Core Animation: Simplified Animation Techniques for Mac and iPhone Development

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                                                  Apple’s Core Animation framework enables Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPod touch developers to create richer, more visual applications–more easily than ever and with far less code. Now, there’s a comprehensive, example-rich, full-color reference to Core Animation for experienced OS X and iPhone developers who want to make the most of this powerful framework.


 Taking full advantage of Core Animation’s lightweight layers and views
 Using keyframes to gain complete control over your animations
 Creating startling effects with Core Animation transforms
 Leveraging Core Image’s powerful filtering capabilities from within Core Animation
 Playing QuickTime movies using Core Animation’s QTMovieLayer
 Using the OpenGL layer to achieve greater control over movie playback
 Integrating advanced Quartz Composer visualizations into your user interfaces
 How to use helper layers to draw gradients, composite shapes, and replicate sublayers
 Adding mouse and keyboard user interaction points, and much more…

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Character Animation in 3D

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                      Use traditional drawing techniques to produce stunning CGI animation (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation)

It was surely a matter of time before a publication like this emerged. An understanding of basic animation principles is often overlooked in 3D computer animation. This book will do much to put that right; an essential source of knowledge will enable 2D and 3D animators to understand each other's purpose.
Oscar winning animator, Daniel Greaves Director of Tandem Films

A fantastic, comprehensive, but above all practical guide to character animation. The well-pitched progressive exercises at the core make it a must have for all serious animation wannabes.
Andrew Lindsay, Senior Animator, Lionhead Studios

"The comments on the back of Character Animation in 3D by Steve Roberts...are both positive and enthusiastic. They should be and I add my voice to the others...The examples, which are also effectively presented on the accompanying CD, are familiar enough to graphic animators and encourage the CGI animator to think about the stages of the movment as it unfolds." - Imagine magazine 

 

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Practical Electronics for Inventors

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                                               This intuitive, applications-driven guide to electronics for hobbyists, engineers, and students doesn't overload readers with technical detail. Instead, it tells you-and shows you-what basic and advanced electronics parts and components do, and how they work. Chock-full of illustrations, Practical Electronics for Inventors offers over 750 hand-drawn images that provide clear, detailed instructions that can help turn theoretical ideas into real-life inventions and gadgets.

                                                 Covering the entire field of electronics, from basics through analog and digital, AC and DC, integrated circuits (ICs), semiconductors, stepper motors and servos, LCD displays, and various input/output devices, this guide even includes a full chapter on the latest microcontrollers. A favorite memory-jogger for working electronics engineers, Practical Electronics for Inventors is also the ideal manual for those just getting started in circuit design. If you want to succeed in turning your ideas into workable electronic gadgets and inventions, is THE book. Starting with a light review of electronics history, physics, and math, the book provides an easy-to-understand overview of all major electronic elements, including: Basic passive components o Resistors, capacitors, inductors, transformers o Discrete passive circuits o Current-limiting networks, voltage dividers, filter circuits, attenuators o Discrete active devices o Diodes, transistors, thrysistors o Microcontrollers o Rectifiers, amplifiers, modulators, mixers, voltage regulators

                                            This revised, improved, and completely updated second edition reflects suggestions offered by the loyal hobbyists and inventors who made the first edition a bestseller. Reader-suggested improvements in this guide include: 

Thoroughly expanded and improved theory chapter

New sections covering test equipment, optoelectronics, microcontroller circuits, and more

New and revised drawings

Answered problems throughout the book

 

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Macworld - August 2010

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This magazine is editorially aimed at the Macintosh owner and user. It contains information on Macintosh software for education, recreation and home and business productivity. As well, it reviews state-of-the-art commercial software.

 

 

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Macworld UK - Summer 2010

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                         This magazine is editorially aimed at the Macintosh owner and user. It contains information on Macintosh software for education, recreation and home and business productivity. As well, it reviews state-of-the-art commercial software.



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Computeractive India - June 2010

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                              The objective of Computeractive is to provide 'Simple Clear Advice In Plain English' on all matters of technology. Computeractive writes about technology issues facing general readers in their day to day life.



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Hi-Fi Choice - August 2010

 

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Hi-Fi Choice is a UK hi-fi magazine. HFC is a buying guide that blends subjective views and technical analysis. It includes product tests, solo reviews, news, industry comment and analysis, an advice section and a comprehensive buying guide.

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Constant Voltage Battery Charger

 

 In order to use a battery until full life expectancy of it, should be ensured that conditions like deep discharging and over charging does not happen. The circuit ensures the full safety of the battery by providing a constant voltage charging mechanism. Thus over charging can be prevented.

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                               In the circuit at first the AC supply is step down to 12V using a step down transformer rated 220V  primary 0-12V secondary, 1.5A Transformer. This is rectified using a bridge rectifier configuration and is later filtered using the 4700uF capacitor. Then this is applied to a series voltage regulator comprising of BC547 and MJE3055. The series pass element is MJE3055. VR 1 is used to adjest the output voltage. 

