The LATEX typesetting system remains a popular choice for typesetting a wide variety of documents, from papers, journal articles, and presentations, to books–especially those that include technical text or demand high-quality composition. This book is the most comprehensive guide to making illustrations in LATEX documents, and it has been completely revised and expanded to include the latest developments in LATEX graphics. The authors describe the most widely used packages and provide hundreds of solutions to the most commonly encountered LATEX illustration problems.

This book will show you how to

• Incorporate graphics files into a LATEX document
• Program technical diagrams using several languages, including METAPOST, PSTricks, and XY-pic
• Use color in your LATEX projects, including presentations
• Create special-purpose graphics, such as high-qualitymusic scores and games diagrams
• Produce complex graphics for a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines

New to this edition:

• Updated and expanded coverage of the PSTricks and METAPOST languages
• Detailed explanations of major new packages for graphing and 3-D figures
• Comprehensive description of the xcolor package
• Making presentations with the beamer class
• The latest versions of gaming and scientific packages

There are more than 1100 fully tested examples that illustrate the text and solve graphical problems and tasks–all ready to run!

All the packages and examples featured in this book are freely downloadable from the Comprehensive TEX Archive Network (CTAN).

The LATEX Graphics Companion, Second Edition, is more than ever an indispensable reference for anyone wishing to incorporate graphics into LATEX. As befits the subject, the book has been typeset with LATEX in a two-color design.

Written by experts in the field, this book describes the Personal Network architecture and its various components

This book focuses on networking and security aspects of Personal Networks (PNs). Given a single user, the authors propose an architecture for PNs in which devices are divided into one of two types of nodes: personal nodes and foreign nodes. Furthermore, the authors demonstrate the ways in which PNs can be formed in a self-organized and secure way, how they can be interconnected using infrastructure networks, how multiple PNs can be connected, and how their services and resources can be shared. In addition, the book shows how security and ease-of-use can be achieved through automatic configuration and how mobility can be supported through adaptability and self-organization. The motivations for the PN concept, the PN architecture, its functionalities and features, as well as future challenges are covered in depth. Finally, the authors consider the potential applications for PNs and briefly discuss additional support systems for PN applications. The latter includes service discovery and context information management among others.

Key Features:

• Describes the PN network architecture and its various components in-depth
• Written by experts who developed this concept
• Discusses the newer topic of federations of PNs
• Considers potential PN applications, and demonstrates how applications support systems, such as service discovery and context management, can assist the applications
• Provides an insight into the challenges of future personal networking, architectures for PNs, potential and important solutions, and their implications

This book will serve as an invaluable reference for researchers, developers, and standardization experts in mobile and wireless communication systems and services. It will also be of interest to postgraduate students in the field of telecommunications.

A complete guide to creating and establishing your place in the blogosphere!

New blogs are being launched at the rate of 175,000 a day. To stand out from the masses, bloggers need the detailed information and advice packed into this all-in-one guide.

Here’s what new bloggers need to get started and what experienced bloggers need to upgrade and even earn money from their blogs. Eight self-contained minibooks cover joining the blogosphere, blogging software, tools that extend your blog, marketing your blog, microblogging, making money from your blog, corporate blogging, and niche blogging.

• Blogging is replacing traditional media and gaining credibility; to succeed, bloggers need a greater understanding of blogging basics, tools, and techniques
• Eight minibooks cover getting started, software, other tools, blog marketing, microblogging (including Twitter), monetizing your blog, and corporate and niche blogging
• Helps new bloggers become active and productive members of the blogging community
• Provides vital information for both hobby bloggers and those who want to build a career around blogging

Presented in the fun and friendly For Dummies style, Blogging All-in-One For Dummies is a complete reference guide to starting and maintaining a successful blog.

A fully updated guide to creating dynamic presentations with PowerPoint 2010

PowerPoint dominates the presentation landscape. With the changes in PowerPoint 2010, including the availability of an online version, PowerPoint users need this comprehensive reference to make the most of the program.

