Congratulations on your purchase of the NOOK Tablet, NOOK Color, or NOOK Simple Touch™, Barnes & Noble’s (simply B&N from here on) ebook readers. The NOOK Tablet, released in November 2011, is a souped-up NOOK Color, which itself debuted in November 2010. Both NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color feature...
When first learning the iOS developm ent environment, it is natural to be overwhelmed with
new concepts like view controllers and table views. While experience with previous development
environments and languages is helpful, and iOS developing resources are available from Apple and
forums, it is still a daunting task to become...
The professionalization of web development has been a difficult journey because of our
disparate beginnings. Even those who end up at large companies such as Yahoo! inevitably
began on their own, hacking around. Perhaps you were even “the web guy” at
a small company and could do pretty much whatever you...
Since 2001, the iPod has changed the way we listen to our music. It has allowed us to carry virtually our entire music collection around with us in a beautiful little package, and thanks to its unique scroll wheel, it has made that beautiful little package easy to navigate. Each year the iPod has evolved, getting physically smaller while its...
There are many techniques of varying degrees of generality for the study
of mechanisms and that of free energy relationships is the most readily
applicable and general. Free energy relationships comprise the simplest
and easiest of techniques to use but the results are probably the trickiest
to interpret of all the mechanistic...
The book is intended to give an introduction to architectural science, to provide
an understanding of the physical phenomena we are to deal with and to provide
the tools for realizing the many good intentions. Many projects in recent
times are claimed to constitute sustainable development, to be sustainable
architecture. But...
With the advent of the internet , the proliferation of mobile phones, and the rapid development
of wireless technologies, we are truly living in a digital age.
It seems like only yesterday that we were using dial-up, and that awful scream from the
modem meant that we were online at data speeds that would seem like a...
A few months back, I wanted to create an online presence for my band, Daisy’s Gone.
In the past, I would have started from scratch. But I remembered all the domains I’ve
accumulated over the years that are now nothing more than parking pages at my registrar.
It’s generally not hard to throw...
At last researchers have an inexpensive library of Java-based numeric procedures for use in scientific computation. The first and only book of its kind, A Numeric Library in Java for Scientists and Engineers is a translation into Java of the library NUMAL (NUMerical procedures in ALgol 60).
This book is a collection of thoughts and researches about secret
societies. It is going to take you on many journeys, but
whether you arrive or where you arrive will be your decision. I
need to make a simple point before you proceed to “bite the
apple”: Clear your mind of anything you have been told. I care
not...
The main objective of this series is to offer a practice-oriented survey of techniques
currently used in Medicinal Chemistry. Following the volumes on Hansch analysis
and related approaches (Vol. 1) and multivariate analyses (Vol. 2), the present handbook
focuses on some new, emerging techniques in drug discovery; emphasis is...
Acommon cartoon theme involves a person wearing a sandwich sign or carrying a poster that proclaims, “Repent! The end is near!” What’s implied is that some sudden, violent event is just around the corner and that people need to brace themselves for whatever’s coming. And usually, the end that’s near involves...
