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23 October 2011

Office 2010 Made Simple

eBook Details:

Paperback: 732 pages
Author: Guy Hart-Davis
Publisher: Apress, 1 Edition, 2011-08-17
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1430235756
ISBN-13: 9781430235750
Format: PDF
File Size: 133 MB



Office 2010 Made Simple for Windows is a practical and highly effective approach to using the Office 2010 Home & Business (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote) and Home & Student (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote) programs to create and edit documents and get work done efficiently. Conveying information quickly and concisely, the book brings you from a beginner or low intermediate to an experienced and confident user.
    Illustrated graphical approach shows what happens at each stage
    Short sections provide instant access to each task the reader needs to perform
    Step-by-step instructions help the reader grasp even complex procedures in full confidence
What you’ll learn
    Master the Ribbon interface and become expert with keyboard shortcuts
    Capture every important piece of information—and find it when you need it
    Create attractive documents and powerful presentations
    Process incoming mail automatically and keep your Inbox under control
    Organize your work life with Outlook’s appointments and tasks
    Record and analyze your business data in simple databases
Who this book is for
Beginning and intermediate users looking to get up to speed quickly with the Office 2010 applications and use them productively, both online and offline.
Table of Contents
    Meeting the Office Programs and Learning What they Do
    Using the Ribbon, Backstage, and Common Tools
    Working with Text
    Using Graphics in Your Documents
    Coauthoring in Real Time and Sharing Documents
    Making the Office Programs Work Your Way
    Entering and Editing Text in Your Documents
    Formatting Your Documents Easily and Efficiently
    Adding Headers, Footers, Tables, and Columns
    Revising, Finalizing, and Printing Your Documents
    Creating Workbooks and Entering Data
    Editing Worksheets and Applying Formatting
    Performing Calculations with Formulas and Functions
    Creating Charts to Present Your Data
    Creating Databases and Solving Business Problems
    Getting Up to Speed and Taking Notes
    Searching, Protecting, and Synchronizing Your Notes
    Customizing One Note and Using It with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
    Starting a Presentation
    Building Effective Slides for Your Presentation
    Giving a Presentation Life and Impact
    Delivering a Presentation in Person or Online
    Setting Up Outlook and Meeting the Interface
    Sending and Receiving E-mail
    Managing Your Contacts with Outlook
    Organizing Your Schedule, Tasks, and Notes

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06 October 2011

Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design

Book Details:
■Paperback: 336 pages
■Author: Mike Kuniavsky
■Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 1 Edition, 2010-09-09
■Language: English
■ISBN-10: 0123748992
■ISBN-13: 9780123748997
■Format: PDF
■File Size: 30.1 MB

The world of smart shoes, appliances, and phones is already here, but the practice of user experience (UX) design for ubiquitous computing is still relatively new. Design companies like IDEO and frogdesign are regularly asked to design products that unify software interaction, device design and service design — which are all the key components of ubiquitous computing UX — and practicing designers need a way to tackle practical challenges of design. Theory is not enough for them — luckily the industry is now mature enough to have tried and tested best practices and case studies from the field.



Smart Things presents a problem-solving approach to addressing designers’ needs and concentrates on process, rather than technological detail, to keep from being quickly outdated. It pays close attention to the capabilities and limitations of the medium in question and discusses the tradeoffs and challenges of design in a commercial environment. Divided into two sections,  frameworks and techniques, the book discusses broad design methods and case studies that reflect key aspects of these approaches. The book then presents a set of techniques highly valuable to a practicing designer. It is intentionally not a comprehensive tutorial of user-centered design’as that is covered in many other books’but it is a handful of techniques useful when designing ubiquitous computing user experiences.In short, Smart Things gives its readers both the “why” of this kind of design and the “how,” in well-defined chunks.* Tackles design of products in the post-Web world where computers no longer have to be monolithic, expensive general-purpose devices * Features broad frameworks and processes, practical advice to help approach specifics, and techniques for the unique design challenges * Presents case studies that describe, in detail, how others have solved problems, managed trade-offs, and met successese.
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