PowerPoint 2010 All-in-One For Dummies features in-depth coverage of the elements and the process involved in creating knockout presentations. Seven minibooks cover all the new 2010 features, providing a great education for beginners and showing PowerPoint veterans lots of new tricks.

• PowerPoint is the leading presentation software used in business and education; new features in PowerPoint 2010 include an online version and expanded audiovisual capabilities
• Seven self-contained minibooks cover getting started; building a presentation; tables, charts, and diagrams; graphics and shapes; adding audio, video, and animation; giving the presentation; and PowerPoint for power users
• Explains how to use the interface and tools and shows how to represent data visually for greater impact
• Provides important tips on adding the human element when making a presentation
• Gives advanced users advice on creating templates, collaboration, automation, and more

PowerPoint 2010 All-in-One For Dummies gets novices up to speed and helps experienced users take their skills to the next level.

Learn the nuts and bolts of SharePoint 2010 the fun and easy way

Microsoft SharePoint, the powerful collaboration tool, sometimes blurs the line between technical and non-technical users. Whether you’re an administrator who needs to install and configure SharePoint or a non-techie who’s been charged with managing content on a SharePoint portal, this book will make your job easier.

You’ll find the nuts-and-bolts information that enables you to install and configure a SharePoint portal, plus specific solutions for SharePoint issues and the knowledge you need to design, populate, and maintain portal areas.

• SharePoint is Microsoft’s complex but powerful tool for enabling collaboration through a portal site
• Both technical and non-technical people may be called upon to work with SharePoint in some capacity; this guide addresses the needs of both
• Focuses on making a confusing topic clearer by walking you through real-world scenarios for getting a SharePoint portal up and running
• Provides essential information for administrators, solutions for specific problems, and a guide for those in non-technical positions who are responsible for sections of a SharePoint portal

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 For Dummies breaks a complex topic into understandable pieces so you can succeed with SharePoint.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

You’re a proud owner of the bestselling smartphone in the world. Now learn how to make use of all of the Curve’s features with this easy-to-read guide from two of the best BlackBerry trainers in the business.

Author Information

Flash is one of the most engaging, innovative, and versatile technologies available—allowing the creation of anything from animated banners and simple cartoons, to Rich Internet Applications, interactive videos, and dynamic user interfaces for web sites, kiosks, devices, or DVDs. The possibilities are endless, and now it just got better.

Flash CS5 boasts a host of new features, including the much-anticipated iPhone application creation feature, a whole new animation engine enabling full manipulation of tweens and paths, custom easing, improved inverse kinematics, a revamped timeline, built-in 3D, and much more.

This book is all you’ll need to learn Flash CS5 from the ground up. If you already have Flash experience, this book will allow you to quickly catch up on all the cool new features. Flash experts Tom Green and Tiago Dias guide you step-by-step through all facets of Flash CS5, keeping the emphasis firmly on good design techniques that you use in your own projects.

• Learn Flash design from the ground up, or just get to grips with the new features, with a series of step-by-step tutorials.
• Provides an easy introduction to ActionScript 3.0 coding, but the focus is mainly kept on design.
• Learn from the experts—written by renowned Flash designers Tom Green and Tiago Dias.

What You’ll Learn

• How to create an iPhone application.
• The ins and outs of the Flash CS5 interface
• How to use all of Flash CS5′s essential features, such as text, graphics, and animation
• How to use video and sound effectively in Flash
• The fundamentals of Flash CS5’s new animation and timeline features
• The basics of ActionScript 3.0
• How to populate a Flash movie with dynamic data such as XML.

Who this book is for

This book is for both beginners who want a solid grounding in Flash CS5, and designers with previous Flash experience, who want to get up to speed with the new features.

This book is part of friends of ED’s ‘Foundation’ series

The Foundation series is perfect for beginners to a technology, because it doesn’t assume any previous knowledge. Each book in the series takes you step by step through your chosen technology, starting with the absolute fundamentals and working through all aspects of the technology, ultimately providing you with a firm grasp of the basics that will enable you to create your own applications or web sites. You will learn by following complete examples at every stage of your journey, often by extended case studies that you will build upon throughout the book. The Foundation series will give you the broad and solid base you need in order to progress to a higher level of expertise.