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Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering

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                  HVDC and FACTS Controllers: Applications of Static Converters in Power Systems focuses on the technical advances and developments that have taken place in the past ten years or so in the fields of High Voltage DC transmission and Flexible AC transmission systems. These advances (in HVDC transmission and FACTS) have added a new dimension to power transmission capabilities. The book covers a wide variety of topics, some of which are listed below:

                                     
Current Source and Voltage Source Converters, + Synchronization Techniques for Power Converters, + Capacitor Commutated Converters, + Active Filters, + Typical Disturbances on HVDC Systems, + Simulation Techniques, + Static Var Compensators based on Chain Link Converters, + Advanced Controllers, + Trends in Modern HVDC. In addition to EHV transmission, HVDC technology has impacted on a number of other areas as well. As an example, a chapter dealing with HVDC Light applications is included providing recent information on both on-shore and off-shore applications of wind farms. HVDC and FACTS Controllers: Applications of Static Converters in Power Systems is meant for senior undergraduate, graduate students and professional power systems engineers. Mathematical treatment of the subject has been kept to a minimum and emphasis has been placed on principles and practical applications. Applications from major manufacturers are included to provide useable information for the practicing power systems engineer.


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High-temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Fundamentals, Design and Applications

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                                                The information contained in most of the chapters is fundamental enough for the book to be useful as a textbook for students at graduate level....Scientists and researchers already active in the field will also find the book very interesting.




                                                The growing interest in fuel cells as a sustainable source of energy is pulling with it the need for new books which provide comprehensive and practical information on specific types of fuel cell and their application. This landmark volume on solid oxide fuel cells contains contributions from experts of international repute, and provides a single source of the latest knowledge on this topic.


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Understanding Digital Electronics

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                                                  Don't be left behind by modern developments in digital electronics! They present a fascinating new world of achievement which can be easy to understand, if you start at the beginning. Everyone is familiar with digital displays on watches and clocks and calculators, for example. Each number is formed from seven rectangular 'light bulbs', with the correct number of bulbs switched on by a digital circuit to light up the number required. Digital electronics, in fact, is based on devices which work on an on/off basis, or 'count' in steps of 1 (i.e., in 'digits'). The basic devices are
quite simple, but when interconnected with tens, hundreds or even thousands of similar devices can perform a fantastic range of calculations, store and give out information, solve problems etc., all at fantastic speed. It is the number and complexity of interconnections of such devices that can be bewildering - not how the actual devices work. Their working can be studied in three different ways. Mechanical equivalents in terms of switches and symbols (called block logic), which anyone can understand because you can 'see' how it works. Truth tables which display all possible conditions of a digital device, from which you choose the one you want, e.g., the ten possible states of a digital number display. Binary arithmetic for working out solutions mathematically. Plus, of course, the basic digital circuits involved which provide all the functions required. How digital electronics works, with clear line drawings to illustrate circuits and their applications, is what this book is all about. It starts from first principles and works right through to 'talking' to computers. The author has considerable experience in the field of practical electronics and is noted for his ability to explain technicalities in language that is easy to understand.
                                         



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Drupal 6 Javascript And Jquery darksiderg

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Putting jQuery, AJAX, and JavaScript effects into your Drupal 6 modules and themes

Learn about JavaScript support in Drupal 6

Packed with example code ready for you to use

Harness the popular jQuery library to enhance your Drupal sites

Make the most of Drupal's built-in JavaScript libraries




Drupal 6 is loaded with new features, and not all of them are necessarily implemented in PHP. This unique book, for web designers and developers, will take you through what can be done with JavaScript (and especially with jQuery) in Drupal 6.
With the combination of the powerhouse jQuery library with its own robust set of JavaScript tools, Drupal 6 comes with a pre-packaged killer JavaScript environment. Cross-platform by nature, it provides all of the tools necessary to create powerful AJAX-enabled scripts, gorgeous visual effects, and view-enhancing behaviors. In addition, Drupal developers have ported some of its most powerful PHP tools - like a theming engine and support for localization and language translation - to JavaScript, making it possible to write simple scripts where once only complex PHP code could be used.
This book gives you the keys to the toolbox, showing you how to use Drupal's JavaScript libraries to make your modules and themes more dynamic, interactive and responsive, and add effects to make your Drupal site explode into life!
If you've dipped your toe in the water of theme or module development with Drupal 6, this is the book you want to make the look and behavior of your work something special. With it's project-based approach, this book is carefully constructed to guide you from how JavaScript fits into the overall Drupal architecture through to making you a master of the jQuery library in the world of Drupal themes and modules.


What you will learn from this book?

• An introduction to JavaScript in Drupal 6
• The basics of the jQuery library
• Creating JavaScript-enabled themes
• Manipulating a page on the fly with jQuery
• Authoring simple PHPTemplate files designed to maximize scripting potential
• Using jQuery to add effects in Drupal 6
• Working with Drupal 6 behaviors
• Adding AJAX to modules
• Using Drupal's localization and language translation engine in your JavaScript
• Theming on the client-side with Drupal's JavaScript theme engine
• Building better forms
• Working with Drupal 6's JavaScript library
• Writing portable JavaScript tools as Drupal modules

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