Oracle Corporation, McLaughlin
worked as an Oracle developer, systems and business analyst, and
DBA beginning with Oracle 6. He is the author of Oracle Database
10g Express Edition PHP Web Programming, and coauthor of Oracle
Database 10g Programming and Expert Oracle PL/SQL all from
Oracle Press.
Mobile Application Security
Himanshu Dwivedi
Imprint: OSBORNE
Pub Date: Feb-10
ISBN: 9780071633567
Format: Paperback
Subject Area: Networking and
Communications
Pages: 512
Illustrations: 20
Trim: 18.7cm x 23.2cm
Price: AUS $95.00/NZ $105.00
Description
Expert techniques for securing mobile devices and
applications
This is the only book on the market that shows IT and Web
professionals how to secure mobile devices and the new Web 2.0
applications that run on them. You will learn best practices for
securing applications that are written for the most popular mobile
platforms, such as Apple iPhone, Windows Mobile, and Google
Android. The author provides global case studies based on his work
building mobile applications for major international corporate clients.
Key Features
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Mobile computing is a rapidly growing trend in the U.S. and
already dominates day-to-day communications in Europe and
the Asia-Pacific regions
Market
IT/security professionals, Web 2.0 application developers, and
anyone need to secure applications and mobile devices A 2008
report published by business-intelligence firm Frost & Sullivan and
funded by security-certification group (ISC), found that companies in
each of three major regions - the Americas, Europe and Asia - listed
wireless-security in their top-5 technologies to deploy in the next
year.
Table of Contents
1 Mobile Application Security Overview
2 Android Security
3 Apple iPhone
4 Windows Mobile
5 Blackberry
6 J2ME
7 Symbian
8 Qualcomm BREW
9 WAP and Mobile HTML Security
10 Bluetooth Security
11 SMS, MMS and Radio Interface Security
12 Mobile Location Services (GPS)
13 Enterprise Security on the Mobile OS
14 Mobile Enterprise Mail Scenarios
Author Biography
Himanshu Dwivedi is a founding partner of iSEC Partners, an
information security organisation. He is a co-author of Hacking
Exposed: Web 2.0 and several other books.
VMware vSphere 4 Implementation
Mike Laverick
Imprint: OSBORNE
Pub Date: Feb-10
ISBN: 9780071664523
Format: Paperback
Subject Area: Certification
Pages: 704
Illustrations: 100
Trim: 18.7cm x 23.2cm
Price: AUS $105.00/NZ $115.00
Description
Real-world VMware vSphere4 tips and techniques
Written by internationally recognised VMware expert Mike Laverick,
this is an in-depth implementation guide to VMware's new suite of
virtualisation technologies, vSphere4. The book provides best
practices for deploying the vSphere product in real-world enterprise
environments. You will get insider tips for planning, designing,
implementing, and securing a virtual infrastructure and automating
tasks and procedures.
Key Features
Market
IT professionals new to Virtualisation, Virtualisation experts new to
VMware's new product offering, vSphere, VMware and VMware
training organisations, Revenue from server virtualisation
infrastructure will grow 22.5% from $917 million in 2008 to $1.1
billion in 2009, VMware cited Gartner in predicting that 50 million
user licenses for hosted virtual desktops will be purchased by 2013
Table of Contents
1 Installing ESX 4 Classic
2 Installing ESX 4i
3 Installing vCenter
4 Standard Networking
5 Distributed Viral Networking (DVN)
6 Storage
7 Create and Modify VMs
8 Rapid VM
9 Access Control
10 Resource Monitoring
11 Resource Management
12 VMotion, Storage VMotion and Cold Migration
13 Vmware Distributed Resource
14 Vmware Distributed Power Management
15 Vmware High Availability
16 Vmware Fault-Tolearance (FT)
17 vSphere Advanced Configuration Tools
18 Vmware View (VDI) Jumpstart
19 Virtual Machine Backup
20 Vmware Patch Management
21 Upgrading from Vi3.5 to vSphere 4
Author Biography
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From the author of the bestselling VMware book on the
market, VMware ESX Server (Brian Madden Company, 2005)
VMware is the virtualisation standard for the top 1000
companies worldwide
Mike Laverick is a VMware Forum moderator and member of the
London VMware User Group steering committee. He is the sole
author of the virtualisation website/blog, RTFM Education. Mike
recently received the vExperts Award from VMware.
CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide 5/e
Shon Harris
Imprint: OSBORNE
Key Features
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Pub Date: Feb-10
ISBN: 9780071602174
Previous Edition ISBN: 9780071497879
Format: Hardback with CD
Subject Area: Certification and Career
Pages: 1008
Trim: 18.7cm x 23.5cm
Price: AUS $145.00/NZ $155.00
Description
A comprehensive, up-to-date revision of the market-leading
CISSP training resource
Written by Shon Harris, the number-one name in IT security
certification and training, this exam guide offers complete coverage
of all the material on the latest release of the Certified Information
Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam. With full treatment of
all the 10 exam domains, as developed by the International
Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC2), this
definitive tool contains learning objectives at the beginning of each
chapter, sidebars with in-depth technical explanations, practice
questions, and real-world scenarios.
CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Fifth Edition serves as both a
comprehensive certification study guide and an essential on-the-job
reference. The CD-ROM includes more than 250 simulated practice
questions in a Windows-based test engine, an electronic book, and
video training from the author.
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Certification Magazine named CISSP the most technically
advanced certification program
Previous editions have sold more than 70,000 copies
Market
CISSP candidates must demonstrate valid security related
experience as a practitioner, auditor, consultant; investigator,
instructor, vendor, or that which requires IS security knowledge and
involves direct application of such knowledge. Candidates must have
a minimum four years professional work experience in one or more
of the ten CISSP domains, or three years experience with a college
degree. A Master's Degree in IS can substitute for one year. ISC2
does not make the number of CISSP Candidates public.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Reasons to Become a CISSP
Chapter 2: Security Trends
Chapter 3: Operation Security
Chapter 4: Access Control Methods
Chapter 5: Telecommunications and Network Security
Chapter 6: Cryptography
Chapter 7: Applications and Systems Development Security
Chapter 8: Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery
Chapter 9: Physical Security
Chapter 10: Laws, Investigations, and Ethics
Chapter 11: Security Management Practices
Chapter 12: Security Architecture and Models
Glossary
Author Biography
Shon Harris, MCSE, CISSP, is a security consultant, a former
member of the Information Warfare unit in the Air Force, and a
contributing writer to Information Security Magazine and Windows
2000 Magazine. She is the author of the previous editions of this
book.
CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam
Guide (Exams 220-701 & 220-702) 7/e
Michael Meyers
Imprint: OSBORNE
Pub Date: Mar-10
ISBN: 9780071701334
Previous Edition ISBN:
9780072263114
Format: Hardback with CD
Subject Area: Programming and
Web Development
Pages: 1200
Illustrations: 400
Trim: 18.7cm x 23.5cm
Price: AUS $100.00/NZ $110.00
Description
The bestselling CompTIA A+ reference and test preparation
guide--fully revised for the new exams
Written by Mike Meyers, the leading authority on A+ certification and
training, this definitive volume covers everything you need to know
to pass the CompTIA A+ certification exams. Completely revised and
updated for the new exams and reviewed and authorised by
CompTIA's CAQC program, this comprehensive volume serves as
both a study tool and an on-the-job reference.
CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Seventh Edition
features detailed coverage of the exam format, exam tips, end-ofchapter practice questions, and hundreds of photographs and
illustrations. The CD-ROM contains four complete practice exams,
Mike's new "Introduction to A+" video, a new collection of Mike's
favorite PC tools and utilities, and a free segment of LearnKey's A+
video training
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Previous six editions have sold more than 587,000 copies
There are currently more than 700,000 A+ certified
technicians
Market
IT professionals, Entry-level IT Professionals, Computer Technicians,
Computer Service Technicians.
Author Biography
Mike Meyers CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, MCP, is the
industry's leading authority on CompTIA A+ certification and
training. He is the president and founder of Total Seminars, LLC, a
major provider of PC and network repair seminars for thousands of
organisations throughout the world, and a member of CompTIA.