JasperForge.org is the open source development portal for the
JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite, the JasperSoft Business
Intelligence solution that delivers comprehensive tools for data access,
data integration, analysis, and reporting, including JasperReports.
This definitive, authoritative covers the following:

• Shows the power this open source Java reporting tool has and the
  ability to deliver rich content onto the screen, to the printer, or into
  PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV and XML files
• Demonstrates how JasperReports can be used in a variety of
  Java-enabled applications, including Java EE or web applications, to
  generate dynamic content
• Teaches you how to create page-oriented, ready-to-print documents in a simple and flexible manner

What you’ll learn

• Enable the embeddable Java reporting library, which you can embed in
  any host application to let you plug in Java and Groovy code.
• Handle complex reports, subreports with highly complex layouts,
  pixel-perfect page-oriented output for the Web or print, and
  crosstabbing, and output reports in PDF, XML, HTML, CSV, XLS, RTF, or
  TXT.
• Create integrated charting with comprehensive chat types.
• Use multilanguage Unicode and other native encodings, dynamic text
  localization, and localized date, number, and currency formatting.
• Scale with high-performance report generation with no limit to report size.
• Extend easily with built-in expressions and plug-ins for Java and
  Groovy code; integrate iReport visual report designer; and extend to
  other Eclipse or Swing-based designers.
• Access data flexibly with JasperReport’s built-in support for JDBC, EJB, POJO, Hibernate, XML, and more.

The aim of this book is to teach you, the reader,
about the confluence of two technologies: XML and relational databases.
How do XML and relational databases combine to form a more powerful
tool? If you want specific information about either XML or some
particular database (relational, object, or native XML) then once
again, you might be reading the wrong book. This book packs a lot of
information, about some very complex and detailed topics, into a brief
introductory beginner’s guide. As already stated, this book is purely
about the confluence, juncture, or meeting point of two topics:
relational databases and XML.

This book does not focus on XML, the XML DOM, XSL, or
any other XML application programming technology, unless that
technology is directly related to database technology. This book also
does not focus on any particular database engine. This book does,
however, explore how XML is used with the Oracle and SQL Server
relational databases. There is also a small amount of coverage of
native XML databases, and even a brief summary of DB2 database XML
capabilities.

Chapters covering the basics of topics, such as XML and
XSL, are intended as introductory. If further detail on these topics is
required then another book in this series might be useful to you (see,
for example, Beginning XML by David Hunter et. al., [Wiley, 2004]).

Some database engines allow complete processing of
XML documents through a database-embedded, fully capable XML data type
structure. XML data types are explored deeply in this book, as they are
considered the most critical confluence between XML and a relational
database

Silverlight 4 has the potential to revolutionize the way we build business applications. With its flexibility, web deployment, cross-platform capabilities, rich .NET language support on the client, rich user interface control set, small runtime, and more, it comes close to the perfect platform in which to build business applications. It’s a very powerful technology, and despite its youth, it’s moving forward at a rapid pace and is gaining widespread adoption.

This book will guide you through the process of designing and developing enterprise-strength business applications in Silverlight 4 and C#. You will learn how to take advantage of the power of Silverlight to develop rich and robust business applications, from getting started to deployment, and everything in between.

In particular, this book will serve developers who want to learn how to design business applications, and introduce the patterns to use, the issues that you’ll face, and how to resolve them. Chris Anderson, who has been building line-of-business applications for years, demonstrates his experience through a candid presentation of how to tackle real-life issues, rather than just avoid them. Developers will benefit from his hard-won expertise through business application design patterns that he shares throughout the book.

