ActionScript 2.0 Garage

Enter your ActionScript 2.0 Garage. When you come out you'll be a lean, mean, ActionScriptin' machine!Top ActionScripter Dan Livingston shows you code, teaches you skills, and inflames your passion to create "do-the-impossible" Flash content. It's all here: forms, validation, styles, skins, data integration, XML, RSS, classes, objects, events, listeners, menu systems, masks, preloaders, ActionScript 2.0 architecture, UI components, and more - all with serious downloadable code examples. Inspired. Stunningly useful. Think 'zine. Think blog. But, please, do not think of any other ActionScript book you've ever seen.Specific topics covered include * Enhancing data components to manipulate complicated sets of data * Using MX to connect to SOAP based web services * Creating RSS aggregators and readers * Building shopping carts and online reservation systems * Exploring the updates and enhancements in ActionScript 2.0If you're a Flash designer and programmer who wants to hit the ground running, this fun, informative guide will take you to the next level!"

iPod & iTunes Garage rocks you to the boundaries of digital music—in less time!

Learn everything you want to know about iPod and iTunes for both Macs and PCs—plus more! iPod & iTunes Garage, from Prentice Hall PTR's Garage Series, offers a comprehensive look at today's hottest digital gadget on the market, the iPod. From installing and running iTunes software to choosing the perfect accessory for your iPod, this book addresses a range of topics in digital music. Learn how to compress files and burn CDs. Work with your iPod for other functions, such as contacts, notes, and calendars. Delve into the file-sharing controversy with insights from both sides of the issue and explore the problems facing recording artists. Whether you've had an iPod for some time or you are new to digital music, iPod & iTunes Garage has the coverage you need to make the most of this cultural phenomenon!

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• Buying music from the iTunes Music Store
• Your iTunes music library
• The iPod mini
• Managing and sorting playlists
• iPod games
• Troubleshooting your iPod
• The future of digital music and the recording industry
• Backing up your music files
• Linux and the iPod
• Accessories, including headphones, car chargers, and cases
• Turning your iPod into a total music system
• Storing and transferring digital photos

While you're on your iPod adventure, head to Kirkville, the author's blog and web site. Visit http://www.mcelhearn.com for articles, news, and opinions on Apple computers, Mac OS X, the iPod, using the command line, books, music, and much more.

Tinker with the tools of Web design—in the Garage!

Learn how to construct cool and interactive Web sites with this hands-on guide to the world of Web design and usability. In this title from Prentice Hall PTR’s Garage Series, author Marc Campbell shows you the “ins and outs” of designing sites with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS as core technologies. Using layout diagrams and graphics to illustrate your journey, Campbell takes you through every step of designing Web sites, from basic layout and usability to uploading your site onto the Web. Want to learn more on a specific topic? Flip to one of the book’s “links” that help you delve deeper into certain areas, allowing you to browse the text quickly and easily!

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• Managing pop-up windows
• Working with scripts and style sheets
• Controlling design space with HTML and CSS
• Making rollover graphics
• Using text elements properly
• Creating e-mail links and hyperlinks
• Embedding media in Web pages
• Choosing a Web host
• Testing and uploading Web sites

Whether you’re new to Web design or you “speak” HTML as a second language, Web Design Garage will help you discover the solutions you need to create fun and effective Web sites.

Best-selling author and research expert Tara Calishain offers her insider tips and tricks for web searching in this title from Prentice Hall PTR's Garage Series. The book begins with an in-depth look at search engines and other online tools such as browsers. It describes several principles of web searching to help you leverage the scope of the Internet to discover information. The book also covers specific topic areas of Internet searching, both domestically and internationally. Finally, Web Search Garage includes a special technical support section to teach you how to find the support solutions you need on the Internet.

Specific topics covered include

• Search engines
• Browsers
• The principles of web searching
• Searching for news, jobs, and local information
• Finding images and audio on the web
• Searching for people
• Genealogy research
• Consumer help
• Drugs and medical information
• Kid-safe searching

Whether you're a newbie or an Internet search guru, Web Search Garage is a valuable resource for using the Internet wisely to find the information you're looking for. Calishain's thorough explanations and examples, combined with her entertaining wit will help you fine-tune your skills and search the Internet to find convenient solutions.

Tinker with the tools of Web design - in the Garage! Learn how to construct cool and interactive Web sites with this hands-on guide to the world of Web design and usability. In this title from "Prentice Hall PTR's Garage" Series, author Marc Campbell shows you the 'ins' and 'outs' of designing sites with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS as core technologies. Using layout diagrams and graphics to illustrate your journey, Campbell takes you through every step of designing Web sites, from basic layout and usability to uploading your site onto the Web. Want to learn more on a specific topic? Flip to one of the book's 'links' that help you delve deeper into certain areas, allowing you to browse the text quickly and easily! Specific topics covered include: managing pop-up windows; working with scripts and style sheets; controlling design space with HTML and CSS; making roll-over graphics; using text elements properly; creating e-mail links and hyper links; embedding media in Web pages; choosing a Web host; and testing and uploading Web sites

Enter your ActionScript 2.0 Garage — where you kick your ActionScript 2.0 skills into high gear!

Find the code, master the skills, inflame your passion

Create Flashware built for speed and performance

Built to do the impossible... built to take their breath away

Where you become a lean, mean, ActionScriptin’ machine

Strap in. Meet your driver: Dan Livingston, ActionScripter to the stars (Apple, Charles Schwab, PacBell...)

Watch, do, learn–fast:

- forms and validation, styles and skins

- data in detail,

- classes and objects, events and listeners

- menu systems, stylesheets, masks, preloaders

- ActionScript 2.0 architecture, new UI components, and loads more

All with no-faking, real-deal, serious downloadable code

Search engines -- Other search engines -- Online tools and gadgets : browsers & more -- The principle of unique language -- The principle of the reinvented wheel -- The principle of onions -- The principles of nicknames -- The principle of every scrap -- The principle of mass similar -- The principle of the world beyond -- The principle of the expanding web -- The principle of applied power -- The principle of salt grains -- News searching -- Job searching -- Finding local information on the web -- Finding images -- Finding audio on the web -- People searching -- Genealogy research online -- Ready reference -- Consumer health -- Drugs and medical information -- Kid-safe searching -- Drivers, cheats, help, and more -- International information. Helps you watch, do, forms and validation, styles and skins; XML and RSS; classes and objects, events and listeners; menu systems, stylesheets, masks, preloaders; Action Script 2.0 architecture, UI components, and more. A guide to Web site design covers such topics as choosing colors for background and text, using jump menus, working with scripts and style sheets, creating layouts, using Web images, and controlling spacing and type. A guide to getting the most out of iTunes and an iPod covers such topics as working with playlists, the iTunes Music Library, burning CDs and DVDs, iPod settings, file sharing, iPod software, and iPod accessories. Provides information on search engines and browsers, the principles of searching the Web, and where to search for jobs, local information, images, music, people, consumer information, and technical support. Marc Campbell presents a hands-on guide to designing and building websites that are not tedious and boring. The text gives practical, quick solutions to common design and usability problems A guide to ActionScript 2.0 covers such topics as forms, data, loading movies and images, sound, XML, menu components, stylesheets, and using video.