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This fun new title adopts the game-like appeal of the Flickr site with individual projects ranging from easy to advanced. Quick hacks show you how to post photos directly to blogs and upload photos from a cellphone. Advanced hacks teach you to use the Flickr API, make photo puzzles and collages, and geocode photos to plot on a map. Currently available pre-book release as a Rough Cut, you can choose to buy just online access, order the print book, or purchase a cost-effective bundle.
Design Effective Dashboards
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Although dashboards are potentially powerful, their full potential is rarely realized if you fail to use effective visual design. This helpful guide will teach you the visual design skills you need to create dashboards that communicate clearly, rapidly, and compellingly. Learn to avoid common mistakes, minimize distractions, organize information to support meaning, and much more. Don't let your investment in dashboard technology go to waste.
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Five Years of Emerging Technology -- Five years into the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, we've blogged, ripped, remixed, tracked back, and tagged the ideas, projects, and technologies that alpha geeks are working on right now. The people and ideas at ETech don't just broaden your horizons, they help you peer over the edge to see what's coming. Featured ETech speakers this year include Ray Ozzie, Bruce Sterling, Jon Udell, Linda Stone, and Kevin Lynch, among many others. Join us March 6-9, 2006 in San Diego, California. Register today!
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Killer Interviewing Tips for Podcasters, Part 1 -- Interviewing for podcasts is as easy as putting a microphone in a room and asking a few questionsÑ-as long as you're satisfied with your listeners turning you off after a minute or two. If you want your listeners to hang around for your conversation, read this article. Podcasting expert Jack Herrington reveals how to set up, conduct, and record an interview that will delight your audience. Jack is the author of Podcasting Hacks.
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I usually fade about 300 pages into the thousand-page desk-crackers, but some topics need the space. Java Swing is one such example. For my first three or four years of desktop Java development, I frequently dove into this book when the javadocs were dead-ends and I said, "OK, what's the conceptual basis that ties all this together?" Try figuring out table column models or undo/redo without a guide like this...no, don't, it's too hard.
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Chris Adamson, ONJava Editor
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