With this book in hand, you will

• Create a fully functional business application in Silverlight
• Discover how to satisfy all of the general requirements that most business applications need
• Develop a business application framework

What you’ll learn

• How to structure your project to ensure a robust and maintainable application
• How to create user interfaces with XAML and bind controls to data
• How to communicate securely between the server and the client
• How to view and maintain data within a Silverlight user interface
• How to design unique user experiences and use advanced styling techniques
• How to implement standard business application paradigms in Silverlight

Who is this book for?

This book is for developers experienced in other .NET technologies, such as WinForms or ASP.NET, looking to translate their existing skills to developing business applications with Silverlight. Patterns and methodologies associated with building robust applications will be introduced and are not prerequisite knowledge.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with Sliverlight
2. Designing User Interfaces with XAML
3. The Navigation Framework
4. Server/Client Communication using RIA Data Services
5. Summary Lists
6. Building Data Entry Forms
7. Securing Your Application
8. Styling Your Application
9. Advanced XAML and Data Binding
10. Creating Custom Controls
11. Complex User Interface Elements
12. Model View View-Model (MVVM) Architecture
13. Reporting and Printing
14. Test Driven Development, Dependency Injection, and Unit Testing
15. Data Caching, Local File Access, and COM
16. Application Deployment

A Fast Track To Structured Finance Modeling, Monitoring and Valuation: Jump Start VBA (Wiley Finance)
By William Preinitz
Publisher:   Wiley
Number Of Pages:   769
Publication Date:   2009-02-09
ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0470398124
ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780470398128
Product Description
This book is designed to start with simple examples that progressively develop the reader′s confidence to take on more complex tasks. There is very little theoretical discussion about computer science, operations research algorithms, mathematics, or finance. The thrust of the book is to teach the reader to break complex tasks down into simple tasks. It then looks to implement those simple tasks into VBA code using a critical subset of the features of the language.
The tentative contents is: (1) Why? What? Who? Where? and How? (2) Common Sense (3) Securitizing A Loan Portfolio (4) Understanding the Excel Waterfall (5) Designing the VBA Model (6) Laying the Model Groundwork (7) Recorded Macros: A First Look at the VBA Language (8) Writing Menus: An Introduction to Data, Ranges, Arrays, and Objects (9) Controlling the Flow of the Model (10) Building Messaging Capabilities (11) Designing the Model’s Reports (12) Main Program and Menus (13) Writing the Collateral Selection Code (14) Calculating the Cash Flows (15) Running the Waterfall: Producing Initial Results (16) Debugging the Model (17) Validating the Model (18) Running the Model (19) Building Additional Capabilities (20) Documentation of the Model (21) Managing the Growth of the Model (22) Building Portfolio Monitoring Model (23) Valuation Techniques: How do we Determine Price? (24) Challenging Times For the Deal (25) Parting Admonitions

From the Inside Flap

An introductory work to structured modeling in Visual Basic Application (VBA), A Fast–Track to Structured Finance Modeling, Monitoring, and Valuation: Jump Start VBA provides you with a concise, immediate, and practical guide to developing a meaningful level of modeling expertise on problems in structured finance. Designed to allow you to cross from the pure Excel world to the much more powerful and flexible world of VBA/Excel, this straightforward book is built around a structured finance case study in asset–based securitization.
Starting with basic examples that progressively develop your confidence to take on more complicated tasks, this book teaches you how to break complex tasks down into simple tasks and then implement them into VBA code using a critical subset of the features of the language. This hands–on, step–by–step guide features coverage of:

General modeling concepts
The Cash Flow Waterfall in Excel code
Organizing and creating VBA modules to hold your model code
Generating VBA code from recorded macros, and how to simplify and extract it for use in your model
Efficiently using VBA statements to control the flow of the model
How to use template files for efficient and flexible report writing
Writing a collateral selection and reporting capability into your model
How to generate collateral cash flows on a loan–by–loan, period–by–period basis
Calculation optimization applied to collateral cash flow amortization
How to use the VBA debugger to detect and correct different types of errors
How to use the completed model to structure and size a finance deal
Modifying the model to allow multiple scenario runs
Protecting and evolving the model so it continues to create value for the business unit
How to add additional reporting and analytical features to the existing model
How to convert the structuring model into a monitoring and valuation model
Allowing for the use of monthly empirical performance information
Use of the monitoring and valuation model to track the performance of the deal
Valuing the deal based on its performance, market conditions, and rating criteria
Accompanied by an online resource containing a complete working model and all the data and files professionals need to run it, A Fast–Track to Structured Finance Modeling, Monitoring, and Valuation: Jump Start VBA is the only book written for the complete novice, enhancing your ability to break complex, seemingly insoluble problems down into a set of manageable tasks, through the use of VBA.

With over 3 Million users/developers, Spring Framework is the leading “out of the box” Java framework. Spring addresses and offers simple solutions for most aspects of your Java/Java EE application development, and guides you to use industry best practices to design and implement your applications.

Author Information

Pete McBreen presents a method to nurture mastery in the programmer, develop creative collaboration in small developer teams, and enhance communications with the customer. Softcover.

This handbook shows how to write faster and more robust stored procedures and functions, learn effective, real-world solutions to problems faced by database developers, designers, and administrators, and master topics such as optimizing and debugging.

Silverlight makes it much easier to build web applications with highly usable, interactive, and exciting user interfaces. However, with so many new options open to designers and developers, making the best use of the tools available is not always so easy. It’s ease of use and rapid development process has left one area completely uncovered— how to design, build, and implement professional and usable interfaces, and create an enjoyable user experience and interaction.

Written by a Microsoft MVP and Silverlight Prototyping Specialist, this book is the first and only book on developing Silverlight User Interfaces. Clear, step-by-step instructions show how to build all the user interface elements that users look forward to in a cutting edge app. This book offers essential recipes, with each recipe depicting the commonly used user interface patterns built with Silverlight, and in some cases, with WPF to showcase the possibilities.

The author’s experience in designing and developing user interfaces enables him to share insights on creating professional interfaces in a clear and friendly way. The book starts off with recipes dealing with fixed and fluid layouts, building custom command link controls, working with navigation, and collapsible panels, and then moves on to the more advanced topics such as calendars, alternating row colors, and task panes. The author covers a number of different UI patterns, controls, and approaches accompanied by XAML and C# code where needed (and explained), along with usage context and practical, proven, and professional techniques for specific controls and patterns.

From maps to task panes, and web cam support to pixel shaders, this Cookbook provides you with a rich selection of Silverlight UI recipes. It covers all that you need to know in order to design and implement a user interface, together with professional user experience and interface guidelines to make your solutions and applications pleasurable for your users.The author has found himself in the role of both, a designer and a developer, at different points in his professional career, and his motive was to create a book that will serve as a useful resource for designers and developers trying to find their way with Silverlight and Expression Blend.By the end of the book, you will be able to create a rich, professional, and standards-compliant user interface.

Design and implement professional user interfaces with Silverlight.
What you will learn from this book :

• Implement liquid versus fixed layouts to choose the best design for your application
• Build custom controls like navigation pane, split button, and command link button to suit your application’s needs
• Good design practices for patterns like wizards, tabs, status bar area and window locations
• Menu usage practices—classical and contextual ones together with guidelines
• Design and implement navigation patterns, expanders, tiled sections, task panes, and collapsible panels for saving space and minimizing visual distractions
• Design and implement calendar controls to allow user-specific time and date input
• Represent large data sets using alternating row colours as a design technique
• Create a responsive UI and remove the visual noise from the interfaces for a rich user experience
• Enable full screen Silverlight experiences for interactive applications such as games, maps, and media players.
• Add and utilize the maps and geo-based UI controls for a truly immersive map experience for your users
• Use the pixel shading techniques to achieve amazing visual effects on images and controls

Approach
Written in a Cookbook style, this book offers learning and techniques through recipes. It contains step-by-step instructions for designers and developers who want to learn about how to design and implement numerous user interface patterns with Silverlight. It will take you a step further by providing you with professional and proven user interface and user experience guidelines wherever possible. The book is designed in such a way that you can explore it chapter-by-chapter, or read it in any order.
Who this book is written for

If you are a developer or designer who knows the basics of Silverlight, has a smattering of C# and XAML, and wants to build applications with elegant and attractive interfaces, then this book is for you.

JasperForge.org is the open source development portal for the
JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite, the JasperSoft Business
Intelligence solution that delivers comprehensive tools for data access,
data integration, analysis, and reporting, including iReport. This
definitive, authoritative book covers the following:

• Covers iReport as an intuitive and easy-to-use visual report builder/designer for JasperReports, written in 100% pure Java.
• Shows how users can visually edit complex reports with charts,
  images, and subreports, as iReport is integrated with leading open
  source chart libraries for Java
• Demonstrates how the data to print can be retrieved through several
  methods including multiple JDBC connections, TableModels, JavaBeans,
  XML, MDX, EJBQL, Hibernate, and so forth

What you’ll learn

• Understand the iReport and JasperReports installation process and fundamental concepts.
• Build your very first simple report.
• Set up and implement types of datasources including a JDBC connection, a custom datasource, and XML datasources.
• Explore iReport plug-ins.
• Create simple and complex charts.

JavaFX Script enables you to easily create rich Internet applications
by embedding multimedia components. Although you can create stylish
Internet applications by modifying these default components, even
advanced users find it challenging to create impressive feature-rich
Internet applications with JavaFX. Also, there are limited JavaFX
components to work with and by default these components don’t look
visually appealing.

This book explores limitless possibilities to style your application
by coding JavaFX components to display your content in a more appealing
fashion. The recipes in this book will help you to create customized
JavaFX components with which you can make modern, feature-rich
applications.

First, you will be introduced to the JavaFX SDK and other development
tools available to help you be productive during development. You will
create an application in JavaFX by arranging complex graphical
components (and non-graphical libraries) with simplified declarative
constructs. You will then explore the fun side of JavaFX by using
transformation techniques to manipulate the location and dimensions of
objects. The next chapter is about the GUI components that are available
in the framework, which provide a high level of interactivity. You
will learn how to use the media component to play media content. Then
we will access data and manipulate data locally or remotely. You will
explore many deployment options and integration tips and tricks to take
advantage of runtime contexts. Finally, you will interact with pure
Java code to read and write files in JavaFX and to establish
interactions with computing platforms.

Get quick solutions to create modern rich
Internet applications using the various JavaFX features ranging from
JavaScript fundamentals to more complicated topics including visual
controls, custom components, multimedia, animation, effects, web and
data services, deployment practices, and much more

What you will learn from this book :

• Dive into the JavaFX scripting language fundamentals by creating and declaring classes, functions, trigger variables, and more
• Create complex graphical components with simplified declarative
  constructs and arrange these building blocks to create applications in
  JavaFX
• Effortlessly make your objects visually appealing by applying cool effects
• Quickly build an application that provides a high level of interactivity by using JavaFX GUI controls
• Seamlessly play audio and video in several formats using built-in media components
• Access data and manipulate data locally or remotely using tools that are available in JavaFX
• Achieve data visualization using the newly added feature—JavaFX chart components
• Make your applications available for easy access and use by
  implementing deployment options such as Java WebStart and applets
  available in JavaFX
• Take advantage of runtime contexts to interact with the executing environment with integration tips and tricks

Approach
This book is a comprehensive collection of recipes that elaborate on
known use cases. You will find an organized step-by-step procedure to
accomplish each task followed by detailed explanations to better
understand how and why each step was undertaken, and many links to
online references and other related sections in the book that supplement
the subject in question. The book is written so that you can work
through the recipes in order or go straight to the recipes that interest
you; where a recipe depends on other recipes they are clearly
referenced.

Who this book is written for
If you are a Java developer, Rich Internet Application content
developer, or graphic designer who wants to build RIAs featuring
animations, videos, and other feature-rich content, this book is for
you. Knowledge of Java, JavaScript, and JavaFX components is not
essential, but will help you exploit this book to your advantage.

Book Description
Master PowerPoint and improve your presentation skills-with one
book!It’s no longer enough to have slide after slide of text, bullets,
and charts. It’s not even enough to have good speaking skills if your
PowerPoint slides bore your audience. Get the very most out of all that
PowerPoint 2010 has to offer while also learning priceless tips and
techniques for making good presentations in this new PowerPoint 2010
Bible. Well-known PowerPoint expert and author Faithe Wempen provides
formatting tips; shows you how to work with drawings, tables, and
SmartArt; introduces new collaboration tools; walks you through five
special presentation labs; and more.

Coverage includes:

• A First Look at PowerPoint
• What Makes a Great Presentation?
• Creating and Saving Presentation Files
• Creating Slides and Text Boxes
• Working with Layouts, Themes, and Masters
• Formatting Paragraphs and Text Boxes
• Correcting and Improving Text
• Creating and Formatting Tables
• Drawing and Formatting Objects
• Creating SmartArt Diagrams
• Using and Organizing Clip Art
• Working with Photographic Images
• Working with Charts
• Incorporating Content from Other Programs
• Adding Sound Effects, Music, and Soundtracks
• Incorporating Motion Video
• Creating Animation Effects and Transitions
• Creating Support Materials
• Preparing for a Live Presentation
• Designing User-Interactive or Self-Running Presentations
• Preparing a Presentation for Mass Distribution
• Sharing and Collaborating
• Customizing PowerPoint
• Presenting Content Without Bulleted Lists
• Adding Sound and Movement to a Presentation
• Creating a Menu-Based Navigation System
• Creating a Classroom Game

It’s the book you need to succeed with PowerPoint 2010 and your next live presentation!

From the Back Cover
Make a splash with these presentation tips and techniques

Anyone can create a presentation, but it takes more than bullet
lists to make an impact. In this power-packed book, you’ll learn how to
create professional-quality slides that will captivate an audience
with photographs, charts, and sophisticated transition and animation
effects. You’ll also learn how to deliver a first-rate presentation
experience to your audience, whether you are speaking live at a podium,
delivering content online, or distributing self-running DVDs. In this
book, you’ll learn how to:

• Customize slide layouts, themes, and masters
• Integrate charts, photos, clip art, and more
• Engage an audience with music and narration
• Create handouts and speaker notes
• Build custom slide shows with optional hidden content
• Save slide shows in digital video format
• Broadcast or publish presentations on the Web

Use eye-catching animation effects
Easily apply color correction to photos
Create information-rich graphic objects with SmartArt

Also in the Book
Four special project labs highlight complete presentations that show a variety of ways to create content. These labs include:

• Presenting Content without Bulleted Lists
• Adding Sound and Movement to a Presentation
• Creating a Menu-Based Navigation System
• Creating a Classroom Game

Discover what makes a great presentation
Add eye-popping graphics and multimedia
Make a connection with your audience

The traditionally separate Fixed, Mobile, and Internet sectors have been evolving recently toward a single sector, offering numerous implications for those involved in technology and business. It is therefore essential for telecommunication professionals to get a keen grasp of where the industry is heading.

Providing a solid foundation in the industry, Introduction to Mobile Communications: Technology, Services, Markets explores the core requirements of modern mobile telecommunications-from markets to technology. It explains how wireless systems work, how mobility is supported, the underlying infrastructure, and what interactions are needed among the different functional components. The book also examines how mobile communications are evolving in order to meet the changing needs of users.

The information provided in the book comes primarily from the four core modules of the Certificate in Mobile Communications Distance Learning program run by the Informa Telecoms Academy in London. Designed by a highly experienced training development team, the program examines the complex and fascinating world of mobile communications.

Designed to give a broad picture of mobile communications, the book provides an excellent grounding for those involved in both business and engineering-leaving them much better equipped to fulfill roles within their current or prospective companies